Welcome to the Pay It Forward Curation Contest, sponsored by the PIFC community you will find at @pifc! There you will "meet" a dedicated group of fellow Steemians hard at work on a weekly contest. Our goal is to find and encourage under-valued contributors of great content to our Steem blockchain.

As an added bonus, please note this is not just any weekly contest either. As we can see in the title, the Pay It Forward community has been at this awhile . That's half a year of faithful, steady effort adding value to our Steem blockchain! 👍 👍

To be selected, your post needs to have a minimum of 200 words of high quality, original content. And your reputation cannot be above 55. Pretty simple!

If you are reading this, perhaps we are looking for or have already found you. 😊

So, let's get started! My two entries for this week are:

Selection #1: ⭐ @jewlzie (40.179 SP) ⭐

Ever face the sometimes daunting question of how to "get more day" out of the "fixed constants" we all have? There is only one of us - 24 / 7 / 365? At work, we often hear the word "multi-tasking" applied to this challenge ...

Well my first selection - @jewlzie - is doing just that. How? Writing movie reviews - specifically, watching a Netflix movie and then writing about it. At the same time, creating a great value post for our Steem blockchain!

With grandchildren, curiosity drew me to the post - Movie Night: Mary and The Witch's Flower (Spoilers!!). Just glancing through it quickly, I elected to read it.

Glad I did!

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In reading through this post, my eye was drawn to the detail of @jewlsie's review.

"If you're familiar with Studio Ghibli's works such as Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle, then you should know that one of the animators from Studio Ghibli, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, had directed Mary and The Witch's Flower. Yonebayashi had previously directed The Secret World of Arrietty and When Marnie Was There and now takes on Mary and The Witch's Flower which is based on a book by Mary Stewart called The Little Broomstick. Mary and The Witch's Flower is a Studio Ponoc film which, for those of you who didn't know, is founded by former Studio Ghibli lead film producer Yoshiaki Nishimura."

To illustrate, before even getting to reviewing her chosen movie, here we see she has done research on key artists responsible for making it. Definitely adds value!

"Thankfully I was able to get this review in by the end of this week but I think I need more time than I thought to write everything down. I'm fighting between immersing myself in the movie and making a good, quality, in-depth review. So if any of you could tell me your preference or opinion on what I should lean towards ..."

This Steemian would encourage you, @jewlzie, to make your choice based upon the option which results in the highest quality post on our Steem blockchain! 😉

And to give yourself "some space," to know whichever you choose is likely going to change over time ... But ... I certainly understand "working to a deadline!"

I'll leave the review itself for your reading pleasure ...

Skimming through some of @jewlzie's other posts, we find she is starting college. An English major with a passion for writing perhaps? 😊

Great to find and be able to support "new talent," in more ways than one 😊 Overall, a hard-working Steemian well worth supporting!

Selection #2: ⭐ @atmemestable (86.582 SP) ⭐

Sometimes, perhaps our mood can affect our selection? For me, in choosing my next post, it was pretty basic - I was getting hungry! 😉

So ... My second selection - @atmemestable - hit right in the 🎯 with her Cook With Us Homework: "Vegan Salt Fish" Recipe Featuring Heart of Palm post. I really like fish!

And look at this picture! If you weren't hungry before, doesn't this get the "juices flowing?"

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Before we learn more about this yummy recipe, @atmemestable has this to share with us:

"I am super excited that the great folks over at Cook With Us have just been accepted by @curie to receive a Curie Community Contribution. (https://steemit.com/cookwithus/@cookwithus/cook-with-us-breaking-news-please-read-this-important-post). This is a well deserved achievement! This announcement was made jointly with the Cooks With Us launch of a new contest season. Yippie! I don't know about you, but I'm ready and raring to go!"

So, she is entering a contest supported by the wonderful @Curie Community. What's not to like about that? Gotta support that effort, right?

"Cooks With Us gave a homework assignment to past and future contestants. The assignment is to "research an unusual fruit or vegetable that may be specific to your country or just unusual (not specific to your country).""

So, here we find what her homework assignment is from the @Cookwithus Community in putting this post together. Sounds like a really great idea to me!

So, stopping before providing any "spoiler" details, please go read this post about this yummy family recipe of @atmemestable and support her efforts to win this contest. She has put together a very nice post here!

In skimming through what we can find about @atmemestable, she lives in North Carolina (hopefully doing OK after Hurricane Florence!), and we find she is honoring her mother, Meme, who was a great cook. Again, an under-valued fellow Steemian very deserving of our support!

Redfish Bonus Selection: ⭐ @macoolette (42.677 SP) ⭐

As a special bonus feature of this week's @pifc contest, founder @thedarkhorse has this to say:

"Time to celebrate 6 months of curation! This week we are going to allow you the PIFC community to help us pick people for the @minnowbuilder program that will be supported with daily upvotes until they become a minnow."

In response, having "met" and gotten to know her a little bit, during Month 4 of my Steem "journey," I would like to nominate @macoolette! She is an IT professional from the Philippines. She is also a great curator and appears to be very steady and consistent (when not dodging typhoons and blocked by hardfork snafus ...) in her efforts to add value to our Steem blockchain.

A key part of my selecting her is based on wanting to support those who are "in it for the long haul." Well, look no further! Between wrestling with giant snakes (you'll have to "curate" with her, for the inside story ... 😊) and more recently gamely surviving the recent super typhoon Mangkhut, I believe we can count on her to "hang tough!" 👍 👍

[Note: If you want to take a "shortcut," you can get a picture of her "snake wrestling" on her recent Get to Know Me post, but ... THEN, you wouldn't be helping her climb the rankings on the CEL Leader Board of @abh12345's weekly post! So, go forth and "curate" ... 😉]

Thank you for investing your time to read through this post. If you haven't already, please visit the posts highlighted above and encourage these fellow Steemians in their efforts.

A big “shout out” and a sincere thank you 🙌 to our judges for this week’s contest - @lynncoyle1, @tryskele , @headchange, and @viking-ventures! And to our great sponsors - @thehoneys, @bengy, @andrewharland, @el-nailul, @stever82, and @minnowbuilder2!

All the best to you for a better tomorrow, as we all work together to build our Steem Community! 👍 😊

Respectfully,

Steemian @roleerob

Posted using Busy.org and “immutably enshrined in the blockchain” on Thursday, 4 October 2018!

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Interested to know how I found this community and why I support it? The following post tells you the story:

• Chapter Two: My “Journey” and the Pay It Forward Community
  
  

If you have found this post to be of interest, the PIFC team would love to have you join us. Here are some posts to help you in making your decision:

• @PIFC's 1st Post: The beginning of a Steem movement flowing from the tireless efforts of @thedarkhorse and all of those who consistently and faithfully work alongside him to build up our Steem blockchain.
• @PIFC's Latest Update Post: The "latest word" on how well this movement is doing, through the eyes of @thedarkhorse, along with details about the judges and curators helping make it happen!
• @PIFC's Latest Financial Post: For transparency and accountability, the latest from @thedarkhorse on the @pifc account's financial status.
• @viking-ventures' post on Curation: Help from one of the dedicated PIFC team members on writing great Steem content.

Entries from previous weeks:

• Week 23
• Week 24
• Week 25
• Week 26 Then Boom! HF20 impact edition …

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