Archive for April, 2010

In case you’re thinking about hiring Sarah Palin to speak at your next event, make sure you provide the following per Palin’s recent contract at a previous speaking event.  A published story talks about the Palin contract:

“The contract detailed the former Alaska governor’s requirements for her visit, including first-class flights from Anchorage to California — if she flies commercial. If not, “the private aircraft MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger …,” the contract specifies.

Palin also must be provided with a suite and two single rooms in a deluxe hotel. During her speech, her lectern must be stocked with two water bottles and bendable straws.”

And don’t forget the $100,000 speaking fee she routinely charges.

By Federica Rabiolo

“Why does it bother you so much when I bring up that you’re Italian?”  –  “I absolutely hate being the center of attention.” What at the time I thought was an honest answer to a question I get asked frequently, I later realized was a spurious statement.  Honestly, I am simply concerned by the flood of questions that arise when people finally learn that it was not my great-grandfather who immigrated here, but that I actually stepped off a plane less than six years ago.

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In this article from the New York Times we find out what iPad users are downloading:

A quick spin through the charts of the best-selling applications available in iTunes illuminates the most popular selections.

Currently, the top three paid iPad applications belong to a suite of applications intended to give the iPad more heft as a machine for productivity. They are adaptations of Apple’s iWork tools and include Pages, a word processing application, Keynote, which allows users to create visually rich presentations, and Numbers, a spreadsheet application. Each sells for $9.99.

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