SirCork witness update plus brief SteemStar Network & YouAreHOPE Foundation updates

Hey Again Steemitizens

Well first let's talk about the fun stuff, my community contribution projects, briefly.

The BIG news is that the most talented, and supah wicked smaht @topkpop finally kicked my busy butt out of the way and built us a shiny, spanky, supah kewl new theater-style listening and participation community space in Discord Chat app. You can slip in and slide around on the SteemStar Network stream 24/7 on any device or operating system by clicking here:

https://discord.gg/tJHaQek

If you join the "listening room" you'll immediate hear the station feed and its a quick way to check whats on right now, around the clock.

But if you want the FULL audio/visual multimedia television like experience, head on over to http://steemstar.net for live hosted, audience interactive show schedules, a live player, and links to twitch, youtube live and other ways of watching us anytime you want!

And of course, come by MY favorite show, my own :D

Steemitizens of Steem - Every sunday on the SteemStar Network - the stream at the center of the steemiverse, starring you, the steemitizens of steem, where anyone can take the mic, and drop it, on any topic that you can dream up.

Watch for these and also don't miss joining us Tuesday nights on SteemStar Network for the publicly open YouAreHOPE Transparent Town Hall each week, following a show with Witness @Patrice about her week called Trash Talk and a show in Spanish called The Inquisition in support of the Spanish speaking community here hosted by witness @nnnarvaez.

All of this is exciting, because, in addition to the witnesses and community leaders you can converse with in Steemitizens of Steem, or The Vo.Tu Voices of the Underground with @beanz or in our communities for these shows, you can also catch three witnesses in a row sharing project topics, discussion with the community and news and updates each week on Tuesday nights.

Check the schedule here: http://steemstar.net

Check us out and give us a follow for new show announcements, news and more... @SteemStarNetwork

I have to extend a very special thank you to @r0nd0n, my very favorite steem streaming station co-founder brother ever, for his help last night in working out some discord stream bot BS that he's all pro at handling fast. Thanks Cl0wn!

Oh have you heard about The @YouAreHOPE Foundation?

I am so proud of this. YouAreHOPE was an idea I had last September after doing some very modest charitable work via @malos10 and his dad in Venezuela - where we had @malos10 and @rapo on the ground delivering dozens of meals to homeless people with homemade healthy food and us over here raising the modest funds. On the success of that, and an operation where we donated to the kids in the Philippines via @jassennessaj's crew, we launched @YouAreHOPE ,the STEEM Exclusive, block chain transparent, community generosity fueled worldwide humanitarian aid organization. Our next stop after Venezuela and Philippines, was Nigeria via @misterakpan, and we've done a LOT of amazing things around the world ever since...

Now with a nearly 500 member group, and several vetted, trusted fellow steemitizens on the ground in-country like @malos10, @rapo, @milca, @misterakpan, @nichi and so many other helping hands donating, delegating, fund raising, and promoting and working to get it done, we've helped hundreds of orphans, underprivileged children, homeless families and adults, storm ravaged villages, helped build wells and more across no less than seven countries on this big old dirty, wet, green, blue and brown rock we all stomp around on together down here on Planet Earth.

I definitely love THESE awesomely generous all steemitizen, all volunteer YAH lovin' people!

@fishyculture - our newest team mate at YAH, bringing support on publicity and transparency!

Here's her first update ever on our behalf, modelled after my prior ones, but soon to be personalized in her style. HUGE thank yous to all the donors listed here for SURE! Big Ups!

https://steemit.com/youarehope/@fishyculture/youarehope-foundation-thankful-thursday-donor-report

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@UnderGrounD - dude, this guy is just so damn loveable ;)

https://steemit.com/youarehope/@underground/you-are-hope-slash-sir-cork-valentine-s-day-fundraiser-post-my-small-contribution

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@TheAlliance - homies, friends, supporters, family, #TheAlliance <3

https://steemit.com/thealliance/@inthenow/you-are-h-o-p-e-valentines-day-donation-drive

https://steemit.com/thealliance/@thealliance/you-are-h-o-p-e-valentine-s-fundraiser-2

https://steemit.com/thealliance/@thealliance/you-are-h-o-p-e-valentine-s-club

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If you help and aren't on this list, I apologize now, there are a LOT of you,like @shadowspub, and @topkpop and @battleaxe and @sargento and @enginewitty and gosh just so darn MANY of you.

Find out more at our steemit blog @YouAreHOPE and come lend a helping hand or moral support and meet the people making it happen in the YouAreHOPE discord server here:

https://discord.gg/zkTeKeS

So there's all that keeps me busy beyond just being witness #78 currently

Not bad eh?

As far as the witnessing goes...

Votes come in, none ever really leave, so to each and every one of the roughly 300 of you supporting my witness here, I love you, thank you, and please don't stop being you, each of you. You are why I do this. For our mutual futures here.

The server is stable no more missed blocks since the one upgrade snafu last year when I missed the six I missed all in a matter of hours by forgetting to disable my server during a planned memory upgrade. Sigh. Never again, still apologizing, still really really sorry guys.

Upgrading from 32 to 64 will be done shortly, before I go on my world tour in a couple of weeks, I don't want to hit that wall, while I'm somewhere in Europe or Asia in an airport.

I was interviewed by several people and those articles and recordings are now floating around the internet and the block chain. @hopehuggs and @ethandsmith both made stellar presentations mentioning myself or YouAreHOPE or both, and I'm happy to have answered their questions as well as those of you bloggers who have so graciously written about me as a witness or project founder either one recently. Thank you for your interest in what I do around here all day (and night .. and weekends)

And I grilled Ned a little and got some interesting feedback, go check my recent blog posts for all sorts of interesting things like that.

Here is that for a taste of the fun:

https://steemit.com/questionauthority/@sircork/well-after-nearly-a-year-i-finally-heard-directly-from-ned

So yep anyway back to the fun stuff, that's right, a moment ago, I said "world tour"!

I inherited a small amount of money late last year, not enough to even buy a new car, so it didn't exactly change the course of my life, but since it was from the passing of my mother a year ago, I thought, what could I do with just a few thousand dollars to really sort of celebrate her and such. Well about the same time a friend invited me to India for his wedding in March.

One thing led to another...

...and now I'm going to visit 5 countries in 16 days, meeting steemitizens along the way in several of them.

I'm meeting community leader and popular MSP Waves show host @PoeticSnake in the Netherlands, then on to Abu Dabhi where I will meet @nnnarvaez who is a fellow witness here on steem, and then several folks in India, and still seeking steemitizens to meet in Hong Kong and Macau! Mostly Macau though, given my route and time of availability in each. Hit me up!

The selfies with these people are going to be awesome! Keep an eye out!

So that's what's up.

If that's not enough, join me on this post from 4 days ago, where I ask you some important questions - important to me, anyway, to be honest.

https://steemit.com/witness/@sircork/question-for-all-my-followers

I'm around if you need me!

Yours in Service,
@SirCork

PS:

Now, if you like a service oriented, highly available, technical, community minded, block chain future optimistic, decentralized oriented, heck of a nice dude for your witness votes, please click here to vote for my witness, I'm your huckleberry!

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It will ask user and active key securely and without saving them at any 3rd parties and subsequently will form the right URL and cast the vote in a secure and easy way using SteemConnect.

So if you are ready to vote and want it one-click easy, this will do the trick.

THANKS!

-sc