Bob Dylan thrills boxer Pacquaio with visit

WENN:

Boxer Manny Pacquiao had a very special visitor check out a training session in Los Angeles on Thursday -- music legend Bob Dylan. The fighter was preparing for his upcoming rematch with welterweight champion Timothy Bradley at coach Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing Club when the music icon, a longtime boxing fan, phoned and asked if he could stop by with a friend.

Pacquiao's spokesman Fred Sternburg tells RollingStone.com, "I've never seen the place take an aura like this, and I've been going to that gym for nearly a decade. We were all awestruck. Manny sparred eight different rounds with two different fighters while Dylan was there. He stayed for an hour and sat on a bench that you'd use to lift weights. Before and after the sparring, Dylan posed for photographs with anyone that asked and signed autographs ... He accommodated everybody and smiled the whole time. But, my God, it was Bob Dylan! It was like seeing one of the apostles."

Even Pacquiao got in on the action, tweeting a photo of himself with the singer/songwriter. He wrote, "After BOB DYLAN watched me train today, Freddie Roach said, 'I think a hard rain's a-gonna fall on Timothy Bradley,'" referring to one of the singer's classics. Pacquiao will be hoping the visit from Dylan will bring him luck when he steps into the ring with Bradley in Las Vegas on April 12.

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2014 McLaren P1, driven to the limit and beyond: Motoramic Drives

By CJ Wilson | Motoramic
McLaren has only just begun shipping the first of its 375 P1 hyper cars, each a 903-hp plug-in hybrid costing $1.15 million, billed as a successor to the McLaren F1, one of the greatest supercars of all time. Getting a chance to drive one is a big deal; McLaren has let only a few select people in the world behind the wheel. So when Chris, my sales person from Park Place McLaren, asked about my interest in driving the McLaren P1 — on Top Gear’s famed Dunsfold test track, no less — I had to laugh; I thought he was kidding.

A Look Inside Paul Walker’s Garage

By Jeff Perez

Rest in peace, Paul Walker. The 40 year old star of the Fast and Furious franchise, among other films, passed away this weekend in an unfortunate accident as a passenger in a Porsche Carrera GT. It was a sad weekend for movie lovers and car nuts everywhere.

But Paul knew cars, and his garage gave us a snapshot of just how much of a gearhead he really was. You’ll be missed, Paul.

Toyota Supra

Like his character in the first Fast and Furious film, Walker owned drop dead gorgeous Toyota Supra. Albeit a bit more subtle than the

US envoy Goldberg vows 'Yolanda' aid to continue

Christian V. Esguerra

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Publication Date : 03-12-2013

New US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg on Monday met with President Benigno Aquino III, expressing condolences for the victims of Supertyphoon “Yolanda” and vowing that his country would continue to help the Philippines in its rehabilitation efforts.

“I first want to say that we’re all still saddened and want to send our condolences to the people of the Eastern Visayas, with all the people of the Philippines after Typhoon Yolanda,” Goldberg told reporters in Malacañang after presenting his credentials to the President.

“I had a chance to make the same kind of expression to President Aquino that the United States will remain with the Philippines as you move from the relief period into reconstruction. And the United States will take the lead of the Philippine government in areas that are most urgent for rehabilitation and reconstruction,” he said.

Paul Walker’s last message to Philippines: We love you

 

Manila Bulletin – Sun, Dec 1, 2013

U.S. actor Paul Walker message to the Philippines in a Youtube video by his organization Reach Out Worldwide "We love the Philippines." 

Filipinos were saddened by the sudden death of American actor Paul Walker on Sunday (Philippine time) whose last hours were spent gathering help for Filipinos suffering from the devastation brought about by super typhoon "Yolanda".

Walker, who starred in the movie “Fast and Furious”, figured in a hellish car accident the day of a charity event in Los Angeles, California for Reach Out Worldwide, a non-profit organization that he supported.

NASA Maps to Aid Super Typhoon Haiyan Disaster Relief

NASA scientists have used satellite images to create detailed maps of the devastation in the Philippines from Super Typhoon Haiyan in order to help disaster relief efforts by recovery crews.

Super Typhoon Haiyan — which struck the island nation on Nov. 8 — was one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. produced the damage maps in order to depict the hardest hit regions of the country, NASA officials wrote in a news release.

JPL's ARIA (Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis) team created the 24.9 by 31 mile (40 by 50 kilometers) map using data from the Italian Space Agency's COSMO-SkyMed satellite constellation. The image shows the area near Tacloban City, where the storm made landfall.

Brandon Rios Warns Manny Pacquiao: “I Ain’t Nobody’s Tune-up Fight!”

COMMENTARY | Brandon "Bam Bam" Rios is definitely the B-side of his upcoming November 23 bout with Manny Pacquiao in Macau, China, but he's fuming over the idea that the media is already downplaying his chances of defeating his iconic Filipino rival.Business considerations may make him an afterthought in the fan-friendly match-up, but Rios is letting the world know that his B-side status has nothing to do with his ability to take Pacquiao to war.
Speaking to Chris Robinson of Hustleboss.com, Rios made it clear that he didn't care a bit about reports of a "prime" Pacquiao reemerging in camp or how the eight-division former world champ has been manhandling sparring partners.
"I ain't no sparring partner," Rios told Robinson. "I don't give a [expletive] how you look against sparring partners. You can look great against sparring partners. But you're not going to fight a sparring partner. You're fighting me. And I ain't no sparring partner. At the end of the day, that's good. I hope he's doing good, so we can have a great fight and give the fans what they want."

Victims in bus crash belonged to tightknit group

STEVE MEGARGEE, TRAVIS LOLLER and MITCH WEISS

He believes his brother may have been driving the church bus because he had done so in the past."This is hard," said Jerry Wright, whose 73-year-old brother, John, and his wife were on the bus. "You try not to think the worst, but it gets to you."
"We're all shaken," he said. "As bad as it is, they're all Christians and I know where they're at. I'll join them later."George Stadtfeld, who has been a member of the church for eight years, said he knew everyone on the bus. He said his wife, Elaine, had been on the trip but didn't travel on the bus. He said she called him crying.

Obama tells congressional leaders he won't negotiate on shutdown, debt

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama stressed to congressional leaders on Wednesday that he will not negotiate with Republicans over a government shutdown or raising the U.S. debt limit, the White House said.

After more than an hour of talks at the White House that did not lead to a breakthrough, the White House issued a statement saying that Obama remains hopeful that "common sense will prevail" in the budget standoff.

"The president made clear to the leaders that he is not going to negotiate over the need for Congress to act to reopen the government or to raise the debt limit to pay the bills Congress has already incurred," the White House said.