| D'Vine Divas at the Biltmore Hotel: Seven Talented Chefs + Five ...
MIAMI, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Part of the four-day bacchanalia that comprises the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival (Thursday, February 21 through Sunday, February 24, 2008), the D'Vine Divas dinner at the glamorous Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables is sure to be a festival highlight. Taking place on Thursday, February 21, hosted by Samantha Shanken of Wine Spectator magazine, master sommelier Laura De Pasquale and Yvonne Roberts of the Biltmore Cellar Club, D'Vine Divas features a sumptuous multi-course menu prepared by a who's who of national and South Florida female chefs paired with amazing wines by some of the world's most respected female winemakers. In keeping with the Festival's philanthropic spirit, the dinner will include a silent auction with proceeds benefiting the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation.
Hit-miss bliss
Maybe you want to be richer or slimmer, get married or get divorced, become gainfully employed or be thankfully retired. There is a single word that describes the goal of all these dreams and aspirations. They are all ways, ultimately, to make you happy. Some of us will get the things we want, and others won't. The more interesting question is: Why do people who get what they want rarely end up as happy as they expected, while people who fail to achieve dreams rarely end up as unhappy as they feared? Systematic experiments show that as strongly as we hold onto our dreams and fear setbacks, we are poor judges of what will make us happy and unhappy. Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert has made it his life's work to understand why people not only make errors in predicting what will make them happy, but also why they make the same errors over and over again.
Walid Waked of Track Six: Proving rock is not dead
But when office hours end, Yousry becomes the bass-guitar player with the local band Track Six, discarding his suit in favor of a Ramones t-shirt and jeans. This kind of dichotomy is everywhere nowadays. Struggling Egyptian artists take jobs in investment companies, advertising companies and other fields outside the music industry. If they were living elsewhere, they might have had the chance to pursue their dreams of becoming professional musicians, but here it's a part-time gig for most. .
Countrywide CEO may get $115 million
Countrywide Financial Corp. founder Angelo R. Mozilo, one of the nation's highest-paid chief executives, stands to reap $115 million in severance-related pay if his troubled company is acquired by Bank of America, regulatory filings show. Free rides on the company jet also are included in Mozilo's departure deal, and the company would pick up his country club bills until 2011. .
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