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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pioneer Investments today announced that Brian E. Stack has been named portfolio manager of Pioneer Growth Opportunities Fund (PGOFX) and Pioneer Growth Opportunities VCT Portfolio effective Sept. 3, 2008. Stack heads a three-person U.S. Small Cap Growth Team and is supported by Pioneer Investments' global research staff, which provides fundamental and quantitative research on companies. "Brian has 21 years of industry experience and has had tremendous success over his career managing small- and mid-cap growth strategies," said Kenneth J. Taubes, Head of U.S. Portfolio Management. "He is a highly respected specialist in his field and is a welcome addition to the Pioneer Investments' team," Taubes added. ...

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)), is pleased to announce that it has appointed QAI as its official OMG Certification Program representative, to service India. QAI will provide marketing and customer support to individuals and organizations interested in OMG's three certification programs. For more information on OMG's Certification Programs, visit the OMG website at http://www.omg.org. "The OMG is very excited to begin working with QAI to offer our certification programs in India," said William Hoffman, president, Object Management Group. "India has one of the fastest growing technology economies in the world and we expect that there will be great demand for certification in UML modeling, real-time and embedded systems and business process management." "The IT certifications market in India and candidate's demand for credible and industry aligned international testing programs has grown to sustain India's competitive position in the global arena. Also, India being a preferred IT outsourcing destination, has a huge ...

NEEDHAM, Mass., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- A series of webinars aimed at uncovering solutions for the challenges facing colleges and universities in meeting campus sustainability goal is planned by EH&E Inc, a leading environmental engineering and consulting firm on green initiatives in higher education. Colleges and universities across the country are making public commitments to significantly reduce their campus carbon footprint by eliminating wasteful energy consumption. EH&E's four-part "Pathways to Campus Sustainability" Webinar Series directly addresses the issues involved in making good on those commitments. The seminars run September through October. Each webinar will include one hour of presentations followed by one half-hour of live Q&A. The series features: -- Charting the Path to Campus Sustainability, September 17, 2008, 1:00-2:30 PM ET. Learn about and discuss the most up-to-date tools and knowledge necessary ...

NEEDHAM, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 09/03/08 -- Newly available public AHRQ quality measures show a strong relationship between higher hospital quality scores and better hospital cost performance. Using HMC's Lead with Quality(TM) program, physicians, care-givers, and management can all be engaged to find patterns of poor quality events, and eliminate them. Lead with Quality The Healthcare Management Council, Inc.'s (HMC's) Lead with ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that American Imaging Management, Inc. (AIM), one of the nation's leading providers of diagnostic imaging management services, has implemented F5(R) BIG-IP(R) Local Traffic Manager(TM) (LTM(TM)) and BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager(TM) (GTM(TM)) devices to establish the mature infrastructure the company needs to support its rapidly growing web-based services. AIM's ProviderPortal(R) website offers healthcare provider offices real-time, 24/7 access to preauthorization claims, eligibility information, and many other services, and receives more than one million preauthorization requests annually. F5 solutions give AIM dynamic, granular control over website traffic to ensure availability, performance, and a stable, seamless user experience regardless of how much their web-based applications evolve or the user base grows. "The ability to have a flexible and agile infrastructure that's going to support the growth of our business is absolutely paramount," said Adam Lord ...