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		<title>SF Weekly: Want evidence of the decline of print media? Go to the library.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, print magazines lost advertisers, readers, and now, it seems, the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library. This year, the branch will spend about $385,000 on periodicals, down nearly $75,000 from the year before. The reason is no surprise: magazine closings, and a switch to online databases. With the decline of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermanwong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2147514&amp;post=138&amp;subd=hermanwong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>East Bay Express: Best of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEST ASPIRING HOMEMADE CHEESECAKE MAKER Victor Harris at Reuschelle&#8217;s Cheesecakes In these halcyon days of chichi food-speak — &#8220;artisan&#8221; this and &#8220;organic&#8221; that — Victor Harris offers a refreshingly unpretentious dessert: the homemade cheesecake. The origins of his baking ambitions are likewise simple. Looking for something to do one night, the Oakland resident found a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermanwong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2147514&amp;post=131&amp;subd=hermanwong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lana Stefanac and Women&#8217;s MMA&#8211;Writer&#8217;s Cut</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 5’10” and 210 pounds Lana Stefanac is a Goliath in stature, but her story is pure David. Just three years ago, at age thirty-one, she left behind her life in Ohio for California, drawn West in pursuit of a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Today the Danville resident owns an undefeated record in mixed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermanwong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2147514&amp;post=126&amp;subd=hermanwong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>East Bay Express: Lana Stefanac and Women&#8217;s Mixed Martial Arts</title>
		<link>http://hermanwong.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/east-bay-express-lana-stefanac-and-womens-mixed-martial-arts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Herman Wong June 17, 2009 Lana Stefanac can fight. The Danville resident is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu champion, has fought in Abu Dhabi and Japan and New Zealand, and is undefeated as a mixed martial arts fighter. Just three years ago, at age thirty, she left behind her life in Ohio for California, drawn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermanwong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2147514&amp;post=124&amp;subd=hermanwong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SF Weekly Best Of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SF Weekly Best of 2009 By Herman Wong Best Human Guide to Endangered Species Brent Plater Brent Plater, who teaches in the environmental studies department at San Francisco State University, possesses a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of the endangered birds, plants, and fish found in the Bay Area. Last year he put his nature smarts to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermanwong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2147514&amp;post=122&amp;subd=hermanwong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Potrero View: Healthy San Franciscans Find a Home at San Francisco General Hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthy San Franciscans Find a Home at San Francisco General Hospital By Herman Wong Federico Lauchengco represents the best of what Healthy San Francisco, the City’s universal health care program, hopes to achieve.  Last year the 54-year-old enrolled in the program and began receiving regular checkups at San Francisco General Hospital.  For the first time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermanwong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2147514&amp;post=118&amp;subd=hermanwong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SF Weekly: Jobless professionals seek work at Alcatraz</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jobless professionals seek work at Alcatraz By Herman Wong published: April 08, 2009 In an odd turn, the recession is sending formerly well-paid professionals to prison. Well, sort of. Alcatraz is hiring! And this season, the island has attracted an unprecedented number and mix of applicants to contend for the chance to hand out audio [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermanwong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2147514&amp;post=114&amp;subd=hermanwong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SF Weekly: Change for the Worse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change for the Worse Some local Obama supporters hit hard times after the election. By Herman Wong published: March 11, 2009 Noelle Lewis is a poster child for Barack Obama volunteers. Politically motivated for the first time in her life, the 28-year-old San Francisco resident paid her own way to Las Vegas during the campaign [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermanwong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2147514&amp;post=112&amp;subd=hermanwong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SF Weekly: Gimme Shelter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gimme Shelter Musician once played for the homeless as charity. Now he is homeless. By Herman Wong published: February 25, 2009 In these bad times, even good Samaritans are just a step away from tripping into misfortune. Take the case of the piano player who suddenly appeared late last year to play a little music [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermanwong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2147514&amp;post=110&amp;subd=hermanwong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SF Weekly: Recession Pet Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dogs also losing their homes in foreclosure By Herman Wong published: February 11, 2009 Recession horror stories now have new victims: pets. Animal rescue organizations in the Bay Area say they have been getting more and more calls from people who say they can&#8217;t keep their furry friends — mostly dogs — after losing their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermanwong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2147514&amp;post=107&amp;subd=hermanwong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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