The Power of Diverse Collaboration: Women in Business New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO) 10th Annual Diversity Luncheon Keynote speaker: Cheryl McCants I am so humbled and honored. I have been asked to be the keynote speaker for the Metro East Region of NJAWBO’s 10th annual diversity luncheon to be…
This week by the “Numbers” $136 million in diamonds were stolen from a hotel exhibit in Cannes, France. Is the Pink Panther gang back? More than 180 US cities offer food-recycling programs, including New York City. A 35% increase in sales for The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth occurred after Fox News kept…
6.18 mm is the thickness of Huawei’s new smartphone, 20% thinner than the iPhone 5. 27% more child fatalities in Afghanistan during the first third of 2013 over the same period in 2012. 5,800% increase in Amazon sales of the Centennial Edition of George Orwell’s 1984 in the wake of revelations that the NSA collects…
$222,222,222.22 is the amount in euros ($295 million) a German bank employee transferred when he fell asleep while pushing the number “2” key. 40% of designated drivers drink before driving, according to a new study. $47 billion is the projected increase in 2013 U.S. credit-card debt, even as Americans paid down $32.5 billion in the…
$95 is the cost of Magic Kingdom’s one-day-ticket new price, $5 more other Disney parks. $272,000 is the signing bonus for new Army psychiatrists willing to serve in uniform for four years. 63 is the number of letters in “Rindfleischetikettierungsuberwachungsaufgabenubertragungsgesetz”,a beef-labeling law and the longest word in German until new regulations made it obsolete. $26,000…
30 billion cicadas will emerge with one order of business: mating. 400 — the number of eggs that female cicadas can lay. 10.9% is the rise in year-over-year housing prices in 20 U.S. cities, the biggest jump since April 2006; prices peaked that year. $671,400 is the auction price for an Apple-1, the original machine designed…
$6 Billion was collected by U.S. airlines in baggage and reservation-charge fees in 2012. 78,000 people have applied for a one-way trip to Mars as part of a private venture. 1979 was the year that the U.S. Supreme court ruled against gender bias in alimony awards. $8.2 Billion was the total alimony received in the…
600:1 is estimated ratio of cicadas bugs to people on the U.S. East coast. The bugs will emerge by the billions this summer, after spending 17 years underground. 4,378% more American women are choosing under-arm, plastic surgery since 2000. In a recent survey, 31% said they most admire Michelle Obama’s arms. A 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus…
958% say sudden inspiration is the root of creative ideas, while 32% say it takes time to be innovative1% value creativity in their personal life and 83% value it in the career 50% think visually when being creative, 34% think in words, while 4% think in sounds 55% say technology is making Americans more…
$400,000 is the price tag for a pigeon named Bolt, now the world’s most expensive racing bird. 12% of Americans who admit to “Netflix adultery,” are secretly watching a TV show’s episodes ahead of their partners. $650 is the amount the average Colorado marijuana smoker will spend next year on legal pot, according to a…