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Today's guest curation is provided by @sanmi. He enjoys being in this great Steemit community, runs a charity bot @thehumanbot to help minnows, and is the inventor of Caption Contest. He sees Steemit as a place of engagement and love. He appreciates connecting to so many people across the world, and feels pride in helping people in every possible way that can help them grow here.

Let's check out his choices!

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Steemit Open Mic Week 65 - Wish you Happy Christmas

A fine play on the piano for the Steemit Open Mic Week 65 - You can feel every bit of Attention (Cover) played by @shreyansh - the promising future of Steemit.

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Sambalpuri Saree (Odia: ସମ୍ବଲପୁରୀ ଶାଢ଼ି), (Hindi: संबलपुरी साड़ी) - Pride of Odisha and India

In this great post @sweetbbsr brings us the knowledge of how a silk saree is made in a brief short form and presents us the different saree designs from her place. She has showcased some nice saree designs which every woman would look forward to have. She also gives a price review and justifications behind it. Overall a great post with unique content.

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Conclusion

These are great choices from @sanmi that both come from an interesting part of the world. I love India, but I didn't make it to Odisha on my visit. For submitting these selections and commentary, @sanmi earns 4 SBD today.

We will continue to pay 2 SBD per selection through the end of the year, but then we are forced to lower the rewards again. Starting 1 January, the reward will decrease to 1.5 SBD per selection (up to 7.5 SBD per edition if all 5 choices are published). That will improve the sustainability and make it possible for us to continue rewarding even more guest curators!

Each of these highlighted articles receives full upvotes and resteems from @sneakyninja. As an added bonus, @sneakyninja sponsors featured writers for Steem Basic Income!

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Submission Reward

A brief biography of each guest curator will be included in the edition that uses their submission. In addition, each guest curator will receive 2 SBD for each article from their submission that is highlighted in The Daily Sneak. That's up to 10 SBD for each accepted submission! (To be cut to 1.5 per article, up to 7.5 SBD per published submission, effective 1 January 2018)

Right now @sneakyninja's upvote is not worth as much as we are paying for guest curation. Why do we pay so much for guest curation? We believe that quality curation is very important to Steem. Paying our curators well encourages them to spend more time reviewing content and picking out the best pieces. We hope that they will spend some of the SBD earnings to power up- but it's their choice.

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