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Outlet:  Associated Press
Title/Program:   University of Denver Partners With Paciolan to Implement Ticketing, Marketing and Fundraising
Publication Date:  01/17/2011
Media Type:  News Service/Syndicate
Extract:  Paciolan, the leading provider of ticketing, marketing and fundraising solutions in college athletics, announced today that the University of Denver (“DU”) has partnered with the company and will be implementing its ticketing, marketing and fundraising solutions in both their athletics and performing arts departments. As part of this implementation, DU will be leveraging Paciolan’s ‘venue enablement’ model, allowing DU to structure and control their own ticketing fees based on the needs
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Outlet:  DailyFinance
Title/Program:   University of Denver Partners With Paciolan to Implement Ticketing,…
Publication Date:  01/17/2011
Media Type:  News Web Sites
Extract:  IRVINE, CA and DENVER, CO — (Marketwire) — 01/17/11 — Paciolan, the leading provider of ticketing, marketing and fundraising solutions in college athletics, announced today that the University of Denver (“DU”) has partnered with the company and will be implementing its ticketing, marketing and fundraising solutions in both their athletics and performing arts departments. As part of this implementation, DU will be leveraging Paciolan’s ‘venue enablement’ model, allowing DU to structure
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Outlet:  Chicago Tribune
Title/Program:   Do those power bands athletes wear really work?
Publication Date:  01/17/2011
Media Type:  Online Print Version
Extract:  you’re using, you’re not going to be using it.” “There’s a lot to be said about the placebo effect and the power of the mind,” says Joel Raether, National Strength and Conditioning Association spokesman and former strength and conditioning coach at the University of Denver. “If you talk yourself into thinking that something’s supposed to make you feel better, we know from a scientific standpoint that there can be a positive effect.” In the end, says Rodarmel, “It’s all about providing
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Outlet:  The Christian Science Monitor
Title/Program:   Aftermath of Arizona shooting: More guns in more hands?
Publication Date:  01/13/2011
Media Type:  News Web Sites
Extract:  think we’re now seeing a growth toward a more realistic attitude, which is to think about these incidents on a case-by-case basis and whether this shows us anything that could be done better,” says Dave Kopel, an adjunct constitutional law professor at Denver University. In the past 30 years, the number of states that automatically issue concealed-carry permits after a background check have gone from nine to 37, meaning that “Americans have in most places practical social experience with guns
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Outlet:  The Christian Science Monitor
Title/Program:   Tunisia protesters defy curfew in capital
Publication Date:  01/13/2011
Media Type:  News Web Sites
Extract:  corruption and repression. As University of Denver Professor Rob Prince reports on Tunisia-focused group blog Nawaat, the motto of the protesters which means “It’s enough” in Tunisian dialect. “Enough” refers to the high levels of unemployment in the country, the pervasive corruption, especially of the two ruling families and the decades of seething repression which has kept Zine Ben Ali in power now for 23 years. The Christian Science Monitor reported Wednesday that the protests in Tunisia
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Outlet:  Journal of Technology & Science
Title/Program:   MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING; Researchers at University of Denver publish new data on micromechanics and microengineering
Publication Date:  01/16/2011
Media Type:  Magazine
Extract:  …ng(-1) and are in agreement with the expected values based on the resonator’s physical dimensions,” wrote A. Hajjam and colleagues, University of Denver. The researchers concluded: “Finally, measurement of mass density of arbitrary airborne particles in the surrounding lab environment has been demonstrated.” Hajjam and……fabrication and characterization. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2010;20(12):25019). For more information, contact A. Hajjam, University of Denver, Dept. of Electrical & Computational Engineering, Denver, CO 80208, USA. Publisher contact information for the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering is:…
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Outlet:  azcentral.com
Title/Program:   Arizona shooting suspect allowed to buy gun, despite his past
Publication Date:  01/18/2011
Media Type:  Online Print Version
Extract:  in the database, it still may not have prevented him from legally buying a gun because the incidents occurred more than a year before he purchased one – outside the time limit in which drug records show up on background checks. David Kopel, research director at the conservative Independence Institute and a law professor at Denver University, said there are about six states that allow local law-enforcement officers to block a gun sale based on their information about a person, Kopel said. Arizona is not among
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Outlet:  MinnPost.com
Title/Program:   Aftermath of Arizona shooting: More guns in more hands? | WorldCSM
Publication Date:  01/14/2011
Media Type:  News Web Sites
Extract:  sparked a slew of state anti-gun measures, including in Kentucky and California. “What we’ve seen is a maturing of the American public in its sophistication on the gun issue, and I think we’re now seeing a growth toward a more realistic attitude, which is to think about these incidents on a case-by-case basis and whether this shows us anything that could be done better,” says Dave Kopel, an adjunct constitutional law professor at Denver University. More concealed carry permitsIn the past 30 years
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Outlet:  DenverPost.com
Title/Program:   Changes in legislature bring new look, new questions
Publication Date:  01/14/2011
Media Type:  Online Print Version
Extract:  on the panel — just as the state is in the throes of addressing what could be up to a $1.1 billion shortfall in the 2011-12 year. Will Republicans follow through on their years of promises to slash state spending and restore tax breaks for seniors? Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp: A Littleton Republican and a social conservative, he may not join hands with Dems as often as McNulty. DU Tax Study: Amid all the other goings-on around the budget, a University of Denver study on the state’s tax system
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Outlet:  9news.com
Title/Program:   Water main break at Evans and University
Publication Date:  01/17/2011
Media Type:  Online Broadcast Version
Extract:  DENVER – Water officials say they are working to repair a water main break at E. Evans Avenue and S. University Boulevard. Denver Water says the break is at 2217 E. Evans Ave. One lane in each direction is open on Evans Avenue. University Boulevard is open. Crews hope to have the break repaired by 9 p.m. The University of Denver Library was without water and had to close due to the break. Read Full Text   Link to Article  

Outlet:  Denver Post
Title/Program:   Better to get it now or get it right? In the rush to market, gadgets make it into the hands of buyers faster but sometimes with flaws.
Publication Date:  01/17/2011
Media Type:  Daily Newspaper
Extract:  …out the product and fix the bugs later with updates, said Don McCubbrey, a business information and analytics professor at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. “The risk that they take in doing that is that the product gets a bad name and they can’t recover,” McCubbrey said. It hasn’t…
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Outlet:  DenverPost.com
Title/Program:   Electronic gadgets roll out to public much faster, sometimes with flaws
Publication Date:  01/17/2011
Media Type:  Online Print Version
Extract:  versions of its Droid phone including the Droid X and Droid 2 about a year after the original was introduced. The Droid X has been plagued with complaints about its short battery life. Manufacturers may be assuming the mentality long held by software makers roll out the product and fix the bugs later with updates, said Don McCubbrey, a business information and analytics professor at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. “The risk that they take in doing that is that the product
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Outlet:  thedenverchannel.com
Title/Program:   Pinnacol Assurance To Agents: No Resignations Coming
Publication Date:  01/17/2011
Media Type:  Online Broadcast Version
Extract:  to resign. Will he?” Again, the one-word answer, “No.” “None of this looks very good,” said Jim O’Toole, University of Denver professor of business ethics. “This kind of behavior is incredibly outrageous.” O’Toole has experience working with and consulting for boards of both commercial businesses and nonprofit entities. “Board members taking this kind of travel and entertainment, ethical or not ethical?” asked Kovaleski. “From the point of view of an ethicist, I would think what they did does
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Outlet:  NewsBlaze
Title/Program:   University of Denver Partners With Paciolan to Implement Ticketing, Marketing and Fundraising
Publication Date:  01/17/2011
Media Type:  News Web Sites
Extract:  Paciolan, the leading provider of ticketing, marketing and fundraising solutions in college athletics, announced today that the University of Denver (“DU”) has partnered with the company and will be implementing its ticketing, marketing and fundraising solutions in both their athletics and performing arts departments. As part of this implementation, DU will be leveraging Paciolan’s ‘venue enablement’ model, allowing DU to structure and control their own ticketing fees based on the needs
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Outlet:  Bizjournals
Title/Program:   Rico Munn to rejoin Baker Hostetler
Publication Date:  01/17/2011
Media Type:  News Web Sites
Extract:  the Sturm College of Law. Rico Munn, who served in the Cabinet of former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, is rejoining the Denver office of law firm , effective Feb. 1, the firm announced Friday. Munn became executive director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), the state’s main business-oversight department, in 2007, and then was named executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education in 2009. Before that, he was a corporate and commercial litigation attorney
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Outlet:  The Commercial Appeal
Title/Program:   Young lives on the line
Publication Date:  01/16/2011
Media Type:  Online Print Version
Extract:  to keep juveniles out of the criminal justice system. Juvenile justice trends Dr. Jeff Jenson, the Philip D. & Eleanor G. Winn professor for children and youth at risk and the associate dean for research in the graduate school of social work at the University of Denver, has written extensively about juvenile justice issues. He said trends in juvenile justice follow crime rates, swinging from punishment to treatment. “When there was a spike in violent crimes, the result was punishments
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Outlet:  TucsonCitizen.com
Title/Program:   Arizona shooting suspect allowed to buy gun, despite past
Publication Date:  01/18/2011
Media Type:  News Web Sites
Extract:  , Chin said. Even if Loughner’s drug history had been included in the database, it still may not have prevented him from legally buying a gun because the incidents occurred more than a year before he purchased one – outside the time limit in which drug records show up on background checks. David Kopel, research director at the conservative Independence Institute and a law professor at Denver University, said there are about six states that allow local law-enforcement officers to block a gun sale
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Outlet:  MSN Latino
Title/Program:   Giffords: Obama, el gran orador, suma puntos con su discurso
Publication Date:  01/14/2011
Media Type:  News Web Sites
Extract:  Universidad de Denver, el profesor de ciencias políticas Seth Masket dijo que hubiera sido imposible criticar a Obama a la luz de “la calidad de su discurso” y las razones que lo motivaron. Pero Masket dudó que el ambiente de confraternidad dure mucho. “La economía y las guerras (de Irak y Afganistán) pesarán mucho más”, manifestó. Añadió que la tragedia de Arizona “es algo pasajero, el tipo de crisis que hace que la gente confíe en el presidente” durante un breve período.
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Outlet:  Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Title/Program:   Bradley W. Bloch: Taking Third Way’s Proposals One Step Further
Publication Date:  01/14/2011
Media Type:  Blogs
Extract:  jumping up to applaud and the other sitting glumly.” OK, but why stop there? Why not have mixed seating whenever Congress meets? At a time when both sides are calling for more bipartisanship, the results could be just what everyone is looking for. Seth Masket, a political scientist at the University of Denver, published a paper a couple of years ago that looked at more than three decades of roll call votes in the California Assembly. The California Assembly is a particularly interesting place to study
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Outlet:  St Martin Daily Herald
Title/Program:   US further eases travel, remittances to Cuba
Publication Date:  01/15/2011
Media Type:  Online Print Version
Extract:  of International Studies at the University of Denver, said the Obama measures could also help defuse the long impasse over Cuba’s detention of U.S. contractor Alan Gross. Gross, 62, was detained in Havana in December 2009 and accused by Cuban authorities of illegally importing satellite communications equipment and of possibly spying. His detention without formal charges or trial has been a bone of contention between the two nations. Washington denies he was a spy and called again this week for his release
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Outlet:  Yahoo! Finance – News & Opinion
Title/Program:   University of Denver Partners With Paciolan to Implement Ticketing, Marketing and Fundraising
Publication Date:  01/17/2011
Media Type:  News Web Sites
Extract:  DU Will Now Have More Control Over Fee Structures, Marketing Campaigns and Revenue Potential IRVINE, CA and DENVER, CO–(Marketwire – 01/17/11) – Paciolan, the leading provider of ticketing, marketing and fundraising solutions in college athletics, announced today that the University of Denver (“DU”) has partnered with the company and will be implementing its ticketing, marketing and fundraising solutions in both their athletics and performing arts departments. As part of this implementation
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