![]() Source: Wikipedia, " Guitar_hero_III," available under the CC-BY-SA License. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions feature the ability to download additional songs." Initially the game offers over 70 songs, most of which are master tracks. ![]() ![]() Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is the first game in the series to include an online multiplayer feature, which is enabled in the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii versions. The game, in addition to existing single-player Career modes, includes a new Co-Op Career mode and competitive challenges that pit the player against in-game characters and other players. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock retains the basic gameplay from previous games in the Guitar Hero series, where the player uses a guitar-shaped controller to simulate the playing of lead, bass, and rhythm guitar parts in rock songs by playing in time to scrolling notes on-screen. The game was published by Activision and RedOctane, and is the first game in the series to be developed by Neversoft, after Activision's acquisition of RedOctane and MTV Games' purchase of Harmonix Music Systems, the previous development studio for the series. They say practice makes perfect, and in this game, the approach might also save you from a virtual guitar-smashing incident."Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is a music video game, the third main installment in the Guitar Hero series, and the fourth title overall. These modes let you tackle tricky song sections or simply get familiar with the game. Lastly, Guitar Hero III offers training and practice modes to sharpen those skills if you’re overwhelmed by rock and roll life. TRAINING AND PRACTICE MODES: HONE YOUR SKILLS Dust off that virtual guitar and prepare to prove yourself to these legends-warning: digital guitar strings may snap under pressure. These aren’t just casual jam sessions they’re intense musical duels that will challenge even the most seasoned players. Introducing a brand new feature, boss battles put players face-to-face with famous guitarists like Slash, Tom Morello, and Lou the Devil. EPIC BOSS BATTLES: FACE OFF AGAINST GUITAR LEGENDS It’s music to your ears, fingers, and neighbors’ dismay. Imagine shredding along with Santana or head-banging to Weezer. Players can jam along with some of the biggest names in rock history, from Cream and The Rolling Stones to Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Guns N’ Roses, and beyond. The new 71 songs that Guitar Hero III offers are not just your average tunes they’re legendary pieces from legendary bands. ROCK OUT WITH LEGENDARY SONGS AND ARTISTS It’s like musical chairs but with guitars and less sitting down. In battle mode, perform well and earn power-ups to interrupt your opponent. Whether it’s the Face-Off variant, where players alternate playing a song, or the Pro Face-Off mode, which sees two players competing on the same note chart, there’s no shortage of friendly rivalry. The multiplayer game modes of this legendary game are where you get to challenge your friends and find out who the real Guitar Hero is. We aim to show you accurate product information. Select and customize a wide variety of Guitar Hero characters - including three new ones - as you unlock venues featuring over-the-top stage design. MULTIPLAYER GAME MODES: DUELING GUITARS AND BATTLE OF THE BANDS Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for Wii features over 70 of the biggest and loudest songs ever compiled in a single game disc. The cooperative spirit of this mode makes it perfect for those who want to jam out with a buddy and pretend their living room is a sold-out arena. It resembles single-player mode but with a twist-two players work together, one on lead guitar, the other on bass or rhythm guitar. Guitar Hero III’s co-op career mode is where friendships blossom or crumble. CO-OP CAREER MODE: TWO HEADS (OR GUITARS) ARE BETTER THAN ONE Successful completion rewards players with money, allowing them to unlock all sorts of goodies like characters, clothing, extra guitars, and more! And let’s not forget the blisters on your virtual fingers those are free. You must perform multiple songs at each venue to advance to more prominent stages. Slowly but surely, they work their way up to superstardom by finishing tracks. In career mode, players embark on the bumpy road of becoming rock stars, initially starting with more straightforward tunes in small venues. Ready to rock? Let’s dive into the details, one chord at a time! CAREER MODE: CLIMBING THE LADDER TO ROCKSTARDOM Featuring 71 fresh tracks from iconic bands and introducing novel “boss battles,” various game modes exist, including career, co-op, multiplayer, and even training. The stakes are high: misplacing a finger causes the performance meter to drop, leading to potential failure and the need to try again. Similar to its predecessors, players must tap and strum their way to success on the screen by using a guitar-shaped controller. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, the third full-fledged game in the renowned Guitar Hero series and the fourth overall, brings the magic of virtual guitar playing to your fingertips.
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![]() Second is the “what” question, or the basic description of your topic. Keeping your audience first and foremost in your thoughts when choosing a specific purpose will increase the likelihood that your audience will find your speech meaningful. Different audiences, as discussed in the chapter on audience analysis, have differing desires, backgrounds, and needs. First, you want to know who is going to be in your audience. Now, when discussing specific purposes, we are concerned with who, what, when, where, why, and how questions for your speech. Notice that in each of these cases, the general purpose alters the topic, but all three are still fundamentally about hygiene. You could still give a speech about hygiene no matter what your general purpose is, but the specific purpose would vary depending on whether the general purpose is to inform (discussing hygiene practices around the globe), to persuade (discussing why people need to adopt a specific hygiene practice), or to entertain (discussing some of the strange and unique hygiene practices that people have used historically). ![]() For example, let’s say you want to give a speech about hygiene. Obviously, depending on the general purpose, you will have a range of different types of topics. Once you know whether your goal is to inform, persuade, or entertain, picking an appropriate topic is easier. First, you need to have a general purpose. When attempting to get at the core of your speech (the specific purpose), you need to know a few basic things about your speech. ![]() A tennis ball reaches the ground after a baseball dropped at the same time. In the real world, air resistance can cause a lighter object to fall slower than a heavier object of the same size. Scott demonstrated in 1971 on the Moon, where the acceleration from gravity is only 1.67 m/s2 and there is no atmosphere. This is a general characteristic of gravity not unique to Earth, as astronaut David R. If a ball is thrown upward, the equations of free fall apply equally to its ascent as well as its descent.įigure 3.26 A hammer and a feather fall with the same constant acceleration if air resistance is negligible. ![]() ![]() But “falling,” in the context of free fall, does not necessarily imply the body is moving from a greater height to a lesser height. For example, we can estimate the depth of a vertical mine shaft by dropping a rock into it and listening for the rock to hit the bottom. Let’s assume the body is falling in a straight line perpendicular to the surface, so its motion is one-dimensional. Solve for the position, velocity, and acceleration as functions of time when an object is in a free fall.Īn interesting application of (Figure) through (Figure) is called free fall, which describes the motion of an object falling in a gravitational field, such as near the surface of Earth or other celestial objects of planetary size.Describe how the values of the position, velocity, and acceleration change during a free fall.Use the kinematic equations with the variables y and g to analyze free-fall motion.Let us consider projectile range further.įigure 3.40 Trajectories of projectiles on level ground.By the end of this section, you will be able to: However, investigating the range of projectiles can shed light on other interesting phenomena, such as the orbits of satellites around the Earth. Galileo and many others were interested in the range of projectiles primarily for military purposes-such as aiming cannons. The components of acceleration are then very simple:Ī y = – g = – 9.80 m /s 2 a y = – g = – 9.80 m /s 2 size 12 traveled by a projectile. We will assume all forces except gravity (such as air resistance and friction, for example) are negligible. We must find their components along the x- and y-axes, too. Of course, to describe motion we must deal with velocity and acceleration, as well as with displacement. ![]() However, to simplify the notation, we will simply represent the component vectors as x x and y y.) If we continued this format, we would call displacement s s with components s x s x and s y s y. (Note that in the last section we used the notation A A to represent a vector with components A x A x and A y A y. The magnitudes of these vectors are s, x, and y. Figure 3.36 illustrates the notation for displacement, where s s is defined to be the total displacement and x x and y y are its components along the horizontal and vertical axes, respectively. (This choice of axes is the most sensible, because acceleration due to gravity is vertical-thus, there will be no acceleration along the horizontal axis when air resistance is negligible.) As is customary, we call the horizontal axis the x-axis and the vertical axis the y-axis. The key to analyzing two-dimensional projectile motion is to break it into two motions, one along the horizontal axis and the other along the vertical. This fact was discussed in Kinematics in Two Dimensions: An Introduction, where vertical and horizontal motions were seen to be independent. The most important fact to remember here is that motions along perpendicular axes are independent and thus can be analyzed separately. In this section, we consider two-dimensional projectile motion, such as that of a football or other object for which air resistance is negligible. The motion of falling objects, as covered in Problem-Solving Basics for One-Dimensional Kinematics, is a simple one-dimensional type of projectile motion in which there is no horizontal movement. The object is called a projectile, and its path is called its trajectory. Projectile motion is the motion of an object thrown or projected into the air, subject to only the acceleration of gravity. ![]() The girls were getting pretty tired at this point so we decided to head back to the ship. Then we went on the last-minute mangroves boat tour which was very interesting. Instead, Rolando took us over to the East side of the island and we drove around Punta Gorda and saw a few local places there. It was still raining at that point and so we canceled any plans to try to go parasailing or horseback riding. Then we went to Daniel's and got to hold sloths and play with monkeys. We started the day by meeting with some local children and we had bought them school supplies, and enjoyed the visit. We hired a private driver from Rony's named Rolando, who was great. Burn the Floor.wow not enough words, it was amazing!! Don't miss that amazing dance show.Īnother rainy cool day which messed with our plans once again. Lines were too long for dinner and we had 7:30 Burn the Floor tickets so we just went to the buffet and it was actually pretty good. There was a little butterfly sanctuary and Chris took an overpriced single zipline but there wasn't much more here in 70 ゚ drizzling weather. I am reminded of why I don't like private islands. We just aren't a sit at the beach family, get too bored. It was the fourth rainy, cloudy, cool weather, and it is getting old. Dinner again at Manhattan with three famines and adult kids and watched the Christmas Spectacular which truly was…Spectacular! Headed back to the port just before the ship took off. ![]() Afterward, we went to the 7-color lagoon instead of the ruins like last time…but with the coolness and rain, didn't get in the water. We still visited a local family and had some local food and made our own tamales and tortillas again, but it was a much bigger production with many more people and two sets of visitors at that location. They added a location a bit closer to the port, but it was still a decent walk to reach them. ![]() It was a bit different than our excursion 4 years ago on our cruise that was supposed to go to Cuba but wound up in Costa Maya. Instead, we went on a tour with Native Choice with one of the couples. There was supposedly one by the Krazy Krab, but since we didn't dock until 11 am and I couldn't get a mass time confirmed, we gave up on that. On Christmas day, if I could have found a Catholic Church with known services, we would have done that. I was disappointed NCL didn’t have any type of Christmas service… although they did have visits with Santa the next morning. It was Christmas Eve, so we watched mass and dressed up for formal dinner at Manhattan, then also hit the piano bar. The next day we just kind of enjoyed ourselves on the ship, but it’s still very chilly only about 50 ゚ and rainy so didn’t spend much time outside. We explored the ship during the day and had a nice dinner at Taste. Since we had waited so long to get tickets for the cruise we wound up in a 4 person inside cabins with essentially 2 bunk beds It had been a long time since we’ve done that it was much tougher with for adults. We arrived around 11:15 am, and boarding went pretty fast, just over an hour all-in. We woke up and took an Uber from Homestead suites directly to the ship port. Louis cemetery #1, and then did more shopping including stopping at Café DuMonde for beignets.įriday morning we headed to the port and BOY was it cold – 24 ゚ with a 10 ゚ wind chill! That’s even cold by Kansas standards! ![]() On Thursday, we got up and went on a cemetery tour at St. Charles trolley to the Garden district, and then came back to relax. Louis, had lunch in the French quarter, took the St. Very grateful too as there was a snowstorm back at home in Kansas! We did a “haunted” carriage ride around the city the first night, then the second day, a friend of my daughter's who goes to LSU showed us around the city. We arrived in New Orleans three days before our cruise to spend some time in the city. Also, five of our seven days were rainy and cool which impacted a lot of our on and off ship activities. We choose cruises based on ports and timing generally, and this one was an exception. We didn't upgrade to specialty dining or the drink packages either, so I can't answer questions there. So it was tight quarters on a crowded ship, but a blessing to get that extra time with the adult kids. which we had done most of our lives when the kids were little, but not the last several cruises. We were the late adds and by the time we signed up for what was ultimately a sold out cruise, rooms were pretty pricey. Caveats: We joined friends for this Christmas cruise, two other couples and their college age kids. Trump said Engoron “put a RIDICULOUS GAG ORDER ON ME, which we will appeal. Trump’s appeal against Engoron’s pre-trial summary judgment, which found him guilty of fraud and could lead to the dissolution of his real estate business, is still going through the appeals court. Of course, the appellate court kept much of the case intact and allowed the trial to move forward. In the third post, Trump claimed “we won against Engoron in the Appeals Court”, likely referring to the court throwing out Ivanka Trump from the case over the summer because the claims against her were too old. The second post, another rant directed against “political hack” Engoron, ended with the line, “WITCH HUNT!!! ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!” You are a disgrace to the legal profession!”. In the first part, posted around 2:30 am, Trump went off about Michael Cohen’s testimony and ended with a demand to “leave my children alone, Engoron. ![]() ShareĪhead of his eldest child taking the witness stand, Donald Trump went on a multi-post screed against the trial on Truth Social this morning. Trump’s lawyers have argued against these claims, saying that the lenders were happy with their relationships with the Trump Organization, and that ultimately the company was accurately valuing their assets. McCarty on the stand is essentially giving the state an opportunity to explain to the judge the risk companies unknowingly took on when doing business with the Trump Organization and how much money the company saved because of its illegal business practices. The state law that allows the attorney general’s office to do this, Executive Law 63(12), gives the AG power to go after a company even if there was no harm allowed, a very broad power the state is using to go after the Trump Organization. Rather, it’s the state going after the Trump Org for bad and unethical business practices, even if there were no direct consequences from their actions. It’s a weird one because no one, including any companies, were not actively harmed by the Trump Organization’s fudged financial statements. This is pretty much the core of what the trial is about. If they had calculated that extra risk into the loans they gave to the Trump Organization, they would have made more money. Michiel McCarty, the state’s expert witness is backing up the attorney general’s argument that even if lenders are not harmed by a company that gives them inaccurate financial statement, and makes money off the deal, they take on more risk if financial statements are inaccurate. ![]() The AG’s office submitted this clip into evidence for the day, implying that they will play this clip for Trump to respond to during his time on the stand. The attorney general’s office is arguing that this is not true, that Trump, along with the rest of his family that served as executives of the Trump Organization, ultimately played key roles in valuing the assets of their properties. Later in the video, Trump denies doing work that would have involved utilizing GAAP. When the investigator asked what he was taught at Wharton, Trump said: “Well, I’m not an accountant, but that they are generally accepted.” Trump and the interviewer laughed at the answer. Trump said he probably learned about it in his first year of business school. In his deposition, investigators asked Trump if he knew what GAAP, or Generally Acceptable Accounting Principles. On the trial’s first day, the attorney general’s office played during their opening argument a series of video clips from depositions of defendants and witnesses, including this one of Donald Trump Jr. ![]() discusses his economic knowledge during July 2022 testimony – video ![]() Step 9: Bake the bundt cake at 325F for 50-55 minutes. This gives the flour time to hydrate which means the cake will have a better structure. Pour the peanut butter banana cake batter into the bundt pan and with the back of a spoon or flexible spatula spread it out evenly. Allow the cake batter to rest on the counter for 5-10 minutes. Step 8: Spray the inside of the Bundt pan with nonstick spray or grease thoroughly with butter. Using a flexible rubber spatula, give the batter a few good stirs making sure there are no pockets of flour hiding at the bottom of the pan. As mentioned before, chunks of bananas are okay. Don't overmix the cake batter or you will end up with a denser bundt cake. Step 7: Mix in the dry ingredients and mix until the gluten free peanut butter banana cake batter has a smooth consistency. Step 6: Add the mashed bananas and the butter milk to the bowl and mix until combined. Use a flexible spatula to scrape the bowl's sides. Step 5: Once the ingredients are fully combined, add the large eggs, one by one, beating well after each addition. Cream for 2-3 minutes until fully incorporated. Step 4: To the bowl of a stand mixer or a large bowl add the oil, peanut butter, white sugar, light brown sugar, and vanilla extract. It's okay if there are still some bigger chunks. Step 3: In a separate bowl mash the bananas with a fork. Step 2: In a medium bowl combine the gluten-free multi-purpose flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, ground cinnamon, and kosher salt. And yes, this recipe can also be turned into Peanut Butter Banana Bread Recipe and be baked in TWO 8x4 Pullman Loaf Pans. If you do not have a bundt pan, you may also bake it in a 9x13" pan or bake two cake layers by using two 9" round cake pans. Room-temperature ingredients will cream together more easily than cold ingredients.Īs for the bundt pan, I recommend using a pan that holds 10-12 cups. I like to just place the eggs in a bowl of warm water while I gather all the other ingredients. Eggs and Buttermilk need to be at room temperature. This gluten-free peanut butter banana cake can be made with an electric hand mixer or with a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. To replace buttermilk, you can use homemade buttermilk (milk with vinegar and lemon juice) or sour cream. It also gives the peanut butter banana cake a little tang which goes very well with the sweetness and flavor of the bananas. In my opinion, it’s more reliable in baking than natural peanut butter (which is perfect for snacking!).īuttermilk: Like greek yogurt and sour cream, this acidic ingredient helps to create a tender crumb and soft texture. Conventional peanut butter is made with fully hydrogenated vegetable oils, which help stabilize the peanut butter and prevent it from separating. ![]() Peanut Butter: I prefer baking with “conventional” peanut butter such as Jif or Skippy. They will release some liquid which you may discard. When I am ready to use them, I place them in a bowl and allow them to thaw at room temperature. To freeze bananas, just place them with their peel in the freezer. Previously frozen bananas also work great in this recipe. Flour blends used to develop this delicious banana cake do contain xanthan gum.īananas: I like to use ripe bananas, with a lot of brown spots but aren’t mushy. There's no reason why other brands won't work in this recipe. Both flour blends make this snack cake perfect. I have also tried the recipe with Bob's Red Mill and King Arthur Measure for Measure. ![]() Gluten Free Flour: For this Gluten Free Peanut Butter Banana Cake, I use my own gluten-free flour blend, which gives it a light and tender crumb. of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Univ. Davis, T.A., UMFPACK Version 4.0 User Guideĭept. Warning: Rank deficient, rank = xxx tol = xxxĬhol, det, inv, lu, orth, permute, ipermute, qr, rref.From matrix division, if a nonsquare A is rank deficient:.Warning: Matrix is close to singular or badly scaled.If the inverse was found, but is not reliable:.Matrix division and element-wise division may produce NaNs or Infs where appropriate.From element-wise division, if the divisor has zero elements:.Warning: Matrix is singular to working precision.From matrix division, if a square A is singular:.If k 'bandden'.įull square, symmetric (Hermitian) positive definiteįor other cases (sparse, triangular and Hessenberg) MATLAB does not use LAPACK. A solution X is computed which has at most k nonzero components per column. The effective rank, k, of A, is determined from the QR decomposition with pivoting (see "Algorithm" for details). If A is a square n -by- n matrix and B is a matrix with n rows. If A is a scalar, then AB is equivalent to A.B. MATLAB ® displays a warning message if A is badly scaled or nearly singular, but performs the calculation regardless. The matrices A and B must have the same number of rows. If A is an m-by- n matrix with m ~= n and B is a column vector with m components, or a matrix with several such columns, then X = A\B is the solution in the least squares sense to the under- or overdetermined system of equations AX = B. x AB solves the system of linear equations Ax. Due to the nature of the mathematics on this site it is best views in. A warning message prints if A is badly scaled or nearly singular. 5.2 Review : Matrices & Vectors 5.3 Review. If A is an n-by- n matrix and B is a column vector with n components, or a matrix with several such columns, then X = A\B is the solution to the equation AX = B computed by Gaussian elimination (see Algorithm for details). If A is a square matrix, A\B is roughly the same as inv(A)* B, except it is computed in a different way. A and B must have the same size, unless one of them is a scalar.īackslash or matrix left division. A./B is the matrix with elements A(i,j)/B(i,j). ![]() A and B must have the same size, unless one of them is a scalar. A.* B is the element-by-element product of the arrays A and B. ![]() A scalar can multiply a matrix of any size.Īrray multiplication. More precisely,įor nonscalar A and B, the number of columns of A must equal the number of rows of B. C = A* B is the linear algebraic product of the matrices A and B. A scalar can be subtracted from a matrix of any size. A and B must have the same size, unless one is a scalar. ![]() A scalar can be added to a matrix of any size. However, since the matrix and array operations are the same for addition and subtraction, the character pairs. The period character (.) distinguishes the array operations from the matrix operations. Array arithmetic operations are carried out element-by-element, and can be used with multidimensional arrays. Matrix arithmetic operations are defined by the rules of linear algebra. MATLAB has two different types of arithmetic operations. Even a single number is stored as a matrix. The elements can be numbers, logical values (true or false), dates and times, strings, categorical values, or some other MATLAB data type. A matrix is a two-dimensional, rectangular array of data elements arranged in rows and columns. Python Dictionaries Access Items Change Items Add Items Remove Items Loop Dictionaries Copy Dictionaries Nested Dictionaries Dictionary Methods Dictionary Exercise Python If.Else Python While Loops Python For Loops Python Functions Python Lambda Python Arrays Python Classes/Objects Python Inheritance Python Iterators Python Polymorphism Python Scope Python Modules Python Dates Python Math Python JSON Python RegEx Python PIP Python Try.Arithmetic Operators + - * / \ ^ ' (MATLAB Functions) MATLAB Function Reference The most basic MATLAB® data structure is the matrix. 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These are secure pathways that make sure the data can be exchanged safely. To keep this data safe, VPNs create what are known as VPN tunnels. When you use the internet, your device sends and receives information. This type of encryption has 2256 key combinations (a number that consists of 78 digits) and is virtually impossible to break. The best encryption available on the market is AES ( Advanced Encryption Standard) 256-bit encryption. What is encryption?Įncryption refers to the way certain information is coded, i.e. The most important things safety-wise are encryption and safety protocols. Whether you run a company that operates remotely or you are a privacy-oriented person, a VPN is something that will surely increase your level of privacy and safety online. The most valid reason to get a VPN is security. 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Rather than trying to communicate something new, they took something that people already knew and used it to help them go on a journey. In this case, they described the Lion King as the story of Macbeth told with lions in Africa. To sell the idea internally, the producers took a familiar storyline to explain their idea. He used the example of Disney and the Lion King movie. Adam is a great storyteller and he talked about how you can take people on a journey by making the unfamiliar familiar when you’re trying to communicate change. One of the biggest takeaways for me from Adam’s keynote was around storytelling. Use storytelling to make the unfamiliar, familiar This idea of hiring for cultural contribution rather than cultural fit is so important when it comes to real diversity and inclusion.Ĥ. You want to bring in people who add something to your culture that changes it for the better. As a company grows and evolves, you have to deliberately sit down and think about the contribution that new people will bring. Rather than aiming to hire people for cultural fit, he challenged us to think about what contribution someone brings to our culture. While you want to keep people who aren't right for your organization out, that can easily mean you slip into the pattern of hiring a lot of people with the same background and experience. This is a really timely one with a lot of people thinking about diversity and inclusion now. In his talk, Adam also talked about the idea of culture fit versus culture contribution. Don’t hire for culture fit, hire for culture contribution Personally I found this idea very powerful when thinking about how to build a Culture First organization.ģ. ![]() This is a good example of how he uses data in a practical way to make you think about applications in your own organization. So, the negative impact of one person in your organization can potentially outweigh the positive impact of three other people. His research found that the effect of somebody who is selfish can be two or three times bigger than the effect of someone who is generous. ![]() He talked about people that give (or are generous) and people that take (or are selfish). This is based on Adam’s research about give and take. To succeed you have to make sure you don’t bring the wrong people on as well. When you’re thinking about creating a strong culture, it’s not enough to try and keep the good people. After hearing Adam speak I just wanted to go away and try his experiments. Testing out an idea and seeing what happens is sometimes the best way to see the research in action. Rather than just telling us what we should do, he shared experiments to try in our own organizations. Make research accessible and engaging Adam is a scientist but he brings together modern research on the world of work in an accessible and engaging way (his latest book, Originals, is a great example of this). There were four things that I took away from his talk:ġ. It was incredible to meet Adam in person and see him in full flight. He combines deep research with an amazing ability to tell stories. If you don't know who he is, Adam is the person whose work you should read first if you want to understand more about what’s happening in IO psychology today. At our recent Culture First event, day one was headlined by a keynote from Dr. |