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Nick Hernandez and Michelle Hager exchanged their wedding vows

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July 24

This is all my mother's fault. She and my dad started the whole darned thing because they were avid photographers, and for my 9th birthday they gave me a "Brownie" camera. The reason I'm blaming my mom is that she was born with what is scientifically referred to as the Very Cool Photo Album Creativity gene while I, sadly, was not. She was fashioning awesome photo albums back when "scrapbook" was still a noun. These days everybody is "scrap booking" and occasionally the hobby gets so out of hand it veers into obsession. Don't quote me on this, but I've heard rumors of "Scrapbook Rehabs" popping up all over the country:

Baseball, basketball, football, and cycling have all recently

Early this year, I assisted a student competition among national college social science departments. These students competed by conducting research centered on homelessness in Santa Clara County. I worked with the City of San Jose to come up with the specific question of looking at the jurisdictions around the nation that have made significant progress over the last three years in reducing street-based homeless populations. Each had strong outreach components, so we asked them to find out what were the specific approaches that contributed to their successes, and how they were staffed and budgeted (e.g. did they receive new outside funding? Did they redeploy existing resources? Did they have many existing organizations collaborate? Or did they create a new centralized organization?). In the end, I was one of several judges they enlisted from around the country.

July 19