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Boot Camp (other)
Boot camp may refer to: Training programs * Boot camp (correctional), a type of correctional facility for adolescents, especially in the U.S. penal system * Boot camp, a training camp for learning various types of skills ** Military recruit training ** Fitness boot camp, a type of physical training program ** Coding bootcamp, bootcamp for teaching programming skills ** Dev Bootcamp, a defunct computer programming technical school In arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''Boot Camp'' (Muchamore novel), by Robert Muchamore * ''Boot Camp'' (novel), by Todd Strasser Music * Bootcamp (band), a 1980s band * ''Boot Camp'' (album), from Lil Soldiers * "Boot Camp", a track featured on the 1996 Soundgarden album, '' Down on the Upside'' Television * ''Boot Camp'' (TV series), a 2001 reality television show * Boot camp, a stage of competition on the TV series ''The X Factor ''The X Factor'' is a television music competition franchise created by British producer Simon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boot Camp (correctional)
Boot camps are part of the correctional and penal system of some countries. Modeled after military recruit training camps, these programs are based on shock incarceration grounded on military techniques. The aggressive training used has resulted in deaths in a variety of circumstances. Boot camps are also criticized around the world for their lack of behavioral change and for the way extreme force can traumatize children and teenagers. Background The term "boot" originates from US Navy and Marine recruits in the Spanish–American War The Spanish–American War (April 21 – August 13, 1898) was fought between Restoration (Spain), Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine (1889), USS ''Maine'' in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the ... (1898) who wore leggings called boots. These recruits were trained in "boot" camps. Military-style training was used in the eighteenth century to rehabilitate civilian prisoners in the United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boot Camp (TV Series)
''Boot Camp'' is an American reality competition television series that aired for one season on Fox Television, Fox starting March 28, 2001. The game was won by Jen Whitlow from Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. Format The show involved sixteen civilian contestants, known as recruits, participating in a real life military style recruit training, boot camp 24 hours a day. Four drill instructors put the recruits through special training activities and obstacle courses to prepare them for the "missions" which they took part in on each of the first seven episodes. Every week, the squad would elect one of their team as the "Squad Leader" giving this recruit extra responsibilities, most notably that of leading the squad in the weekly mission. If the mission was passed successfully, the squad leader earned immunity from the next elimination, and the squad would gain a luxury prize. If the mission was failed, the squad leader became eligible for dismissal, and the entire squad wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Camp (other)
Battle camp or ''variant'', may refer to: * military camp, a camp for a military force in preparation for battle * training camp for military recruit training, a camp to train people to become warriors * Battle Camp, a locality on the Palmer River on Cape York in Queensland, Australia * Battle Camp, Cairns, Queensland, Australia * Battle Camp Sandstones, a region of the Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna, Queensland, Australia * Battlecamp Road, Hope Vale, Queensland, Australia * '' Battle Camp'', Netflix reality television series See also * Battle (other) * Camp (other) * War camp (other) * boot camp (other) * Combat Camp (other) * Quilombo (other) (Kimbundu for 'warcamp, battlecamp') * Eko (other) Eko or EKO may refer to: People * Ejembi Eko (born 1952), Nigerian jurist * Eko Fresh (born 1983), German rapper * Eko Purjianto (born 1976), Indonesian footballer * Eko Yuli Irawan (born 1989), Indonesian we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camp (other)
Camp may refer to: Areas of confinement, imprisonment, or for execution * Concentration camp, an internment camp for political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or minority ethnic groups * Extermination camp, any of six Nazi death camps established for the systematic murder of over 2.7 million people * Federal prison camp, one of seven minimum-security United States federal prison facilities * Internment camp, also called a detention camp, for imprisonment (of citizens or perceived terrorists) without conviction of any crime * Labor camp, usually associated with forced or penal labor as a form of punishment * Nazi concentration camp run by the SS in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. * Prisoner-of-war camp ** Parole camp, during the U.S. Civil war, where both sides guarded their own soldiers as prisoners of war * Subcamp, one or more outlying smaller concentration camps that came under the command of a main Nazi concentration ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boot (other)
A boot is a type of footwear. Boot(s) may also refer to: Businesses * Boot Inn, Chester, Cheshire, England * Boots (company), a high-street pharmacy chain and manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom * The Boot, Cromer Street, a pub in King's Cross, London Places * Boot, Cumbria, a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, England * Boot Key, an island in the Florida Keys * Boot Lake (Nova Scotia), Canada * Boot Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts) * Boot Rock, South Sandwich Islands * Boots Creek (Manitoba), Canada * "The Boot", an informal name for Italy, due to the country's shape People with the name * Boot (surname), a list of people surnamed either Boot or Boots * Boots (nickname), a list of people with the nickname * Boots (musician), an American record producer * Gypsy Boots (1914–2004), also known as Boots Bootzin, American fitness pioneer, actor and writer born Robert Bootzin * Little Boots, English electropop singer-songwriter and DJ Arts, entertainm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy's Bootcamp
Billy's Bootcamp is an exercise program developed by Billy Blanks. It created a pop culture phenomenon in Japan in 2007, similar to the effect Tae Bo had in the U.S. earlier, selling more than 200,000 copies in May of the same year alone. Billy Blanks visited Japan on June 21, 2007 to promote Bootcamp. Upon arrival Blanks was greeted by 200 Japanese fans who affectionately call him "Taicho" (, chief) at Narita International Airport. Blanks appeared on many Japanese TV shows during his ten-day stay in Japan such as SMAP×SMAP where Shingo Katori, a member of popular Japanese boy band SMAP, impersonated Blanks. A tie-in video game based on the program, titled ''Billy's Bootcamp: Wii de Enjoy! Diet'' (ビリーズブートキャンプ Wiiでエンジョイダイエット！), was released in 2011 exclusively in Japan for the Wii The Wii ( ) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released on November 19, 2006, in North America, and in December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boot Camp (software)
Boot Camp Assistant is a multi boot utility included with Apple Inc.'s macOS (previously ) that assists users in installing Microsoft Windows operating systems on Intel-based Macintosh computers. The utility guides users through non-destructive disk partitioning (including resizing of an existing HFS+ or APFS partition, if necessary) of their hard disk drive or solid-state drive and installation of Windows device drivers for the Apple hardware. The utility also installs a Windows Control Panel applet for selecting the default boot operating system. Initially introduced as an unsupported beta for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, the utility was first introduced with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and has been included in subsequent versions of the operating system ever since. Previous versions of Boot Camp supported Windows XP and Windows Vista. Boot Camp 4.0 for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard version 10.6.6 up to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion version 10.8.2 only supported Windows 7. However, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combat School
released as ''Boot Camp'' in North America, is a 1987 arcade video game produced by Konami. The player takes control of a military recruit who is undergoing basic training at a United States Marine Corps Recruit Training camp, also known as a boot camp. The arcade game uses trackball controls. In 1987, Ocean Software released ports of the game for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC in Europe. Konami themselves later released the Commodore 64 version in North America under the ''Boot Camp'' title in 1989 alongside an MS-DOS version. An Amiga version was announced, but never released. Gameplay The control panel consists of a trackball and two buttons with different functions depending on the event. The game can be played against a CPU-controlled opponent or a second player. Player 1 takes control of Nick, a brown-haired recruit in an orange shirt, while Player 2 is Joe, a blond-haired recruit in a blue shirt. The game is composed of seven training events whom the pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boot Camp (film)
''Boot Camp'', also released in the UK as ''Punishment'', is a 2008 psychological thriller film written by Agatha Dominik and John Cox and directed by Christian Duguay. The film's working title was ''Straight Edge'' and it was shot in Fiji as the first film to utilize the southwest Pacific Ocean island country's five-year-old incentive program that had been designed to create jobs while building a film production infrastructure. It is about teenagers sent to a rehabilitation camp (in Fiji) who are then abused and brainwashed. The film stars Mila Kunis, Gregory Smith and Peter Stormare. The filming began on October 2, 2006, in FijiSports Shooter , by Chris Large (January 30, 2007), "Boot Camp in Fiji", freelance photographer Chris Large writes of his adventures for Sports Shooter, accessed 01-25-2009 and then continued in |
The X Factor
''The X Factor'' is a television music competition franchise created by British producer Simon Cowell and his company Syco Entertainment. It originated in the United Kingdom, where it was devised as a replacement for '' Pop Idol'' (2001–2003), and has been adapted in various countries. The "X Factor" of the title refers to the undefinable "something" that makes for star quality.Described as "something you can't quite put your finger on" by Cheryl Cole, a judge on the UK version of ''The X Factor'', ''The Xtra Factor'', 23 November 2009 Similar to '' Got Talent'', the franchise maintains a YouTube YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in ... channel, called ''X Factor Global''. The channel uploads clips of ''X Factor'' shows from around the world. The channel currently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down On The Upside
''Down on the Upside'' is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Soundgarden, released on May 21, 1996, through A&M Records. Following a worldwide tour in support of its previous album, '' Superunknown'' (1994), Soundgarden commenced work on a new album. Self-produced by the band, the music on the album was notably less heavy and dark than the group's preceding albums and featured the band experimenting with new sounds. The album topped the New Zealand and Australian charts and debuted at number two on the United States' ''Billboard'' 200, selling 200,000 copies in its opening week and spawning the singles " Pretty Noose", " Burden in My Hand", " Blow Up the Outside World", and "Ty Cobb". The band played the 1996 Lollapalooza tour and, afterward, supported the album with a worldwide tour. ''Down on the Upside'' was Soundgarden's last studio album until 2012's '' King Animal'', as tensions within the band led to its break-up in April 1997. The album has sold 1.6 milli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Training Camp
A training camp is an organized period in which military personnel or athletes participate in a rigorous and focused schedule of training in order to learn or improve skills. Athletes typically utilise training camps to prepare for upcoming events, and in competitive sports, to focus on developing skills and strategies to defeat their opponents. A military training camp generally refers to the period of Recruit training, boot camp, or further or refresher training. Military Mixed martial arts In mixed martial arts (MMA), a training camp (also often referred to as a fight camp or just camp) is the period prior to an organised bout in which a fighter trains specifically for the upcoming event. Fighters will usually train at a martial arts gym, where they may have other fighters and coaches able to assist them with various forms of training, including in different styles of martial arts. If they have one, a fighter would generally work with their regular coach. Some fighters, es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
