London, Dec. 28: A British woman created a new world record by becoming the first person to cycle to the South Pole on Thursday.
Welsh Adventurer Maria Leijerstam, 35, pedalled 500 miles across Antarctica to win her record after four years of training, the Daily Express reported.
Leijerstam finished the race in just ten days - 12 days before scheduled finish.
Her three-wheel customised recumbent bike PolarCycle and daring route gave her the edge over her two male competitors - American Daniel Burton and Spaniard Juan Menendez Granados.
She set off from the Novo Russian air force base on Dec, 16, and for 10 days survived on heating her freeze-dried food by melting snow on a small stove inside her wind blasted.
Welsh Adventurer Maria Leijerstam, 35, pedalled 500 miles across Antarctica to win her record after four years of training, the Daily Express reported.
Leijerstam finished the race in just ten days - 12 days before scheduled finish.
Her three-wheel customised recumbent bike PolarCycle and daring route gave her the edge over her two male competitors - American Daniel Burton and Spaniard Juan Menendez Granados.
She set off from the Novo Russian air force base on Dec, 16, and for 10 days survived on heating her freeze-dried food by melting snow on a small stove inside her wind blasted.
- 12/28/2013
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
Billy Ray Cyrus stars in "Christmas Comes Home to Canaan," airing December 17 on the Hallmark Channel. HP50 Contributing Editor Nina Kotick caught up with him in Los Angeles to talk about the film, his career and the perils of parenting in public.
Why did you choose this project and what's compelling about this role?
Well, this is a sequel to "Christmas in Canaan" (2009). I just loved the script on the original movie and loved doing that film. I agreed to do a sequel but only if the script was as good and raised the bar even further. I didn't want to do a sequel just for the sake of doing a sequel. It took a year and a half, but they did it. It's the story of a struggling family in Canaan, Texas. I play Daniel Burton, a widower raising three children in the late 60s, early 70s. There's a lot of racial divide,...
Why did you choose this project and what's compelling about this role?
Well, this is a sequel to "Christmas in Canaan" (2009). I just loved the script on the original movie and loved doing that film. I agreed to do a sequel but only if the script was as good and raised the bar even further. I didn't want to do a sequel just for the sake of doing a sequel. It took a year and a half, but they did it. It's the story of a struggling family in Canaan, Texas. I play Daniel Burton, a widower raising three children in the late 60s, early 70s. There's a lot of racial divide,...
- 12/17/2011
- by Evan Allis
- Huffington Post
Country singer and actor Billy Ray Cyrus visited "Extra's" Mario Lopez at The Grove to promote his new holiday movie, "Christmas Comes Home to Canaan."
The father of six talked about his children, saying, "My kids all have a good head on their shoulders, good hearts. They don't need much advice from me." He joked, "I always say, 'Watch what I do, and don't do that.'"
Cyrus overcame his own hardships this past year,...
The father of six talked about his children, saying, "My kids all have a good head on their shoulders, good hearts. They don't need much advice from me." He joked, "I always say, 'Watch what I do, and don't do that.'"
Cyrus overcame his own hardships this past year,...
- 12/16/2011
- Extra
Bloomington musical collective, Edm, lead by singer/guitarist Daniel Burton stripped down their name (formerly Early Day Miners), their production process, and returned to their old label for the release of "Night People" -- due out on Western Vinyl July 19th.
Once mentored by Daniel Lanois in La, Burton has recorded Okkervil River, Windsor For the Derby and Wilco side-project On Fillmore, but gave up the knob twiddling on this one to Mike Bridavksy, who recorded and mixed the album at Russian Recording in a mere five days.
The songs on this album are character sketches of alienated people who "stay up all night, stumbling through isolation to explore trauma and ecstasy in search of their own glamour." It sounds like Edm distilled the driving force behind the night life of people of a certain age in every city across America. Below is the arresting album opener, "Hold Me Down.
Once mentored by Daniel Lanois in La, Burton has recorded Okkervil River, Windsor For the Derby and Wilco side-project On Fillmore, but gave up the knob twiddling on this one to Mike Bridavksy, who recorded and mixed the album at Russian Recording in a mere five days.
The songs on this album are character sketches of alienated people who "stay up all night, stumbling through isolation to explore trauma and ecstasy in search of their own glamour." It sounds like Edm distilled the driving force behind the night life of people of a certain age in every city across America. Below is the arresting album opener, "Hold Me Down.
- 6/5/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
After getting a role alongside Jackie Chan and Hannah Montana: The Movie co-star Lucas Till on the new movie The Spy Next Door, Billy Ray Cyrus has received yet another acting gig. It's not a sequel to his daughter's hit movie though, but it's also a rather family-oriented flick that's lined up for his career.
According to All Headline News, the 48-year-old country music songwriter and actor will be playing the lead role of Daniel Burton in a Hallmark movie titled Christmas in Canaan. While it doesn't look like it will be have any other Hannah Montana attachments there, he'll still be portraying the role of a father. This time, however, to an unruly boy.
According to All Headline News, the 48-year-old country music songwriter and actor will be playing the lead role of Daniel Burton in a Hallmark movie titled Christmas in Canaan. While it doesn't look like it will be have any other Hannah Montana attachments there, he'll still be portraying the role of a father. This time, however, to an unruly boy.
- 11/4/2009
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
"Achy Breaky Heart" singer Billy Ray Cyrus is set to star in a new Hallmark Channel Original Movie "Christmas in Canaan" on December 12.
The TV movie will see Miley Cyrus' dad play Daniel Burton, the father of one of a pair of squabbling boys who are brought together through unlikely circumstances in Canaan, Texas during the '60s.
Cyrus, 48, who tasted country music stardom back in the '90s, recalls how he called back Hallmark to read the script after initially turning the part down. He said he remembered his father telling him to emulate country music legend Kenny Rogers' success and try acting.
When he began reading the script, coincidences began to pile up, as if they were clues left for him to take the part. Not only that, the story itself made him cry, as the character he was being asked to play reminded him of his own father,...
The TV movie will see Miley Cyrus' dad play Daniel Burton, the father of one of a pair of squabbling boys who are brought together through unlikely circumstances in Canaan, Texas during the '60s.
Cyrus, 48, who tasted country music stardom back in the '90s, recalls how he called back Hallmark to read the script after initially turning the part down. He said he remembered his father telling him to emulate country music legend Kenny Rogers' success and try acting.
When he began reading the script, coincidences began to pile up, as if they were clues left for him to take the part. Not only that, the story itself made him cry, as the character he was being asked to play reminded him of his own father,...
- 11/3/2009
- icelebz.com
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