By Neena Bhandari
Sydney, 01.07.2010 (The Sydney Morning Herald): A former Wall Street investment banker who gave up the big bucks for a career in cupcakes has proven she still has a head for numbers, this week opening her third store.
Ghazaleh Lyari worked as a banker with start-up technology companies during the dot.com boom and bust, helping at least one 10-person operation transform itself into a 5000-strong company.
By Neena Bhandari
Sydney, 25.06.2010 (IPS): Devina Celeste, 50, waits in a queue of about 40 people at the Neighbourhood Centre in the inner-city suburb of Newtown for the only hot meal she will get on this cold winter night.
The queue, comprising 40 percent teenagers and students, is growing. Many have formed strong bonds of friendship while sharing this only meal a day together on weekdays. There is a brief cheer as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) `Food for Life’ van arrives. Chris Smith, an IT analyst and volunteer driver is quick to lay the stall and start serving the meal on bio-degradable plates.
“This is my only nutritive meal. Almost 50 percent of my earnings go in rent and the rest in bills and the basics”, says Celeste, a massage therapist, as she relishes the hot “Khichadi” made of lentil, rice and vegetables and the semolina desert. She is amongst a growing number of “working poor”, who are unable to earn enough to support themselves.
By Neena Bhandari
Professor Tania C Sorrell, Director, Sydney Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity and Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney; and Senior Physician in Infectious Diseases at Sydney West Area Health Service.
What are the new and emerging infectious diseases threatening the world in the coming decade?
In the context of emerging infectious diseases in what might happen in the next 10 years, we are really thinking in terms of two major problems – outbreaks which might develop into pandemics and the continuing increase in anti-microbial resistance and hence the dual problems of preventing and managing outbreaks and treating infections which are not responsive to the drugs we have available.
