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On the day Ms. Janice introduces Lark Alice Bell to the class, Dolores is proud to be the new girl's helper at recess. But Dolores is not so glad to see her friend Andy scribbling LAB inside a heart in his/b>
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On the day Ms. Janice introduces Lark Alice Bell to the class, Dolores is proud to be the new girl's helper at recess. But Dolores is not so glad to see her friend Andy scribbling LAB inside a heart in his notebook, and she's downright mad to find out that Lark has visited Andy at home. Luckily, when they all go back to Lark's house — and take a peek at the squirming puppies in her basement — Dolores figures out what has really been on Andy's mind all along. In his fourth engaging adventure, Andy Shane learns about the delicate balance of old friends and new, and the special joy of bringing home a dog of his own.
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Dolores Starbuckle leaned over Andy Shane's desk. She pointed to thepicture Andy was drawing. "Make a turret here," she said.
"What's a turret?" asked Yumi.
"It's the pointy part of a castle," said Dolores.
"Who said we're making a castle?" asked Andy. He and Dolores werebusy planning the snow fort they would make when the snow was warmenough and wet enough to stick.
"Good morning, class," said Ms. Janice.
"Good morning, Ms. Janice," said the students, looking up from theirbooks and games and papers.
Ms. Janice was not alone. She had her arm around a girl who was wearing pink overalls and lime-green sneakers tied with ribbons instead of shoelaces. The girl's eyes seemed to dance.
"This is Lark Alice Bell," said Ms. Janice. "She's just moved to town andwill be in our class this year."
"Hello, Lark," said Dolores, shooting her hand into the air. "I'll be yourhelper if you want. I know all the class rules and procedures, such as, 'Be a responsible and respectful class member.'"
"Thank you, Dolores," said Ms. Janice. "Perhaps you can be Lark'sguide on the playground. I thought Andy Shane might like to help Larkin class this morning, since his desk will be right next to hers."
"Lucky duck," whispered Dolores.
"Andy, please come forward and meet Lark," said Ms. Janice.
Andy's face turned the color of his favorite crayon: Razzle Dazzle Rose.
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Andy showed Lark where to sit during morning meeting, where to find the math materials, and where to sharpen her pencil.
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"Hi, Andy Shane," said a voice from the top of his hole. "What areyou doing in there?"
"Just sitting," said Andy. "Come on down."
Lark slipped in next to Andy. "This is like a cave," she said.
Andy smiled. He was proud of his hole.
"The closet in my old house felt like a cave," said Lark. "That's wheremy dog had her puppies."
"You have puppies?" asked Andy.
"Four," said Lark. "They're black Lab puppies. They're so cute. Theyhave these little bodies with giant paws and big noses."
"I have wanted a dog my whole life," said Andy. "My Granny Webb saidMAYBE I was old enough to get one."
"Does 'maybe' mean yes, or does 'maybe' mean no?"
"With Granny Webb, 'maybe' means 'maybe,'" said Andy.
"Maybe," said Lark, "you can have one of mine."
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If no one is there, how do know it's a tree? If it's a tree, how do you know it fell? Now if the tree did fall and no was around to hear it, of course it made a sound, even if no one heard it.
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what is "it" ?????
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either way it does make a sound, if youre miles upon miles away ofcourse u wont hear the sound of the tree landing but it STILL makes a loud sound upon impact..
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Yes, of course it makes a sound. Like someone else said, by the whole philosophy logic how does one even know the tree fell if no one is there to observe it, let alone the sound part. How do we even know their is a tree if no one is there to observe it. Philosophy is bullsh*t. Of course the tree made a godamn sound.
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Sounds is caused by the vibration of molecules in any medium in any physical state (solid, liquid, gas) as perceived by a brain. Without perception there is no sound. There are still vibrations, but no sound.
So if a tree falls in the forest and by some highly unusual chance there is nothing around that would perceive the vibrations wither through the air or through the ground then no, it would not make a sound, but it would still interact with the physical media regardless of any potential or actual observers.
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Twelve years ... [I came from] Bayou La Batre, Ala. ... I was [visiting] in Atlanta, shooting pool at Dottie's, and I happened to notice someone there who worked at Turner, and I just asked casually if they had any writing jobs open. She said yes. ... I started writing promos for Turner. I quit Turner in 1999.
You're associated with the McSweeney's stable, which seems to have ushered in a new era of high irony and absurdism. Where did this come from and what impact do you see it having on fiction?
I don't really think of the book as ironic. I know what you mean about some of the McSweeney's stuff, but they've been very good to me. ... In the case of my book, I really don't think of the characters as ironic at all. I sort of have affection for them, and what I like about them is that disconnect between the nonironic deepness of their feelings and their sort of comic inability to express them at all. And I guess if there's some irony, it comes from that disconnect between what the characters want to express and their just complete inarticulateness.
[McSweeney's is] going to bring out a DVD quarterly now. They sent me a Turkish sitcom -- which is a Turkish remake of "The Jeffersons" -- and got to me to write subtitles for it.
Maybe "irony" is the wrong word, but certainly McSweeney's -- and [your publiher] MacAdam/Cage -- have brought a new freedom for fiction to step outside the model of the transformative moment.
I would agree, though I would say it has roots in Donald Barthelme or Robert Coover... and he's still writing. I really like the modernists and the postmodernists, even though I suppose that's no longer fashionable. But I like James Joyce and Gertrude Stein and Samuel Becket and all those people. They have a great deal to do with that.
Let's talk about the title story. Writing a story in the voice of a bad writer is a risky proposition. What inspired that choice?
Just a terrible, terrible writer ... . The truth is I love to read self-published regional histories and things like that. And once again, in a nonironic way. There's just something refreshing about the writing ... sometimes amusing and sometimes all of a sudden there will be something kind of touching. I like that sort of tension.
A lot of your characters are individualists under duress, not understood and not even left alone -- put upon.
Most of the stories, all of the stories in this book, were written before I started getting anything published. And they were a lot about the frustration of not being able to get people to understand what I was trying to do. In a way, they're about the frustration. It's a silly way to try to make a living; it feels silly, really. And then they started to get published. And so now that they're in a book, I think they have a different tone than they did when they were in a heap in the manila envelopes with the rejection letters. They were more poignant then. Now ... now they might feel more sarcastic.
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"It is important to remember that amateurs built the ark and it was the professionals that built the Titanic."
-- Ben Carson
The above quotation is my favorite snapshot from the presidential campaign so far, and Ben Carson is involved in many of my other favorite moments, from continuing to insist that the Egyptians built the pyramids to store grain to the controversy over whether young Ben Carson actually attempted to stab a friend in a stomach.
Due to his lack of training in Egyptology and -- more important -- politics, Dr. Carson has a vested interest in elevating amateurs at the expense of professionals (including, presumably, medical professionals like himself -- for the record, it's not clear if Carson takes the same position on neurosurgery). Nevertheless, the apparent appeal of such populist positions this election cycle demonstrates that Carson is giving voice to the frustrations of millions of American who are credulous enough to take phone calls from pollsters.
Some have asked whether we're seeing a similar trend in higher education. Are professionals at colleges and universities taking a backseat while Americans learn from Gentle Ben and other amateurs?
Back in April, LinkedIn spent $1.5 billion to acquire Lynda.com, a library of more than 5,000 online courses and 250,000 video tutorials on business, technology and creative skills. Udemy is home to over 30,000 amateur courses in 80 languages, including Jimmy Naraine's top-selling course Double Your Confidence and Self-Esteem, and reported annual revenue growth of 160 percent in 2014 and 200 percent in 2015. (I have a feeling that Ben Carson and Jimmy Naraine share a similar demographic appeal.)
In IT, there's Pluralsight, offering 3,700 IT courses, where revenue is doubling annually and a planned IPO should value the company over $1 billion. Finally, there's Udacity, which provides IT courses and "nanodegrees" and recently announced both 1,000 nanodegree graduates as well as a financing that valued the company over $1 billion. These fast-growing companies are convincing millions of Americans that their educational products and programs are a good investment without regard to the involvement of faculty members or colleges and universities.
All this begs the question: Have we reached amateur hour in higher education?
The answer depends very much on how we define expertise. College and university professors are undoubtedly the leading experts in their domains of knowledge, particularly as it pertains to published books and research. Some (but far from all) are also leading experts on effective instruction and assessment.
But few college and university faculty members (or programs or departments or schools) can credibly claim expertise as to the competencies employers are seeking in new hires, particularly for easier-to-assess technical and hard skills. In this area, companies like Udacity -- which builds its nanodegrees with employers like Google -- can stake a firmer claim to "expertise."
In fact, virtually any "amateur" provider that is successful in engaging employers in program development and delivery can credibly stake a greater claim to this expertise than even (or especially) our oldest and most prestigious institutions. This leaves colleges and universities in the uncomfortable position of "amateurs" -- stewing over comments from the likes of Google's senior VP of people operations (grades in degree programs are "worthless as a criteria for hiring") and partnering with employer-facing prehire training intermediaries like Galvanize or ProSky in order to remain relevant to students.
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Colleges and universities have resisted their role in workforce development primarily due to the historic association of workforce development with "skill" development, and the association of "skills" with matters "vocational." Our isomorphic view of what it means to be an excellent institution of higher education doesn't come close to comprising vocational skill development.
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His name was Bobby. He sat in the front row. He paid attention and asked smart questions; he engaged his classmates in debate. He wrote his first paper about pistol-whipping another 20-something in his trailer park over a drug deal. Bobby had so many stories. He wrote about rescuing a woman after she had been raped by a neighbor. He wrote about being homeless after he left gang life. He rode a beat-up bicycle five miles one way to the college in all types of Minnesota weather, then sat wet and shivering in the front row, his hoodie pulled over his head. In late November his girlfriend gave birth, and all we had left to remind us of Bobby was that empty front-row seat.
Next came TJ. He dressed like Eminem and sported white sneakers, floppy and unlaced. He smelled funny, an overpowering bodily odor that I would learn to recognize as meth recovery. His classmates avoided being put into groups with him; they gave him space around the table. Between classes, he chain-smoked in the courtyard. When he visited me during office hours, his hands shook from nicotine.
TJ wrote about dropping out of school to join a circus. He had worked as a carnie and developed a nasty addiction. TJ wrote intoxicatingly about his past; he wrote convincingly about his new, sober life. He had no license, so his grandmother drove him to and from campus. But she was afraid to drive in snow or sleet, so TJ missed a lot of class.
TJ brought me an early draft of his essay to read. He also brought along his notebook from last semester's remedial writing course, in which he had taken copious notes. He referred to those notes as he explained what he knew about paragraph structure, thesis placement, and the use of examples. We discussed voice shifts, tense shifts, and where to break up paragraphs. I encouraged him to visit the writing center, which I direct, and a tutor discussed his second draft with him.
The day I handed back these papers, he walked in late and slid into the back row. I walked to the rear of the room, still talking, and handed him a paper with a large blue A- circled at the top. I was already back at my teaching console, showing items on the course website, when TJ approached shyly and stopped me in mid-sentence by holding up his paper.
"Is this my grade?" he asked.
"Yes, TJ, that's your grade," I replied.
"Are you sure?" he asked.
"Yes, TJ, you earned that grade through hard work and good revision," I said, loud enough for the class to hear.
We all watched TJ walk, beaming, back down the aisle to his seat. TJ was my model developmental writing student. But three weeks later, he vanished from my class.
I have 60 to 80 developmental writing students in my classes each term; many of them lead precarious lives. They come to me, to college, to the hope of a brighter future, but they are wounded and vulnerable and unprepared. They lack self-confidence in general; they lack academic confidence in particular. And if one thing tips the scale out of balance in their precarious lives, they will disappear.
I lie awake at night, worrying about them. Not them collectively, as one-third are doing fine and another third are squeaking by. It's the final third, the vulnerable ones, that rob me of sleep.
As a lifelong educator, I used to worry about paper-grading burnout. Now that my teaching load is largely remedial English, I worry more about emotional burnout: the accumulated psychological toll of caring for so many.
Because the more I care about my students, the more they break my heart.
I wish that I knew less about them, that they could simply be students to me. But the best subject matter for fledgling writers is their own lives, and my students love to tell their stories. While my colleagues in other departments are feeding multiple choice bubble sheets into Scantron machines or ticking off points for math equations, I am scribbling comments in the margins of my students' papers. I am writing things like, "Do you know how to get a restraining order? Please ask me; I will help you" and "Here's the counseling #. Ask for Robert."
I am also writing letters and emails, to both these students and their advisers. I am seeking student services and support agencies for them. I am trying to put a finger in every hole in the dikes of their lives so that they can stay in my class, they can learn, they can move on to college level English and the rest of their lives.
I am teaching the disciplinary material which I was trained to teach, but I am also serving as a life coach, student success skills instructor, and amateur therapist, and I have no training in these areas.
Jeff is my latest heartbreak. The last day he came to my class was a much-publicized workshop day, and I was unhappy with him for arriving without his draft. When I asked him to retrieve it from his car, he stood up and nearly keeled over. He told us he felt funny, he felt tired; he slurred his words and the sentences trailed off. His classmates looked frightened. I told him to forget about the writing assignment and go see the school nurse. I wish so badly that I had walked him to the nurse's office myself. He never went there. But she followed up, on my request, and has since told me that he is "under the care of mental health professionals."
I will never forget the shock on TJ's face, followed by intense pleasure, when I confirmed his A-.
Am I the only person to ever recognize TJ's academic aptitude, to ever tell him that he did a good job? I hope not. But so many of my remedial students hover on the brink of "I can't do this" that I work mightily to find qualities to praise, to point out aptitudes, even as I tough-love them with sentence structure, journaling, grammar quizzes.
I cannot say that these students disappear from the world; rather, they cease to attend my class. They are still members of my community. I saw Bobby in Walmart last spring, looking as happy-go-lucky as ever, as his friends shoplifted.
TJ may be the man putting my child on a carnival ride at next summer's county fair. Even if my female student does get that restraining order I mentioned in the margin of her last draft, she could still become a city statistic, another assault victim or death.
I live with my students perpetually on my mind. I worry about the stories that they're not telling me. Sometimes, teaching them how to write college essays seems trite in comparison with the other challenges of their daily lives. I wish I could pour the knowledge into their brains, test them on it, and go home. I wish I could see them simply as students.
I know the way out of my dilemma. I could go back to teaching courses with names like Writing Poetry and Women's Perspectives.
I could teach the students who are college-ready, who passed that arbitrary, high-stakes placement test, or who have already schlepped their way through a remedial course like mine.
But then who would encourage John to get tested for dyslexia? Who would ask my Hmong student about her pregnancy, or my Somali student about her father's heart surgery? Who would watch the 30-year-old veteran's face for signs of anxiety and reassure him?
When I was a graduate student, teaching freshman comp, I used to walk home each day, asking myself one question: "Did I do a good job?"
At the end of a day teaching remedial English, I still ask myself one question, and it's always the same one: "Did I do enough?"
Pam Whitfield is an English and equine science instructor and writing coordinator at Rochester Community and Technical College, in Minnesota.
We hear it again and again: The jobs of the future are going to take hustle. Job-seekers will have to be creative, generate buzz, be extraordinary. Make their own luck.
So why, in my Dorothea Lange vision of present conditions, do I visualize a young person with a cardboard sign that reads, "Too Tired to Hustle"?
As a community college professor, I'm proud that our institutions are open-admission. With very rare exceptions, there's no qualifying exam. We don't, for reasons of experience or ability, turn people away. But what are we turning them toward? What jobs lie ahead for my students? That question is increasingly troubling.
At my first community college gig 15 years ago, my students -- for better or for worse -- often met the then-stereotype of community college: the place you end up only because it is your first chance, or your last. Some of my students had parole officers, some had just become citizens, some had meandered through high school, and few had parents who had themselves gone to college.
My students today -- at a much nicer campus in a less disadvantaged part of the country -- meet those negative stereotypes less and less. That recent community college students are increasingly of traditional college age and qualifications is evident to me in my classroom and in their written work. More often than not, now, mine are "university" students simply priced out of the market for four-year education, or prudently looking for the first two years at a bargain.
But for all their improved preparation, they are anxious -- terribly anxious -- and I am anxious for them.
I am anxious not only for the same reasons they are -- the onset of a debilitating student loan burden, the desperate competition for unpaid internships, the concern that there might simply be not enough jobs to go around.
I am anxious, also, for a reason that many of them have not caught onto yet: the mismatch between the supposedly "good" jobs that popular wisdom seems to suggest will definitely continue to exist -- entrepreneurial, experimental, start-up jobs, jobs of risk, hustle, and verve -- and the jobs my students claim to want. Flipping through a semester's worth of self-introductions is like an obituary pamphlet for Old Economy employment. Again and again, they express a desire for mostly public or public-ish, long-term, safe and stable, even unionized, positions: firefighting, criminal justice, firefighting, nursing, nursing, teaching, teaching, teaching, radiology, firefighting, criminal justice.
Although a few students write, vaguely, business, and a few more, computer science, few are writing, "I want to start my own company," "I want to freelance myself as a consultant," "I'm going to sell myself, I have a vision, and I'm going to hustle until I get there, on my own." There's little excitement, to tell you the truth. There's just the longing for a job where you do one thing, easily described, for a long term, and get predictably and sufficiently paid for what you do.
My students don't want to be astronauts. They want jobs with reasonable, set hours, job security and pensions.
And I don't know how to break it to them. I don't know how to sell the alternative -- the more realistic future of work, that sort of chance, the chanciest chance I've ever sold.
To be clear, there's nothing wrong with the competitive capacity of my students; if anything, they seem more experienced in cutthroat competition than ever before. What is exhausted -- just worn and jaded, from constant use, and such challenging odds of reward -- is their inner reserves. Their belief that hustle can actually, well, work. And their trust that a hustle-world -- a world of contingent, not permanent, labor; of setting your own path, not following the path of a established bureaucracy; and of preparing, always preparing, not for the present, but for the as-yet-unimagined-job-that's-next -- will be a good one, an equitable one, a world they'll want to join. Or that will include a place for them, even if they do.
The problem with making your own luck is that it requires so much previous luck. To be nimble, to be ready, to have the excess emotional capacity to take future self-driven employment by the balls -- you need to not already be tired, scared, in shelter-mode. To risk more, you have to have not lost too much already. Or at least: not having lost too much already really, really helps.
Many of my students are not the unluckiest, but neither have they been that lucky. They are willing to work, but too tired to hustle. And that used to be enough.
Nicole Matos is associate professor of English at the College of DuPage, in Illinois. Her writing credits include Salon, The Rumpus, berfrois and numerous other literary and academic journals.
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MUMBAI, February 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Rolta India Limited, a leading provider of innovative IT solutions for many vertical segments, including Federal and State Governments, Defense and Homeland Security, Utilities, Process, Power, Banking and Insurance, today announced unaudited financial results for quarter ended December 31, 2012 (Q2 FY-13) which have undergone a limited review by statutory auditors of the company.
- Consolidated Revenue for Q2 FY-13 at Rs. 526.48 crores (Rs. 5.26 Billion) against Rs. 470.14 crores (Rs. 4.70 billion) in Q1 FY-13, registering a sequential growth of 12.0%.
- Consolidated Profit after Tax for Q2 FY-13 at Rs. 70.39 crores (Rs. 0.70 Billion) against Rs. 63.21 crores (Rs. 0.63 Billion) in Q1 FY-13, registering a sequential growth of 11.4%.
Commenting on the results, Mr. K. K. Singh, Chairman and Managing Director said, "Our strategy of transforming Rolta from a pure-play GIS/Engineering services company to an IP-led solutions provider is nearing completion. The Company now offers enterprise-wide integrated solutions that uniquely combine the benefits of Geospatial, Engineering, IT and Security domains. We are beginning to see strong evidence of the success of our strategy world-wide, as is reflected in our numbers for the quarter."
The Company made significant progress on many fronts during the quarter ended December 31, 2012. Rolta completed the acquisition of AdvizeX Technologies to widen its portfolio to include offerings in the areas of Cloud Computing, Big Data analytics, and IT Infrastructure design and security. The Company established strategic global partnerships with Oracle and SAP, taking the relationship with both to the next level.
On the business front, the Company has booked significant orders, including some for large innovative solutions with potential for follow-on business. The Order Book and the Pipeline are very healthy.
The Company appointed Preetha Pulusani as President, Rolta International, Inc. for Americas. She has also been inducted to the Board of Rolta India Limited as a Director. In the past, Preetha has served Rolta India as Joint Managing Director, and the Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to joining Rolta, Preetha had a twenty-five year career with Intergraph Corporation of USA that culminated with her appointment as the President of the Security, Government and Infrastructure (SG&I) Division with annual revenues of over $400 million. She replaces Ben Eazzetta, who wishes to pursue other interests but will continue to be a member of the Rolta International Board and an advisor.
The company also appointed Pankit Desai as President - Business Operations for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to Rolta, Pankit has served in executive leadership positions for companies such as NTT DATA, Intelligroup, Wipro and IBM, and thus brings rich experience in enterprise IT solutions to Rolta, including 15 years in the US.
Rajesh Ramachandran was appointed as the President & CTO for Global Products & Technology Solutions. He comes with rich experience at executive leadership positions at eBay, Oracle and Siemens, where he held product development and global delivery responsibilities.
Enterprise Geospatial & Engineering Solutions (EGES)
Rolta continues to experience good traction for its solutions in various vertical segments that it addresses. The Company has been recently selected to design and build a sophisticated Soil Information Management system in UAE. The Bahrain Enterprise Asset management System was successfully commissioned and the customer is evaluating additional add-on applications. The Company has been awarded projects valued at about $10M in North Africa for creating a digital spatial database, consisting of base maps and elevation models, for the country for use by multiple agencies, such as the land-records department, railways, municipalities, and for eventual integration with "business" applications on the Geospatial Fusion platform. In Western Europe, Rolta has been engaged for creating a digital landbase for municipalities, again for exploitation by BI applications. Rolta has been contracted by USA's largest commercial satellite operator and data provider to build digital elevation models (DEMs) for international airports across the world. The DEMs are being deployed for safety and security of the airports.
The company has successfully delivered a 3D "as-built" model for a major refinery in Kuwait, using sophisticated laser-grammetry and modeling tools. In addition to engineering design and automation, the Company's solutions for procurement and construction management have also been well received by the process industry in India, with the country's premier oil & gas company selecting Rolta for its fast-tracked $18 B expansion project.
Enterprise IT & Security Solutions (EITS)
The Company's strategy to differentiate its offerings in the large main-stream IT solutions and services market through deep domain knowledge of select vertical segments, and its integration with geospatial technologies, is meeting with success. Rolta has recently won a $31M contract from the largest 3-utility municipality in the US, MLGW of Memphis, for a comprehensive IT deployment project that will integrate Oracle e-Business Suite applications, including Financials, eAM, Human Resources, Hyperion and Business Intelligence, with spatial data. The success of Rolta's strategy was again evidenced by the recent award of contracts valued at $11M by Northern Powergrid, UK to modernize their IT infrastructure and business processes while leveraging geospatial intelligence through integration with a mobile platform, and deliver improved utilization through life-cycle asset management.
The Company has established state-of-the-art Centers of Excellence in Mumbai and Chicago to showcase Rolta's expertise and offerings for business analytics and Big Data solutions based on Oracle Exalytics and SAP HANA. Rolta OneView™ is one of the first enterprise business intelligence (BI) and analytics suites to have been engineered for SAP HANA. Rolta now has a Centre for Cloud Assessment & Strategy in Cleveland, Ohio where clients can simulate different approaches to optimize their IT infrastructure strategy. Rolta completed the deployment of a highly secure private Cloud platform for a multi-agency security organization in the Middle-East, built around Rolta iPerspective™, a platform for integration, cloud-enablement and IT security.
Rolta OneView™ continues to be well received in the oil and petrochemical capitals of the world. Rolta OneView went live in a petro-chemical firm in Saudi Arabia. It has been selected by a major petrochemical company in Oman for its BI initiative for organizational excellence, spanning all business functions - operations, maintenance, cost control, HSE, assets, reliability, and finance.
In the Security segment, the Company is actively engaged with many agencies to present proofs-of-concept for very large procurement programs, solutions for which require a combination of skills in IT, communications, geospatial technologies, and domain-specific know-how. While large multi-billion dollar defense programs like Battlefield Management Systems, Digital Soldier Program, etc. continue to progress well, Rolta has also started seeing good success for its Homeland & Maritime Safety and Optronics solutions with several safety and security agencies at both central and state level choosing to award projects to the Company, including a recent selection by one of the largest state police forces for deploying optronics devices to enhance their night vision capabilities. Rolta has also been selected by a few more north-eastern states in India to implement their Crime & Criminal Tracking Network (CCTNS) projects.
About Rolta: Rolta is a leading provider of innovative IT solutions for many vertical segments, including Federal and State Governments, Defense/HLS, Utilities, Process, Power, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, and Healthcare. By uniquely combining its expertise in the IT, Engineering and Geospatial domains, Rolta develops exceptional solutions for these segments. The Company leverages its industry-specific know-how, rich repository of intellectual property that spans photogrammetry, image processing, geospatial applications, business intelligence, analytics, field-proven solution frameworks, and deep expertise in cutting-edge technologies like Geo BI, Cloud computing, Software Defined Infrastructure and Big Data for providing sophisticated enterprise-level integrated solutions. Rolta is a multinational organization headquartered in India. The Company operates from 40 locations worldwide through its subsidiaries, and has executed projects in over 45 countries. The Company benchmarks its quality processes to the world's best standards, like successful assessment for Software Application Development and Maintenance at the highest Level 5 of SEI's CMMI® version 1.3. Rolta is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange & National Stock Exchange, and forms part of various indices on BSE/NSE in India. The Company's GDRs are listed on the Main Board of London Stock Exchange.
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