Sentences with phrase «as edison»

About... More accurately known as Edison Township, this bucolic little city is known locally as «The Birthplace of the Modern World» because of its association with its namesake, the famous inventor.

Joanne Wilson is the trainer, handler and owner of Samantha (who stars as Edison in the play) and the other seven dogs with supporting roles.

«It is clear from our findings that across all schools we studied, Edison students did not perform as well as Edison claims,» Miron says.

Rose also worked as senior executive at the massive public education privatization company known as Edison Schools where he served as the company «s Associate General Counsel, Chief of Staff, General Manager, and Vice President for School Operations

In the 11 years since the state took over Philadelphia, the district has gone through an array of overhauls, including the hand - off of school operations to outfits such as Edison Schools, and even the hard work of reformers such as Paul Vallas (who began Chicago's successful school reform effort and has just finished up a successful stint overseeing the revamp of New Orleans» school system).

It would prove fruitful to investigate New Haven Public Schools and its relationships with private education firms such as Edison Learning, Gateway Learning Academy, Renaissance School Services, and Domus, Inc., and Achievement First.

While for - profit companies such as Edison Schools Inc. operate charter schools in many states, the Washington law was drafted to exclude them.

Meanwhile, a company such as Edison Schools or a nonprofit such as KIPP applies for a charter to run a replacement school out of that very facility.

«It is clear from our findings that across all schools we studied, Edison students did not perform as well as Edison claims,» said Miron in a press release.

This capital allows the companies to make substantial investments in R&D — such as Edison's multiyear curriculum design project, which took place largely before the company operated a single school.

Most EMOs today are for - profit companies, such as Edison Schools and Nobel Learning Communities, but not all.

The exception seemed to be schools associated with large, deep - pocketed national school - management organizations such as Edison and National Heritage Academies.

Michael Shannon is heavily mutton - chopped and mustachioed as Westinghouse, dialing down his intrinsic weirdness to play a man who was every bit as practical, respectful and team - oriented as Edison was a lone - wolf visionary.

Portraying standard heroines in such films as Edison the Man (1940) and My Friend Flicka (1943), Johnson brought far more warmth and humanity to the parts than the scripts provided.

Another part of the group's mission is changing the antiquated notion of the inventor as Edison look - alike.

«Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity.»

Also names like Matt Hummels of Borussia Dortmund as mentioned as well as Edison Cavani of PSG.

But the Timberwolves» disappointment was brief, as Edison was disqualified for a pair of violations to give Woodcreek the top spot on the podium.

If Wenger has an Epiphany, a deep realisation, he could get rid of Giroud in part exchange for a good striker such as Edison Cavani or even Falcao.

Bung a few mil on top & buy (as Charlie points out) a proven goalscorer for both club and country over numerous seasons a.k.a World Class such as Edison Cavani.

This was obviously suicide tactics and our weaknesses were immediately exposed as Edison Cavani put us behind in the first minute of the game.

«We are honored to be chosen as an Edison Awards finalist.

«Covergirl was thrilled to be recognized as an Edison Award winner for Covergirl & OLAY Simply Ageless Foundation, the only cosmetic product to receive this recognition in 2010.»

It acquired such companies as Edison Mission Energy and Alta Wind, making it one of the largest retail electricity providers in the U.S., and which had the added benefit of coming with over half a million new customers.

Not exact matches

In this book, Hill personally interviewed around 500 rich and successful people, such as Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.

Thomas Edison might say they also found 999 ways not to deliver value as well.

Launched in 2012, Edison Nation Medical allows entrepreneurs to submit as little as a back - of - the - napkin idea for a medical device, and then its team of manufacturers, attorneys, and health care specialists takes care of the rest, from patenting and FDA approvals to licensing and distribution.

Unique to the world of award programs, the Edison Awards ® are focused on the innovators as much as the innovations.

Our dismissive attitude about sleep may go back to Thomas Edison, who, as she explained, is «the one person who most embodies our sleep delusion.»

As Thomas Edison found, if there's one thing certain about entrepreneurship, it's that things never go as planneAs Thomas Edison found, if there's one thing certain about entrepreneurship, it's that things never go as planneas planned.

So we asked our agency president, Ted Birkhahn, to dress as Thomas Edison (GE's founder) and deliver an «Imagination Manifesto» right in the CMO's conference room.

Not to mention Edison Nation, a Web platform that helps inventors submit ideas in response to company product searches, and even As Seen on TV's own crowdfunding site.

As Thomas Edison said, «Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.»

Thomas Edison is often named as an example of why failure shouldn't stop you from trying; different estimates purport that he built 100 to 1,000 light bulbs before he found one that worked.

Later on, the hotel became a luxurious vacation spot for important figures such as President Theodore Roosevelt, P.T. Barnum, and Thomas Edison.

«The 20th century's Thomas Edison has stepped from the stage... the scope of the technologies that sprang from or were transformed by Jobs's Apple laboratories — the Mac, the mouse, the laptop, Pixar, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad — is awesome, as was that from Edison's Menlo Park.»

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

SunPower said in June it would it would offer solar systems with battery storage to 300 New York homeowners in what would serve as a «virtual power plant» to utility Con Edison.

Bug If you have referred to a tech problem as a bug, you can thank pioneers including Thomas Edison and U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.

Entrepreneurs such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Ted Turner all had dyslexia.

That includes tests that Theranos did with Edison, as well as the ones it performed with traditional lab equipment, according to The Journal's report.

One former employee also charged that as late as 2014, Theranos did fewer than 10 percent of its tests on Edison machines.

Webster serves as the vice-president of strategic marketing for Edison Research.

While the 20th century saw massive corporations build vast factories to churn out the products of an elite class of industrial geniuses like Edison and Ford and Jobs, the 21st century is more likely to see what we might loosely call the democratization of design, production and, ultimately, innovation, as the means of technologically sophisticated design and manufacturing become widely available.

I recently came across a wonderful article by Brett and Kate McKay on napping which chronicles the benefits of napping for such illuminati as Leonardo DaVinci, Thomas Edison, JFK, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lyndon Johnson, Stonewall Jackson, Albert Einstein, and Salvador Dali.

Napoleon Hill's 1937 book focuses on such entrepreneurs as Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie.

As many as 3,000 hopefuls turn up at a single Edisons casting call, clutching diagrams scrawled on cocktail napkins or prototypes cobbled together from duct tape and tongue depressorAs many as 3,000 hopefuls turn up at a single Edisons casting call, clutching diagrams scrawled on cocktail napkins or prototypes cobbled together from duct tape and tongue depressoras 3,000 hopefuls turn up at a single Edisons casting call, clutching diagrams scrawled on cocktail napkins or prototypes cobbled together from duct tape and tongue depressors.

As for big dreamers and inventors, the billionaire founder's role models are Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and Oscar Wilde.

As we can see in this chart from Statista, based off data from NPR and Edison Research, 36 % of people don't buy smart speakers because they don't like the idea of a device always listening to them.

Prior, she served as a general assignment reporter at News 12, Edison, N.J.; WLNE - TV (ABC), Providence, R.I.; and WMUR - TV (ABC) in Manchester, N.H.