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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Critical warning No. 17? Lost count? Here's the latest: "The stock market is about to have a devastating decline; we will see Dow 5,000 before we see Dow 20,000."
That's Terry Burnham, former Goldman Sachs trader, biotech entrepreneur, money manager, author of "Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of Irrationality," on PBS. A former Harvard professor of behavioral economics, a guy on par with Nobel economist Daniel Kahneman; "Black Swan's" Nassim Nicholas Taleb; and Dan Ariely, author of "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions."
Dow 5,000? Yes, investors, the big one's coming, and it's dead ahead. We've been reporting these warnings, maybe 20 this year alone. But, unfortunately, thanks to what Burnham calls the investor's "lizard brain," you can't — you won't — hear the crash coming. Till it's too late.
'Gloomiest of all gloomsters': We're repeating 1928 sucker's rally
As if to punctuate his new warning, Burnham's PBS editor added this postscript: "Over the weekend at ZeroHedge.com, the gloomiest of all gloomsters, Tyler Durden," compared the current stock market to the sucker's rally of 1928 that set up and led the lambs to the 1929 slaughter. So, history buffs, be warned that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's risky cheap-money bubble-blowing "depression-fighting remedies" are repeating the 1928 bull-market sucker's rally, and the "side effects could include ... another depression."
" Our lizard brains lead us to buy stocks after they have gone up and blind us to the obvious realities. "
Warning bells are everywhere: Dow 5,000 ... another depression ... massive denial on Wall Street and Main Street ... a new meltdown bigger than the 2000 dot-com crash ... longer than the 30-month recession of 2000-03 where Wall Street lost $8 trillion of America's retirement money ... worse than the fact that Wall Street narrowly breaks even on an inflation-adjusted basis ... and bigger than the 2008 bank-credit meltdown with the de facto bankruptcy of all Wall Street's banks ... with trillions in new debt dumped on taxpayers by the U.S. Treasury ... and Bernanke's wanton "grand experiment" showering endless cheap money into speculation ... and blowing the biggest bubble in history.
Denial? Yes, massive denial. Why? Lizard brains, 95 million Main Street investors. And Wall Street crawling with a million lizard brains. That's the primitive, survival-first, irrational part of our old brain that began developing a few hundred million years ago.
You have one of these bio-algorithm drones wired in your brain. It takes over, reacts on autopilot to old fears trapped in outdated behavioral patterns that override your rational brain.
Wall Street's in denial, and so is Main Street
Here's how Burnham put it: "The signs of collapse are right in front of us. We cannot see the signs now, however, because our brains aren't built to see them ... we are more often than not at the mercy of 'lizard brains,' which evolved in lizards to drive them to eat, survive and reproduce."
Today our lizard brains "lead us to buy stocks after they have gone up and blind us to the obvious realities."
Not only are the vast majority of America's 95 million investors trapped in this bubble of denial chasing stocks, but Burnham warns that his prediction is "the opposite of the conventional wisdom" pushed by gurus like "Jeremy Siegel, author of 'Stocks for the Long Run,' who is predicting new all-time highs for stocks, while Warren Buffett, the best investor of the previous century, is 100% behind stocks."
And yet, in spite of all this happy talk from Siegel, Buffett and all Wall Street gurus and pundits, Burnham asks rhetorically: "Am I taking a risk in making such a dire forecast? Yes. I could be stuck with the label 'Mr. Dow 5,000.' "
Actually, though, he's loving it. Burnham wears his prediction as a badge of honor: "I embrace the title Mr. Dow 5,000." That's how confident he is the markets will come crashing down like in 2008, like in 2000, like in 1929.
Burnham emphasizes that this is not a new prediction: "I'm not predicting a Dow of 5,000 just because it hit 15,000 so rapidly. I've been saying since well before the Crash of '08 that the U.S. economy was headed for disaster." Just as we have here in these columns.
The rational economic reasons you should be terrified
The investor's lizard brain developed historically and neurologically with so many mental handicaps that it is incapable of seeing the coming crash. Our primitive brain was designed to find past patterns, save them, react.
Yes, past patterns: "If you threw a spear a certain way and you got food, guess how you're going to try to throw it the next time? The same way. The same algorithm applies to stocks." Wall Street lizards focus on past patterns, ignore the future, miss the new.
Which is also why bull/bear cycles keep repeating through the centuries. And will keep on repeating. Also no surprise why the average investor's lizard brain is incapable of processing Burnham's three "rational economic reasons," which are all over the news but that we just can't hear.
Here are Burnham's three reasons — so obvious, yet falling on deaf ears:
- Near-zero savings, excessive spending, maximum debt: Sounds simple, but Americans have been saving at a rate near zero for the past two decades. "As a nation, we have essentially no savings." No protection in crises.
- Both fiscal and monetary policies making problems worse: The Fed is not going to save the economy. Forget it. Bernanke's cheap money fueled the banking sector's "speculative markets, not real economic growth." Worse, fiscally we "can't deficit spend our way to prosperity ... also ridiculous."
- Stocks are 'terrible investments' today, so get out: Terrible in part because "the vast majority of individuals are absolutely horrible at market timing." Our lizard brains limit our ability to invest rationally. We're short-term thinkers: "buy high and sell low." So today, again at the peak of the market, we'll buy — and "get slaughtered."
Dow set to crash 65%, drop to 5,000
Finally, here's a selection of the many predictions we've reported on this year. All from respected minds that are often ignored because Main Street's lizard brains are constantly bombarded by Wall Street's misleading and greedy lizards.
Yes, we've just been reporting the warnings from the best rational minds out there, warnings Wall Street hopes you don't listen to even when it's painfully obvious they're collectively building to a critical mass, ready to ignite America's toxic Bernanke Bubble.
Here are some of our "voices of reason," as Burnham would call them: Bill Gross, Jeremy Grantham, Gary Shilling, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Nouriel Roubini, Peter Schiff, Jeffrey Gundlach, Marc Faber, Bill O'Neil, Joseph Stiglitz, Richard Gordon, David Stockman, the editors of InvestmentNews and Worldwatch Institute, and more.
Please review some of them. But, first, tune out your lizard brain, and tune in to your rational mind:
• New Doomsday poll: 98% risk of 2014 stock crash (June 29)
• Doomsday poll: 87% risk of stock crash by year-end (June 5)
• GDP killing the future of American capitalism (May 13)
• Critical Warning No. 13: Stockman's 'Apocalypse' (April 6)
• New Critical Warning as 2013 shocker looms (March 25)
• Bond crash dead ahead: tick, tick ... boom! (March 21)
• Your sequestered brain can't see next crash coming (March 6)
• Critical Warning No. 7: Banks crash economy, again (Jan. 29)
• Time bomb to market meltdown ticks louder (Jan. 18)


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Chief Craig: Marathon will be safe regardless of city budget
Multiple agencies will assist for marathon
The Cincinnati police chief addressed the city's safety concerns in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings and budget shortfalls Wednesday afternoon.
Chief James Craig assured safety at the Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon and said the city will use resources from every police department along the marathon route. The Ohio State Highway Patrol, Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and the FBI will assist with the marathon's safety plan.
Craig has been in security talks with Flying Pig Marathon organizers all week.
"Our planning for the Flying Pig didn't just happen in the wake of the awful tragedy that occurred in Boston," said Craig.
Safety at Cincinnati's marathon is on the minds of many. Craig said in addition to city resources, he relies on a vigilant community.
Craig assures the city's safety will not be impacted by talks of significant police reduction. Some City Council members said that to account for a more than $30 million budget shortfall, they will be forced to cut as many as 150 police jobs.
"My core concern is our ability to handle calls for service -- emergency calls for service -- in a timely and effective way," said Craig. He indicated if his budget shrinks, he will restructure.
"Our shift and focus would be pushed toward those men and women who wear the uniform in the response units. That's our primary function -- when a person calls 911 and a police officer responds for service," said Craig.
He said his men in blue will squelch Cincinnati violence on the Flying Pig race day and every day -- regardless of budget woes.

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Debt Ceiling Deal Is Flawed, But US Default Worse
WASHINGTON - August 01, 2011 -
Members of Congress will vote soon on a debt ceiling agreement that will reduce the deficit and avoid a national default – a default that would have a devastating effect on millions of Americans, especially children, seniors and working families. The bipartisan agreement was made Sunday night between the White House and Congressional leaders and is set to raise the federal government's debt ceiling while cutting deficits by at least $2.1 trillion over the next ten years.
Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, issued the following statement in response to the deal:
"For the last several weeks, everyday Americans watched a reckless game of political brinksmanship that threatened the stability of the United States economy. What finally emerged is a flawed, yet bi-partisan agreement that will allow us to do what should never have been subject to a debate in the first place: pay our bills. In doing so, lawmakers have protected the senior widow barely scraping by and dependent upon her Social Security check and working parents barely able to make ends meet at minimum wage jobs and reliant upon the food stamps they desperately need to ensure their children are fed. These are not rhetorical debates. They are the real, life-and-death consequences if policy makers fail to come together and act in the best interests of the nation.
"Flawed as it may be, we understand that failure to raise the debt ceiling and the resulting default would have been catastrophic. We are pleased that this agreement funds Pell Grants for two years and temporarily protects Medicaid – the sole source of healthcare for one-third of the nation's children--Social Security, and Medicare. That being said, we have very real concerns as the Bipartisan, Bicameral Congressional Committee takes up its work in the fall.
"We urge the lawmakers serving on this Committee not to be shortsighted. Cuts to education, Medicaid, and financial aid are irresponsible and short-sighted; they ignore the well-documented return on investments in education in the form of a more educated workforce earning higher wages and feeding that money back into the economy.
"The fact that the subject of tax fairness has been punted to a bipartisan committee, rather than addressing it now is especially hard to stomach. It's abundantly clear that some lawmakers are committed to maintaining the fundamental economic imbalance that puts the interests of Wall Street over Main Street. That notion is unconscionable to our 3.2 million members and the American people. The fact that the top one percent of earners in America makes one quarter of all the income is not lost on the middle class. The fact that some corporations made billions in profits yet paid no taxes at all last year is beyond offensive. It's offensive to the cafeteria workers, librarians and teachers who got pink slips as state budgets dried up and it's offensive to the students they served who will soon be piling in to overcrowded classrooms, riding longer bus routes to school and will find narrowed curriculums when the school bell rings in a few weeks.
"What working families need most from lawmakers and business alike are stable jobs, quality, affordable healthcare, and a world class system of public education from preK to graduate school.
"The 3.2 million members of the National Education Association will vigorously fight to ensure that the Bipartisan, Bicameral Congressional Committee and the ensuing economic debate address our concerns. Our greatness as a nation in the long term and our recovery in the short term depend upon the same thing: honoring those who have educated, protected, and built the nation's economic strength. Those people are found on Main Street in every community in every state in this land."
To learn how the debt ceiling crisis will affect educators and their families, visit http://www.educationvotes.nea.org
Follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/NEAMedia
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The purpose of automating these pre-release builds is to allow developers to do work for this architecture and for testers to use the builds and be able to file bugs. Currently, we are producing these builds twice a day and upon request from developers.
If you go to:
- ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central you can find the nightly optimized builds
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-central-win64-debug you can find the debug builds without symbols.
You also have to note that Flash is not yet available for Windows 64 bit builds (currently only available for Linux).
If you want to know what the big picture currently is you can visit this page:
This was pre-announced last week in our mailing list and by Oduinn in his blog.
This work by Zambrano Gasparnian, Armen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.


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Cops robbed for their guns
February 26 2009 at 06:43PM
By Heinz de Boer, Arthi Sanpath and Rivonai Naidu
At least 15 South African Police Services (SAPS) guns have been stolen after
a gang of robbers brazenly attacked and robbed a SAPS/Metro Police joint
operations centre (JOC) on the beachfront near Boscombe Terrace this
There are concerns that the stolen guns could be used to commit serious and
violent crimes.
Durban organised crime unit detectives have vowed to hunt down the gang, who
locked the two on-duty SAPS members in a room before fleeing with the
pistols at about 5.30am today.
Sources said the weapons were not kept in a safe, but in a lockable metal
box in the satellite station.
Durban organised crime head Superintendent Rajen Aiyer said his unit was
preparing to work 24-hour shifts to catch the robbers.
Provincial police spokesman Supt Muzi Mngomezulu said a suspect entered the
station this morning on the pretext of opening a case.
A sergeant and a reserve constable were on duty, said Mngomezulu.
"While the constable was busy with him, another suspect entered and pointed
a gun at the officers," he said, adding that the officers were unarmed.
"The suspects demanded firearms and cellphones," he said.
The constable asked for his cellphone SIM card, which the suspect returned.
"The suspect then went to the corner of the office and picked up a bag of
firearms," said Mngomezulu. He said the firearms were in the bag because the
officers were still preparing to put them away in a trunk for safekeeping.
Fifteen 9mm pistols were in the bag. A case of armed robbery has been
KZN violence monitor Mary de Haas described the incident as "disgraceful and
"This proves how slack the police are when looking after firearms.
Legislation requires that guns be safely locked away and, if these guns were
easily stolen, it proves they weren't locked away and that it was the work
of people who knew where to look," she said.
"Theft of guns is often linked to other criminal activity. A lot of the time
when farmers are attacked, the main reason is because criminals want
firearms to commit other crimes. Often, not only are the public targets, but
the police themselves."
Johan Burger, senior researcher at the Institute of Security Studies, said
while he could not comment on this incident, "the firearms control act makes
it clear that firearms have to be locked in a safe, and all police stations
do have walk-in safes. In the case of satellite police stations, one needs
to look at whether the metal box was properly attached, maybe to a wall,
immovable and with a suitable locking device. If all those criteria were
met, then it could fit the requirements of the firearms act . but these
specifications have to be investigated".
This article was originally published on page 1 of Daily News on February
26, 2009


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Hughes UH1 Helicopter highlights DeRuyter memorial
Southeast of DeRuyter sits a Hughes UH1 Helicopter in a grassy field among flags and statues, surrounded by pine and hardwood trees.
A few years ago retired Army 1st Sgt. Bill Middleton had it delivered on his own dime. Middleton is a member of an exclusive club: Survivors of the Battle of Ia Drang.
This protracted fight pitted the First Cavalry Division against hardcore North Vietnamese troops, and was fought from Nov. 14-18, 1965.
The engagement, the first major battle between regular troops of North Vietnam and American forces, was chronicled in the well-known book "We Were Soldiers Once..And Young," as well as the movie based on it.
Cavalry troopers like Middleton were elite soldiers and the "Huey chopper" got them to the battlefield, making Vietnam America's first helicopter war.
Middleton was wounded in the hard-fought, bloody battle. Another Madison County resident, William B. Bradley of Wampsville, was killed in action. Some American platoons were nearly wiped out.
The UH1 chopper is the centerpiece of Bill Middleton's memorial to the fallen soldiers of the Ia Drang, as well as to other veterans and the heroes of September 11. It is located on Mariposa Road.
To visit the memorial take Crumb Hill Road (county highway 58) east from DeRuyter to Mariposa Road and turn right. The memorial is on the right hand side about 3/4 of a mile after the turn.
The memorial is something to see and and is very moving.
Retired Army Maj. John Ready is the founder of the VeteranImages project that chronicles the military experiences of local troops. Contact him via his blog:


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Dental Assistant - General Practice
- Employer
- Great Expressions Dental Centers
- Location
- Westland, Michigan
- Salary
- Posted
- Oct 12, 2019
- Closes
- Oct 24, 2019
- Ref
- 2019-16477
- Position
- Dental Assistant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Job Type
- Part Time
What would it mean to you to join an organization dedicated to YOUR growth, YOUR stability, and YOUR income? With over 2400 team members nationwide, apply now to find out what it means to work at Great Expressions Dental Centers (GEDC); a leader in providing premier preventative dental care, orthodontics and specialty care.
We are looking for a qualified, professional and motivated Dental Assistant who is ready to help change the lives of patients, be a part of a team and grow personally and professionally within our Great Expressions family!
Great Expressions has a passionate focus on all aspects of the patient journey and delivering a positive experience; we also are motivated to deliver a positive experience and growth opportunities for our Dental Assistants since YOU are the reason for our patients' experiences.
When you join our team, you benefit in many ways:
* Exciting Team Environment
* Competitive Pay and Bonus Potential
* Dental Benefits
* Company Paid Uniforms
* Opportunity for Career Advancement/Recognition and Growth with a Rapidly Growing Company
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Power of One Rewards
* Convenient New Hire Orientation for all team members
For more information please contact
We are looking for a team oriented individual who is outgoing with impressive communication skills, organized, professional, service minded and willing to go above and beyond the basic responsibilities of the job. As a Dental Assistant, you will have the opportunity of working side by side one of our talented dentists and assist them in procedures from fillings, crown preps, root canals, surgical extractions and so much more. You will be able to gain the skills and knowledge on all things dentistry by exposure to prep work, procedures and post-op care.
If you are ready to stop looking through jobs and ready to begin a new career, then now is the time to join our rapidly growing team; we are excited to hear from you!
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* Past experience as a medical assistant, dental assistant, or in a customer focused role desired
Please take just a few minutes to apply via this ad and create an account; any further positions you apply for, all of your contact information will already be saved!
In addition, we will send you updates on any future positions you may be qualified for.


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Moderators: Quade, dexter, newsraider, DThor
Quade wrote:It's in the advanced options.
If turning it off there doesn't fix it, you probably want to re-register from the "Help/Register Update Key" menu.
Ok I re-regged my key, ticking the box to SHOW the MOTD actually turns it off. Go figure. Problem solved..
DougGuy wrote:I edited the .nbi file to show a different color for the second server in the Server Options applet, but in the main downloading files window, both servers still use the same color. Can't tell which one the files are coming from.
TrueCrypt under windows uses letter designations whereas under Linux, it uses numbers. I tried changing the nbi to 'DataPath=/dev/sdb1:\Newsbin\ but apparently I don't know the correct syntax as this also fails with the same error.
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Mozilla announcing plans to do a Metro version of Firefox for Windows 8 tablets was received with optimism. The browser has a steady community despite Google's Chrome replacing it in the hearts of most techies. Yesterday, Ed Bott at ZDNet shared Mozilla's progress on Firefox Metro. As it turns out, what Mozilla showed wasn't the final design so I'm being told not to judge them. In his status update blog post, Mozilla engineer Brian Bondy elaborates on where Firefox Metro is:
- Integration with Share Charm to share a page with any application (What are Charms?)
- Support for Metro Snap
- Search Charm integration: if Firefox Metro is your default browser and you enter a URL in the Search Charm, the page will be loaded
Bondy says work on the UI and experience has not started. For Mozilla, supporting Metro in Windows 8 is important since:
If a browser is default on Metro, it will also be default on the Desktop.
If a browser does not support Metro, it is seriously at risk of losing the default browser status, and therefore significant market share.
Here's what was shown:
When I saw the screenshots I was reminded of Windows 3.0. Here's why:
Metro is a design language and there are only two ways a company can differentiate their browser from Intern Explorer 10:
- Features
- Design


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Fear of Song CD
Zak Sally's Fear of Song is a handmade, signed and numbered deal, with Zak Sally doing the printing.
Zak says: "... each copy hand assembled right here, by me (with some help from my crack intern Maddie and whatever pals i can bribe into helping out). And this is where we get into some weirdness, because obviously, Zak Sally, is, you know - ME. So if I were someone else, i could go on about my years in the minimalist rock trio Low, (and stints with other outfits such as Enemy Mine, the Dirty Three, Kid Dakota), and how I started making this record in my basement over a year ago just to see if i could finish ONE SONG (this being something that had been a REAL PROBLEM for the previous 36 years of my life), but then actually started enjoying the process until finally I went over to my good old friend Ben Durrant's (Andrew Bird, Dosh, tons of great stuff...) Crazy Beast Studio and slowly tore our hair out strand by strand until, LOOK - a WHOLE RECORD! NEAT!! And, if i wasn't me, I could say - it's a good record. I set myself with the goal of making EVERY SOUND on the thing, and so that's what it sounds like. It sounds like me."


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Billionaire investor George Soros (left) must like soccer—or hope that the craze for it continues among others—because his investment fund has bought a stake in Manchester United, the British soccer team owned by the American Glazer family that was taken public less than two weeks ago.
The BBC reported Tuesday that, according to SEC filings, Soros Fund Management snapped up more than 3.1 million shares to the tune of 25.8 million pounds ($40.7 million) as of the stock's closing price on Monday. That amounts to 7.85% of the class A shares and 1.9% of the team. However, it still doesn't give Soros much say over the team's doings, since the class B shares retained by the Glazers carry 10 times the voting rights of the class A shares.
The stock has fallen since its IPO, at which it was valued at over $2.3 billion. The share price has lost 6.7% since the stock's debut on Aug. 10; on Monday shares were down 2.7%.
That doesn't appear to be worrying Soros, who has passed up other sports teams in the past and in 2008 decided against a takeover of AS Roma, an Italian team, due to debt issues that made the club less desirable.
Media rights may be the key to Man U's attraction for the billionaire. Philip Hall, a partner at Inner Circle Sports, an investment bank focused on the sports industry, was quoted saying in the report, "This could be a play by Soros on the strength of Manchester United's brand and the English Premier League's growing media rights."
Hall added, "The domestic rights are set to increase 70% for the 2013–2014 season and the international media rights, set to be announced in late October or early November, are also expected to come in at a very robust uplift."


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High school and college students ready to join seasonal workforce
The job market is about to get even more saturated and competitive, despite the number of "now hiring" signs all over the area, because of all of the high school students finished with the school year.
The pool of potential candidates will only grow.
Already, there are retirees, college graduates, and college students on summer break who are also looking for jobs.
Tom Woodruff, who helps students at Rogers High School get ready to join the workforce, said students should get a headstart during spring break to beat the rush.
For those who are looking for work now, Woodruff said job seekers should be prepared.
"Sometimes you don't have a second chance to make a first impression," said Woodruff. "You've got to be prepared when you first go into the interview."
A work history is also important.
If workers don't have a work history, Woodruff said don't discount small or odd jobs.
For example, a babysitter could use the child's parent as a reference.


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By Harry Kaplowitz, iContact Strategic Advisor
A week or so ago, a coworker shared this link with me. It's a very good collection of frictionless email sign-up forms from various websites, large and small. If anything, I want to start using it as a resource to help clients generate ideas about their sign-up forms. But it also works as an impetus for this blog post about creating effective email sign-up forms.
We throw around the word "frictionless" a lot, and I think oftentimes we expect our users to just get it. But understanding what a frictionless sign-up form is and actually creating one are two different things. Most people think a sign-up form's only function is to get people onto your email list, but there's a second, more pointed purpose: It is your first (and sometimes only) avenue for extracting valuable, actionable information from your subscribers. So you should be using them to get pertinent information from your subscribers while you have their undivided attention.
Take Entertainment Weekly's effort to the right. They are giving their subscribers a chance to dictate the exact kinds of messages they want to receive, from updates on American Idol and LOST to determining which days they want to receive their newsletters on, with each day offering different kinds of content.
Do you want your subscribers to know which social media outlets they can use to connect with you? Well, first of all, you should want them to know that because cross-channel connections are a great way to ensure that your email subscribers take the next step to becoming your brand's strongest advocates. Second, if that's something you might be interested in, take a look at how Sun Country Airlines, Threadless, and True Lemon developed elegant solutions to this problem:
Are you in the business of geo-targeted marketing? Then you'll probably need your email subscriber's state or ZIP code, and there's no better time to grab that data than when they're signing up to receive your emails — get while the getting's good, right? Circuit of the Americas did a great job with their sign-up form by soliciting prime, useful data with minimal end-user friction.
Don't have the in-house resources to build a great sign-up form like this? That's not a problem, either, because iContact has you covered with a staff of top-notch web designers that can work with you and your company's existing brand to a build a sign-up form that will get results. If you're a self-service account, contact our support team at (877) 820-7837 to get started. If you're a premier customer, contact your dedicated Strategic Advisor for more information.
This post was originally published on December 12, 2012


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NX700E Software update for Bluetooth
The following are required before you begin the download.
1.1. Download
Please download "Bluetooth.zip" file.
The file is zip-compressed, and you need to unzip & extract to your desktop on your PC before copying to an SD card.
When this file is unzipped, "blackbox" and "Bluetooth" folders are shown in the unzipped location.
"Blackbox" folder has contents.
"Bluetooth" folder has contents.
■Bluetooth.zip (3.97MB)
1.2. Copy folders to SD card
Copy, "blackbox" and "Bluetooth" folders to an empty SD card. Make sure the structure of the SD card is correct before proceeding as loading incorrect files may damage the unit. The SD card should now contain, "Blackbox" & "Bluetooth" folders.
1. Turn ON your radio, press the MAP button and insert your SD card. Now close the screen and press the back button. Do not turn OFF the radio during updating.
2. Once the update is done (you will see a green tick on the display), remove the SD card and press the small reset button for a couple of seconds (it's beside the "+" button).
3. Delete any pairing details in your phone and your radio and then re-pair your phone to your radio.
A quick check to confirm if the update has been successful is to press the reset button on your radio after you have paired your phone. Once your radio has turned back ON again, check to see if your phone pairing details are still in the radio (look in CONNECT). If they are the update is done. If the pairing details have disappeared, try the update again.
1) Push "Info" key.
2) Confirm that the version should be "2.00.17.30".
Updating will re-start from the beginning if you turn off and on the backup (+12V) line or push the reset button of NX700E.
1) When an iPhone is connected to the NX700E, sometimes the incoming voice sound can not be heard for 6 seconds after receiving a call.
2) When an iPhone is connected to the NX700E, sometimes there is no incoming call ringing sound.
3) When an iPhone is connected to the NX700E, sometimes the voice sound from caller can not be heard during an incoming call.
4) When a Blackberry is connected to the NX700E, sometimes voice sound cannot be heard during an incoming call after ACC OFF/ON.
5) Sometimes the "Connect" icon in the Bluetooth menu is in the wrong location after Accessory OFF/ON during Navigation or Audio mode.
6) If the Bluetooth pairing data is lost after unit reset (pushing reset button of NX700E) or after the Back Up power supply is lost.
7) Additionally please update your iPhone version to iOS4 (4.1) or higher to benefit from these improvements.
The exceptions below still remain even after this update.
When an iPhone is connected to the NX700E, sometimes noise occurs when a call is made.
The information below still remains even after this update.
Sometimes Tel button of Source screen is invalid after you make a call and stop a call immediately from iPhone. In that case, please push reset button of NX700E. In addition, please re-connect with iPhone after pushing reset button. (NX700E Mobile Phone Compatibility *48)
Sometimes you cannot continue calling after you stop the engine of car while you are calling or receiving a call. In that case, please push the reset button of NX700E. In addition, please re-connect with iPhone after pushing reset button. (NX700E Mobile Phone Compatibility *49)
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Flash forward to last night. Noah was wearing his new baby leash, which he LOVES, and was making Abbi walk him. Jake and I sent the kids upstairs to start finding their pajamas while we finished cleaning up dinner. A couple minutes later, Abbi came down the stairs and yelled, "I changed Noah's diaper!" She was so excited. It took a second to register what she said and then all the sudden she appeared again and handed me a heavy wet diaper. I feel so lucky it was only wet.
I was scared. Jake was scared. I gathered my courage and went upstairs to see what was happening.
Abbi did a good job for her first, unsupervised try. She really wanted to be a good helper because this week our goal is to earn a little money to donate to the temple fund. We paid her a little extra because she was really proactive with this task.


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PDF Attack Filter for Apache mod rewrite
This is a filter to block XSS attacks on pdf files, as originally discovered by Stefano Di Paola and Giorgio Fedon, served by Apache with mod_rewrite installed. After developing an initial implementation, I found it to be almost identical to an algorithm developed by Amit Klein. After further inspection, I was able to optimize the algorithm even more as explained below.
So far I've seen two real-world implementations of this algorithm. One for Java EE right here in OWASP and a second one developed by F5 iRules.
Adobe has published their official server-side workarounds. The Adobe solutions work by changing either the Content-Type or Content-Disposition headers in order to force the pdf to be downloaded avoiding the Adobe plug-in. I think the "Content-Type" change is less desirable as I've seen it working improperly in some cases. The downside of either implementation is that for long-established commercial websites, this changes the effective functionality of the site in that pdf's (on PC's configured with Adobe plug in), no longer open up in the browser.
Ideally, in order not to lose the functionality, we can clear the "anchor/fragment" off of the original URL by forcing a redirect to an URL containing a "hard to reproduce" but verifiable token in the query string (or even in the location).
More details of the attack are discussed elsewhere. The software in the public domain to make it easy for anyone to use for any purpose.
- OWASP Java EE entry for structure and skeleton contents.
- Algorithm developed by Amit Klein.
- Base64 code.
- OpenSSL encryption code. Vinayak Hegde.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin - Multiple Vulnerabilities. Stefano Di Paola
- Server-side workarounds. Adobe
My initial approach was almost the same as the approach described for the Java EE implementation. The main difference was that in the case that a request arrives with a query string, but one which doesn't match our generated token, instead of setting the Content-Disposition and forcing a download of the file, we redirect to the same URL containing a newly generated token in the query string.
On further study, I simplified the approach, hopefully maintaining the same level of security. This consists of at most a single rewrite based on two conditions, the file is a pdf and it has a correctly generated token in the query string. If the two conditions are not met, we redirect to the same pdf but with a valid token in the query string. This method skips step 2 and 3 of the Ami algorithm. Purposefully the query string is cleared out on the redirect and only the token is passed. The reason is to avoid possible other hacks playing around with the query string. Unless the pdf is dynamically created and depends on get parameters, this shouldn't be a problem. Certainly it is possible to implement a version of rewrite rules which will allow us also to maintain the original query string, without difficulty.
Apache mod_rewrite rules
RewriteEngine On RewriteLog "logs/rewrite.log" RewriteLogLevel 10 RewriteMap tokenize prg:/home/jon/tokenize RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .pdf RewriteCond ${tokenize:%{REMOTE_ADDR}%{QUERY_STRING}} !^$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1?${tokenize:%{REMOTE_ADDR}} [R,L]
The first rewrite condition matches all pdf files. The second condition matches all requests whose query string doesn't match our generated token, which is created by passing the client IP address %{REMOTE_ADDR} and the query string supplied in the request %{QUERY_STRING}.
Assuming we are requesting a pdf file, there are different cases that the second part of this rule handles.
- First time request without any query string, e.g.
http://www.aaa.com/test.pdftokenize is called with the client ip address (the query string is empty), e.g.
"192.168.0.1"and returns a new token
"TOKENDELIMITERRMoa43/zBdWp+E474FkoOkgJ2ZKNds6N"As the value is not zero, we send back a redirect to
- Request comes with a valid token, such as:
http://www.aaa.com/test.pdf?TOKENDELIMITERRMoa43/zBdWp+E474FkoOkgJ2ZKNds6Ntokenize is called with just client ip address and query string, e.g.
"192.168.0.1TOKENDELIMITERRMoa43/zBdWp+E474FkoOkgJ2ZKNds6N"and tokenize will return an empty string. At this point the second RewriteCond will fail and the request will pass through to normal Apache processing.
- Request comes in with a query string or an invalid token, such as:
http://www.aaa.com/test.pdf?x=1&b=2In this case, tokenize will be passed client ip address and query string, for example:
"192.168.0.1TOKENDELIMITERfaketokeninventedbyhacker"and the return value will be the correct token
"192.168.0.1TOKENDELIMITERRMoa43/zBdWp+E474FkoOkgJ2ZKNds6N"RewriteCond will evaluate true and we will perform the redirect as in the first case.
Apache mod_rewrite rules - Amit version
Here is a previous version of rewrite rules, using the same tokenize, much more similar to Amit's algorithm even if I think that it changes nothing in respect to the actual functionality.
RewriteEngine On RewriteLog "logs/rewrite.log" RewriteLogLevel 10 RewriteMap tokenize prg:/home/jon/tokenize RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .pdf RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1?${tokenize:%{REMOTE_ADDR}} [R,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .pdf RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1?${tokenize:%{REMOTE_ADDR}%{QUERY_STRING}} RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .pdf RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1?${tokenize:%{REMOTE_ADDR}} [R,L]
tokenize - mod_rewrite prg
Now on to "tokenize". This is a mod_rewrite RewriteMap external program. It is run on initialization of the rewrite engine and loops on stdin where it receives text to transform, delimited by newlines. Output is on stdout, terminated by newline. Our version of tokenize interprets the input text as two pieces, some client-based info, such as client-ip or other, and a possible token to check, for example
Tokenize will generate a token using all of the text before "TOKENDELIMITER" + any extra info such as current time (maybe taking out minutes). If the token generated matches the stuff after "TOKENDELIMITER" it will write a blank line on stdout, otherwise it will write out the new token on stdout, e.g.
"C" source code
This code has been only minimally tested. Please help verify the approach and the implementation used here.
Note: In order to use, you must fill in key and initial value (key & iv), and of course these should be kept secret. Also you may want to modify how time/date are used as well as any other system variables you might want to add in.
/** * * This software is in the public domain with no warranty. * * @author Jon Zaid * @created January 14, 2007 */ #include <time.h> #include <openssl/blowfish.h> #include <openssl/evp.h> #include <openssl/blowfish.h> #include <openssl/evp.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/types.h> #define IP_SIZE 1024 #define OP_SIZE 1032 #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME 120 /*************************************************************************** encode a buffer using base64 - simple and slow algorithm. null terminates the result. Code taken from http://www.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/junkcode/base64.c ***************************************************************************/ static void base64_encode(char *buf, int len, char *out) { char *b64 = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/"; int bit_offset, byte_offset, idx, i; unsigned char *d = (unsigned char *)buf; int bytes = (len*8 + 5)/6; memset(out, 0, bytes+1); for (i=0;i<bytes;i++) { byte_offset = (i*6)/8; bit_offset = (i*6)%8; if (bit_offset < 3) { idx = (d[byte_offset] >> (2-bit_offset)) & 0x3F; } else { idx = (d[byte_offset] << (bit_offset-2)) & 0x3F; if (byte_offset+1 < len) { idx |= (d[byte_offset+1] >> (8-(bit_offset-2))); } } out[i] = b64[idx]; } } unsigned char key[16] = { xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx}; unsigned char iv[8] = {xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx, xx}; /* code taken from http://www.faqs.org/docs/gazette/encryption.html */ int encrypt_str (char *in, char *out) { int olen, tlen, n; char outbuf[IP_SIZE]; EVP_CIPHER_CTX ctx; EVP_CIPHER_CTX_init (&ctx); EVP_EncryptInit (&ctx, EVP_bf_cbc (), key, iv); if (EVP_EncryptUpdate (&ctx, outbuf, &olen, in, strlen(in)) != 1) { printf ("error in encrypt update\n"); return 0; } if (EVP_EncryptFinal (&ctx, outbuf + olen, &tlen) != 1) { printf ("error in encrypt final\n"); return 0; } olen += tlen; base64_encode(outbuf, olen, out); EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup (&ctx); return 1; } #define MAX_TOKEN_LEN 1024 #define TOKEN_PATTERN "TOKENDELIMITER" /* in contains the request buffer which is an arbitrary string possibly followed by a delimited token (delimted "TOKEN") we use the time as well as the string up to TOKEN to delimit it */ void gen_token(char *in, char *token64, int token64_len) { time_t now; char token[MAX_TOKEN_LEN]; int len; char *pToken; /* copy first part of buffer to token */ if (pToken = strstr(in, TOKEN_PATTERN)) len = pToken - in; else len = strlen(in); if (len >= MAX_TOKEN_LEN) len = MAX_TOKEN_LEN-1; strncpy(token, in, len); token[len] = '\0'; /* now add time to it */ now = time(NULL); now = now - (now % TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME); snprintf(&token[len], sizeof(token)-len-1, "%d", now); encrypt_str(token, token64); } /* mod_rewrite prg handler Requests arrive on stdin delimter by \n Single line reply for every request Algorithim: generate a token based on input buffer contents and any other sysinfo we want; if request buffer already contains a token compare it with the generated one; is (generated same as passed token) return emptyline; else return generated token; */ main() { while (1) { /* for all requests */ char reqBuffer[4096]; char c; int len; int charsRead; char token64[MAX_TOKEN_LEN*2]; char *pToken = reqBuffer; len = 0; while ( ((charsRead = read(0, &c, 1)) == 1) && (len < sizeof(reqBuffer)-2)) { if (c == '\n') /* end of single request? */ break; reqBuffer[len++] = c; } if (charsRead < 0) break; /* exiting from prg/apache? */ reqBuffer[len] = '\0'; /* based on contents of request, generate a string token. Must be zero-delimted and ASCII printable chars, e.g. base64 */ gen_token(reqBuffer, token64, sizeof(token64)); /* find pointer to starting of actual encrypted token in request buffer, e.g. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxTOKENencryptedtoken we will point to "encryptedtoken". */ if (pToken = strstr(reqBuffer, TOKEN_PATTERN)) pToken += strlen(TOKEN_PATTERN); /* compare newly generated token with one that is passed and if not same output the newly generated token, else don't output anything */ if (!pToken || strcmp(token64, pToken)) { printf("%s %s\n", token64, pToken?pToken:"NULL"); write(1, TOKEN_PATTERN, strlen(TOKEN_PATTERN)); write(1, token64, strlen(token64)); } write(1, "\n", 1); } /* for all requests */ }


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ATLANTA — First baseman Freddie Freeman was visibly upset that the Atlanta Braves placed him on the 15-day disabled list Sunday with a strained right oblique.
Freeman, who is hitting .417 with one homer and seven RBIs through the first five games, said team management did not tell him before making the decision.
"They didn't even give me a choice," Freeman said before Atlanta's game with the Chicago Cubs. "It's my career. I should be able to make that decision."
Freeman said he found out after arriving at Turner Field. He was examined by the team's medical staff on Saturday night after the Braves' 6-5 victory.
"They didn't even tell me anything," Freeman said. "I don't know what's going on. I'm pretty [angry] right now."
Braves general manager Frank Wren defended the move.
"Especially this early in the season, we're not going to take a chance to turn what would be two to three weeks into six or eight weeks by tearing that oblique area," Wren said.
Freeman said the injury first occurred in a workout March 31, the day before the season started, and that he wanted to keep playing through the pain. He winced and was favoring his right side while running to first on an RBI single in the eighth inning on Saturday.
Freeman will not travel with the team when Atlanta plays its next six games at Miami and Washington.
"It's not hurt to the point where I can't play," Freeman said. "I can play just fine. At least talk to me about it. You can't just make a decision without me knowing."
Rookie catcher Evan Gattis took Freeman's cleanup spot in the lineup. Third baseman Chris Johnson started at first base and hit seventh.
Blake DeWitt was called up from Triple-A Gwinnett to take Freeman's spot on the 25-man roster.
Shortstop Andrelton Simmons missed his second straight day with a sore right thumb. Ramiro Pena started in his spot.
Wren said he wasn't upset that Freeman voiced his displeasure with the decision.
"He's a young guy that wants to play, and you appreciate that," Wren said. "You want him to be out there, but I think sometimes you have to protect players from themselves.
"This is not one of those situations where we want to lose him for the whole first half by letting him go out and tear that oblique area, and then we're dealing with a whole different injury," Wren added. "We think we've caught it early enough that he should be back in two to three weeks."
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Music videos by bands like Gestures (U. of Washington '84) and Stained Rug Theory (Brown University '86) were lost in obscurity until now. The groups are newly represented by a company that promotes old college bands and sells their work.
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Hurricane Irene polluted Catskills watershed
(Phys.org)—The water quality of lakes and coastal systems will be altered if hurricanes intensify in a warming world, according to a Yale study in Geophysical Research Letters.
Bryan Yoon, the study's co-author and a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, found that last summer during Hurricane Irene—the worst storm in the New York area in 200 years—record amounts of dissolved organic matter darkened Catskill waters and affected the Ashokan Reservoir that supplies New York City with drinking water.
"This is the biggest rain event ever sampled for the region," said Yoon, who conducted the study with Pete Raymond, professor of ecosystem ecology at Yale.
As a primary source of drinking water for New York City, the Catskill Mountains is designated as forest preserve, and roughly 62 percent of the watershed studied is protected by New York State. Over a two-day period in late August 2011, Irene dropped over 11 inches of rain—17 percent of the average annual rainfall—on Esopus Creek that feeds the Ashokan.
Yoon found that the volume of water discharged by the creek increased 330-fold, and the creek exported an unprecedented amount of dissolved organic matter to the Ashokan, equivalent to 43 percent of its average annual export. Yoon likened the increase in dissolved organic matter to a person being fed 40 percent of his annual food in a few days.
Although not discussed as often as other water quality topics such as turbidity, dissolved organic matter plays a critical role in the aquatic environment and for the provision of clean drinking water. In moderate quantities, dissolved organic matter also provides food and nutrients for microbial communities.
In excessive amounts, however, dissolved organic matter could lead to numerous environmental problems, Yoon's study found. Dissolved organic matter binds with metal pollutants and transports them; interferes with ultraviolet processes that reduce pathogens in water; affects aquatic metabolism; and leads to the formation of carcinogenic disinfection byproducts, such as trihalomethanes during chlorination.
"All of those problems become more serious as larger quantities of dissolved organic matter are transported to lakes and coastal systems," he said. "Hurricane Irene was a prime example that there is no limit to the amount of dissolved organic matter that can be exported by extreme rain events. Surprisingly, concentrations of dissolved organic matter didn't get diluted."
Raymond said that frequent hurricanes will flush more organic matter out of the ground and into lakes, reservoirs and coastal waters, potentially altering their biogeochemical cycles.


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Leo Kottke
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Thursday, Oct 18th, 2012 @ 7pm
Hilltown Families and Iron Horse Entertainment Group have partnered up to offer a chance to win free tickets to see adult venues in the Pioneer Valley for a PARENTS' NIGHT OUT! You pay for the sitter, we'll pay for the tickets!
For October we have a pair of tickets to giveaway to see Leo Kottke at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, MA on Thurs, Oct 18th at 7pm. Win a pair of tickets and take your spouse, partner or good friend for a night out. Deadline to enter to win: 10/15 @ 7pm (EST). Details below.
For decades, Leo Kottke inspired generations of fingerpicking acoustic guitarists. Kottke can play achingly beautiful melodies and then turn around and dazzle you with with his speed and brilliance. What people generally miss is an appreciation of just how many musical genres Kottke has borrowed from and fused into his own unmistakable style. You can hear country, rock, blues, jazz, classical, Hawaiian slack-key … and, I swear, even a bit of flamenco in there somewhere. – www.leokottke.com
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IT'S THAT SIMPLE! — Deadline is Monday, 10/15/12 @ 7pm (EST)
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Growing up in Texas, we had all heard the stereotype that football was considered a religion in the state. To an extent, the aforementioned isn't too far from being a reality. Smaller towns all across the state of Texas shut down on Friday nights during the fall and the place to be is at the local high school following the local team. Hollywood has even perpetuated the notion with films such as Friday Night Lights and the eventual television series with the same name.
This year, the UIL did something that it had never done before – the organization scheduled all 10, 11-man championships in one central venue over a three-day stretch. From Dec. 15-17, the eyes of Texas descended upon Cowboys Stadium in Arlington with the finale featuring the Class 5A Division II championship game that concluded with an unexpected runaway golf cart.
Over the three day stretch, attendance was a resounding success as record crowds were on hand. The Class 4A Division II championship game between Aledo and Manvel took home the attendance record for the weekend with an announced crowd of 43,369. The Class 5A Division I championship between Southlake Carroll and Fort Bend Hightower drew a crowd of 42,822.
On the day after Christmas I found myself watching the Advocare V100 Independence Bowl between Missouri and North Carolina and couldn't help but notice the small crowd on hand in Shreveport, LA. To be fair, a non-premiere bowl game on the day following Christmas and poor weather were factors in the small crowd but it got me thinking – are there too many bowl games?
Through the first eight games of the college bowl season, the average bowl attendance has been 31,430. Attendance numbers should pick up as the bowl season progresses as the more tradition-rich bowl games are still on the docket. But to put things in perspective – Aledo and Manvel outdrew the first eight bowl games with Southlake and Hightower outdrawing all but the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.
Calling football in Texas a religion might be a stretch. However, football in Texas is King.
2011-12 College Football Bowl Game Attendance Numbers:
Gildan New Mexico Bowl: 25, 762
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: 28,076
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl: 42,841
Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg: 20,072
San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl: 24,607
Maaco Bowl Las Vegas: 35,720
Sheraton Hawaii Bowl: 32,630
Advocare V100 Independence Bowl: 41,728
Little Caesars Bowl: 46,177
Belk Bowl: 58,427


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Lisle, Ill. (September 3, 2015)- Today, Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (NYSE: UTI), the nation's leading provider of post-secondary education for students seeking careers as professional automotive, diesel, collision repair, motorcycle and marine technicians, is proud to announce the graduation of Kasey Espinosa from its automotive, diesel, and industrial programs. Originally from Crest Hill, Espinosa came to the Lisle campus to pursue a program specifically designed to provide the training necessary for professional, entry-level technicians. Espinosa also received special training in the International Technician Education Program (ITEP), through UTI's partnership with Navistar International Corp.
"Our students take their training very seriously," says Julie Mueller, campus president of UTI-Lisle. "Often there are many sacrifices that have to be made in order to pursue their technical program. There is work, life, and school balance that must be maintained in order to successfully complete their studies at UTI. Our graduates are technical experts that are chosen by industry and ready to work."
About Universal Technical Institute, Inc.:
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (NYSE: UTI) is the leading provider of post-secondary education for students seeking careers as professional automotive, diesel, collision repair, motorcycle and marine technicians. With more than 190,000 graduates in its 50-year history, UTI offers undergraduate degree and diploma programs at 11 campuses across the United States, as well as manufacturer-specific training programs at dedicated training centers. Through its campus-based school system, UTI provides specialized post-secondary education programs under the banner of several well-known brands, including Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Motorcycle Mechanics Institute and Marine Mechanics Institute (MMI) and NASCAR Technical Institute (NASCAR Tech).
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