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Over 100 Interview Questions for Summer Camp Hiring

Summer Camp Programming

Back in 2012 I posted 15 of my favorite interview questions. In this article I’m going to add to those and include questions other camp professionals suggested. If you have a favorite interview question, leave it in the comments.

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Advancing connector technologies for multicore optical fibres

Open Access Government - Technology News

The first practical optical connector for MCF was the MU type MCF connector developed in Japan during 2012 (1) (Fig. 2012).

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Policy Analysis in 750 words: Robbie Shilliam (2021) Decolonizing Politics

Paul Cairney

Please see the Policy Analysis in 750 words series overview before reading this summary.

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2022 in Libraries

Librarian.net

Previous years: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Not a big year for libraries though I did get to one new one in Fairlee. Kimball (56) – Once the library opened, it stayed open.

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here was the twitter thread of what I read last year. I’ll be posting on Mastodon this year instead.Find me there at [link].

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Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The reality is that then successful districts like Friendship Heights and Georgetown still faced voracious competition, but from the suburbs (" Turnabout is fair play: why Topher Matthews/GGW is wrong about TIF incentives for a department store in Georgetown ," 2012).

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The FHFA just recently announced the last such cross-subsidy changes in January 2023. During much of conservatorship (specifically 2012 to 2019), strangely, capital was depleted by design.

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As it happens, for economic reasons that these days are mostly theoretical, I am not against raising DC's Height Limit.

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Change takes forever: plastic bag bans, liquor stores and crime

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban. DC did that in 2009. There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City."

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

During the period of the (post) 2008 recession, Walmart, recognizing that it achieved about as much growth as it could in the suburbs and exurbs, decided to focus on cities.

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Revisiting yet again the Capital Crescent Trail underground tunnel debacle: Bethesda/Purple Line light rail

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I haven't been writing so much lately because I am in a depressed phase where it seems to me that the capacity of government to be innovative is minimal. I was talking about my writing the other day and I said, half the pieces are about innovation, the other half are about poor decision making.

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Pittsburgh developer backs down on opposition to ticket fee for concerts, to be used for area improvements

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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Grocery stores in cities: the failure of the "15 minute grocery store"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many years ago, I wrote this, " n lower income neighborhoods, are businesses supposed to be "community organizations" first? " (2012), in response to an earlier failure of a grocery store attempt in DC's East of the River, by the area's Yes Market Natural Grocery group.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There is an article at Building Salt Lake, " Why isn’t Utah Transit Authority supporting the Rio Grande Plan? ," opining about why the Utah Transit Authority isn't all in on the concept of reviving Rio Grande Station as the "central station" for Downtown railroad and transit service.

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