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HAPPY NEW MONTH TO YOU!!!
JMCC had a fantastic July and will have a fantastic August.
Why?
Because Networking Works, an effective Networking Works Even Better.
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This community and the "Leader of the Band" LaShanda Henry has been exceptionally instrumental in help JMCC grow!!!
I look forward to networking, even more, these coming months, and I very appreciative for the networking shared, these past months!!!
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Sponsored by the Japanese Government, the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) helps companies expand their business in Japan.
Find the experiences of some of our clients in North America who successfully expanded their business in Japan.
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How to start doing business in Japan
JETRO helps U.S. companies set up office space in Japan quickly and cost effectively by providing expertise, resources, and industry connections. Because JETRO is an independent agency of the Japanese government, we are able to provide many of our services for free.
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Contact Us to see how JETRO can help your business in Japan.
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the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south.
The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku, which together comprise about ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area.
Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 126 million people. Honshū's Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.
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Juniques Multi Cultural Connections
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is opening half a dozen of these offices in strip malls statewide to first educate and then, starting in October, enroll consumers shopping for coverage because of the federal Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare." Blue Cross affiliates in Florida and Pennsylvania have had similar stores open for years.
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THE NATIONAL LAUNCH FOR MICORE INTL IN ATLANTA GA, WAS A HUGE SUCCESS
Yes,
Yes,
YOU can still start your Micore Intl Beauty Business offering highest quality remi hair with a 1 year guarantee, ...
Plus now you have exclusive hair growth and skin care products, hair styling tools,
and yes, you still get your own personalize website, online store, and customer management system for $19.95 per month.
and yes, you still get your own personalize website, online store, and customer management system for $19.95 per month.
You will be a Micore Intl Consultant.
Oh yes, you get a 20% discount off Micore Intl suggested retail price for hair and discounts on other Micore Intl products.
You will earn money from people ordering from your store.
This is known as, individual direct sale
Some will want to do what you do, earn money selling Micore Intl Products and they can receive additional dollars from the Micore Compensation Program effective March 2013.
With the enrollment of 4 people, who become Micore Intl consultants, you will be in position to receive commissions from their product purchases.
So, for $19.95 per month, you can purchase Micore Intl products for discount.
and if you elect,
You can start to expand your business and profits by building a team.
That is known as , Group sales.
That's it. Your choice, Individual or Group sales . Either choice is great!!!
Oh yes, every active consultant will also be able to purchase health and dental insurance ( not a discount plan) which is mandatory by federal law, for every USA citizen, starting 1 Jan 2014.
So, continue to share the word about this "Game Changing, History Making, Industry Leading, Home Based Business creating, Income enhancement" company.
Actually, I can include more discriptive words, but, I don't
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Looking forward to sharing in your success.
Rickey
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What happen to the cellphone?!
Rickey Johnson, Juniques MultiCultural Connections
http://www.jusmcc.org
Hello Community,
As I watch people enter the home base business market, it occurred to me, one area of
business development should be important. Staying relevant.
Remember the cellphone popularity? How it appeared to be a major communication leap?
How it seemed to be the most advanced communication event that could happen?
How it would be here for years to come.
How it created new businesses and close others?
Technology really advances quickly. Many times that advancement obsolete earlier advancement.
The communication device that is falling into that reality, is the cellphone.
Remember, how it exciting it was to have this electronic equipment that send and receive a
telephone call, while you were mobile. Where you could be reached "by phone" anywhere in the country!!!
The cellphone, put the cord and cordless phone to "shame". Now, you can find a telephone, but you will have to search for it, yes, cord and cordless phones are a rarity.
Oh yes,The cellphone, in its communication advancement, obsoleted the pager. The electronic device that allowed you to receive a tone to "tell" you had a phone message, then it advanced to be able to "show' the number calling.
WOW!!! All had to do was find a phone!!!!
Now, the mobile phone i.e cellphone is about to experience that same communication progression.
the cord, cordless phone and pager did.
Soon you will be hard pressed to find just a celluar mobile device. The Mobile device is
has arrived in "full force".
The Mobile Device is here to stay. This handheld device that has an operating system and
can use computer program applications. Why it even comes with wi-fi, bluetooth and GPS capablilty, a camera, media player, and a storage battery, that allows the user to be mobile.
Mobile Computers!!!!! That is are communication progression.
The impact is being felt in any industry that relies on just providing send/receive communication service. Any company who's "strength" is providing send/receive service, will be challenged to
stay "consumer-able".
I suspect, mobile devices will obsolete many of the communication devices we thought we be around for
years.
The communication consumer is being accustomed to being able to not only send and receive voice calls, but, audio/visual communications, i.e videos. To have a device that can "run" computer programs. To have communications delivered mobilely and "on-demand".
So keep this progress in mind as you build your business. Stay mindful of industry advancements.
Position yourself so you do not become "obsolete" when a progression in a industry could be
your opportunity or your demise.
Reminds of this song, Enjoy
Everything Must Change Lyrics
Nina Simone
Everything must change
Nothing stays the same
Everyone will change
No one, no one stays the same
The young become the old
And mysteries do unfold
For that's the way of time
No one, and nothing goes unchanged
There are not many things in life one can be sure of
Except rain comes from the clouds
Sun lights up the sky
Hummingbirds fly
Winter turns to spring
A wounded heart will heal
Oh, but never much too soon
No one, and nothing goes unchanged
The young become the old
And mysteries do unfold
For that's the way of time
No one, and nothing stays unchanged
There are not many things in life one can be sure of
Except rain comes from the clouds
Sun lights up the sky
Hummingbirds fly
Rain comes from the clouds
Sun lights up the sky
Hummingbirds fly
Rain comes from the clouds
Sun lights up the sky
Hummingbirds fly
Everything must change
Hello Community,
The internet is providing a communication opportunity, never before available. Definitely take full positive advantage of this opportunity.
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Houston live performance. This 1996 performance was recorded at Black Entertainment Television at the
second annual BET Walk of Fame. Ironically this was the same day Tupac was murdered
Juniques Multi Cultural Connections
Culture to Culture Connections
22 Jan 2013
Hello Community, May this information find you doing exceptionally well.
Here is an update on the progress of Micore Intl.
This company is positioning itself to be a dominant force in the hair business.
The hair business is more than hair extensions!!!!
Get connected to Micore Intl now. Learn and Grow. Build yourself a successful income producing option with the Hair Business.
At your service,
Rickey ( go to my site and get more info at http://www.jussuccess.com )
This email is for all of our Georgia Girls (ok Guys can come to) to let you know Micore' is starting to get Atlanta revved up again, in preparation for *LAUNCH*! (However this email is Company wide!)
Beginning TONIGHT, Micore' Atlanta has a consistent weekly meeting spot! Come out TONIGHT and meet International Hair Consultant Alix Moore and the Godfather of Micore' Averi Washington, leader of TEAM QUEST! Many other leaders will be in the house and many future leaders!
The facilitator of this event is Byron Reese....and Micore' International is proud to welcome Byron Reese as a new Hair Consultant! Byron has been one of the top hair brokers in Atlanta for years, even consistently selling dozens of kilos per month of Caviar Platinum hair....BEFORE Caviar Platinum existed!!!
Achal Jain joined forces with Derrick Alexander to provide his hair to Micore' exclusively, and CAVIAR PLATINUM was born!
Byron has thousands of clients and contacts in the hair business and has dedicated his corporate office headquarters to weekly TUESDAY meetings to WAKE ATLANTA BACK UP!
MEETING TONIGHT 7:00PM SHARP
Salon Deliveries: 3201 Atlanta Industrial Pkwy #206 Atlanta, Ga 30331
285 to Bankhead Hwy, then West. After Bolton Rd turn Right into the Industrial Bus Park
Soon floating meetings will start back up in different areas on other nights at hair salons, hotels, etc....to reach ALL of Atlanta!
WHY is Atlanta excited??? Because SO many things are happening at Micore' in 2013!
Southern Hair Superstar TONI LOVE has joined Micore' as Director of Micore' University! WOW
Atlanta Urban Cosmetic Giant Anita Bohannon of BOVANTI Cosmetics has joined forces with Micore' to introduce hair to their 30,000 customers and promote Micore' in up to 25 trade shows per year! WOW
NEW PRODUCT NEWS!
Micore' International is preparing to introduce a new HAIR GROWTH product to the world! The Cosmoceutical Research Center has developed an AMAZING product that stimulates real hair growth, which results in thicker, fuller hair! The only problem CRC had was marketing, until they found Micore'!
The President of CRC was Vice-President of Neutrogena for 15 years and developed T-Gel among other products. CRC formulates products for many known companies and brands, but the products they sell to Micore' will be exclusive!
While we work on designing new packaging and a unique product name for Micore', we have been asked to help CRC with an inventory BLOWOUT SALE to sell off their existing product! (Normal retail for the Hair Growth product will be $300 for a 3-month supply, but the sale price will be $180! When you sell this you will make $45 at Retail (25%), plus the product VOLUME commissions from your downline Team!
Hair Loss is right behind Weight Loss as one of the number one phrases in search engines!
Soon you will be able to sell this hair growth product to dozens of customers of all ages, all races, and genders! Every Micore' rep should set a goal to get 10 customers on AUTOSHIP (1st month) and watch your residual income go through the roof!
HAIR is the same structure as SKIN and NAILS! CRC has products for all three! YES Micore' markets the BEST HAIR....but we'll also market the BEST HAIR-CARE and SKIN CARE and NAIL CARE products on the market!
Some of these products will be released at our official LAUNCH!
Many of you are asking "WHEN ARE WE GOING TO LAUNCH?"...and you should be asking. We have decided to have our Launch EVENT in March, and expect to select the venue/date this week.
The bottom line is you can only Launch an MLM company ONE TIME! There are no do-overs!
We want this event to be spectacular, with 1000 plus in the room! Where we will introduce a new website, new products, and new superstars....to thousands of NEW PROSPECTS!!!!
A Launch is not a "party" for the Members....it's to GO PUBLIC with the CONCEPT!
We are all excited about 2013 guys....and you should be too!
NOW GO TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW IN ATLANTA TO GET TO TONIGHT'S MEETING!
To your success!
Derrick Alexander, CEO
"As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG!"
Donald Trump
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He recieved 1 Million Dollars in ScholarhipFormer foster child in Chicago now a million-dollar scholarstephanie bancheroBy Stephanie Banchero-- Derrius Quarles leans back in his seat and methodically debates Aristotle's theory of truth during freshman honors English class at Morehouse College.He strides across campus in a navy blue tailored suit and a bold red sweater handing out business cards that boast "Student/Entrepreneur/Leader."But behind the 19-year-old's dauntless appearance is a past that few on campus know.When Quarles was 5, the state took him away from his mother. He spent his childhood bouncing from home to home before ending up on his own at 17 in an apartment on Chicago's South Side.His arrival at a prestigious, historically African-American college -- with more than $1 million in scholarship offers -- is a story of inspiration and anguish. And it's a testament to his determination to prove that he is better than his beginnings."You can't go around thinking you are inferior just because you didn't have parents," he says. "For me, it's about knowing where you are from and accepting it, but more important, knowing where you are going."Despite his polished veneer, sometimes there are glimpses into a more complicated young man.In sociology class, when students discuss their childhood dependence on parents, the usually verbose Quarles withdraws from the lively discussion and doodles in a notebook. When a tutoring coordinator asks students about the "caring adults" in their lives, Quarles mumbles something about an aunt.He rarely talks about his childhood, but when pushed, the words tumble out."I've had people tell me that I ain't never gonna be s---. That's not a scratch, that cuts deep," he says. "After so many people put me down, I said, 'I'm gonna show you.' "Quarles made good on that promise when he won more than $1 million in scholarship offers, including a full ride at Morehouse. A graduate of Kenwood Academy High School in Chicago, he is one of about a dozen students nationwide to garner such a bounty, according to Mark Kantrowitz, who runs the Web site Finaid, which tracks college aid.He won full scholarships to five universities, the Gates Millennium Scholarship worth $160,000 and the Horatio Alger and Coca-Cola scholarships, each worth $20,000, to name a few. He'll use most of it to pay for advanced schooling.Now, Quarles hopes to weave a new family narrative at an all-male college known as much for molding brotherhood as for molding scholars.He is searching for a band of brothers who will not abandon him, as so many others have in the past.Left aloneWhen Quarles was 4, his father was stabbed to death with a pocketknife in a fight on a vacant lot. His mother struggled with drugs.Quarles doesn't remember much about those years, outside of being left alone with his brother for long stretches of time, pilfering bread and snacks from a convenience store."We had to fend for ourselves the best we knew how," he says. "My brother really stepped up as an older brother. He never left my side."This connection to his brother was a sustaining one. But it would not last.When Quarles was 5, officials placed him and his brother in a temporary foster home, then with an aunt.Quarles remembers this as a period of calm. He learned to read sitting in his aunt's lap, paging through her favorite Bible passages. He recalls eating around the dinner table with more food than he ever imagined.But when Quarles was 13, his older brother was removed from the home and placed in a foster home in Maywood. Quarles wanted to go with his brother and his aunt let him. State records simply show she was not interested in becoming his legal guardian. Quarles says he is not certain why his aunt let him leave and he would not provide her name."I'm content not to know," he says. "I'm sure it was a good reason."Quarles' brother left the foster home a few months later, one of the toughest losses of Quarles' life. "That's when I learned you can't trust people to stay around," he says. "That when I learned to lean on me."Three years later, Quarles was placed with his grandmother and an aunt in Chicago. But within a year, he convinced officials with the Department of Children and Family Services that he would be better off on his own.The high school junior packed his clothes, books and a set of golf clubs and moved to an apartment as part of a state transitional living program for foster children. There, he learned to budget his money, wash and dry his clothes, shop for groceries and cook. He received a small stipend and got a part-time job at a barbershop.At 17, he was living like an adult.Desmond Kemp, who became a mentor to Quarles -- a brother, really -- when they met at a tutoring program, initially opposed the move.But Kemp was impressed with how Quarles kept up the apartment and budgeted his money with such precision that he always had enough for fashionable clothes and textbooks.He was awed when he took Quarles to the grocery store and the teenager shunned the snack aisles and headed to the fresh fruits and vegetables."He kept saying, 'This is brain food. This is what I need to eat to build a strong brain,' " Kemp recalls. "I had to laugh but also stared in amazement at how mature he was for a teenager."Even though his home life was sometimes chaotic, Quarles brought home A's and B's in elementary school. That changed when he entered Kenwood Academy. First quarter of freshman year, he got an F and eked out only a 2.5 grade point average.Providence intervened in the form of a pushy biology teacher.Quarles had enrolled in a summer biology course but skipped the first day and was late for the second. Teacher Nivedita Nutakki pulled him into the hallway and told him he was wasting his talent."He needed a push and some encouragement," she says. "I spotted right away that this was a special kid who had a special mind."Quarles got an A in the class. Sophomore year, he earned a 3.6 grade point average. By junior year, he was carrying three advanced placement classes and earning straight A's."Initially, I was doing it to show my biology teacher that I could do it," he says. "But then it kind of moved into, 'I didn't have to show her anymore.' I was doing it to show myself."Quarles latched on to Nutakki and spent hours after school with her, engrossed in a subject that inspired him to want to be a doctor.He found other mentors who, together, played the role of parent.Lynda Parker, a Kenwood counselor, recounts how aggressively Quarles pursued college scholarships. He would stay late to use the school computer for research and pester Parker to complete his recommendation letters."With teenagers, the biggest motivator is the parent," Parker says. "Every step of the way, you have to contact the parents so they can push the kids. Not only did Derrius not have a parent to push him, he was pushing himself as hard, or harder, than parents of the other kids."Even his oversize ambition couldn't get Quarles past one roadblock. He dreamed of attending Harvard, until one college adviser told him his 28 ACT score was simply not high enough. He abandoned his plans.At a crossroadsNow, as he walks the red clay hills of the Morehouse campus, the training ground of Martin Luther King Jr., Quarles seems poised between who he was and who he wants to be.His dorm room looks like every other teenager's. The bed is mussed, the refrigerator and shelves are stacked with Doritos and Coke, and the focus of the room is the 32-inch flat-screen TV and Xbox he bought with his roommate.But inside Quarles' closet hang four suits and a half-dozen wrinkle-free dress shirts. In the corner sits an iron and ironing board.As a high school senior, Quarles Googled tips on business attire. Now, his belt color always matches his shoes, and his shirt sleeves are tailored to fall exactly halfway across his watch."How you dress says something to the world about who you think you are," he explains.Quarles' counselors, friends and teachers worry he is too eager to grow up."I keep telling him that everyone has a right to live as a child during their childhood years," Parker says.Still, Quarles keeps an ambitious list of goals: graduate from medical school, earn a doctorate, start a tutoring program for low-income Chicago students, help shape the city's public health policy, become the U.S. surgeon general."I have no time to play around," he says. "There are people back home in Chicago starving, homeless, unemployed, killing each other. There is a difference between enjoying life and wasting time, and I can't waste any time."I want to make a difference. I want to show people that I can be all those things people said I could never be."Quarles now has the means to pay for his education. And oversize optimism could get him the rest of the way.During a training session for a Morehouse tutoring program one day, students introduce themselves and list three songs on their iPod -- typically Kanye West, Beyonce, Jay-Z and Lou Rawls.When his turn comes, Quarles stands."Have you ever seen the movie 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'?" he asks, prompting raised eyebrows. "There's a song in there called 'Pure Imagination.' That's what I'm listening to these days."Quarles later explains that the lyrics inspire him: "Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it.""It's so powerful," he says. "It shows the power of imagination. If you imagine it, you can do it."
HELLO COMMUNITY, HAPPY NEW MONTH
