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Jim Mc Eneaney
Due to expansion and ongoing growth, we are delighted to be recruiting for a full-time Accountant to join our Finance Team in Activ8 Energies. This role will report to our in-house Management Accountant with the support and ability to grow within the team. The role will be based in our newly built, state-of-the-art Carrickmacross office on the N2, situated just 25 minutes from Dundalk.
Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable
Data entry of the bank
Assisting in the preparation of monthly management accounts
Preparation of reconciliations for review (Bank, debtor, and creditor accounts)
Creditor Payment Run Management
Submission of VAT/RCT Returns
Assisting in the preparation of the Annual Financial Statement and liaising with company auditors.
Accounting qualification desirable
Newly Qualified/Part Qualified invited to apply
Experience in a similar role
Good People / Communication skills
Accounts payable & receivable: 2 year (required)
Accounts Technician or related Accounts qualification (preferred)
Salary starting from 30,000 DOE
Reference ID: Accountant
Expected Start Date: 1/2/2022
Salary: From €30,000.00 per year
Reference ID: Accounts Assist
Application deadline: 28/1/2022
Additional pay:
Yearly bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
Carrickmacross, County Monaghan: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Leaving Certificate (required)
Accounting: 2 years (preferred)
Work authorisation:
Ireland (required)
Fill out the form below and attach your CV and cover letter to apply for this role.
Job Applying For
Please attach Cover Letter and CV
by Jim Mc Eneaney
Our Workplace // Mind Your Health — Spectrum Life For Staff
Workplace and employee wellbeing is a very important part of how we operate here in Activ8 Solar Energies. We have spent a lot of 2020 and 2021 planning out our future home, the new Activ8 HQ. But bricks and mortar is only aspect of how employees are looked after. While we were planning our new premises, 2020 and 2021 brought their own unique challenges. We all know that. So we brought in Spectrum Life…
We announced this externally last week. CIF (Construction Industry Federation) Ireland held their annual Safety Week from Monday 25th October until Friday 29th. Like every other year, 2021 was a week where we got involved and with Tuesday's theme being Mind Your Health – it was an ideal time to announce our Spectrum Life platform.
The International Labour Organisation defines employee wellbeing as:
"Workplace wellbeing relates to all aspects of working life, from the quality and safety of the physical environment, to how workers feel about their work, their working environment, the climate at work and work organisation."
Activ8 are delighted to be able to offer our employees and their family the wonderful services at Spectrum Life. This includes:
Mental Wellbeing Support
Support for non-nationals and their families
Depression, anxiety & stress
Relationship & marital problems
Work stress and work-life balance issues
2020 brought with it a number of additional hurdles, which are still visible this year, with that in mind, encouraging our employees to be mindful of both their physical and mental health became a priority focus for Activ8 Solar Energies.
The Government's Healthy Ireland's Strategic Action Plan 2021-2025 outlines priority focuses for the next three years including:
Keeping Active – We continue to encourage our employees to keep active through our company challenges (One Step at a Time), offering free gym membership in our local gym and through our digital gym program via Spectrum Life. Promoting physical activity is vital for both our mental health and our overall wellbeing.
Staying connected – It is important more than ever that we support each other to stay connected and talk. Whether that is over a coffee in person or virtually. Providing professional support through our Spectrum Life app provides an additional provision to engage in a confidential way.
Eating well – Eating well can increase our physical activity levels and promote our mental wellbeing. Our spectrum life app provides healthy, easy recipes with nutritional information to assist making healthier choices.
Minding your mind & body – it is important that we recognise when we are stressed or if we are feeling physically unwell that can access expert advice to understand and access support or treatment. Alongside contacting our GP's, we offer our employees and their family professional medical and counselling support and advice through the Spectrum Life App.
We all need to look at ways in which we can individually improve our own mental health, and be mindful of the changes ahead. Providing our employees with additional support whilst raising awareness of the importance of minding your health has been vital throughout these challenging times.
Be aware of your own wellbeing, accept help when it is offered;
Be mindful of maintaining a good work-life balance by setting clear boundaries and learning how to switch off;
Communicate more, is your employer aware of your current situation, talk to your employer!
Offer support to others, ask your colleague how they are, don't forget to check in on people.
Stay social, even virtually.
See the images below that fully encapsulate the Spectrum Life offering.
What makes Activ8 a great place to work? The people! So let's look after each other.
We're Hiring | Reception & Administration
Reception & Administration
Reporting to:
We are currently looking for a Receptionist to join our Administration Department.
• Answering and direct all incoming calls. Ensuring correct detailed messages are passed on.
• Greet all visitors to the business ensuring their point of contact is notified on their arrival.
• General Office Administration
• Booking Solar Installations/Callouts/servicing
• Maintain and manage customer files
• Organise meeting room bookings
• Manage and control stationary & housekeeping stocks
• Experience an advantage but not essential
• Self – motivated
• Ability to work on your own initiative
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Competent computer skills
Please forward your CV to: hr@activ8energies.com
Closing date for applications is Friday 9th April 2021.
Qualified Roofer | Ireland's Solar Experts Are Hiring
Opportunities for qualified roofers with Activ8 Solar Energies
We have currently have a vacancy for an ambitious roofer/carpenter to install solar PV systems on customer's roofs. An opportunity to work at the cutting edge of renewable energy and with Ireland's solar experts.
Activ8 Social Club
Our social outings are and wider social club is a core component of what makes Activ8 Solar Energies an enjoyable place to work with social events throughout the year.
We're in the solar industry for over 14 years, so come and learn about the exciting breakthrough technologies in the growing solar and renewable sector with Ireland's solar experts.
We require a fully qualified roofer to install solar PV panels on our customer's roofs. Nice, clean work, primarily on existing dwellings, but also on commercial buildings from time to time. Your job will consist of fixing solar panels to roofs along with other small works, as part of a team consisting of an electrician and a plumber bringing this cutting-edge product to the masses. Our ground-breaking products along with our unrivaled quality have brought unprecedented demand from our customers.
Activ8 roofers working on a retrofit installation of solar PV on a rooftop in Co. Meath.
Job Type | Requirements
We will provide complete and thorough industry-specific training. Days are routinely early start and early home, with Saturday work always available upon request.
Expected start date: 15/3/2021
Full-time, Permanent
Top rates paid
Required Education, Skills and Qualifications
Fully qualified roofer
2 years of qualified experience
Worked on both new builds and extensions/retrofits
Solar experience a bonus
Located close to Carrickmacross for morning pickups
Along with very competitive pay, you will be joining an experienced staff of over 70 people, from admin to accounts, from plumbers and electricians to fellow carpenters who are all part of our quarterly social club events helping bring you into the Activ8 fold.
Bonus scheme
Company events & social hours
Subsidised gym membership
Email your CV to hr@activ8energies.com and we will be in contact.
Feed-In Tariff 2021 - Sell Solar Electricity Back To The Grid
In a welcome development, the Irish government, through Minister Eamon Ryan (Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications) announced that the design and consultation process was beginning in order to formulate how the scheme will look and function. Submissions for this are being accepted until Thursday February 18th. There are currently no support schemes in place and while we recently discussed the explosion in solar providers since the arrival of the SEAI solar PV grant at the end of July 2018, it was a very welcome addition to the government's strategy in encouraging micro-generation in private homes for the proliferation of solar pv and renewable energy throughout Ireland. This is the next step in our national goal of reducing carbon emissions. It's important that this feed-in tariff is brought in with micro-generation at the heart of it and here's why.
The Future of Solar PV and Renewable Energy In Ireland
When looking at the sectoral output of carbon emissions in Ireland, we know that the top 3 can be targeted and reduced by renewable energy projects. The top 3, are 1. Agriculture, 2. Energy and 3. Transport - with transport being the biggest mover from 1990 levels up to the current day. With agriculture, Irish farmers are known for being one of the most efficient nations in the world in how they operate. There are efforts being made all the time to further eliminate or offset emissions in this industry. We're even involved in this ourselves with our partners SSE Airtricity and Glanbia Ireland through FarmGen. When it comes to a micro-generation feed-in tariff, of course this will further incentivise farmers, but there is a greater opportunity in Ireland with domestic households and how they are projected to evolve over this decade. Through this avenue, we can tackle both the energy sector and the transport sector. The SEAI is already incentivising the sales of EVs here in Ireland and it is only a matter of time before they reach parity and then become cheaper to manufacture in comparison to their petrol/diesel-powered counterparts. So when we think of the evolution of transport in this country, we can't just depend on industry to implement these changes. We've seen how An Post has managed to eliminate much of its fossil fuel-powered fleet and replace it with electric mobility - they managed to make Dublin the first capital city in the entire world with zero emissions postal delivery and they are to be commended for such. It's time to place the power of change in the hands of the homeowner. With expected cost parity in the years to come for electric vehicles, we need the foresight to implement changes in our electricity/energy mix at a domestic level so that homeowners are ready to buy an electrical vehicle and have the ability to generate electricity in their homes. This way, we tackle both the energy sector and the transport sector through micro-generation in Irish homes.
Learning From European Counterparts
It's important to learn from appropriate case studies, not only how they were implemented, but more importantly, what worked and what didn't. Unfortunately, being in a position to learn and look back on foreign policy shows that we are way behind. In Germany, their guaranteed feed-in tariffs under Germany's Renewable Energy Act (EEG) saw the share of renewable power, mostly coming from wind, solar PV and biomass, in electricity generation rise from about 3.5 percent in 1990 to 35 percent in 2018. But as of 2021, more and more renewable installations will lose their guaranteed funding as their 20 years of EEG payments come to an end. 20 years! Germany is at the end of their first feed-in tariff programme and for domestic solar, there are issues around fluctuating price points due to the old technology for metering - whereas we won't face that issue in Ireland with the modern technology available for metering purposes. So we do have technology on our side.
National Appetite For Change
It is important to note that as time moves and technology grows, it can be hard to see the slow-moving changes in one persons attitude, nevermind an entire nation. We feel that the appetite for countering climate change in Ireland has been consistently improving. There have always been steadfast advocates in this regard, but it's important that they are supported by more and more as the need becomes greater. No less, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications Eamon Ryan that announced this consultation, has been a strong advocate in this area for many years. A younger Minister Ryan can be seen at the opening of our first head office in May of 2009 in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. The same place where we are currently building our brand new headquarters, to help us continue our growth in the years ahead.
We look forward to the consultation process and working both internally and with our dedicated partners in providing submissions to try and make sure our customers are justly rewarded for their generation and that we create a fair and equitable microgeneration market that encourages many more homeowners and businesses to start generating renewable electricity through the installation of solar panels.
As a company that prides itself on our quality of service, we would love to hear from our customers and solar enthusiasts on what issues they would like addressed in the consultation phase and what they want to see incorporated as part of the scheme, you can send any and all submissions to info@activ8energies.com.
The Irish Solar Market | A Reflection & Projection
The Solar Landscape In Ireland | Reflection and Projection
Now is as good a time as ever to take stock of the Irish solar market. 2020 was a year of unimaginable uncertainties for so many people here in Ireland and who knew that we would be entering 2021 with some of the same. We now have a vaccine and that brings us back towards normality and again, certainty.
What makes now a good time to take stock? Well, here at Activ8 Solar Energies, we have a big year ahead, we're getting ready to celebrate 15 years in the solar business as well as opening a state-of-the-art headquarters. When we speak of certainty inside the four walls of Ireland's solar experts, we really own can be certain of one thing; change!
We started off with flat-plate solar panel collectors before the famous financial crisis of 2008 threw Ireland into recession and we learned a lot with that experience. We know that our original product offering has changed from solar panels to heat hot water only (flat-plate, or "Solar Thermal") to solar panels that create electricity (Solar PV). The recession came and went (with the infamous IMF) and the country slowly got back on its feet. More recently, we even saw the rise and fall of Donald Trump and you might think, what has that got to do with solar? Well, we wrote about this in 2016 and the possible disaster this might have for climate change efforts around the world, and we were unfortunately proven correct.
What has come before us is history and what will happen in the future is unknown, except for the knowledge that things will change and we here in Activ8 Solar Energies will adapt and evolve. We recently celebrated ISO certification in new areas, championing our commitment to process improvement internally, ultimately helping our customers. The reassurance longevity and experience brings cannot be underestimated. Customers of ours from 2007, 14 years ago, know that we're the same company that installed their solar panels in 2007 and although we've changed and grown over the years (for the better), we're still the same Activ8 Solar Energies.
Through our own data analysis, we have come to see the solar market here in Ireland become a lot more crowded. For instance, in the summer of 2018, Activ8 was competing with 6 similar businesses on Google Ads, according to the Auction Insights Report. December 2020 shows 20 competitors for the same market. This isn't a bad thing as this increased level of competition means that supply side solar costs are sustainable and more importantly, that standards are set and maintained by national bodies as a result. Heck, our CEO Ciaran Marron was on the NSAI committee to help formulate these standards given our longstanding position in the Irish solar market. It helps that our motto internally has always been "We don't follow standards, we set them" and to remain as Ireland's Solar Experts, we must always strive for the highest possible standards.
However, the sudden growth in 2018 may coincide with the introduction of the SEAI Solar PV grant at the very end of July 2018. As mentioned, it's great for the proliferation of solar and renewable energy throughout Ireland to have so many suppliers in the market going forward and here's hoping that as an industry, standards across the board are kept to a sustained, high level through the SEAI and other bodies.
We're delighted to have been offering solar energy and solar panels for 14 years and look forward to delivering our exceptional level of service for many more years to come. Keep an eye on our pages for more information on our improved Customer Resource Centre as well as our growing Activ8 Solar Academy.
Fingers crossed that 2021 delivers what we're all hoping for, a resumption to what we all call normal.
Social Club Christmas Draw | Shop Local Carrickmacross
Shop Local Carrickmacross | Our Social Club Christmas Draw 2020
With the year that we've had and the inability for us to have our usual social club outings, we used our social club fund for a Christmas Draw bonanza. And more importantly, we wanted to support as many local businesses as possible. As the scramble comes for last-minute Christmas presents please try and support these local businesses if you can.
They sponsor our local clubs and community events, they hire local staff and support so much more than we think.
A massive congrats to our Social Club team who managed to spread the fund across so many businesses, organise a fantastic draw for our staff all whilst pumping €5,700 into our local community!
Here is a list of the businesses:
Cloughvalley Stores (Quinn's voucher)
Valley Lodge Voucher
Shirley Arms Voucher
Super Valu Voucher
Sinead's Place Gifts & Hardware Voucher
Taveys Menswear Voucher
Steeles Menswear Voucher
Beauty Lane by Paulina Voucher
The Ivy Voucher
Fade Barber Shop Voucher
Chamber of Commerce Voucher (Birdy's newsagent)
O'Roukes Fuel Voucher
Cassidy's Fuel Station Ardee Road
Circle K (Cassidy's Fuel Station Dundalk Road)
Matildas Bakery
Gifts and Things Voucher
Courthouse Voucher
Maguires Pharmacy Ladies Hamper
Hands Shoe Shop Voucher
Howells Voucher
T&L Paints Voucher
Dress Up Voucher
Uptown Girl Voucher
TW Menswear Voucher
Marron Electrical Voucher
All care Pharmacy Hamper (Men's)
Connollys Pharmacy Hamper (Ladies)
McAllisters Voucher
Unique Hair Design Voucher
Lidl Voucher
Aldi Voucher
Cabra Castle Voucher
Asus Chromebook | Marron Electrical
EOS 4000 D Canon Camera | Marron Electrical
Samsung 50" Smart TV | Marron Electrical
Samsung Galaxy Smart Watch | Marron Electrical
Eakins Pharmacy Hamper (Men's)
The Hair Loft (Hairdressers)
Ella Rose Voucher
Nolans Butchers Voucher
Activ8 Achieves ISO 14001:2015 & ISO 45001:2015 Certification | Adding To Our ISO 9001 Success!
Having initially gained certification of registration Quality Management Systems to ISO 9001:2008 in February 2016 (Crazy to think we covered this in a blog post almost 4 years ago - click to read) and being the first solar company to introduce standards in the market, Activ8 Solar Energies successfully completed the transition to ISO 9001:2015 in December of the same year. In the following years, Activ8 solely focued on the continual improvement of both the effectiveness and the efficiency of the Quality Management System. In early 2020, we started the process of building a new integrated management system, combining all three standards with one set of policies and procedures and providing us with the ability to bring all of our objectives into a unified system. In early November we completed our initial audit of the integrated system with NSAI (National Standards Association of Ireland), and we are absolutely delighted to announce that we have successfully achieved certification in all three international standards.
We are delighted to announce that having been the first solar company in Ireland to achieve certification ISO 9001 Quality Management standards in the solar market, we now have achieved certification in ISO 14001 (Environmental) and ISO 45001 (Occupational H&S). This is on top of record scores in Quality, Environmental and H&S in our annual Achilles Supply Line audit in 2020 also. This a huge achievement for our team in the most challenging year of them all! CEO Ciaran Marron would like to extend his thanks to all of the hard-working staff for their dedication and commitment to the management system. Although this type of certification is based around processes and policies, it is the attitude and dedication in delivering a high-quality service for our customers that really allows us to accomplish such achievements.
Raymond Clarke, QEHS Manager with our three NSAI ISO Certificates & our Achilles Supply Line Audit Certificate
Raymond Clarke, QEHS Manager - "It's a huge milestone for Activ8 and it is down to the sheer hard work and dedication of all the staff and management. It has been a massive year with achieving record scores with our Achilles external audit and now having three international standard certifications. In the most challenging year of them all, everbody has embraced change within the company, allowing us to focus on a safer workplace, happy customers and a greener environment".
SEAI Energy Awards 2020 | Partnership Success
SEAI Awards With A Twist In 2020
The SEAI Awards were announced live on YouTube last week, a true reflection of the times, given the usual standing the award ceremony holds for those of us in the renewable energy industry. It has become a very important date in the calendar for many, as we all work hard towards improving standards and increasing the number of projects focused on energy efficiency and sustainability here in Ireland. With the latest lockdown restrictions, there were many of us waiting on the announcements from locations all over Ireland, be it from our home or office!
With the announcements came cause for celebration for us here in Activ8 Solar Energies as we were involved with four finalists, three of them ultimately winning.
Firstly, Terra Spirits & Liqueurs, won the Small and Medium Business – Exemplary Energy Performance category. Having installed solar PV in 2018 for Terra, Shaun McKevitt was keen to build on this effort and completed that with a further expansion of their on-roof solar, amongst other measures, to 340kWp and are every bit deserving for their 2020 SEAI Energy Award.
Our partners, SSE Airtricity were also successful with SSE Airtricity Energy Services winning the Best Energy in Buildings category. A fantastic success by the team who we're lucky to work with on a number of projects.
In a somewhat different category that makes this a wonderful project to be involved with, Dunleer Sustainable Energy Community won the Inspirational Energy Community Award. These guys are amazing in the passion they show as a community-based energy saving scheme in Co. Louth. Having worked with Elizabeth and Fergus McCann over the past 5 years, installing solar PV on a number of projects including the Birches centre, a project we like to highlight in particular as it helps some of the most vulnerable in our society and only goes to showcase the amazing work Dunleer SEC are getting across the line.
Finally, the efforts of Depuy Synthes – Johnson & Johnson saw them as finalists in the Energy Team/ Manager of the Year award, where they narrowly missed out. Having installed a 210kWp Solar PV system in the scenic location of Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork for Depuy Synthes in 2020, they are a true industry leader when it comes to the efforts they make in energy management and sustainability and it was a pleasure to work with a global leader on a solar project such as this one.
As we look forward to 2021 and the many wonderful projects already in the pipeline, we're always striving to deliver the best in class project management and we want to work with the innovative companies and communities we have here in Ireland. If you have a project in mind, please reach out to either of our Project Manager, Martin Mulholland or our Commercial Manager, Gary Connolly.
martin.mulholland@activ8energies.com
gary.connolly@activ8energies.com
Contact Our Commercial Team
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"Our Ling Feng works diligently and is never late to shoots. How dare they say Ling Feng is using business to seek his own personal revenge, I wonder who's the one that's lying," Ling Feng's fans retaliated as expected.
"For the sake of shaking off responsibility, LM are despicable. We want the truth, or us fans will fight LM to the end."
"Tangning is such a b*tch...she never says anything and makes others stick up for her."
As expected, after LM's clarification, Ling Feng's fans went even more crazy. They even threatened to boycott Tangning and LM until Tangning personally gave Ling Feng an apology.
"Our Ling Feng has suffered so much. This time we can't let this model off the hook so easily!"
"How could this small time model challenge our prince?"
Seeing the comments from Ling Feng's fans, Lan Xi directly contacted Tangning and told her to report to her office, "This time, how do you plan to handle the situation? Tangning, you never do brainless things like this. Tell me, what's wrong with you?"
"There are a whole bunch of Ling Feng's fans currently outside Cheng Tian entertainment. They are all waiting for your appearance and expecting your apology. The building is completely surrounded, how do you plan to fix things?"
An Zihao leaned against the table as he observed Lan Xi's attack on Tangning. He immediately asked, "Don't you trust us?"
"I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to Tangning," Lan Xi released her anger on An Zihao, gesturing that her authority should not be challenged, "If you had simply had dinner with Ling Feng, then things would not have panned out this way."
"Tangning, at the appropriate time, don't you think you should put down your pride?"
"Are you sure it was just a simple dinner?" Tangning suddenly asked after remaining quiet for a while. Her gaze was clear, "President Lan, you and I aren't stupid, you don't need to deceive me the way you deceive Li Danni."
"Tangning..." An Zihao warned her with a deep voice.
"The way you think of me, we both know. Lan Xi, I once respected you and never expected a confrontation like this," Tangning's tone was cold and calm sending s.h.i.+vers down Lan Xi's spine.
Lan Xi did not dare to look directly in Tangning's eyes for too long, so she looked away and said, "If you don't solve the problem with Ling Feng, then don't even think about attending any more events. From now on, you can fend for yourself."
Tangning knew Lan Xi wanted to take advantage of the situation to decrease her popularity, thus keeping her in the palm of her hands.
"Why must you destroy your relations.h.i.+p with Lan Xi like that?" An Zihao asked after leaving the office.
"If I continue to endure, she will a.s.sume I have no bottom line and will continue to pick at me," Tangning replied gently.
An Zihao sneered gesturing he understood what Tangning meant.
Lan Xi liked using both soft and hard methods to tie Li Danni and the others to the palm of her hands. After all, Li Danni and the others had their desires and would easily make mistakes. But Tangning was different. She simply enjoyed being a model and wanted to reach the height she aimed for.
"Let's exit through the back door..."
"If I get destroyed in the hands of Ling Feng will you be extremely disappointed?" Tangning suddenly asked.
"Will you allow yourself to lose to him?" An Zihao didn't believe Tangning would be destroyed.
Tangning gave a simple smile without saying anything. Towards her enemies, she had never been merciful. She would allow Ling Feng to continue making a fuss. After all, the bigger he made the issue, the harder it would be for him to step down in the end.
As Lan Xi stopped accepting jobs for her, Tangning suddenly found herself with a lot of free time. Upon arriving home, Mo Ting found her sitting peacefully on the sofa picking photos.
Lu Che looked at Tangning and was a little surprised, "President, it's a total mess outside, but it seems madam really isn't affected...she is exceptionally calm."
Mo Ting removed his jacket and sat beside Tangning. He glanced at the camera in her hands, "I heard Lan Xi has stopped accepting jobs for you..."
"Huh?" Tangning lifted her head and looked at Mo Ting as she nodded her head, "Uh huh, they've been stopped..."
"Worrying will only make me lose my judgment, why bother?" Tangning showed the photos she selected to Mo Ting, "I liked the scene we shot last and the feeling of me leaning on your shoulder. Should we enlarge this photo?"
Mo Ting grabbed the camera and handed it to Lu Che, "Go do as she says..."
Lu Che took hold of the camera and looked at the unaffected couple in front of him. He nodded with a smile and left.
After all...the president had already done enough behind-the-scenes.
"You really don't need me to step in?"
Hearing Mo Ting's question, Tangning did not respond at first. After Lu Che left, she finally pulled out some information Long Jie dug up via her contacts about Ling Feng. Mo Ting took a quick glance and wrapped his arm around Tangning's waist, "My smart wife..."
Tangning had instructed Long Jie to directly contact Ling Feng's compet.i.tors; people that had been suppressed under the power of Ling Feng's father and despised Ling Feng. They had long waited for an outlet to vent to.
However, they were too afraid to go against Ling Feng directly. All they had was a whole heap of evidence.
After seeing all this evidence, Mo Ting threw the papers to one side. He enjoyed seeing the 'belly black*' side of Tangning.
"President Mo, do you want to watch a finger-pointing show?"
Mo Ting smiled without a word. His face was handsome and soft.
Although it didn't take much effort for Tangning to obtain this information, it wasn't an easy task.
So, how come Long Jie managed to get it without any hindrance?
Most hilarious of all, Ling Feng actually posted up a doctor's certificate, claiming he had insisted on going to the resort for the commercial shoot even though he was sick, only to find he was replaced. He claimed he had suffered a huge blow from this.
"Seems, Ling Feng won't be satisfied until he forces you off the cliff..." An Zihao smirked as he looked at the comments online.
Belly Black (腹黑) - used to describe someone that is secretly evil/sly/manipulative.
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      Masonry
      /
      Masonry
](https://github.com/Masonry/Masonry):
      Harness the power of AutoLayout NSLayoutConstraints with a simplified, chainable and expressive syntax. Supports iOS and OSX Auto Layout

* [
      kaiinui
      /
      KIChameleonView
](https://github.com/kaiinui/KIChameleonView):
      A magical image view! Can be a movie, or an anim gif, or normal png, jpgs.

* [
      ealeksandrov
      /
      EAIntroView
](https://github.com/ealeksandrov/EAIntroView):
      Highly customizable drop-in solution for introduction views.

* [
      Jawbone
      /
      JBChartView
](https://github.com/Jawbone/JBChartView):
      iOS-based charting library for both line and bar graphs.

* [
      bfeher
      /
      BFPaperTabBarController
](https://github.com/bfeher/BFPaperTabBarController):
      iOS UITabBar (controller) inspired by Google's Paper Material Design.

* [
      rs
      /
      SDWebImage
](https://github.com/rs/SDWebImage):
      Asynchronous image downloader with cache support with an UIImageView category

* [
      leverdeterre
      /
      JMAnimatedImageView
](https://github.com/leverdeterre/JMAnimatedImageView):
      Subclass of UIImageView to drive easy animations (manual rotation, Carousel, GIF support)

* [
      icanzilb
      /
      JSONModel
](https://github.com/icanzilb/JSONModel):
      Magical Data Modelling Framework for JSON. Create rapidly powerful, atomic and smart data model classes

* [
      rentzsch
      /
      mogenerator
](https://github.com/rentzsch/mogenerator):
      Core Data code generation

* [
      supermarin
      /
      Alcatraz
](https://github.com/supermarin/Alcatraz):
      Package manager for Xcode

* [
      onevcat
      /
      VVDocumenter-Xcode
](https://github.com/onevcat/VVDocumenter-Xcode):
      Xcode plug-in which helps you write Javadoc style documents easier.

* [
      yuhua-chen
      /
      MCLog
](https://github.com/yuhua-chen/MCLog):
      Xcode plugin for filtering the console area.

* [
      Boris-Em
      /
      BEMSimpleLineGraph
](https://github.com/Boris-Em/BEMSimpleLineGraph):
      Elegant Line Graphs for iOS (charting library)

* [
      QueryKit
      /
      QueryKit
](https://github.com/QueryKit/QueryKit):
      A simple CoreData query language for Swift and Objective-C.

* [
      ReactiveCocoa
      /
      ReactiveCocoa
](https://github.com/ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveCocoa):
      A framework for composing and transforming streams of values

* [
      FindForm
      /
      FFAngularPointilism
](https://github.com/FindForm/FFAngularPointilism):
      Triangles for iOS!

* [
      zorgiepoo
      /
      Bit-Slicer
](https://github.com/zorgiepoo/Bit-Slicer):
      Universal game trainer for OS X

* [
      jessesquires
      /
      JSQMessagesViewController
](https://github.com/jessesquires/JSQMessagesViewController):
      An elegant messages UI library for iOS

* [
      aclissold
      /
      The-Oakland-Post
](https://github.com/aclissold/The-Oakland-Post):
      The Oakland Post iOS App, written in pure Swift

####go
* [
      zettio
      /
      weave
](https://github.com/zettio/weave):
      The Docker Network

* [
      docker
      /
      docker
](https://github.com/docker/docker):
      Docker - the open-source application container engine

* [
      syncthing
      /
      syncthing
](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing):
      Open Source Continuous File Synchronization

* [
      limetext
      /
      lime
](https://github.com/limetext/lime):
      Experimental Sublime Text clone

* [
      blevesearch
      /
      bleve
](https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve):
      A modern text indexing library for go

* [
      gogits
      /
      gogs
](https://github.com/gogits/gogs):
      Gogs(Go Git Service) is a painless self-hosted Git Service written in Go.

* [
      flynn
      /
      flynn
](https://github.com/flynn/flynn):
      A next generation open source platform as a service (PaaS)

* [
      GoogleCloudPlatform
      /
      kubernetes
](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes):
      Container Cluster Manager

* [
      coreos
      /
      etcd
](https://github.com/coreos/etcd):
      A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery

* [
      hashicorp
      /
      consul
](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul):
      Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration.

* [
      peco
      /
      peco
](https://github.com/peco/peco):
      Simplistic interactive filtering tool

* [
      revel
      /
      revel
](https://github.com/revel/revel):
      A high productivity, full-stack web framework for the Go language.

* [
      shipyard
      /
      shipyard
](https://github.com/shipyard/shipyard):
      Docker Management

* [
      astaxie
      /
      beego
](https://github.com/astaxie/beego):
      beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language.

* [
      coreos
      /
      rudder
](https://github.com/coreos/rudder):
      Rudder is an etcd backed overlay network for containers

* [
      go-martini
      /
      martini
](https://github.com/go-martini/martini):
      Classy web framework for Go

* [
      bitly
      /
      nsq
](https://github.com/bitly/nsq):
      A realtime distributed messaging platform

* [
      mitchellh
      /
      packer
](https://github.com/mitchellh/packer):
      Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

* [
      spf13
      /
      hugo
](https://github.com/spf13/hugo):
      A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love by spf13 in GoLang

* [
      google
      /
      cadvisor
](https://github.com/google/cadvisor):
      Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.

* [
      tsuru
      /
      tsuru
](https://github.com/tsuru/tsuru):
      Open source Platform as a Service (PaaS).

* [
      monochromegane
      /
      the_platinum_searcher
](https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher):
      A code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

* [
      crowdmob
      /
      goamz
](https://github.com/crowdmob/goamz):
      Fork of the GOAMZ version developed within Canonical with additional functionality with DynamoDB

* [
      coreos
      /
      coreos-cloudinit
](https://github.com/coreos/coreos-cloudinit):
* [
      golang
      /
      lint
](https://github.com/golang/lint):
      This is a linter for Go source code.

####javascript
* [
      MrSwitch
      /
      hello.js
](https://github.com/MrSwitch/hello.js):
      A Javascript RESTFUL API library for connecting with OAuth2 services, such as Google+ API, Facebook Graph and Windows Live Connect

* [
      theonion
      /
      comcastifyjs
](https://github.com/theonion/comcastifyjs):
      Sometimes images just load too damned fast.

* [
      mrflix
      /
      dimensions
](https://github.com/mrflix/dimensions):
      A tool for designers to measure screen dimensions.

* [
      bjango
      /
      Bjango-Actions
](https://github.com/bjango/Bjango-Actions):
      Photoshop Actions and Automator Workflows for iOS, Android and screen design.

* [
      jmdobry
      /
      angular-data
](https://github.com/jmdobry/angular-data):
      Data store for Angular.js.

* [
      erming
      /
      shout
](https://github.com/erming/shout):
      A web IRC client

* [
      joyent
      /
      node
](https://github.com/joyent/node):
      evented I/O for v8 javascript

* [
      semu
      /
      timesheet.js
](https://github.com/semu/timesheet.js):
      JavaScript library for simple HTML5 & CSS3 time sheets

* [
      paypal
      /
      accessible-html5-video-player
](https://github.com/paypal/accessible-html5-video-player):
* [
      angular
      /
      angular.js
](https://github.com/angular/angular.js):
      HTML enhanced for web apps

* [
      campd
      /
      fxdt-adapters
](https://github.com/campd/fxdt-adapters):
      Firefox Developer Tools protocol adapters

* [
      mbostock
      /
      d3
](https://github.com/mbostock/d3):
      A JavaScript visualization library for HTML and SVG.

* [
      shutterstock
      /
      node-common-errors
](https://github.com/shutterstock/node-common-errors):
      Common error classes and utility functions

* [
      jonom
      /
      jquery-focuspoint
](https://github.com/jonom/jquery-focuspoint):
      jQuery plugin for 'responsive cropping'. Dynamically crop images to fill available space without cutting out the image's subject. Great for full-screen images.

* [
      scragg0x
      /
      realms-wiki
](https://github.com/scragg0x/realms-wiki):
      Git based wiki inspired by Gollum

* [
      driftyco
      /
      ionic
](https://github.com/driftyco/ionic):
      Advanced HTML5 Mobile App Framework. A beautiful front-end framework for developing hybrid mobile apps in HTML5. Best friends with AngularJS.

* [
      dli
      /
      flow
](https://github.com/dli/flow):
      Volumetric Particle Flow - http://david.li/flow

* [
      webcore-it
      /
      colorful-background-css-generator
](https://github.com/webcore-it/colorful-background-css-generator):
      A colorful css gradient background generator

* [
      akahuku
      /
      wasavi
](https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi):
      wasavi is an extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. wasavi changes a textarea element to virtual vi editor which supports almost all the vi/ex commands.

* [
      vthibault
      /
      roBrowser
](https://github.com/vthibault/roBrowser):
      roBrowser is a free and open-source implementation of the Ragnarok Online MMORPG for web browsers written from scratch using the latest web standards (WebGL, HTML5, File API, Javascript, Threads, ...).

* [
      kitematic
      /
      kitematic
](https://github.com/kitematic/kitematic):
      Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X.

* [
      gionkunz
      /
      chartist-js
](https://github.com/gionkunz/chartist-js):
      Simple responsive charts

* [
      duojs
      /
      duo
](https://github.com/duojs/duo):
      A next-generation package manager for the front-end

* [
      adobe
      /
      brackets
](https://github.com/adobe/brackets):
      An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

* [
      webpack
      /
      webpack
](https://github.com/webpack/webpack):
      Packs CommonJs/AMD modules for the browser. Allows to split your codebase into multiple bundles, which can be loaded on demand. Support loaders to preprocess files, i.e. json, jade, coffee, css, less, ... and your custom stuff.

####ruby
* [
      Fullscreen
      /
      bh
](https://github.com/Fullscreen/bh):
      Bh · Bootstrap Helpers for Ruby

* [
      railslove
      /
      rack-tracker
](https://github.com/railslove/rack-tracker):
      Tracking made easy: Don't fool around with adding tracking and analytics partials to your app and concentrate on the things that matter.

* [
      YorickPeterse
      /
      oga
](https://github.com/YorickPeterse/oga):
      Oga is an XML/HTML parser written in Ruby.

* [
      lfender6445
      /
      theme_bandit
](https://github.com/lfender6445/theme_bandit):
      Convert any site theme template (Wordpress, Joomla, etc) into a rack application

* [
      rails
      /
      rails
](https://github.com/rails/rails):
      Ruby on Rails

* [
      Homebrew
      /
      homebrew
](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew):
      The missing package manager for OS X.

* [
      straydogstudio
      /
      s3_rails
](https://github.com/straydogstudio/s3_rails):
      A Rails resolver that retrieves templates from Amazon's S3 service

* [
      jekyll
      /
      jekyll
](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll):
      Jekyll is a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby

* [
      discourse
      /
      discourse
](https://github.com/discourse/discourse):
      A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

* [
      bbatsov
      /
      rubocop
](https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop):
      A Ruby static code analyzer, based on the community Ruby style guide.

* [
      thoughtbot
      /
      guides
](https://github.com/thoughtbot/guides):
      A guide for programming in style.

* [
      newrelic
      /
      centurion
](https://github.com/newrelic/centurion):
      A mass deployment tool for Docker fleets

* [
      bbatsov
      /
      ruby-style-guide
](https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide):
      A community-driven Ruby coding style guide

* [
      cantino
      /
      huginn
](https://github.com/cantino/huginn):
      Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf.  Your agents are standing by!

* [
      gitlabhq
      /
      gitlabhq
](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq):
      Open source software to collaborate on code. Follow us on twitter @gitlabhq

* [
      benjaminoakes
      /
      maid
](https://github.com/benjaminoakes/maid):
      Be lazy.  Let Maid clean up after you, based on rules you define.  Think of it as "Hazel for hackers".

* [
      github
      /
      markup
](https://github.com/github/markup):
      The code we use to render README.your_favorite_markup

* [
      minnowlab
      /
      giggle
](https://github.com/minnowlab/giggle):
      Giggle是一个开源的淘宝商家展示产品的社区。

* [
      Thibaut
      /
      devdocs
](https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs):
      API Documentation Browser

* [
      plataformatec
      /
      devise
](https://github.com/plataformatec/devise):
      Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

* [
      Growstuff
      /
      growstuff
](https://github.com/Growstuff/growstuff):
      Growstuff is an open source/open data project to create a website for food gardeners.

* [
      guard
      /
      guard
](https://github.com/guard/guard):
      Guard is a command line tool to easily handle events on file system modifications.

* [
      middleman
      /
      middleman
](https://github.com/middleman/middleman):
      Hand-crafted frontend development

* [
      presidentbeef
      /
      brakeman
](https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman):
      A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

* [
      capistrano
      /
      capistrano
](https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano):
      Remote multi-server automation tool

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text:
Q: Search many variables with a vector of patterns in R/tidyverse I would like to search many variables (key1 to key30) within my dataframe (data_df) for any of the patterns (stored in vector "my_patterns").
The results would be stored in 30 dummy variables/columns (key1_match to key30_match) for each observation, with 1 indicating that "keyX" variable has a match to one of the values in "my_patterns" vector, while 0 no match. for a particular observation. All I need to know is that there is a match, not which match.
How can I do this in R and preferably using tidyverse functions?
my_patterns <- c("AF021", "DT022", "DV053", "UJC12", "UJD02", "UJD05", "AF012", "AG053", "JAH01", "JCA55", "QBB99")

data_df <- structure(list(id = c(1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1317, 11832,
1943, 1316, 8317, 13405, 12881, 12881, 12881, 12881, 12881, 12881,
12882, 12882, 12882, 12882, 12883, 12883, 12883), key1 = c("",
"", "", "", "DR029", "", "AF063", "UJD05", "JCF12", "", "AF021",
"DT022", "XS912", "UJC12", "UJD05", "JAH00", "UJD02", "DT016",
"DT016", "", "DV071", "DR029", "2154", "", "AJ079", "XV018",
"7462", "7460", "LEG10"), key2 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
NA, "JFF00", NA, "AF021", "DT022", "XS912", "UJC12", "UJD05",
"JAH00", "UJD05", "DT017", "DT017", NA, "DV022", "JDB10", NA,
NA, "AJ080", NA, NA, "7461", "LCA06"), key3 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA,
NA, NA, NA, NA, "UJD02", NA, "AF021", "DT022", "ZV033", "UJC12",
"UJD05", "JAH00", "AF012", "DT019", "DT019", NA, "DV079", NA,
NA, NA, "DR029", NA, NA, "7469", NA), key4 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA,
NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "AF021", "DT022", "DV071", "UJC12", "UJD05",
"JAH00", "AG053", NA, "DT024", NA, "DV027", NA, NA, NA, "DT016",
NA, NA, "7280", NA), key5 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
NA, NA, "AF021", "DT022", "DV071", "UJC12", "UJD05", "JKB30",
"JAH01", NA, NA, NA, "DV064", NA, NA, NA, "UJD02", NA, NA, NA,
NA), key6 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "UJD02",
"DT022", "DV071", "UJC12", "UJD05", "JKB30", "JCA55", NA, NA,
NA, "DV040", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key7 = c(NA, NA,
NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "UJD02", "DT022", "DV071", "UJD05",
"JCA55", "JKB30", "UJD02", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
NA, NA, NA), key8 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
"UJD02", "DV051", "DV071", "UJD05", "JCA55", "JKB30", NA, NA,
NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key9 = c(NA, NA,
NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "UJD02", "DV053", "DV071", "UJD05",
"JCA55", "JFK10", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
NA, NA), key10 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "UJD02",
"DV055", "DV071", "UJD05", "TPW99", "JFK10", NA, NA, NA, NA,
NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key11 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA,
NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "AF053", "DV057", "DV071", "UJD05", "TPW99",
"JFK10", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA),
    key12 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "AF053",
    "DV057", "DV071", "UJD05", "TPW99", "JFK10", NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key13 = c(NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "AF053", "DV057", "DV071",
    "JCA55", "AJ050", "JFB40", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key14 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, "AF053", "DV057", "DV071", "JCA55", "AJ050",
    "JFB40", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA), key15 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "AF053",
    "DV057", "DV071", "JCA55", "AJ050", "JFB40", NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key16 = c(NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "AG009", "DV057", "DV071",
    "JCA55", "AG040", "JFB40", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key17 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, "AG009", "DV057", "DV071", "JCA55", "AG040",
    "JFF23", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA), key18 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "AG009",
    "DV057", "DV071", "JCA55", "AG040", "JFF23", NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key19 = c(NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "AG009", "DV057", "DV071",
    "JCA55", "XS009", "JFF23", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key20 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, "AG009", "DV057", "DV071", "JCA55", "XS009",
    "JFF23", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA), key21 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "AJ004",
    "DV057", "DT016", "JCA55", "XS009", "JWA00", NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key22 = c(NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "AJ004", "DV057", "DV071",
    "JCA55", "UJD05", "JWA00", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key23 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, "AJ004", "DV057", "XS918", "JCA55", "UJD05",
    "JWA00", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA), key24 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "AJ004",
    "DV057", "DV071", "JCA55", "JCA55", "JWA00", NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key25 = c(NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "AJ004", "DV057", "DV071",
    "JCA55", "TPW99", "QBB99", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key26 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, "DV057", "DV071", "JCA55", "AJ050", "QBB99",
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key27 = c(NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "DV057", "DV071",
    "JCA55", "AG040", "QBB99", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key28 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, "DV057", "DV071", "JCA55", "XS009", "QBB99",
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), key29 = c(NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "DV057", "DV071",
    "JCA55", NA, "QBB99", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA), key30 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, "DV057", "DV071", "JCA55", NA, "QBB99", NA, NA,
    NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA)), row.names = c(1L,
2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 11814L, 106482L, 17355L,
11807L, 74026L, 120903L, 116030L, 116031L, 116032L, 116033L,
116034L, 116035L, 116036L, 116037L, 116038L, 116039L, 116040L,
116041L, 116042L), class = "data.frame")

A: library(tidyverse)

my_patterns <- c("AF021", "DT022", "DV053", "UJC12", "UJD02", "UJD05", "AF012", "AG053", "JAH01", "JCA55", "QBB99")
# any element -> OR regex
my_regex <- paste0(my_patterns, collapse = "|")

data_df %>%
  as_tibble() %>%
  pivot_longer(-id) %>%
  transmute(
    id,
    name,
    value = value %>% map_dbl(~ .x %>%
      str_detect(my_regex) %>%
      replace_na(0))
  ) %>%
  distinct(id, name, .keep_all = TRUE) %>%
  pivot_wider(names_from = name, values_from = value)
#> # A tibble: 12 x 31
#>       id  key1  key2  key3  key4  key5  key6  key7  key8  key9 key10 key11 key12
#>    <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
#>  1     1     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
#>  2     2     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
#>  3     3     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
#>  4  1317     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     0     0
#>  5 11832     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     0     1     0     0     0
#>  6  1943     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
#>  7  1316     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1
#>  8  8317     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     0     0     0
#>  9 13405     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
#> 10 12881     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     0     0     0     0     0
#> 11 12882     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
#> 12 12883     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
#> # … with 18 more variables: key13 <dbl>, key14 <dbl>, key15 <dbl>, key16 <dbl>,
#> #   key17 <dbl>, key18 <dbl>, key19 <dbl>, key20 <dbl>, key21 <dbl>,
#> #   key22 <dbl>, key23 <dbl>, key24 <dbl>, key25 <dbl>, key26 <dbl>,
#> #   key27 <dbl>, key28 <dbl>, key29 <dbl>, key30 <dbl>

Created on 2021-12-01 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)

A: With dplyr, we can use mutate with all columns that starts_with 'key'. value %in% my_pattern outputs TRUE/FALSE if any pattern matches the value. We can coerce to numeric with +(...). Finally, summarise by id with max
library(dplyr)

data_df %>%
    mutate(across(starts_with('key'), ~ +(.x %in% my_patterns))) %>%
    group_by(id)%>%
    summarise(across(starts_with('key'), max))

# A tibble: 12 × 31
      id  key1  key2  key3  key4  key5  key6  key7  key8  key9 key10 key11 key12 key13 key14 key15 key16 key17 key18 key19 key20 key21 key22
   <dbl> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int>
 1     1     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
 2     2     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
 3     3     1     0     1     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
 4  1316     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1
 5  1317     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
 6  1943     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
 7  8317     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     1
 8 11832     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     0     1     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
 9 12881     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
10 12882     0     0     0     0     1     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
11 12883     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
12 13405     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
# … with 8 more variables: key23 <int>, key24 <int>, key25 <int>, key26 <int>, key27 <int>, key28 <int>, key29 <int>, key30 <int>

Or we can simplify it a little further by including all transformations inside summarise(across():
library(dplyr)

data_df %>%
    group_by(id) %>%
    summarise(across(starts_with('key'), ~+(any(.x %in% my_patterns))))

A: Yet another solution:
library(tidyr)

data_df %>%
  pivot_wider(id,values_from = -id, values_fn=function(x) sum(x %in% my_patterns))

#> # A tibble: 12 × 31
#>       id key1_ key2_ key3_ key4_ key5_ key6_ key7_ key8_ key9_ key10_ key11_
#>    <dbl> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int>  <int>  <int>
#>  1     1     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0      0      0
#>  2     2     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0      0      0
#>  3     3     1     0     1     0     0     0     0     0     0      0      0
#>  4  1317     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1      1      0
#>  5 11832     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     0     1      0      0
#>  6  1943     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0      0      0
#>  7  1316     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1      1      1
#>  8  8317     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1      0      0
#>  9 13405     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0      0      0
#> 10 12881     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     0     0      0      0
#> 11 12882     0     0     0     0     1     0     0     0     0      0      0
#> 12 12883     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0      0      0
#> # … with 19 more variables: key12_ <int>, key13_ <int>, key14_ <int>,
#> #   key15_ <int>, key16_ <int>, key17_ <int>, key18_ <int>, key19_ <int>,
#> #   key20_ <int>, key21_ <int>, key22_ <int>, key23_ <int>, key24_ <int>,
#> #   key25_ <int>, key26_ <int>, key27_ <int>, key28_ <int>, key29_ <int>,
#> #   key30_ <int>

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Gateshead FC
Richard Brodie returns to Gateshead after Hereford United loan
Richard Brodie has returned to Gateshead after a one-month loan at Hereford United
Richard Brodie back for Gateshead
Richard Brodie is back at hometown club Gateshead after completing a one-month loan at Skrill Conference Premier rivals Hereford United.
The 26-year-old former England C striker played in all eight games for the Bulls during the month, the last two off the bench, scoring one goal.
Former Conference Premier Golden Boot winner Brodie joined Gateshead in the summer after three years at Crawley Town, the last two involving long-term loans at Fleetwood Town and Morecambe.
He scored on his Gateshead debut on the opening day of the season at Kidderminster Harriers and came off the bench to score in a 2-1 defeat at Southport.
However, after starting the opening three games and coming off the bench in the next two, Brodie was allowed to link up with his former York City manager Martin Foyle at Hereford.
Now back on his native Tyneside Brodie is determined to kick-start his Heed career.
He said: "My season at Gateshead starts from today.
"I was not 100% fit at the start of the season and there were side issues which meant I was not right mentally either.
"However, football changes quickly. I have played a lot of football at Hereford and am stronger and fitter.
"Now I want to get into the Gateshead side and score goals for my hometown club.
"I only played the one game off the bench under the new manager Gary Mills so it is a new regime."
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Gluckman: knows nothing about climate
Michele Hewitson
That incomparable writer, Miss Michele Hewitson, of the NZ Herald, has interviewed our Chief Scientific Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, and the report appears in today's edition.
Now, Michele often specialises in the human side of your famous person, not perhaps delving too far into the deeds and sayings for which he might be famous, but humorously describing the ebb and flow of the interview or the sometimes awkward situations that develop as our intrepid prober of public persons boldly goes where few reporters dare.
Michele can be genuinely funny and wondrously insightful by turns. That is how today's example has turned out, as Miss Hewitson gets her subject to converse on everybody's favourite topic — themselves. Which she accomplishes by various superficial means, such as asking why he has a beard.
Of all the fascinating and significant aspects of Gluckman's life and intelligent toil, his beard must be the least important.
Startling confession
But my interest in her report centres on a remarkable comment he makes in passing. Hewitson asks about his role as science adviser. Gluckman agrees that he is a kind of translator, his role to understand the scientific process and help the public understand it, making public statements about, for example, climate change.
Peter Gluckman
For some reason she asks about climate change.
Peter Gluckman replies, "I don't know anything about climate."
That is not surprising, I hasten to say, for everybody knows he's a famous medical doctor, not a climate scientist. His position as scientific advisor necessarily has him making public statements on subjects outside his expertise. That's the way things are.
But this public acknowledgement by Prof. Gluckman of his ignorance of climate matters highlights how useless it is to take issue with him on climate change. I must confess that I had forgotten, when discussing Peter Gluckman here and here, that he is not responsible for his utterances on global warming and that if we take issue with what he says, then we would achieve more to raise the points with those who advise him, those who put the words into his mouth. Who are they?
NIWA and RS in cahoots
They are NIWA and the New Zealand Climate Expert Panel of the Royal Society of New Zealand. There are 11 members on the RS committee; five are from NIWA, two from the International Global Change Institute, University of Waikato, one from the Victoria University of Wellington and three apparently independent scientists.
There's more to be said about these members of an important advisory committee, their commercial links to climate change activism and questions to be asked about their objectivity towards a subject from which they earn their living, but for now I simply emphasise the strong links between NIWA and this committee.
Don't argue with the wrong man
Who could argue that, with 45% of the voting power, NIWA and the RS are, at least on climate change, the same? What NIWA believes, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman will, at some point, speak.
What Sir Peter says about global warming, NIWA believes.
Now we know it for certain, why should we trouble good ol' Gluckman again? We might as well ignore him and keep on at Wratt, Renwick, Mullan et al. For in talking to them, we're talking to NIWA, the Royal Society and Dr Gluckman all at the same time.
Very efficient.
A final thought: Just imagine that those five NIWA members of the RS were climate activists. They have contrived complete control over Royal Society pronouncements and advice to the Government on climate change. Would they not be clever little activists? If anyone suggested new members to replace them on the RS panel, who would be the first to object?
Posted in: General \ Tagged: Climate science, General, NIWA, NZ Herald, Peter Gluckman, Royal Society, Scientists
17 Thoughts on "Gluckman: knows nothing about climate"
"I don't know anything about climate." He regards his role as understanding the scientific process and helping the public understand it.
So he has failed in his role then.
Climate expert tells NZ to cut the carbon
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/climate-change/news/article.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=10672324&ref=rss
In a lecture at the university's business school this week, he said New Zealanders needed to reduce their carbon footprint from nearly 20 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per person to two tonnes by 2050.
He believed that this was achievable with political will and radical changes in technology, particularly in agriculture.
For the mathematically challenged, Stern is stating that we need to reduce emissions by 90% in the next 40 years, despite the fact that around 50% of our emissions come from Agriculture, and that this is "achievable" (Only in the fantasy land inhabited by the likes of Lord Stern)
Ten or 15 years from now, those that produce in dirty ways are likely to face trade barriers.
I rather suspect that in 10 or 15 years from now, the countries that are currently "demanding" emissions reductions from us will be in need of aid.
Yes, these numbers are incredible. Not even the Green Party wants reductions of this magnitude from us. But even complete cessation of our emissions won't be detectable, as they comprise only 0.2% of global anthropogenic emissions, so Stern's suggestions are ludicrous.
And more off topics…
Exciting news for quake ravaged Cantabrians. TedX Christchurch is coming!
And we have TedX's youngest presenter, Linh Do,
http://tedxchch.com/
Just three years ago, Linh was trained by Al Gore to be a Climate Project presenter and deliver the slideshow behind An Inconvenient Truth. Linh has since presented to thousands of people, and will soon be able to count attendees of TEDxChCh!
Earlier this year, Linh was one of 250 international passengers to spend two-months on the Ship of World Youth, an initiative by the Government of Japan to facilitate intercultural exchange.
After TEDxChCh Linh will return to her studies for her Bachelor of Arts in International Politics and Environmental Studies
Flipper on 12/09/2010 at 12:06 pm said:
Good noontime..
Check this out – The Green Climate $windle, a 41 min video contibuted by Fox News and run about 10 days ago.
http://www.blogspot.com/2010/09/fox-green-swindle
Anyone care to wager that TVNZ or TV3 will run it?
Quentin F on 14/09/2010 at 11:51 am said:
HAHA TVNZ (pro AGW) TV3(pro AGW) how many collapsing iceflows per minute can you fit into a 40 second news bite!
Richard C on 12/09/2010 at 2:39 pm said:
I had a response lined up that involved talking to the monkey when one really wishes to talk to the organ grinder but given Sir Peter's stature in his specialization and frank admission it would be inappropriate.
Instead, I question the political appointment of one person to speak for all of science and in the case of climate science, one side of a polarized issue. Even a luke-warmist would be better than a NIWA parrot (again, no disrespect to Sir Peter). I also question the govt's collective acumen to take climate science advise from someone who openly admits he doesn't "know anything about climate."
Again, this might be an unfair criticism because "Must know nothing about climate science" may be a key requirement in the Chief Scientific Adviser job description.
Michele Hewitson's probing reminds me of Eloise Gibson's equally incisive reporting from COP 15.
Eloise diligently reported the machinations of the conference steadfastly adhering to the consensus that catastrophic climate change was fait accompli unless lots of money changed hands.
To give the Herald credit, the source of influence was revealed at the bottom of her reports:-
"* Eloise Gibson travelled to Copenhagen with the assistance of the Science Media Centre and Science New Zealand."
So no conflict of interest and we all know that "ghost " writers don't travel.
I'll be interested to see if her efforts at COP 15 will be rewarded with a holiday in Cancun – "with the assistance" of her handlers (there's a poodle analogy there somewhere but I'm not suggesting….).
Yes, nicely restrained, Richard.
Paul on 03/10/2010 at 12:34 am said:
When Dr Gluckman makes statements about climate change he is responsible for such utterances. If he doesn't want to be accountable, why is he being paid ? It's his job to understand what he announces to NZ.
If he doesn't understand climate change issues then he must delegate statements about climate to those who do – and not falsely add his authority to such statements.
It's hard to argue against that, Paul, although it's a bit of a murky area, given that the government wants a figurehead, who could never be knowledgeable of everything. I guess one of the reasons we went gently on Gluckman is because his admission of ignorance on climate reinforced that he was being "fed the lines" as it were. Since we know who advises him (Wratt, Renwick, et al.) it makes some sense to argue directly with them and not fashion some kind of dialogue with Gluckman in the middle.
I must have missed this from Sir Pete
"I have seen a major role of my office as being to communicate to the public on matters of complex post-normal science and on the limits and potential of science. I have tried to explain what science and innovation can do to enhance New Zealand's economic and social development. I took a significant role in explaining how the scientific position on anthropogenic climate change was reached. More recently I have addressed issue of public concern over earthquake predictions and psychosocial responses to earthquakes."
http://www.pmcsa.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/CSA-report-2009-2011.pdf
Sorry? I missed these "significant roles". Or is he just beefing up his CV?
"They have seen the importance of science in […] the shifting understanding of climate change"
Yes I've seen the importance.
Doing my level best to aid the "shifting" with it too.
Richard C (NZ) on 16/10/2011 at 7:54 am said:
"matters of complex post-normal science" i.e. uncertainty is the topic of this Forbes article:-
The Post-Normal Seduction of Climate Science
http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2011/10/14/the-post-normal-seduction-of-climate-science/
"PNS is a model of the scientific process pioneered by Jerome Ravetz and Silvio Funtowicz, which describes the peculiar challenges science encounters where "facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high and decisions urgent." Unlike "normal" science in the sense described by the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, post-normal science commonly crosses disciplinary lines and involves new methods, instruments and experimental systems."
How can decisions be urgent when facts are uncertain and values in dispute in respect to imposing punitive taxes globally on the object of the uncertainty?
As in Saddam's WMD, CO2 is merely a vehicle for a different agenda entirely – but Gluckman's oblivious to that obviously.
Watts has a PNS article too:-
Turbo post normal science by press – peer review optional
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/15/turbo-post-normal-science-by-press-peer-review-optional/
I followed this PNS issue a while back when Ravetz did his posts on WUWT. Ravetz comes from a Marxist background, and PNS fits into the Marxist mould of thinking
When I read his description of PNS, it felt to me a fancy way of describing what most of us would describe as "winging it". i.e there is an emergency, we need to cut corners and get the job done.
I am completely against this. A framework needs to be built, in science and engineering, that can cope with crises, bottlenecks in timeframes etc, without compromising quality, safety or integrity.
However, having said that, I have a lot of respect for Ravetz. He acknowledged a lot of the flaws in PNS and climate science, and he also organised the Lisbon workshop on reconciliation in climate science, which Judith Curry and others were involved in.
Brian on 02/07/2017 at 2:20 pm said:
Notice how so called explainers of the AGW syndrome have not acknowledged the coming out as it were of Judith Curry? Extremely inconvenient for the science is settled brigade as one who having been deeply involved with real climate science discovered that like most true scientific endeavours, science is not settled. For if it were to be settled, hordes of those masquerading as scientists would have had no taxpayer funded lifestyles for decades. And the inference that voters are too thick to understand how the AGW is supposed to work, but a medical doctor can, staggers the imagination. I do hope Sir Pete will live a very long life and still have have his faculties in place to explain why no warming of any statistical significance has occurred by 2030 despite huge increases in residual CO2 in the atmosphere.


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Mikey McBryan, centre, celebrates after Ice Pilots NWT won a Canadian Screen Award in 2015.
Ice Pilots NWT has been nominated for another Canadian Screen Award for Best Factual Program or Series.
The show, which ended its six-season run in the fall of 2014, featured Northwest Territories airline Buffalo Airways.
Last year, the History Channel show beat out four other programs to take home the award in the same category.
Shortly after the win, Buffalo Airways general manager Mikey McBryan told Moose FM it was the closest thing he "could ever achieve to winning the Stanley Cup".
This year, the show is up against Emergency, Jade Fever, Million Dollar Critic and Still Standing. This marks the third time Ice Pilots NWT has been nominated over six seasons following the airline.
On Thursday, McBryan took to his Facebook page to share the news.
McBryan says the latest nomination is for the show's D-Day special, when Buffalo tried a tribute parachute jump.
The Canadian Screen Awards, run by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and first staged in 2013, were formed when the Gemini Awards (TV) and Genie Awards (film) merged.
The awards will be broadcast on CBC on March 13. You can find the entire list of nominees here.
This news comes in the same week as reports that another NWT-based show, Ice Lake Rebels, has been cancelled. The show ran for two seasons on the Animal Planet, documenting the lives of Yellowknife houseboaters.


The actress shares she has not yet received an official offer from another TV network.
Bea though is slated to do a movie before the year ends, tentatively with Sam Milby. She said she is very excited with her role. "Sobra siyang mysterious na babae. Misteryosang babae na parang 'di mo aakalaing gagawin niya 'yung mga ginawa niya," she shared.


Netflix did me a favor. Or at least they said they did.
On Friday, I sent a movie back to Netflix. The replacement is arriving on Saturday, more than a week later -- because they did me a favor and sent me the first movie in my queue.
Are you helping your user? or yourself?
If you could ask the user what they want, what would they say? And would all users, or even almost all users, want the same thing?
For another example, my friend Mike Koss recently pointed out another annoying "favor". It's that wonderful Windows Desktop Clean-up Wizard that helps me out by nagging me that I have unused icons on my desktop. I never want to see it again! When they added the option to turn off the reminder (and buried it), did they consider whether they should just turn it off for everybody? Mike's post also adds his personal taxonomy of software annoyances and delights.
A while ago, I wrote about some good technical support by NetGear. Now here's some absolutely abysmal support by PayPal.
Like most PayPal customers, I use them because I have to, not because I want to. PayPal has a monopoly in online payment systems and there are things that I can't buy (or are much more difficult to buy) if I don't use PayPal. So, I use them a few times a year.
Recently, I bought something from a seller in Hong Kong who would only take PayPal and required that I become "verified" in order to sell to me. Now, I've been a PayPal user since 2000, but I never bother to become "verified" because the advantages don't matter to me. But, I figured, what's the disadvantage? I would add my checking account, then remove it after I'm verified. Unfortunately, that doesn't work.
When I removed my checking account, I once again became unverified. Apparently, nobody at PayPal bothered to look up the definition of "verify" and proper use of the past tense. Once I am verified, by definition, I cannot become unverified.
To make things more confusing, PayPal and the merchants who use PayPal have two different meanings for verified. In the one coherent response that I got from PayPal support, they even acknowledge this.
Becoming Verified will show others you have confirmed your identity in the PayPal system and the Verified status will increase confidence within the PayPal community.
Verification is also necessary to lift the sending and withdrawal limit on an account. Once you've reached these limits, the only way to continue to use your PayPal account to send and withdraw money is to become Verified.
The key to this is not that you suddenly become "not real"; we understand that you remain the same person who verified with us.
Interesting -- PayPal understands that I don't become "not real," yet they fail to communicate this to people that I transact with. Is there any logical reason for that?
By the way, if I were to give up and leave my checking account attached to my PayPal account (and I considered that), PayPal defaults to sending money from my checking account, not the credit card that I've used for 8 years. Every time, I do a transaction, I have to manually change it back to my credit card. Why?! And there's no way to change the default back to my credit card. I know that PayPal claims I'm 100% protected with my bank account, but I'd still rather use my credit card where the protection is mandated by Federal law.
Personally, I could care less about sending and withdrawal limits or any of the other benefits of being "verified". If you insist on "unverifying" people who remove their bank accounts, you really should provide an indicator that the person has been verified as real. Hey, how about calling that "verified" and using some other word to indicate "currently has a bank account attached"? Please pass this information on to someone who can do something about it.
The canned response gave me the same instructions on how to remove my bank account that I'd already been sent before.
They're setting things up for their convenience, not their customers'. I would guess that there is an advantage to having my checking account be the default funding source and I would guess it has to do with revenue. But why should that inconvenience me?
Their technical support staff lacks information they need and it looks like they respond to support queries without actually reading the questions they are responding to. When I send a message that says, in its entirety, "Will you pass on my feedback to someone who can actually change it instead of just sending me back canned responses? Pretty please?" and it gets a canned response repeating something I've already been told, it gets pretty comical.
I'm hoping that maybe somebody from PayPal reads blogs.
Why didn't it show her anything on the LCD on the back when she was taking pictures? She was trying to hold it out in front of her to take pictures.
How did you zoom? She'd looked all over for the zoom buttons and couldn't find them. It didn't make sense to her that she would be zooming by rotating the barrel of the lens.
When would she use the other lens that came in the kit? And, where was it? Back at her hotel, of course.
There were other things too. The kit had come with a camera bag, which was back at the hotel with the extra lens. A lot of good they were going to do her there. I gave her a bunch of tips she wasn't asking for, and, just as I was suggesting that maybe she should buy a UV filter to protect her lens, she wiped the front of the lens with her sweater. Aargh! I hinted to her that maybe she had bought the wrong camera. Maybe I was too polite.
The D40 is a great camera for its price. It's a great starter DSLR. But not for her. She didn't understand it, none of the advantages of a DSLR mattered to her, and she'd spent twice as much money on it as she would have spent if she'd bought the right camera -- like a Nikon P80 or the Canon S5, or maybe even the Canon SD850 that I got for my kids. They're all great cameras. If you read the reviews of the first two on Amazon, many of the reviewers criticize them for being what they are. They, like the D40 owner, miss an important point: the manufacturers make different models because they have different customers.
Restating the obvious, you should buy the camera that's right for you.
If you're shopping for a camera and don't know what to buy, start by making a list of the criteria that matter to you (e.g., size and weight, zoom, resolution, viewfinder, live view LCD, flip-around LCD, interchangeable lenses, controls and menus, price). Put these in order of importance. Then, rank each of the cameras that you are thinking about by each of these criteria and see which one comes out on top. You may well find that two similar cameras from different manufacturers rank at the top. Then, it's a matter of feel. Try them out. Kick the tires. See which you like better. You can't go wrong with any of the major manufacturers.
There is no "best" product.
The same thing is true in the software industry. Consumers frequently have the perception that a given product or web service is the "best" or that they think that in order to be the "best," a product has to meet everybody's needs. Marketers tend to perpetuate this myth. But it is a myth. A major difference in the software industry is that many companies only offer a single product in a given category (or only one product, period). To get a different product, you have to go to another company.
In the case of Sampa, we have a web service that allows people to easily build private, personal web sites to connect with their friends and families. It's not a floor wax or dessert topping!
If you want to socialize with strangers, go to Facebook or one of the many social networking sites. If you want to send messages to your friends every 10 minutes, go to Twitter. If you want to share all your photos and commune with thousands of other photographers, go to Flickr. If you're a business wanting a web presence to sell things online, go to Ebay, Amazon, or a multitude of other companies. There's no shame in sending a customer to another place where they'll be happier. But, if you want to build that private web site for your friends and family, go to Sampa, because that isn't what Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc., do.
There is no "best" product for everyone. If you're a customer, figure out what you actually want to do and pick the product that fits.
If you're a developer, find your customers and meet their needs. If you try to satisfy everyone, you'll satisfy no one.


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Andrew Hallett (* 4. August 1975 in Osterville/Barnstable, Massachusetts; † 29. März 2009 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Sänger. Seine in Deutschland bekannteste Rolle ist die des Lorne in der Serie Angel – Jäger der Finsternis.

Hallett erlag 2009 im Alter von 33 Jahren einer seit 2005 virulenten Kardiomyopathie.

Filmographie
 1999: Buffy – Im Bann der Dämonen (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) als Student (Gastauftritt, 1 Folge)
 2000–2004: Angel – Jäger der Finsternis (Angel) als Lorne (76 Gastauftritte, 2. bis 4. Staffel; ab Ende der vierten Staffel als Hauptcast bis zum Serienende)

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Filmschauspieler
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1975
Gestorben 2009
Mann

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