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The best dating apps to use in 2020
Katie Strick
4 January 2021, 10:56 am ·12-min read
The new apps to try in pursuit of the perfect match (Shutterstock / Dean Drobot)
The upsides of dating in 2021? That park crush you're hoping to come across on Happn probably has more time for swiping. Plus, the new year brings a rush of new dawn daters: one in five UK Bumble users say they've joined after ending a committed relationship as a result of the pandemic.
Sure, Covid might be bringing depressingly few opportunities to meet people IRL, but dating apps are having their biggest boom yet.
But which one to commit to? Your friends say it's all about Hinge, but Badoo has the most worldwide users (it's a numbers game) and Bumble claims to be kinder - just what everyone needs during the bleakest January yet.
Plus there's a whole range of shiny new apps to try: Londoner Sanjay Panchal has just launched the world's first anti-ghosting app (finally!); everyone's talking about the new membership-only dating club for Jews; and The Intro literally schedules your socially-distanced dates for you and picks a spot (park) - perfect if lockdown has made you lazy with organising.
From the new blind dating platform to the app that lets users refund their worst pandemic dates, here's a guide to the top dating apps to use in 2021.
Profoundly: for personality over pictures
Profoundly helps you open a conversation with interesting questions and entertaining icebreakers. Only when you've chatted enough will it unlock your match's photos - the 2021 edition of Blind Date.
It'll match you with people nearby who have similar interests and lets you send anonymous confessions to Facebook friends so you can finally tell that guy from school you always fancied him.
The app has more than 12 million users and more than 40 million messages are exchanged every day.
Download on iOS and Android
Badoo: to meet anyone
Your pals might tell you everyone's on Hinge but Badoo is the biggest dating app in the world. The app was launched by Russian tech entrepreneur Andrey Andreev in 2009, three years before Tinder, and it now has more than 380 million customers, operates in 190 countries and is available in 47 different languages.
The app recently launched Private Detector, a safety feature which uses AI to detect the sending of unsolicited dick pics, giving users the choice to either open and view this content, or avoid it altogether. It's proven to by 98 per cent accurate.
Bumble: to meet the nice guy
Bumble's USP is that it challenges female users to make the first move, basically eliminating the bro-culture of other dating platforms. In traditional apps, when women match with guys, the unspoken rule is that they hesitate to initiate a conversation for fear of seeming weird or desperate. On Bumble, women have no choice in the matter.
Its founder Whitney Wolfe told us that her feminist matchmaking tool is designed to reset the "heteronormative rules in our current landscape", giving women the power to message their matches without stigma.
The bloke you're likely to meet on here? Someone who's on board with the idea of evening out the romantic playing field. Typically, those guys are keepers.
Over-50s dating app Lumen is now part of Bumble too.
Download on iOS and Google Play Store
String: to hear what your match sounds like
The dating app for voice-note lovers. String launched this year as a way to make dating during self-isolation more personal. Rather than sending strings of robotic one-liners, the app lets you put a voice to your matches' pictures by sending each other voice-notes. No texting is allowed: you can either react with an emoji or send one back.
For extra audio points, Spotify is now integrated into the app so you can add your favourite song to your profile.
Lox Club: for Jews with high standards
Lox Club
This membership-only app started as a joke, according to its 29-year-old LA product designer founder Austin Kevitch, but it officially launched worldwide at the end of last year after receiving thousands of applications.
Forbes says its membership committee is "scrupulous" and Vogue calls the app a "Jewish Raya", though it's not solely for Jews. Founders say it's like a deli: "it's culturally Jewish, but you don't have to be Jewish to enjoy it. We're open to all levels of observance and all religions."
To be accepted, Lox Club says it's looking for "non-douchey, ambitious, funny, down-to-earth people who are looking for that type of person as well. Someone you'd bump into at a house party and end up talking with in a corner for hours." The current number of applicants awaiting approval is more than 20,000 and fees start at $36 for three months.
Coffee Meets Bagel: to meet The One
It's been described as "the anti-Tinder" - and with good reason too. Coffee Meets Bagel's radical focus is on the quality of matches it offers, rather than an endless sea of faces you find yourself vacantly swiping through elsewhere. Every day, you'll be offered just one single 'holy grail' match based on information you've already inputted on your tastes, preferences and hobbies.
Don't like what you see? Hold your horses, wait until tomorrow. No one said true love was easy to find.
Taimi: to meet queer people
Taimi isn't just a dating app, it's the world's largest LGBTQ+ social platform, with almost nine million users and social features from chat-based networking to video streaming.
It's all about making users feel safe: the app uses several layers of verification, 24/7 profile moderation, live support and PIN/fingerprint/Face ID so your data and interactions are in safe hands.
Happn: to meet your park crush
Got your eye on your local barista? Get on Happn. The French app plays on natural serendipity by flagging mutual interests in real time. Maybe you'll finally be that couple that can tell all your friends you met on the Tube.
It works as simply as this: every time you cross paths with someone in real life, their profile shows up on your timeline - handy given a recent study found that 48 per cent of people are now inclined to date locally. The app captures other users within a 250m radius of your own smartphone, giving you a cross-section of Londoners around you - and potentially your coffee house or (pre-pandemic) rush hour crush.
Hinge: to find your type
Hinge's slogan "designed to be deleted" is clearly clever marketing, but users say it works. Founder Justin McLeod says it's all about vulnerability - by putting yourself out there "honestly" in a series of Q&A prompts, you're bound to make better connections than just swiping on who you fancy.
Justin McLeod's app uses artificial intelligence to help send users match suggestionsHinge
Plus it uses AI to learn the kind of people you like - read more about it in his interview with the Evening Standard here (McLeod's own love story is also worth a read).
Despite the pandemic, Hinge's downloads are up 82 per cent this year so it's the perfect platform for finding your own lockdown love story.
Elate: for people who hate ghosting
The anti-ghosting app for people who prefer dating one person at a time. Elate was launched by Londoner Sanjay Panchal this year in response to research that found ghosting to be the number one complaint amongst dating app users: 95% of those surveyed this year say they've been ghosted and 75% admit to doing it to others.
Elate's solution? It only lets you chat with three matches at once and will let you know if one moves on to chat to someone new (so you're not left wondering and waiting).
In line with this more respectful approach, it also shows potential matches' bios over photos so you're not distracted by a pretty face until you know they're worth it.
OKCupid: to match on what matters
ounded in the US in 2004, OkCupid revolutionised the online dating landscape by featuring multiple-choice questions in order to match members. It was also the first dating app to engineer a non-binary dating experience, with 22 gender options and 13 sexual orientations.
Read it's latest dating trends report here.
The Intro: to swerve small-talk
Launched in London a year ago, The Intro is all about meeting IRL instead of weeks of pre-date chit-chat. When two users match, they can't chat, instead they schedule a date. Just tell the app when you're next free and it'll work out a mutual slot and suggest meeting spots (currently in parks) between the two of you - like your own dating concierge.
The Intro
Video dates are now available if you can't meet in person and there's a 'speed date' option for two-minute virtual dates with other online members.
Profiles are the classic Hinge or Bumble six-picture format with bios and Q&As. The added bonus? Friends, family (and even exes) can contribute to your profile.
Tinder: for the casual hook-up
Arguably the most well-known dating app, Tinder was once the place for social introverts to meet their significant other. Now it's a tool for swiftly finding an insignificant one-night stand - whether you're straight, gay, bi, transgender or gender-fluid.
In 2015, Vanity Fair declared Tinder as the ultimate place that twentysomethings go to "hit it and quit it", claiming that the app was solely responsible for a "dating apocalypse". While die-hard romantics might agree, others say the app has revolutionised the process of hunting down no-strings fun at relatively little expense. The tool basically works by swiping yes or no based on each user's picture.
Not sure where to start? These are the 30 most right-swiped Brits on Tinder right now.
Raya: to meet a celebrity
Ever wanted to date a celebrity? This 'illuminati Tinder' app Raya is the place to go if you're after a bedfellow with money and fame. Cara Delevingne, Ruby Rose and Elijah Wood are all reported to be members of Raya, the world's most exclusive dating app
Getting on there, however, is harder than finding a great date. You'll have to be very beautiful, very successful and have 5,000-plus Instagram followers to get in. It's basically the Soho House of dating. Good luck.
The League: for the elites
If you can't get on Raya, then you can also try The League, dubbed Tinder for elites. It's a selective dating app for young, successful individuals, which first launched in San Francisco before making its way to London at the end of last year.
Many of the members work in careers such as finance, technology, consulting and fashion.
Inner Circle: for a date with money
This controversial dating website and app, bills itself as a network for "like-minded" individuals; a "high-end", "exclusive community" with an "impressive following of successful and attractive people." Basically city bankers who want to find good looking dates without having to scour Mayfair's Whisky Mist and Barts in Chelsea.
The app has a shiny new look this year, with profiles that show off values and interests and filters that let you find matches and events. It's available in 42 cities across the world and more than 10,000 happy couples have been in touch since its launch.
Inner Circle's newest and best feature yet? Letting you refund your worst pandemic dates from 2020. The app launched Refund My Sh*t Date - The Pandemic Edition - last month and it's the ultimate cure for anyone who's feeling exhausted after their nine hundredth ghosting.
Head to refundmyshitdate.com and check out 'stories' for the funniest dating tales from the last year. Those who've been through the biggest turmoils can win self-care prizes from Headspace subscriptions to massages - all stories are anonymous, so let it rip.
Muzmatch: to meet Muslims
Muzmatch wins the award for the best dating ads on the Tube, including 'Halal, is it meet you're looking for', and 'You had me at Halal'. Genius.
As you can probably guess, the basis for Muzmatch is to find fellow Muslims to date.
The user interface looks similar to Tinder and verifies you using your phone number and a selfie, not a Facebook account. There's also the option to choose to keep your photos blurred until you match with someone, though the app says profiles with visible photos recieve 300 per cent more matches.
Salt: to meet Christians
Like Muzmatch, Salt's USP depends on religion: helping Christians to find and date one another online.
The app launched at the end of last year by an all-Christian team who were disillusioned about trying to meet other Christians in the wild. In particular, the team behind Salt hope to make Christian dating "a little less awkward and a lot more fun."
The design of the app is gorgeous, all muted greys and subtle pinks, so you can download and get swiping.
Her: for women to meet women
Originally launched as 'Grindr for girls', Robyn Exton's LGBTQ dating app Her has grown to be the biggest community for lesbian, bisexual and queer women worldwide. The app mixes dating and social networking, with a timeline to read the news, find out what's happening in your city and make connections.
Meet your soulmate or just meet a new group of friends. The choice is yours.
Grindr: for men to meet men
Before there was Tinder, there was Grindr. Having first launched in 2009, the app is credited with being the precursor to the current swathe of digital dating apps.
Things to note: it's an all-male dating app for both gay and bisexual men, it uses your mobile device's location-based services to show you the guys closest to you who are also on surfing the app and it's most popular in London, meaning your living in the best city to try it out.
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More than 100 people were wounded in the deadliest attack in the nuclear-armed Muslim country this year, which came with the government deep in crisis over the killing of the Al-Qaeda chief by US forces on May 2.
Pakistan's senior military officer General Khalid Shameem Wynne cancelled a visit to the United States, a military official said, citing the "prevailing environment".
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Pakistan's intelligence agency, which CNN said also attended the meeting, was not immediately available to comment on the report.
Friday's explosions detonated in northwest Pakistan as newly trained paramilitary cadets were getting into buses and coaches for a 10-day leave after a training course, and they were wearing civilian clothes, police said.
"This was the first revenge for Osama's martyrdom. Wait for bigger attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location.
"Two of our fedayeen (suicide bombers) carried out these attacks," he added.
The bombers blew themselves up outside a police training centre in Shabqadar town, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) north of Peshawar in the northwest region where Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants repeatedly attack security forces.
"I was sitting in a van waiting for my colleagues. We were in plain clothes and we were happy we were going to see our families," he told AFP by telephone from Shabqadar hospital.
"I heard someone shouting 'Allah Akbar' and then I heard a huge blast. I was hit by something in my back shoulder. In the meantime I heard another blast and I jumped out of the van. I felt that I was injured and bleeding."
Police officials confirmed that at least 70 people had been killed, making it the first attack of such magnitude in Pakistan since November 5 when a suicide bomber killed 68 at a mosque in the northwest area of Darra Adam Khel.
"Both attacks were suicide attacks. The first suicide bomber came on a motorcycle and detonated his vest among the Frontier Constabulary (FC) men," said the police chief of the Charsadda district, Nisar Khan Marwat.
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He said that around 20 shops and 12 vehicles were destroyed in the intensity of the blasts and put the death toll at 70.
"Sixty-five of them are from the paramilitary police. Five dead bodies of civilians were taken to Shabqadar hospital," he added.
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Trending News for this week:
1. Cignithon 2021: Global Virtual Testing Hackathon – A Huge Success
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2. Leapwork – No Code Automation platform, raises $62 Million in Series B
Leapwork, a no-code automation platform, announced on 26th August that it had raised $62 million in a Series B funding round. This is the highest Series B funding ever, and the company now has a post-money valuation of $312 million.
3. Postman API platform has raised $225 million in Series D at a valuation of $5.6 billion
Postman recently raised $225 million in a Series D round at a valuation of $5.6 billion. The platform in total has raised over $430 million in four rounds. Postman plans to use the funding to grow its sales, marketing, product, and technical teams.
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1. Land Your Next Job by Upping Your Postman Skills – In this article, Joyce Lin has shared some helpful postman trainings that can help users in sharpening their skills and stand out in today's job market.
2. Programming is the Foundation for Automation – In this article, Rex Jones II explains why programming is a must for automation and how he overcame is imposter syndrome.
3. How to Perform Load Testing with k6 using Google Cloud Build – In this article, Michael Wanyoike has written about how to integrate performance testing in development processes with Google Cloud Build and k6.
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5. Applying agile principles to automation projects – In this article, David Tzemach shares how agile teams can use agile values and principles to meet challenges when facing an automation project.
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8. [$5K] Misconfigured Reset password that leads to Account Takeover (No user Interaction ATO) – In this article, Aditya Sharma has written about one of his findings – ATO vulnerability that he came accross on a public program on Hackerone.
9. Contributing to Open Source in Quality Assurance – In this article, Isabel Costa has listed some ways in which users can contribute to Quality Assurance of an open source project.
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Conservative media outlets and right-wing figures had trouble processing New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's primary win Wednesday morning.
Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Democratic socialist, ran on a platform of Medicare for all, tuition-free higher education, criminal justice reform, and called for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to be abolished. On Tuesday evening, she beat out incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) for the state's 14th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
She faces off with Republican Anthony Pappas in the general election this November.
Wednesday morning, conservative media figures across the board appeared both shell-shocked and upset by Ocasio-Cortez's primary victory.
"I don't just question the patriotism of the 'abolish ICE' movement. I question their sanity, and the danger I see is that it's become a mainstream view," said Michelle Malkin, host of Conservative Review's Michelle Malkin Investigates, during an interview on Fox & Friends.
Referring to the recent round of protests against members of the Trump administration over their support of the president's family separation policy, Malkin said, "Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democrat Socialists of America. This is the same group that organized the protests against [Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen] at the restaurant. These are shrieking radicals who oppose any immigration enforcement. It's not just that they want to reduce the 20,000 workforce of ICE or reform it somehow. They want to abolish it. That is clear."
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Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo shared similar views during a Fox News panel Wednesday morning, claiming radical progressives had hijacked the Democratic Party.
"I think it's really important to take a look at what happened in the Democratic party," she said. "This huge upset ousting Crowley — you wonder if this is actually furthering the Democratic Party even further left. I mean, I feel this party has been hijacked by the extreme left, and I think that has been the issue with a lot of upsets and the debate going on. If this is portending to further further movements to the left, I think the party is in trouble."
Former CNN contributor and current national GOP spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany echoed those comments, speaking with Fox Business host Stuart Varney.
"This is stunning. The Democratic Party hidden agenda has always been socialism — open borders, college for all, things that we know don't work," she said. "It's been the hidden agenda. Last night, it became the central rallying cry. It's amazing that they're so transparent in their motives to become Europe and to become a socialist country."
McEnany posted similar thoughts on her personal Twitter account as well, writing, "Socialism used to be the hidden agenda of the Democratic party. Now, it is their campaign rallying cry!"
Ocasio-Cortez, for her part, claims her views aren't all that extreme. During an interview with NPR's Morning Edition Wednesday morning, following her primary victory, she explained her stance on ICE, saying,
What we're basically saying is that the structure of ICE — in a similar manner as the structure of the Patriot Act — is kind of built on a scaffolding of questionable civil liberties infringement and abuse. So what we're really talking about is re-imagining immigration to be humane, and in a way that is transparent and accountable.
In an earlier interview with Vogue Monday, Ocasio-Cortez noted that Democratic socialism at its core bears little resemblance to the movement conservatives have described using fear-mongering talking points.
"When we talk about the word socialism, I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity, and our economic, social, and racial dignity," she said. "It is about direct representation and people actually having power and stake over their economic and social wellness, at the end of the day. To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity."
Ocasio-Cortez's campaign was largely based on those same ideals, painting herself as a candidate of the people who brought a unique viewpoint to an otherwise stale Democratic platform.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old socialist, topples powerful incumbent Joe Crowley
She is the first challenger to beat a Democratic incumbent this year.
"Women like me aren't supposed to run for office," she said in a popular campaign video back in May, describing herself as a working-class New Yorker. "I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family…. I was born in place where your zipcode determines your destiny."
She added, "After 20 years of the same representation, we have to ask, 'Who has New York been changing for?… It's clear that these changes haven't been for us, and we deserve a champion. It's time to fight for a New York that working families can afford."
That message apparently resonated with voters. As ThinkProgress reported Tuesday night, Oscasio-Cortez's margin of victory on election night was so large, she claimed victory over Crowley's campaign before any major media outlet had called the race. "We beat a machine with a movement," she said.
Ocasio-Cortez faces her Republican challenger on November 6. She is almost guaranteed to win: the district has gone to a Democrat in the last nine elections.
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Birth Name: Estelle Fanta Swaray
Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 18 January, 1980
*Grenadian (father)
*Senegalese (mother)
Estelle is a British singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She is famous for the tracks 1980, Free, and American Boy, featuring Kanye West.
Her father is from Grenada and her mother is from Senegal. Grenada is an island located in the Caribbean. The majority of Grenada's population is of African descent. Senegal is a country in west Africa.
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@Athena
Thanks – Didn't Notice The Typo, Yes – I Meant Queen Elizabeth I
Athena says:
Queen Elizabeth II? Maybe Elizabeth I! (1500-1600)
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A bit of history there. thanks.
@ Détester, Estelle Grew Up In Britain, So Would Never Be Considered As 'African-American' Anyway.
The British Didn't Use Slaves From Africa, So There Isnt The Loss Of Identity (Of Ancestors), As There So Sadly Is For Many Americans, Originally Descended From Africa.
It's Far Easier In Britain To Know Heritage Because Those From The West Indies/Carribean & Africa, Came Over By Choice, First Brought By The Romans, Then Nubian Travellers For Centuries Afterwards. Apparently Queen Elizabeth II Tried To Banish Them From Her Country 'England', But A Lot Simply Went To The Next Country (Wales), Which Is Probably Why The Welsh Appear Much Darker(Think Catherine Zeta Jones, Tom Jones Etc) Than The Scottish & English, Although, Welsh Celts Were From Southern Spanish & North African Stock Anyway.
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finally somebody who isn't just named African American. Flo Rida and T.I. need to speak up.
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4 Ways to Boost Customer Service Employee Engagement
Martin KõivaApril 5, 2018
Developing your customer service team members and keeping them happy doesn't necessarily need to involve approaching the CFO for additional budget.
To be sure, fair salaries and clear career paths are the basis of being a good employer and the foundation of staff retention. Sometimes, however, those rewards don't come soon enough for ambitious support team members, or they're not available to the degree everyone would like them to be.
A study by TINYpulse shows money is only one of many motivators for employees in this day and age. Recognition, personal growth, and having an impact all come before money — and taking that into account, in my view, is vital to employee engagement and building a happy team.
The question, then, becomes what you can do between more significant career milestones. One challenge of scaling customer support at Pipedrive has been getting team members up to speed and keeping them engaged after they ramp up. Here are some practical measures you can take to help your employees develop quickly and feel challenged beyond the honeymoon phase.
1. The power of 'That's fine, continue'
No matter how good an agent is naturally, they will only ramp up and learn if they get feedback on their work. A lot of it.
Patting agents on the back for exemplary interactions or pointing out glaring mistakes in their work comes pretty naturally to most.
The value that lies in validating work that is "good" is less obvious. Not "amazing," not "terrible," but "good" — the kind of work that makes up the majority of most people's efforts.
Closing the feedback loop on some of those business-as-usual conversations is important because until you do, you're leaving your people guessing at what kind of work qualifies as acceptable. Most conversations fall into the category of "OK, keep doing that," but until you say it, the agent has no idea.
When you give this kind of feedback systematically, your team will ramp up quicker and gain confidence in what they're doing. Multiply that over all agents and time, and the impact is enormous.
2. Mentoring works both ways
Having a seasoned go-to person is great for the new hire. Trainers are usually there (if you have trainers in your organizations) during the onboarding, but they're not as available at other times. Managers are there when you need to ask permission, but the nature of the relationship is such that new hires often don't feel like taking simple questions to them. So assigning a go-to person whom they perceive as a peer is a great way to enable the regular "that's fine, keep it up" type of feedback loop.
Related: Employee Onboarding Best Practices
Another somewhat surprising benefit of this practice is that making experienced support agents mentors can work wonders on their motivation as well. It sends a strong message that says, "You have valuable knowledge to pass on to the new hire, and we trust you to do it well." The mentor is forced to display confidence in their knowledge, and it positions them as the seasoned expert in that situation, which can be significant validation for their work.
3. Develop superpowers
I resisted specialization of our agents for quite some time, because I thought it would mean allowing some team members to lose the ability to do certain things and that they would be "lost" when it came to helping deal with the backlog.
When we eventually developed the first specialized roles, it turned out to be an unfounded fear. The added benefit of somebody who knows the general stuff and has developed specialized skills has proven to be a worthwhile model.
Allowing people to go deep into the subject matter enables them to take more pride in their work. For example, we've had success with dedicating agents to conversations with new trial users, who tend to require less hardcore technical knowledge but who appreciate quick replies and can do with an extra dose of empathy and patience when contacting us for the first time.
Related: The 5 People You Meet In Support
Other specializations might include conversation subject categories (billing, data migration, account setup), product features, channel (chat, email, phone), technical categories (API, integrations, mobile apps, etc.). Once we started brainstorming, we came up with more options than anyone had expected, and that is likely true for anyone who goes through a similar exercise.
What's maybe most important of all — those specific areas tend to improve rapidly, once particular people start taking ownership and developing in-depth knowledge of the area of expertise.
4. Let them try your job
Few things have a more immediate impact on a person's results than telling them "You're in charge."
Deputizing is one of the most natural ways to empower people, because great people will instinctively try to do their utmost when that happens.
At Pipedrive, one case study in the power of deputizing has been delegating the organization of our team events. Regular team events are the backbone of a healthy culture. The trouble is that after the first couple of times for any given organizer, it may become a chore and a drain on creative energy and time resources.
We delegated coming up with ideas for team events and executing them to the team, and frankly, the quality and attendance has improved significantly compared to when I was organizing them.
If a manager has a bunch of responsibility, putting a team event together may not be the top priority, and that will inevitably reflect in the effort that goes into organizing. So why not give away your legos to a team member who can get excited about owning a project and making a positive impact?
One additional benefit of deputizing senior contributors for various tasks (anything from daily tasks to special projects) is that it will expose the challenges to more substantial parts of your organization and thus make your points of view as a manager more relatable as they see from your perspective.
7 foundational tips for building a thriving customer support team and department from scratch.
Building and Leading a Support Team
After spending four years building the support organization, I'm finally OK with admitting that it's a stressful job almost no matter what, and it's repetitive after some time. Sure, you get different customers and conversations, but before long it narrows to a much smaller number of variations of the same old situations.
Admitting that sometimes support work can be stressful and repetitive opens you up to finding options for counteracting some of those negative aspects.
These are just a few things that you can do to challenge your team and make the work more meaningful and enjoyable. The bottom line is that when you hire smart, ambitious people, titles and salary numbers make up only a part of their motivation.
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Martin Kõiva is the co-founder of Klaus, a ticket review software that makes giving feedback to your support team easy. Previously, he spent four years building and scaling customer support globally at Pipedrive. You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn.


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2Love Changes Everything03:26
3Overture For Joan01:20
4Supermarket Flowers03:38
5What A Wonderful World02:21
6Love Story03:08
7You Raise Me Up04:37
8Moon River03:13
9Dream A Little Dream Of Me03:09
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11What The World Needs Now03:09
12World War II Medley (We'll Meet Again / White Cliffs Of Dover)04:08
13Always On My Mind03:07
14Thank You For The Music03:53
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16From The Time You Say Goodbye02:30
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Britain's Got Talent champion, Colin Thackery – whose triumph last month was watched by more than 10 million TV viewers - has been bringing joy with his vocal skills to friends and residents of the Royal Hospital Chelsea where he lives, for years.
Colin has been singing all his life but joined the army at the age of 15 and lost part of his hearing fighting in the Korean war. He now breaks a new record in the history of music as he signs his first record deal at the age of 89 – making him the oldest solo artist in the world to do so.
President of Decca Records, Rebecca Allen, welcomes Colin to the label, "It feels so incredibly fitting that Colin should sign to Decca, in its 90th Anniversary year. The fact that Decca's success started the year Colin was born, feels quite magical. He's a unique artist and we are extremely proud to welcome him into our family." Simon Cowell says: "I could not be more thrilled that Colin, who won Britain's Got Talent this year, has signed to the same label as Dame Vera Lynn. Colin is an inspiration to us all." His heartfelt renditions of 'Wind Beneath My Wings', 'We'll Meet Again' and 'Love Changes Everything', for which he was joined on stage by his fellow Chelsea Pensioners, had the audience and judges in tears.
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When 89-year-old Chelsea Pensioner Colin Thackery starts to sing, there's barely a dry eye in the house. Performing on Britain's Got Talent in his iconic Scarlet, with a row of medals across his chest, he mesmerised the audience as he lifted his voice in memory of his beloved wife Joan. When he left the stage, he was told that even the technicians were crying.
"No matter what I sing, I'm singing to her, or one of my family. That's what makes it emotional" he says.
In the months that followed Joan's death, music helped Colin to cope: "Without music, I don't know what would have happened. I was still performing in the five months between losing her and coming here. It was sometimes very difficult, I'd be performing with tears in my eyes, because the songs reminded me of her. We were married for 66 years. She died in my arms."
"It was 1949 and I'd just come back from serving in Malaya. I was posted to County Durham where I met this pretty little brunette at a camp dance. We'd only been married about two weeks when I was sent to Korea. I didn't see her for another two years."
During their years apart, music continued to be a key part of Colin's life, as it had done since he first found he could sing when he joined the church choir as a boy. On the way to Korea, he took part in concerts organised by Major Andrews on his troop ship, The Lancashire. He recalls how he was recruited to entertain the troops during a lull in the fighting: "The brigadier asked Major Andrews ,who organised the concerts, to go round and beg for our services. My job was Observation Post Assistant and he arrived and asked my captain to release me."
At first, the captain refused, but then said he did fancy a certain fur hat that some officers had as a novelty.
"Major Andrews said 'OK, you can have a hat, but we'll have Thackery as an exchange'. So the captain got his hat and I was released to go to the concert party!"
After Colin retired from the Army, he and Joan joined their local operatic society where they enjoyed singing together. Their marriage was extremely happy and when Joan died, Colin was devastated.
Music helped him through these difficult times and, when he moved into the Royal Hospital, he continued to turn to singing for solace and teamed up with fellow Chelsea Pensioner and guitarist, Bill Gorrie, to play at the Royal Hospital's monthly curry nights. Then, one day, a chance conversation with a friend sent Colin in a new direction: "He said 'It's about time you did something, because you won't have your voice forever. What about Britain's Got Talent?"
At first, Colin dismissed the idea, but in the end he decided to apply, with the support of the staff at the Royal Hospital. ...
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Bondi Rescue star Corey Oliver was drawn to motorbikes by an unexpected source — his mother Sandy.
"She knew people who rode bikes her whole life, so about 10 years ago she decided to finally get one of her own, and the postie bike was perfect," Corey says.
Zipping through Sydney's Eastern Suburbs on his mom's second-hand motorbike kick-started a passion for Postie's that led to Corey becoming a full blown advocate for Australia's favourite motorbike.
"I've been telling everyone how great they are," he says. "They're lightweight, easy to ride and you can't break them – no matter how hard you try."
This year Corey gained an even greater appreciation for these durable bikes when he learned about ChildFund's Post a Postie campaign, which aims to increase awareness of the importance of motorbikes in delivering life-saving goods and services to remote communities.
Bondi lifeguards Corey Oliver (right), Ryan Clark (centre) and Andrew Reid are teaming up with ChildFund to raise money to send a postie to Cambodia
Durable, lightweight bikes like the postie are often the only way ChildFund Cambodia staff can access remote villages and help hard-to-reach communities.
"You see how they are used in Cambodia and other places and it's just unbelievable," Corey says.
"The amount of gear they can carry and the terrain they cross is pretty incredible."
Corey and his lifeguard colleagues Andrew "Reidy" Reid and Ryan "Whippet" Clark have teamed up to try to raise enough money to raise $3,500 to for a bike that will be used to deliver life-saving essentials and services to children in Cambodia.
"Every Australian knows the postie bike and it's great to see the postie bike helping children around the world," Corey said.
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"A lot of the time at Christmas you're looking for gifts that have a little bit more meaning," he says.
"There's a lot of excessive around and you don't want to buy something for someone that's just going to go to waste.
"The postie bike is perfect because it's something we all know and love and it will go to a great cause for children overseas."
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"El San Juan Hotel: An Experience of music, food and luxury"
So just to give you a quick backstory, this was the first time that I have ever traveled to the beautiful Island of Puerto Rico so all these thoughts come from my experience as a first timer; which I think makes this a much better piece than it being my 100th time going to the island.
Ok, so I arrived at the airport and was quickly driven to the hotel to start enjoying what it had to offer. I arrived at 1:3o PM and was met by such a friendly staff, everyone from the counter person to the person holding peoples luggage, to doorman orchestrating cabs in the front of the hotel were super friendly.
Since my room wasn't ready at that time, so I was asked if I wanted to change and start enjoying the pool, beach, casino, food (Should I keep going?) I declined to change because I figured that my room would be ready soon and I just wanted to go find something to eat. I literally was on the hunt for Alcapurrias. No seriously, for the whole 4 hour flight all I kept thinking was "You need to find some alcapurrias and some pasteles" When you are at a resort, you have to imagine that they have to cater to a more general audience so finding the mystical delicious item was not going to happen there, so I decided to walk around and try to find them – Nope. no luck on this one, but I did return the the hotel and walked around.
You first enter the hotel to a circle bar one of many bars on the first floor of the hotel. The Bronze, silver and gold bars have a distinct look all to themselves. You could literally spend your whole vacation at the hotel and not miss a beat. I mean if you are a gambling person, there is a casino with slot machines, poker and more. If you love music, then you are at the right place. El San Juan LIVE has live music Wednesdays – Sundays every week free of charge to guests and the public. They literally live music. From Latin Jazz to tropical music like salsa and Merengue to even having their own high-end nightclub within the hotel. El San Juan Hotel does a great job in immersing you into their hotel. No seriously, All IMMERSIVE. I mean food, coffee, shopping, casino, pools, beach, nightclub, live music, whatever it is you can think of wanting to do, you can find it at El San Juan Hotel Resort and Casino.
I stayed in one of the rooms by the pool outside of the main tower. While you may think that it's a little weird, it's not. It's a quiet place to rest your head. It's like living in outside the city in a quiet suburb and be 5 min away from downtown.
Pools? Yes 2 of them.
One is right off the main tower surrounded by the rooms I was staying in. Peaceful as can be. Why? Well there's another pool towards the back of the hotel and that one has a DJ and a more lively atmosphere.
Beach? Yes oh and it's private.
Literally walking distance from the "La Isla Verde" beach, their own hotel side pool is a clean oasis of family fun. A little but serves as the cabana; if you will, sporting beach towels, sun glasses and whatever else you may need for your pool experience.
Food? Well there's quite a few choices.
If you are a foodie on a budget like I am, the hotel is in what is the "strip" so all your favorites are walking distance away: Wendy's, Burger King, Mexican, Taco Bell and much more. But when you are in another country, you have to experience the hotel for all its worth.
At one point during our stay we were treated to a steakhouse called Meat Market of Miami. The food there was amazing. I got to try things I would have never tried before and that's what makes going to different places so romanticized. Appetizer after appetizer, we got to try the many different foods they had to offer. I was like the Ecuadorian Anthony Bourdain in Puerto Rico.
While some may say that the some of the rooms may look old, I can tell you that they are currently remodeling many of the amenities and rooms throughout the hotel. So when you are looking to immerse yourself in what Puerto Rico has to offer, look no further than to check out El San Juan Hotel Resort and Casino.


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PARIS - Electric cars are poised to arrive en masse in European showrooms after years of hyped concept-car launches and billions in investment by automakers and suppliers.
On its second day, the European Parliament votes on plans to cut carbon dioxide car emissions by as much as 45 percent by 2030 from an average 95 grammes per kilometer in 2021 - a goal many automakers are already in danger of missing, on pain of fines running to hundreds of millions of euros.
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All villages in Samoa should follow what Salelologa is doing - ban Chinese owned business from setting up shops in villages.
If the govt is not listening, then the people will act.
The decision made by Salelologa is a decision that will serve the people because what PM Tuilaepa and the govt are doing does not serve the people but themselves.
The influx of Chinese coming in to Samoa and establishing wholesalers and retailer businesses create more problems than what it can solve. It kills off local businesses and it increases the high unemployment rate.
What the govt said about the Chinese selling cheap goods is absolute rubbish - they are not cheap.
Go and look at the cost of their goods here and then compare it to the costs of goods sold by their counterparts overseas and you'll find these goods are reject goods and are very expensive.
They even have restaurants popping up everywhere and killing off Samoan owned restaurants.
We don't mind Chinese coming to do business here in Samoa but come and open up a business that the Samoans are not doing. Before there were little shops everywhere owned by our people, now they are all gone.
The more shops and restaurants that close down, the more Samoan people that will be added on to the increasing unemployment rate because the Chinese are bringing in their own labour force under the W.T.O agreement.
The voices of the people have not being heard for many years by PM Tuilaepa and this H.R.P.P govt. I call on all the villages to do the same thing as Salelologa. If the govt ignores your voice then you must take action.
Remember, the people are more powerful than PM Tuilaepa and his corrupt govt and they are servants to the people and are employees of the people too. PM Tuilaepa is not an economist.


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Most Democratic Primary Voters Who Saw Ohio Debate: More Climate Talk, Please
Despite its status as a top-tier issue, moderators in Oct. 15 debate posed no climate questions
Suzannah Mullen holds a sign at a Greenpeace rally to call for a presidential campaign climate debate in front of the Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 12, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)
By Jacqueline Toth
October 23, 2019 at 12:01 am ET
56% of Democratic primary voters who watched the debate said climate change did not get enough attention, compared to 6 percent who said it was discussed too much.
45% of Democrats have called climate change a crisis.
Reflecting on a debate bereft of any climate change questions, most Democratic primary voters said there was insufficient discussion of the topic at the party's Oct. 15 face-off in Ohio, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll.
Fifty-six percent of registered voters who indicated they may vote in the upcoming Democratic primary or caucus in their state and watched the CNN/New York Times-hosted debate in Westerville said it did not contain enough climate talk. The sample has a margin of error of 6 percentage points.
In the Oct. 18-21 poll, 6 percent said that there was too much discussion of climate change at the debate, while 29 percent said the topic received the right amount of attention.
Despite receiving zero direct climate queries from moderators at the event, several candidates made sure to mention climate change, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who co-sponsors the Green New Deal resolution, and billionaire hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, whose presidential campaign focuses on climate. The two contenders called global warming an "existential threat" and an "international crisis," respectively.
Mentioning global warming at the debates makes a lot of sense for Democratic candidates: Among the major party affiliations, Democrats are the most concerned about climate change. A June 13-17 poll of 2,200 adults found that 45 percent of Democrats consider climate change a crisis, compared to 26 percent of independents and 8 percent of Republicans.
Related: Climate Change Seen as Hot Topic for Democrats in 2020
Morning Consult/Politico polling has also found that across multiple surveys, climate change is one of the top three issues that Democratic voters have consistently identified as "very important" to see addressed during the events.
Environmental groups have fruitlessly pressed the Democratic National Committee for months to hold a climate-focused debate. But in August, the DNC voted against allowing the candidates to take part in single-issue debates. Ten contenders participated in a seven-hour climate change town hall on Sept. 4 but appeared individually, not together.
There will be more opportunities for Democratic candidates to display their chops on the topic: The Weather Channel announced its intention to run a 1-hour pre-recorded special featuring interviews with nine 2020 candidates, including three Republicans, on climate change.
The DNC has set the next multi-candidate Democratic debate for Nov. 20 in Georgia.
Jacqueline Toth
Jacqueline Toth previously worked at Morning Consult as a reporter covering energy and climate change.
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Loxosceles neuvillei est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Sicariidae.

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Twitch to relaunch Curse, acquired last year, as the more social Twitch Desktop App
March 10, 2017	Gaming 0
Hot on the heels of rolling out its own version of Twitter, called Pulse, video game streaming site Twitch today announced its new desktop application, Twitch Desktop App. This is actually a rebranding of Curse App – an application Twitch acquired from the video game community and software maker Curse last year. …
AppOnboard offers fast, playable mobile ads
March 9, 2017	Gaming 0
AppOnboard is betting that the best ad for a mobile game is the game itself. Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Zweig (who was previously CEO at AdColony, which was acquired by Opera) said that this addresses a big need for game developers, namely the fact that they spend lots of money …
Use Nintendo Switch controllers with the NES Classic with this adapter
Nintendo Switch controllers are flexible, if flawed — the latest hardware they work with is the NES Classic, via 8bitdo's $17 Retro Receiver, and a new firmware update available now for that little dongle. The wireless accessory already lets you connect a range of Bluetooth controllers to your NES Classic, …
Twitch introduces Pulse, its very own gamer news feed
With the introduction of its own in-house social stream, Twitch hopes users won't stray too far beyond its purple walls. Twitch's newest feature is called Pulse and will collect into one big gaming-obsessed feed the real-time social happenings of everyone you follow. Like any properly evolved social network, Pulse isn't …
Why Nintendo Switch is amazing now, despite a small launch game lineup
Nintendo's Switch feels almost like a minimum viable product when it comes to software – the menu, when you boot the console initially, looks like a placeholder with big, empty square blocks suggesting some future software arrival. This is where games you download or insert via cartridge would show up, …
The Xbox Game Pass is a $9.99 Spotify-like game subscription
Having free games with Xbox Live Gold was one thing, but Microsoft wants to go one step further. The company is launching a new service called the Xbox Game Pass. It's a library of more than 100 games that you can download and play for a monthly subscription of $9.99. …
Mixed reality arcades are the next big market opportunity — but not for VCs
VR's quest to become the next dominant computing platform has hit a few bumps in the road lately. There's no way around the fact that VR headset sales have been sluggish. I recently talked about how I saw VR's "trough of disillusionment" coming in 2017. Increasing adoption will require compelling …
Now and again in the hype period for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the game's creators compared it to the original NES classic. I chalked this up to the usual pre-release silliness; how could a brand-new game be anything like something released in 1986? It turns out …
Gaming company Kabam's roller coaster ride to an $800 million exit
The Game Developers Conference kicked off in downtown San Francisco yesterday, and consolidation is a central theme for this year's attendees. Late last week, we talked with Kevin Chou, co-founder and CEO of the gaming company Kabam, about his own both stressful and euphoric experience in running a gaming startup for roughly a decade before …
Review: The Nintendo Switch
Nintendo's long-awaited Switch console has arrived, alongside the even more long-awaited New Zelda. The Switch combines the convenience of a handheld with the power of a home console — or at least, that's the pitch. And while the two roles make considerable compromises in order to accommodate one another, the …
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UCSF Marks Three Decades of AIDS
By Lisa Cisneros
June 5, 2011 marks three decades since the emergence of a mysterious virus that has since become the most devastating disease known to mankind – AIDS.
AIDS has grown into a global pandemic killing more than 33 million people around the world, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
John Greenspan, BDS, PhD
While a cure for HIV remains elusive, for the first time ever, HIV/AIDS efforts in the US are led by a single, coordinated effort, the National HIV/AIDS Strategy [PDF - 1.2MB] announced in July 2010. The three primary goals of the strategy are reducing incidence, increasing access to care and optimizing health outcomes, and reducing HIV-related health disparities.
UCSF has been working toward these goals for the past 30 years as a leader in AIDS basic and clinical research, patient care, policy development and community and global outreach.
These collective efforts at UCSF are coordinated by the AIDS Research Institute (ARI), which is committed to fostering innovative and integrated science to prevent, understand, treat and someday cure HIV infection. The ARI's mission includes sharing its findings worldwide and training new scientists to continue working toward the ultimate goal of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
"Since the disease was first reported 30 years ago, UCSF has been fighting this global scourge," says John Greenspan, BDS, PhD, director of the ARI. "We've made incredible advances – from the development of new drugs and promising vaccine candidates to breakthroughs in clinical research and care to establishing groundbreaking prevention and education programs in dozens of countries."
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UCSF is unwavering in its multifaceted assault on the virus, Greenspan reports. "In just the last year, we have learned that biomedical prevention tools like microbicides and the use of antiretrovirals before infection among individuals at high risk of HIV infection – known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP – can be effective in slowing the spread of this disease." Read more.
UCSF physicians and researchers are uncovering how HIV damages systems throughout the body in previously unseen ways, contributing to complications and premature aging of those living with HIV – patients whose median age is nearing 50 years. Read more.
UCSF scientists are also fostering collaborations around the globe, most recently hosting the first-of-its-kind international conference in Kampala, Uganda, where top HIV/AIDS investigators from several African nations discussed strategies necessary to support and sustain research in Africa. Read more.
But the urgency to saving lives remains great. Some 50,000 people in the US are infected annually and more than 8,000 individuals are still dying of AIDS every day.
Commitment to Combating HIV/AIDS
As one of the preeminent biomedical education and health sciences research institutions in the world, UCSF emerged early as a pioneer in the fight against AIDS – in part due to its proximity to a vulnerable patient population and to its strong commitment to public health.
"AIDS has brought the University together like no other disease," Volberding said back in 1994. "Pharmacologists are working with pediatricians, epidemiologists with basic scientists. We're using all our resources because we know that San Francisco will be disproportionately affected by this disease for decades. And we have a responsibility to San Francisco to be the best."
Volberding is among a group of veteran UCSF faculty that has committed their careers to combating the disease. Together, with colleagues at UCSF and throughout the City, they developed the so-called San Francisco model, which has focused on providing outpatient treatment and community-based services, connecting patients with a full range of social services and clinical trials needed to advance treatments.
In the 1980s, San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) was considered ground zero when the emerging epidemic first struck gay men. Volberding encountered the disease on his first day on the job as a physician at SFGH, the public safety-net hospital where UCSF physicians and trainees have practiced medicine since the affiliation began in 1873.
Volberding and colleagues Merle Sande, MD, and Constance Wofsy, MD, helped to establish the first AIDS clinic, Ward 86, now known as part of the Positive Health Program, an internationally recognized center that provides care to the newly infected and those who have been living with the disease for decades, as well as preventing new infections. Read more.
A look back at UCSF's accomplishments in HIV/AIDS was already impressive when the UCSF Magazine covered the topic nearly 20 years ago. Among those recognized then were:
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, who ventured to Kampala, Uganda with her husband to study and treat HIV/AIDS and came back to UCSF as chancellor in August 2009;
Julie Gerberding, MD, who led infection control efforts at SFGH and went on to become director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and
Diane Wara, MD, who was the first to demonstrate that AZT given to infected women during pregnancy, delivery and after birth could decrease transmission of HIV to the newborn. Read more.
Many more UCSF scientists and scholars deserve credit for their tenacity in tackling HIV/AIDS. Indeed, a timeline of the past 30 years highlights just a few of the firsts in the ongoing war on AIDS: lessons learned, lives lost and the legacy of leadership demonstrated by UCSF. Read more.
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