The ten sacred minutes by yourself with your coffee in the morning before the day starts.
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"Skimping on the grinder is the fastest way to kill your coffee, " she said, something every source reiterated.
Aside from raising your bed, you can also hang a skirt around your coffee table and store items underneath.
Once you do sit down (you can bring your coffee with you), you hear a sermon augmented by a PowerPoint presentation.
They might even have your coffee order just the way you like it ready as you step up to the counter.
Take your coffee the traditional Italian way, standing up at the bar.
All meals and non-alcoholic drinks are included, so after eating a healthy breakfast and finishing the last of your coffee it's time to investigate Jamaica.
Other options, like the strength of your coffee, can be changed easily on the display screen from cup to cup to suit the needs of friends and family.
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Its illuminated buttons and large color LCD display steals attention from just about anything else on your coffee table while its white scroll wheel steals from something else.
Before you send in your order, reinforce your coffee table.
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Take your coffee and soak in the wide, panoramic views of the zigzagging Ashley River, where a functioning rice plantation was in full bloom more than 200 years ago.
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If you've found yourself even mildly obsessed with style, art or design over the past score, there's a better-than-average chance you've got a Nicholas Callaway book on your coffee table.
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If you are offering a loyalty program at your coffee shop, should you offer 10% off each cup, or tell them that after buying nine cups they get one free?
But back to our senior seminar, where we were to choose our paths, and Anne Marie's path was lids those plastic travel lids you put on your coffee and soda cups.
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Again and yet again the voice says you are at the head of the queue - by now you have spilt your coffee and the cat has been kicked away from under the table.
Just remember: never sit down (it will cost more), pay for your coffee separately (then hand the receipt to the barista) and never have a cappuccino past 11 am (it is just not the way things are done).
Of course, you can also do some slightly more practical things like tailor your coffee exactly the way you like using the massive touchscreen, and even check up on the weather and news while you wait.
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This northern Italian city has no shortage of cafes where you can soak up the atmosphere and fuel up on caffeine, but one of the most popular and authentic is Gilli in the Piazza della Repubblica, where you can sip your coffee underneath chandeliers and frescoes.
Unlike current radar-assisted offerings from companies like Infiniti, Distance Plus can control the vehicle in both highway and city driving conditions, meaning you can commute from Harlem to Wall Street down the West Side Highway while sipping your coffee and reading the Post Engadget on your mobile, glancing up occassionally to steer.
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Like I said, there are days in which -- my guess is it will happen again this week -- where you pick up that newspaper or you turn on your computer at 4:30 a.m. in the morning while your coffee is still brewing and you groan and, oh, God, what -- you know, great, this is going -- and then you get on your BlackBerry.
Anyone who has been to a coffee shop in the past decade knows that there are a near-infinite number of ways to have your morning coffee.
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Even in slow periods, your average coffee-stained corporate headhunter is scrambling to fill 20 positions at a time.
So where are these high-paying virtual jobs that can be done anywhere from your couch to your local coffee shop?
Sail goes more directly for Square's jugular, using its own plug-in dongle to handle major credit card payments in your local coffee shop or a mid-sized outlet.
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Currently, a business using Foursquare (like your corner coffee shop) can see the customers who have checked in in the last three hours (in addition to the most recent and their most loyal visitors).
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Ask for a harbour mountain-view room and you can watch seaplanes take off from Coal Harbour or see the first streaks of light hit the snow-capped North Shore mountains as you sip your morning coffee.
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