The Steem News @ 12 August 2021 - Steem Sri Lanka hits 200K SP !
Steem Sri Lanka has reached the milestone of 200,000 SP in its community curation account.
PLAY STEEM developer @etainclub is launching a new Steem DApp called AVLE.
Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about a PromoSteem Virtual Conference, Draft Crearte Workshops, SteemFoods Charity, SDG Teams, Photos, Pictures & Copyright, and more contests...
1. Steem Sri Lanka reaches 200K SP
Steem Sri Lanka's community account @steem-sri.lanka has now reached 200,000 Steem Power.
This is especially impressive considering the account was set up just 14 months ago and the community only has around 2,000 Subscribers and 100 active posters...
Congratulations to the Steem Sri Lanka team @randulakoralage, @damithudaya, @sandu and @sandupi.
2. AVLE - a new Steem DApp
PLAY STEEM developer @etainclub is launching a new Steem DApp called AVLE - And Value Life Everyday.
The DApp is being built using Flutter, and more details are coming soon...
3. PromoSteem Virtual Conference - 13 August
Ghana Country Rep @njaywan is running a virtual conference on the topic 'Know Your Long Term Goals on the Steemit Ecosystem'.
The conference will be on Zoom, starting at 10am UTC / 11am GMT, and everyone is welcome...
4. Draft Crearte Workshops
Draft Crearte have five new workshops coming up across a range of topics - Crochet (@crochetstore20), Terrariums (@gensequini), Italian Meringue (@veronicaparente), MDF Box Decoration (@mariangeltp) and Home Barista (@daniellozada).
The workshops are taking place 12 - 18 August on Draft Crearte's Discord server.
They are free to join but you must register to attend...
5. SteemFoods Charity Update
The SF-Charity run by @alikoc07 and the SteemFoods team has posted its latest 10 Day Report.
The charity project has so far distributed food to 24 families and medicine to 6 families with the help of donations from community members.
The countries covered by the donations include Bangladesh, Cameroon, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and Venezuela...
@sf-charity reports today that it has now started supporting families in Turkey...
6. SDG Teams
In the Scouts Community @karianaporras is calling for interested people to form teams to work on challenges in line with the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Teams should consist of between 5 and 10 people, and ideally live in the same area...
For more about the SDGs visit...
7. Photos, Pictures & Copyright
In the Steem-BRU Community Country Rep and legal expert @antorv has published a comprehensive lesson on the rules of copyright and use of photographs and pictures on Steem...
8. Contests
In Steem-BRU @olesia and @soulwind continue their long running 'Kids of the World' contest.
There is 30 STEEM in prizes and the contest runs until 18 August...
The Best of India Community asks in its latest contest 'What can you do with 20 STEEM?'.
There is 30 STEEM in the prize pool...
Steem Cameroon hosts @thegreens' latest Green Deeds contest. This time the theme is 'How polluted is your community'.
The contest runs until 15 August...
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]
| STEEM price | US$ 0.52 | 12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC |
| STEEM price | 0.00001192 BTC | 12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking | #179 | 12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC |
| SBD price | US$ 7.41 | 12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC |
| Alexa rank (steemit.com) | #5,208 | 12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC |
| Unique visitors (steemit.com) | 542,292 / day | 12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC |
| Page views (steemit.com) | 2,548,772 / day | 12 Aug '21 4.38pm UTC |
This is #389 (12 Aug '21) of this daily news service.
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Event 201 and pandemic preparation
Event 201 was a tabletop exercise that simulated a global pandemic, which resulted from a new coronavirus. The program was hosted in October 2019 by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and World Economic Forum.
The invite-only event featured medical professionals, policy experts and business analysts all focused on how different institutions would respond to the onset of a deadly virus. The fictional coronavirus — a coronavirus, in general, being a specific kind of virus — in the scenario killed 65 million people over 18 months. Joint recommendations from participants urged international cooperation both in preparing for and handling a pandemic.
The Center for Health Security has hosted three pandemic simulations prior to Event 201, going back to a 2001 simulation known as Dark Winter. The October simulation was the first time the center included private sector actors in its exercises, in the hopes of modeling how they might also react in such a crisis.
Host responds to prediction claim
“To be clear, the Center for Health Security and partners did not make a prediction during our tabletop exercise,” the university program said in a statement rejecting the claim that it predicted the current pandemic. “We are not now predicting that the nCoV-2019 outbreak will kill 65 million people,” the center added.
The center further stated that the results of the scenario cannot be used to project for the COVID-19 outbreak because “the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019.”
The origins and severity of the fictional pandemic differ from the current outbreak, as do the reactions of national governments and civic institutions. The disease in the scenario was "modeled largely on SARS" according to recaps of the program.
GREAT Work Team SL - very impressive
Thank you very much for helping us from our early days😀
Plus 1. Thumbs up!
Congratulations, Steem Sri Lanka's community @steem-sri.lanka for reaching out 200,000 Steem Power.
Wish you all the best and Greetings from @printskill
Congratulations to the Steem Sri Lanka team @randulakoralage, @damithudaya, @sandu and @sandupi.
Steem Sri Lanka's community account @steem-sri.lanka has now reached 200,000 Steem Power.
Regards @printskill
Thank you for sharing the good news to the 🌎
Look forward to reporting on your 250K !
Steem Sri Lanka with 200K SP 💪❤️
Team SSL ❤️😘
great work 🙌🙌
Excelentes noticias yo los invito a unirse a los cursos, son GRATIS APROVECHEN LA OFERTA
@pennsif, thank you!)