(n.) The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.
(n.) Fig.: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.
Example Sentences:
(1) But that is informed consent – which users can’t see, but I’m putting in quotes.” Asked by the host, Alex Goldman, if OKCupid had ever considered bringing in an ethicist to vet the experiments, Rudder said: “To wring his hands all day for a $100,000 a year?”.
(2) Christian Rudder accepted blame for stoking the fires around the topic, admitting that his initial blogpost was “sensationally written”, but stood by the argument that experimenting on users was “just part of the scientific method”.
(3) Lee was nervous about attempting to land using "stick and rudder" flying skills.
(4) Speaking to On The Media’s TLDR podcast , Rudder said that there was no consideration given to letting users opt-in to experimentation, because “once people know that they’re being studied along a particular axis, inevitably they’re gonna act differently.
(5) OkCupid doesn’t really know what it’s doing,” writes Rudder in the most recent blogpost .
(6) The final experiment Rudder describes has proved more controversial, however.
(7) "If they had wanted to stop us they could have attacked our rudder and propeller, instead they preferred to send masked commando soldiers to attack us.
(8) It uses pallets dropped by parachute and guided by GPS navigation and a rudder.
(9) Perlmutter thanks Bernanke for his steady hand on the economic rudder.
(10) Experiments are how you sort all this out.” Rudder refers specifically to Facebook’s troubles over its experimentation, when the firm tweaked the content of users’ news feeds in an effort to discover what their reaction was to a higher proportion of positive or negative posts.
(11) That’s how websites work.” The first experiment Rudder describes occurred in January 2013.
(12) "Maybe this time they'll attack the rudder and the propeller, we'll see."
(13) However, abdominal ruddering did not contribute to yaw turns.
(14) And we all know what Silicon Valley feels about ethicists : they know what’s ethical and what’s not already, so why hire one “to wring his hands for $100,000 a year”, as OKCupid’s Christian Rudder put it.
(15) With failing engines, ruptured fuel tanks and a damaged rudder, Air Force One finally lunges into the Caspian Sea and breaks apart; just in time, Ford is safely yanked on to a hovering Hercules turboprop, which, as its pilot beamingly announces while the theme appropriated by Trump blares out one last time, at once becomes Air Force One.
(16) 21st CENTURY AIRSHIPS The Zeppelin flies again How it works: Rigid or semi-rigid compartment lifted and held aloft by lighter-than-air gas (hydrogen, helium, hot air), driven usually by gas-burning engine, steered by rudder State of play: Technology with a (mixed) history, once considered defunct, now enjoying major R&D revival, various prototypes in development, first actual passenger-carrying flights underway Latest action: Modern small airships developed by a German company (Zeppelin NT, no less) and others offer sightseeing tours for small groups in London, San Francisco, Switzerland and Tokyo – weather permitting Downsides: Image overshadowed by the Hindenburg fire and other 1930s disasters; relatively slow speed, especially into headwind; stability issues, unusable in bad weather; still burns fuel Likeliest prospects: Advertising and tourism (already demonstrated), observation, heavy lifting, eg for military equipment, short-haul travel competing with ferries Long-term vision?
(17) The rating typically proves accurate, but, Rudder writes, “in the back of our minds, there’s always been the possibility: maybe it works just because we tell people it does.
(18) And that’s the kind of, again the kind of conversation that I think Facebook on accident, and OkCupid on purpose, is trying to kickstart.” Rudder had weighed into the conversation with a blogpost in late July detailing the ways in which OKCupid performed experiments to assess the value of its service.
(19) For now though, policy makers are holding the rudder steady, hoping for the storm to blow over.
(20) The crews of Sea Shepherd ships also drag metal-reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders, launch flares with hooks, and point high-powered lasers at the whalers to annoy crew members.
Teacher
Definition:
(n.) One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.
(n.) One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(3) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(4) That means scrapping David Cameron’s unqualified teacher policy, which has produced a 16% increase in the number of unqualified teachers in our schools.
(5) The twenty-five participants, from four different countries, were asked to rate each TC regarding its importance for teachers and whether they possessed them or needed further training.
(6) The teacher said his school believed it was aware of all the pupils who had been present, and that Nuttall was not among them.
(7) It was the purpose of this study to investigate teachers' and interpreters' consistency with regard to following the rules of three of these systems.
(8) When my form teacher said I’d worked well in every subject except geography, I made her change the bit that said I’d not tried to say, instead, that I was rubbish at it.
(9) "Don't be afraid to talk and ask questions, even with your teachers around.
(10) A short, intensive, teacher training course for general practitioners is described.
(11) His teacher was the charismatic Father Matta el-Meskin (Matthew the Poor), later to become an opponent.
(12) In the target areas, church and community members will sponsor health fairs and discussions of adolescent pregnancy at church and at parent-teacher association meetings.
(13) He stayed silent when the teacher asked him a question and afterwards I found him standing in the middle of the classroom looking totally lost as everyone ran around.
(14) The Ayotzinapa school has long been an ally of community police in the nearby town of Tixtla, and Martinez said that, along with the teachers’ union and the students, it had formed a broad front to expel cartel extortionists from the area last year.
(15) But the investigation was not published until almost a year after the whistleblower's approach, as the National Union of Teachers prepared to publish its own documents about the mismanagement at the free school.
(16) Scoble shook his head, suggesting that by showing his Glass to "more than 600 people: bus drivers, school teachers..." he (and thus Google) is getting feedback from a wider demographic group.
(17) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
(18) Telemarketers, accountants, sports referees, legal secretaries, and cashiers were found to be among the most likely to lose their jobs, while doctors, preschool teachers, lawyers, artists, and clergy remained relatively safe.
(19) Theory and practice of urology generates three types of professionals: doctors, who study at universities and obtain their licence by making a demonstration before the Protomedicato Tribunal; surgeons, who acquire their surgical techniques through a teacher-pupil training relationship outside universities; and empirics, who were in charge of performing surgical operations.
(20) It has been suggested that teacher stress might be reduced through cognitive restructuring which is aimed at improving the rationality of their thinking.