Kokomo's Restaurant & Beach Bar Launches Kokomo's Beach Club.
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Kokomo's Restaurant & Beach Bar, a year-round Caribbean-influenced restaurant and gathering place situated on Soundview Beach in Old Lyme, CT is gearing up for summer! Kokomo's Owner Brian Cleary, a 30-year foodservice industry professional, opened his resort-style escape in May 2019, transforming the former casual beach bar space into a more elevated experience featuring handcrafted tropical drinks and a creative land and sea menu, all wrapped in a vibrant island atmosphere.
In addition to Cleary's vision for the restaurant's innovative food and beverage program, Kokomo's has added exclusive beach access to their location in the form of Kokomo's Beach Club, a membership service that provides ardent beachgoers and vacationers with prime "Koko Beach" access that includes private cabanas, chaise lounge chairs, and concierge amenities from toes-in-the-sand beachside food and beverage service, restaurant dining reservations, members-only mixology and culinary classes, year-round activities, and more. Membership packages start as low as $80 and range from 7-days-a-week access to weekend and weekdays-only options. More information: www.kokomosrestaurant.com/beachclub
Kokomo's Restaurant & Beach Bar, which is open to the public daily, begins with a welcoming interior dining room and intimate bar with a view of the beach and Kokomo's lively outdoor dining and bar scene. Set amid a blue and white design aesthetic, the ocean view takes center stage along with Chef Kinsler's eclectic menu. Born in the Bahamas, Chef Kinsler's kitchen cred includes over 10 years in the Miami, FL restaurant world, including stints at Soul Tavern and River Yacht Club, a culture and professional background which is evident in the restaurant's Caribbean style approach.
Popular seafood house fare includes raw bar clams, oysters, and shrimp, a classic seafood boil with Maine lobster, beer-battered Atlantic cod fish & chips, Point Judith fried calamari, warm buttery or cool creamy lobster rolls, and New England clam chowder. The menu journeys from house-made fried mozzarella topped with pesto and a variety of chicken wings punched up with sweet chile or bourbon bbq, to more sophisticated dishes such as tuna poke with jalapeno, caviar, and truffle aioli, and ceviche mixto prepared with fresh fish marinated in spicy citrus leche de tigre. Entrées are a virtual culinary tour that includes fish, shrimp, and short rib tacos, a Maryland crab cake sandwich, decadent lobster mac and cheese, Jamaican jerk 1/2 chicken with mango salsa and crispy plantains, porcini crusted ribeye with black garlic sauce, potato gnocchi, and wild mushrooms, linguini and clams, and a grilled red snapper with papaya slaw, shishito peppers, sweet plantains, and mango habanero sauce.
Kokomo's beverage program is equally diverse and creative as its cuisine. Craft cocktails run the gamut from tropical rum punches, mai tais, and a "mezcalita de piña", to martinis which take their cues from the islands (and the Beach Boys song) including the Bermuda made with Aviation Gin, peach schnapps, orange juice, and grenadine, and the Key Largo shaken with Bacardi Superior Light Rum, sweet vermouth, white creme de cacao, orange curacao, lime juice, and grenadine. Kokomo's also offers a global curated wine list, suggested wine pairings, and an extensive beer selection.
Kokomo's Restaurant and Beach Bar is open daily, 11:00 AM – Midnight (Kitchen 10:00 PM)
Ask any Indian what their country runs on and the answer will inevitably come, "Chai". Introduced to the country by the British and the Portuguese, Chai (or tea) is as much of a legacy to India as the New York Pizza Slice or the Chicago Deep Dish is to America. We've taken the drink and co-opted it, introducing our rich culture and complex flavors and spices to what's otherwise a simple beverage of tea leaves, water, milk, and sugar. Today, chai can be found everywhere – At tiny roadside stalls in the city or on highways, and even in the up-market urban Chai cafés that are the "tea-quivalent" of Starbucks. However, possibly the most iconic form of Chai is found on the roads, sold by people on push-carts or even out of canteens on the back of scooters. The CHAIGAADI builds on that culture, modernizing it and turning it into even more of an icon.
ChaiGaadi is the world's tiniest tea stall ever made. At just 1.5 sq. ft, the foldable tea stall fits right on the back of a Vespa, allowing the tea vendor to easily set up shop anywhere and sell tea along with select confectionery and snacks. Everything fits right into a 1.5 sq. ft. box that's mounted on the back of a Vespa. Designed to work like a food truck, traveling from location to location (and often parking outside large offices in the evenings to businessmen can get their 'chai break'), the ChaiGaadi can be set up anywhere in minutes. The box opens out into an elaborate setup comprising a copper tea boiler, a cup-warming tray fitted with signature 'cutting chai' drinking glasses, a tray for confectionery like buns and tea-cakes, and a fold-out counter for serving your wares and collecting cash. Once consumed, used tea glasses can even be docked in a special tray on the side, along with a small compartment for food waste.
The copper construction on the tea boiler is a bit of creative fusion from the designer, Arun Prabhu. Inspired by the copper glasses used by Turkish baristas to brew their coffee, the ChaiGaadi's copper boiler relies on the metal's conductivity while hinting at that cultural inspiration from the Middle East. Vents on the top of the boiler serve two purposes. Not only do they help keep the chai-glasses above warm (the vendor or 'chaiwallah could pre-pour 10-15 glasses to quickly serve hot to customers), but they even occasionally let out steam, spreading the familiar whiff of strong milky tea in the air.
"We spent months prototyping, itching to find the right balance between usability and the skeleton of the structure", says Arun Prabhu, founder of cross-disciplinary design and research firm The BILLBOARDS® Collective, and the designer of the ChaiGaadi. Touted as the world's tiniest tea café, the ChaiGaadi was designed for Hyderabad-based cafe chain, Chai Kahaani, and is currently going through testing and trials as it prepares for an eventual nationwide rollout.
Your yintang is a stress-relief pressure point that lies between your eyebrows. And, according to ancient Chinese acupuncture, gently pressing this point can help relieve anxiety and stress.1
Here's how you do it:
1. Sit comfortably. It can help to close your eyes.
2. Touch the spot between your eyebrows with your index finger or thumb.
3. Take slow, deep breaths and apply gentle, firm pressure in a circular motion for 1 or 2 minutes.
2. Practice "box breathing"
Also known as "resetting your breath" or "four-square breathing," box breathing is a simple relaxation technique that helps you feel more calm in times of stress.
It's a rhythmic exercise that takes place on a repeated count — like a box waltz, for your lungs.
Here's how to do it: Inhale as you count to 4, hold for a count of 4, exhale for a count of 4, then hold for another 4 count.
Ideally, you'll want to repeat the cycle 3-4 times in one sitting…
But if you're pressed for time, even a single cycle of box breathing can do wonders for clearing your mind and relaxing your body.
3. Chew some gum
By stimulating your sense of touch, taste, and smell, chewing gum gives your brain something else to focus on other than your nerves.
In fact, in a recent study, researchers found that chewing gum could reduce "stress hormones" in your body by up to 16%.2
Just make sure your gum is sugar-free and xylitol based, since sugar can actually trigger stress signals in your body — the exact problem you're trying to avoid!3
4. Stare at a soothing pattern
Research shows that simply looking at repeating patterns and textures, you can reduce stress by as much as 60%.4
And luckily, patterns are all around us!
So the next time you find yourself feeling overwhelmed, just take moment to find the nearest pattern in your vicinity —
Whether it's patterns on buildings, leaves, snowflakes, flowers, wrapping paper, seashells, staircases, or succulents in your garden —
And let yourself "zone out" on it for a bit.
You might be surprised by how much calmer and more collected this simple practice makes you feel.
5. Grab a tennis ball… and roll around
Okay, this tip may sound a little weird, but hear me out. I learned it at one of my yoga classes:
The next time you're feeling stressed, lie on your floor and roll around on a tennis ball.
You see, tennis balls are actually an excellent self-massage tool. Try positioning one near your shoulder blades, glutes, or calves and slowly roll around — you'll find it's AMAZING for relieving stress and soothing sore muscles.
'Bitcoin Is the Biggest Jailbreak in Human History,' Says Philosopher Stefan Molyneux
On February 19, the Canadian podcaster and Freedomain Radio host, Stefan Molyneux, discussed his thoughts about bitcoin following the crypto asset's tumultuous rise capturing over a trillion-dollar market valuation. Molyneux's recent speech describes the liberating potential bitcoin could bring to the masses and how the crypto network has the ability to change humanity for the better.
'Bitcoin Is a Currency That Serves the People at the Expense of the Parasites'
Just recently the crypto evangelist and philosopher, Stefan Molyneux, spoke about the Bitcoin blockchain in great detail. Molyneux opened his speech by answering a question about BTC and ETH having a hard time scaling. The Freedomain radio host said that it is good to critique, but that people in the crypto space wouldn't give up so easily.
Molyneux mentioned that bitcoin's market capitalization just crossed the trillion-dollar milestone and noted that the people who have added that value won't throw in the towel. He insisted that many crypto proponents have given a decade of their lives toward spreading adoption, and mentioned there are solutions like bitcoin cash (BCH) and the Lightning Network.
"The Bitcoin community is composed of just about the most brilliant, and economically and ideologically motivated human beings on the planet," Molyneux stresses in his video. "Bet against them at your freaking peril, because Bitcoin is not just an alternative currency, it's not just a store of value, it's not just a cool public ledger. Bitcoin is a passionate FU to the powers that be," Molyneux adds.
Freedomain Radio philosopher and anarcho-capitalist, Stefan Molyneux.
The Freedomain philosopher continues: "Bitcoin, as I've argued publicly in speeches many years ago— Bitcoin is the potential end to war, to end hyperinflation, to end intergenerational debt— Bitcoin is a mission of mercy to the future— Bitcoin is the Jesus to the new conference of the religion of peace called crypto. Bitcoin is the people regaining control over their currency for the first time in the history of the world— Bitcoin is currency democratized, unpolitized, unpredatored."
Molyneux added:
Bitcoin is a currency that serves the people at the expense of the parasites, rather than the currency which serves the parasites at the expense of the people at the moment. Bitcoin is rescuing your precious labor from being hoovered up endlessly by the invisible vampire mosquitoes of central banking.
Today's Fiat Currency Is Slavery Tethered to Unborn Generations
The philosopher continues by commending the Bitcoin community and says that the people in crypto are "seriously brilliant." Beautiful and "deranged people," he says that are "committed to the future of peace and plenty that Bitcoin could represent."
Molyneux further notes that the current fiat currency distributed by the world's oligarchic bureaucracy is "slavery."
"What we understand is currency now is slavery. The currency is summoned into existence at the expense of your children's futures. What you think of as a dollar sign is a slow jugular sucking noose twined and twisted around the necks of your children," Molyneux reveals.
National debt, Molyneux continues to highlight is "a real human trafficking problem." You need to understand the Bitcoin space he adds. "The passion that these incredibly brilliant people have brought to bear on the oldest human problem— How do you store a value so that thieving predatory vampiric assholes can't get their jugular sucking tentacles on it at all times? How do you store value so that you can actually come back to it?" Molyneux asked.
He adds:
Civilization is all about the storing of value. How do you store value? That's civilization you understand. Bitcoin is about how you store value so that [parasites] can't get their hands on it. They just can't. You put your money in the bank, inflation eats it away, you store your meat by the river, the flies lay their eggs in it and you can't eat it, you got gold coins in Rome, they put all kinds of a bimetallic [crap] into the gold and destroy its value in your hand.
'The Likes of a Revolution That We Have Never Ever Ever Seen Before in Human History'
Molyneux says that humans are all about storing value and in the evangelist's opinion, the storage and retention of value is everything in life. "By creating something that can store value outside the state, that is the likes of a revolution that we have never ever ever seen before in human history," the philosopher insists.
"If shells on some island are the currency," Molyneux details in an analogy. "Then you need three shells a day to live, and if you get four shells, someone's gonna take the fourth shell. Then tomorrow you won't bother to get the fourth shell. You just stick with getting three shells and nothing will ever progress, because nothing can be saved or stored up in value. Nothing ever gets built because everything you build is going to be taken away from you," he added.
"Bitcoin is the biggest jailbreak in human history,' Molyneux's video highlights.
Molyneux continues: "Imagine… everything you build is going to get taken away. It's happening [right] now, you understand. Everything you have built is already taken away by unfunded liabilities, national debt, inflation— Everything you build is already taken away. You are just holding it now to have it for a little while to give you the illusion so you can go to work tomorrow."
Bitcoin Represents a New Financial System That Doesn't Leverage the Unborn as Collateral
Molyneux says you can have a house. But it's really not your house. He highlights that you have to pay the government every year to keep it.
"And the government put it in so much debt and you in so much debt, that it's gonna be owned by some foreign bankster, at some point," Molyneux's speech details. "Or the entire currency is going to collapse and society goes back to savage gangs and you lose your house. You pretend you have a house, you pretend you have electricity, you pretend you have a car, you pretend you have everything but you have nothing."
The Freedomain radio host further says:
You know this 2030 'you'll own nothing and you'll be happy,' [that's the way it is] now. In fact you owe, you don't own, you owe. You are only allowed to pretend you own something so that you will get up and go to work tomorrow. That's it man.
Bitcoin has changed this course, Molyneux emphasizes. Bitcoin is the first of its kind that can actually keep parasites away from stealing value he notes. He says that the society we live in today treats babies and the unborn as "collateral." Bitcoin can bolster a system that does away with such an immoral system.
"If you generally understood how much debt was taken out on your behalf just because you are breathing," Molyneux notes. "If you genuinely looked at that math, you can find it pretty easy," he added.
Molyneux's speech continues for another 20 minutes longer, and news.Bitcoin.com readers can watch the rest of his speech here.
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