Word: filterers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nevin R. Britto ’10, who volunteers throughout the year at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter located in University Lutheran Church, will be spending Thursday morning at the shelter, helping prepare the evening’s meal and providing amenities for guests who filter into the shelter throughout...
Then there are the sites that are supposed to help you sort the wheat from the chaff on all the other sites. They filter out the stories you can ignore, and they aggregate the ones they think you should read. Some have computer algorithms to do their sorting, while others induce readers themselves to do the heavy lifting. Sixty-three percent of those who enjoyed a story about cannibalism in suburban Paris, it turns out, recommend another story about werewolves in Rio de Janeiro. Hey, better check...
...shelving systems, says he always saw the straw as a system for delivering more than flavor. He started tinkering with the idea in 1996, after wondering why flavored milk cost so much more than the plain variety. He tried using a fat plastic straw from McDonald's and a filter made from one of his daughter's school stockings. That didn't work. He soon designed a new type of conical filter that wouldn't clog, and figured out how to create flavor beads by making a tiny core and gradually adding material to it in a tumbler. Sucralose sweetener...
...Episcopalian, which is still one of my favorite flavors of Christianity. But currently I'm Wiccan. One of its biggest tenets is, Do as thou wilt, but harm none. And that applies to yourself as well. So every choice you make, all day long, every day, goes through that filter. But there's no intrinsic guilt in this religion. Since everything is sacred, you don't have to feel ashamed about your body or what you're doing with it, as long as you're harming no one. You don't have to feel guilty, or apologize, for being human...
...stressed. The plan is to assist only people with sustainable home loans, not borrowers who made bad decisions and are stuck with mortgages they clearly can't pay off. "We're not doing anything for people who are under water," said the official. The FDIC plan would attempt to filter out "the people we can't help. There are foreclosures that will go forward." The process of sorting good from bad loans would also provide clarity for mortgage markets by helping financial institutions assess where the risks are in their loan portfolios and by making it easier to determine...