Welcome to the 165th Daily Edition of the Daily Qurator. Below you will find some awesome members of 
The
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
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Coffee With Christian Palencia
I just got to know Christian Palencia (
) a few weeks ago through a meet up with
and I was drawn to his work as a singer songwriter. We finally managed to find the time to have coffee as everyone was busy over the festive season
Steemit has been able to not only bring together people online but should also be credited with worldwide meet-ups and gatherings.
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How To Not Get A Zero Payout On Steemit
It's normal to experience zero or close to zero payouts when you're super new on Steemit. All of us have been there but we keep trying to work our way up for more consistent payouts. Pretty sure we're all here because we heard we could earn Steem, and some of us actually use Steem for our day to day expenses
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How To Prune Your Vineyard For Peak Grape Production
Not pruning a grape vine is like sowing one row of corn, it will never produce in quantities that justify the labor of planting and fertilizing.
Grapes are produced only from the new shoots that sprout from the previous year's growth. You must prune your vineyard or it will eventually become a tangled mess of unproductive greenery
Knowing the proper way to prune grapes vines will help your harvest, allow you more control over what is being grown and hopefully yield more fruit. Stop over and see the advice
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Cuban Ingenuity
Cuba is a beautiful country that has been cut off from the USA for over 50 years
Over the last 3 years - people have been discovering that Cuba's isolation has led to many awesome inventions... If you ever visit Cuba, you'll likely feel like you've traveled back in time to the 1960's - all their cars have remained virtually unchanged after 50+ years
Let's take a journey back in time... No, actually let's head off to Cuba; which seems to be a country time forgot.
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A Winter In Malta Number 7- Captivating Victoria
Our trip around Malta led us to the second, more peaceful and secluded island called Gozo. While still part of the same country, Gozo has considerably slower pace and feels much more laid-back. Our first stop was Victoria, the capital of this island
Let's go on a wonderful trip to Malta's capital, Victoria!
NEWS
The new and improved Qurator bot is here!
Why the new bot?
The current bot had a 24 hour timer built in, thus you can only get upvotes 24 hours apart. Missing that window and you might not get your upvote. This resulted in posts not getting upvotes. The old EDIT and UPDATE trick always worked its magic but was a bit of a hassle.
Out with the old, in with the new!
The new bot will search for posts to upvote 24 hour after your previous upvote. If you posted 2 post in a 24 hour period it will go back and upvote your posts. (More details to follow)
The new bot will be active withing the next 24 hours. We are busy getting everything ready and transferring databases. During this time both and 
will be offline. Please understand and be patient while we handle the necessary upgrades.
The bot is completely new and even though we did test it, there might still be some errors that we have to work out during the next few days.
UPDATE: We are seeing some minor issues with the bot and will be testing it more on the account. Once it is stable on that account and all the bugs have been sorted out we will let it go live on the main account.
UPDATE 2: Worked out most of the kinks and will be running it for a while on . If the test goes well then we will start using it on . =)
UPDATE 3: Looks like we worked out most of the bugs and will be doing a long run to see if the bot is stable. If it is then after this weekend we should be using the new bot on the main account.
Steemit Challenges on Discord
We all know that there are some awesome Steemians that created great challenges with cool prizes here on steemit. 
steemit-challenges tab. There you will find an updated list of all the daily/weekly challenges. massive shout-out and thanks to
Introducing: Toss up Thursday!
We have Tasty Tuesday for Foodies and Photo Friday for Photographers. What about the rest of our awesome content creators? We thought of an idea to get some upvotes and possible post promotion. Check out the Toss up Thursday post!
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 wehave upvote wars! Whe highly suggest checking out our latest competition and think of your ideal strategy to win that awesome Tier 5 prize. =)
New Tasty Tuesday is out! Go cast your upvotes!
We will be doing a weekly Tasty Tuesday that will focus on food related blogs. Photography and Food is something that gets overlooked by Steemit quite a lot so we want to help out a bit by getting more people involved in both categories.
To view our latest Tasty Tuesday please visit this link to cast your vote for your favorite dish!
Did you vote for your favorite Photo Friday yet? The newest edition just launched!
Qurator will be hosting a Photo Friday each week where 5 members will be selected to win a Tier 5 membership!
Head over to Photo Friday to cast your vote and show some support! Who knows, maybe next week it's your turn to receive some votes and stand a chance to win! =)
The bot is Qurator exclusive and will upvote all Qurites with an upvote of 2.65 times the worth of what you send it, up to $1.20+!
Delegators will see payouts of 90% of all SBD earned by the bot.
Qurator's Discord Channel that all Steemians can join - https://discord.gg/pJtWp57
New Tiers Update
The latest Tiers update is out and updated. You can see the post here.
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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Feel free to use our any of our banners created by awesome Steemians.
Simply copy and paste the link into the bottom of your post, this will be awesome support towards the project and we are sure many of you are proud to be a Qurite. =)
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