tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58928602024-03-13T22:45:48.649+01:00Meine Geschichte und Ich<strong> Friday, 021003 </strong>IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.comBlogger476125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-89801961294514618162021-01-27T06:32:00.001+01:002021-01-27T06:32:53.562+01:00Don't lose your access to empowr beta<!-- --> <!--[if !gte mso 9]><!----><span class="mcnPreviewText" style="display:none; font-size:0px; line-height:0px; max-height:0px; max-width:0px; opacity:0; overflow:hidden; visibility:hidden; mso-hide:all;">Access your alpha coin balance AND own a part of the beta platform</span><!--<![endif]--> <!-- --> <center> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="bodyTable" style="background:#FFFFFF none no-repeat center/cover;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;height: 100%;margin: 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collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Over 10,000 empowr alpha citizens have now claimed their priority spot in the new beta platform.</p> <p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Don't miss your opportunity to own your share of the platform. <strong>This free gift to you is first-come-first-serve and will be gone soon.</strong></p> <p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://empowr.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=088dc6b029e40caf71e3c7a68&id=1218dcbc59&e=c207e54cdb" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=21585055" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Register for our live video call</a> to find out how to get started (including how to access to your empowr alpha balance).</p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> 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Learn how on our live Zoom call</span><!--<![endif]--> <!-- --> <center> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="bodyTable" style="background:#FFFFFF none no-repeat center/cover;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;height: 100%;margin: 0;padding: 0;width: 100%;background-color: #FFFFFF;background-image: none;background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center;background-size: cover;"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" id="bodyCell" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;height: 100%;margin: 0;padding: 10px;width: 100%;border-top: 0;"> <!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE // --> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]> <table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table 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0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">The empowr beta launch is approaching quickly and we're giving away a special (free) gift to every alpha citizen: the opportunity for you to own a part of the beta platform in your local area <br> <br> For instructions on how to secure your own exclusive territory, <a href="https://empowr.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30bbe1dabddd0d2b4758f8b08&id=aff618c97d&e=538c799c76" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">register for our special Zoom call</a> (over 6,000 spots already secured) <br> <br> Together, we can finally accomplish our mission in 2021, while enabling you to earn some significant revenue in the process. <br> <br> Looking forward to speaking, <br> <br> JC and Brian <br> <a href="https://empowr.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30bbe1dabddd0d2b4758f8b08&id=1359f33be9&e=538c799c76" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">www.empowr.com </a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" id="templateFooter" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;border-top: 0;border-bottom: 0;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <strong>Our mailing address is:</strong><br> <div class="vcard"><span class="org fn">empowr</span><div class="adr"><div class="street-address">501 W Broadway Ste 217</div><span class="locality">San Diego</span>, <span class="region">CA</span> <span class="postal-code">92101-3536</span></div><br><a href="https://empowr.us20.list-manage.com/vcard?u=30bbe1dabddd0d2b4758f8b08&id=81cda17b70" class="hcard-download">Add us to your address book</a></div> <br> <br> Want to change how you receive these emails?<br> You can <a href="https://empowr.us20.list-manage.com/profile?u=30bbe1dabddd0d2b4758f8b08&id=81cda17b70&e=538c799c76" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">update your preferences</a> or <a href="https://empowr.us20.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=30bbe1dabddd0d2b4758f8b08&id=81cda17b70&e=538c799c76&c=e2dac166b2" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">unsubscribe from this list</a>. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></td> </tr> </table> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]> </td> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> <!-- // END TEMPLATE --> </td> </tr> </table> </center> <img src="https://empowr.us20.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=30bbe1dabddd0d2b4758f8b08&id=e2dac166b2&e=538c799c76" height="1" width="1">IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-53625454294824580512021-01-21T08:04:00.000+01:002021-01-21T08:05:03.261+01:00empowr beta launch<!-- --> <!--[if !gte mso 9]><!----><span class="mcnPreviewText" style="display:none; font-size:0px; line-height:0px; max-height:0px; max-width:0px; opacity:0; overflow:hidden; visibility:hidden; mso-hide:all;">On the call, we'll give you the opportunity to own an exclusive territory in your city or town (your very own piece of the beta platform). </span><!--<![endif]--> <!-- --> <center> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="bodyTable" style="background:#FFFFFF none no-repeat center/cover;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;height: 100%;margin: 0;padding: 0;width: 100%;background-color: #FFFFFF;background-image: none;background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center;background-size: cover;"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" id="bodyCell" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;height: 100%;margin: 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It is time to give you a full update. And a very special gift.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Visit <a href="https://af701.infusion-links.com/api/v1/click/5202501291343872/5973708789907456" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">www.empowr.com</a> to learn more.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Looking forward to seeing you soon.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">JC and Brian</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; 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max-width: 600px; width: 100%; margin: 0px auto;"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" align="center" style="width:600px;"><tr><td><![endif]--> <div style="max-width: 600px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="font-size: 0px; width: 100%; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; font-size: 0px;"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><td style="vertical-align:top;width:600px;"><![endif]--> <div class="column column-100" style="display: inline-block; width: 100%; vertical-align: top;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; font-size: 0px; padding: 15px; text-align: left;"> <div> <h1 class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; line-height: 1.6; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/5880708524670976/5910515597705216" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1653/c3cc74788a67225a/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">Early (big) news for 2020</a></h1> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Hello empowrians,</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Normally I wait until around January 1st to talk about the new year ahead of us, but this year we have some big, very important and timely announcements that we wanted to bring to your attention as soon as possible.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Getting right to it, our three (3) big announcements are:</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">1. Marketing plan ready for launch:</b> Thanks to a tremendous amount of hard work this year -- <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">A MASSIVE EFFORT</b> -- by more than 200 people in our community, we've finally successfully identified all the details for our marketing approach for getting to critical mass globally in 2020, and are now – FINALLY --moving forward with our big, global marketing push! More details below.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2. Now hiring Vice Presidents:</b> In order to launch and expand everywhere, we are hiring Vice Presidents for cities around the world to lead and manage operations in their city. As we promised we would, we are giving our best citizens who have worked hard for this mission and community for so very long, the first shot at those positions! More details below.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">3. The empowr alpha site will be taken down in 30 days from now, to make way for beta and global launch:</b> To pay for our massive global launch, we must cut all costs substantially. That means that we must reduce our computer server costs by 75%, by shutting down the alpha empowr site on Jan 5, 2020 in preparation for the beta launch.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Let's get into details on all three items now.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><br /></p> <h2 class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 1.6; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34);" class="bard-text-block style-scope">1</span><span style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34);" class="bard-text-block style-scope"><span style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34);" class="bard-text-block style-scope">. </span>Marketing plan ready for launch</span></h2> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As you may remember, the last time we spoke (much earlier this year) I mentioned that it would likely be months before we chatted again, as our team on this end – with the help of many of our amazing community members -- was about to go deep – very deep -- into a project to try a LOT of different approaches to solve our <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">last remaining big challenge</b>.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">That last big challenge related to the marketing of the platform, and how to attract a lot of new users (citizens) to the platform very quickly – without getting and spending investor capital.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As a reminder, together we've built just about all the technology it takes to deliver on our vision of giving the world a democratic social economy.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">But the technology by itself has much less – even little – value until it has a 'critical mass' of people using it.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Does this make sense? To illustrate my point, let me use an example.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">For our example, think of a platform like the ride-sharing app Uber.</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">No matter how good their technology is, unless there are enough drivers in your area, the platform would have virtually no value to passengers in your area...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... and until there are enough passengers in your area, the platform would have little to no value to drivers in your area.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">There is a magical point at which there are "enough" drivers or passengers in an area to make it work. That point is called 'critical mass'.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">So, until critical mass is reached, the Uber platform has little (or even no) value, regardless of how great their innovations and technology are.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Which means every new person that uses Uber, will not be satisfied because they won't be able to get a ride (if they are a passenger)...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... or they won't be able to earn (if they are a driver)...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... and they will likely leave the app and never return again after their horrible (low value) experience.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As you can see, Uber (or Facebook, or Amazon, or most such companies including empowr) have two (2) challenges: </b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">1. First, they must build the technology and platform.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2. And second, they must find a way to achieve a 'critical mass' of users very quickly, otherwise their platform has little to no value to anyone.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">In the case of Uber, Facebook and Amazon, all three of them solved their critical mass challenge by raising many billions of dollars in investment capital from investors...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... which they then spent on advertising to attract a lot of people to their platform quickly (at the same time) so that, magically, they would have a lot of (a 'critical mass' of) users arriving at their platform at the same time.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">In the case of empowr, together this community accurately predicted that, in the future, the world would desperately need a platform where people could communicate and earn – an economy – but that didn't need to deliver growing quarterly profits to investors. </p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">We've discussed how, thanks to the '<em>network effect'</em>, big Wall Street funded companies would arise that would dominate entire global industries. They would become economies all onto themselves.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And since these tech giant economies must deliver a growing amount of profits each quarter to their (Wall Street investor) shareholders, they would eventually damage society as those profits must be extracted away from the people they serve.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Indeed, we have seen all 3 of the companies I mention above, act in ways that are making it clear that they are harmful for society, but have little choice because if they don't deliver more and more profits to their investors every 90 days, their stock will crash, their employees will leave and their management team will be fired:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Uber's trials and tribulations are <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/4817207848861696/5910515597705216" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1651/643fef2809a66179/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">well-documented</a>; Amazon is becoming quite famous for <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/5086774122774528/5910515597705216" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1649/33167993f4d51a2f/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">how little it pays its employees</a>, and of course Facebook has lost all trust from everyone (Silicon Valley, media and even most of its own users) involved, since it has become clear that they are a <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/6241799243038720/5910515597705216" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1647/82009e6d9a635d93/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">morally bankrupt company</a> that will do whatever it takes to survive even if it means breaking democracy around the world with their fake news and echo chambers that are dividing society, and with their continual user privacy violations that it has needed to do, in order to generate profits for its shareholders.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As a result, this community decided that we would take the more difficult road, and attempt to build our platform <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">without taking any money from investors</b>. Indeed, we generated 250 Million U.S. Dollars and were successful in using that capital to build all the technology needed to deliver an economy to the world.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Here's a partial list of the things we successfully figured out, through a lot of hard work, trial and error together:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">1. Social network that (unlike Facebook) doesn't create echo chambers</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2. Full economy platform – first of its kind to combine social, marketplace, and currency – which is what Facebook is still trying and struggling to bring to market</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">3. Sharing of everything (<a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/4984662986588160/5910515597705216" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1645/81e8f5dea34021a5/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">Watch video</a>) to attack the climate crisis</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">4. The software, know-how and techniques to crowdsource all work with our Success Coaches (now called Guides) so that we don't need to hire tens of thousands of employees, like Facebook does</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> a. Responsible for education, marketplace and social network moderation, dispute management, customer service</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">5. Paying users for their usage: Posting, sharing and communications, while beating fraudsters, in order to attack global income inequality</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">6. Generated diverse revenue streams – while not selling ads, users' data or their privacy to corporations:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> a. Transaction revenue</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> b. Subscription revenue</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> c. Advertising revenue (only to community members not corporations)</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> d. Cryptocurrency revenue</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As many of you know, NONE of the above was easy, or went right the first time.</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Together, we dreamed, we built, we failed, and we kept picking ourselves back up and we kept working at it until it finally came together.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And of course we did all of that without giving up on our mission and selling the community out – we're still at it -- and continue to not take a single penny from profit-seeking investors.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And, as it turns out, together we were right:</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As we predicted, the Internet has made it easy for people with a lot of money, to monopolize entire global industries, sending inequality to new heights.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As an example of how bad it has gotten, now <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/4525816765743104/5910515597705216" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1643/afc7f17070a250c1/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">26 individual people own as much wealth</a> as the bottom half of humanity (4 billion people).</p> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]></tr></table><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" align="center" style="width:600px;"><tr><td><![endif]--> <div style="max-width: 600px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="font-size: 0px; width: 100%; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; font-size: 0px;"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><td style="vertical-align:top;width:600px;"><![endif]--> <div class="column column-100" style="display: inline-block; width: 100%; vertical-align: top;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alignmentContainer" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; font-size: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <div style="padding-top: 10px;"> <!--[if mso]><v:rect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" filled="f" stroked="false" style="width:10;height:10"></v:rect><![endif]--> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]></tr></table><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" align="center" style="width:600px;"><tr><td><![endif]--> <div style="max-width: 600px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="font-size: 0px; width: 100%; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; font-size: 0px;"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><td style="vertical-align:top;width:600px;"><![endif]--> <div class="column column-100" style="display: inline-block; width: 100%; vertical-align: top;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alignmentContainer" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; font-size: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><img src="https://d1yoaun8syyxxt.cloudfront.net/af701-00da03f1-95e1-4503-9217-07c5a0f20a1b-v2" alt="image" width="576" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; width: 96%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]></tr></table><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" align="center" style="width:600px;"><tr><td><![endif]--> <div style="max-width: 600px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="font-size: 0px; width: 100%; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; font-size: 0px;"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><td style="vertical-align:top;width:600px;"><![endif]--> <div class="column column-100" style="display: inline-block; width: 100%; vertical-align: top;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; font-size: 0px; padding: 15px; text-align: left;"> <div> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; line-height: 1.6;">Also as we predicted together, people are being squeezed economically and they are <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/5392609851998208/5910515597705216" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1641/e9f3d1af66d18f8a/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">rising up everywhere</a>, shaking democratic institutions to their core, demanding change.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">But that change is not coming, as the combination of the Internet and big capital is not slowing down and will eventually drive 99% of the income and wealth into the hands of the richest top 1%.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">We are also right that the most powerful companies on the planet would attempt to bring together the very thing we've been working on (an economy based on cryptocurrency).</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">If you haven't noticed, Facebook has been working on bringing <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/5654243992403968/5910515597705216" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1639/33d7fc7db70e83be/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">cryptocurrency into its platform</a> so it can become an economy.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">That is exactly what the world does NOT need at this point:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">An economy of 3 billion people that's set up to extract money (IE: suck out profits) away from the community of people it pretends to serve, accelerating the economic haves/have nots (master/slave) class that's already rapidly forming globally.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Again, to be clear, we were right with a lot of things, but none of it came easy to most of us:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Our community members, Success Coaches and employees have all experienced differing levels of personal difficulty in keeping the faith and staying focused.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Each of us, needed to decide for ourselves, if we could find the energy and optimism -- and funds -- to stay with the program and keep moving forward. Of course many of our amazing community members could not hang on and ultimately had to quit empowr to go find a way to provide for their families.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And yet many of us hung in there, despite the immense difficulties, and managed to keep our chins up and find the optimism, not matter how hard that was to do at times.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And some of us were even able to help others in the community, that were having the hardest time keeping optimistic, to find the light and hope.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And so, on this end, here at the company headquarters, in 2019 we went deep into a project to see if we could find a way to get the platform to critical mass, WITHOUT taking money from investors.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As some of you know very well (since you were working hand-in-hand with us on some or all of it) we tried many different marketing approaches.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Without big marketing dollars to spend, this surely has been a gigantic challenge and quite difficult to solve.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">But after trying nearly 30 very different approaches, we now believe we have the optimal set of answers, approaches and tactics.</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Without revealing too much to our competitors, the answer is that we break the problem down to smaller pieces, and start with micro-communities.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">In other words, instead of trying to bring new citizens into the platform when there are not a lot of people around them (locally, where they live) yet....</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... we start by targeting very specific, smaller communities of people, that are the most likely to:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">A. Understand and believe in our mission</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">B. Be open-minded to trying new things</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">C. And most importantly, immediately benefit from our offerings</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">The idea was that, somehow, if we can identify smaller, local communities that are the most likely to meet those three (3) criteria...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... and are able to reach them and bring in many of them into the platform <em>quickly</em>...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... then they will find value in the platform and stay engaged.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Then, from there, and with their help – and with their knowledge and experience with our platform, we can start expanding and reaching out to the adjacent communities and people...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... and start bringing them into the platform too...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... until nearly the whole world is utilizing our platform.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">The ideal market</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">So, which local community is most likely to benefit from our offerings, be open minded, and believe in our mission?</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><u class="bard-text-block style-scope">Students</u></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Think about it for a moment. Students (in particular college and university students):</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· Could use some extra income while they are in school, benefitting from earning from posting and sharing</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· It is hard for them to work 'normal jobs' given that they need flexible work schedules because their class schedules are constantly changing every academic semester. That schedule flexibility is exactly what our platform offers.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· Many of them do not have cars, and it is hard for them to physically get to a job location. Again, that location flexibility is a benefit our platform offers.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· They are young and will be on this planet for at least another half century, and therefore have shown to be the most motivated to ensure the planet is in good shape (and therefore are most likely to value our Sharing of Everythingeffort).</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· They are the most optimistic and idealistic – able to believe in big ideas and missions -- as life has not beaten them down as much as it has beaten down many older people. This ability to stay optimistic and hopeful is what defines most of you; without it you wouldn't still be reading this.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· They still believe in a sense of fairness, and are more motivated to see a world where inequality is getting better, not worse</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· They are the most capable and willing to learn and try new things – like our platform -- and less likely to get stuck in their old ways as much as older people are</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· They often live within small distances of their campus – sometimes ten thousand, twenty thousand or even more of them living within just a kilometer or mile of each other...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... which makes for a great 'local' (as in, close proximity to each other) community to get the most value out of our platform:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">o With the our <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/6398541994131456/5910515597705216" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1637/7dba9f7f408f8900/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">Sharing of Everything</a> approach, as well as simple selling and delivering of products and services, a close geographic proximity to each other also means offering <em>services</em> becomes viable (near-impossible to do most services if the buyer and seller live far apart)...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">o ... and delivering products to each other is quite possible and even easy to do without having to pay for shipping</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Ideal target market: College and university students</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">After trying many different approaches during the course of 2019, we have slowly but surely become more and more convinced that the college market is the best way to reach a critical mass of citizens, at a local level.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And therefore, we have been working on a comprehensive plan to target the college market in cities around the world, that includes everything we've built plus:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· Local merchants around campuses</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">o Students will be able to use their <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">mobile phone to pay merchants</b> with their earnings from posting content, along with other earnings</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· And due to the local nature (close proximity of customers to each other):</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">o Earning by <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Transporting</b> (finally!)</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">o <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Services</b> and of course <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Sharing</b> (as opposed to Selling) products</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Rather than take everyone's time here, in this blog post, discussing all the details of our marketing launch, we'll share it with our new <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">city Vice Presidents</b> – who are the people that will be leading and managing each city's college campuses, students, merchants and Guides.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">For a list of the incredible community members that contributed to this massive effort, go to the bottom of this post.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <h2 class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 1.6; font-weight: bold;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2. Now hiring Vice Presidents</b></h2> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Each city will need a leader, to work with the local universities, students, Guides and merchants.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Naturally, for their work, Vice Presidents will earn a % of all the revenue that their students and merchants earn.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">This VP role is looking like the very best opportunity to earn that we've had in our history.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Our process of training Vice Presidents will get started in the coming days, so that immediately after the New Year rolls around (in just 30 days from now) they'll be able to start working and earning.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">To apply for the Vice President position for your city, <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/6327384955682816/5910515597705216" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1635/fd05f22c7982448d/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">go here</a>. </p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">I know you have many questions, including:</p> <ul class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; margin-top: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: initial; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(52, 52, 52);"> <li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">What are the Vice President's responsibilities?</li> <li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Will I have support? How do I know what to do?</li> <li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">What kind of merchants can I bring in?</li> <li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">How much can each VP earn? Are there any limits? How much time will this take?</li> <li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Who can be a Vice President?</li> </ul> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">We will answer all of those questions for you; rather than go into all those details here, simply take a few seconds to raise your hand to indicate your interest, and we'll answer all of that.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Thanks to all the hard work and incredible focus and persistence, the empowr community has figured out what it takes to arrive at critical mass quickly and without taking any funds from investors.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Those steps with now be detailed for Vice Presidents.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Our first step together will be to show you <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">the exact steps you need to do</b>, to bring your city into critical mass.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">To indicate your interest and find out all the details, simply fill out <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/6486524634071040/5910515597705216" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1633/57ef79a472c7a87f/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">this quick form</a>.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <h2 class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 1.6; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34);" class="bard-text-block style-scope">3. We must now take down the alpha site to cut costs and make way for our global beta launch:</span> </h2> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">The monthly cost of keeping the empowr alpha system's computer servers up and running is approximately $100,000 USD.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Up to now, all such costs have been paid by our community of citizens, Guides (success coaches) and employees.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">In order to have the resources to pay for the global launch, we must cut that cost.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Since we know everyone has already more than done their part, instead of asking the community for donations that total up to $100,000 per month, we think it makes more sense to take the alpha site down, in preparation for the beta launch and marketing push.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">The empowr alpha site will be taken down in 31 days from now -- on <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">January 5th, 2020</b>. When that happens:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">A. The empowr product will become inaccessible.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">B. Everyone's data will be gone forever, unfortunately, since the storage of the data makes up a lot of the monthly cost.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">That means that, when the beta site is launched, everyone will need to start with a fresh new account.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">To be clear, your coins that are on the blockchain will be fine and won't be affected; but your empowr balance will be inaccessible until the beta site is launched unfortunately, since it lives in the empowr site and cloud.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">When the beta site is launched, your alpha coin balance will appear in the new beta site.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">When the beta site is launched in January, the monthly cost of hosting our servers will be much lower because all the data will be gone.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">In order to give everyone some time to back up any blogs, photos or other content they have, we are giving the community 31 days before taking down the alpha site.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">So please, take some time over the holidays to back up any amazing blogs and other items that you think you will later miss.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><br /></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Imagine critical mass</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Just think of all the benefits that will come once the new platform is up and running and the marketing process has begun:</p> <ul class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; margin-top: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: initial; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(52, 52, 52);"> <li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">A wider variety of people in the community and things in the marketplace (merchants, services and product sharing)</li> <li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">= More people transacting</li> <li class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">= More liquidity on the exchange</li> <li class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">= More buying and selling</li> <li class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">= More cash outs for everyone</li> </ul> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">An empowr platform with critical mass is not something any of us at empowr have ever experienced.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">(Again, as an example, an Uber with critical mass has little value; but an Uber at critical mass has immense value). </p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Just imagine the empowr experience after we surpass critical mass soon.</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Our process of training Vice Presidents will get started soon, so that immediately after the New Year rolls around (in only 30 days from now) they'll be able to start working and earning.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Again, to apply to be the leader (Vice President) for your city, simply let us know of your interest <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/6546736585900032/5910515597705216" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1631/94c1a0116841aeb0/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">here</a>.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2020 is only 3 weeks away!</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">With the big, and very difficult 2019 'research year' finally behind us now, 2020 promises to be our most exciting year yet. </p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">(And there will be a few surprises that I am not at liberty to speak about quite yet, to ensure that our competition doesn't hear about it).</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Personally, I cannot tell you how incredibly excited I am to finally be back to working with everyone on the product, making it faster, bug-free and adding all the features you've been asking for, speaking with you more often, and charging forward together again...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... like we did together for so many years before we all got sucked into this last big challenge.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <h2 class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 1.6; font-weight: bold;">A huge thank you to some very special people</h2> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">A big THANKS again to everyone that worked hard in the efforts to figure out how to achieve critical mass without investor capital.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">It was a long and difficult process, but together we did it. </b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Here are those superstars – sorted in alphabetical order. Thank you!!!</p> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]></tr></table><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" align="center" style="width:600px;"><tr><td><![endif]--> <div style="max-width: 600px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="font-size: 0px; width: 100%; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; font-size: 0px;"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><td style="vertical-align:top;width:600px;"><![endif]--> <div class="column column-100" style="display: inline-block; width: 100%; vertical-align: top;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alignmentContainer" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; 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width: 100%; vertical-align: top;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alignmentContainer" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; font-size: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <div style="padding-top: 15px;"> <!--[if mso]><v:rect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" filled="f" stroked="false" style="width:10;height:15"></v:rect><![endif]--> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]></tr></table><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" align="center" style="width:600px;"><tr><td><![endif]--> <div style="max-width: 600px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="font-size: 0px; width: 100%; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; font-size: 0px;"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><td style="vertical-align:top;width:600px;"><![endif]--> <div class="column column-100" style="display: inline-block; width: 100%; vertical-align: top;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; font-size: 0px; padding: 15px; text-align: left;"> <div> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; line-height: 1.6;">Please accept my sincere apologies if I accidentally forgot to include you on the list. </p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Yours truly,</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); 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max-width: 600px; width: 100%; margin: 0px auto;"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" align="center" style="width:600px;"><tr><td><![endif]--> <div style="max-width: 600px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="font-size: 0px; width: 100%; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; font-size: 0px;"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><td style="vertical-align:top;width:600px;"><![endif]--> <div class="column column-100" style="display: inline-block; width: 100%; vertical-align: top;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; font-size: 0px; padding: 15px; text-align: left;"> <div> <h1 class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; line-height: 1.6; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/4864809642491904/4836912252846080" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1627/d5816c2b0f3b6509/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">Early (big) news for 2020</a></h1> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Hello empowrians,</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Normally I wait until around January 1st to talk about the new year ahead of us, but this year we have some big, very important and timely announcements that we wanted to bring to your attention as soon as possible.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Getting right to it, our three (3) big announcements are:</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">1. Marketing plan ready for launch:</b> Thanks to a tremendous amount of hard work this year -- <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">A MASSIVE EFFORT</b> -- by more than 200 people in our community, we've finally successfully identified all the details for our marketing approach for getting to critical mass globally in 2020, and are now – FINALLY --moving forward with our big, global marketing push! More details below.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2. Now hiring Vice Presidents:</b> In order to launch and expand everywhere, we are hiring Vice Presidents for cities around the world to lead and manage operations in their city. As we promised we would, we are giving our best citizens who have worked hard for this mission and community for so very long, the first shot at those positions! More details below.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">3. The empowr alpha site will be taken down in 30 days from now, to make way for beta and global launch:</b> To pay for our massive global launch, we must cut all costs substantially. That means that we must reduce our computer server costs by 75%, by shutting down the alpha empowr site on Jan 5, 2020 in preparation for the beta launch.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Let's get into details on all three items now.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><br /></p> <h2 class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 1.6; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34);" class="bard-text-block style-scope">1</span><span style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34);" class="bard-text-block style-scope"><span style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34);" class="bard-text-block style-scope">. </span>Marketing plan ready for launch</span></h2> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As you may remember, the last time we spoke (much earlier this year) I mentioned that it would likely be months before we chatted again, as our team on this end – with the help of many of our amazing community members -- was about to go deep – very deep -- into a project to try a LOT of different approaches to solve our <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">last remaining big challenge</b>.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">That last big challenge related to the marketing of the platform, and how to attract a lot of new users (citizens) to the platform very quickly – without getting and spending investor capital.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As a reminder, together we've built just about all the technology it takes to deliver on our vision of giving the world a democratic social economy.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">But the technology by itself has much less – even little – value until it has a 'critical mass' of people using it.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Does this make sense? To illustrate my point, let me use an example.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">For our example, think of a platform like the ride-sharing app Uber.</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">No matter how good their technology is, unless there are enough drivers in your area, the platform would have virtually no value to passengers in your area...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... and until there are enough passengers in your area, the platform would have little to no value to drivers in your area.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">There is a magical point at which there are "enough" drivers or passengers in an area to make it work. That point is called 'critical mass'.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">So, until critical mass is reached, the Uber platform has little (or even no) value, regardless of how great their innovations and technology are.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Which means every new person that uses Uber, will not be satisfied because they won't be able to get a ride (if they are a passenger)...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... or they won't be able to earn (if they are a driver)...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... and they will likely leave the app and never return again after their horrible (low value) experience.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As you can see, Uber (or Facebook, or Amazon, or most such companies including empowr) have two (2) challenges: </b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">1. First, they must build the technology and platform.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2. And second, they must find a way to achieve a 'critical mass' of users very quickly, otherwise their platform has little to no value to anyone.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">In the case of Uber, Facebook and Amazon, all three of them solved their critical mass challenge by raising many billions of dollars in investment capital from investors...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... which they then spent on advertising to attract a lot of people to their platform quickly (at the same time) so that, magically, they would have a lot of (a 'critical mass' of) users arriving at their platform at the same time.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">In the case of empowr, together this community accurately predicted that, in the future, the world would desperately need a platform where people could communicate and earn – an economy – but that didn't need to deliver growing quarterly profits to investors. </p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">We've discussed how, thanks to the '<em>network effect'</em>, big Wall Street funded companies would arise that would dominate entire global industries. They would become economies all onto themselves.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And since these tech giant economies must deliver a growing amount of profits each quarter to their (Wall Street investor) shareholders, they would eventually damage society as those profits must be extracted away from the people they serve.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Indeed, we have seen all 3 of the companies I mention above, act in ways that are making it clear that they are harmful for society, but have little choice because if they don't deliver more and more profits to their investors every 90 days, their stock will crash, their employees will leave and their management team will be fired:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Uber's trials and tribulations are <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/6481885935173632/4836912252846080" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1625/f6bf6882e8d11d8f/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">well-documented</a>; Amazon is becoming quite famous for <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/6626947079864320/4836912252846080" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1623/f38385082f9d3427/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">how little it pays its employees</a>, and of course Facebook has lost all trust from everyone (Silicon Valley, media and even most of its own users) involved, since it has become clear that they are a <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/5822467123970048/4836912252846080" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1621/85d57463f12943f7/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">morally bankrupt company</a> that will do whatever it takes to survive even if it means breaking democracy around the world with their fake news and echo chambers that are dividing society, and with their continual user privacy violations that it has needed to do, in order to generate profits for its shareholders.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As a result, this community decided that we would take the more difficult road, and attempt to build our platform <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">without taking any money from investors</b>. Indeed, we generated 250 Million U.S. Dollars and were successful in using that capital to build all the technology needed to deliver an economy to the world.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Here's a partial list of the things we successfully figured out, through a lot of hard work, trial and error together:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">1. Social network that (unlike Facebook) doesn't create echo chambers</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2. Full economy platform – first of its kind to combine social, marketplace, and currency – which is what Facebook is still trying and struggling to bring to market</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">3. Sharing of everything (<a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/5318811006009344/4836912252846080" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1619/0499f9a694254755/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">Watch video</a>) to attack the climate crisis</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">4. The software, know-how and techniques to crowdsource all work with our Success Coaches (now called Guides) so that we don't need to hire tens of thousands of employees, like Facebook does</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> a. Responsible for education, marketplace and social network moderation, dispute management, customer service</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">5. Paying users for their usage: Posting, sharing and communications, while beating fraudsters, in order to attack global income inequality</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">6. Generated diverse revenue streams – while not selling ads, users' data or their privacy to corporations:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> a. Transaction revenue</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> b. Subscription revenue</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> c. Advertising revenue (only to community members not corporations)</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> d. Cryptocurrency revenue</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As many of you know, NONE of the above was easy, or went right the first time.</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Together, we dreamed, we built, we failed, and we kept picking ourselves back up and we kept working at it until it finally came together.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And of course we did all of that without giving up on our mission and selling the community out – we're still at it -- and continue to not take a single penny from profit-seeking investors.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And, as it turns out, together we were right:</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As we predicted, the Internet has made it easy for people with a lot of money, to monopolize entire global industries, sending inequality to new heights.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As an example of how bad it has gotten, now <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/4668456622620672/4836912252846080" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1617/de8e2704ef59ca0d/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">26 individual people own as much wealth</a> as the bottom half of humanity (4 billion people).</p> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]></tr></table><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" align="center" style="width:600px;"><tr><td><![endif]--> <div style="max-width: 600px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="font-size: 0px; 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background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="font-size: 0px; width: 100%; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; font-size: 0px;"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><td style="vertical-align:top;width:600px;"><![endif]--> <div class="column column-100" style="display: inline-block; width: 100%; vertical-align: top;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alignmentContainer" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; font-size: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><img src="https://d1yoaun8syyxxt.cloudfront.net/af701-00da03f1-95e1-4503-9217-07c5a0f20a1b-v2" alt="image" width="576" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; width: 96%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]></tr></table><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" align="center" style="width:600px;"><tr><td><![endif]--> <div style="max-width: 600px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="font-size: 0px; width: 100%; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; font-size: 0px;"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><td style="vertical-align:top;width:600px;"><![endif]--> <div class="column column-100" style="display: inline-block; width: 100%; vertical-align: top;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; font-size: 0px; padding: 15px; text-align: left;"> <div> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; line-height: 1.6;">Also as we predicted together, people are being squeezed economically and they are <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/6689317655412736/4836912252846080" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1615/e70e13cb015e9c69/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">rising up everywhere</a>, shaking democratic institutions to their core, demanding change.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">But that change is not coming, as the combination of the Internet and big capital is not slowing down and will eventually drive 99% of the income and wealth into the hands of the richest top 1%.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">We are also right that the most powerful companies on the planet would attempt to bring together the very thing we've been working on (an economy based on cryptocurrency).</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">If you haven't noticed, Facebook has been working on bringing <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/6515021507198976/4836912252846080" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1613/0debf01bcc15af3b/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">cryptocurrency into its platform</a> so it can become an economy.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">That is exactly what the world does NOT need at this point:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">An economy of 3 billion people that's set up to extract money (IE: suck out profits) away from the community of people it pretends to serve, accelerating the economic haves/have nots (master/slave) class that's already rapidly forming globally.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Again, to be clear, we were right with a lot of things, but none of it came easy to most of us:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Our community members, Success Coaches and employees have all experienced differing levels of personal difficulty in keeping the faith and staying focused.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Each of us, needed to decide for ourselves, if we could find the energy and optimism -- and funds -- to stay with the program and keep moving forward. Of course many of our amazing community members could not hang on and ultimately had to quit empowr to go find a way to provide for their families.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And yet many of us hung in there, despite the immense difficulties, and managed to keep our chins up and find the optimism, not matter how hard that was to do at times.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And some of us were even able to help others in the community, that were having the hardest time keeping optimistic, to find the light and hope.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And so, on this end, here at the company headquarters, in 2019 we went deep into a project to see if we could find a way to get the platform to critical mass, WITHOUT taking money from investors.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">As some of you know very well (since you were working hand-in-hand with us on some or all of it) we tried many different marketing approaches.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Without big marketing dollars to spend, this surely has been a gigantic challenge and quite difficult to solve.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">But after trying nearly 30 very different approaches, we now believe we have the optimal set of answers, approaches and tactics.</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Without revealing too much to our competitors, the answer is that we break the problem down to smaller pieces, and start with micro-communities.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">In other words, instead of trying to bring new citizens into the platform when there are not a lot of people around them (locally, where they live) yet....</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... we start by targeting very specific, smaller communities of people, that are the most likely to:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">A. Understand and believe in our mission</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">B. Be open-minded to trying new things</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">C. And most importantly, immediately benefit from our offerings</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">The idea was that, somehow, if we can identify smaller, local communities that are the most likely to meet those three (3) criteria...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... and are able to reach them and bring in many of them into the platform <em>quickly</em>...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... then they will find value in the platform and stay engaged.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Then, from there, and with their help – and with their knowledge and experience with our platform, we can start expanding and reaching out to the adjacent communities and people...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... and start bringing them into the platform too...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... until nearly the whole world is utilizing our platform.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">The ideal market</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">So, which local community is most likely to benefit from our offerings, be open minded, and believe in our mission?</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><u class="bard-text-block style-scope">Students</u></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Think about it for a moment. Students (in particular college and university students):</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· Could use some extra income while they are in school, benefitting from earning from posting and sharing</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· It is hard for them to work 'normal jobs' given that they need flexible work schedules because their class schedules are constantly changing every academic semester. That schedule flexibility is exactly what our platform offers.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· Many of them do not have cars, and it is hard for them to physically get to a job location. Again, that location flexibility is a benefit our platform offers.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· They are young and will be on this planet for at least another half century, and therefore have shown to be the most motivated to ensure the planet is in good shape (and therefore are most likely to value our Sharing of Everythingeffort).</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· They are the most optimistic and idealistic – able to believe in big ideas and missions -- as life has not beaten them down as much as it has beaten down many older people. This ability to stay optimistic and hopeful is what defines most of you; without it you wouldn't still be reading this.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· They still believe in a sense of fairness, and are more motivated to see a world where inequality is getting better, not worse</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· They are the most capable and willing to learn and try new things – like our platform -- and less likely to get stuck in their old ways as much as older people are</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· They often live within small distances of their campus – sometimes ten thousand, twenty thousand or even more of them living within just a kilometer or mile of each other...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... which makes for a great 'local' (as in, close proximity to each other) community to get the most value out of our platform:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">o With the our <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/5628586092658688/4836912252846080" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1611/901c1845d241a913/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">Sharing of Everything</a> approach, as well as simple selling and delivering of products and services, a close geographic proximity to each other also means offering <em>services</em> becomes viable (near-impossible to do most services if the buyer and seller live far apart)...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">o ... and delivering products to each other is quite possible and even easy to do without having to pay for shipping</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Ideal target market: College and university students</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">After trying many different approaches during the course of 2019, we have slowly but surely become more and more convinced that the college market is the best way to reach a critical mass of citizens, at a local level.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">And therefore, we have been working on a comprehensive plan to target the college market in cities around the world, that includes everything we've built plus:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· Local merchants around campuses</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">o Students will be able to use their <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">mobile phone to pay merchants</b> with their earnings from posting content, along with other earnings</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">· And due to the local nature (close proximity of customers to each other):</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">o Earning by <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Transporting</b> (finally!)</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">o <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Services</b> and of course <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Sharing</b> (as opposed to Selling) products</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Rather than take everyone's time here, in this blog post, discussing all the details of our marketing launch, we'll share it with our new <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">city Vice Presidents</b> – who are the people that will be leading and managing each city's college campuses, students, merchants and Guides.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">For a list of the incredible community members that contributed to this massive effort, go to the bottom of this post.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <h2 class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 1.6; font-weight: bold;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2. Now hiring Vice Presidents</b></h2> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Each city will need a leader, to work with the local universities, students, Guides and merchants.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Naturally, for their work, Vice Presidents will earn a % of all the revenue that their students and merchants earn.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">This VP role is looking like the very best opportunity to earn that we've had in our history.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Our process of training Vice Presidents will get started in the coming days, so that immediately after the New Year rolls around (in just 30 days from now) they'll be able to start working and earning.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">To apply for the Vice President position for your city, <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/5816387832643584/4836912252846080" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1609/5810904d778ef358/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">go here</a>. </p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">I know you have many questions, including:</p> <ul class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; margin-top: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: initial; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(52, 52, 52);"> <li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">What are the Vice President's responsibilities?</li> <li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Will I have support? How do I know what to do?</li> <li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">What kind of merchants can I bring in?</li> <li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">How much can each VP earn? Are there any limits? How much time will this take?</li> <li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Who can be a Vice President?</li> </ul> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">We will answer all of those questions for you; rather than go into all those details here, simply take a few seconds to raise your hand to indicate your interest, and we'll answer all of that.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Thanks to all the hard work and incredible focus and persistence, the empowr community has figured out what it takes to arrive at critical mass quickly and without taking any funds from investors.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Those steps with now be detailed for Vice Presidents.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Our first step together will be to show you <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">the exact steps you need to do</b>, to bring your city into critical mass.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">To indicate your interest and find out all the details, simply fill out <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/5831784854192128/4836912252846080" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1607/fbde953fdcfade14/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">this quick form</a>.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <h2 class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 1.6; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34);" class="bard-text-block style-scope">3. We must now take down the alpha site to cut costs and make way for our global beta launch:</span> </h2> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">The monthly cost of keeping the empowr alpha system's computer servers up and running is approximately $100,000 USD.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Up to now, all such costs have been paid by our community of citizens, Guides (success coaches) and employees.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">In order to have the resources to pay for the global launch, we must cut that cost.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Since we know everyone has already more than done their part, instead of asking the community for donations that total up to $100,000 per month, we think it makes more sense to take the alpha site down, in preparation for the beta launch and marketing push.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">The empowr alpha site will be taken down in 31 days from now -- on <b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">January 5th, 2020</b>. When that happens:</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">A. The empowr product will become inaccessible.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">B. Everyone's data will be gone forever, unfortunately, since the storage of the data makes up a lot of the monthly cost.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">That means that, when the beta site is launched, everyone will need to start with a fresh new account.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">To be clear, your coins that are on the blockchain will be fine and won't be affected; but your empowr balance will be inaccessible until the beta site is launched unfortunately, since it lives in the empowr site and cloud.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">When the beta site is launched, your alpha coin balance will appear in the new beta site.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">When the beta site is launched in January, the monthly cost of hosting our servers will be much lower because all the data will be gone.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">In order to give everyone some time to back up any blogs, photos or other content they have, we are giving the community 31 days before taking down the alpha site.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">So please, take some time over the holidays to back up any amazing blogs and other items that you think you will later miss.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><br /></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Imagine critical mass</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Just think of all the benefits that will come once the new platform is up and running and the marketing process has begun:</p> <ul class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; margin-top: 16px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: initial; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(52, 52, 52);"> <li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">A wider variety of people in the community and things in the marketplace (merchants, services and product sharing)</li> <li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">= More people transacting</li> <li class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">= More liquidity on the exchange</li> <li class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">= More buying and selling</li> <li class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">= More cash outs for everyone</li> </ul> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">An empowr platform with critical mass is not something any of us at empowr have ever experienced.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">(Again, as an example, an Uber with critical mass has little value; but an Uber at critical mass has immense value). </p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Just imagine the empowr experience after we surpass critical mass soon.</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Our process of training Vice Presidents will get started soon, so that immediately after the New Year rolls around (in only 30 days from now) they'll be able to start working and earning.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Again, to apply to be the leader (Vice President) for your city, simply let us know of your interest <a href="https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/4790944794935296/4836912252846080" class="bard-text-block style-scope" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;" data-merge-field="https://af701.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/1605/157fec46e79c412e/bb9b2ca52a1e5638db902470deedab405764b0409ea6d01e34692e2ba143c12b">here</a>.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34); padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2020 is only 3 weeks away!</b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">With the big, and very difficult 2019 'research year' finally behind us now, 2020 promises to be our most exciting year yet. </p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">(And there will be a few surprises that I am not at liberty to speak about quite yet, to ensure that our competition doesn't hear about it).</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Personally, I cannot tell you how incredibly excited I am to finally be back to working with everyone on the product, making it faster, bug-free and adding all the features you've been asking for, speaking with you more often, and charging forward together again...</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">... like we did together for so many years before we all got sucked into this last big challenge.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br /></p> <h2 class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(58, 117, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 1.6; font-weight: bold;">A huge thank you to some very special people</h2> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">A big THANKS again to everyone that worked hard in the efforts to figure out how to achieve critical mass without investor capital.</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><b class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">It was a long and difficult process, but together we did it. </b></p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Here are those superstars – sorted in alphabetical order. Thank you!!!</p> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]></tr></table><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" align="center" style="width:600px;"><tr><td><![endif]--> <div style="max-width: 600px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="font-size: 0px; width: 100%; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; font-size: 0px;"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><td style="vertical-align:top;width:600px;"><![endif]--> <div class="column column-100" style="display: inline-block; width: 100%; vertical-align: top;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alignmentContainer" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; 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width: 100%; vertical-align: top;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alignmentContainer" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; font-size: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <div style="padding-top: 15px;"> <!--[if mso]><v:rect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" filled="f" stroked="false" style="width:10;height:15"></v:rect><![endif]--> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]></tr></table><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <!--[if mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" align="center" style="width:600px;"><tr><td><![endif]--> <div style="max-width: 600px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="font-size: 0px; width: 100%; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; font-size: 0px;"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><td style="vertical-align:top;width:600px;"><![endif]--> <div class="column column-100" style="display: inline-block; width: 100%; vertical-align: top;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; font-size: 0px; padding: 15px; text-align: left;"> <div> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; line-height: 1.6;">Please accept my sincere apologies if I accidentally forgot to include you on the list. </p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 13px 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Yours truly,</p> <p class="bard-text-block style-scope" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); 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<h3 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-Fehler"HTTP404"oder"NICHTGEFUNDEN"beimversuchtenZugriffaufdieVerwaltungskonsole">
Fehler "HTTP 404" oder "NICHT GEFUNDEN" beim versuchten Zugriff auf die Verwaltungskonsole</h3>
Die häufigsten Ursachen sollte man erstmals ausschließen:<br />
<ul>
<li>Ist der Server schon gestartet?</li>
<li>Hat man die korrekte URL verwendet? (bei Rest-Service sollte man <i>@ApplicationPath</i> Annotation beachten)<br /><h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-@ApplicationPath("/rest")">
<span style="font-size: small;">@ApplicationPath("/rest")</span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-publicclassAppextendsApplication{">
<span style="font-size: small;">public class App extends Application {</span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-}">
<span style="font-size: small;">}</span></h6>
</li>
<li>Besteht noch Probleme mit der Netzkonnektivität zwischen dem Browser- und dem Serversystem?</li>
<li>Wurde die autorisierte Verbindung korrekt konfiguriert? (<i>siehe: server.xml</i>)<br />Eine Datasource wird wie folgt definiert :<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><datasource id="<em">"SOURCE_ID"</datasource></span></li>
</ul>
jndiName=<i>"jdbc/pathto/driver"</i> type=<i>"javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource"</i>><jdbcdriver libraryref="<em">"DB2JCC4Lib"</jdbcdriver>/> <span style="font-size: small;"><properties .db2.jcc="" currentschema="<em">"SCHEMA"</properties></span><br />
databaseName=<i>"DB2T11"</i> driverType=<i>"4"</i> password=<i>"XXX"</i> portNumber=<i>"1234"</i> serverName=<i>"server.domain.id"</i> user=<i>"username"</i>/> <span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<h3 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-Fehler"org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.QueryExceptionBeschreibungderAusnahme:Für[classjava.lang.Long]fehlteinDeskriptor"">
Fehler
"org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.QueryException Beschreibung der
Ausnahme:Für [class java.lang.Long] fehlt ein Deskriptor"</h3>
Mögliche Lösung:<br />
<ul>
<li>Eine Entitätsklasse (POJO) mit @Entity Annotation, @Id kennzeichnet den Primärschlüssel<i>, getter</i> und <i>setter</i> einbauen z.B.</li>
</ul>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-publicclassParameter{" style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> <code>@Entity</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-publicclassParameter{" style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code> public class Parameter {</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-@Id" style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> <code>@Id</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-@Column(name="FIXKOSTEN_ID")" style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> <code>@Column(name ="MY_ID")</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-privateLongFIXKOSTEN_ID;" style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> <code>private Long MY_ID;</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-//defaultconstructorpublicParameter(){}//getter+setter}" style="margin-left: 30px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> <code>// default constructor<br />
public Parameter() {<br />
}<br />
// getter + setter<br />
}</code></span></h6>
<br />
<ul>
<li>Objekt mittles JPA aus der Datenbank laden<br /><h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-@GET">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code>@GET</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code>@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-@Path("/parameters")">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code>@Path("/parameters")</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-publicResponsegetParameters(@QueryParam("plandatenId")List<String>plandatenKonfigurationIDs){">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code>public Response getParameters(@QueryParam("plandatenId")
List<string> plandatenKonfigurationIDs) {</string></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-EntityManagerFactoryemFactory=Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("ZMSERVICE_FUK_SERVICE");">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code> EntityManagerFactory emFactory =
Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("MY_SERVICE");</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-EntityManagerem=emFactory.createEntityManager();">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code> EntityManager em = emFactory.createEntityManager();</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-Queryquery=em.createNativeQuery(sqlString,Parameter.class);">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code> Query query = em.createNativeQuery(sqlString, Parameter.class);</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-...">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code> ...</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-List<Parameter>idlist=query.getResultList();">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code> List<parameter> idlist =
query.getResultList();</parameter></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-returnResponse.status(200).header("cache-control","no-cache,no-store,must-revalidate")">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code> return
Response.status(200).header("cache-control", "no-cache,
no-store, must-revalidate")</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-.entity(idlist)">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code>
.entity(idlist)</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-.build();">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code>
.build();</code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-}.1">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code>}</code></span></h6>
</li>
<li>JPA <i>persistence.xml</i> Konfiguration:<br />
In
der Datei „persistence.xml“ (normalerweise im META-INF Verzeichnis)
befindet sich die Datenbankkonfiguration für den JPA Provider </li>
</ul>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-<properties>">
<code> <properties></properties></code></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-<propertyname="eclipselink.jdbc.native-sql"value="true"/>">
<code> <property name="eclipselink.jdbc.native-sql" value="true"></property></code></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-<propertyname="eclipselink.jdbc.cache-statements"value="true"/>">
<code> <property name="eclipselink.jdbc.cache-statements" value="true"></property></code></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-<propertyname="eclipselink.weaving.eager"value="true"/>">
<code> <property name="eclipselink.weaving.eager" value="true"></property></code></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-</properties>">
<code> </code></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-</persistence-unit>">
<code></code></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-</persistence>">
<code></code></h6>
<persistence-unit name="ZMSERVICE_FUK_SERVICE" transaction-type="JTA"><properties><property name="eclipselink.jdbc.native-sql" value="true"></property></properties></persistence-unit><br />
<persistence-unit name="ZMSERVICE_FUK_SERVICE" transaction-type="JTA"><properties><property name="eclipselink.jdbc.native-sql" value="true"></property></properties></persistence-unit><persistence-unit name="ZMSERVICE_FUK_SERVICE" transaction-type="JTA"><properties><property name="eclipselink.jdbc.native-sql" value="true"> <property name="eclipselink.jdbc.cache-statements" value="true"><br /> <property name="eclipselink.weaving.eager" value="true"><br /> </property></property></property></properties></persistence-unit><br />
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<br />
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-<properties>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code> <properties></properties></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-<propertyname="eclipselink.jdbc.native-sql"value="true"/>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code> <property name="eclipselink.jdbc.native-sql" value="true"></property></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-<propertyname="eclipselink.jdbc.cache-statements"value="true"/>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code> <property name="eclipselink.jdbc.cache-statements" value="true"></property></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-<propertyname="eclipselink.weaving.eager"value="true"/>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code> <property name="eclipselink.weaving.eager" value="true"></property></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-</properties>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code> </code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-</persistence-unit>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-</persistence>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-<properties>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code><properties></properties></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-<propertyname="eclipselink.jdbc.native-sql"value="true"/>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code><property name="eclipselink.jdbc.native-sql" value="true"></property></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-<propertyname="eclipselink.jdbc.cache-statements"value="true"/>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code><property name="eclipselink.jdbc.cache-statements" value="true"></property></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-<propertyname="eclipselink.weaving.eager"value="true"/>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code><property name="eclipselink.weaving.eager" value="true"></property></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-</properties>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-</persistence-unit>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code></code></span></h6>
<h6 id="TroubleshootingWSLiberty-</persistence>">
<span style="font-size: small;"><code></code></span></h6>
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81. Wajibkah Memperingati Maulid Nabi SAW: <a href="http://adf.ly/1jffiE">http://adf.ly/1jffiE</a>IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-87997733159178166582016-04-21T13:23:00.000+02:002016-04-21T13:23:01.158+02:00Antara Rezeki, Jodoh dan Ajal<div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Banyak mungkin diantara kita yang masih berpendapat bahwa Rezeki, Ajal, serta jodoh telah ditetapkan oleh Allah semenjak kita masih di dalam kandungan. Pemikiran seperti ini mungkin telah mendarah daging di dalam diri kita.</div>
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Apalagi kiranya sejak kecil mungkin orang tua, guru, dan lingkungan masyarakat dimana tempat kita hidup pun kalimat ini sampai sekarang masih sangat <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">familiar</span> diulang-ulang.</div>
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Untuk membahas ini, maka mari kita coba untuk urai masalah ini sehingga kita bisa menyimpulkan tentang hakikat dari ketiga kata tersebut, yakni seputar Rezeki, Ajal, dan Jodoh.</div>
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Ar-Rizqu (rezeki) secara bahasa berasal dari akar kata razaqa–yarzuqu–razq[an] wa rizq[an]. Razq[an] adalah mashdar yang hakiki, sedangkan rizq[an] adalah ism yang diposisikan sebagai mashdar. Kata rizq[an] maknanya adalah marzûq[an] (apa yang direzekikan); mengunakan redaksi fi’l[an] dalam makna maf’ûl (obyek) seperti dzibh[an] yang bermakna madzbûh (sembelihan).</div>
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Secara bahasa razaqa artinya a’thâ (memberi) dan ar-rizqu artinya al-‘atha’ (pemberian).</div>
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1. Menurut ar-Razi dan al-Baydhawi, secara bahasa ar-rizqu juga berarti al-hazhzhu (bagian/porsi), yaitu nasib (bagian) seseorang yang dikhususkan untuknya tanpa orang lain.Karena itu, Abu as-Saud mengartikan ar-rizqu dengan al-hazhzhu al-mu’thâ (bagian/porsi yang diberikan).</div>
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2 Menurut Ibn Abdis Salam dalam tafsirnya, asal dari ar-rizqu adalah al-hazhzhu (bagian/porsi). Karena itu, apa saja yang dijadikan sebagai bagian/porsi (seseorang) dari pemberian Allah adalah rizq[an].</div>
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Selain itu, ar-rizqu juga diartikan apa saja yang bisa dimanfaatkan. Dari semuanya itu, ar-rizqu bisa diartikan sebagai: bagian/porsi dari pemberian Allah kepada seorang hamba berupa apa saja yang bisa dimanfaatkan sebagai bagian/porsi yang dikhususkan untuknya.</div>
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Ayat-ayat tentang rezeki lebih banyak menunjuk pada harta baik berupa barang maupun jasa yang bisa dimanfaatkan untuk memenuhi aneka kebutuhan manusia. Konteks ayat-ayat bahwa Allah meluaskan dan menyempitkan rezeki juga lebih menunjuk pada konotasi harta.</div>
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Itu pula yang diindikasikan oleh ayat-ayat yang mengaitkan rezeki dengan konsumsi dan infak (pembelanjaan), karena konsumsi dan infak hanya terkait dengan harta.</div>
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Rezeki berbeda dengan kepemilikan. Kepemilikan adalah penguasaan sesuatu dengan tatacara yang diperbolehkan syariah untuk menguasai harta. Jadi, rezeki itu mencakup rezeki yang halal maupun yang haram.</div>
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Inilah yang menjadi pendapat Ahlus Sunnah sebagaimana yang ditegaskan oleh Imam al-Qurthubi. Semuanya dikatakan sebagai rezeki. Harta yang diambil penjudi dari lawannya dalam perjudian adalah rezeki.</div>
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Sebab, rezeki yang halal ataupun haram itu adalah harta yang diberikan oleh Allah ketika seseorang berbuat untuk melangsungkan kondisi yang di dalamnya bisa diperoleh rezeki.</div>
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3.Rezeki bukan hanya yang secara riil dimanfaatkan (dinikmati) oleh seseorang. Ayat-ayat al-Quran menunjukkan bahwa rezeki manusia adalah apa saja yang ia kuasai baik yang ia manfaatkan maupun tidak (Lihat QS al-Baqarah [2]: 57, 60; an-Nisa’ [4]: 5; ar-Ra’d [13]: 26; al-Hajj [22]: 34).</div>
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Ayat-ayat itu jelas memutlakkan rezeki untuk menyebut semua yang dikuasai baik dimanfaatkan (secara riil) maupun tidak. Tidak bisa dikhususkan pada apa yang dimanfaatkan (secara riil) saja tanpa ada ayat yang mengkhususkannya, karena ayat-ayat tersebut bersifat umum dan penunjukannya juga umum.</div>
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Jika orang mencuri, menilap atau merampas harta orang lain, tidak dikatakan ia mengambil rezeki orang itu. Namun, ia mengambil rezkinya dari orang itu. Tidak ada seorang pun yang mengambil rezeki orang lain, melainkan seseorang mengambil rezekinya dari pihak lain.</div>
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Banyak orang menduga, merekalah yang mendatangkan rezeki mereka sendiri. Mereka menganggap kondisi-kondisi mereka meraih harta —barang atau jasa—sebagai sebab datangnya rezeki; meskipun mereka menyatakan, bahwa Allahlah Yang memberikan rezeki. Profesi atau usaha yang dicurahkan mereka anggap sebagai sebab datangnya rezeki.</div>
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Fakta yang ada sebenarnya cukup jelas menunjukkan kesalahan anggapan itu. Banyak orang yang telah berusaha dengan segenap tenaga dan pikirannya, tetapi rezeki tidak datang, bahkan tidak jarang justru merugi.</div>
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Sebaliknya, sangat banyak fakta bahwa rezeki datang kepada seseorang tanpa dia melakukan usaha apapun. Ini menunjukkan bahwa usaha bukan sebab bagi datangnya rezeki. Rezeki tidak berada di tangan manusia. Allahlah yang menentukan rezeki itu datang kepada manusia dan Dia memberinya kepada manusia menurut kehendak-Nya.</div>
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Banyak ayat al-Quran menegaskan secara pasti bahwa rezeki semata ada di tangan Allah dan Allahlah yang memberi rezeki (QS. al-Baqarah [2]: 172, 212, 254; Ali Imran [3]: 27, 37; al-An’am [6]: 142; al-‘Ankabut [29]: 60; ar-Rum [30]: 40; dsb). Dia meluaskan dan menyempitkan rezeki seseorang sesuai dengan kehendakNya. (QS. ar-Ra’d [13]: 26; al-Isra’ [17]: 30; al-Qashshash [28]: 82; al-‘Ankabut [29]: 62; ar-Rum [30]: 37; Saba’ [34]: 36; az-Zumar [39]: 52; asy-Syura [42]: 12).</div>
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Sesuai kehendak-Nya, Dia memberi rezeki kepada seseorang dari arah yang tidak disangka-sangka. Karena itu, Allah SWT berfirman (artinya): Mintalah rezeki itu di sisi Allah (QS. al-‘Ankabut [29]: 17). Jadi, rezeki semata di tangan Allah dan hanya Allahlah yang memberi rezeki. Ini adalah keyakinan yang harus diimani dan mengingkarinya berarti kufur.</div>
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Adapun dari sisi amal, Allah SWT mewajibkan hamba-Nya untuk berusaha dan berikhtiar melangsungkan kondisi-kondisi yang di dalamnya rezeki bisa datang. Namun, pada saat yang sama, ia harus paham bahwa usaha, ikhtiar dan kondisi itu bukan sebab bagi datangnya rezeki. Allah tidak menanyakan tentang datang dan tidaknya rezeki, tetapi Allah akan menanyakan usaha dan amal hamba untuk mencari rezeki. Karenanya, Allah menjelaskan mana yang halal dan yang tidak.</div>
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Rezeki setiap hamba telah dijamin oleh Allah. Allah pun telah menetapkan kadar dan takaran bagian atau porsi rezeki tiap hamba (Lihat QS. Hud [11]: 6)</div>
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Imam Muslim meriwayatkan dari Ibn Mas’ud bahwa pada usia kandungan 120 hari, Allah mengutus malaikat untuk menuliskan beberapa ketetapan atas janin itu, termasuk ketetapan rezeki dan ajalnya. Para ulama menjelaskan, yaitu ketetapan sedikit dan banyaknya rezeki. Sedikit dan banyaknya rezeki atau kaya dan miskinnya seorang hamba tidak akan dihisab oleh Allah karena itu semata adalah ketetapan Allah.</div>
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Allah SWT meluaskan dan menyempitkan rezeki seorang hamba sesuai kehendak-Nya. Itu adalah ujian bagi hamba (QS. al-Fajr [89]: 15-16). Kaya dan miskin tidak bersifat baik atau buruk dengan sendirinya; juga tidak menentukan mulia dan hinanya seseorang. Namun, kaya dan miskin itu menjadi baik atau buruk, memuliakan atau menghinakan, ditentukan oleh penyikapan terhadapnya.</div>
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Rezeki seorang hamba telah dijamin oleh Allah. Porsi dan takarannya juga telah ditetapkan. Jika hamba itu memintanya dengan jalan yang halal ataupun dengan jalan yang haram, Allah berikan. Namun, Allah akan menanyai tatacara perolehan dan pembelanjaan harta itu.</div>
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اَ تَزُولُ قَدَمَا عَبْدٍ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ حَتَّى يُسْأَلَ عَنْ عُمْرِهِ فِيمَا أَفْنَاهُ وَعَنْ عِلْمِهِ فِيمَا فَعَلَ وَعَنْ مَالِهِ مِنْ أَيْنَ اكْتَسَبَهُ وَفِيمَا أَنْفَقَهُ وَعَنْ جِسْمِهِ فِيمَا أَبْلاَهُ</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kedua kaki seorang hamba tidak akan bergeser pada Hari Kiamat hingga ia ditanya:Umurnya dia habiskan untuk apa; ilmunya diamalkan untuk apa; hartanya dari mana ia peroleh dan dibelanjakan untuk apa dan tubuhnya digunakan untuk apa.</span> (HR at-Tirmidzi).</div>
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Seret atau tertundanya rezeki hendaknya tidak membuat seseorang tergesa-gesa lalu memintanya kepada Allah dan mencarinya dengan jalan yang haram. Rasul saw. berpesan:</div>
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إِنَّ رُوْحَ الْقُدْسِ نَفَثَ فِيْ رَوْعِيْ: إِنَّ نَفْسًا لاَ تَمُوْتُ حَتَّى تَسْتَكْمِلَ رِزْقُهَا فَاتَّقُوْا اللهَ وَأَجْمِلُوْا فِيْ الطَّلَبِ وَلاَ يَحْمِلَنَّكُمْ اِسْتِبْطَاءُ الرِّزْقِ أَنْ تَطْلُبُوْهُ بِمَعَاصِيْ اللهِ فَإِنَّ اللهَ لاَ يُدْرَكُ مَا عِنْدَهُ إِلاَّ بِطَاعَتِهِ</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Malaikat Jibril membisikkan di dalam hatiku, bahwa suatu jiwa tidak akan mati hingga telah sempurna rezekinya. Karena itu, bertakwalah kepada Allah dan carilah (rezeki) dengan cara yang baik —halal, proporsional dan tidak tersibukkan dengannya— dan hendaklah tertundanya (lambatnya datang) rezeki tidak mendorong kalian untuk mencarinya dengan kemaksiatan kepada Allah, karena sesungguhnya keridhaan di sisi Allah tidak akan bisa diraih kecuali dengan ketaatan kepada-Nya</span> (HR Abu Nu’aim, al-Baihaqi dan al-Bazar dari Ibn Mas’ud).</div>
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Keimanan tentang rezeki itu menjadi salah satu kunci seorang tidak akan tersibukkan dengan dunia, tidak menjadi pemburu harta, bisa bersikap zuhud, giat beramal, berdakwah amar makruf nahi mungkar dan ketaatan pada umumnya. Imam Hasan al-Bashri pernah ditanya tentang rahasia zuhudnya. Beliau menjawab, “Aku tahu rezekiku tidak akan bisa diambil orang lain.Karena itu, hatikupun jadi tenteram. Aku tahu amalku tidak akan bisa dilakukan oleh selainku. Karena itu, aku pun sibuk beramal. Aku tahu Allah selalu mengawasiku. Karena itu, aku malu jika Dia melihatku di atas kemaksiatan. Aku pun tahu kematian menungguku. Karena itu, aku mempersiapkan bekal untuk berjumpa dengan-Nya.”</div>
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Lafadz “jodoh” adalah kata yang dipakai dalam bahasa Indonesia untuk menunjuk makna tertentu. Lafadz ini berbeda dengan lafadz suami, istri, pasangan hidup atau yang semisal dengannya. Lafadz jodoh menurut kamus bahasa Indonesia adalah “pasangan yang cocok” baik bagi laki-laki maupun perempuan.</div>
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Oleh karena itu lafadz jodoh memiliki makna yang lebih spesifik dari lafadz suami, istri, atau pasangan hidup, sebab di sana terdapat penjelasan sifat lebih khusus dari sekedar pasangan hidup. Dalam bahasa Arab, kata yang bermakna “jodoh” seperti yang terdapat dalam bahasa Indonesia tidak ditemukan.</div>
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Para Fuqaha’ ketika membahas hukum pernikahan hanya menyebut istilah ( زَوْجٌ ) atau( بَعْلٌ ) untuk suami, dan ( زَوْجَةٌ ) atau ( امْرَأَةٌ ) untuk istri, yakni istilah-istilah yang berkonotasi “netral” tanpa ada penekanan sifat tertentu sebagaimana kata suami, istri, atau pasangan hidup dalam bahasa Indonesia.</div>
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Adapun makna jodoh yang menjadi topik diskusi di sini adalah “orang atau individu tertentu yang akan menjadi pasangan hidup kita”, dengan titik diskusi: Apakah Allah telah menentukan dalam Lauhul Mahfudz, sebelum manusia dilahirkan bahwa ia akan dipasangkan dengan individu tertentu ataukah tidak? Artinya apakah Allah sudah mentakdirkan dalam Azal bahwa A akan dipasangkan dengan B, C dipasangkan dengan D, ataukah tidak?</div>
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Untuk menjawab pertanyaan ini, tentu harus dilakukan studi yang mendalam terhadap nash-nash yang terkait dengan topik tersebut berdasarkan Al-Qur’an dan as-Sunnah atau dalil yang ditunjuk keduanya seraya mengesampingkan semua dasar yang tidak terkait dengan nash Al-Qur’an dan As-Sunnah baik ia berupa adat, tradisi, pameo, peribahasa, dsb.</div>
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Hanya saja, pembahasan tentang jodoh termasuk perkara Qadha’ atau bukan tidak boleh dicampur adukkan dengan pembahasan keimanan bahwa Allah adalah ( اْلمُدَبِّرُ ) (Maha Pengatur). Sebab, pembahasan “jodoh termasuk perkara Qadha’ atau bukan” adalah satu hal, sementara pembahasan tentang keimanan bahwa Allah bersifat ( اْلمُدَبِّرُ ) adalah hal yang lain.</div>
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Masing-masing adalah topik tersendiri yang harus dibahas berdasarkan nash-nash yang terkait dengan topik itu. Mencampur adukkan dua topik pembahasan ini adalah langkah keliru karena bertentangan dengan fakta pembahasan, sebagaimana bisa berakibat kekacauan terhadap pemahaman. Dengan demikian dua macam pembahasan itu harus dipisahkan.</div>
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Tinjauan sekilas terhadap persoalan jodoh menunjukkan bahwa persoalan ini adalah termasuk masalah aqidah, sebab kepercayaan bahwa Allah mentakdirkan A berpasangan dengan B, C berpasangan dengan D, atau Allah tidak mentakdirkan itu adalah jenis keyakinan, bukan amal.</div>
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Efek pembahasan yang paling akhir adalah membentuk keyakinan tertentu seputar persoalan tersebut, bukan membahas apa yang harus dikerjakan oleh seorang mukallaf. Dengan demikian masalah jodoh adalah masalah aqidah, bukan syariat dan dalam masalah ini pambahasan tersebut tidak ada bedanya dengan pembahasan tentang rezeki, ajal, Dajjal, siksa kubur, dsb.</div>
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Dalam persoalan aqidah, seorang Muslim harus mendasarkan semua kepercayaannya atas dalil yang shohih. Tidak diperkenankan seorang Muslim memiliki keyakinan tanpa ada dalil., yakni sekedar menduga-duga atau mengikuti umumnya kata orang.</div>
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Dalil itupun harus bersifat ( قَطْعِيٌّ ) (pasti), tidak boleh bersifat ( ظَنِّيٌّ ) (dugaan). Meskipun ada Qorinah (indikasi) yang menunjukkan pada keyakinan tertentu, selama dalil itu bersifat ( ظَنِّيٌّ ) tidak boleh seorang Muslim mengambilnya sebagai aqidah. Allah telah mencela keras orang-orang kafir yang memiliki keyakinan bahwa para Malaikat itu berjenis kelamin wanita:</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang tiada beriman kepada kehidupan akhirat, mereka benar-benar menamakan Malaikat itu dengan nama perempuan. Dan mereka tidak mempunyai sesuatu pengetahuanpun tentang itu. Mereka tidak lain hanyalah mengikuti persangkaan sedang persangkaan itu tiada berfaedah sedikitpun terhadap kebenaran.”</span> (An-Najm;27-2). Artinya orang-orang kafir itu punya keyakinan bahwa Malaikat berjenis kelamin wanita tetapi mereka tidak memiliki bukti (dalil) atau argumentasi untuk menguatkan keyakinannya.</div>
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Keyakinan mereka hanya didasarkan pada dugaan ( ظَنٌّ ), padahal dzon itu sama sekali tidak ada nilainya untuk membuktikan ( الْحَقُّ )</div>
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Dari sini bisa difahami, bahwa langkah yang harus dilakukan untuk menjawab persoalan jodoh adalah mencari dalil yang menunjukkan bahwa Allah telah menetapkan pasangan hidup manusia sebelum mereka diciptakan. Dalil itupun harus bersifat ( قَطْعِيٌّ ) baik ( قَطْعِيُّ الثُّبُوْتِ ) (pasti sumbernya) maupun ( قَطْعِيُّ الدَّلاَلَةِ ) (pasti penunjukan maknanya).</div>
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Setelah dilakukan kajian terhadap persoalan ini, nyatalah bahwa tidak ada nash baik dalam al-Qur’an mapun as-Sunnah, juga Ijma’ sahabat dan Qiyas yang menunjukkan bahwa Allah menetapkan calon pasangan seseorang. Bahkan nash-nash yang ada menunjukkan bahwa persoalan ini adalah masalah mu’amalah biasa yang berada dalam area yang dikuasai manusia.</div>
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Artinya persoalan menentukan pasangan hidup adalah hal yang bersifat pilihan, yang manusia bertanggung jawab di dalamnya dan dihisab atasnya. Dalil yang menunjukkan bahwa menentukan pasangan hidup adalah pilihan manusia adalah:<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maka kawinilah wanita-wanita (lain) yang kamu senangi : dua, tiga atau empat.</span> (An-Nisa;4).</div>
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Lafadz ( فَانْكِحُوْا مَا طَابَ لَكُمْ ) begitu jelas menunjukkan bahwa setiap Muslim dipersilahkan memilih calon istrinya. Alasannya, ketika Allah memubahkan untuk menikahi wanita-wanita yang ( طَابَ ) (manis, enak, lezat, menyenangkan) bagi mereka, dan tidak mencela lelaki yang tidak mau menikahi wanita karena merasa kurang mantap, baik karena fisik maupun sifatnya, ini semua menunjukkan bahwa persoalan ini adalah persoalan pilihan ( اخْتِيَارِيٌّ ) bukan Qadha’.</div>
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Dalil lain yang mendukung adalah kenyataan bahwa syara’ memberikan hak menentukan calon suami sebagai hak penuh kaum wanita, yang tidak boleh ada intervensi dari siapapun meski itu ayah, ibu, paman, musyrif, atau khalifah sekalipun.</div>
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عن بن بريدة عن أبيه قال جاءت فتاة إلى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقالت ثم إن أبي زوجني بن أخيه ليرفع بي خسيسته قال فجعل الأمر إليها فقالت قد أجزت ما صنع أبي ولكن أردت أن تعلم النساء أن ليس إلى الآباء من الأمر شيء. (رواه ابن ماجه)</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dari Ibnu Buraidah dari ayahnya dia berkata: Seorang gadis datang kepada Nabi Saw. Kemudian ia berkata: Sesungguhnya ayahku menikahkan aku dengan putra saudaranya untuk mengangkat derajatnya melalui aku. Maka Nabipun menyerahkan keputusan itu pada gadis tersebut. Maka gadis itu berkata: Aku telah mengizinkan apa yang dilakukan ayahku, akan tetapi aku hanya ingin agar para wanita tahu bahwa para ayah tidak punya hak dalam urusan ini. </span>(HR. Ibnu Majah dan An-Nasa’i).</div>
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Dalam hadis di atas, Nabi memberi kebebasan penuh pada gadis tersebut untuk memutuskan apakah melanjutkan pernikahannya ataukah membatalkannya. Ini menunjukkan bahwa menentukan calon suami adalah hak penuh bagi wanita dan merupakan pilihan dia semata-mata.</div>
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Dalil lain yang mendukung adalah adanya syari’at talak. Talak adalah pembubaran akad nikah. Syari’at talak memungkinkan seseorang yang menjadi pasangan hidup orang lain untuk berpisah pada satu waktu tertentu dengan sebab-sebab tertentu. Karena itu mustahil dikatakan bahwa seseorang sudah dipasangkan dengan orang tertentu jika ternyata syara’ memberikan suatu mekanisme untuk membubarkan akad nikah.</div>
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Lebih dari itu studi terhadap akad-akad yang diatur dalam syari’at Islam menunjukkan bahwa semua akad yang disana terdapat Ijab dan Qabul adalah mu’amalah yang berada dalam area yang dikuasai manusia. Dengan demikian jual-beli, Ijarah, Wakalah, Syirkah, dan semisalnya adalah termasuk perkara mu’amalah yang berada dalam area yang dikuasai manusia. Manusia akan dimintai pertanggung jawaban dalam aktivitas itu. Jika ia melakukan jual-beli, Ijarah, Wakalah, dan Syirkah, dengan cara yang syar’i maka ia bebas dari hukuman, tetapi jika ia melakukannya dengan cara batil maka ia akan dijatuhi hukuman. Demikian pula masalah menentukan pasangan hidup. Jika seorang wanita Muslimah memutuskan menikah dengan orang kafir maka ia akan dihukum, sebaliknya jika ia menikah dengan lelaki yang dihalalkan syara’ maka ia bebas dari hukuman.</div>
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Adapun ayat yang berbunyi:<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dan di antara tanda-tanda kekuasaan-Nya ialah dia menciptakan untukmu isteri-isteri dari jenismu sendiri.</span> (QS. Ar-Rum [30] : 21)</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dan Kami menciptakan kalian berpasang-pasangan.</span>(QS. An-Naba’ [78] : 8)</div>
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Juga termasuk ayat-ayat yang semisal dengannya, maka ayat ini sama sekali tidak terkait dengan masalah jodoh, dan tidak ada Qorinah apapun yang menunjukkan bahwa Allah menetapkan A menikah dengan B, C menikah dengan D, baik secara ( صَرَاحَةٌ ) (jelas) maupun ( دَلاَلَةٌ ) (penunjukan makna). Tidak hanya itu, secara Manthuq dan Mahfum ayat ini tidak bisa difahami sebagai ayat jodoh, sebab Sighot (redaksional) ayat serta ( مَوْضُوْعٌ ) (topik pembahasan) memang tidak menunjuk ke arah sana. Maksud dari diciptakannya manusia berpasang-pasangan tidak lain adalah bahwa manusia terdiri dari jenis laki-laki dan perempuan yang dengannya Allah memperkembangbiakkan spesies manusia di muka bumi, bukan ditetapkannya bahwa A akan menikah dengan B atau C akan menikah dengan D.</div>
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Adapun ayat yang berbunyi Khobitsat adalah untuk Khobitsun, dan Khobitsun adalah buat Khobitsat (pula), dan Thoyyibat adalah untuk Thoyyibun dan Thoyyibun adalah untuk Thoyyibat (pula). Mereka (yang dituduh) itu bersih dari apa yang dituduhkan oleh mereka (yang menuduh itu). bagi mereka ampunan dan rezki yang mulia (surga) (An-Nur; 26)<br />maka ayat ini juga bukan ayat jodoh. Sebab As-babun Nuzul dari ayat ini adalah terkait dengan (حَدِيْثُ اْلإِفْكِ ) yakni peristiwa tuduhan atas Aisyah yang diisukan berbuat serong dengan seorang sahabat yang bernama Shofwan bin Mu’ath-thol. Karena itulah para mufassirin ketika menafsirkan ayat ini, mereka menukil penafsiran Ibnu Abbas yang mengatakan bahwa yang dimaksud ( الْخَبِيْثَات ) dalam ayat ini adalah ucapan-ucapan yang buruk. Artinya ucapan-ucapan yang buruk (diantaranya adalah memfitnah wanita baik-baik berbuat zina) hanya akan muncul dari orang-orang yang buruk, yakni orang-orang munafik atau orang-orang yang hatinya ada penyakit. Bukannya orang shalih pasti akan menikah dengan wanita shalih dan lelaki shalih akan menikah dengan wanita shalihah. Karena itu wajar jika diceritakan dalam al-Qur’an bahwa Nabi Luth a.s beristri wanita yang tidak shalihah sebagaimana istri Fir’aun yang shalihah bersuami Fir’aun yang kafir. Hal ini dikarenakan urusan pernikahan adalah mu’amalah biasa bukan sesuatu yang telah ditetapkan sebagai mana rizki dan ajal. Jadi ayat ini tidak sah digunakan sebagai dalil bahwa persoalan jodoh adalah sesuatu yang ditakdirkan, atau Allah telah menentukan “kaidah umum” dalam pengaturan jodoh seseorang.</div>
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Dari sini bisa difahami, bahwa jodoh bukanlah perkara yang sudah ditetapkan di Lauhul Mahfudz, tetapi ia adalah mu’amalah biasa sebagaimana mu’amalah yang lain, yang berada di area yang dikuasai manusia dan manusia dihisab atasnya.</div>
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Namun pemahaman bahwa jodoh adalah sesuatu yang berada dalam area yang dikuasai manusia bukan berarti pengingkaran bahwa Allah adalah ( اْلمُدَبِّرُ ) yang bersifat Maha Mengatur dan ( الْحَاكِمُ ) yang Maha Memutuskan. Setiap Mukmin ketika melaksanakan suatu aktivitas dalam area yang dikuasainya kemudian ternyata apa yang terjadi di luar harapannya dan di luar dugaannya, maka ia harus ridlo terhadap hal itu dan mengimani bahwa Allah adalah Dzat yang Maha Mengatur.</div>
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Sebagai contoh: Seorang Muslim hendak naik haji dan sudah menyiapkan semua biaya dan bekal kemudian secara tiba-tiba Allah memberinya sakit. Pada kondisi ini, harus difahami bahwa melaksanakan ibadah haji adalah wilayah yang dikuasai manusia, tetapi pemahaman ini harus disertai keyakinan bahwa Allah bersifat ( اْلمُدَبِّرُ ). Dengan demikian ia menjadi ridlo terhadap segala apa yang menimpanya, karena semua itu berada diluar kuat kuasanya.</div>
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Demikian pula dalam persoalan pasangan hidup. Memilih siapapun yang akan menjadi pasangan hidup semuanya adalah perkara (اخْتِيَارِيٌّ), akan tetapi terkait dengan kesepakatan, ini adalah masalah lain. Seorang dalam memutuskan sesuatu boleh jadi Allah mencondongkan pada suatu keputusan tertentu, boleh jadi membiarkannya. Sebab Allah adalah Dzat yang kuasa membolak-balikkan hati manusia. Namun ketika Allah mencondongkan pada suatu keputusan, bukan berarti Allah memasangkan X dengan Y atau P dengan Q sejak zaman Azali, alasannya orang masih punya pilihan mutlak untuk memutuskan hatta terhadap sesuatu yang berlawanan sama sekali dengan kehendaknya. Karena itu keimanan yang harus dimiliki adalah keimanan bahwa Allah bersifat ( اْلمُدَبِّرُ ) secara mutlak, baik pada area yang dikuasai manusia maupun yang tidak dikuasai manusia, bukan keimanan bahwa Allah telah menetapkan dalam Lauhul Mahfudz bahwa A dipasangkan dengan B atau C dipasangkan dengan D.</div>
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Atas dasar ini semua pemahaman yang belum sesuai dengan nash-nash syara’ sesegera mungkin harus dikoreksi. Tidak boleh menjadikan alasan kemaslahatan misalnya: “cara ini cukup efektif untuk menghentikan orang dari pacaran” untuk mengadopsi pemahaman yang keliru tentang jodoh. Alasannya hal ini adalah persoalan hukum syara’ bukan persoalan uslub dakwah yang masih mungkin dipilih uslub yang paling tepat.</div>
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Secara bahasa kata ajal berasal dari kata: ajila–ya‘jalu–ajal[an]. Menurut al-Khalil al-Farahidi dalam Kitâb al-‘Ayn dan ash-Shahib ibn ‘Abad di dalam Al-Muhîth fî al-Lughah, dikatakan ajila asy-syay‘u ya‘jalu wahuwa âjilun artinya naqîdu al-‘âjil (lawan dari segera). Dengan demikian, al-ajal (bentuk pluralnya al-âjalu) secara bahasa artinya terlambat atau tertunda.</div>
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Selain itu, secara bahasa, kata ajal juga memiliki beberapa makna sebagai berikut:</div>
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Dari sini ajal al-insân (ajal manusia) adalah akhir kehidupan seseorang atau habisnya umur seseorang. Artinya, saat ajal seseorang itu tiba, saat itu pulalah kematian datang menjemputnya.</div>
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Di dalam al-Quran kata ajal dan bentukannya disebutkan sekitar 55 kali. Di antaranya dalam arti jangka waktu (misal: QS al-Baqarah [2]: 231, 232, 234, 235; al-A’raf [7]: 135); umur (misal; QS al-A’raf [7]: 34; Yunus [10]: 11, 49); akhir umur/akhir kehidupan (misal: QS an-Nahl [16]: 61; Fathir [35]: 45).</div>
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Sebab Kematian: Berakhirnya Ajal</div>
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Ayat-ayat al-Quran yang qath’i tsubut dan qath’i dilalah menyatakan secara pasti bahwa Allah SWT sajalah Zat Yang menghidupkan dan mematikan. Allah SWT berfirman:</div>
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وَاللَّهُ يُحْيِي وَيُمِيتُ</div>
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Allah menghidupkan dan mematikan (QS. Ali Imran [3]: 156).</div>
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Al-Quran juga menegaskan hal ini pada banyak ayat lainnya (lihat QS. al-Baqarah [2]: 73, at-Tawbah [9]: 116, Yunus [10]: 56, al-Hajj [22]: 6, al-Mu’minun [23]: 80, al-Hadid [57]: 2).</div>
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Allah SWT telah menetapkan ajal bagi tiap-tiap umat maupun individu. Kematian, yaitu datangnya ajal, telah ditentukan waktunya sebagai suatu ketetapan dari Allah yang tidak bisa dimajukan maupun dimundurkan. Allah SWT berfirman:</div>
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وَمَا كَانَ لِنَفْسٍ أَنْ تَمُوتَ إِلا بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ كِتَابًا مُؤَجَّلا</div>
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Sesuatu yang bernyawa tidak akan mati melainkan dengan izin Allah sebagai ketetapan yang telah ditentukan waktunya. (QS. Ali Imran [3]: 145).</div>
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مَا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ</div>
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Tidak ada suatu umat pun yang dapat mendahului ajalnya dan tidak pula dapat memundurkannya (QS. al-Hijr [15]: 5; al-Mu’minun [23]: 43)</div>
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Pernyataan senada antara lain terdapat dalam QS. Yunus [10]: 49; an-Nahl [16]: 61 dan QS al-Munafiqun [63]: 11. Jadi, habisnya ajal atau datangnya kematian adalah sesuatu yang pasti (QS al-‘Ankabut [29]: 5). Karena kematian adalah pasti datangnya maka manusia tidak akan bisa lari menghindar darinya. Allah SWT menegaskan:</div>
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قُلْ إِنَّ الْمَوْتَ الَّذِي تَفِرُّونَ مِنْهُ فَإِنَّهُ مُلاقِيكُمْ</div>
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Katakanlah, “Sesungguhnya kematian yang kalian lari darinya tetp akan menemui kalian.” (QS. al-Jumu’ah [62]: 8).</div>
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Allah SWT juga menegaskan:</div>
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أَيْنَمَا تَكُونُوا يُدْرِكُكُمُ الْمَوْتُ وَلَوْ كُنْتُمْ فِي بُرُوجٍ مُشَيَّدَةٍ</div>
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Di mana saja kalian berada, kematian akan menjumpai kalian kendati kalian berada dalam benteng yang tinggi lagi kokoh. (QS. an-Nisa’ [4]: 78).</div>
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Ayat ini menegaskan, jika orang berupaya menghindar dari kematian—dengan jalan membentengi diri dari apa saja yang dia sangka menjadi sebab datangnya kematian seakan dia berlindung dalam benteng yang tinggi lagi sangat kokoh sekalipun—maka hal itu tidak akan bisa menghindarkannya dari kematian. Sebab, semua yang disangka sebagai sebab maut itu baik berupa sakit, perang, dsb, sejatinya bukanlah sebab maut. Semua itu hanyalah kondisi yang didalamnya kadang terjadi kematian, namun kadang juga tidak.</div>
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Ayat-ayat tersebut menegaskan bahwa satu-satunya sebab kematian adalah habisnya ajal, yaitu habisnya jangka waktu yang ditetapkan untuk manusia; atau datangnya ajal, yaitu datangnya batas akhir umur manusia. Ketika itulah, Allah SWT mematikannya dengan mengutus Malaikat Maut untuk mencabut ruh dari jasad. (QS. as-Sajdah [32]: 11).</div>
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Masalah ajal ini persis seperti masalah rezeki. Ajal dan umur tiap orang telah ditetapkan oleh Allah. Allah SWT juga menegaskan tidak akan memajukan atau menangguhkan ajal seseorang. Allah tidak akan menambah atau mengurangi jatah umur seseorang. Dalam QS al-Munafiqun [63]: 11, Allah mengungkapkan dengan kata lan yang merupakan penafian selama-lamanya (Lihat pula QS. Fathir [35]: 11).</div>
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Datangnya ajal adalah pasti, tidak bisa dimajukan ataupun dimundurkan. Berjihad, berdakwah, amar makruf nahi mungkar, mengoreksi penguasa, dsb, tidak akan menyegerakan ajal atau mengurangi umur. Begitu pula berdiam diri, tidak berjihad, tidak berdakwah, tidak mengoreksi penguasa, tidak beramar makruf nahi mungkar, dan tidak melakukan perbuatan yang disangka berisiko mendatangkan kematian, sesungguhnya tidak akan bisa memundurkan kematian dan tidak akan memperpanjang umur. Semua itu jelas dan tegas dinyatakan oleh ayat-ayat al-Quran seperti di atas.</div>
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Memang, ada sabda Nabi saw. sebagai berikut:</div>
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مَنْ سَرَّهُ أَنْ يُبْسَطَ لَهُ رِزْقُهُ أَوْ يُنْسَأَ لَهُ فِى أَثَرِهِ فَلْيَصِلْ رَحِمَهُ</div>
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Juga ada beberapa hadis semisalnya. Dalam hal ini, yang dimaksud dengan pertambahan umur bukanlah penundaan ajal. Yang bertambah tidak lain adalah keberkahan umurnya dalam ketaatan kepada Allah. Bisa juga maknanya adalah bukan pertambahan umur biologis, tetapi umur sosiologis, yakni peninggalan, jejak atau atsar al-‘umri-nya yang terus mendatangkan manfaat dan pahala setelah kematian biologisnya. Abu Darda menuturkan bahwa Rasul saw. pernah bersabda:</div>
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إِنَّ اللهَ لاَ يُؤَخِرُ نَفْسًا إِذَا جَاءَ أَجَلُهَا، وَإِنَّمَا زِيَادَةُ الْعُمْرِ بِالذُّرِيَّةِ الصَّالِحَةِ يَرْزُقُهَا الْعَبْدَ، فَيَدْعُوْنَ لَهُ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ، فَيَلْحِقَهُ دُعَاؤُهُمْ فِيْ قَبْرِهِ، فَذَلِكَ زِيَادَةُ الْعُمْرِ</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sesungguhnya Allah tidak akan mengakhirkan (kematian) seseorang jika telah datang ajalnya. Sesungguhnya bertambahnya umur itu dengan keturunan salih yang Allah karuniakan kepada seorang hamba, lalu mereka mendoakannya sesudah kematiannya sehingga doa mereka menyusulinya di kuburnya. Itulah pertambahan umur.</span> (HR Ibn Abi Hatim dikutip oleh al-Hafizh Ibn Katsir di dalam tafsirnya QS. Fathir [35] : 11).</div>
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Selain anak salih, hadis lain menyatakan bahwa ilmu yang bermanfaat, sedekah jariah dan sunnah hasanah juga akan memperpanjang umur sosiologis seseorang. Pelakunya, meski telah mati secara biologis, seakan ia tetap hidup dan beramal dengan semua itu serta mendapat pahala karenanya.</div>
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Dengan demikian, tidak ada gunanya lari dari maut. Maut juga tidak selayaknya ditakuti karena pasti datangnya. Sikap takut akan mati dan berupaya lari dari maut yang pasti datang bisa dikatakan sebagai sikap bodoh dan upaya yang sia-sia.</div>
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Yang harus dilakukan adalah mempersiapkan diri menyongsong datangnya maut dan memelihara diri supaya maut itu datang dalam kondisi kita sedang menunaikan ketaatan sehingga kita mendapatkan husnul khatimah. Inilah sikap cerdas dan upaya yang berdaya guna. Orang yang paling cerdas adalah orang yang paling banyak dan paling baik persiapannya dalam menyongsong datangnya maut.</div>
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Ibnu Umar meriwayatkan, Rasul saw. pernah ditanya, siapakah Mukmin yang paling cerdas? Beliau menjawab:</div>
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أَكْثَرُهُمْ لِلْمَوْتِ ذِكْرًا وَأَحْسَنُهُمْ لَهُ اِسْتِعْدَادًا قَبْلَ أَنْ يَنْزِلَ بِهِمْ أُوْلَئِكَ مِنْ اْلأَكْيَاسِ</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mereka yang paling banyak mengingat maut dan paling baik persiapannya untuk menghadapi maut itu sebelum turun kepada mereka. Mereka itulah yang termasuk Mukmin yang paling cerdas.</span> (HR Ibn Majah, al-Hakim, al-Baihaqi, Abu Nu’aim dan ath-Thabrani).</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">KESIMPULAN</strong></div>
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1. Rezeki merupakan takdir yang telah Allah tetapkan kadarnya. Rezeki tidak terikat dengan adanya usaha manusia untuk mendapatkannya. Karena Rezeki yang diperoleh oleh manusia bukanlah hasil dari usaha yang mereka lakukan, namun karena memang rezeki tersebut telah Allah tetapkan atas manusia.</div>
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Rezeki semata di tangan Allah dan hanya Allahlah yang memberi rezeki. Adapun dari sisi amal, Allah SWT mewajibkan hamba-Nya untuk berusaha dan berikhtiar melangsungkan kondisi-kondisi yang di dalamnya rezeki bisa datang. Namun, pada saat yang sama, ia harus paham bahwa usaha, ikhtiar dan kondisi itu bukan sebab bagi datangnya rezeki.</div>
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Allah tidak menanyakan tentang datang dan tidaknya rezeki, tetapi Allah akan menanyakan usaha dan amal hamba untuk mencari rezeki. Karenanya, Allah menjelaskan mana yang halal dan yang tidak. Rezeki setiap hamba telah dijamin oleh Allah. Allah pun telah menetapkan kadar dan takaran bagian atau porsi rezeki tiap hamba (Lihat QS. Hud [11]:</div>
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2. Jodoh merupakan sebuah pilihan, bukan ketetapan dari Allah. Tidak ada satupun nash-nash di dalam al qur’an maupun di dalam hadist yang mengindikasikan bahwa Jodoh adalah sebuah takdir/ketetapan dari Allah.</div>
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Adapun ketika manusia di dalam kandungan, memang ada hadist yang menerangkan bahwa Ajal dan Rezeki telah Allah tetapkan, namun tidak ada kata Jodoh pada isi hadist tersebut.</div>
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عَنْ عَبْدِاللهِ قَالَ:<br />حَدَثَنَا رَسُوْلُ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم، وَهُوَ الصَّادِقُ الْمَصْدُوْقِ :إِنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ يُجْمَعُ خَلْقُهُ فِي بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ أَرْبَعِيْنَ يَوْمًا. ثُمَّ يَكُوْنُ فِي ذَلِكَ عَلَقَةً مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ. ثُمَّ يَكُوْنُ فِي ذَلِكَ مُضْغَةً مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ. ثُمَّ يُرْسِلُ الْمَلَكَ فَيَنْفُخُ فِيْهِ الرُّوْحَ. وَيُؤْمَرُ بِأَرْبَعِ كَلِمَاتٍ: بِكُتُبِ رِزْقِهِ، وَأَجَلِهِ، وَعَمَلِهِ، وَشَقِيٌّ أَوْ سَعِيْدٌ. فَوَالَّذِي لاَ إِلَهَ غَيْرُهُ! إِنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ لَيَعْمَلُ بِعَمَلِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ حَتَّى مَا يَكُوْنُ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَهَا إِلاَّ ذِرَاعٌ. فَيَسْبِقُ عَلَيْهِ الْكِتَابُ. فَيَعْمَلُ بِعَمَلِ أَهْلِ النَّارِ. فَيَدْخُلُهَا. وَإِنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ لَيَعْمَلُ بِعَمَلِ أَهْلِ النَّارِ. حَتَّى مَا يَكُوْنُ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَهَا إَلاَّ ذِرَاعٌ. فَيَسْبِقُ عَلَيْهِ الْكِتَابُ. فَيَعْمَلُ بِعَمَلِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ. فَيَدْخُلُهُا</div>
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Hadist riwayat Abdullah bin Masud Radhiyallahu’anhu, ia berkata: <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rasulullah Shallallahu alaihi wassalam sebagai orang yang jujur dan dipercaya bercerita kepada kami:</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sesungguhnya setiap individu kamu mengalami proses penciptaan dalam perut ibunya selama empat puluh hari (sebagai nutfah).</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kemudian menjadi segumpal darah selama itu juga kemudian menjadi segumpal daging selama itu pula. Selanjutnya Allah mengutus malaikat untuk meniupkan roh ke dalamnya dan diperintahkan untuk menulis empat perkara yaitu: menentukan rezekinya, ajalnya, amalnya serta apakah ia sebagai orang yang sengsara ataukah orang yang bahagia.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Demi Zat yang tiada Tuhan selain Dia, sesungguhnya salah seorang dari kamu telah melakukan amalan penghuni surga sampai ketika jarak antara dia dan surga tinggal hanya sehasta saja namun karena sudah didahului takdir sehingga ia melakukan perbuatan ahli neraka maka masuklah ia ke dalam neraka.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dan sesungguhnya salah seorang di antara kamu telah melakukan perbuatan ahli neraka sampai ketika jarak antara dia dan neraka tinggal hanya sehasta saja namun karena sudah didahului takdir sehingga dia melakukan perbuatan ahli surga maka masuklah dia ke dalam surga.</span></div>
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3. Ajal atau Kematian merupakan suatu ketetapan yang telah Allah takdirkan kapan waktunya, tidak bisa dimundurkan dan tidak bisa dimajukan. Masalah ajal ini persis seperti masalah rezeki.</div>
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IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-59413616685336525742014-04-07T13:43:00.001+02:002014-04-07T13:43:39.414+02:00<div class="post-top">
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KISAH NYATA : ... KEAJAIBAN SEBUAH DOA ... </h3>
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<span class="post-author vcard">sumber: http://mummycool.blogspot.de/2012/02/kisah-nyata-keajaiban-sebuah-doa.html </span></div>
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<span class="post-author vcard"> Assalamualaikum
<span class="fn">Teman2 Sekalian</span>
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<span>Cerita yang meskipun naif, namun bermakna sangat dalam.</span></div>
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<span>Kisah
nyata dari seseorang yang dalam episode hidupnya sempat ia lewati dalam
penjara. Bermula dari hal yang sepele. Lelaki itu kehabisan odol
dipenjara.</span></div>
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<span>Malam itu
adalah malam terakhir bagi odol diatas sikat giginya. Tidak ada
sedikitpun odol yang tersisa untuk esok hari. Dan ini jelas-jelas sangat
menyebalkan. Istri yang telat berkunjung, anak-anak yang melupakannya
dan diabaikan oleh para sahabat, muncul menjadi kambing hitam yang
sangat menjengkelkan.</span></div>
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<span>Sekonyong-konyong
lelaki itu merasa sendirian, bahkan lebih dari itu : tidak berharga !
Tertutup bayangan hitam yang kian membesar dan menelan dirinya itu,
tiba-tiba saja pikiran nakal dan iseng muncul. Bagaimana jika ia meminta
odol pada TUHAN ?</span></div>
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<span>Berdoa
untuk sebuah kesembuhan sudah berkali-kali kita dengar mendapatkan
jawaban dari-NYA . Meminta dibukakan jalan keluar dari setumpuk
permasalahanpun bukan suatu yang asing bagi kita. Begitu pula dengan
doa-doa kepada orang tua yang telah berpulang, terdengar sangat gagah
untuk diucapkan.</span></div>
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<span>Tetapi
meminta odol kepada Sang Pencipta jutaan bintang gemintang dan ribuan
galaksi, tentunya harus dipikirkan berulang-ulang kali sebelum
diutarakan. Sesuatu yang sepele dan mungkin tidak pada tempatnya. Tetapi
apa daya, tidak punya odol untuk esok hari –entah sampai berapa hari-
menjengkelkan hatinya amat sangat.</span></div>
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<span>Amat tidak penting bagi orang lain, tetapi sangat penting bagi dirinya.</span></div>
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<span>Maka
dengan tekad bulat dan hati yang dikuat-kuatkan dari rasa malu, lelaki
itu memutuskan untuk mengucapkan doa yang ia sendiri anggap gila itu. Ia
berdiri ragu-ragu dipojok ruangan sel penjara, dalam temaram cahaya,
sehingga tidak akan ada orang yang mengamati apa yang ia lakukan.
Kemudian dengan cepat, bibirnya berbisik : “YA ALLAH YA TUHANKU, Kau
mengetahuinya aku sangat membutuhkan benda itu”. Doa selesai.</span></div>
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<span>Wajah
lelaki itu tampak memerah. Terlalu malu bibirnya mengucapkan kata amin.
Dan peristiwa itu berlalu demikian cepat, hingga lebih mirip dengan
seseorang yang berludah ditempat tersembunyi. Tetapi walaupun demikian
ia tidak dapat begitu saja melupakan insiden tersebut. Sore hari
diucapkan, permintaan itu menggelisahkannya hingga malam menjelang
tidur. Akhirnya, lelaki itu –walau dengan bersusah payah- mampu
melupakan doa sekaligus odolnya itu.</span></div>
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<span>Tepat tengah malam, ia terjaga oleh sebuah keributan besar dikamar selnya.</span></div>
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<span>“Saya
tidak bersalah Pak !!!”, teriak seorang lelaki gemuk dengan buntalan
tas besar dipundak, dipaksa petugas masuk kekamarnya,” Demi TUHAN Pak
!!! Saya tidak salah !!! Tolong Pak…Saya jangan dimasukin kesini
Paaaaaaaaak..!!!”</span></div>
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<span>Sejenak ruangan penjara itu gaduh oleh teriakan ketakutan dari ‘tamu baru’ itu.</span></div>
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<span>“Diam
!!”, bentak sang petugas,”Semua orang yang masuk keruangan penjara
selalu meneriakkan hal yang sama !! Jangan harap kami bisa tertipu !!!!”</span></div>
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<span>“Tapi Pak…Sssa..”</span></div>
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<span>Brrrraaaaang !!!!</span></div>
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<span>Pintu
kamar itu pun dikunci dengan kasar. Petugas itu meninggalkan lelaki
gemuk dan buntalan besarnya itu yang masih menangis ketakutan.</span></div>
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<span>Karena
iba, lelaki penghuni penjara itupun menghampiri teman barunya.
Menghibur sebisanya dan menenangkan hati lelaki gemuk itu. Akhirnya
tangisan mereda, dan karena lelah dan rasa kantuk mereka berdua pun
kembali tertidur pulas.</span></div>
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<span>Pagi
harinya, lelaki penghuni penjara itu terbangun karena kaget. Kali ini
karena bunyi tiang besi yang sengaja dibunyikan oleh petugas. Ia
terbangun dan menemukan dirinyanya berada sendirian dalam sel penjara.
Lho mana Si Gemuk, pikirnya. Apa tadi malam aku bemimpi ? Ah masa iya,
mimpi itu begitu nyata ?? Aku yakin ia disini tadi malam.</span></div>
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<span>“Dia
bilang itu buat kamu !!”, kata petugas sambil menunjuk ke buntalan tas
dipojok ruangan. Lelaki itu segera menoleh dan segera menemukan benda
yang dimaksudkan oleh petugas. Serta merta ia tahu bahwa dirinya tidak
sedang bermimpi.</span></div>
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<span>“Sekarang dia dimana Pak ?”, tanyanya heran.</span></div>
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<span>“Ooh..dia
sudah kami bebaskan, dini hari tadi…biasa salah tangkap !”, jawab
petugas itu enteng, ”saking senangnya orang itu bilang tas dan segala
isinya itu buat kamu”.</span></div>
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<span>Petugas pun ngeloyor pergi.</span></div>
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<span>Lelaki
itu masih ternganga beberapa saat, lalu segera berlari kepojok ruangan
sekedar ingin memeriksa tas yang ditinggalkan Si Gemuk untuknya.</span></div>
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<span>Tiba-tiba
saja lututnya terasa lemas. Tak sanggup ia berdiri. “Ya..TUHAAANNN
!!!!”, laki-laki itu mengerang. Ia tersungkur dipojok ruangan, dengan
tangan gemetar dan wajah basah oleh air mata. Lelaki itu bersujud
disana, dalam kegelapan sambil menangis tersedu-sedu.</span></div>
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<span>Disampingnya
tergeletak tas yang tampak terbuka dan beberapa isinya berhamburan
keluar. Dan tampaklah lima kotak odol, sebuah sikat gigi baru, dua buah
sabun mandi, tiga botol sampo, dan beberapa helai pakaian sehari-hari.</span></div>
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<span>~~~</span></div>
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<span>Sahabat,
Kisah tersebut sungguh-sunguh kisah nyata. Sungguh-sungguh pernah
terjadi. Dan aku mendengarnya langsung dari orang yang mengalami hal
itu. Semoga semua ini dapat menjadi tambahan bekal ketika kita
meneruskan berjalan menempuh kehidupan kita masing-masing. Jadi suatu
ketika, saat kita merasa jalan dihadapan kita seolah terputus. Sementara
harapan seakan menguap diganti deru ketakutan, kebimbangan dan putus
asa.</span></div>
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<span>Pada saat
seperti itu ada baiknya kita mengingat sungguh-sungguh bahkan Odol pun
akan dikirimkan dari Surga bagi siapapun yang membutuhkannya. Apalagi
jika kita meminta sesuatu yang mulia. Sesuatu yang memuliakan harkat
manusia dan DIA yang menciptakan kita.</span></div>
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<span>Seperti kata seorang bijak dalam sebuah buku :</span></div>
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<span>“Seandainya saja engkau mengetahui betapa dirimu dicintai-NYA, hati mu akan berpesta pora setiap saat”. ..</span></div>
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<span>~ o ~</span></div>
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<span>Semoga bermanfaat dan Dapat Diambil Hikmah-Nya ...</span></div>
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<span>.... Subhanallah wabihamdihi subhanallahil 'adhim..</span></div>
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<span>Subhanakallahumma Wabihamdika Asyhadu Allailaaha Illa Anta Astaghfiruka Wa'atuubu Ilaik ....</span></div>
IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-71881795120928333262013-06-14T14:50:00.001+02:002013-06-14T14:50:04.678+02:00Kenapa diri anda unik?<p dir=ltr>'Review' lah kembali masa lalu anda,<br>
lalu pikirkan kembali, apa saja hal2 besar yg pernah anda lakukan, yang tak bisa dilakukan oleh orang lain.<br>
Jadikanlah itu modal dasar anda untuk menanamkan rasa percaya diri.</p>
<p dir=ltr>Orang2 diluar anda, mereka bisa bicara dgn lugas dan percaya diri, krn itulah spesialisasi bidang yg mereka geluti. <br>
Jika anda tidak sefasih mereka dalam menjelaskan sesuatu diluar bidang anda, itu hal yg lumrah. Orang inggris takkan pernah bisa bicara jerman sefasih orang jerman sendiri. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Maka tidak perlu 'silau' dgn kemampuan orang lain. Krn anda takkan pernah bisa seperti mereka, sebagaimana mereka juga tak bisa mencapai apa yang pernah anda capai. <br>
Camkanlah hal itu dalam diri anda, setiap kali anda hrs bicara dgn orang2 diluar bidang anda sendiri. Itu akan membuat anda hrs bangga, krn masih bisa mengerti bidang mereka. Itu saja sdh cukup.</p>
IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-69775970349109770002013-05-14T00:19:00.001+02:002017-03-28T18:14:11.485+02:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Besarnya kekuasaan ALLAH SWT</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Seorang yang meninggalkan Islam dan kemudian didatangkan mimpi oleh ALLAH SWT yang</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">menyebabkan dia untuk kembali kepada ajaran Islam. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Ini adalah satu mimpi yang menakjubkan dan mengejutkan di mana beliau telah </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">ditunjukkan kebenaran melalui teknik kertas biasa.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Mari sama kita lihat mimpi beliau.... ALLAHU AKBAR!!</span><br />
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menanti kereta berikutnya,<br />
menanti sebuah harapan,<br />
menanti kepastian,<br />
menanti panggilan,<br />
menanti ajal.<br />
Sadar maupun tidak sadar, setiap orang sedang menanti. Ada yang sambil berdiri, duduk ataupun berbaring. Sebuah penantian, seringkali tidak pasti sampai kapan. Karena siapa yang tau, besok apa yang bakal terjadi. Ada yang sudah berada diujung, ada yang di tengah, ada pula yang baru saja memulai. Hanya waktu yang dapat mengukurnya. Waktu yang terus berjalan tak kenal kasihan, tak pernah bisa diminta berhenti, apalagi disogok maupun dikorupsi. Semua tunduk dalam dikte sang waktu. <br />
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Dan ketika kau bertanya, kapan penantianmu akan berakhir? Jawabanku cuma satu.<br />
Hanya Sang Pemilik Waktulah yang bisa menjawabnya.<br />
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IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-88330393077674070362013-04-15T19:25:00.001+02:002013-04-15T19:25:42.855+02:00Meretas<p>Meretas arti perjalanan. <br>
Setiap orang punya visi hidupnya sendiri, tanpa terikat oleh zaman. Ada yang ingin mendapatkan kepuasan. Ada yang ingin mendapatkan kekuasaan. Bahkan ada yang ingin mendapatkan kesenangan, walau hanya sesaat. Setelah itu mati. Tak bisa kembali dan tak dapat kesempatan kedua kali. Sepicik itukah visi bani adam. Realitas yqng terkadang absurd, tapi itulah pilihan. Mereka tak bisa meminta pilihan itu diulang kembali. Entschieden ist entschieden, kata orang jerman. Sekalo memilih,itulah yang harus kau jalani. Lalu dapatkah pilihan itu dihapus kembali? Itu mungkin sebuah pertanyaan ter-absurd seorang anak manusia. Saat mulut sudah terkunci dan kedua kaki dan tangan mulai bersaksi.</p>
<p>#Hannover, 15 April 2013. <br>
Diawal musim semi yg msh lengang.</p>
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Akan selalu ada tempat bagi orang-orang yang bekerja keras, <br />
bersungguh-sungguh dalam menjalankan sesuatu yang dianggapnya penting dan
berguna.<br />
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Sang Pejuang<br />
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Dalam setiap masa<br />
sang pejuang adalah pencari tantangan,<br />
pembuat rintangan menjadi kemudahan<br />
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jangankan badai ataupun halilintar, <br />
tornado pun kan ia hadapi tanpa gentar<br />
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kemauan dan tekad menuntun akal pikiran<br />
tuk ubah persoalan menjadi jalan<br />
tanpa pernah sibuk mencari alasan<br />
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IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-27673164793208976732012-07-25T20:17:00.001+02:002012-07-25T20:17:33.039+02:00Puasa Lancar, Tulang Tetap Terjaga<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, Tulang sangat penting bagi tubuh. Postur tubuh yang baik tentunya ditunjang oleh tulang sehat dan kuat. Untuk itu, tulang harus dijaga supaya jangan cepat keropos.</span><br />
<br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Saat ini telah memasuki bulan puasa. Saat puasa, kita harus menahan lapar, haus dan hawa nafsu selama 14 jam. Saat itu, asupan kalori dan energi semakin berkurang. Namun, puasa jangan jadi penghalang untuk tetap bekerja, dan berolahraga. Aktivitas seperti inilah yang dapat mencegah osteoporosis atau pengeroposan tulang.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Marketing Manager Anlene Arief Tjakraamidjaja mengatakan pengeroposan pada tulang harus dicegah. Adapun caranya dengan berolahraga (jalan kaki), rajin memeriksakan kesehatan tulang, rajin terpapar sinar matahari saat pagi juga sore hari. Dan jangan lupa untuk mengkonsumsi susu berkalsium tinggi setiap hari. ‘’Susu berkalsium tinggi ini merupakan salah satu nutrisi utama untuk kesehatan tulang, ‘’ kata Arief, kemarin.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">DR dr Fiastuti Witjaksono SpGK MSc, juga mengungkapkan hal yang sama. Saat berpuasa jumlah asupan nutrisi, kalsium dan kesehatan tulang harus tetap diperhatikan. “Kekuatan tubuh manusia biasanya akan menurun saat berpuasa karena kita tidak mendapatkan asupan nutrisi selama 14 jam. Padahal, selama kita berpuasa, jumlah asupan nutrisi dan kalsium yang diperlukan tubuh sama jumlahnya dengan ketika tidak berpuasa,” kata dia. </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Karena itu, mengkonsumsi makanan yang mudah diserap seperti susu sangat penting sekali sebagai asupan energi. Dia mengatakan, mengonsumsi susu berkalsium pada saat bulan puasa dapat menjaga rasa kenyang lebih lama.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Fiastuti menambahkan saat melakukan ibadah shaum, jadwal olahraga juga jangan ditinggalkan. Karena olahraga bagus untuk kebugaran tubuh dan kesehatan tulang. Saat berpuasa, pengaturan jadwal aktivitas pun sebaiknya disesuaikan. Aktivitas fisik sebaiknya tidak dilakukan setelah sahur. Fiastuti menyarankan untuk melakukan olahraga jalan kaki saat mendekati waktu buka.</span>IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-90296283281825904602012-07-18T23:27:00.001+02:002012-07-18T23:27:08.255+02:00Asli Catatan Mahasiswa: MERAWAT KULIT WAJAH SECARA ALAMI<a href="http://aslicatatanmahasiswa.blogspot.com/2012/07/merawat-kulit-wajah-secara-alami.html?spref=bl">Asli Catatan Mahasiswa: MERAWAT KULIT WAJAH SECARA ALAMI</a>: beautyofwoman.comIT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-64121636886697290392012-05-08T07:25:00.000+02:002012-05-08T15:49:08.866+02:00Membuat Otak Anak Makin Encer<div class="post-body" id="post-8290250514089916472">
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KOMPAS.com - Stimulasi pada masa kecil dapat mempengaruhi kemampuan kognitif anak dalam mengembangkan aktivitas berpikir mengenai segala sesuatu yang diserap melalui panca indera.<br />
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"Stimulasi akan menjadikan sel-sel otak menjadi bercabang-cabang. Ini menunjukkan fungsi berpikir otak lebih optimum," jelas Pemerhati Anak dan Keluarga, Endah Susilawati di Jayapura.<br />
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<span id="fullpost"><br />Selanjutnya dia menjelaskan, fase paling peka untuk pembentukan otak sebagai wadah kognitif atau yang biasa dikenal dengan "golden age" adalah usia 1 hingga 5 tahun, selain pada saat anak masih di dalam kandungan.<br /><br />Stimulasi pada periode usia tersebut sangat mempengaruhi luas dan besarnya wadah kognitif sehingga menjadikan seseorang memiliki kemampuan berpikir yang luar biasa.<br /><br />Namun, sebaliknya jika wadah kognitif tidak pernah distimulan atau tidak mendapat rangsangan, maka akan menjadi sempit dan kecil sehingga menjadikan seorang individu memiliki kemampuan berpikir yang terbatas.<br /><br />"Stimulasi pada anak dapat diberikan mulai dari dalam kandungan untuk merangsang panca inderanya dalam menerima beragam fakta dari luar yang diberikan orang tua," tandas Endah.<br /><br />Saat sekarang, lanjutnya, kita dapat memberikan stimulasi dengan berbagai macam cara baik secara alamiah maupun direkayasa. Prinsipnya adalah informasi yang diberikan sebagai rangsangan tersebut haruslah bersifat kaya atau variatif dan memberi efek positif.<br /><br />Stimulasi secara alamiah dapat dilakukan anak dengan sendirinya ketika ia mulai belajar segala sesuatu dari awal. Misalnya belajar berjalan, makan, atau mencoba menarik perhatian orang-orang di sekelilingnya.<br /><br />Adapun stimulasi lainnya dapat direkayasa dengan memberikan rangsangan pada setiap inderanya. Misalnya merangsang penglihatan dengan memberikan warna yang cerah dan terang di dalam kamar tidur atau pada mainannya.<br /><br />Sementara itu untuk merangsang pendengaran, dapat diberikan bunyi-bunyian berupa musik sejak bayi di dalam kandungan hingga tumbuh menjadi anak.<br /><br />Sedangkan untuk indera perabaan, kain yang mempunyai tingkat kekasaran atau kelembutan yang bervariasi dapat dijadikan media stimulasi.<br /><br />Semua stimulasi tersebut dapat mengembangkan dan memperluas otak anak sebagai wadah kognitif bagi mereka sehingga dapat tumbuh menjadi individu yang cerdas.<br /><br />"Peran orang tua sangat menentukan dalam tumbuh kembang anak. Selain itu, agar anak tidak hanya cerdas dalam hal kognitif, pendidikan agama dan moral juga harus distimulus sedari dini," kata Endah.<br /><br />Sumber : Antara</span></div>IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-60798898872957837392012-05-07T11:06:00.001+02:002012-05-07T11:06:12.408+02:00Bidadariku<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>bidadariku...</div><div><br></div><div>namamu tak terukir</div><div><br></div><div>dalam catatan harianku</div><div><br></div><div>asal usulmu tak hadir</div><div><br></div><div>dalam diskusi kehidupanku</div><div><br></div><div>wajah wujudmu tak terlukis</div><div><br></div><div>dalam sketsa mimpi-mimpiku</div><div><br></div><div>indah suaramu tak terekam</div><div><br></div><div>dalam pita batinku</div><div><br></div><div>namun kau hidup mengaliri</div><div><br></div><div>pori-pori cinta dan semangatku</div><div><br></div><div>sebab</div><div><br></div><div>kau adalah hadiah agung</div><div><br></div><div>dari Tuhan</div><div><br></div><div>untukku</div><div><br></div><div>bidadariku</div></div>IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-46299139545554573462012-05-03T22:50:00.003+02:002012-05-03T22:50:41.650+02:00Ayam Panggang Kecap Tomat<br />
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1 ekor ayam muda sekitar 750 gram, cuci dan potong jadi 10</div>
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4 sdm bawang merah iris</div>
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1 sdm bawang putih iris</div>
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2 sdm cabai merah iris</div>
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1 sdm garam</div>
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1 sdm gula merah</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Bahan sambal:</strong></div>
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10 buah cabai rawit merah</div>
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3 buah tomat mentah, iris kecil</div>
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1 sdm air jeruk nipis</div>
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1 sdt garam</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cara membuat:</strong></div>
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Ayam direndam dengan garam, air asam, kecap manis, dan setengah bagian air. Diamkan selama satu jam.</div>
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Panggang di bara api arang atau oven selama 45 menit hingga matang merata dengan cara dibolak-balik.</div>
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Masak setengah bagian air dengan bumbu yang sudah dihaluskan hingga mendidih dan kental. Masukkan air jeruk, cabai rawit, tomat iris, dan garam. Aduk rata.</div>
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Hidangkan dengan sambal tomat asam.</div>
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</div>IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-31609852604797153742012-05-03T22:21:00.001+02:002012-05-03T22:21:16.430+02:00Bakso Ikan<br />
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Bakso, ilustrasi</div>
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REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, <b>Bakso Ikan</b></h3>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Bahan:</strong></div>
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200 gram daging ikan tenggiri</div>
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1 butir putih telur</div>
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50 gram tepung tapioka</div>
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20 ml air es</div>
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1 sdt minyak goreng</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Bumbu:</strong></div>
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Setengah sdt merica bubuk</div>
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Seperempat sdt penyedap rasa (jika suka)</div>
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2 siung bawang putih, haluskan</div>
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Setengah sdt kecap ikan</div>
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Setengah sdt garam halus</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cara membuat:</strong></div>
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Masukkan ikan, putih telur, merica bubuk, air es, penyedap rasa, bawang putih, dan kecap ikan ke dalam food processor. Proses hingga halus.</div>
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Tambahkan tepung tapioka, garam, dan minyak goreng. Proses kembali hingga rata.</div>
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Letakkan adonan bakso di tangan kiri, kepalkan tangan hingga adonan bakso keluar di antara jari telunjuk dan jempol berbentuk bulatan kecil. Lepaskan bulatan bakso dengan bantuan sendok.</div>
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Masukkan ke dalam air panas, lakukan hingga adonan habis.</div>
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Rebus bakso ikan dengan api kecil hingga mengapung dan matang. Angkat dan tiriskan.</div>
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</div>IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-81673252612105537772012-05-02T11:13:00.001+02:002012-05-02T11:18:03.284+02:00SYAAMIL QURAN TYPE CORDOVA<strong style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Syaamil Al-Qur’an Type Cordova</strong><br />
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Al-Qur`an + terjemah (non tajwid/no color)</strong><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Resleting Style (YKK)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Berat : 350 gr.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Ukuran : A6 (10,5 X 15 CM)</span>
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<span style="color: #323232; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 20px;">Warna : Biru</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Stok : 1 buah</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Kondisi : bekas, masih bagus</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Pemesanan : robbaniyyun(at)gmail.com / (+49)176 6198 3470</span><br />
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<a href="http://syaamilalquran.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/qordova.jpg" style="color: #4c666a; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-209" height="225" src="http://syaamilalquran.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/qordova.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 15px; padding-top: 7px;" title="qordova" width="225" /></a><strong>Harga : Rp 44.000 / € 4,00</strong></div>
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<strong>Al Qur’an syaamil Type Cordova </strong>adalah Mushaf Quran Syamil portable model resleting dengan ukuran A6 yang praktis dibawa kemana-mana. Dilengkapi dengan terjemahan lengkap bahasa Indonesia sehingga memudahkan untuk menemani ibadah Anda.</div>IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892860.post-69905092388818452332012-05-01T19:38:00.003+02:002012-05-01T21:52:15.410+02:00Calcaneus<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&noautoplay=1&hl=de&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F113426024047611420198%2Falbumid%2F5737565146354462593%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Dde" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>IT Tipps & Trickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17075312439069757109noreply@blogger.com0