Lithium Cycles is a maker of e-bikes and is based out of Tustin, California. The Super 73 Scout weighs about the same as regular bikes, can be secured using the same locks, but has a lower learning curve than say, an electric skateboard. It’s fast, with a top speed of 20mph and a range of 40 miles. It’s available for pre-order now, at $1,395 and ships in December.
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Aryabhatt Super 30, Triveni Super 30, Rehmani Super 30, Abhyanand Super 30, ONGC Super 30, Rehman Super 30, Atom Super 30—huge billboards and signboards screaming out these names can be seen all over Patna, on walls, and in large advertisements in local newspapers. Newcomers to Bihar’s capital can be forgiven for wondering whether Super 30 is a rocket, a potency pill or dental floss.
Of course, it’s none of these, but merely take-offs of the fantastically successful original Super 30 started by Anand Kumar in 2002 as a coaching institute for poor students to help them crack the famously tough engineering joint entrance examination called IIT-JEE. In the past 15 years, 396 of a total 450 of Kumar’s students have found admission in the country’s most prestigious engineering colleges. That’s a success rate of 88%. And this year too, all 30 of his students have come out with flying colours in the test.
The proliferation of these institutes is a natural fallout of the sub-par quality of schooling in Bihar. This year, nearly half the students failed to pass Class X and only 35% cleared the Class XII board examinations.
“The situation is really bad here in Patna. Coaching centres have mushroomed because the government has failed to provide quality education. The private sector is filling the vacuum left behind by the state’s education sector,” said Nawal Kishore Choudhary, economist and former Head of Department at Patna University. “First, higher education collapsed, now primary and secondary education too are on the brink. What option does the hapless student have besides enrolling himself at a coaching centre?”
Patna has hundreds of these institutes that promise to train students for every competitive exam out there, though the majority applicants are for engineering and medical entrance coaching. These days, the three most crowded coaching institutes in the city are Mentors, Vision Classes and Tapsya. Besides, established names such as Brilliant, Allen, Akaash and Bansal have also opened branches in Patna, in swanky buildings located at prime locations in the city. These coaching centres are the top revenue generators for local newspapers, pumping in crores in advertising every year.
The tens of thousands of students who enrol in these institutes get no share of the riches though. Many of them live in deplorable conditions in hostels attached to these institutes, mostly situated in squalid, fly-ridden lanes and by-lanes.
At one such hostel in the Naya Tola area in Patna, we found five students sharing a single windowless, unplastered room with a rickety ceiling fan and lean wooden cots. The students had rolled up their bedding to squat on the cots and study. Droplets of sweat dripped down their foreheads and bare backs. In the by-lane right outside, it was a cacophony of blaring horns, noisy hawkers, and loudspeakers from a nearby temple. “It’s worse during summer but we carry on. There is no other option,” said Sanjay Kumar from neighbouring Nalanda district.
This desperation to join a reputed college and earn a professional degree is not new or strange for many of these students. It is their only chance at climbing up the social ladder and making a decent living. And nobody understands this better than Kumar himself. “I know what poverty means and how it comes in the way of those who want to study and excel. It’s my dream that one day Super 30 will grow to become Super 3000,” he says, sitting in his Shanti Kutir residence in Patna’s Mithapur locality.
Started in the year 2002, Kumar’s coaching institute is a class apart and provides free education and lodging to underprivileged students from the State. He also runs another institute, Ramanujam School of Mathematics, for general students and charges them a meagre fee. The man who once delivered homemade papad to shops and homes, on his creaky bicycle, is today saviour and guardian angel to thousands of students eager to study and make a difference to their lives.
This year, Kumar plans to admit 100 students, including from the neighbouring States of Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. “I hope it inspires others too to follow suit,” he says. “I want more students to get a chance to study, poverty notwithstanding.”
Role model
Kumar’s successful students too seem intent on following in their teacher’s footsteps. Shubham Kumar Gautam, who went on to study at IIT-BHU, has given up his plush job at an MNC and teamed up with friends to work in the education sector in Varanasi and Delhi.
“Anand sir taught us to give back to society and it’s been a lifetime lesson for me. I want to become like him,” Gautam says. Another student, Anup Raj, an IIT-Mumbai alumnus, today runs a healthcare service provider, PSTakeCare, in Mumbai, with 100 employees on its rolls. Kumar’s success story is now set to reach wider audiences. Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan has been signed on to portray Kumar in an upcoming film titled Super 30. Last year, a book on Kumar, jointly written by Canada-based psychiatrist Biju Mathew and Patna-based senior journalist Arun Kumar, was released.
As Bihar’s schooling system struggles to come to terms with the changing milieu of higher education and offer its students the best of opportunities, private institutes are only broadening their scope.
As huge billboards with pictures of successful students continue to mushroom across Patna, and newer initiatives—Genius 40 and Fantastic 50—take root on every street corner, eager students from across the State and outside make a beeline to these institutes that promise them a bright future.
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Cartoon & animation is intended for getting the digital figures on the display that offers the feel and look of existence that was actual. And an animator does this occupation. The animation could be carried out in two methods- 2D and 3D. The 3D cartoon seems more realistic than 2D as a third dimension is included inside. But both the types have equally approach has a value that is equivalent to their place. An animator must create the kind of content in line with an individual condition based upon the project and the type of user requirement from marketing to academic and more.
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In order to provide users with way of preventing their chat messages from getting buried in YouTube’s comment section, the video-sharing platform has announced a new tool named ‘Super Chat’. The newly-announced feature essentially pins user’s message at the top of the chat for up to five hours so that the message gets the required attention from the video creator. The Super chats are also highlighted using a different colour.
YouTube has already started the beta test for the Super Chat feature with few creators including-iHasCupquake, Great Library (buzzbean11), and Alex Wassabi, the company said in its blog post. However, it plans to broadly launch the feature on January 31, with creators from 20 countries and viewers in more than 40 countries, it added.
“For creators, this means Super Chat does double duty: keeping their conversations and connections with (super) fans meaningful and lively while also giving creators a new way to make money,” the blog post said.
In terms of requirements and availability, the Super Chats can be viewed on YouTube or YouTube Gaming on computer, in Android app, and in the iOS app. Interestingly, Super Chat purchases can be made on all aforementioned platforms except iOS. YouTube says that purchases on iOS are currently not supported.
In order to make a Super Chat purchase, users need to select the “$” sign within the live chat. The option apparently pops up only in portrait mode. Then, you have to select the Send a Super Chat option. The user is then required to either type or drag the slider to their desired value. Users can then type the message and then select the option to Buy and Send.
“They can be viewed in Internet Explorer 11+, Chrome 36+, Safari 9+, FireFox 35+, Edge, and Opera 23+,” the company said on browsers supporting the new Super Chat feature.
Apart from the introduction of this new feature, the Google-owned website also announced that it is getting rid of its Fan Funding feature, which was launched back in 2014. The Fan Funding feature essentially allowed users to make voluntary payments to support their favourite content creators. “While we were really excited about Fan Funding, it never achieved widespread usage outside of live streams, where we saw the majority of revenue,” YouTube reasoned in the blog post.
Even though the company has stopped accepting new signups for the Fan Funding feature, the feature will continue to be used on enabled channels till February 28, when it will finally be discontinued.
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After a brief disappearance, Super Mario Run is now back on the App Store. Earlier we reported that Nintendo’s first major smartphone game had been pulled from Apple’s storefront. No reason for its temporary removal has been given by Nintendo.
Pulling up Super Mario Run’s iOS update history though, points at two very recent versions.Yesterday’s 3.0.2 and today’s 3.0.3 update state “bug fixes” were made and nothing else.
This isn’t the first time a publisher has removed its games from the App Store. In the past, the likes of EA had removed its Dead Space and Mass Effect Infiltrator titles while more recently, 2K had pulled BioShock from iOS too. Thankfully, Nintendo’s removal of Super Mario Run seems to be far from permanent at this time.
During Nintendo’s financial earnings report, the company has said the game has been downloaded almost 150 million times across iOS and Android. Incidentally, it’s still available for download via the Google Play Store.
In January, it was revealed that Super Mario Run was downloaded 78 million times with around five percent paying for the full version, translating to close to four million.
Revenue from the game “did not meet our expectations,” Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima said speaking to Asia Nikkei in March. Previously it was reported that the game’s gross revenue hit $30 million in two weeks.
At the time, the company isn’t planning to focus freemium games completely, citing its success with Fire Emblem: Heroes being an outlier.
“We honestly prefer the Super Mario Run model,” a senior company official said to Asia Nikkei in March.
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