The Baltimore Sun revealed that the juvenile boot-camps that she championed had degenerated into arenas for sadistic beatings, rampant drug use and skyrocketing recidivism.
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Mobile-developer boot camps, which are popping up around the country, can fill in the knowledge gap with intensive do-it-yourself training.
Software-development boot camps are teaching nontech grads to write software in as little as nine weeks and graduates get hired fast.
Whereas Y Combinator has about 40 spots in its three-month boot camps, YouWeb takes only two to three entrepreneurs a year.
Today it offers one- and two-day boot camps for executives from other companies who want to learn how to create or improve the culture at their organizations.
There are dozens of these enterprises around now, some offering Y Combinator-style three-month boot camps, along with a small investment stake, others providing cheap space and access to advisors, many of which are housed at or sponsored by universities.
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LearnVest.com sponsors 10-day "boot camps" on topics including debt elimination that include a daily email with "two minutes of educational content and instructions on three action items, " says Alexa von Tobel, the site's chief executive officer.
Both Nasdaq and NYSE frequently hold IPO "boot camps" for up-and-coming companies in Silicon Valley.
While Stiller was making "Empire of the Sun, " his colleagues were in boot camps training for their military roles -- and would emerge talking about the boot camp as if they'd become part of a real military unit.
Note that the bill's main purpose is to keep underage folks away from dangerous venues and unhealthy content, rather than to prevent gaming addiction -- something for which China eventually had to set up boot camps to deal with.
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