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San Leandro eighth-grader George Hofstetter says he got the idea from his own experience as one of the few black students at a private middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s predominantly white,” Hofstetter says. “There’s not as many African Americans in private schools as there are in public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129686\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129686\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9159_DSC_9645-lpr-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"Johnnel White pitches his app to a panel of judges and community audience. (Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnnel White pitches his app to a panel of judges and community audience. (Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland’s Startup Scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is home to a handful of Internet companies like the music-streaming site Pandora. Organizers of this hackathon want the emerging startup scene to be full of homegrown talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalimah Priforce -- who describes himself as a \"hackademic\" -- is a tech entrepreneur who started in a very different place. He grew up in foster care and, while he found a way out, his little brother did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He stayed in the group home system until he was 18 and then he aged out and he was killed a couple of months later,” Priforce recalls. “So that was when I decided to focus on becoming an educator.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black and Latino kids spend plenty of time using technology, but Priforce wants to see the consumers become the producers -- and make high-tech products that respond to real-life needs. He imagines a simple app to help women who may be getting harassed on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With one swipe you can notify everyone who you love that's on a prearranged list,” Priforce imagines. “And it sends an SMS to them and lets them know where you're at and that you feel unsafe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hackathon funder Mitch Kapor is investing in Oakland the way other venture capitalists are investing in incubators abroad. His foundation has put over $1 million into local startups this last year alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always been looking around corners,” Kapor says. His friends on Sand Hill Road might not get it yet, but Kapor says the East Bay is full of untapped potential and he’ll be the first to tap it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got started in personal computers in 1978, nobody took them seriously, and when I started looking at investing in Internet companies in 1993, nobody took it seriously,” says Kapor. “So this really isn’t any different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129690\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129690\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9076_DSC_9653-lpr-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"The panel of judges listens as each hackathon group presents their idea. (Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The panel of judges listens as each hackathon group presents their idea. 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"content": "\u003ctable width=\"640\" cellpadding=\"10\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9168_CTC_Kittens_3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-129130 alignnone\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9168_CTC_Kittens_3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"This pop-up installation was a preview of what Oakland's Cat Town Cafe might look like when it opens later in 2014. (Adam Myatt/Cat Town Cafe)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9231_photo3-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-129129 alignnone\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9231_photo3-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cafe co-founders Adam Myatt of Hoodcats and Ann Dunn of Cat Town rescue. 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(Adam Myatt/Cat Town Cafe)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9232_kitten-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-129142\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9232_kitten-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kittens Owen and Davey were adopted by the popup's coffee vendor. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9167_CTC_Kittens_2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-129134\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9167_CTC_Kittens_2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"This pop-up installation was a preview of what Oakland's Cat Town Cafe might look like when it opens later in 2014. (Adam Myatt/Cat Town Cafe)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>After more than a decade of success in Asian countries, particularly Japan, the adorable phenomenon of cat cafes, where you can enjoy coffee and a snack while watching frolicking kittens, is finally coming to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the first one is likely to be either Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://cattownoakland.org/cat-town-cafe/\">Cat Town Cafe\u003c/a> or San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitteasf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">KitTea\u003c/a> -- both of which are closing in on locations and should open by the end of the year, according to their organizers. Both are affiliated with rescue organizations, and both have used crowd funding to cover a substantial part of their startup costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Town Cafe celebrated the end of its first fundraising drive on Saturday with a pop-up version of the concept. About 400 people filed in and out of the \u003ca href=\"http://naminggallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Naming Gallery\u003c/a>, waiting for their turn to interact with a pair of orange tabby kittens named Owen and Davey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caitlyn Kilgore had already contributed to the Cat Town Cafe's Indiegogo fundraising campaign, but dropped by to check out the kittens. \"My partner's allergic, so we can't have cats at home,\" she said, \"So I want to get in some play time when I can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surprisingly, her partner, Collin Sullivan, was also interacting with Owen and Davey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I suppose if I were snuggling with them a lot and getting their dander or fur or whatever on my clothes, then that would be bad,\" he explained. \"But hanging out with them and watching them play around while I have some coffee -- I think that would be just fine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allergy issues were mentioned by several of the wannabe cat cafe patrons as reasons why they'd like the chance to spend time with cats but don't live with any. Other reasons: uncooperative landlords, a lack of space, a nomadic lifestyle, other pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'The only reason we're doing this is to get cats out of cages and get them adopted quickly.' \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Ann Dunn, founder of the Cat Town rescue and a longtime volunteer at Oakland Animal Services, hopes that at least some of their clients will be cat lovers who are in a position to become cat owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only reason we're doing this is to get cats out of cages and get them adopted quickly,\" she said. \"You couldn't choose a worse environment for a cat than a shelter. So many cats have a cage reaction, and you have no idea what the cat is really like. All you see is their fear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience at the cafe will be very different. For health reasons, the food service and preparation areas will be completely separate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the pop-up is any guide, Cat Town Cafe's adoption mission should be a success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameron McKee of Bicycle Coffee had agreed to be the coffee provider for the day. \"And then I got here this morning and saw these cats,\" he said, \"and I knew that we were going to be taking them home. I got in an argument with my wife last night, so I figured if I called and told her I was bringing home two kittens, that would help work things out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And it did,\" said Momo McKee. She might have been the only person at the pop-up who's been to a working cat cafe -- several of them, in fact, in her native Japan. \"They're all over Tokyo, even in small towns. I think it'll be great here, because as you can see at today's event, people are so nice, so happy, so peaceful, when they're with the cats.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cafe is a joint effort of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cattownoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Cat Town\u003c/a> rescue and \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandhoodcats.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hoodcats\u003c/a>, started by musician and photographer Adam Myatt. \"There's a ton of feral cats in West Oakland. I just started taking pictures of them, then I Kickstarted a calendar, then the East Bay Express interviewed me -- they gave me the 'Cat Man of West Oakland' name. I had a vision of trying to make a cat sanctuary or something in West Oakland that would help ferals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then as a result of that article, I met Ann (Dunn). She's helped me get five kittens adopted, two Hoodcats adults adopted, three others in foster care to potentially get adopted. To go from just taking pictures of cats to working with rescues and meeting all these people who are helping ferals ... and now we're starting a cat cafe.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'Everything (is) on the cats' terms. If they want to play, you can play with them. If they want to sleep, you can watch them sleep.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Cat Man himself doesn't have a cat. \"My roommate is allergic, so I don't get to bring any cats inside, which is kind of a bummer. But I have one cat who lives out in my backyard, I made a little house for him, and he's totally content to be the king of our backyard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myatt came up with the idea for a cat bed that's a replica of a cargo crane, like you see at the Port of Oakland, and two of his friends designed and built it. \"For the actual cat cafe, we're going to get some bigger, meatier, metal cranes -- they're even talking about having them be functional, they'll go up and down, which would be awesome. But this initial crane, I've had a ton of people ask when they could get one - I didn't even think about that, but that's a great idea!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ann and Cat Town already have three years of experience of being a rescue, on top of the years of experience working with Oakland Animal Services. So I feel like we have the rescue thing locked down. So, if we have a kitten who's having a problem adjusting at the cafe, we have so many foster homes standing by who can take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just bringing all of these Oakland people together to collaborate from the ground up. And all for the good of cats! Everybody's so excited by that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Dunn says: \"The cafe part is going to be completely self-contained within the larger property. So you'll walk in, get your goodies, then leave that area and go in to the cat zone. And the cat zone, we're planning to have one space for the adult cats and a separate place for kittens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our mission right now at Cat Town is (to focus on) cats that are really under-socialized, or shy, cats that aren't confident. Cats that are getting euthanized at the shelter because they're so stressed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the cafe, we're going in a completely different direction, so we're focusing on cats that are very confident, very flexible. We'll know they're good with other cats. We're hoping we can get groups of cats that already know each other and come in to the shelter together. But that's going to be the biggest challenge -- not just identifying the cats, but making sure they have a proper period to get acclimated. We're working with cat behaviorists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So you imagine if you went to a friend's house that had cats. Sometimes the cats are going to hide under the bed, sometimes the cats are going to come out and rub up against your legs. Everything (is) on the cats' terms. If they want to play, you can play with them. If they want to sleep, you can watch them sleep. It's going to be what the cats choose to do with you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunn and Myatt are closing in on a space for the permanent cafe. And Myatt is setting off shortly on a research trip to Japan -- to visit the established cat cafes and study their best purractices.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I suppose if I were snuggling with them a lot and getting their dander or fur or whatever on my clothes, then that would be bad,\" he explained. \"But hanging out with them and watching them play around while I have some coffee -- I think that would be just fine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allergy issues were mentioned by several of the wannabe cat cafe patrons as reasons why they'd like the chance to spend time with cats but don't live with any. Other reasons: uncooperative landlords, a lack of space, a nomadic lifestyle, other pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'The only reason we're doing this is to get cats out of cages and get them adopted quickly.' \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Ann Dunn, founder of the Cat Town rescue and a longtime volunteer at Oakland Animal Services, hopes that at least some of their clients will be cat lovers who are in a position to become cat owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only reason we're doing this is to get cats out of cages and get them adopted quickly,\" she said. \"You couldn't choose a worse environment for a cat than a shelter. So many cats have a cage reaction, and you have no idea what the cat is really like. All you see is their fear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience at the cafe will be very different. For health reasons, the food service and preparation areas will be completely separate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the pop-up is any guide, Cat Town Cafe's adoption mission should be a success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameron McKee of Bicycle Coffee had agreed to be the coffee provider for the day. \"And then I got here this morning and saw these cats,\" he said, \"and I knew that we were going to be taking them home. I got in an argument with my wife last night, so I figured if I called and told her I was bringing home two kittens, that would help work things out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And it did,\" said Momo McKee. She might have been the only person at the pop-up who's been to a working cat cafe -- several of them, in fact, in her native Japan. \"They're all over Tokyo, even in small towns. I think it'll be great here, because as you can see at today's event, people are so nice, so happy, so peaceful, when they're with the cats.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cafe is a joint effort of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cattownoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Cat Town\u003c/a> rescue and \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandhoodcats.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hoodcats\u003c/a>, started by musician and photographer Adam Myatt. \"There's a ton of feral cats in West Oakland. I just started taking pictures of them, then I Kickstarted a calendar, then the East Bay Express interviewed me -- they gave me the 'Cat Man of West Oakland' name. I had a vision of trying to make a cat sanctuary or something in West Oakland that would help ferals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then as a result of that article, I met Ann (Dunn). She's helped me get five kittens adopted, two Hoodcats adults adopted, three others in foster care to potentially get adopted. To go from just taking pictures of cats to working with rescues and meeting all these people who are helping ferals ... and now we're starting a cat cafe.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'Everything (is) on the cats' terms. If they want to play, you can play with them. If they want to sleep, you can watch them sleep.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Cat Man himself doesn't have a cat. \"My roommate is allergic, so I don't get to bring any cats inside, which is kind of a bummer. But I have one cat who lives out in my backyard, I made a little house for him, and he's totally content to be the king of our backyard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myatt came up with the idea for a cat bed that's a replica of a cargo crane, like you see at the Port of Oakland, and two of his friends designed and built it. \"For the actual cat cafe, we're going to get some bigger, meatier, metal cranes -- they're even talking about having them be functional, they'll go up and down, which would be awesome. But this initial crane, I've had a ton of people ask when they could get one - I didn't even think about that, but that's a great idea!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ann and Cat Town already have three years of experience of being a rescue, on top of the years of experience working with Oakland Animal Services. So I feel like we have the rescue thing locked down. So, if we have a kitten who's having a problem adjusting at the cafe, we have so many foster homes standing by who can take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just bringing all of these Oakland people together to collaborate from the ground up. And all for the good of cats! Everybody's so excited by that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Dunn says: \"The cafe part is going to be completely self-contained within the larger property. So you'll walk in, get your goodies, then leave that area and go in to the cat zone. And the cat zone, we're planning to have one space for the adult cats and a separate place for kittens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our mission right now at Cat Town is (to focus on) cats that are really under-socialized, or shy, cats that aren't confident. Cats that are getting euthanized at the shelter because they're so stressed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the cafe, we're going in a completely different direction, so we're focusing on cats that are very confident, very flexible. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128794\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/07/as-stadium-news-of-the-week-legal-manutemporary-insanity/rs6758_181574858-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-128794\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-128794\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS6758_181574858-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Coco Crisp is congratulated by Eric Sogard, center, and Stephen Vogt after hitting a three-run homer in the Oakland A's division-clinching win against the Minnesota Twins last September. (Jason O. Watson/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coco Crisp is congratulated by Eric Sogard, center, and Stephen Vogt after hitting a three-run homer in the Oakland A's division-clinching win against the Minnesota Twins last September. (Jason O. Watson/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After 32 years, the Oakland Athletics are playing their final spring training games at \u003ca href=\"http://phoenix.gov/parks/sports/phxmuni.html\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Municipal Stadium\u003c/a> this month. Next year the team will be taking over \u003ca href=\"http://hohokamstadium.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hohokam Stadium\u003c/a> in nearby Mesa, the former Cactus League home of the Chicago Cubs. The move is happening with a minimum of fuss. The mayor of Phoenix threw out the first pitch on opening day, and concession stands around the park sell souvenir cups and pins with the Phoenix Muni logo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be the only time in the 21st century that an A's stadium transition happens smoothly or amicably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, A's part-owner and managing partner Lew Wolff \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/03/07/as-owner-wolff-explores-temporary.html\" target=\"_blank\">was quoted by the Silicon Valley Business Journal\u003c/a> as saying that he'd asked his architects to explore the possibility of building a temporary ballpark for the A's if it became impossible for them to stay at the Oakland Coliseum when their current lease expires at the end of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way it's a situation most of us have encountered at some point, in moving from one apartment or house to another: What do you do if the new place isn't ready on the day you have to move out of the old one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most obvious solution is the \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080330&content_id=2467286&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy\" target=\"_blank\">Yankee Stadium model\u003c/a>: build the new ballpark next to the old one and move when it's ready. But that may not work for the A's, largely because they share their current home with the Oakland Raiders. This is where it gets to be like a \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_puzzle\" target=\"_blank\">15-puzzle\u003c/a> — that's the term for those annoying plastic toys with the numbered squares that you need to shift around to get in the right order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Raiders strike a deal with Oakland to build a new football stadium on the exact footprint of the current Coliseum (which is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_24037189/raiders-stadium-site-preference-could-hasten-exit\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly their preference\u003c/a>), then the A's might have to find a temporary home while their new ballpark is built. The Raiders would have the same problem, since there's no way the construction could take place in a single NFL off-season. But they would have the option of temporarily playing at the 49ers' new Levi's Stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">A's owner Lew Wolff floats a new idea: a temporary stadium if the team can't renew its lease at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the A's could play a season or two at AT&T Park. San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_25234653/giants-willing-share-at-t-park\" target=\"_blank\">recently said his team would be happy\u003c/a> to share its home for a season or two if the A's were building a ballpark in Oakland or elsewhere in the East Bay. If the A's win permission from Major League Baseball to move to San Jose, which so far has been denied them, the Giants might not be so hospitable, since Santa Clara County is currently designated as Giants territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's where the option of a temporary stadium would come in. \u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2013/11/15/creating-a-temporary-stadium-blueprint/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhamesis Muncada of newballpark.org described how \u003c/a>the new minor league soccer team Sacramento Republic FC is building such a facility at the state fairgrounds and suggested that could be a model for the A's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that seems like a big stretch for a major league team. Not only Major League Baseball but the players' union would want to get involved to be sure the games played and stats recorded in a temporary park would be comparable to a permanent one. And building a safe facility in a seismically active region isn't any easier simply because the structure is temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the city of San Jose's legal battle with Major League Baseball shifts to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may remember that last year, San Jose got tired of waiting for baseball and its commissioner, Bud Selig, to make a decision on whether the A's would be allowed to move to San Jose, and filed a lawsuit. Last October, a federal court judge in San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed the suit's challenge\u003c/a> to Major League Baseball's \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2008/12/3/678134/the-history-of-baseball-s\" target=\"_blank\">antitrust exemption\u003c/a> (a second part of the suit, alleging that baseball officials broke state law by interfering with the city's contract with the A's, was allowed to proceed). U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte ruled, in effect, that it's up to Congress, not the courts, to deal with the antitrust issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city appealed Whyte's antitrust ruling and last week filed an 83-page brief arguing its case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get more perspective on how the city is going to press its antitrust claim, I talked to lawyer-turned-sportswriter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hangingsliders\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Thurm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm\u003c/strong>: San Jose appears to be taking the position that the scope of the antitrust exemption is a question of fact, for a jury to decide. That's pretty unusual. It's not something that San Jose argued in the district court. I can understand from a strategic perspective why San Jose would do that, because it allows the court of appeal, if they're so inclined, to take an intermediate step and send the case back to the district court. And then it would open it up for discovery, back in the district court, which would lead to a whole range of documents and sworn testimony from MLB executives. I've never seen that argument before, and it strikes me as a bit of a Hail Mary pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen: \u003c/strong> That's been a theory when people talk about this case — that MLB will do anything to avoid discovery, that they don't want to open up their books, that Bud Selig doesn't want to go into court. Do you think there is that much that's shocking or proprietary about baseball's inner workings that they want to conceal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> I've always heard that speculation, too — that not just MLB, but the individual owners would much prefer to keep their financials private, and the owners would pressure MLB to get rid of the lawsuit, down the road if it ever came to that. There's the additional pressure point, for the league as a whole, of putting the antitrust exemption at risk. Major League Baseball is the only one of the four professional sports that still hangs on to this exemption from antitrust law, and in particular as it relates to team location and relocation. MLB doesn't want to lose that, and has had to fight for it in Congress and in the courts. They're a long way from having to give up documents or losing that exemption, but I see both those as pressure points. Which is why the way the district court case played out really couldn't have been any better for Major League Baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen:\u003c/strong> By dismissing it quickly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> Yes. Now San Jose was successful in getting an expedited appeal, and I was quite surprised that the 9th Circuit agreed to do that. So what normally would take a year to 18 months, between the briefings, and being assigned to a panel, and having oral arguments -- that process is going to move along much more quickly in the 9th Circuit, and we're likely to get at least an initial decision sometime this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen:\u003c/strong> So do you have a guess about what's likely to happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> Ultimately I think the 9th Circuit will affirm the district court's decision (to dismiss San Jose's case). But it will be interesting to see, if they affirm, how aggressive they might be on whether they think the law ought to be changed and whether the case law ought to be overturned, to set it up so that the Supreme Court might be interested in taking it. What's so interesting about this is that events on the ground have changed. In Oakland, both the business community and the politicians are trying to gather steam for their two different stadium proposals, Coliseum City and Howard Terminal. If you'd asked me a year ago, I would have said eventually the A's are going to be allowed to move to San Jose. Now there's movement towards resolving the ballpark situation in Oakland, in which case this lawsuit might just go away.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Raiders strike a deal with Oakland to build a new football stadium on the exact footprint of the current Coliseum (which is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_24037189/raiders-stadium-site-preference-could-hasten-exit\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly their preference\u003c/a>), then the A's might have to find a temporary home while their new ballpark is built. The Raiders would have the same problem, since there's no way the construction could take place in a single NFL off-season. But they would have the option of temporarily playing at the 49ers' new Levi's Stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">A's owner Lew Wolff floats a new idea: a temporary stadium if the team can't renew its lease at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the A's could play a season or two at AT&T Park. San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_25234653/giants-willing-share-at-t-park\" target=\"_blank\">recently said his team would be happy\u003c/a> to share its home for a season or two if the A's were building a ballpark in Oakland or elsewhere in the East Bay. If the A's win permission from Major League Baseball to move to San Jose, which so far has been denied them, the Giants might not be so hospitable, since Santa Clara County is currently designated as Giants territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's where the option of a temporary stadium would come in. \u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2013/11/15/creating-a-temporary-stadium-blueprint/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhamesis Muncada of newballpark.org described how \u003c/a>the new minor league soccer team Sacramento Republic FC is building such a facility at the state fairgrounds and suggested that could be a model for the A's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that seems like a big stretch for a major league team. Not only Major League Baseball but the players' union would want to get involved to be sure the games played and stats recorded in a temporary park would be comparable to a permanent one. And building a safe facility in a seismically active region isn't any easier simply because the structure is temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the city of San Jose's legal battle with Major League Baseball shifts to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may remember that last year, San Jose got tired of waiting for baseball and its commissioner, Bud Selig, to make a decision on whether the A's would be allowed to move to San Jose, and filed a lawsuit. Last October, a federal court judge in San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed the suit's challenge\u003c/a> to Major League Baseball's \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2008/12/3/678134/the-history-of-baseball-s\" target=\"_blank\">antitrust exemption\u003c/a> (a second part of the suit, alleging that baseball officials broke state law by interfering with the city's contract with the A's, was allowed to proceed). U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte ruled, in effect, that it's up to Congress, not the courts, to deal with the antitrust issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city appealed Whyte's antitrust ruling and last week filed an 83-page brief arguing its case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get more perspective on how the city is going to press its antitrust claim, I talked to lawyer-turned-sportswriter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hangingsliders\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Thurm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm\u003c/strong>: San Jose appears to be taking the position that the scope of the antitrust exemption is a question of fact, for a jury to decide. That's pretty unusual. It's not something that San Jose argued in the district court. I can understand from a strategic perspective why San Jose would do that, because it allows the court of appeal, if they're so inclined, to take an intermediate step and send the case back to the district court. And then it would open it up for discovery, back in the district court, which would lead to a whole range of documents and sworn testimony from MLB executives. I've never seen that argument before, and it strikes me as a bit of a Hail Mary pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen: \u003c/strong> That's been a theory when people talk about this case — that MLB will do anything to avoid discovery, that they don't want to open up their books, that Bud Selig doesn't want to go into court. Do you think there is that much that's shocking or proprietary about baseball's inner workings that they want to conceal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> I've always heard that speculation, too — that not just MLB, but the individual owners would much prefer to keep their financials private, and the owners would pressure MLB to get rid of the lawsuit, down the road if it ever came to that. 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(Barbara Grady/Oakland Local)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Barbara Grady, \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Local\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For high school sophomore Anthony Johnson, the African American Male Achievement program spurred him to become a more serious student with a career goal in mind, imagine a future for himself and be less prone to anger, he says. For Enoch Hankins, it meant becoming a B+ student instead of a C+ student. For Lionel White it provided mentors and friends he could talk with about the many issues of growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 2,500 of Oakland’s African-American boys, the African American Male Achievement Initiative in public schools has meant they are less likely to be suspended, more likely to achieve good grades and more likely to graduate from high school. For all of them, it has meant having mentors who are successful African-American men who care about them and where they are headed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always have someone who wants me to do well,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This groundbreaking initiative of the \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.k12.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/a> appears to be paying significant dividends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one year, suspensions of African-American boys dropped from 21 percent in 2012 to 14 percent last year, while some schools have eliminated suspensions altogether. The graduation rate of the district’s African-American high school boys edged up to above 50 percent in 2012 from 46 percent two years earlier. Beyond the statistics, the AAMA Initiative strives to provide a vehicle to “engage, encourage and empower” these young men, helping them believe in themselves and their futures, said Chris Chatmon, its executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delivering a “Community Report Back” on the program, Chatmon both exulted in progress and lamented that the needs are still great. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Suspensions of African-American boys went down from 21 percent in 2012 to 14 percent in 2013.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>”I am humbled every day by the urgency of the need to show up,” Chatmon said to an assembly of families, teachers, administrators and students one night last week in a school auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A mother in Oakland loses her whole family,” in three weeks, he continued, head bowed, referring to the latest tragic death of a promising African-American youth, when college-going Lamar Broussard was fatally shot just three weeks after his 13-year old brother was gunned down in an inexplicable act of senseless violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to acknowledge all of those children who aren’t here to be celebrated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District launched the African-American Male Achievement Initiative in 2010, amid signs that the fates and fortunes of boys who were African-American were pretty bleak. Many were, and still are, vulnerable to street violence and gang life. Too many were dropping out of high school, often after a middle-school experience of frequent suspensions, some for simple acts of defiance. In the youngest grades, one in five were chronically absent from school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, one in five African-American boys were being suspended each year from Oakland schools, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://urbanstrategies.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Strategies Council\u003c/a>, and by the eighth grade, half of the boys were off track to graduate from high school. These outcomes led the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights to launch an investigation into bias on the use of suspensions for discipline in Oakland schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recognizing the school district was failing these children and not delivering on its obligation to provide all students a good education, then-Superintendent Tony Smith launched the African American Male Achievement Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,500 kids have been enrolled in manhood development classes through the AAMA Initiative and assigned mentors. About 200 teachers have received training in cultural understanding, and about 700 parents have been engaged, either through parent workshops or communications from the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We help build the capacity of parents,” said parent coordinator Kim Shipp. “We run workshops on realizing the college dream,” and how parents can support their sons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the halls of Tilden Auditorium, where the Report Back took place, smiling and proud young men told of their academic achievements and their future plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year I had like a 2.2 GPA . Now I have a 3.2,” said Enock Hankins of Oakland High School. “I’m headed for college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giavonte Bull of Fremont High School spoke about Nelson Mandela and said, “A lot of black people helped us be the people we are today.” He has been busy researching their biographies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at Montera Middle School showed off journals they create in their program. Suspensions there have fallen nearly to zero.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Noam Eshel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youthuprising.org/\">Youth UpRising\u003c/a> is a community center on East Oakland's MacArthur Boulevard — an oasis for children and young adults in an area afflicted with poverty, unemployment and nearly daily shootings. They come here after school to escape the violence and, more important, to develop job skills and participate in the organization's wide array of arts and education programs. One of those programs, an industry-backed pilot called Project A-Game, teaches kids how to make video games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a back room, a handful of kids are squished around computers working on their game, which is called \"Mr. Platformer.\" It sounds and looks like an old Nintendo game. Think Mario Brothers from the '80s, but it wasn't made decades ago. These five kids built it using modern game-making software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morris Jackson is mixing the sounds for \"Mr. Platformer\" — things like the digital chime of a coin being picked up, a laser being shot, and that unmistakable warble of a power-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I signed up because I love video games, always did,” he says, “I have been playing since I was a few months old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I don't know if it actually qualifies as playing, but Morris Jackson's family used to at least put the controller in his hands and let him push the buttons. Now he's 15 and wants to be a professional DJ. But if that doesn't pan out, he says he might try and do sound design for video games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/133638496&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Platformer' isn't like the realistic shooting games Morris plays at home. It's old school. You have to navigate through 2-D levels and avoid pixelated monsters. It's the kind of game that Glen McKnight, the class instructor, fell in love with 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These kids grew up on games,” he says, “kind of like I did, and that's kind of why I am in the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKnight works for a small game studio, and he has been hired on here as an instructor to impart his game-building know-how. Video games, he says, could be a bridge to the tech world for these kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's tough for a lot of our parents to realize that games (their kids) are addictively playing every day actually have the potential for a career,” McKnight says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Introducing new career ideas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project A-Game is funded by \u003ca href=\"http://www.theesa.com/newsroom/release_detail.asp?releaseID=213\" target=\"_blank\">a grant\u003c/a> from the California Endowment and the Entertainment Software Association, a trade organization for the gaming industry. The program doesn't place kids directly into tech jobs, but it does expose them to video game career opportunities they have probably never thought about — things like sound engineering and designing game levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darius Reed, for example, didn't sign up because he loves technology. He likes to draw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Darius, he's really an artist,” McKnight says. “He had no affinity for the technical stuff, that's not what he was interested in, but he's seen how his characters come alive inside of levels.” \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Census numbers show that Latinos and African-Americans in the United States hold only between 6 and 7 percent of science and technology jobs. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Reed used Photoshop to draw the game's hero -- a white boxy character with a little top hat and a skinny red tie. “Since we are just going for something simple,” he says, “I just made him look like a mister, you know like somebody who is going to work, like a guy who works in the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An office job in the tech industry isn't something these kids thought much about before this class. Morris, the aspiring DJ, says he had never even talked with anyone in the tech industry. His instructor, McKnight, is the first person he has ever met with a tech job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Census numbers show that Latinos and African-Americans have been consistently underrepresented in science and technology jobs, holding between 6 percent and 7 percent nationally. A San Jose Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_22094415/asian-workers-now-dominate-silicon-valley-tech-jobs\">analysis\u003c/a> confirms a similar percentage for Bay Area tech jobs, even though Latinos and African-Americans account for almost a third of the region's population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>Arturo Arechiga says the goal is to try and find ways to change that percentage. Arechiga directs Project A-Game at Youth UpRising. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/125651302.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125090\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/125651302-640x473.jpg\" alt=\"Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died Sunday at the age of 46, is shown at Oakland's Paramount Theatre in September 2011 for the premiere of the film "Moneyball." Hoffman portrayed former Oakland A's Manager Art Howe in the film. (Michael Buckner/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"473\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died Sunday at the age of 46, is shown at Oakland's Paramount Theatre in September 2011 for the premiere of the film \"Moneyball.\" Hoffman portrayed former Oakland A's Manager Art Howe in the film. (Michael Buckner/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since I don't see nearly as many movies as a modern human being is expected to, I can't say I know the Philip Seymour Hoffman canon too well. But given what I saw him in — \"The Big Lebowski,\" \"Almost Famous,\" \"State and Main,\" \"The Talented Mr. Ripley\" and especially \"Capote\" — I think my opinion comported with what I perceive to be the general view: The guy could act. On that basis, and considering his age, 46, hearing about \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/movies/philip-seymour-hoffman-actor-dies-at-46.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">his death earlier today\u003c/a> was, and is, stunning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"a53eb99b85630e70d02b2531e489dac6\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman had one role in recent years with a prominent Bay Area tie, playing former Oakland A's Manager Art Howe in \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_10\" target=\"_blank\">Moneyball\u003c/a>.\" I don't think it rated as one of Hoffman's career highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For as much as I like the A's and the \"Moneyball\" story — both the Michael Lewis book about the non-traditional views of A's General Manager Billy Beane and the way those views have so often come to entertaining life on the field — the Art Howe in the movie felt more than a little off. Hoffman's portrayal was competent enough. But we were seeing the depiction of someone who we, as followers of the local nine, felt we had sort of gotten to know. The guy we had watched on the dugout steps, heard on the radio and read about in the paper year after year in the late Nineties and early Oughts didn't seem like the humorless, narrow-minded, shackled-to-baseball-tradition jerk we were seeing on screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe complained bitterly about the portrayal. (See \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/28/art-howe-rip-moneyball-and-billy-beane-listen-to-knbr-appearance/\" target=\"_blank\">Art Howe Rips 'Moneyball' and Billy Beane\u003c/a>,\" a post colleague Jon Brooks wrote soon after the movie came out in 2011.) But among those Howe didn't blame was the actor who played him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe is still talking about the movie — but now to express shock at Hoffman's sudden passing. \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2014/02/02/philip-seymore-hoffman-art-howe-moneyball-forgive/#ixzz2sD1qQQF6\" target=\"_blank\">He told TMZ today\u003c/a> that he never held the portrayal against Hoffman:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Howe says he was \"in shock\" when he learned PSH had passed away Sunday ... explaining, \"We never got to meet. I remember reading an article where he said he wanted to meet me and apologize for how he portrayed me. Now we're never going to have that chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe says he was very unhappy with the way he was portrayed in the flick -- but says he points the finger at the producers and the writers ... not PSH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though I didn't agree with the way I was portrayed, I didn't blame him -- he was just playing the part he was given,\" Howe says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED News colleague Nina Thorsen was one of thousands of people who volunteered to be an extra when \"Moneyball\" filmed its climactic scene — the A's winning their 20th straight game in 2002 — during a series of late-night shoots at the Coliseum in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the news about Hoffman's passing broke this morning, Nina wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I think every one of the thousands of us who were \"Moneyball\" extras got at least a smile and a wave, and some of my friends who had slightly bigger extra roles said he'd make a point of coming over to sit down and talk with them.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's Hoffman as Howe in \"Moneyball,\" followed by the latest version of the Associated Press obituary on Philip Seymour Hoffman:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/SdCNcN-NFXA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jake Coyle and Tom Hays\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associated Press\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEW YORK — Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Oscar for best actor in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote and created a gallery of other vivid characters, many of them slovenly and somewhat dissipated, was found dead Sunday in his apartment with what officials said was a needle in his arm. He was 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two law enforcement officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the evidence, said the actor apparently died of a drug overdose. Glassine envelopes containing what was believed to be heroin were found with him, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman — no matinee idol, with his lumpy build and limp blond hair — made his career mostly as a character actor, and was one of the most prolific in the business, plying his craft with a rumpled naturalism that also made him one of the most admired performers of his generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stage-trained actor was nominated for Academy Awards four times in all: for \"Capote,\" ''The Master,\" ''Doubt\" and \"Charlie Wilson's War.\" He also received three Tony nominations for his work on Broadway, which included an acclaimed turn as the weary and defeated Willy Loman in \"Death of a Salesman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman spoke candidly over the years about past struggles with drug addiction. After 23 years sober, he admitted in interviews last year to falling off the wagon and developing a heroin problem that led to a stint in rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tributes poured in from other Hollywood figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the greatest actors of a generation and a sweet, funny & humble man,\" actor Ricky Gervais tweeted. Director Spike Lee said on Twitter: \"Damn, We Lost Another Great Artist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Kevin Costner said in an AP interview: \"Philip was a very important actor and really takes his place among the real great actors. It's a shame. Who knows what he would have been able to do? But we're left with the legacy of the work he's done and it all speaks for itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No words for this. He was too great and we're too shattered,\" said Mike Nichols, who directed Hoffman in \"Charlie Wilson's War\" and \"Death of a Salesman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law enforcement officials said Hoffman's body was discovered in a bathroom at his Greenwich Village apartment by a friend who made the 911 call and his assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Sunday, a police crime-scene van was parked out front, and technicians carrying brown paper bags went in and out. Police kept a growing crowd of onlookers back. A single red daisy had been placed in front of the lobby door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman's family called the news \"tragic and sudden.\" Hoffman is survived by his partner of 15 years, Mimi O'Donnell, and their three children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Phil and appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received from everyone,\" the family said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of his earliest screen roles, he played a spoiled prep school student in \"Scent of a Woman\" in 1992. One of his breakthroughs came as a gay member of a porno film crew in \"Boogie Nights,\" one of several movies directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that he would eventually appear in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often played comic, slightly off-kilter characters in movies like \"Along Came Polly,\" ''The Big Lebowski\" and \"Almost Famous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, he was Plutarch Heavensbee in \"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\" and was reprising that role in the two-part sequel, \"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay,\" which is in the works. And in \"Moneyball,\" he played Art Howe, the grumpy manager of the Oakland Athletics who resisted new thinking about baseball talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just weeks ago, Showtime announced Hoffman would star in \"Happyish,\" a new comedy series about a middle-aged man's pursuit of happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in \"The Master\" as the charismatic leader of a religious movement. The film, inspired in part by the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, reunited the actor with Anderson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also received a 2009 best-supporting nomination for \"Doubt,\" as a priest who comes under suspicion because of his relationship with a boy, and another best-supporting nomination as a CIA officer in \"Charlie Wilson's War.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in 1967 in Fairport, N.Y., Hoffman was interested in acting from an early age, mesmerized at 12 by a local production of Arthur Miller's \"All My Sons.\" He studied theater as a teenager with the New York State Summer School of the Arts and the Circle in the Square Theatre. He then majored in drama at New York University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his Oscar acceptance speech for \"Capote,\" he thanked his mother for raising him and his three siblings alone, and for taking him to his first play. Hoffman's parents divorced when he was 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He could seemingly take on any role, large or small, loathsome or sympathetic, and appeared to be utterly lacking in vanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Broadway, in addition to starring as Willy Loman, he played Jamie in \"Long Day's Journey Into Night\" and both leads in \"True West.\" All three performances were Tony-nominated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His 2012 performance in \"Death of a Salesman\" was praised as \"heartbreaking\" by AP theater critic Mark Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hoffman is only 44, but he nevertheless sags in his brokenness like a man closer to retirement age, lugging about his sample cases filled with his self-denial and disillusionment,\" Kennedy wrote. \"His fraying connection to reality is pronounced in this production, with Hoffman quick to anger and a hard edge emerging from his babbling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two films starring Hoffman premiered last month at the Sundance Film Festival: the espionage thriller \"A Most Wanted Man\" and \"God's Pocket.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe is still talking about the movie — but now to express shock at Hoffman's sudden passing. \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2014/02/02/philip-seymore-hoffman-art-howe-moneyball-forgive/#ixzz2sD1qQQF6\" target=\"_blank\">He told TMZ today\u003c/a> that he never held the portrayal against Hoffman:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Howe says he was \"in shock\" when he learned PSH had passed away Sunday ... explaining, \"We never got to meet. I remember reading an article where he said he wanted to meet me and apologize for how he portrayed me. Now we're never going to have that chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe says he was very unhappy with the way he was portrayed in the flick -- but says he points the finger at the producers and the writers ... not PSH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though I didn't agree with the way I was portrayed, I didn't blame him -- he was just playing the part he was given,\" Howe says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED News colleague Nina Thorsen was one of thousands of people who volunteered to be an extra when \"Moneyball\" filmed its climactic scene — the A's winning their 20th straight game in 2002 — during a series of late-night shoots at the Coliseum in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the news about Hoffman's passing broke this morning, Nina wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I think every one of the thousands of us who were \"Moneyball\" extras got at least a smile and a wave, and some of my friends who had slightly bigger extra roles said he'd make a point of coming over to sit down and talk with them.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's Hoffman as Howe in \"Moneyball,\" followed by the latest version of the Associated Press obituary on Philip Seymour Hoffman:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/SdCNcN-NFXA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jake Coyle and Tom Hays\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associated Press\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEW YORK — Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Oscar for best actor in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote and created a gallery of other vivid characters, many of them slovenly and somewhat dissipated, was found dead Sunday in his apartment with what officials said was a needle in his arm. He was 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two law enforcement officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the evidence, said the actor apparently died of a drug overdose. Glassine envelopes containing what was believed to be heroin were found with him, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman — no matinee idol, with his lumpy build and limp blond hair — made his career mostly as a character actor, and was one of the most prolific in the business, plying his craft with a rumpled naturalism that also made him one of the most admired performers of his generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stage-trained actor was nominated for Academy Awards four times in all: for \"Capote,\" ''The Master,\" ''Doubt\" and \"Charlie Wilson's War.\" He also received three Tony nominations for his work on Broadway, which included an acclaimed turn as the weary and defeated Willy Loman in \"Death of a Salesman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman spoke candidly over the years about past struggles with drug addiction. After 23 years sober, he admitted in interviews last year to falling off the wagon and developing a heroin problem that led to a stint in rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tributes poured in from other Hollywood figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the greatest actors of a generation and a sweet, funny & humble man,\" actor Ricky Gervais tweeted. Director Spike Lee said on Twitter: \"Damn, We Lost Another Great Artist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Kevin Costner said in an AP interview: \"Philip was a very important actor and really takes his place among the real great actors. It's a shame. Who knows what he would have been able to do? But we're left with the legacy of the work he's done and it all speaks for itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No words for this. He was too great and we're too shattered,\" said Mike Nichols, who directed Hoffman in \"Charlie Wilson's War\" and \"Death of a Salesman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law enforcement officials said Hoffman's body was discovered in a bathroom at his Greenwich Village apartment by a friend who made the 911 call and his assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Sunday, a police crime-scene van was parked out front, and technicians carrying brown paper bags went in and out. Police kept a growing crowd of onlookers back. A single red daisy had been placed in front of the lobby door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman's family called the news \"tragic and sudden.\" Hoffman is survived by his partner of 15 years, Mimi O'Donnell, and their three children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Phil and appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received from everyone,\" the family said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of his earliest screen roles, he played a spoiled prep school student in \"Scent of a Woman\" in 1992. One of his breakthroughs came as a gay member of a porno film crew in \"Boogie Nights,\" one of several movies directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that he would eventually appear in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often played comic, slightly off-kilter characters in movies like \"Along Came Polly,\" ''The Big Lebowski\" and \"Almost Famous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, he was Plutarch Heavensbee in \"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\" and was reprising that role in the two-part sequel, \"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay,\" which is in the works. And in \"Moneyball,\" he played Art Howe, the grumpy manager of the Oakland Athletics who resisted new thinking about baseball talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just weeks ago, Showtime announced Hoffman would star in \"Happyish,\" a new comedy series about a middle-aged man's pursuit of happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in \"The Master\" as the charismatic leader of a religious movement. The film, inspired in part by the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, reunited the actor with Anderson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also received a 2009 best-supporting nomination for \"Doubt,\" as a priest who comes under suspicion because of his relationship with a boy, and another best-supporting nomination as a CIA officer in \"Charlie Wilson's War.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in 1967 in Fairport, N.Y., Hoffman was interested in acting from an early age, mesmerized at 12 by a local production of Arthur Miller's \"All My Sons.\" He studied theater as a teenager with the New York State Summer School of the Arts and the Circle in the Square Theatre. He then majored in drama at New York University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his Oscar acceptance speech for \"Capote,\" he thanked his mother for raising him and his three siblings alone, and for taking him to his first play. Hoffman's parents divorced when he was 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He could seemingly take on any role, large or small, loathsome or sympathetic, and appeared to be utterly lacking in vanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Broadway, in addition to starring as Willy Loman, he played Jamie in \"Long Day's Journey Into Night\" and both leads in \"True West.\" All three performances were Tony-nominated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His 2012 performance in \"Death of a Salesman\" was praised as \"heartbreaking\" by AP theater critic Mark Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hoffman is only 44, but he nevertheless sags in his brokenness like a man closer to retirement age, lugging about his sample cases filled with his self-denial and disillusionment,\" Kennedy wrote. \"His fraying connection to reality is pronounced in this production, with Hoffman quick to anger and a hard edge emerging from his babbling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/lx-6hobRGS8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Some great news for \u003ca href=\"http://www.raiders.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Raiders\u003c/a> fans who have suffered through a couple of very bleak seasons, and a reminder for the rest of us of the team's storied past: \u003ca href=\"http://rayguy.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Ray Guy\u003c/a>, who became the first punter ever chosen in the first round of the NFL draft when the Raiders picked him in 1973, is now the first punter elected to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.profootballhof.com/enshrinement/2014/2/2/pro-football-hall-of-fame-class-of-2014-elected/\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Football Hall of Fame\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Ray Guy never missed a game, almost never had a punt blocked, and never had one returned for a touchdown.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Several years ago (see video above), former Raiders coach John Madden recalled, \"I remember when we drafted him ... and we took Ray Guy No. 1. Everyone said, 'How can you take a punter No. 1?' And we said, 'Not only because he's the best punter in the draft, he's the best punter that's ever punted a football.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a synopsis of Guy's career in \u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/blog/oakland-raiders/post/_/id/3134/guy-selected-to-hall-brown-has-to-wait\" target=\"_blank\">a story by ESPN.com's Paul Gutierrez\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Raiders shocked the NFL when they used a first-round draft pick, No. 23 overall, on Guy in 1973, after he suffered a broken left ankle in his final college game at Southern Mississippi. He responded with six All-Pro selections, and his booming punts fostered the creation of the “hang time” stat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guy, now 64, never had a punt returned for a touchdown, nor did he miss a game in his 14-year career, and only three of his 1,049 punts were blocked. His punting average of 42.4 yards might not pop off the stat sheet, but it was his combination of hang time and directional punting that separated him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, he is one of just six to have played on all three Raiders Super Bowl title teams, along with linebacker Ted Hendricks, receiver Cliff Branch, center Dave Dalby, and offensive linemen Henry Lawrence and Steve Sylvester.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Raiders have posted a nice (but unembeddable, so far as I can tell) \u003ca href=\"http://www.raiders.com/media-vault/videos/Ray-Guy-Video-Highlights/b5cf6480-bca9-4d14-8e2c-71bc73df8e29\" target=\"_blank\">video tribute to Ray Guy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can check out his \u003ca href=\"http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/G/GuyxRa20.htm\" target=\"_blank\">career stats at Pro Football Reference\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others elected today include: New York Giants defensive end \u003ca href=\"http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/StraMi02.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Strahan\u003c/a>; Buffalo Bills receiver \u003ca href=\"http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/R/ReedAn00.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Reed\u003c/a>; Arizona Cardinals and St. Louis Rams defensive back \u003ca href=\"http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WillAe00.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Aeneas Williams\u003c/a>; Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles defensive end \u003ca href=\"http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WillAe00.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Claude Humphrey\u003c/a>; Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker \u003ca href=\"http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BrooDe00.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Derrick Brooks\u003c/a>; and Seattle Seahawks offensive tackle \u003ca href=\"http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BrooDe00.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Jones\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here's the latest Associated Press story on the Hall of Fame voting:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Tom Canavan\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNEW YORK — The hang time is over for Ray Guy. The longtime punter for the Oakland Raiders is all by himself once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After waiting 23 years, Guy is the first punter elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Good things are worth waiting for,\" Guy said Saturday night after being elected along with six other players. \"It's just a matter of time when it will show up. And I knew it would, sooner or later. It had to, whether it was me or somebody down the road. But sooner or later, it had to show up, because that is a part of a football game.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defensive end Michael Strahan, receiver Andre Reed, defensive back Aeneas Williams and defensive end Claude Humphrey also were part of the class of 2014. Two first-time eligible players, linebacker Derrick Brooks and offensive tackle Walter Jones, were selected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement was made at the NFL Honors award show, less than 24 hours before the Denver Broncos take on the Seattle Seahawks in the first Super Bowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the finalists who didn't get in were two with ties to the Indianapolis Colts and current Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning — coach Tony Dungy and receiver Marvin Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each incoming Hall of Famer walked to the stage and was announced individually. Strahan, who helped the Giants make two Super Bowls, got a huge cheer from the home crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Induction will be on Aug. 1 in Canton, Ohio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guy turned the punting job into a defensive weapon after he became the first player at his position to be selected in the first round of the draft in 1973. He made \"hang time\" part of the football vernacular while playing all of his 207 games in 14 seasons with the Raiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Southern Mississippi product averaged 42.4 yards for his career. Only three of his 1,049 punts were blocked, and he had 209 punts downed inside the 20-yard line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's gratifying to now see a punter go into the Hall of Fame,\" said Guy, who joins Jan Stenerud as the only kickers enshrined . \"Whether it was me or somebody else, they needed representation in that position.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks was the cornerstone of a Bucs defense that led the league in 2002 and '05, and the NFC five times. He was The Associated Press Defensive Player of the Year when Tampa Bay won its only Super Bowl after the 2002 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The linebacker never missed a game in his 14 seasons and averaged a remarkable 146 tackles. Six of his 25 interceptions were returned for touchdowns, including a league-record three in '02.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seattle certainly got a winner when it moved up to the No. 6 spot in the 1997 draft to take Jones. He immediately provided blindside protection for Warren Moon and quickly became the first Seahawks lineman to earn a Pro Bowl spot. He was one of the chief road graders who helped Shaun Alexander rush for 266 yards in a 2001 game — the fourth-highest total in NFL history — and then rush for a team-record 1,880 yards and 28 TDs in his MVP season in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Coming into the league all I wanted to do was get here, and ... say I could play this game,\" Jones said. \"For me to be here now, and for my team that I started with and finished with, to be here in the Super Bowl is just like the icing on the cake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strahan set the NFL record for sacks in a single season, getting 22½ in 2001. The one most people remember is the record-setter in the final game of the regular season, when Green Bay's Brett Favre seemed to lay down on a play late in the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is controversy about that play, the gap-toothed Strahan was one of the top two-way defensive ends. Younger teammates said he taught them how to work to become NFL players, and he walked away from the NFL after winning the Super Bowl in February 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard to find guys with everything, but this guy had everything -- size, speed, power, toughness, endurance, motor, smarts, leadership, heart, love for the game, but what I admired most about Michael was his pride,\" Giants general Jerry Reese said. \"No matter what the circumstances were, when he walked out on that field on Sunday, he was going to give it ALL to you. There aren't many guys who can say that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed came out of little Kutztown (Pa.) University and played his first 15 seasons with Buffalo, getting to four Super Bowls, but never winning one. His final season was with Washington. His 951 career receptions are third in league history, highlighted by nine consecutive seasons of 50-plus catches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before people spoke about yards after the catch, Reed was doing it. He finished with 13,198 yards and 87 touchdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having to wait this long for him is a sin, but the bottom line is he's in and that's what counts,\" former Bills quarterback Jim Kelly said of Reed's nine-year wait to get into the Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A walk-on at Southern University, Williams was a shutdown cornerback in his 14 NFL seasons, the first 10 with the Cardinals and the last four with the Rams. He had 55 career interceptions, getting at least one in every season except his last. He had five or more in picks in six seasons, with nine being his best in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams spent his last four seasons with St. Louis. He started at cornerback for the Rams in the 2001 Super Bowl and played safety in his final two seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hall of Fame doors finally opened for Humphrey on his 28th year of eligibility and his fifth as a finalist. The durable six-time Pro Bowl pick had 122 career sacks in 14 seasons with the Falcons and Eagles, who acquired him after a brief retirement in the 1978 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I never really gave up hope,\" said Humphrey, whose only regret was that his wife died in July and didn't get to see his election. \"I always figured there was a place for me here.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The longtime punter for the Oakland Raiders is all by himself once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After waiting 23 years, Guy is the first punter elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Good things are worth waiting for,\" Guy said Saturday night after being elected along with six other players. \"It's just a matter of time when it will show up. And I knew it would, sooner or later. It had to, whether it was me or somebody down the road. But sooner or later, it had to show up, because that is a part of a football game.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defensive end Michael Strahan, receiver Andre Reed, defensive back Aeneas Williams and defensive end Claude Humphrey also were part of the class of 2014. Two first-time eligible players, linebacker Derrick Brooks and offensive tackle Walter Jones, were selected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement was made at the NFL Honors award show, less than 24 hours before the Denver Broncos take on the Seattle Seahawks in the first Super Bowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the finalists who didn't get in were two with ties to the Indianapolis Colts and current Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning — coach Tony Dungy and receiver Marvin Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each incoming Hall of Famer walked to the stage and was announced individually. Strahan, who helped the Giants make two Super Bowls, got a huge cheer from the home crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Induction will be on Aug. 1 in Canton, Ohio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guy turned the punting job into a defensive weapon after he became the first player at his position to be selected in the first round of the draft in 1973. He made \"hang time\" part of the football vernacular while playing all of his 207 games in 14 seasons with the Raiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Southern Mississippi product averaged 42.4 yards for his career. Only three of his 1,049 punts were blocked, and he had 209 punts downed inside the 20-yard line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's gratifying to now see a punter go into the Hall of Fame,\" said Guy, who joins Jan Stenerud as the only kickers enshrined . \"Whether it was me or somebody else, they needed representation in that position.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks was the cornerstone of a Bucs defense that led the league in 2002 and '05, and the NFC five times. He was The Associated Press Defensive Player of the Year when Tampa Bay won its only Super Bowl after the 2002 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The linebacker never missed a game in his 14 seasons and averaged a remarkable 146 tackles. 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