DaVita Honors Service Members’ Contributions This Veterans Day

DaVita®, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. (NYSE: DVA) and a leading provider of kidney care services, today honors the men and women of the armed forces that have served the United States.

DaVita’s recruitment efforts help military veterans and their spouses find gainful employment. As a member of MSEP (Military Spouse Employment Partnership) since 2011, DaVita has made a commitment to help match veterans and their spouses with jobs within the company. DaVita also supports numerous virtual job fairs designed for veterans and uses the Heroes2Hired.com job portal as part of the ESGR (Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve) Employment Initiative Program.

“DaVita is proud of its ongoing commitment to welcoming military veterans and their families into ‘the DaVita Village,’” said Laura Mildenberger, chief people officer at DaVita. “Through our programs designed to honor and support veterans, we can give back to a community of people that have already shown a great commitment to this country.”

On Veterans Day, DaVita teammates across the country will be celebrating the veterans in their life and commemorating them for their service.

In recent years, DaVita has implemented programs designed to honor veterans throughout the year with special recognition on Veterans Day. DaVita’s Village Veterans program allows new teammates to receive mentorship from company leaders to help transition them into their new role. DaVita offers current and former military members the opportunity for personal development through a private course. The Star Troopers program honors current members of the military by assembling care packages and writing thank-you notes for those serving overseas.

“During my 14 years as a DaVita teammate, I have been in awe of the corporate support provided to members of the armed forces,” said Bill Hyland, director of health care planning and retired Army reserve member. “The recognition DaVita receives is a culmination of thousands of teammates participating in many projects to support our citizen soldiers.”

DaVita and its teammates have been recognized for their support of military veterans, their spouses, and guard and reserve members. Awards won include: “Best for Vets Employers” by Military Times EDGE Magazine; G.I. Jobs “Top 100 Military Friendly Employers;” Military Spouse Magazine’s “Military Friendly Spouse Employer;” “Most Valuable Employer” by Civilianjobs.com; and the Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award.

For more information about DaVita’s veterans programs, please visit Careers.DaVita.com/Careers/Military.

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Tata Motors conducts 'School Bus Safety awareness program' at Podar International School

With an aim to partner with the community, Tata Motors announced a national level School Bus Safety program, targeting all stake holders involved in School Bus travel. Through the School Bus Safety program, Tata Motors aims at sensitising school children, their parents, drivers, attendants and school bus staff, to prevent and minimise accidents during travel. As part of the School Bus Safety campaign, Tata Motors has initiated the 'Hamare Bus Ki Baat Hai' (for school bus attendees),'Safety Hamaare Bus Mein' (Mock drills on safety measures in case of a fire & safe school bus travel, for children) and 'Dream it to Win it' (national level essay & painting competition, for children).

Mr. Gaurav Podar, Trustee, Podar International School, Mr. R Ramakrishnan, Senior Vice President (Commercial), Commercial Vehicles Business Unit, Tata Motors and Mr. Habib Saleh - Head, (Sales and Marketing), Buses & Vans, Commercial Vehicles Business Unit, Tata Motors, facilitating school bus staff at Podar International School, Santacruz, Mumbai, at a program on safe school bus travel, by Tata Motors, called 'Hamare Bus Ki Baat Hai'. The programaims toeducate school bus staff on the softer aspects of interacting with children and parents.

Tata Motors today conducted the 'Hamare Bus Ki Baat Hai' program, at Podar International School, Santacruz, Mumbai.

Mr. R Ramakrishnan, Senior Vice President, (Commercial), Commercial Vehicles Business Unit, Tata Motors said, "Each day at countless bus stops across the country, parents entrust schools with what's most precious to them - their children. It is a huge responsibility and one that places enormous pressure on schools and various people associated in the travel of their children. Tata Motors through these campaigns has partnered with parents, schools and transport authorities, shouldering their responsibility, to keep their children safe while commuting to and from school. These initiatives have been designed to sensitise, motivate and train children and school bus staff, on issues related to school bus travel and safety."

Mr. Gaurav Podar, Trustee, Podar International School, said,"Safety is of paramount importance to every school and through these initiatives, we are happy to partner with Tata Motors in imparting a very important element of safety for our children, in School Bus travel. Our school participated in the 'Hamare Bus Ki Baat Hai' campaign, which has been very well received by our school bus staff. We would like to thank Tata Motors for playing such an active role in our school."

'Hamare Bus Ki Baat Hai'

The Hamare Bus Ki Baat Hai program targets school bus drivers and attendants, educating them on the softer aspects of interacting with children and parents. The interactive training programme has been designed with inputs from various stake holders, sensitising participants to better understand a child's needs, creating awareness about their duties and responsibilities, general etiquette & behavior, and to take necessary measures in case of accidents.

'Safety Hamaare Bus Mein'

This programme is designed to educate school children on using safety features in buses, tips on safe travel and other softer aspects of dealing with school bus staff. The training includes aspects like mock fire drill in schools, a virtual experience film showing safe travel, sessions with select students on safety and a safety quiz in school. It involves safety drills like entry/exit, emergency evacuation, and effective handling of safety provisions in a bus. This campaign is set to kick-off shortly.

'Dream it to Win it' campaign

Having conducted the "Dream it to Win it" contest, the campaign received participation of over 3,000 schools in a national level essay & painting competition. The contest helped in showcasing the talent of children and enhancing their awareness levels, on the importance of safe school bus travel. Though this program, children were felicitated with certificates, scholarships and exciting gifts.

Tata Motors understands that parents of children are like any other bus customer. They want to be informed and want the bus provider to be responsive. Recognising that all these issues are important for parents, Tata Motors has devised 'the Safest School Bus concept', with technology as the backbone.The safest school bus concept incorporates some unique safety features in a Tata Motors SKOOL BUS -

2 cameras fitted, one on the front windshield & one in saloon area

Monitor to capture & display real time images

DVR System with built-in GPS sensors

Supports up to 64 GB Micro SDHC card for recording

Rear view camera with display monitor mounted on the dashboard

Roof mounted flashing lamps which will flash as soon as the door is opened

Door buzzer & indicator on dash board

Electronic front destination board

Stop request switch on each seat location

Apart from these technology rich features, Tata Motors SKOOL buses are also fitted with comfortable seating, chin guard, stop sign on passenger door, 2-point lap seat belts, one row roof grab rail handles, fire extinguishers, rear high mount stop lamp, rear breakable windshield with hammer.

Tata Motors conducts 'School Bus Safety awareness program' at Podar International School

With an aim to partner with the community, Tata Motors announced a national level School Bus Safety program, targeting all stake holders involved in School Bus travel. Through the School Bus Safety program, Tata Motors aims at sensitising school children, their parents, drivers, attendants and school bus staff, to prevent and minimise accidents during travel. As part of the School Bus Safety campaign, Tata Motors has initiated the 'Hamare Bus Ki Baat Hai' (for school bus attendees),'Safety Hamaare Bus Mein' (Mock drills on safety measures in case of a fire & safe school bus travel, for children) and 'Dream it to Win it' (national level essay & painting competition, for children).

Mr. Gaurav Podar, Trustee, Podar International School, Mr. R Ramakrishnan, Senior Vice President (Commercial), Commercial Vehicles Business Unit, Tata Motors and Mr. Habib Saleh - Head, (Sales and Marketing), Buses & Vans, Commercial Vehicles Business Unit, Tata Motors, facilitating school bus staff at Podar International School, Santacruz, Mumbai, at a program on safe school bus travel, by Tata Motors, called 'Hamare Bus Ki Baat Hai'. The programaims toeducate school bus staff on the softer aspects of interacting with children and parents.

Tata Motors today conducted the 'Hamare Bus Ki Baat Hai' program, at Podar International School, Santacruz, Mumbai.

Mr. R Ramakrishnan, Senior Vice President, (Commercial), Commercial Vehicles Business Unit, Tata Motors said, "Each day at countless bus stops across the country, parents entrust schools with what's most precious to them - their children. It is a huge responsibility and one that places enormous pressure on schools and various people associated in the travel of their children. Tata Motors through these campaigns has partnered with parents, schools and transport authorities, shouldering their responsibility, to keep their children safe while commuting to and from school. These initiatives have been designed to sensitise, motivate and train children and school bus staff, on issues related to school bus travel and safety."

Mr. Gaurav Podar, Trustee, Podar International School, said,"Safety is of paramount importance to every school and through these initiatives, we are happy to partner with Tata Motors in imparting a very important element of safety for our children, in School Bus travel. Our school participated in the 'Hamare Bus Ki Baat Hai' campaign, which has been very well received by our school bus staff. We would like to thank Tata Motors for playing such an active role in our school."

'Hamare Bus Ki Baat Hai'

The Hamare Bus Ki Baat Hai program targets school bus drivers and attendants, educating them on the softer aspects of interacting with children and parents. The interactive training programme has been designed with inputs from various stake holders, sensitising participants to better understand a child's needs, creating awareness about their duties and responsibilities, general etiquette & behavior, and to take necessary measures in case of accidents.

'Safety Hamaare Bus Mein'

This programme is designed to educate school children on using safety features in buses, tips on safe travel and other softer aspects of dealing with school bus staff. The training includes aspects like mock fire drill in schools, a virtual experience film showing safe travel, sessions with select students on safety and a safety quiz in school. It involves safety drills like entry/exit, emergency evacuation, and effective handling of safety provisions in a bus. This campaign is set to kick-off shortly.

'Dream it to Win it' campaign

Having conducted the "Dream it to Win it" contest, the campaign received participation of over 3,000 schools in a national level essay & painting competition. The contest helped in showcasing the talent of children and enhancing their awareness levels, on the importance of safe school bus travel. Though this program, children were felicitated with certificates, scholarships and exciting gifts.

Tata Motors understands that parents of children are like any other bus customer. They want to be informed and want the bus provider to be responsive. Recognising that all these issues are important for parents, Tata Motors has devised 'the Safest School Bus concept', with technology as the backbone.The safest school bus concept incorporates some unique safety features in a Tata Motors SKOOL BUS -

2 cameras fitted, one on the front windshield & one in saloon area

Monitor to capture & display real time images

DVR System with built-in GPS sensors

Supports up to 64 GB Micro SDHC card for recording

Rear view camera with display monitor mounted on the dashboard

Roof mounted flashing lamps which will flash as soon as the door is opened

Door buzzer & indicator on dash board

Electronic front destination board

Stop request switch on each seat location

Apart from these technology rich features, Tata Motors SKOOL buses are also fitted with comfortable seating, chin guard, stop sign on passenger door, 2-point lap seat belts, one row roof grab rail handles, fire extinguishers, rear high mount stop lamp, rear breakable windshield with hammer.

UST Global Conferred with Edge Awards 2013 by InformationWeek

Wins accolades for its cloud-based e-mail security solution, under the 'Security' category of the awards

UST Global, an information technology solutions and Services Company for Global 1000 enterprises, today announced that it has been honored with the coveted EDGE Awards 2013 by IT publication InformationWeek for its e-mail security deployment on the cloud.

UST Global migrated from on-premise e-mail security to a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)-model in order to resolve concerns related to e-mail threats, misutilization of Internet bandwidth and reliance on a single technology without any guaranteed service-level agreement (SLA) and service availability. As part of the transformation, it made deployment of the e-mail content and malware filter on the Symantec cloud to enable better security posture, allow access to SLA-based services and ensure 100 percent availability and ease of management. The migration took about 48 hours to complete and the company experienced zero downtime without a single e-mail loss.

The deployment resulted in significantly upgrading performance and optimizing bandwidth, including a 40 percent decrease in e-mail flow as unwanted e-mails got stopped on the cloud. It benefited the entire staff working from multiple locations with different e-mail servers in reducing inflow of spam and malicious e-mails. UST Global has also fully automated Active Directory user and group synch with minimal hardware.

Basil Solomon, Group Manager, Infrastructure Services, UST Global,who led this project says, "It's very gratifying to be recognized by Information Week for our efforts in applying technology to transform our processes. UST Global is heavily leaned towards the cloud and has built robust capability in delivering services on the platform to customers across industries. As a company we have been investing in cloud to simply process and hence it was a natural progression for us to move to the SaaS model to improve the way we dealt with critical issues pertaining to e-mail security of our workforce."

Adding an insight on the benefits realized from the project, Basil added, "The multitenant model of the cloud has helped us dramatically reduce redundancy and data center costs. It has also lowered manual intervention in maintenance and support and enabled us to control data leakage over e-mails."

About UST Global

UST Global(R) (www.ust-global.com) provides information technology solutions and services for Global 1000 enterprises. It delivers business value through a combination of process excellence, quality frameworks, and service delivery innovation. Its client-centric Global Engagement Model (GEM) ensures 24/7 delivery of services through onshore, near shore and offshore centers. It offers consulting, tech build, application development and maintenance, infrastructure, QA and testing, ecommerce, business intelligence, data management, social media solutions and BPO services. It serves clients in the healthcare, insurance, retail, financial services, manufacturing, telecom, media, utility and energy industries. Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, UST Global and its offices in the United States, United Kingdom, India, Malaysia, Philippines and Mexico transform global innovation through technology, jobs and training.