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Learn some great tips for pulling espresso shots from our expert in this free drink recipe video on making your own espresso drinks.

Expert: Natalja Robertsdottir
Bio: Natalja Robertsdottir has been a barista in both Iceland and Canada. Currently she manages the Red Brick Café in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Filmmaker: Melissa Schenk

Duration : 0:1:22

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Remodeling a bathroom can end up costing you a significant chunk of change. When you add up the cost of that new sink, flooring, paint, and new contemporary vanity, the end result could be much more than what you were expecting. However, if you shop wisely and find discount bathroom vanities, you’ll find that remodeling your bathroom doesn’t have to cost you that much.

Where to Find Discount Bathroom Vanities

Not all home and bathroom remodeling shops offer discounted bathroom vanities and furnishings. Many high-end shops that offer the latest vanity styles and designs often charge outrageous prices, even for basic contemporary bathroom vanities. However, there are bathroom furnishings suppliers that deal in wholesale and get significant discounts on many of today’s top vanity designs and styles. Modern Bathroom, for example, offers discounted bathroom vanities at rock-bottom prices, including high-end vanities like the Charleton Vanity and Futuro Vanity. Finding discount bathroom vanities will allow you to afford more contemporary and stylized vanities, helping you transform your boring bathroom into an elegant room. Paying full price for your vanity will limit the level of elegance of your new bathroom remodel. So, if you want to afford the best, look for discount bathroom vanities. A good place to start is the Internet. The Internet is filled with online bathroom remodeling websites that offer bathroom furnishings at affordable prices and can provide you with the discount bathroom vanity you need to save on your renovation.

Top Vanities for Your Bathroom

Bathroom design has come a long way since the introduction of indoor plumbing. Today, vanities come in all shapes and sizes, and continue to push the envelope on bathroom design. Below are a few of the more popular bathroom vanity designs.

The Charleton Vanity

The Charlton Vanity is the focal point of any modern bathroom. This contemporary vanity has beautiful oak wood cabinets with an Espresso finish, and is a pillar of modern bathroom design. Its 5/8″ heat-tempered clear safety glass basin and counter give the Charlton Vanity a clean and crisp look that make it a “must have” for your contemporary bathroom remodel.

The Chianto Vanity

If you’re looking for the complete vanity for your modern bathroom renovation, look no further than the Chianto. The Chianto bathroom vanity combines glass, gorgeous oak wood, and chrome accents to create a distinct design that fits perfectly in any contemporary bathroom redesign. The Chianto comes complete with a streamline shelf unit, contemporary mirror, one-piece glass counter and sink, and contemporary faucet, giving you everything you need to start and finish your modern bathroom renovation.

The Newport Vanity

Larger than the CHARLTON Vanity, the NEWPORT Vanity establishes a strong, solid foundation for any modern bathroom. Its oak wood cabinets, Espresso finish, and 3/4″ frosted heat-tempered safety glass basin and bathroom vanity top are the perfect combination of the latest design in contemporary modern vanities.

If you’re thinking about renovating or updating your bathroom and are looking for discount bathroom vanities, check out Modern Bathroom’s wide selection of affordable and stylish bathroom vanities. Modern Bathroom offers the popular bathroom vanities mentioned above at prices that are significantly less than what you’d pay retail.

Frank Johnson
http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/stretch-your-bathroom-remodeling-budget-further-with-discount-bathroom-vanities-54685.html

Fresh Espresso perform “Lazerbeams” live in the KEXP studio. Recorded 8/4/09.

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A guide to back flushing, shower screen cleaning, and steam wand maintenance, brought to you by Portland Roasting.

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<p>A regular morning in Italy does not begin without the &quot;stand up espresso or cappuccino&quot;&nbsp; at the local coffee bar, usually accompanied by a cornetto, a sweet, horseshoe shaped pastry; easy to eat, handed to you by the &quot;barista&quot; ( the bar man ) in a paper serviette.<br />You can grab a table if you want and pay triple or you can be part of the &quot;entire blend&quot; not just the coffee, by standing at the busy bar, part of the local culture, the interaction,where it’s all happening, hearing a string of &quot;buon giorno’s &quot; from the barista’s to the continuous&nbsp; stream of customers; at lighting speed he empties and refills another round metal container with fresh coffee, seamlessly clicking the devise onto the Gaggia. The fresh liquid appears filling the small white cups, two at the time.<br />The bar itself is usually glass topped, a perfect height for standing and sipping; glass extending halfway down, displaying oven fresh trays full of cornettos and other sweet choices of the morning; the custom of paying the cashier before you order and handing the receipt to the barista, leaves you with a sense of freedom to fully participate.<br />Even in the midst of this frenzy, you sense a general unspoken politeness, that you are there too; a &quot;prego&quot; as the person next to you, moves to give you some space.<br />
You can watch the stylish Italian customers, classical Romans, come and go, typically waving their arms in mid conversation: this is not just having coffee it’s an Italian movie, thrown in.<br />
In Rome, especially, you’ll find a bar on almost every street corner; if you can’t see them, just follow the aroma of the coffee beans&nbsp; or the clanking&nbsp; sounds of cups and spoons hitting against the saucers as the barista, serves yet another espresso; the daily sounds of Rome, these are not English tea rooms, rather a morning alarm, just to make sure you are fully awake and as soon as that espresso hits you, even though only four or five sips to that tiny cup, your ready for another day in Rome, but first the bar.<br />The bars have a reputation, of who serves the best coffee:&nbsp; it becomes an important part of the conversation among Romans, which filters through to visitors, non Romans who have come to the ancient city looking for a superior coffee shot. <br />We wonder if Achille Gaggia who&nbsp; invented the espresso machine in Italy in 1948, knew that his invention would lead to a national instituition. <br />
While you’re in Rome, looking for that special coffee,you’ll need accommodation, and since the hotels in Rome, like the rest of Europe&nbsp; tend to be expensive, you might like to try an apartment to rent in Rome.<br />We have close to 300 Rome holiday apartments available, ranging from 3 star upwards. The staff at <a href=”http://Rome-Accom.com”>Rome-Accom.com</a> speak English speakers (native)</p>

Leon Kammer
http://www.articlesbase.com/coffee-articles/rome-and-coffee-680089.html

Learn about and how to make flavored lattes at home from our expert in this free drink recipe video on making your own espresso drinks.

Expert: Natalja Robertsdottir
Bio: Natalja Robertsdottir has been a barista in both Iceland and Canada. Currently she manages the Red Brick Café in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Filmmaker: Melissa Schenk

Duration : 0:3:28

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latest ad of Nespresso with Clooney
This is the long version

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A demonstration of the EBM, Version 2.0

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<p>A regular morning in Italy does not begin without the &quot;stand up espresso or cappuccino&quot;&nbsp; at the local coffee bar, usually accompanied by a cornetto, a sweet, horseshoe shaped pastry; easy to eat, handed to you by the &quot;barista&quot; ( the bar man ) in a paper serviette.<br />You can grab a table if you want and pay triple or you can be part of the &quot;entire blend&quot; not just the coffee, by standing at the busy bar, part of the local culture, the interaction,where it’s all happening, hearing a string of &quot;buon giorno’s &quot; from the barista’s to the continuous&nbsp; stream of customers; at lighting speed he empties and refills another round metal container with fresh coffee, seamlessly clicking the devise onto the Gaggia. The fresh liquid appears filling the small white cups, two at the time.<br />The bar itself is usually glass topped, a perfect height for standing and sipping; glass extending halfway down, displaying oven fresh trays full of cornettos and other sweet choices of the morning; the custom of paying the cashier before you order and handing the receipt to the barista, leaves you with a sense of freedom to fully participate.<br />Even in the midst of this frenzy, you sense a general unspoken politeness, that you are there too; a &quot;prego&quot; as the person next to you, moves to give you some space.<br />
You can watch the stylish Italian customers, classical Romans, come and go, typically waving their arms in mid conversation: this is not just having coffee it’s an Italian movie, thrown in.<br />
In Rome, especially, you’ll find a bar on almost every street corner; if you can’t see them, just follow the aroma of the coffee beans&nbsp; or the clanking&nbsp; sounds of cups and spoons hitting against the saucers as the barista, serves yet another espresso; the daily sounds of Rome, these are not English tea rooms, rather a morning alarm, just to make sure you are fully awake and as soon as that espresso hits you, even though only four or five sips to that tiny cup, your ready for another day in Rome, but first the bar.<br />The bars have a reputation, of who serves the best coffee:&nbsp; it becomes an important part of the conversation among Romans, which filters through to visitors, non Romans who have come to the ancient city looking for a superior coffee shot. <br />We wonder if Achille Gaggia who&nbsp; invented the espresso machine in Italy in 1948, knew that his invention would lead to a national instituition. <br />
While you’re in Rome, looking for that special coffee,you’ll need accommodation, and since the hotels in Rome, like the rest of Europe&nbsp; tend to be expensive, you might like to try an apartment to rent in Rome.<br />We have close to 300 Rome holiday apartments available, ranging from 3 star upwards. The staff at <a href=”http://Rome-Accom.com”>Rome-Accom.com</a> speak English speakers (native)</p>

Leon Kammer
http://www.articlesbase.com/coffee-articles/rome-and-coffee-680089.html