It also makes you feel like you're not being nickeled and dimed.
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"People appreciate not being nickel-and-dimed on these long flights," Bauer told ABC.
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For example, the most popular song is called "Dimed Out," which is a maniac's anthem.
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"They've taken every single thing and just nickel-and-dimed consumers," he said of the airlines.
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The neighbor who dimed her out to the city is pissed and wants it torn down ASAP.
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BTW, Mama Shah wasn't having it ... she's among the alleged victims who dimed out Shah to cops.
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Some, like the coffee maker, will cost extra and feel as if you're being nickeled and dimed.
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Mainly, pay-TV services cost too much and customers felt they were nickel-and-dimed with fees.
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I don't know about you, but I hate the feeling of being nickel-and-dimed with little fees.
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Ms. Ehrenreich is the author of "Nickel and Dimed" and the founder of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
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Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Nickel and Dimed" and the founder of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
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He refused to continue the show until the guy was tossed ... which he did once the audience dimed him out.
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The class inequalities in our society are worse than they were 20 years ago, when Nickel and Dimed was published.
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The kinds of conditions I was describing in Nickel and Dimed, I thought they'd be obsolete in a few years.
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Tubi, like many of these services, believes in its potential as consumers tire of being nickeled and dimed for video subscriptions.
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What he loved even more than the amp's loudness: if he dimed the volume, it smothered his guitar notes in fuzz.
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Tips such as avoiding airports and planning toll payments can help keep you from getting nickel-and-dimed with industry fees.
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Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel and WWE superstar Roman Reigns were all dimed out as alleged customers of a now-imprisoned steroids dealer.
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Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of "Nickel and Dimed," unpacks the self-righteousness and distraction that can accompany these conversations among the tech elite.
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Through much of Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich is tormented by the ethical implications of the social distance between herself and her co-workers.
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Chris Brown's baby mama is fed up with all the drama in his life, so much so ... she dimed him out to DCFS.
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" Then chase it with "Dimed Out," which has a smug retort of "My challengers are talentless imbeciles / When my chalice is full I am invincible.
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In her masterwork, "Nickel and Dimed" (2001), she embedded herself in the unskilled labor market, serving as a waitress, cleaning-service maid and Walmart employee.
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We talked to people and they kept saying, I feel like I'm getting nickel-and-dimed, I can't get my money out when I need it most.
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The author of over 20 books of social commentary, including "Nickel and Dimed", an acclaimed account of poverty in America, she has a PhD in cellular immunology.
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A muckraking classic, "Nickel and Dimed" exposed in unignorable detail the tolls of poverty on the working poor in America, land of scant and grudging social relief.
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Fans are forced to deal with an awful checkout experience, are nickeled-and-dimed with fees at every turn, and are unable to openly transfer or sell tickets.
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In "Nickel and Dimed," Barbara Ehrenreich's 2001 classic of immersion journalism, the author doesn't just report on the hardships faced by low-wage workers; she joins their ranks.
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Many travelers may feel nickel-and-dimed by the practice, but for the airlines, raising fees increases revenue without reaching into the pockets of their most frequent fliers.
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"An all-inclusive cruise may have a higher cost, but you'll end up saving money overall and won't be nickel-and-dimed throughout your trip," Ms. Perl said.
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"These passengers will definitely feel dimed when they find out they will pay a penalty when they try to bring on their rollaboard," said Rick Seaney, CEO of FareCompare.
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"This is the resort for anyone who wants to relax in an upscale setting without getting nickel-and-dimed for every snack or drink they order," Ms. Donley said.
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As a start-up entrepreneur, Behzadzadeh nursed a swelling grudge against the contractors and vendors who nickeled and dimed him, he thought, at every turn — maybe even Safe Harbor.
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"Parents fleeing violence to save their children's lives should be treated like refugees and protected, but instead we treat them like profit centers to be nickled and dimed," said Rep.
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"I think consumers in a lot of instances feel like they're being nickel-and-dimed," said Bobby Bowers, senior vice president for operations at the hotel research and data company STR.
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I want to go back to Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch, since those were such defining books for you, but first I'd ask—are you tired of talking about them?
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"Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," Barbara Ehrenreich's 2001 undercover account of work and life in minimum-wage America, seems as topical today as it was when it was first published.
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Like Jonathan Kozol's "Savage Inequalities," or Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed," or Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow," this sweeping, yearslong project makes us consider inequality and economic justice in ways we previously had not.
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As I reported in the resulting book, "Nickel and Dimed," some were homeless and slept in their cars, while others skipped lunch because they couldn't afford anything more than a snack-size bag of Doritos.
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The former Mayor's plan to generate revenue by landing a tenant ran into a serious problem: a cunning, profitable company (or "soccer club") that nickel-and-dimed throughout negotiations and got a steal of a deal.
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A decade later, I'm not sure about the function of a co-payment, other than as a reminder that when it comes to health care, you will be nickel-and-dimed until you draw your last breath.
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The company is now one of several going after a younger, millennial audience who no longer sees the need for banks with physical branches, and who are sick of being nickel-and-dimed by bigger banks' numerous fees.
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Whenever I assigned Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Nickel and Dimed" to my 11th-grade students as part of an English elective course on nonfiction, I always had students who were particularly moved by her stories on tipping hotel employees.
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Advocates for the poor have long resisted various cities' efforts to crack down on bags — whether by charging fees or banning them — as a regressive tax on shoppers who can't afford to be nickel-and-dimed every time they get groceries.
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But you also find a lot of smaller cruelties: in Nickel and Dimed, you talk about restaurant managers who scream at employees who stand still for a minute, or in Bait and Switch, would-be bosses who humiliate job seekers.
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After all, this is a governor who has nickel-and-dimed the MTA for years, and on his watch the subway's on-time performance degraded from 85.4 percent in 2011 (when Cuomo first took office) to a dismal 63.2 percent in 2017.
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The increased competition means that cable companies only have so long before the majority of their remaining user base rebels against being nickel-and-dimed for things like "an extra outlet" and set-top boxes, and just switches off their service for good.
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However, for consumers, it may make these services a tougher sell — many customers signed up to avoid being nickel-and-dimed by cable TV providers with fees and lineups including channels they didn't watch, and this is starting to feel the same.
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RELATED: Ex-congressman Aaron Schock claims staffer dimed him out to the FBI Schock's spending drew attention last year after news surfaced that he had decked out his congressional office in the style of the popular PBS drama "Downton Abbey" -- an accusation he vehemently denied.
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And this speaks to an existing feeling people have had about Apple: The company charges luxury prices for relatively common items, and has previously nickel-and-dimed its customers for additional add-ons, like an iPhone fast charger, which wasn&apost included in the box.
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In response to competitive pressures, United and Delta have steadily moved in the direction of low-cost practices — squeezing more seats into economy class and disaggregating the basic air travel bundle so that in exchange for a cheaper fare, you get nickel-and-dimed on various fees.
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Corporate tax rates go down sharply, while ordinary families are nickel-and-dimed by a series of tax changes, no one of which is that big a deal in itself, but which add up to significant tax increases on almost two-thirds of middle-class taxpayers.
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I'm wondering if you can remember when you decided how Nickel and Dimed should be first person, fundamentally undercover, and if you came up with a defined set of ethics for how you'd write about the people you met, since they didn't know what you were doing.
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With the benefit of quieter, safer, more livable cities and better respiratory health, we'll wonder why we ever put up with anything else — why we nickel-and-dimed the transition to electric buses, long-haul trucks, and passenger vehicles; why we fought over every bike lane and rail line.
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Since the mid-1970s she has devoted her work to an unsparing examination of what she viewed as the self-involvement of her professional, middle-class peers: from their narcissism and superiority in Fear of Falling and Nickel and Dimed to their misplaced faith in positive thinking in Bright-Sided.
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Mogelson's men are scarred by their service, in some cases ruined by it, but they were mostly ruined before they went overseas—for reasons that have less to do with topics covered in Lawrence Wright's Looming Tower than with topics covered in George Packer's The Unwinding and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickeled and Dimed.
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The inability of her contemporaries to see themselves with enough distance—either historical distance or from the vantage of elsewhere in the class system—is the subject of some of her best books: Fear of Falling, a study of middle-class insecurity, and Nickel and Dimed, her best-selling undercover report on the difficulties of low-wage employment.
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In between the horror stories that make headlines, like the tale of the United Airlines passenger who was physically dragged from his seat, there's a whole lot of everyday unpleasantness: being nickel-and-dimed for baggage fees, invasive security procedures and long lines, shrinking seat sizes, and the joyous experience of being reminded how rich you aren't while waiting for first-class passengers to board.
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If you think we are being nickel and dimed by big talk of small donations, Strand directs our attentions to JC Penny, which used round up donations to raise in excess of $3 million in a single year; eBay, which used fixed donation, POS-like programs to raise more than $60 million in that same year; and Bank of America, with a "Keep the Change" savings program totaling more than $3 billion since inception.
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So if your brain is spinning, let's just briefly recap what happened here: Tony Ferguson was TKO'd by a production cable, Khabib was slated to fight five different opponents in the span of a week, McGregor would rather commit assault to defend a friend than get paid to defend a title, a flying hand truck left six fighters out of work, the New York State Athletic Commission is composed of medical diagnosticians who take the UFC rankings very seriously, a former lightweight champion was nickle-and-dimed at the 11th hour, Paul Felder went from a title shot to having no opponent in a matter of minutes, and a fighter who was punitively banned from getting post-fight bonuses is bailing out the UFC.
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01\. Little Shop of Homicide 02\. Nickeled-and-Dimed to Death 03\. Dead Between the Lines 04\. Dying for a Cupcake 05\.
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Ehrenreich is the son of best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) and psychologist John Ehrenreich, and his sister is Rosa Brooks, the Los Angeles Times columnist.
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"Titus Andronicus Forever" was featured in the TV show Bored to Death and the film Premium Rush, while "Dimed Out" was used to close out the first season of the Showtime show Billions.
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Ehrenreich makes an appearance in the documentary The American Ruling Class in 2007. She portrays her life undercover working as a waitress and is accompanied by a musical rendition titled "Nickeled and Dimed".
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HarperCollins Publishers Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream is a book by Adam Shepard, a graduate of Merrimack College, about his attempt to live the American Dream. It was conceived as a refutation of the books Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich.
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Polly Toynbee speaks at the October 2005 Labour Party conference Following in the footsteps of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed (2001), she published in 2003 Hard Work: Life in Low-pay Britain about an experimental period voluntarily living on the minimum wage, which was £4.10 per hour at the time. She worked as a hospital porter in a National Health Service hospital, a dinnerlady in a primary school, a nursery assistant, a call-centre employee, a cake factory worker and a care home assistant, during which time she contracted salmonella. The book is critical of conditions in low pay jobs in Britain. She also contributed an introduction to the UK edition of Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
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Ehrenreich was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after the release of her book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. This led to the award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland," published in the November 2001 issue of Harper's Magazine. The piece inspired the 2011 documentary Pink Ribbons, Inc.. Ehrenreich lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Eggers, Tower said, "was nickeled and dimed to death in the cow counties by Preston Smith, who ran well in the traditionally Democratic rural areas."John G. Tower, Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991, , p. 206-207 In 1969, between his two gubernatorial races, as Nixon had mentioned in Longview, Eggers served briefly in the Treasury Department.
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Brooks is the daughter of best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) and author and psychologist John Ehrenreich, and the sister of journalist and author Ben Ehrenreich. Brooks has two children and is married to LTC Joseph Mouer, a now-retired Army Special Forces officer. She is also a reserve police officer with the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Written from her perspective as an undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States. The events related in the book took place between spring 1998 and summer 2000. The book was first published in 2001 by Metropolitan Books.
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Jeffery was born in Baltimore, Maryland and was raised in Arlington, Virginia, and attended the Sidwell Friends School (1985), before going to Carleton College (1989). She earned a Master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995, Jeffery was a staff editor and writer at Washington City Paper. She was a senior editor at Harper's Magazine (1995–2002), where she edited six articles nominated for a National Magazine Award, including essays by Barbara Ehrenreich that became Nickel and Dimed.
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Barbara Ehrenreich (; born August 26, 1941) is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade" and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker. During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She is a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist, and author of 21 books. Ehrenreich is perhaps best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
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In the conclusion of her book, Nickel and Dimed (2001), Barbara Ehrenreich argues that Americans need to pressure employers to improve worker compensation. Generally speaking, this implies a need to strengthen the labor movement. Cross-national statistical studies on working poverty suggest that generous welfare states have a larger impact on working poverty than strong labor movements. The labor movements in various countries have accomplished this through political parties of their own (labor parties) or strategic alliances with non-labor parties, for instance, when striving to put a meaningful minimum wage in place.
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The book's cover features a waitress, Kimmie Jo Christianson, giving a worried look over her shoulder. The photo of Christianson was taken in 1986 for an unrelated Fortune cover.Judge OKs Ex-Waitress's Suit Over Bestseller's Cover After the release of Nickel and Dimed, Christianson filed suit against the book's publishers, arguing that they used her picture without her consent.Lawsuit In 2007, a judge ruled that the lawsuit could go ahead, because the cover was not part of Ehrenreich's narrative and was part of the publisher's selling of the book.
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Book-length examples of immersion journalism include H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights; John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me; Ted Conover's Rolling Nowhere, Coyotes and Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing; Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001), Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream; (2005), A.J. Jacobs The Year of Living Biblically (2007) and Matthew Thompson's Running with the Blood God (2013) and My Colombian Death (2008). VICE Films champions an immersionist style of reporting, and Vice Magazine published several issues on the topic.
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In 2015, he donated his personal archives to the University of Michigan's Screen Arts Mavericks and Makers Collection. Deutchman continues to produce films while consulting on the marketing and distribution of independent films, and teaching producing students in the MFA Film Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts. Current projects include a film adaptation of Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling book "Nickel and Dimed," a theatrical adaptation of Joan Micklin Silver's 1976 independent film "Hester Street" and a documentary about art film maverick Donald Rugoff, which had its World Premiere at.the 2019 DOC NYC Festival in New York.
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The downside to the TSB style is that the string always takes up the full amount of DIMed space even if the string inside is empty, and simple tasks like concatenation can potentially overflow the string unless it was set to a large size to begin with. Later versions of Dartmouth BASIC did include string variables, based on the same pattern found in BASIC- PLUS and MS BASIC. However, this version did not use the LEFT/MID/RIGHT functions for manipulating strings, but instead used the `CHANGE` command which converted the string to and from equivalent ASCII values. HP included identical functionality, changing only the name to `CONVERT`.
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While Shepard states that his story is not politically motivated, he did intend it to be a rebuttal to Barbara Ehrenreich's books Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch on a socio-economic level. He writes, "Ehrenreich attempted to establish that working stiffs are doomed to live in the same disgraceful conditions forever … my story is a search to evaluate if hard work and discipline provide any payoff whatsoever or if they are, as Ehrenreich suggests, futile pursuits." In achievement of his goal, Shepard resolved not to use his college education, credit history, or any of his previous contacts to help himself. Additionally, he would not beg for money or use services that were not available to others.
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In addition to Oregon, Washington state was used for locations, with some scenes shot at a Christmas tree farm. Leave No Trace took approximately three and a half years to develop, from the first time Granik read Peter Rock's novel, My Abandonment, on which the film was based. Other projects Granik has in development include a documentary about life after being released from jail and the subject of recidivism in East Baltimore – that was to feature Felicia "Snoop" Pearson from The Wire and elements of her memoir, Grace After Midnight – but is now a documentary about four former inmates in New York City. Another project is a film based on Barbara Ehrenreich's book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, which focuses on poverty and the working poor in America.
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Born in Philadelphia, Ehrenreich received his bachelor's degree in 1964 from Harvard College, followed by a Ph.D. in cellular biology from Rockefeller University and a second PhD in Clinical Psychology from the New School for Social Research. Since the 1970s, he has been a professor at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, where he currently holds the position of Professor of Psychology. In 1967, Ehrenreich married fellow Rockefeller University graduate student Barbara Alexander, now better known as social critic and best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed). Together, John and Barbara Ehrenreich played a leading role in the anti-Vietnam war movement in New York and published several early books and articles, including Long March, Short Spring: The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad (1969), The American Health Empire: Power, Profits and Politics (1970), and "The Professional- Managerial Class" (1977).
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In 2002, McQuilken began working as a sound designer, composer, and onstage musician for several productions at the Intiman Theatre, including Bartlett Sher's production of Nickel and Dimed, which transferred to the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and earned McQuilken the 2002 Backstage West Garland Award for composition. McQuilken continued to write, score, and perform, creating Paper Airplane and Extropia with Collaborator, the Seattle art collective, the latter of which was named one of the best three shows of 2004 by Seattle Weekly. In 2008, McQuilken debuted the album His Forearms Were Tanks Now, which McQuilken wrote, recorded, and performed on a self-made, loop-based composition and performance station called "the RIG", under the band name The Few Moments. Artist Ira Marcks drew a 50-foot illustration to accompany the album, McQuilken also played as the touring drummer for experimental folk musician Jason Webley.
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In addition to basic math, SUPER BASIC included array functionality like many other BASIC implementations. One could to make a two-dimensional array, and as a consequence of the way they were stored, all variables otherwise undeclared were actually DIMed to have ten indexes, so one could without previously DIMing B. In contrast with other BASICs, SUPER BASIC allowed one to define the range of one or both of the dimensions, assuming 1 if not defined. So A in the example above has indexes 1..5, but one might also to produce an array that has 11 indexes from -5 to +5 for X, and 0 to +5 for Y. One could also use the command to change the default, so , for example, makes all dimensions start at 0. In addition to these traditional BASIC concepts, SUPER BASIC also included most of the matrix math features found in later versions of Dartmouth BASIC.
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After the Franklin Shelter closed, Sheptock moved to the downtown, D.C. shelter, Community for Creative Non-Violence, which was made famous by fellow activist, Mitch Snyder. By June 2009, National Public Radio's All Things Considered did a piece on him called "Homeless Advocate Goes High Tech." He appeared on CNN to make a pitch for a job. By 2010, Eric Sheptock had 4,548 Facebook friends, 839 Twitter followers, and two blogs. Sheptock was mentioned in Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed, speaking to the criminalization of homelessness, saying “Can you imagine?”“They arrested a homeless man in a shelter for being homeless?” In 2011, Sheptock launched "Shelter, Housing, and Respectful Change" for the purpose of informing homeless people about budget cuts that could negatively impact their lives. In 2013, he launched a robust conversation with activists and government about the possibility of his home, Community for Creative Non-Violence, the 1,350 bed shelter closing.
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