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Edhi Home for women in Karachi
The Edhi Home for women in Karachi is run by the charitable Edhi Foundation and is a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women. Around 1700 women were living in the complex behind bars as of 2020, most of them long term. The asylum shelters women with cognitive impairment, psychiatric illnesses, women who have experienced domestic violence, and those whom their husbands or families have abandoned. It has been called "the largest mental health asylum in Asia".

From 2004 until 2011 its capacity increased from 500 to 1600 women, although a report from 2007 indicated there were merely 21 women there

Extrenal links

 * official website https://edhi.org/destitute-homes/

=Dušan Kállay= Dušan Kállay(* June 19, 1948, Bratislava) is a Slovak artist, graphic artist, illustrator and painter.

Early life and education
Dušan Kállay was born in Bratislava on June 19, 1948. Both his parents were teachers. He had always been interested in drawing and painting since primary school. After graduating from high school in 1966, he was accepted to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava on the basis of the results of talent exams. https://www.fdb.cz/lidi-zivotopis-biografie/83007-dusan-kallay.html From 1966 to 1972, he studied free graphics and book illustration under Vincent Hložník (1919–1997), and landscape painting and figural composition under Ján Želibský. https://www.fdb.cz/lidi-zivotopis-biografie/83007-dusan-kallay.html

Career
After graduation he continued his previous work of free graphics, but also applied graphics and illustration. In 1990 he became the head of the Department of Free Graphics and Book Illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, and was appointed professor in 1993. In 1994, Kállay succeeded Brunovský as head of the Department of Printmaking and Book Illustration.https://artathhar.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/etching-out-dreams-contemporary-slovak-prints-by-dusan-kallay-kamila-stanclova-and-katarina-vavrova/ He belongs to the core of the so-called Hložník school. In 2004, Ivan Janchar and Fedor Kriska published a monograph : Dusan Kalliay, the magical world was published.

He organized more than 150 exhibitions since 1970,and also participated in collective exhibitions. In 2021, a retrospective of his work from 1970-2021 was shown in Bad Frankenhausen, it was the first exhibition in Germany.

in his work he is mainly devoted to free graphic, painting, book illustration, creation of ex libris, of postage stamps, animated film and posters. A completely separate part of his work is his stamp, where he used his deep knowledge of engraving techniques. He dedicated part of his artwork to poster designs and artistic collaboration with the Bratislava Short Film Studio on the production of cartoons, eg The Legend of Love / 1979, dir. V. Kubenko / etc. He gradually developed into one of the busiest book illustrators, for example: and many others.

He has been invited to special workshops for illustrators, eg from 1994 to 2010: Musashino Art University Tokyo and Taipei

Personal life
Dusan Kallay and Kamila Stantlo have been married since 1971. They met as art students. In an interview he has said that although they traveled a lot, it was always connected with work ( exhibitions) and not as a vacation. They live and work in Bratislava. https://zena.pravda.sk/vselico/clanok/268892-dusan-kallay-manzelku-som-dostal-na-narodeniny/02.03.2010 Katarína Sedláková

Works
Dusan Kalliay has illustrated more than 90 books. Selected book illustrations include William Shakespeare: Hamlet / 1975 Herbert Wotte: Malgalhaes' Journey around the World / 1979 Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland / 1981 Elisabeth B. Brownig: Portuguese Sonnets / 1984 Dominik Tatarka: The Virgin Miracle / 1992 Mischa Damjan: Dezember und seine Freunde Hans Christian Andersen: Pohádky Oscar Wilde: Geburtstag der Infantin Antonie Schneider: Drei Fragen Fairy tales from the British Isles – in the Empire of wine and tinomes William Shakespeare: A Benetian cubo and a Svatojogan Night dream[3] Vladimir Hulpach: Stories from Shakespeare[4] Vladimir Hulpach: Don Quijote stories, 2017[5]

Awards
His work has won a total of 46 prizes and 14 diplomas, including the most beautiful book of the year in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia several times.https://gallerygwerk.sk/kallay-dusan http://www.eantik.sk/autor/233/kallay-dusan/ http://www.vsvu.sk/o-nas/katedry/katedra-grafiky-a-inych-medii/atelier-volnej-grafiky-a-ilustracie/ http://www.vsvu.sk/kontakt/zamestnanci/dusan-kallay/ Príbehy zo Shakespeara - Vladimír Hulpach | Vydavateľstvo BUVIK [online]. www.buvik.sk, [cit. 2018-01-12]. Dostupné online. Príbehy Dona Quijota - Vladimír Hulpach | Vydavateľstvo BUVIK [online]. www.buvik.sk, [cit. 2018-01-12]. Dostupné online.
 * 1973 and 1975- Golden Apple in Biennial of illustrations in Bratislava
 * 1983 Grand Prix at the Biennial of illustrations in Bratislava
 * 1987 Silver Hugo at the International Film Festival, Chicago https://www.fdb.cz/lidi-zivotopis-biografie/83007-dusan-kallay.html
 * 1988 - Hans Christian Andersen Award, awarded by IBBY at UNESCO
 * 1992 - UNICEF prize
 * 2002 WIPA 2002 exhibition the most beautiful stamp of the world
 * 2005 - crystal wing in the category of fine arts and architecture
 * 2009 - Grand Prix at THE VIPA exhibition in Vienna
 * 2011 - Grand Prix de L´art philatelique, Brussels
 * 2014 Premio Internazionale d'Arte Filatelica in Legnano, Italy

=Chlorpyrifos= EPA banned it in August 2021, yet it is not on the Chlorpyrifos page !

=National Energy Foundation (United States)=

History
The National Energy Foundation was founded 1976 as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit educational organization in Salt Lake City, UT.

Organization
Marv Fertel,chairman of the Board, electric utility consultant with background in nuclear energy. Robert Poulson, President, Gary Swan, Vice president, Rich Kolodziej, Barry Worthington, Executive Director of the US Energy Association, Thomas R. Kuhn, President of the Edison Electric Institute, Donald F. Santa Jr, CEO of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, Hal Quinn, CEO of the National Mining Association, Lisa V. Wood CEO of the Institute for Electric Efficiency, consultant of electric utilities on retail issues, Linda Rozett,Vice President of Communcations for American Petroleum Institute, Kraig R. Naasz,CEO of the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI), previously the National Mining Association, The Fertilizer Institute and the U.S. Apple Association, Lori Traweek, Senior Vice President and COO of American Gas Association. Previously involved in pipeline safety and environmental advocacy and the launch of the Common Ground Alliance.

=William Lumsdon Byers = William Lumsdon Byers (1849-1906) (alternatively spelled Lumsden) was an anchor manufacturer in Sunderland, England, known for W. L. Byers & Co. Ltd. which had been founded by his father and father in law about 1842.

History
William Lumsdon Byers (1849-1906) was born in Sunderland in 1849, the first of two sons of ship broker John Byers (1811-1866) and Ann Lumsdon, daughter of a ship's captain, ship-owner and ship broker. He had a younger brother Harold, who attempted suicide twice.

In 1842, his father together with his father-in-law Joseph Lumsdon (1777-1865) founded Lumsdon, Byers & Co., of Sunderland, of 51 West Sunniside & 8 Church St. Bishopwearmouth, per records of the 'Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette'. Their Strand Iron Works made anchors in Monkwearmouth.

In Sunderland´s 1881 census, 32 year old William Byers occupation was recorded as ship owner, in 1891 as "ship owner and anchor manufacturer" and in 1901 as "chain and anchor manufacturer" (W. L. Byers & Co. Ltd.).

On December 16, 1887 he and anchorsmith Joseph Brewis Storey applied for a patent for what became the Byers stockless anchor.

Byers took out patents for a variety of anchors, a device for holding neck ties in place, for life preservers and a type writing machine. There was a Byers Departmental Store for fashion on whose Board he sat. He was a town councillor for many years, fighting overcrowding on the ferries, trying to get a crematorium for the northside of the city, and a horse drawn ambulance for the town. He was the Treasurer and Honorary Secretary of the Blind Institution, Hon. Sec. of the Chamber Music Society in 1891, in which year he visited Thomas A. Bell's house to discuss his new talking machine, the telephone. He also was Honorary Secretary of the British Ship Masters and Officers Life Assurance Society. He attended the local Methodist Chapel." After 1901, Byers moved to Edinburgh, Scotland. In November 1906, age 57, he committed suicide by standing in front of a train at Liberton in Edinburgh, as per his death certificate. No obituary has been found.

The company manufactured different kind of stockless anchors and sold chain cables. It supplied all sizes of ships into the late 1970s, from WWI Navy cruisers like the HMS Topaze from 1904 to WWII ships, the Queen Elizabeth2 and other large Cunard liners. In the early 1980s 'Fife Indmar PLC', was the parent company of 'W. L. Byers & Co. Ltd.'

Legacy
Large anchor specimens W. L. Byers & Co. Ltd. can be seen outside various museums, like the Maritime History Museum in Greenwich, the maritime museum in HongKong the D-Day Museum,Arromanches, France, the Verkehrsmuseum in Lucerne, the International Port terminal building in Portsmouth, Hampshire,or the Canadian Peacetime Sailors’ Memorial, at Point Pleasant Park in Halifax.

Early life and education
Peter Bernhardt was born in Brooklyn, New York, growing up next to a woodland reserve between Merrick and Freeport. As a child he kept pets and grew cacti and succulents. He says he was influenced by a local plant breeder and garden designer.

Career
Bernhardt studied at the State University of New York at Oswego, graduating 1974, crediting his first attempt at botanical research on how prickly pear cacti grow spines to James Seago. After his Masters Degree in Biology from the State University of New York at Brockport in 1975 he spent over two years in Peace Corps at the University of El Salvador collecting plants for the university's herbarium, teaching undergraduate courses and conducting field studies on the pollination of the Gabriel flower Echeandia macrocarpa. His first popular article on wild orchids, street trees and telephone poles in the city of San Salvador appeared in "Natural History Magazine." In 1977, he worked a few months as a technician at the New York Botanical Garden and contributed articles to a now defunct magazine before accepting a doctoral scholarship at the University of Melbourne where he studied the breeding systems of  box mistletoes under Malcolm Calder and the late Bruce Knox.

He became a Professor of Biology at Saint Louis University, Missouri researching pollination biology, undertaking fieldwork in Kansas, Missouri and Oregon and Australia, Israel and China. In 2009, he and Retha Meier studied how blue sun orchids Thelymitra are pollinated by native bees and why blue-flowered species often hybridize with each other or with the yellow lemon orchid Thelytmitra antennifera. As of 2018/19 he was full time faculty, writing lectures for a new course on the biodiversity of Australia. He is also a Research Associate of both the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney.

Work
Bernhardt has written 5 popular books.
 * Natural affairs : a botanist looks at the attachments between plants and people
 * The Rose´s Kiss, 2002
 * Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist, 2003
 * Gods and Goddesses in the Garden: Greco-Roman Mythology and the Scientific Names of Plants, 2008
 * Darwin’s Orchids. Then and Now, 2014

Definition
winding down in a controlled manner

Tools
bail-in instruments.

Bank recovery and Bank resolution plan (RRP) is a term used in EU lingo, also known as "living wills" of an institution. Recovery plans come into play when a firm falls under extreme stress and outline actions to keep the firm going. Resolution plans are resorted to in the event that a financial institution fails and aim to manage its resolution in a controlled manner with minimum cost and systemic disruption.

=SM-65D Atlas= The SM-65D Atlas, or Atlas D, was the first operational version of the U.S. Atlas missile. Atlas D was first used as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to deliver a nuclear weapon payload on a suborbital trajectory. It was later developed as a launch vehicle to carry a payload to low Earth orbit on its own, and later to geosynchronous orbit, to the Moon, Venus, or Mars with the Agena or Centaur upper stage.

Atlas D was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, at Launch Complexes 11, 12, 13 and 14, and Vandenberg Air Force Base at Launch Complex 576.

History
The letter "L" in "SLV" indicates that the missile is silo-launched. The Atlas D testing program began with the launch of Vehicle 3D from LC-13 on April 14, 1959. At liftoff, the LOX fill/drain valve failed to close, resulting in a steady oxidizer leak and loss of pressure to the propellant feed system. The right booster engine was thus starved of oxidizer and so only reached 75% thrust level. In addition, LOX spilling down the side of the missile exploded on contact with the engine, damaging it. The Atlas lifted and flew at an oblique angle until T+26 seconds when an explosion in the boattail caused the right booster engine to separate from the vehicle. The burning missile pitched over and with all control lost, the Range Safety Officer issued the destruct command at T+35 seconds.

On May 18, 1959 Atlas 7D was prepared for a night launch. The test was conducted with the Mercury astronauts in attendance in order to showcase the vehicle that would take them into orbit, but 60 seconds of flight ended in another explosion, prompting Gus Grissom to remark "Are we really going to get on top of one of those things?". This failure was traced to improper separation of a pin on the right launcher hold-down arm, which damaged the B-2 nacelle door and caused helium pressurization gas to escape during ascent. Around one minute into the launch, the RP-1 tank lost pressure and the intermediate bulkhead between it and the LOX tank ruptured, causing the complete destruction of the missile.

Atlas 5D in June 1959 destroyed itself a minute and a half into the flight due to another episode of tank pressurization being lost and the RP-1 bulkhead reversing itself and rupturing, but this time caused by a valve failing to close after separation of the booster engines. The fifth test on July 29, 1959 was successful, and after another flight on August 11, the Atlas D was reluctantly declared operational. Subsequent tests in the fall and winter all performed well including the first Atlas launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on September 9, 1959, although the launch of a boilerplate Mercury capsule on Atlas 10D (Big Joe) in September was a partial success because the booster engines failed to separate.

With this string of successful Atlas tests, including twin launches from Cape Canaveral and VAFB within hours of each other on January 26-27, 1960 NASA, Convair, and the Air Force were lulled into a sense of security that ended on March 13, 1960 when Atlas 51D suffered combustion instability and was destroyed by Range Safety only three seconds after liftoff. A second disaster occurred on April 8 when 48D experienced the same problem, but this time failed to make it off the pad before exploding, severely damaging it in the ensuing holocaust. With two launch facilities now in need of repair, attention shifted to LC-12 where Atlas 56D flew over 9000 miles with an instrumented nose cone, impacting the Indian Ocean.

On May 6, 1960 Atlas 23D lifted from 576B-1, a coffin silo, at VAFB and began experiencing abnormal pitch gyrations within 10 seconds of launch. After about 20 seconds, the missile started tumbling out of control upon which the RSO sent the destruct command. The next flight, 74D (July 22, 1960) broke up 70 seconds into its flight due to another control malfunction. Missile 33D (September 29) failed to stage its booster section and 81D (October 13) destroyed itself a minute into launch after the LOX tank overpressurized and ruptured the intermediate bulkhead. Eventually, it was discovered that the Atlas silos at VAFB had been constructed improperly with two pad umbilicals attached to the wrong location. This had caused the gyroscope packages in Missiles 23D and 74D to short out and led to other malfunctions in Missiles 33D and 81D.

The majority of failures after this point were high altitude or partial. Atlas 91D's successful launch on January 23, 1961 concluded the R&D phase of the Atlas D program. After an operational test in March 1963 (Missile 102D) suffered another control failure and RSO destruct shortly after liftoff, it was noted that the vehicle used a Type B gyro canister and all previous Atlases with them (Missiles 3B, 23D, 74D, and 17E) had failed as well. Another two missiles in VAFB's inventory were found to have these gyroscope packages, so they were promptly replaced with spares from the Mercury program and no guidance or control problems affected them during their flights.

Most Atlas D launches were sub-orbital missile tests; however several were used for other missions, including orbital launches of manned Mercury, and unmanned OV1 spacecraft. Two were also used as sounding rockets as part of Project FIRE. A number were also used with upper stages, such as the RM-81 Agena, to launch satellites.

The Atlas D was deployed in limited numbers as an ICBM due to its radio guidance while the fully operational E and F-series missiles had inertial guidance packages and a different ignition system that allowed faster engine starts.

For Mercury, the Atlas D was used to launch four manned Mercury spacecraft into low Earth orbit. The modified version of the Atlas D used for Project Mercury was designated Atlas LV-3B.

Atlas Ds used for space launches were custom-built for the needs of the mission they were performing, but when the Atlas was retired from missile service in 1965, Convair introduced a standardized Atlas vehicle (the SLV-3) for all space missions. Remaining D-series missiles were flown until 1967 for suborbital tests of reentry vehicles and a few space launches.

A total of 116 D-series missiles (not including vehicles used for space launches) were flown from 1959-67 with 26 failures.

Description
The Jardines de México are a garden installation in Jojutla, state of Morelos, Mexico, about 150 km or 2h South of Mexico City, in the Sierra Madre. At 51 hectares, the project claims to be the largest garden of the world. It contains a Japanese, an Italian, a cactus garden, a garden of the 4 seasons and a labyrinth of the senses.

The local tourism agency indicated it was the only touristic destination in Morelos that was not connected to the public bus network. A journalist visiting the gardens in June 2015 wrote, that there were no road signs and that he drove around all of lake Tequesquitengo no avail. finally reached them announced by palms and colorful fruit trees, pines bowing in teh wind it looked like paradise in the desert. He found its soccer-field-sized parking lot completely empty.

It is owned by Interlamex S.A. officially, but has also been connected to Victor Sánchez Ayala, a pharmaceutical entrepreneur from Michoacán. It opened in March 2014 and It grows about 15.000 trees, and 193 million flowers, which are exchanged 3x per year according to the seasons. It has marble from Carrara, polished in the US and cost 600 million Peso, or 35 million Euro to build the gardens. The conference center is shaped like a wooden pyramid and can be rented for discrete weddings, "without anybody knowing about it" per the guide.