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Sailors took their boats out at dusk yesterday to enjoy the lingering light from one of the last sunsets of 2005.

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Harry Hayashida, right, and Lyle Takeuchi mashed the first batch of mochi rice on a stone "usu" yesterday morning on the Diamond Head lawn of the Sheraton-Waikiki Hotel. Hayashida, who retired in 2000, has led this annual mochi-pounding event for the past seven years.

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Visitors from Japan and elsewhere gathered at the table where the pounded mochi was prepared by Barbara Jurkens, left, Gloria Ogawa and Rika Kobayashi.