^{Cover art by - @aaronleang}

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Welcome to the 253rd Daily Edition of the Daily Qurator. Below you will find some awesome members of @qurator that worked hard to post some good quality content for all you awesome Steemians to enjoy!

The @qurator project was created to help give Steemians some extra exposure and awesome upvotes currently worth around $0.03 - $8.41!

Note: some of you have been curated twice since the start of the daily qurator and some have been curated only once. As the Daily Qurator is gaining fame with every passing day, many new steemians are asking/will ask to join us. So, expect to see posts from new users for now. When the opportunity arises, posts from older users will be curated once again

Your Quality Curator ~( @goldendawne )~ Presents:

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@paradigmprospect	informationwar

Using Intellectual Fanatics To Discover The Flaws In Any Ideology, Idea Or Concept Part 1 of 2

Anyone who thinks something is definitely TRUE most likely just believesit without quite realizing it is a belief - a handed down system of knowledge that ultimately becomes so convincing to us that we stop looking for the catch - because we are naive beings

Do you have your beliefs? Do these same beliefs stress you out more than you want? How can you handle them? Read @paradigmprosepct's post, plus there is a Part 2 that's on their page now too, and see how you can handle all this.

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@swolesome	life

I'm Not Dead, Just Progressing

So it has been awhile since I have posted. I was hacked and lost access to my main email, just regained access to it a few days ago. Steemit took a backseat as I tried to save as much of my money as possible from being stolen. Over 500$ was taken but I know he gained access to my taxes, my resume submissions and other delicate information. Knowing he was in there taking his sweet time makes me feel so dirty and violated. I was so careless that I didn't bother checking to see if the malware was gone when I changed my passwords

Have you ever had your steemit account hacked? What happened? Stop over and share your story in @swolesome's post ans let's encourage this fellow Qurite upon their return to the platform.

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@sherylbeil	steemiteducation

Eating Together Is Enjoyable

Family meal times are always special. It create beautiful bonds and lovely memories. Even at least once a day, Family should try to eat together. However, for a really busy family, perhaps setting a time for weekend for a get together meal will be beneficial.

Everyone needs to take the time to sit, relax and spend some quality time together; and @sherylneil finds that sitting and enjoying a family meal together is just what she needed. How about you?

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@chetanpadliya	life

Are We “The Living Being On The Planet Earth” Eating Plastic?

Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic products in the environment that adversely affects wildlife, wildlife habitat, or humans... It was in 1907 that the first modern plastic, bakelite, was invented. No doubt invention of plastic has changed this world forever as plastics are cost-efficient, dispensable and hygienic. But after a century of the invention of plastic, this plastic is creating life-threatening conditions to all creatures on our planet earth

How much do you rely on plastic? Are you leaving a large footprint on our planet? Read @chetanpadliya's post and learn some facts about plastic and how it's effecting our world, and lives.

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@aschatria	blogs

Daily Contemplation- Ninja Headache Attack

I will have to ban my head for giving me a headache. Literally, the whole night I was battling the obnoxious pain, pill worked for about an hour, now I am up and trying to zone myself.
Today I will describe my headaches a little bit, because I don't have a wish to live and I can't focus on anything else

Do you categorize headaches like @aschatria? Read this post to see if you have the same headaches and how to handle them in this post.

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^{@qurator does not explicitly or implicitly endorse third parties opinions or statements in the Daily Qurator. Any statements made in these posts are the author's and curator's own opinion.}

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NEWS

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@qurator-tier-0 comment

We will be sending out some comments with the Tier 0 upvote. We don't think many of the members are aware that it is really easy to move up to a higher tier by showing Qurator some support. Let's hope some of the older members can move up in tiers and we can make the whole community a bit stronger. =)

This is by far on of the easiest ways to earn a little extra on your posts. READ the post mentioned in the comment. We are not trying to spam our T0 members, we are trying to help and reward you more. If you need help then you can always come visit us on Discord. =)

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Tier Updates Finalized

Tier updates are out and finalized. You can check out the post HERE.

The short version is that Tier 1 and Tier 2 requirements have changed a bit. Please review them.

• A separate account has been created and 30 000 SP has been delegated to it. @qurator-tier-1-2 will be upvoting Tier 1 and Tier 2 members.

• A large amount of SP was undelegated from @qurator to accommodate for the new account, BUT the upvote weights have been adjust so they should balance out. Just have to see how the Voting Power holds up with the big change.

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Qurator Details

	For more details go check out our witness page and consider voting for us.
	Qurator 3.0 is finally here! There has been quite a few changes. Go and check it out.
	Check out our Discord Channel and visit the steemit-challenges tab. There you will find an updated list of all the daily/weeklychallenges. Thanks to @stresskiller!

Competitions!

We host weekly Photo and Food competitions. Click on the images below to view the posts and cast your votes to the nominated Qurites. You can also comment #nominatein either of the posts to stand a chance to be featured in the competitions.

Photo Friday!	Tasty Tuesday!

Toss up Thursday	Biweekly
	Free for all post-promotional competition with a twist!

With all the flag wars and drama on Steemit, we decided to go the opposite route. Make love, not war! We don't take part in flag wars, instead we have upvote wars! We highly suggest checking out our latest competition and think of your ideal strategy to win that awesome Tier 5 prize. =)

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Qurator Tiers
	The latest Tiers update is out and updated. You can see the post by clicking here

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@qustodian support bot

For those who would like some extra upvotes from the Qurator project can send SBD and their link to @qustodian. The bot will upvote your post to the value of 2.65 times the amount of SBD you send it.

Send around 0.5SBD and your link to receive upvotes.

Any extra SBD will be refunded!

Upvotes limited to one every 24 hours.

Invest in @qustodian

For those who would like to invest some Steem Power. @qustodian pays out 90% of all the SBD sent to the account. Minimum of 50SP to invest, daily payouts in SBD.

Delegations links can be found below. Please remember to leave at least 50SP in your account!

Delegation links for @qustodian (NOT @QURATOR):

100	200	300	400	500	1000	5000

^{For any other amount feel free to contact us in Discord.}

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Qurator's Discord Channel that all Steemians can join - https://discord.gg/pJtWp57

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Steemauto Curation Trail

RIP Streemian and hello Steemauto! The new curation trail is active and running! If you would like to support your fellow Qurites or just earn some extra curation feel free to join our curation trail that is active on Steemauto.

We suggest not following the trail with 100%, steemauto has 2 ways of following a trail, static or scaled. We suggest using SCALED instead of static since static votes can add up quickly and drain VP very fast. We suggest using scaled and then maybe around 25%.

Steemauto can show us who is currently on the trail and at what percentage. Looking forward to see more Qurites joining the trail in the near future! We also reward the team players and there might be a nice surprize for a lucky trailer. =P

Steemauto guide and registration info

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Want bigger upvotes? Check out Tiers and how to gain access to them

TIER	Requirements	Perks
	Basic 4 STEEM registration fee. Upvote for life from Qurator Project	Basic upvote for life from Qurator.
	Delegate 100SP OR Upvote 7 times a week on any @qurator posts with a minimum upvote of at least $0.03 OR pay 1 Steem per month subscription.**	Tier 1 upvotes
	Delegate 200SP OR Upvote 7 times a week on any @qurator posts with a minimum upvote of at least $0.05 OR pay the 2 Steem per month subscription.	Tier 2 upvotes
	Delegate 300SP	Tier 3 upvotes
	Delegate 400SP	Tier 4 upvotes
	Delegate 500SP	Tier 5 upvotes

Elite Tiers

TIER	Requirements	Perks
	Delegate 1000SP+ to @qurator	Copper weight - T5 x 2
	Delegate 1500SP+ to @qurator	Silver weight - T5 x 3
	Delegate 2000SP+ to @qurator	Gold weight - T5 x 4
	Delegate 2500SP+ to @qurator	Platinum weight - T5 x 5
	Delegate 5000SP+ to @qurator	Diamond weight - T5 x 12 + Rotational Resteems

Delegation links:

100	200	300	400	500	1000	1500	2000	2500	5000

After you click the link you will have to check the value, click next and then enter your steemit NAME and Private Active Key to delegate. Please remember to leave at least 50SP in your account!

Members	1367	+1
Steem Power	5306
Delegated	74 938
Voting Power	86.75%
Upvote Weight T0(@qurator-tier-0)	2%	$0.03
Upvote Weight T1(@qurator-tier-1-2)	2%	$0.12
Upvote Weight T2 (@qurator-tier-1-2)	4%	$0.22
Upvote Weight T3	2.1%	$0.32
Upvote Weight T4	3.6%	$0.56
Upvote Weight T5	5%	$0.72
Copper (T5 x 2)	10%	$1.44
Silver (T5 x 3)	15%	$2.16
Gold (T5 x 4)	20%	$2.80
Platinum (T5 x 5)	25%	$3.52
Diamond (T5 x 12)	60%	$8.41
Witness rank	74

^{Median Steem Price when Upvote values were calculated: $3.03(-0.33%)}

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Upvoting or Resteeming this post will help us grow and in turn enable us to give better upvotes to our members and quality content creators.

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Your Quality Content Curator - Banners

If you would like to show some more support and use Qurator banners then please head over to this post and copy the banner links from there. =)

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^{The Qurator project is brought to you by:}

^{@scrooger | @boontjie | @goldendawne | @ewkaw | @ackhoo | @brumest | @stresskiller |}

^{Special thanks to @kryzsec for the SBD contributions.}

For more information about the Qurator Project and how to join click HERE

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