— This entrepreneurial city, the largest along the 981-mile Ohio River, is adept at understanding how geography, resources and new markets can be turned into business opportunities.
Some bands bring their own engineers, but many use the in-house crew, all of whom seem to be adept at understanding the needs of a variety of musics, from dubstep to folk, reggae to rock, or jazz to singer-songwriter acoustic softness.
On an individual level, Andrea is adept at understanding the diversity of her students and the counties that they serve specifically, increasing the number of women and people of color in leadership positions in Bay Area county social services departments and creating greater equity for staff and communities.
The good news is that people seem to be adept at understanding when others need help, as shown in a fascinating observational study of barroom brawls.
Many of the technical services staff are adept at understanding, manipulating, and when necessary actually inventing data encoding schemes and at moving data from one to another (and adapting the data as required to the new encoding environment).
And then there is the character who is adept at understanding and applying moral concepts as she characterizes them but who couldn't care less about them.
Sophisticated ad exchanges and other intermediaries are adept at rapidly understanding novel regulatory environments and developing compliant ad market infrastructures.
We were adept at it for centuries.
"Kids were adept at getting around the blocks," she said.
Milosevic and Putin were adept at propaganda.
Humans are adept at network visualization, and at understanding subtle implications among the network connections.
