 8th-century shrine and observe two of the most spectacular thermal springs around Beppu.
Explore a Shinto shrine that became a great spiritual center and an art museum where nearly three centuries of treasures are beautifully displayed.Jason Sobocinski took a bold step just over four years ago and plunged himself into the restaurant world.
An industry that can be notoriously fickle and hard work, he found a niche and has exploited it to the max.
As the owner of Caseus, a cheese shop and gastro pub in New Haven, he’s created quite a following and for those who want a cheaper cheese experience, he has hit the streets with his very own cheese truck.
Sobocinski admits to being a street food junkie and working with his younger brother Tom, who always wanted a food truck, came up with the idea.
Using the truck’s website, and social media, people can find out where the cheese truck will be in the city each day as it moves from location to location.
A clever piece of marketing, which is tastier than a paper flyer, and has meant Caseus doesn’t require expensive advertising.
So where do you go next after all of this success? Well television of course. Cooking shows are big business and Sobocinski managed to bag himself a show all about his passion for cheese for the Cooking Channel, part of the Food Network.
Called ‘The Big Cheese’, he recalls the fun and hard work surrounding the show.
“It was a ton of fun but a lot harder than I thought it would be. I’ve worked in the restaurant industry all my life, fourteen hour days, but it was tough, you have to be ‘on’ in front of the camera all the time, it gets exhausting.
Back in the world of business he’s now opened another restaurant in nearby Hamden but hasn’t chosen to use the Caseus name. The Park Central Tavern, says Sobocinski, is different as he wants Caseus to remain unique.
The energy that Sobocinski has for his businesses is infectious and what is great is that he doesn’t take it too seriously but just seriously enough.
Now he’s a published writer with the new Caseus cookbook, something Sobocinski says he’d always wanted to do and using a local publishing company and helps from family and friends he’s put in to print his story so far.
It has the obligatory mouth-watering recipes and of course the cheese you can buy from the shop, but it also gives an insight in to this very savvy thirty four year old, who apart from running multiple businesses, is married and has a young son, who he takes turn in looking after amidst all the other madness of his life. Yes we shouldn’t forget the ‘working dads’ of this world too.
In these hard economic times for everyone it’s great to see the American dream still exists.
Sobocinski is a hard worker and says that if he sleeps more than five to six hours a day he feels like he’s missing out.
Maybe it’s because he’s a dad with a young son or because he truly is an inspirational person with a lot to achieve.
But whatever it is, his success is well deserved and you couldn’t hope to meet a more down to Earth genuine guy who took his passion and has let us all share in it.
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Near the end of the book, after readers have been convinced of Michigan’s slide into despair, the author reminds us she wrote this love letter “just cause some things aren’t ever really as bad as they seem.” In Sarah Carson’s hands, this is not a feel-good platitude: it’s a pragmatic anthem of hope.
He didn’t know it at the time, but in 1990 Eric Fossum started a revolution. In the early ‘90s, NASA was firing rockets into orbit every other month. And to take images of outer space, each spacecraft was equipped with cameras.
The problem was, these cameras were absolutely huge—roughly as big as a double-door fridge. Cameras used on spacecraft are similar to digital cameras, except they have to be a lot tougher. And they required tons of heavy wiring to work.
So NASA hired hotshot engineer Eric Fossum straight from Yale, and tasked him with miniaturizing NASA’s cameras. Within two years, Fossum created a “camera-on-a-chip”—a new type of image sensor that was smaller and consumed 100X less power.
Image sensors are tiny computer chips that essentially give cameras a set of “eyes.” They process light from the outside world and transform it into a bunch of 1s and 0s, allowing cameras to render images. Fossum’s “camera-on-a-chip” helped NASA slash the size of its cameras. But more important, his invention laid the groundwork for digital cameras and camera phones.
The rise of smartphones has been a boon for the sensor industry. Before camera phones, sensors were mostly used in digital cameras. And even during their best year ever, camera sales peaked at 121 million units in 2010.
But last year 1.4 billion smartphones shipped around the world. Today over five billion people across the globe own a smartphone… and most of them have at least one image sensor inside. In 2010, total image sensor sales were under $2 billion/year. Sensor sales to smartphone makers alone will hit $8 billion this year.
Image sensor sales are expected to hit $29 billion/year by 2024 as they ride this new wave of growth.
Until recently, computers have never been able to master vision. Even in 2012, the world’s best image-recognition computer was still laughably bad at recognizing images. But Alex Krizhevsky’s “big breakthrough” changed everything. AlexNet marked the first time in history a machine could identify objects better than a human.
Now that we have computer vision, image sensors have become more important than ever. Think about what computer vision does: it transforms every camera lens into a pair of eyes that can understand what it sees.
Image sensors are no longer simply cameras that take photos. With computer vision, they’re eyeballs that allow machines to “see.” Images become a whole new input for computers—like numbers or text. Our cameras are the new keyboards. Every image and YouTube video can be searched and analyzed for the first time ever.
The powerful combination of computer vision and image sensors has handed machines a new superpower. Image sensors will soon be in practically every computer in the world—just like almost every machine is hooked up to the internet.
As demand for image sensors soars, a “hall-of-fame” disruptor stands to make billions.
Nobutoshi Kihara just wanted to listen to Beethoven’s symphonies during his long intercontinental plane trips without lugging around a giant tape player. Kihara was the co-founder of Japanese electronics giant Sony (SNE). So in 1978 he had some of its engineers build a prototype. K