Sentences with phrase «as oyster»

Serving first as a battleground in the French and Indian War and the War for Independence, and later as an oyster - farming hub, this city has struggled during the «70s and «80s but its economy is strong.

You can swim in the ocean to find things such as the oyster pictured below.

For aspiring digital nomads with the world as their oyster, an error fare could be all the motivation they need for a change of scenery and to try out a new location.

** Calcium carbonate is available as oyster shell calcium tablets or Tums tablets (0.5 g in regular Tums, 0.75 g in Tums Extra and 1.0 g in Tums Ultra).

In any case, it looks like Amazon could have cracked the ebook subscription profitability conundrum that's put contenders such as Oyster out of business despite repeated rounds of venture capital funding.

Major publishers are obviously looking to increase their ebook margins significantly and shift the pivot in the book business just a little as they turn to operations such as Oyster and their own direct - sales websites to reduce their dependence on Amazon, but they're unlikely to make much of an impact with these sort of price differentials.

Using the same royalty standard as Oyster, Smashwords authors will earn the same 60 % rate of their book price if the subscriber reads past 30 % of the entire book.

Indeed, most of the studies that highlight our love for print over digital are several years old (or more) at this point, a period in which large - format, high - resolution smartphone adoption (much better for reading) and new all - you - can - read ebook services, such as Oyster, Scribd, and Kindle Unlimited, have emerged.

Several companies have started offering ebook subscription services, such as Oyster, Scribd and Entitle, over the past year; it was only a matter of time before Amazon got onboard with the idea as well — now if only they can convince some big - name publishers too (that's probably what's delaying the announcement).

As both an Oyster customer and a member of the publishing industry community, I offer these five lessons from the Oyster experience:

He also said there are five things to know about unlimited subscriptions, including the fact that startups such as Oyster and Scribd are now on borrowed time to prove their worth (about 18 months), and publishers have options, which means they can help the startups by choosing to enroll their books in those services.

Every book enrolled in KDP Select is a vote to salt the earth against innovative startups such as Oyster and Scribd.

As an Oyster reader, rest assured, nothing is changing regarding your account today.

First off, as soon as a reader read a very low number of pages, Oyster had to pay the publishers the cost of the full book — which, you'll note, is about the same price as Oyster's monthly fee.

There are a number of Netflix for eBook sites that have sprung up this year, such as Oyster, Scribed and now Entitle.

Or as the Oyster blog hints: «As we continue on, we couldn't be more excited about the future of ebooks and mobile reading.

New startups such as Oyster are selling critical user data to companies about their subscribers, who access a copious amount of titles for a low monthly fee.

Publishers using the ePubDirect system can select Oyster as an outlet on their distribution platform, only titles with US rights will be sent to Oyster at the moment as Oyster is a US based subscription service.

Kindle Unlimited is similar to competitors such as Oyster in that readers pay a low monthly fee for unlimited access to a large selection of e-books.

The Seattle based e-commerce giant is now competing against companies such as Oyster and Scribd, which have friendly terms for self - published authors.

With this flexibility comes the freedom to change slowly; some schools have remained loyal to the more traditional, time - based practices of the Carnegie model, such as Oyster River High School in Durham.

But in early September, school board chancellor Michelle Rhee told local members of the media that she would encourage the Obamas to send their daughters to a public school such as the Oyster Bilingual School, attended by her own daughters.

You can swim in the ocean to find things such as the oyster pictured below.

It's an eerie look at life with a sick twist of fate for five beautiful sisters with the world as their oyster.

That is why supplemental forms of calcium carbonate, also known as oyster shell calcium, found in many popular brands of supplements, (TUMS), is poorly absorbed and many times can cause problems.

Using this method to estimate the abundance and distribution of fish species could help scientists more easily understand the impact certain environmental factors, such as oyster farms or pollution, are having on local fish populations.

Flaws in the boiling - water reactor safety system at Fukushima Daiichi (as well as Oyster Creek and Vermont Yankee) had been known since 1972.

While developing the compost program, the researchers made an important discovery: coffee grounds are a great compost for cultivating mushrooms, particularly gourmet mushrooms, such as oyster, shiitake and reishi.

While ocean acidification has yet to plague the East Coast oyster industry, hatcheries in Oregon have struggled with persistent production failures, as oyster larvae fail to survive in more acidic waters.

«I have decided to leave my position as the Oyster Bay Town supervisor,» Venditto said in the statement.

Republican Joseph Saladino vacated the seat earlier this year upon his appointment as Oyster Bay town supervisor.

Also, during Mangano's two terms, strains developed between the town's GOP leadership and Mondello — as Oyster Bay Republicans, headed by Rob Walker, Mangano's chief deputy, aggressively developed their own political power base and fundraising operation.

«I have decided to leave my position as the Oyster Bay Town supervisor,» Venditto said in a statement on Tuesday.

It started as an oyster farm but now it also has an outdoor oyster bar with great food, including a linguine and clams (loaded with Little Necks, chopped quahogs, and flakes of locally caught fish).

As an oyster peddler, Arya is inconspicuous and blends in with the sights and sounds of the market.

2 pounds assorted wild mushrooms (such as oyster, crimini, and / or stemmed shiitake), cut into thick slices

But if you want to get fancy, mix in some wild mushrooms, such as oyster, maitake or porcini.

Humankind knows about as much about God as that oyster knows about ballerinas.

Of course if we really are in the same situation as the oyster, it looks like we can't even be certain which religion is the «true» one.

Crypto is a global industry, so companies should think of the world as their oyster.

Also shellfish such as oysters (the richest source of zinc!)

Coastal seas and estuaries have lost as much as 91 percent of certain species, such as oysters, according to another survey.

Animals such as oysters and bay anchovies are permanent residents, whereas others such as shrimp move out to sea to spawn and complete their life cycles.

Lead author Emily Rivest of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science says its findings are also likely applicable to other foundational reef species such as oysters.

«I would recommend consuming folate - rich foods such as green leafy vegetables, grains, and fruits, and zinc - rich products such as oysters and meat,» says Régine Steegers - Theunissen, associate professor of epidemiology and obstetrics at the University Medical Center in Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

They used synthesized data on oceanographic parameters like ocean depth and temperature and the biological needs of 180 species of finfish and bivalve mollusks, such as oysters and mussels.

The team analyzed little studied factors that play a role in ocean acidification (OA)-- changes in water chemistry that threaten the ability of shellfish such as oysters, clams and scallops to create and maintain their shells, among other impacts.

«Bivalves such as oysters are also filter feeders that obtain their food by pumping water through their system and filtering small organisms,» she said.

The native oysters benefited from climate change as well as their predators such as oysters drills and snails.

Many processed foods are fortified with zinc, and it also occurs naturally in foods such as oysters, beef, chicken, pumpkin seeds, lamb, spinach and yogurt.