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On: December 27, 2020 December 27, 2020 By: LBM
With New Year's Day coming up fast and America's New Year Celebration being very different in 2021, I thought I would post some of the plans the Tournament of Roses has been working on in 2020. It has been a difficult year for float builders, both commercial and self-built, without the usual hubbub and excitement in the float barns. Also without the usual income that keeps the companies and organizations going.
The good news is that the Tournament has found ways to connect with the community during COVID-19, which I posted on the Facebook page All Things Rose Parade. It will present a two-hour show that promises to be entertaining and evocative of the whole Tournament of Roses experience and will benefit Feeding America.
The show airs on January 1, 2021 at 8 a.m. PST. Check your local listings; I plan to watch it on KTLA5 Los Angeles. In addition, there are a couple dozen different previews posted on the KTLA site.
As for the 2021 Rose Parade, the event has simply been postponed to 2022. The leadership will be the same, keeping Dr. Robert B. Miller as TOR president and the theme "Dream. Believe. Achieve." No word on the Grand Marshal as yet!
What's Up on New Year's Day
Pasadena Tournament of Roses announces 2-hour TV entertainment special to benefit Feeding America
Pasadena Tournament of Roses announces TV special featured segments
Special performances and celebrity guests announced for "The Rose Parade's New Year Celebration Presented by Honda"
Alabama and Notre Dame to play in the College Football Playoff Semifinal
Pasadena Tournament ff Roses announces Kermit The Frog conducts senior student band members
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On: April 20, 2020 By: LBM
From the time I started writing online with Examiner.com up to the final article I posted my own website, The Rose Examiner, I have appreciated all my readers and always tried to serve them with the stories I wrote. My goal in continuing to write about the Tournament of Roses after Examiner.com closed down was to inform and entertain those who have an interest in America's New Year Celebration.
Over the past year or two, I came to realize that it is time for me to set aside this wonderful part of my life and return to my first love, creative writing—essays, children's stories, and short stories. That's where I excel, where the words seem to fly from my fingers to my keyboard to the virtual document on my screen. I can't do both; there just isn't time.
This decision was confirmed in the joy I experienced with a recent writing assignment for a group I'm in. It was based on a picture from The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, a picture book by Chris Van Allsburg. The book is ostensibly a collection of unrelated pencil sketches by a man named Harris Burdick, and without text, the reader is tasked with being storyteller as well. In this instance, I wrote about birds soaring out of the wallpaper in "The Third-Floor Bedroom." It was a delightful fantasy, if I do say so myself.
While it's time for me to move on from posting on The Rose Examiner, I will continue to keep up with my Facebook followers on All Things Rose Parade, at least for a while. I truly hope you enjoyed reading my articles and paging through my photos, and that the information was useful. I enjoyed meeting all the wonderful people, in person and online, that I would not have come to know without this work.
Be happy, stay healthy, and remember that life is beautiful, even if the bed of roses has a few thorns.
Laura Berthold Monteros
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On: February 8, 2020 By: LBM
The biggest celebrities of them all: the 2020 Tournament of Roses Royal Court. L-R, Rose Queen Camille Kennedy, Rose Princesses Emilie Risha, Reese Rosental Saporito, Mia Thorsen, Michael Wilkins, Rukan Saif, Cole Fox.
At the Tournament of Roses Parade, the real celebrities are the gorgeous floral creations that float along the parade route on New Year's Day. The 131st Rose Parade, held on Jan. 1, 2020, was no exception. But that doesn't mean there are no human celebrities! Riding along Colorado Blvd. in flower-bedecked antique vehicles is a tradition for the people that the current president chooses to represent the theme she has chosen, this year, Pres. Laura Farber chose "The Power of Hope."
You can read more about them by exploring the 2020 Tournament of Roses page on this website. You can see them, nestled in the seats of beautiful vehicles and waving to the crowds, in the gallery below. Information about the cars is in the captions.
Grand Marshal Rita Moreno, actress, singer, dancer, activist, and EGOT winner, rode in a 1910 Pope-Hartford Touring Car, owned by Gary and Sheryl Hunter and driven by Cole Capps.
Grand Marshal Gina Torres, actress and opera singer, is known for her roles Firefly and Suits. She rode in a 1911 Pope-Hartford model W with a seven-passenger touring body. The Gooding family has owned this car for over 50 years.
Grand Marshal Laurie Hernandez, winner of Olympic Gold and Silver medals as a member of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Women's Gymnastics Team, rode in a 1910 Pope-Hartford Model T. It was restored in the 60's by Bill Harrah from Harrah's casinos.
Grand Marshals Laurie Hernandez and Gina Torres take the turn from Orange Grove Blvd. to Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena City College Tournament of Roses Herald Trumpets usher in the Royal Court.
Tournament of Roses Royal Court for 2020, on a float caped with roses: Rose Queen Camille Kennedy, with Rose Princesses on the left, Emilie Risha, Mia Thorsen, Rukan Saif; on the right, Reese Rosental Saporito, Michael Wilkins, Cole Fox.
2020 Tournament of Roses Royal Court: Rose Queen Camille Kennedy, with Rose Princesses on the left, Emilie Risha, Mia Thorsen, Rukan Saif; on the right, Reese Rosental Saporito, Michael Wilkins, Cole Fox.
2020 Tournament of Roses Royal Court, L-R, Rose Queen Camille Kennedy, Rose Princesses Emilie Risha, Reese Rosental Saporito, Mia Thorsen, Michael Wilkins, Rukan Saif, Cole Fox.
Camille Kennedy, the 102nd Rose Queen.
Pasadena City College Tournament of Roses Honor Band made its 91st appearance in the Rose Parade. The PCC Lancer Band is joined 230 high schoolers who auditioned for slots. Kyle Luck is the PCC Director of Bands.
Pasadena Mayor Terry Tornek (waving with left hand) rode in a handcrafted replica of an 1880 Abbott Downing Hotel Coach. It can accommodate 24 passengers. The eight-horse hitch of rare black and white colored from Express Ranches is owned by Bob Funk of Yukon, Okla.
Rose Bowl Hall of Fame honorees Class of 2019: A representative of Eddie Casey (Harvard), Jacque Robinson (University of Washington), Cornelius Greene (Ohio State), Matt Leinart (USC). In celebration of its 250th anniversary, the City of Monterey, Calif. lent its first mechanized fire engine, a 1916 Seagrave, to the TOR.
Tournament of Roses Pres. Laura Farber rides with her husband Tomás Lopez and their children Christopher and Jessica in a 1911 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost owned by Gary and Sheryl Hunter.
Pres. Farber added Honored Guests to the parade this year. Sonia Manzano, "Maria" on Sesame Street, Jaime Jarrin, the Spanish voice of the Dodgers, and Ellen Ochoa, the first Latina in space rode in a 1915 Pierce Arrow Model 48.
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On: February 2, 2020 February 2, 2020 By: LBM
Barnstormer and daredevil C.P. Rodgers piloted the first plane to fly over the Rose Parade on Jan. 1, 1912. The plane in the photo is not his usual aircraft, the Wright Model EX Vin Fiz, but a spare Model B.
Quick question: When did the flyovers of the Rose Parade begin? If you said in 1997 at the 108th Tournament of Roses Parade, with the B-2 Spirit "stealth bomber" in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the US Air Force, you would be…wrong!
The first flyover was 85 years earlier, in 1912 at the 23rd Rose Parade. Broadcaster and barnstormer C.P. Rodgers, after a historic cross-country flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific, flew over the parade in his plane Vin Fiz, a Wright Model EX. He dropped flowers along the entire route; some say they were rose petals; others say it was 10,000 carnations.
Born Calbraith Perry Rodgers, the aviator had undertaken the transcontinental flight to garner a $50,000 prize offered by William Randolph Hearst, but he missed the deadline by 19 days. On April 3, his plane was hit by birds during an exhibition over Long Beach, Calif. and he died in the crash at age 33. This was the first recorded instance of a fatality resulting from a bird strike.
Such an impromptu flight would not be allowed today, of course, what with security and other aircraft taking up airspace over the route.
Nonetheless, he is remembered for his daring flights, his huge personality, and for being the first aviator to fly over the Rose Parade. He was so popular with parade-goers that they gave him the title of King of the Rose Parade, the first in a short line of three. There was no Rose Queen that year, so folks created their own royalty.
Parade-goers still enjoy looking up to see the B-2 and other Air Force wonders fly overhead, as well as the Goodyear blimp and the occasional small planes dragging banners or puffing out ads. Here are some examples.
B-2 Spirit at the 2020 Rose Parade
It's a marvel of engineering, the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. The shape makes it difficult for radar detection, but most impressive to parade-goers—besides the sheer beauty of this war machine—is that it can't be heard until it is almost overhead. It has a wingspan of 172 feet and weighs 160,000 pounds, but for its massive size, it is frighteningly quiet. For the first time in Rose Parade history, the crew of two pilots included a woman: Lt. Col. Nicola "Rogue" Polidor with Major Justin "Rocky" Spencer
Goodyear blimp videos the 2020 Rose Parade
To residents of the Pasadena area, the Goodyear blimp is a frequent sight when games are held in the Rose Bowl Stadium. On New Year's Day, it does double duty in taking overhead video the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game. A ride in the blimp is one of the exciting events that the Tournament of Roses Royal Court gets to do.
Pasadena parrots at the 2018 Rose Parade
Annual visitors—the parrots of Pasadena
People local to Pasadena love to come to the Rose Parade, but they aren't the only ones who enjoy the festivities. Every year, the flocks that make their homes in or near Pasadena make an early morning trek to circle the over the grandstands. This photo is from 2018.
B-2 stealth bomber and F-35 fighters at the 2018 Rose Parade
The 2018 flyover added two F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters in a tribute to organ donation. The F-35 to the left of the bomber represented giving life (organ donors) and to the right, receiving life (organ recipients). Organ donor USAF Maj. Benjamin "Chex" Meier piloted the plane on the left before he lost his life; it was flown by a close friend for the Rose Parade.
Hawk flies beneath B-2 stealth bomber and F-35 fighters at the 2018 Rose Parade
And yet another feathered flyover
What appears to be a hawk flies below the Air Force formation. After all, the airspace is free to birds!
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Photo albums: Award-winning floats in the 2020 Rose Parade
On: January 29, 2020 By: LBM
"Stories Change Our World" sponsored by The UPS Store won Sweepstakes in the 131st Rose Parade with its display of golden lion tamarin monkeys.
"The Power of Hope," theme of the 131st Tournament of Roses, inspired floats with different stories to tell, but all with optimism and aspiration. From the humor of dodo birds flying a zeppelin to men and women in a cargo ship crossing the ocean in 1620 seeking freedom, the floats were a panoply of artistry, imagination, beauty, and hope.
Below are three photo galleries with images of the award winners in four categories: Sweepstakes, Entertainment Value, Float Design, Floral Design. There are six self-built winners and floats from professional builders AES, Fiesta Parade Floats, and Phoenix Decorating Company. The captions name the award and give a little information about each entry.
Rose Parade Trophies Get an Update for 2018 lists all the awards and what each one means. Rose Parade 2020 award-winning floats; The UPS Store takes Sweepstakes lists the 2020 winning floats, with sponsors, builders, and designers.
Sweepstakes and Entertainment Value
Sweepstakes: The UPS Store "Stories Change Our World." Tamarin monkeys were created with layers of bronze and golden strawflower, gold and orange marigold petals, and stems of Mokara, Oncidium, and James Story orchids.
Extraordinaire: Chinese American Heritage Foundation "American Heroes," a salute to the men and women who served in World War II on the 75th anniversary of its end.
Wrigley Legacy: Kaiser Permanente "Courage to Reimagine." The Yellow Brick Road winds through a village where Ozites have access to health care, healthy foods, and a safe community.
Judges: Donate Life "Light in the Darkness" speaks to the hope that organ, eye, and tissue donation brings to donors, recipients, and families. Floragraphs honor the deceased donors.
The Cowboy Channel's Rodeo New York Gold Buckle Brigade ushers in the Cowboy Channel float. Each rider earned her buckle on the professional rodeo circuit.
Showmanship: The Cowboy Channel "Walk Ride Rodeo" celebrates Amberley Snyder, who returned to barrel racing after being paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident, and the return of the rodeo to Madison Square Garden after 30 years.
Float Design
Theme: Pasadena Celebrates 2020 "Years of Hope, Years of Courage" marked the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment. One hundred women in suffragette dress followed the float.
Bob Hope Humor: La Cañada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Assn. "Dodo Bird Flight School" celebrated the hopes of flightless birds. Dodos cluster aboard a dirigible, led by an emu trying out a whirlybird.
Director: Cal Poly Universities" Aquatic Aspirations." Undersea explorers chance on a sunken ship that has become a home to a treasure of sea life. Bubbles float from the submarine.
Crown City Innovator: Trader Joe's "It Takes a Flight of Fancy." The Fearless Flyer jets out of the clouds in barrel-rolling pickle barrel. Trusty crew members and the Fearless Flyer puppet come along for the ride.
Grand Marshal: Chipotle Mexican Grill "Cultivate the Future of Farming." Many of the 51 fresh ingredients served at Chipotle restaurants are used in the decoration of the float. The riders are young farmers, a reminder that as older farmers retire, younger ones are needed,
Fantasy: Northwestern Mutual "Spend Your Life Living." A family of llamas tube down a Llazy River, with coats of ivory carnations and strawflower for their legs and faces.
Animation: Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day "Plant a Garden…Believe in Tomorrow." Dancing fruit and flowers remind folks that a garden is full of hope as small seeds grow into beautiful and healthy plants.
Americana: General Society of Mayflower Descendants "The Voyage of Hope—1620" memorializes the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims in North America. The bright colors worn by the riders are accurate for the time.
Golden State: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens "Cultivating Curiosity" depicts some of the iconic landmarks at The Huntington. Mary Cassatt's "Breakfast in Bed," Edward Hopper's "The Long Leg," and the Ellesmere Chaucer represent the collections.
Mayor: South Pasadena Tournament of Roses Assn. "Victory at Last." A huge straw hat, ballot box, and plenty of purple, green, and gold—the colors of the Women's Suffrage movement—celebrate 100 years of federal voting for women.
President: Sierra Madre Rose Float Assn. "Ka lā hiki ola" ("The Dawning of a New Day"). Tropicbirds soar around a lush floral island with rotating tikis and Hawaiian dancers on and around the float.
Isabella Coleman: AIDS Healthcare Foundation "Hope for the Homeless." Tiny homes call attention to two crises: homelessness and affordable housing. AHF has lent its voice to several different causes with its floats over the years.
Queen: Dole Packaged Foods "Sunshine for All." A brilliant sun packed with 60,000 roses in shades fading from orange to yellow to white greets the new day. An additional 20,000 roses fill the deck gardens.
Leishman Public Spirit: Burbank Tournament of Roses Assn. "Rise Up" honors the courage and spirit of hope that arise out of the ashes of California's most deadly and devastating fire season in 2018. Beneath the phoenix, a waterfall and renewed growth create a haven for wildlife.
Princess: City of Torrance "Our Garden of Hope and Dreams" recreates the Pine Wind Garden at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center. At the front is a pond with leaping koi and a sunning turtle.
Past President: City of Hope "City of Hope." The Tree of Wisdom at the center symbolizes the different branches of science and care at the 107-year-old research and treatment facility. The lush floral decoration uses 85,875 roses, orchids, delphinium, and other flowers.
Founder: Downey Rose Float Assn. "On the Wings of Hope." "Paper" cranes winging over a Japanese garden bring happiness, wisdom, health, and hope. Downey queen and princesses grace the float.
International: China Airlines "Dreams of Flying, Wings of Hope." A cheerful airliner bursts out of a music box, along with other icons of Taiwan, from noodles to lanterns to spinning tops and a skyscraper.
Tournament Volunteer: Rotary Rose Parade Float Committee "Hope Connects the World" is joined by Optimist International. A floating penguin is guided on an international journey by a crew of Rotarians and Optimists, tethered to common ideals.
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Burbank and Sikh American floats had stories to tell in the 2020 Rose Parade
For The Rose Examiner, the week between Boxing Day and the Showcase of Floats is packed with preparations for the Tournament of Roses Parade and visits to the barns to see the floats in the final stages. We especially like being able to talk to some of the people who are working on the floats.
It's hard to believe that it's been a couple weeks since we spoke with folks during Deco Week. We had conversations with Linda Cozakos and Erik C. Andersen at Burbank Tournament of Roses Association, and Harry Gill and Maninder Minu Singh, creative director of the Sikh American Float Foundation, in the Phoenix Decorating Company barn.
Be sure to check out the photos in the gallery below for the two floats in progress
Burbank "Rise Up"
Erik C. Andersen and Linda Cozakos explain the various choices of botanicals for the beak of the phoenix on "Rise Up."
Burbank's 88th Rose Parade entry won the Leishman Public Spirit Award for most outstanding floral design and display from a non-commercial participant. In keeping with the parade theme "The Power of Hope," the float depicted a giant phoenix being reborn from the ashes of the 8,527 wildfires that destroyed 1,893,913 acres of homes, businesses, farmland, and wildland in California 2018. A waterfall in front, surrounded by lush vegetation, offered hope that the land will be renewed.
Named "Paradise" in honor of the town that was nearly wiped out in the Camp Fire—two of designer Lisa Long's nephews battled the fire there—the bird's body rose and fell and head turned side to side. In a first for Burbank, three fireballs shot out of the tail feathers.
We talked to Cozakos and Andersen about the florals used for the colors and textures on the phoenix. Floral decorators always keep an eye out for new materials or ways to use old ones, and the beak of the bird had a rather unusual choice.
Cozakos said the frilly acorn caps lining the top of the beak can only be found in Griffith Park on one particular tree. One of the members of BTORA discovered them and has returned to collect them as needed. Mustard seed, fava beans, dried mango, and two purple potatoes for nostrils completed the beak, with vermilion Chinese lanterns around the eyes.
The feathers on the face and body were whole magnolia leaves and palm leaves that had been torn into thin strips. The leaves were covered with ground yellow and orange marigolds, sumac, and paprika to simulate the fiery colors of the phoenix.
Remembering a different kind of tragedy, roses with the names of the Saugus High School shooting victims attached were on the float, as well as dried agapanthus from the school. The roses will be returned to the parents after the parade.
Sikh American "Planting Seeds of Hope"
Harry Gill and Minu Singh stand before the Sikh American float.
The theme of the Sikh American float was realized with a fanciful garden and rotating carousel filled with children of various ethnicities. Through selfless service to humanity with love, respect, compassion, and humility, Sikhs hope to nurture an environment in which children can grow and thrive.
A sculpture of Bhai Ghaneya Singh sat at the front, pouring water out of a leather bag. Bhai Ghaneya was a compassionate man who carried water to the troops in the 1704 war of Anandpur Sahib. Harry Gill told us the story behind the image.
Bhai Ghaneya gave water to both the Sikhs and their Mughal enemies, thus planting seeds of love. For this, he was brought before Guru Gobind Singh. Bhai Ghaneya's defense was "I see God in every one of them." The Guru replied, "Give everyone water and also apply medicine on their wounds," Gill said. "He's the forerunner of the Red Cross, more than 300 years ago."
Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, said "there is only one God of the whole world; the same light shines in every person," Gill said, regardless of color, creed, or gender. "Even emperors are born of women."
Award winning-floats in the 2020 Tournament of Roses Parade
Deco Week galleries
"Rise Up," Burbank Tournament of Roses Association's 2020 Rose Parade entry. Notice the fireballs at the rear.
Three of the tail feathers on "Rise Up" had live flames.
Note the frilly acorn caps and purple potato nostrils.
Magnolia leaves and split palm fronds, covered in marigold, sumac, and paprika
A real waterfall in the beginning stages at the front of "Rise Up"
"Planting Seeds of Hope," the Sikh American 2020 Rose Parade entry, honored Bhai Ghaneya Singh.
The empty deck in front of Bhai Ghaneya will be filled with brilliant flowers for the Rose Parade.
Bhai Ghaneya sculpture on the Sikh American float
A fanciful tree, slides, and a carousel on the Sikh American float depicted a nurturing place for children.
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Rose Parade 2020 award-winning floats; The UPS Store takes Sweepstakes
On: January 1, 2020 January 29, 2020 By: LBM
For the second consecutive year, The UPS Store won the Sweepstakes trophy. "Stories Change Our World" was designed by Charles Meier and built by Fiesta Parade Floats.
Here's the breakdown on the 131st Tournament of Roses Parade award-winning floats builders: AES, 2; Fiesta Parade Floats, 10; Phoenix Decorating Company, 6; self-builts, 6. The last time all six self-built floats won awards was 2016. The associations did a great job with animation, float design, and floral presentation this year.
Here are the winning designers: Michelle Lofthouse, 5 (Phoenix); Mike Abboud, 4 (Fiesta); Art Aguirre, 2 (Fiesta); Charles Meier, 2 (Fiesta); Stanley Meyer, 2 (Fiesta); John Ramirez, 2 (AES); Rachel Lofthouse, 1 (Phoenix)
To find out what each award means, read Rose Parade trophies get an update for 2018
For a listing of all the floats in the 2020 Rose Parade, read List of floats in the 2020 Rose Parade with titles, builders, designers
131st Tournament of Roses Parade Award Winners
Award Float Sponsor Builder/Designer
Sweepstakes Award The UPS Store, Inc. "Stories Change Our World" Fiesta Parade Floats
Charles Meier
Entertainment Value
Extraordinaire Award Chinese American Heritage Foundation (CAHF) "American Heroes" Fiesta Parade Floats
Mike Abboud
Wrigley Legacy Award Kaiser Permanente "Courage to Reimagine" Fiesta Parade Floats
Judges Award Donate Life "Light in the Darkness" Fiesta Parade Floats
Showmanship Award The Cowboy Channel "Walk Ride Rodeo" Phoenix Decorating Company
Rachel Lofthouse
Theme Award Pasadena Celebrates 2020 "Years of Hope, Years of Courage" AES
John Ramirez
Bob Hope Humor Award La Cañada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Association "Dodo Bird Flight School" Self-Built
Ted Baumgart, Grant Delgatty
Director Award Cal Poly Universities "Aquatic Aspirations" Self-Built
Crown City Innovator Award Trader Joe's "It Takes a Flight of Fancy" Phoenix Decorating Company
Michelle Lofthouse
Grand Marshal Award Chipotle Mexican Grill "Cultivate the Future of Farming" Fiesta Parade Floats
Fantasy Award Northwestern Mutual "Spend Your Life Living" Fiesta Parade Floats
Animation Award Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day "Plant a Garden…Believe in Tomorrow" Phoenix Decorating Company
Americana Award General Society of Mayflower Descendants "The Voyage of Hope – 1620" Fiesta Parade Floats
Golden State Award Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens "Cultivating Curiosity" Phoenix Decorating Company
Mayor Award South Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association "Victory at Last" Self-Built
Michael Mera
President Award Sierra Madre Rose Float Association "Ka lā hiki ola" Self-Built
Jason Redfox
Isabella Coleman Award AIDS Healthcare Foundation "Hope for the Homeless" Fiesta Parade Floats
Art Aguirre
Queen Award Dole Packaged Foods "Sunshine for All" Fiesta Parade Floats
Leishman Public Spirit Award Burbank Tournament of Roses Association "Rise Up" Self-Built
Princess Award City of Torrance "Our Garden of Hope and Dreams" Fiesta Parade Floats
Past President Award City of Hope "City of Hope" Phoenix Decorating Company
Founder Award Downey Rose Float Association "On the Wings of Hope" Self-Built
Thom Neighbors, Carrie Redfox
International Award China Airlines "Dreams of Flying, Wings of Hope" AES
Tournament Volunteer Award Rotary Rose Parade Float Committee "Hope Connects the World" Phoenix Decorating Company
TOTALS AES 2 Fiesta 10 Phoenix 6 Self-Built 6
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3 Rose Parade Deco Week photo galleries—self-builts, AES, Phoenix, Fiesta
On: December 31, 2019 January 31, 2020 By: LBM
South Pasadena does not have a float barn, and builds the float under the only concrete bridge designed by architects Charles and Henry Greene.
Your Rose Examiner spent three consecutive days walking the float barns, and came back with tons of photos. For these galleries, I've chosen one of each float, shots I particularly like, just to give a flavor of the process and introduce readers to the floats that will glide along the Tournament of Roses Parade on Jan. 1, 2020.
The barns and decorating sites were pretty packed and the decorators were working furiously to get the dry dec on. I managed to fit in two conversations, one with Erik C. Andersen and Linda Cozakos at Burbank Tournament of Roses Association., and one with Harry Gill and Minu Singh at the Sikh American float in the Phoenix Decorating Company barn, which can be read here.
Photos in Gallery A were taken on Dec. 28 and 29, and include AES and five self-built floats (we didn't go down to the Downey float barn). Gallery B was taken on Dec. 30 at Phoenix Decorating Company. Gallery C was also taken on Dec. 30, at Fiesta Parade Floats.
Deco Week Gallery A
Sierra Madre Rose Float Assn., La Cañada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Assn., AES, Cal Poly Universities, South Pasadena Rose Float Assn., Burbank Rose Float Assn.
Sierra Madre Rose Float Assn.
La Cañada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Assn.
A plethora of flowers ready to be put on the Rose Parade vehicles that will carry Tournament of Roses celebrities
University of Oregon cheerleader float (Wisconsin is similar, in red)
Pasadena Celebrates 2020
Blue Diamond Almonds
American Honda Motor Company
Cal Poly Universities
South Pasadena Rose Float Assn.
Burbank Tournament of Roses Assn. This is the first time Burbank has used fire on a float.
Deco Week Gallery B
Phoenix Decorating Company
City of Alhambra
The Cowboy Channel
Western Asset Management Company
Opening show mobile platform
Lutheran Laymen's League
Wescom Credit Union
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
The SCAN Foundation
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day
Rotary Rose Parade Float Committee
Tournament of Roses Royal Court
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs Rose Float
Sikh American Rose Float Assn.
Deco Week Gallery C
Fiesta Parade Floats
City of Torrance
Chinese American Heritage Foundation
Underground Service Alert of Southern California (DIGALERT)
Dole Packaged Foods
The UPS Store, Inc.
General Society of Mayflower Descendants
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2020 Rose Parade order of march
On: December 27, 2019 By: LBM
131st Tournament of Roses Parade opening float
The 131st Tournament of Roses is packed with 90 entries, including bands, equestrians, opening and closing shows, a special mid-point Frozen extravaganza, and of course, flower-covered floats. The parade starts at 8 a.m. sharp on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. The order is subject to changes, but for now, this is what it is.
For those wondering about the floats that missed the cameras in the 2019 Rose Parade due to being behind the rather spectacular breakdown of the Chinese American Heritage Foundation float, they are back, and closer to the front in the 2020 parade. Underground Service Alert (DigAlert) has moved from 87 to 16 and South Pasadena Tournament of Roses is at 42, up from 85. It is hoped that being at that fortuitous number will ensure smooth sailing, even though the float is still behind CAHF, which is number 20.
For more about the Rose Parade and information about all the events between now and Jan. 3, check out these links:
2020 Tournament of Roses main page
2020 Rose Parade main page
INSIDER'S GUIDE TO THE 2020 TOURNAMENT OF ROSES
131ST TOURNAMENT OF ROSES CALENDAR
Order of March, 131st Tournament of Roses Parade
1. Rose Parade Opening Spectacular: Ally Brooke, Emilio Estefan, Farruko and the Chino Hills High School Drumline
2. U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit flyover
3. Honda float, Our Hope for the Future
4. United States Marine Corps Mounted Color Guard
5. United States Marine Corps West Coast Composite Band
6. Cal Poly Universities float, Aquatic Aspirations
7. Arabian Horse Association
8. General Society of Mayflower Descendants float, The Voyage of Hope – 1620
9. Rancho Verde Crimson Regiment
10. Burbank Tournament of Roses Association float, Rise Up
11. Grand Marshals Laurie Hernandez, Rita Moreno and Gina Torres
12. Rotary Rose Parade Float Committee float, Hope Connects the World
13. Japan Honor Green Band
14. Downey Rose Float Association float, On the Wings of Hope
15. Blue Shadows Mounted Drill Team
16. Underground Service Alert of Southern California float, The Power of Safety FIRST
17. The PRIDE of Owasso Marching Band
18. Chipotle Mexican Grill float, Cultivating the Future of Farming
19. 1st Cavalry Division Horse Cavalry Detachment
20. Chinese American Heritage Foundation float, American Heroes
21. Helsingør Pigegarde (Elsinore Girls Marching Band)
22. Lutheran Laymen's League float, Anchored in Jesus
23. Pasadena City College Tournament of Roses Herald Trumpets
24. Royal Court
25. Pasadena City College Tournament of Roses Honor Band
26. Pasadena Celebrates 2020 float, Years of Hope. Years of Courage.
27. Mayor of Pasadena Terry Tornek and the Express Clydesdales
28. Rose Bowl Game, University Float A
29. Rose Bowl Game: University Band A
30. AIDS Healthcare Foundation float, Hope for the Homeless
31. Aguiluchos Marching Band
32. Westcom Credit Union, Better Together float: Hope Creates Community
33. Horsewomen of Temecula Wine Country
34. Trader Joe's float, It Takes a Flight of Fancy
35. Baldwinsville Marching Bees
36. Northwestern Mutual float, Spend Your Life Living
37. Rose Bowl Hall of Fame Class of 2019: Eddie Casey, Cornelius Greene, Matt Leinart and Jacque Robinson
38. Rose Bowl Game, University Float B
39. Rose Bowl Game, University Band B
40. Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens float, Cultivating Curiosity
41. Banda Municipal de Zarcero
42. South Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, Victory at Last
43. 2020 Tournament of Roses President Laura Farber
44. Alhambra Unified School District Marching Band
45. City of Alhambra float, Hope Keeps Us Going
46. Los Hermanos Bañuelos Charro Team
47. La Cañada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Association float, Dodo Bird Flight School
48. Mid-parade Performance: Disney's "Frozen" Broadway musical
49. The Valley Hunt Club
50. The UPS Store float, Stories Change Our World
51. 2020 Tournament of Roses Honored Guests: Jaime Jarrín, Sonia Manzano and Ellen Ochoa
52. Sikh American Float Foundation float, Planting Seeds of Hope
53. Greendale High School Marching Band
54. Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day float, Plant a Garden … Believe in Tomorrow
55. Mid America Cowgirls Rodeo Drill Team
56. Odd Fellows and Rebekahs float, First Responders Bring Hope
57. Pearland High School Marching Band
58. The SCAN Foundation float, Hope's Heroes: Honoring Caregivers of All Generations
59. Mini Therapy Horses
60. Shriners Hospitals for Children float, Hope Knows No Limits
61. Centenaria Banda Colegial
62. Sierra Madre Rose Float Association, Ka lā hiki ola (The Dawning of a New Day)
63. Budweiser Clydesdales
64. Dole Packaged Foods float, Sunshine for All
65. Kamehameha Warrior Marching Band and Color Guard
66. City of Torrance / Torrance Rose Float Association float, Our Garden of Hope and Dreams
67. Scripps Miramar Ranch (equestrian unit)
68. Western Asset Management float, Growing a Better Tomorrow
69. Southern University "Human Jukebox" Marching Band
70. Kaiser Permanente float, Courage to Reimagine
71. Knott's Berry Farm (equestrian unit)
72. Kiwanis International float, Soaring with Hope
73. The Cowboy Channel's Rodeo New York Gold Buckle Brigade
74. The Cowboy Channel float, Walk. Ride. Rodeo.
75. Dobyns-Bennett High School Marching Band
76. Amazon Studios float, Troop Zero
77. Banda El Salvador: Grando Como Su Gente
78. Lions Clubs International float, Hope for 2020
79. Buffalo Soldier Mounted Cavalry Unit
80. Blue Diamond Growers float, Almond Breeze, The Best Almonds Make the Best Almond Milk
81. West Harrison Hurricane Band
82. City of Hope float, City of Hope
83. The Salvation Army Tournament of Roses Band
84. Donate Life float, Light in the Darkness
85. Spirit of the West Riders
86. Farmers Insurance float, Conveyor of Hope
87. Los Angeles Unified School District, All District High School Honor Band
88. China Airlines float, Dreams of Flying, Wings of Hope
89. Painted Ladies Rodeo Performers
90. Closing Show: "Where Flowers and Football Meet!" featuring Los Lobos and Alejandro Aranda
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Band on the Run
Full Moon Fever – Great band and lovely people, but we had fundamental compatibility issues that eventually caught up with us. It was a good run though!
Bands are a Bitch
Most bands fail. And most of them fail quickly. Why is this?
Well, assembling, launching, and maintaining a band usually takes a hell of a lot of time, effort, and perseverance. Unless you're very well connected, you typically go through a parade of misfits before you finally find the right musicians. Many would-be bandleaders just don't have the grit to see it through. It's a tall order to find people who are aligned with respect to:
The music they want to play
The level of musicianship
Long- and short-term goals
Expected money
When, where, and how often to rehearse
When, where, and how often to gig
The level of preparedness expected
How to dress
How to perform
Drug and alcohol use
Where music rates in life's priorities
A million other things
As an analogy, let's look at the fine institution of marriage. Statistically, half of all marriages end in divorce. My theory is that the origins for failure in a lot of marriages are the little irritants that exist from the beginning of the relationship. I'll call them "incompatibilities". Just little things that don't sit well with you but you ignore them for the sake of the relationship. Like maybe you think he spends money a bit too frivolously, or maybe her family is more involved in her personal life than you'd like. These kinds of incompatibilities often grow and fester until they become insurmountable obstacles in the relationship. Unless you both work really hard to keep that from happening. And that's difficult to do. Hence, half of marriages fail.
With respect to bands, imagine trying to do that with 3-6 other people instead of just one. When you consider all the combinations of band members, the mathematical result is way more incompatibilities to deal with, and way more people who must work hard to keep things functioning well. Yeah, marriage and bands aren't the same thing. But in the end, they're both personal relationships and they have a lot of similarities. You enter both with passionate feelings about what you're doing. They both begin with an enthusiasm and optimism about the future. In both, you work cooperatively to achieve something bigger than what is possible on your own. And over time, little incompatibilities can become insurmountable hurdles and will destroy bands like they destroy marriages.
I can honestly say that in 35 years of playing in bands, I've only had all band members on the same page maybe 2 or 3 times. The rest of the time, we've made do with incompatible parts until the band exploded, imploded, or faded away. Even in the cases where everybody was on the same page, that was a temporary situation. Eventually people drifted off that page.
Collaboration vs. Self-Sufficiency
Unfortunately for me, I've spent most of my musical life being an "ensemble player" meaning I rely on others to complete a musical statement. When I play guitar for example, the part I'm playing assumes there's a band accompanying it. This, coupled with how difficult it is to form, develop, and sustain a band, makes it really challenging for me to fully enjoy music making.
Working alone in the studio
That's actually why I started recording. I've learned to play a lot of different instruments. With a home studio, I can record songs and make complete musical statements all on my own. Everybody's on the same page because "everybody" is one person.
But it's a slow, tedious way to work, tracking things by yourself. And it's a very insular process that I think affects the final product adversely. Band members bring their experiences, perspectives, and personality to the music and it makes a huge difference. Collaboration can send the music off in directions that a single person working alone would never consider. In my experience, band recordings usually sound better than one person working alone. That's the price of self-sufficiency.
I should also say that recording and playing in a band are very different experiences, and for me doing one doesn't really scratch the itch to do the other. With recording, I like the ability to do it on my own. I also love having an "artifact" – a long-lasting record of my art. But playing live in front of an audience that is responding to my music is a special thing that can't be replicated by Facebook "likes" for my recording. When the band is in the zone – well, that's true magic and it's the thing I enjoy the very most about music.
My Personal Evolution
As a person who's been doing this since a very young age, I've seen my musical needs and objectives evolve. Often in ways I couldn't relate to when I was younger.
Anywhere, any time – let's just gig!
In high school and college, I would play any gig, with anyone, at any time. I'd cart gear across the state, up stairs, and onto a postage stamp size stage to play for a half hour. For no money. I would do about anything legal (and maybe some things that weren't) in order to have the opportunity to play. I was addicted to the rush of playing in front of an audience and I had the time and energy to do about anything to indulge it.
In my 20s
Ambitious, aggressive, arrogant
In my 20s, I added ambition to that abundant time and energy. I wanted to be a rock star. I would still go to any lengths for a crappy gig but I directed my efforts towards building a following, and eventually getting signed. I only wanted to play original music. Nobody makes it to the big league doing covers. I only wanted to work with strong musicians who were also willing to put in extraordinary levels of effort in terms of practice, rehearsal, and gigging schedule. I was also picky about how old they were and what they looked like. I knew a band was a lot less likely to get signed if it was made up of people who didn't look the part. That's just the way it was, and I was unapologetic about it
Growing up and
rediscovering covers
My 30s were a transition period. I got married and my musical ambitions were tempered. I started doing covers again. In fact, I got into them in a way that I never could as a younger player. In a way, I started building my roots – about 15 years after I should have. I still wanted to play with good musicians, but I wasn't such a Nazi about it. I allowed some slack. On the other hand, I started getting a little more selective about gigs. I didn't necessarily have to get paid. But I didn't want to expend excessive time and effort in order to play a free gig either. It was okay to turn down a gig because it sounded like it wasn't worth the effort or money.
What image? Let's just gig!
In my middle age, as my face has gotten more lines, my hair has grayed, and my waistline has expanded, I don't much care how old people are or what they look like. I just want to gig, sort of like I did when I was a teenager but with a lot less desperation. I'm empathetic though when young musicians are focused on age and looks (which you can tell by their Craigslist ads). I get it. They have goals and aspirations in the entertainment industry. And as unfair, unsavory, and unmusical as it might be, reaching those goals requires meeting expectations about looks and age. It's always been that way, and it always will. More power to 'em. But I'm past that.
Where I'm at Today
Today my ideal band is a lot more reasonable, but I still have needs that I have to attend to:
I still want to play with good, solid musicians. Ideally, they'd challenge me musically, but at the very least I don't want to gig with the fear of an imminent train wreck. I hate that. They need to be solid enough to play the material really well.
I need to play with people that try to get along. I don't need to be great pals with them. But I'm not willing to spend a lot of time with people who can't be considerate, respectful, and mostly agreeable. Life's too short for that.
I want to play with people who don't need to earn money from music. Relying on a steady income from music places demands on a band that I'm just not up to anymore.
I want to play with professionals. No wait, this is not a contradiction to my previous point. By "professional" I don't mean people who make money playing music. I mean people who behave in a professional manner: They practice on their own and show up to rehearsal already knowing the material. If they say they're going to do something, it gets done. They show up on-time, every time. They have reliable transportation. They're sober. They have the equipment required and it's all in good, working order.
I want to rehearse about once a week, reliably. Maybe a bit more in the beginning when we're trying to jump-start our set list. If the band is made up of the type of "professionals" I described, you actually don't need much more rehearsal than that. But those rehearsals ought to be fairly sacred. It should take pretty extraordinary circumstances to cancel a scheduled rehearsal.
I want to gig about 2-5 times a month after ramp-up. The more gigs, the less rehearsals. In my experience, one gig is worth about 5 rehearsals in terms of tightening existing material. (Of course, when you're learning new material, you have to rehearse. A gig is generally not the place to play a song for the first time.)
I don't really care about money, except that the more difficult a gig is in terms of travel distance, time, load-in, people, or venue, the more I'd like to be paid. And while I don't care much about the money, I do care that the pay is equitable across the band. I don't mind giving extra to the person who books gigs or is responsible for the PA system. But setting up a system where some people get paid more than others based on "need" creates issues in the long run. It's best not to go there.
Notice I didn't have anything in there about musical style. I actually don't care that much about style. I have strong opinions about "good" and "bad" music, but those opinions don't align much with particular styles. I like and dislike songs from almost any genre I can think of. What I don't like: tired, over-played covers; jam-based songs that go on way too long; out-of-tune vocals; dumb lyrics, unless they're deliberately being ironic; or music that takes itself too seriously. Beyond that, I'm pretty open.
Being a marketing person, ideally I like bands that have a clear musical identity or brand. In other words, while I don't really care what musical style, I do like to pick a type of music and stick to it. For example, an 80s band, or a progressive rock band, or a 60's soul band. It's much easier and more effective to market and book a band with a focused identity than one that does a little bit of everything. But that's a nice-to-have. If I met a group of people who had everything except that, I would gladly play with them. And I'd feel blessed because the other qualities are so hard to find.
Maybe I'll be going it alone from now on
Even with my relatively modest needs, it's hard to find a crew of compatible people. Music doesn't attract "professionals". And as you get older, it's really tough to find people who still prioritize music high enough to put in the requisite time and effort to be a really good band.
So, I may never play in a really great band again. But that's where I'm at in my musical journey.
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Fortunately, our roof was not damaged in the least, and we were able to get a crew out yesterday to take down the fallen limbs - the ones that hit the pergola were 12"-14" in diameter.
Most of the damage is to fences, but a family four doors down from me did have three, 4" diameter holes punched in their roof when a 100' pine tree came down on it.
I have reopened the store for business, but now my issue is getting in Concentric (Inocucor) Garden Solution and packaging for K-Lite and KelpMax, as the local UPS and FedEx hubs are up in Wilmington, and I don't think they're back to making deliveries yet.
Everything in due time, Ray. Your life and property were preserved and that's the important thing. We're all so happy you're ok! A big praise!
Awesome. Glad to hear that you didn't take on too much damage. Wind damage can certainly be awful but flooding is devastating. I was just reading an article about all the dead farm animals and consequences from that with trying to get rid of the carcasses before they start to break down.
Everyone down in my neck of the woods was thinking of y'all and watching the news on pins and needles.
What a relief that all is well for you!
Thanks for the good thoughts, everyone!


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Young Lords Position Paper on Women
Puerto Rican, Black, and other Third World (colonized) women are becoming more aware of their oppression in the past and today. They are suffering three different types of oppression under...
...In hospitals, our women comprise the majority of the nurse's aides, kitchen workers, and clerks...
...Sometimes they are left alone, and all of us have read the tragic results in the newspapers of what happens to children left alone-'-they are burned to death in fires, or they swallow poison, or fall out of windows to their death...
...REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN Throughout history, women have participated and been involved in liberation struggles...
...In many societies, women had no right to be divorced, and in India it was the custom of most of the people that when the husband died, all his wives became the property of his brother...
...When a woman married a man she became his property and lost her last name...
...The daughter was guarded like a hawk by her father, brothers, and uncles to keep her a virgin...
...She was called "el brazo de oro" because of-her unlimited energy...
...Third World women have an integral role to play in the liberation of all oppressed people as well as in the struggle for the liberation of women...
...Women have always been expected to be wives and mothers only...
...Even now many doctors feel that these pills cause cancer and death from blood clotting...
...All the anger and violence of centuries of oppression which should be directed against the oppressor is directed at the Puerto Rican woman...
...They will use any rap, especially political, to get sex...
...The first abortion death in NYC under the new abortion law was Carmen Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican sister who died in Lincoln Hospital, Her abortion was legal, but the conditions in the hospital were deadly...
...The Third World woman becomes the most oppressed person in the world today...
...So they usually wait until they're home...
...The choice of motherhood is being taken out of the mother's hands...
...She became a brilliant commander, decorated many times for her military ability...
...They grow to expect that men will always beat them...
...0459 YOUNG LORDS PARTY...
...all they see everywhere is a pussy or a dick...
...The Central Committee of the Young Lords Party has issued this position paper to explain and educate our brothers and sisters about the role of sisters in the past and how we see sisters in the struggle now and in the future...
...Puerto . Rican and Black women are paid lower wages than whites and kept in the lowest positions within the society...
...We criticize those brothers who are "machos" and who continue to treat our sisters as less than equals...
...Second, they are oppressed as women...
...SOJOURNER TRUTH was born a slave in New York around 1800...
...Machismo has always been a very basic part of Latin American and Puerto Rican culture...
...The sisters also suffer abuse from the pimps, really small-time capitalists, who see the women as private property that must produce the largest possible profit...
...Both sets of children grew up very confused and insecure and dveoped negative attitudes about thp roles of women and men...
...between 1953-54, 4 out of every 25...
...BLANCA CANALES was one of the leaders of the revolution in Jayuya in 1950...
...She is sterilized to prevent her from having children, or she has to have a child because...
...planes...
...The wife had to have children in order to enhance the man's concept of virility and his position within the Puerto Rican society...
...her purpose is to have sons and keep his home but not to be a sexual partner.15 THE DOUBLE STANDARD, MACHISMO, AND SEXUAL FASCISM Capitalism sets up standards that are applied differently to Puerto Rican and Black men from the way they are applied to Puerto Rican and Black women...
...She was imprisoned in a federal penitentiary and sentenced to 50 years...
...We criticize sisters who remain passive, who do not join in the struggle against our oppression...
...As a matter of fact these things are considered nature for a man to do, and he must do them tro 'e co;.c 4...
...At home the role of the daughter was to be a nursemaid for the other children and kitchen help for her mother...
...She sewed the first flag of El Grito de Lares...
...Yet the majority of their women are home taking care of the children...
...We know that Puerto Ricans will not be around on the face of the earth very long if Puerto Rican women are sterilized at the rate they are being sterilized now...
...Another Panther sister, FRANCES CARTER, is imprisoned in Connecticut for supposedly being a member of a conspiracy...
...She scanned the sky with field glasses and when the enemy dropped bombs along the countryside, she wouid locate those which had not exploded and her teammates would go and open them and clear the road for traffic...
...Their military capability and efficiency has been demonstrated in so many instances that a woman's brigade was formed in the National Liberation Front of the North Vietnamese Army...
...they were owned by the husband...
...Everywhere our sisters are turned'into prostitutes...
...Both women had to be loyal to the man...
...In Eastern societies, men always had several wives and a number or women who were almost prostitutes, called concubines, purely sexual objects...
...Many sisters leave their children with a neighbor, or the oldest child is left to take care of the younger ones...
...In 1947-48, 7% of the women were sterilized...
...LOLITA LEBRON, together with three other patriots, opened fire on the House of Representatives in an armed attack in 1954, bringing the attention of the world on the colonial status of Puerto Rico...
...The result was 5 legislators shot, and one critically wounded...
...Then we can establish a socialist country that meets the economic needs of all the people...
...This was true in places all over the world...
...Because this society produces thesee conditions, our major enemy is capitalism rather than our own oppressed men...
...they are then called whores or prostitutes...
...She traveled in the north speaking out against slavery, and for women's rights...
...She was one of the most famous Black orators in history.17 KATHLEEN CLEAVER is a member of the Central Committee of the Black Panther Party...
...She is still in prison for this heroic act of nationalism...
...The Puerto Rican man tries to limit the woman's role because they feel the double standard is threatened: they feel insecure without it as a crutch...
...The Black Panthers are the vanguard of the Black liberation struggle in the united states...
...Her child was later taken away from her because of her political beliefs...
...Economically, Third World women have always been used as a cheap source of labor and as sexual objects...
...The wife was there to be a homemaker, to have children, and to maintain the family name and honor...
...Part of this genocide is also the use of birth-control pills which were tested for 15 years on Puerto Rican sisters (guinea pigs) before being sold on the market in the U.S...
...Third World sisters are caught up in a complex situation...
...These sisters are subjected to sexual abuse from dirty old men who are mainly white racists who view them as the ultimate sexual objects...
...She then draped herself in the Puerto Rican flag and cried, "Viva Puerto Rico Libre...
...Machismo is male chauvinism and more...
...the women's struggle is the revolution within the revolution...
...For her role in the struggle, she was imprisoned...
...A Sexual Fascist does not consider people's feelings...
...The husband ,must be sure that his new wife has never been touched by another man because that would ruin the "merchandise...
...Sexual Fascism is tied closely to the double standard and machismo...
...Our sisters in Vietnam have struggled alongside their brothers for 25 years, first against the french colonizer, then against the japanese invaders, and now against the amerikkkan aggressors...
...This situation keeps the Third World man divided from his woman...
...These jobs are unskilled, the pay is low, and there is no chance for advancement...
...They are suffering three different types of oppression under capitalism...
...The Puerto Rican man sees himself as superior to his woman, and his superiority, he feels, gives him license to do many things--curse, drink, use drugs, beat women, and run around with many women...
...MARIANA BRACETTI was a Puerto Rican woman who together with her husband fought in the struggle for independence in Lares...
...A woman who curses, drinks, and runs around with a lot of men is considered dirty scum, crazy, and a whore...
...Besides being a nationalist, she was a fighter for women's rights...
...At the point of armed struggle for national liberation, women have proved themselves revolutionaries...
...KAN LICH, another Vietnamese sister, fought under very harsh and dangerous conditions...
...Machismo means "mucho macho" or a man who puts himself selfishly at the head of everything without considering the woman...
...Because this society controls and determines the economic situation of Puerto Rican and Black women, sisters are forced to take jobs at the lowest wages...
...In factories, our men are worked like animals and cannot complain because they will lose their jobs--their labor is considered abundant and cheap...
...Capitalism defines manhood according to money and status...
...she cannot get an abortion...
...The daughters hear their fathers saying,"The only way a woman is going to do anything or listen is by hitting her...
...and by 1965, the number had increased to about 1 out of every 3 women...
...She was forced to have her child in prison, and was given no medical attention while she was pregnant...
...Abortions in hospitals that are butcher shops are little better than the illegal abortions our women used to get...
...It means that a man or woman thinks of the opposite sex solely as sexual objects to be used for sexual gratification and then discarded...
...La corteja became his sexual instrument...
...Puerto Rican and Black women make up over half of the revolutionary army, and in the struggle for national liberation they must press for the equality of women...
...BIRTH CONTROL, ABORTION, STERI LIZATION=GENOCIDE We have no control over our bodies, because capitalism finds it necessary to control the woman's body in order to control population size...
...But the writers of history have never given full acknowledgment to the role of revolutionary women...
...He could have children with this woman, but they are looked on as by-products of a sexual relationship...
...Our sisters are expected to prostitute themselves and take abuse of any kind or lose these subsistence jobs...
...The father applies this to the daughter, beating her so that she can learn "respeto...
...The Puerto Rican sister who involves herself is considered aggressive, castrating, hard, and unwomanly...
...In other parts of the world, women are fighting against imperialism and foreign invasion...
...We realize that under capitalism our sisters and brothers cannot support large families and the more children we have the harder it is to support them...
...All that they are expected to do is look pretty and add a little humor...
...Black and Puerto Rican sisters are put into a situation where jobs are scarce or nonexistent and are forced to compromise body, mind, and soul...
...He can do whatever he wants because his woman is an object with certain already defined roles--wife, mother, and good woman...
...Puerto Rican women will be neither behind nor in front of their brothers but always alongside them' in mutual respect and love...
...She was murdered when she yelled, "Viva Puerto Rico Libre...
...The most obvious example is the sisters hustling their bodies on the streets, but the other forms of prostitution are also types of further exploitation of16 the Third World woman...
...Her practice to "hit at close quarters, hit hard, withdraw quickly" proved to be valid...
...He takes out all of his frustrations on his woman, beating her, i-, ssina and limiting her freedom...
...In offices, our positions are usually as clerks, typists, and no-promotion jobs...
...On one hand, we feel that genocide is being committed against our people...
...The practice of sterilization in Puerto Rico goes back to the 1930's when doctors pushed it as the only means of contraception...
...Only recently, a 19-year-old coed, ANTONIA MARTINEZ, was killed in Puerto Rico in a demonstration against the presence of amerikkan military recruiting centers...
...ANGELA DAVIS is a Black revolutionary sister who is being hunted by the f.b.i...
...Puerto Rican and Black sisters are made to prostitute themselves in many other ways, The majority of these sisters oAf the street are also hard-core drug addicts, taking drugs as an escape from oppression...
...In the past, women were not educated, only the sons got an education, and mothers were respected for the number of sons they had, not daughters...
...Puerto Rican women are not expected to know anything except about the home, kitchen, and bedroom...
...The centers that already exist are overcrowded, expensive, and are only super-baby-sitting centers...
...This condition still exists today...
...ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE...
...The Puerto Rican and Black man either leaves the household or he stays and becomes economically dependent on the woman, undergoing psychological damage...
...Today Puerto Rican men are involved in a political movement...
...In Latin America and Puerto Rico, the man had a wife and another woman called la corteja...
...We are fighting every day within our Party against male chauvinism because we want to make a revolution of brothers and sisters--together--in love and respect for each other...
...Daughters were worthless and the only thing they could do was marry early to get away from home...
...Machismo means physical abuse, punishment, and torture...
...These standards must be understood since they are created to divide oppressed people in order to maintain an economic system that is racist and oppressive...
...Third, they are oppressed by their own merit...
...At the same time, giving Puerto Rican and Black women jobs means the Puerto Rican and Black man is kept from gaining economic independence, and the family unit is broken down...
...She is viewed by the brothers as sexually accessible because what else is she doing outside of the home...
...They are respected by the rest of the community for being good cooks, good housewives, good mothers, but never for being intelligent, strong, educated, or militant...
...In all of these jobs, our sisters are subjected to racial slurs, jokes, and other indignities such as being leered at, manhandled, propositioned, and assaulted...
...In Latin America, the people used duenas or old-lady watchdogs to guard the purity of the daughters...
...When he marries her...
...She refused to conform to the traditional customs concerning Puerto Rican women and at one point cut her hair very short...
...The man could have set her up in another household, paid her rent, bought her food, and paid her bills...
...Sexual fascists are very sick people...
...Also he has the attitude that he cannot really prove his manhood until he has slept with a Black or Puerto Rican woman...
...HISTORICAL In the past women were oppressed by several institutions, one of which was marriage...
...Central Committee Bronx, N.Y...
...In many cases our sisters are told that their tubes are going to be "tied," but are never told that the "tying" is really "cutting" and that the tubes can never be "untied...
...The facts that her man cannot get a job and that her family is dependent on her for support means that she hustles money by any means necessary...
...Puerto Rican and Black men are looked upon as rough, athletic, and sexual, but not as intellectuals...
...She had to be sure to be a virgin and remain pure for the rest of her life, meaning she could never experience sexual pleasure...
...Puerto Rican and Black women are used to fill working-class positions in factories, mass assembly lines, hospitals, and all other institutions...
...A Puerto Rican man will beat his woman to keep her in place and show her who's boss...
...and is on their 10 most wanted list because she has always defended her people's right to armed self-defense and because of her Marxist-Leninist philosophy...
...The daughters grow up with messed-up attitudes about their role as women and about manhood...
...Another nationalist woman was LOLA RODRIGUEZ DE TIO, a poet who expressed the spirit of liberty and freedom in "La Borinquena" in 1867...
...Most Puerto Rican men do not beat women publicly because in the eyes of other men that is a weak thing to do...
...DAY CARE CENTERS One of the many reasons why many sisters are tied to the home and cannot work or become revolutionaries is the shortage of day care centers for children...
...the Puerto Rican and Black man's manhood is taken away by making the Puerto Rican and Black woman the breadwinner...
...Women had no right to own anything, not even their children...
...She emptied a .45 automatic from the balcony of the Congress on to the colonial legislators...
...The aggression is also directed at daughters...
...at the same time take insults and other indignities in order to keep the job...
...The only way to eliminate prostitution is to eliminate this society which creates the need...
...Day care centers should be free, should be open 24 hours a day, and should be centers where children are taught their revolutionary history and culture...
...After her fiance was killed in action, she sought and got a job with a time-bomb detection team...
...On the other hand, we believe that abortions should be legal if they are community controlled, if they are safe, if our people are educated about the risks, and if doctors do not sterilize our sisters while performing abortions...
...Their illness s caused in part by this system which mouths puritanical attitudes and laws and yet exploits the human body for profit...
...LA THI THAM was born in a province which was constantly bombarded by u.s...
...PROSTITUTION Under capitalism, Third World women are forced to compromise themselves because of their economic situation...
...First, they are oppressed as Puerto Ricans or Blacks...
...These standards are also applied differently to Third World peoples than they are applied to whites...
...A man could'ave several wives in order to show other men what wealth he had and enhance his position in society...
...We say, change the system so that women can be freely allowed to have as many children as they want without suffering any consequences...
...ilan...


Lightweight and flexible sketch/paint app.
Simple and fun sound effect generator.
Small tool to help pick out notes from recorded music.
Retro platformer with crazy jumping.
Challenging action puzzle. Deflect and collect colored balls.
Retro-style platformer coded in 48 hours for LD48h8.
Cave Story rip-off made in two days.
Networked boating deathmatch with retro graphics.
My entry for shmup-dev.com's first compo in 2006.
Remake of a classic japanese flash game.
Retro-style platformer coded in 48 hours for LD48h9.
Retro-style platformer coded in 48 hours for LD48h7.
Entry for Flammable Penguins' Weekend of Code challenge.
An isometric "game" entry for LD48h10.
Collaborative game created in some 8 hours. I made sounds and music.
Team entry for pyweek4. I did background graphics and sound effects.
Robotron thing with classic 8x8 two-color sprites. Has co-op!
Minimalistic Tetris game using OpenGL.
24-hour game made for a Ludum Dare warmup compo.
A tiny game made to prove some point about Geometry Wars ripoffs.
My first proper 3D game. Written for a Glide contest.
My first attempt at a racing game.
An entry for pyweek, and my first attempt at python coding.
Team effort for 72hgdc. My main contributions were level editor and music.
Various raytracers made over the years.
Various rasterizers made over the years.
Camera alignment for reference photos used in 3D modeling.
Optimized raytracing through framebuffer extrapolation.
Full-size desktop video recording with proprietary compression.
An 8-bit hardware games console.
Hardware Pong implemented using an Atmega8 �C.
Keyboard circuitry built into an NES controller.
Simple but functional NES emulator.
Simple Pseudo Content Management System.
Paint program with Wacom tablet support.


Drupal 8 brings with it a massive amount of caching options, and an updated cache system. These changes place a lot of power in the hands of developers, but with this power comes a wealth of choice. Having so many choices can sometimes be counterproductive.
Join Leonard O'Sullivan from our Drupal Development Team & Daniel Caldeweyher from our Infrastructure Team as they share their challenges and learnings in working with Drupal 8 cache. The presentation was given at DrupalSouth in New Zealand, 2017.


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#45. Local Nightly Newscasts
Black people love television. They love television so much that 48 percent of Black children watch four hours of TV a day or more - almost double the national average.
Black people love television so much, they pioneered a station that broadcasts programs geared just for their consumption, Black Entertainment Television. However, there is one program that Black people find difficult to watch and it is on three or four channels in every city, yet germane only to that particular city: the FOX, NBC, CBS and ABC Nightly Newscasts.
Baltimore, New Orleans, Washington DC, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, Knoxville, Miami, New York City, Los Angeles, Detroit, Houston, Minneapolis, Dallas, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis and countless other major cities in the United States all have nightly news broadcasts that beam to the local residents the news of the day.
And those local residents of the cities listed, and those not, get a glimpse into a world that is normally blocked from their eyes: the real Black America. And for Black people, this is an untenable sin for the only image of Black people that they want non-Black people to form of them comes from ESPN, The Cosby Show and Barack Obama.
The idea that major cities, which have majority Black populations in most of them, are not beacons of tranquility and safety for all people is something Black people can't stomach:
"The annual "City Crime Rankings" report, which lists the top 10 most dangerous and the top 10 safest cities in America, makes interesting reading, according to cynics. According to the rankings, which are based on a number of factors, including crime rates aggregated out to population size, the top ten most dangerous cities all have a non-white component of between 60 and 90%. They are Camden, New Jersey, Detroit, Michigan, St. Louis, Missouri, Flint, Michigan, Richmond, Virginia, Baltimore, Maryland, Atlanta, Georgia, New Orleans, Louisiana, Gary, Indiana, and Birmingham, Alabama.
On the other hand, the top 10 most safest cities in America all have a white percentage of between 66 and 88%. They are Newton, Massachusetts, Clarkson, New York, Amherst, New York, Mission Viejo, California, Brick Township, New Jersey, Troy, Michigan, Thousand Oaks, California, Round Rock, Texas, Lake Forest, California, and Cary, North Carolina."
Nightly newscasts paint a horrifying picture of the chaos and disorder of life in a majority-Black city and the utter depravity and corruption that individuals living in those cities daily live through.
Black people are embarrassed by this broadcasted behavior and try and ignore it. White people watch the news and move away from it,the hope being that it won't follow. Those souls practicing gentrification in Black areas, find they they might be part of the broadcasts themselves and made an integral part of the story.
The Nightly Newscasts of every major city shatter the illusions held by well-meaning people and Black people know this and hope they will all stop broadcasting soon.
Black people are very rarely depicted as bad people in movies - only Blond men are the antagonists - and to see fiction replaced with reality daily on the Nightly Newscasts is just too much for Black people:
"In the first 24 episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent there's only one black murderer, and she is a corrupt police officer. Make of that what you will…"
Televisions shows and reruns of The Cosby Show is all Black people want white people to view on TV, so they can see the fictitious world that Hollywood has created for them. The reality of the world is just to much for Black people to bare and the Nightly Newscasts only further negative stereotypes that white people may have of them.
Black people truly wish that only white people and Black people would watch ESPN - the 24-hour all sports channel that fawns greatly on Black athletes - and turn off forever the Nightly Newscasts in their hometown - which constantly broadcasts Black failure.
Stuff Black People Don't Like includes the Nightly Newscasts for every major city in the United States, for Black people worry that those watching might one day decide to take the red pill, and consequently turn off ESPN forever.
Labels: black people, Crime, TV
"Black people are very rarely depicted as bad people in movies. . ."
And also in advertising. For example, the Brinks Home Security commercials on television show the home invaders as White men ONLY. Of course, we know what would happen if Brinks told the truth and cast Negro men as the home invaders. That would be racist. It would be accurate, but it would be racist.
Ta-da! said...
haahahah SO TRUE. TV tries so hard not to be racist, but they fail.
I think they still feel bad about the way blacks were treated earlier in this century, so they try to make Whitey look bad. For shame!
As a Very White Person living in one of the cities you mentioned I can honestly say if all the TV shows AND the news had black killers on it I think my brain would explode... and take the rest of the city with it... which might not be a bad thing. Sure I'd be dead, but as Spock said the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
#124. Sharing Kim Kardashian
#74. Voting by Those Dispossessed
#1000. Chicken Bone Beach in Penacola
#26. Being the "Token Black"
#9. Passing on Seconds
#49. Criticism of "Mein Obama"
#113. Waiting Until Graduation to Start Stripping
#602. The Morning After 'Making It Rain'
#112. The Reality of Clayton County
#402. Being Dragged From Meetings
#62. "Hate Facts"
#99. Cooperating with Police
#53. Space Exploration
#149. Accreditation
#313. The Idea of a Black Hole
#314. Movies Where Black People Don't Save the World
#47. Disingenuous White Liberals
#162. Being "Black in America"
#296. Peaceful Block Parties
#30. Living in US News and World Report and CNNMon...
#319. Reverence for the Dead
#28. Driving While Black
#117. Not Finding the Leprechaun
#217. Facebook
#508. Staying Awake While Operating a Washington D...
#147. Indianapolis Professional Sports Teams
#82. Jokes at Their Expense
#287. People Locking Their Car Doors When They App...
#22. Saving Money for the Future
#73. Crusading White Pedagogues
#151. Riotless High School Basketball Games
#317. John Hughes Movies
#17. Pre-Obama America
#100. Tea Party Tax Protests
#67. Bad Experience at The Barbershop


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package org.openid4java.samples;

import java.io.PrintWriter;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.openid4java.consumer.SampleConsumer;

public class LoginServlet extends HttpServletSupport
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private SampleConsumer consumer_;

    public LoginServlet(SampleConsumer consumer)
    {
        consumer_ = consumer;
    }

    protected void onService(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws Exception
    {
        if (req.getParameter("openid_identifier") != null)
        {
            logger_.info("openind_identifier set => try to consume");
            consumer_.authRequest(req.getParameter("openid_identifier"), req, resp);
        }
        else
        {
            logger_.info("display form");
            resp.setContentType("text/html");
            PrintWriter out = resp.getWriter();
            out.println("<form><input type='text' name='openid_identifier'/><input type='submit'/></form>");
        }
    }

}

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Located on the East Coast, Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) is the most convenient airport for travel to and from the Durham Convention Center. RDU has more than 400 daily arrivals and departures, reaching nearly 50 destinations nonstop. RDU is located approximately 20 minutes from Downtown Durham.
CCMA 2019 will be held at the Durham Convention Center, located in the heart of historic downtown Durham, NC. No shuttle service will be provided for CCMA 2019.
The NC Department of Transportation and Amtrak offer convenient train service. Check NC by Train for routes and times.
GoTriangle offers service across the region. Check GoTriangle's website for service times to and from the airport.
RDU Taxi Inc. is the official taxi service of RDU Airport. However, ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft are available out of RDU.
Take Exit 172 for the Durham Freeway (Hwy 147 South). Travel approximately 4 miles to Exit 13, Chapel Hill Street. Turn left onto Chapel Hill Street. At the 6th traffic light, turn left onto Foster Street. The Durham Convention Center will be immediately on the left.
I-40 East and I-85 North merge in Greensboro. When highway divides near Hillsborough, take I-85 North. Next, take Exit 172 for the Durham Freeway (Hwy 147 South). Travel approximately 4 miles to Exit 13, Chapel Hill Street. Turn left onto Chapel Hill Street. At the 6th traffic light, turn left onto Foster Street. The Durham Convention Center will be immediately on the left.
Follow Highway 55 West to the Durham Freeway (Hwy 147 North). Take Exit 279-B and travel for approximately 6 miles. Take Exit 12-C for Duke Street. At the 2nd traffic light turn right onto Chapel Hill Street. At the 4th traffic light turn left on Foster Street and the Durham Convention Center will be immediately on the left.
Follow 15-501 North to Exit 108-B. Stay on the Durham Freeway until Exit 13, Chapel Hill Street, and turn left. At the 6th light, turn left onto Foster Street and the Durham Convention Center will be immediately on the left.
Follow I-40 West to the 'Durham Freeway' (Hwy 147 North). Take Exit 279-B and travel for approximately 6 miles. Take Exit 12-C for Duke Street. At the 2nd traffic light turn right onto Chapel Hill Street. At the 4th traffic light turn left on Foster Street and the Durham Convention Center will be immediately on the left.
Take Highway 70 West Bypass, which will merge with I-85 South. Take Exit 176, Duke Street. At the end of the ramp turn left and stay in the right lane (for Gregson Street). Follow Gregson Street to Main Street and take a left at the 4th traffic light onto Foster Street. The Durham Convention Center will be immediately on the left.
Take Exit 176, Duke Street. At the end of the ramp turn left and stay in the right lane (for Gregson Street). Follow Gregson Street to Main Street and take a left at the 4th traffic light onto Foster Street. The Durham Convention Center will be immediately on the left.


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Q: Multiple result sets and return value handling while calling sql server stored procedure from Groovy I have MS SQL Server stored procedure (SQL Server 2012) which returns:

*

*return value describing procedure execution result in general (successfull or not) with return @RetCode statement (RetCode is int type)

*one result set (several records with 5 fields each)

*another result set (several records with 3 fields each)

I calling this procedure from my Groovy (and Java) code using Java's CallableStatement object and I cannot find right way to handle all three outputs.
My last attempt is
CallableStatement proc = connection.prepareCall("{ ? = call Procedure_Name($param_1, $param_2)}")
proc.registerOutParameter(1, Types.INTEGER)
boolean result = proc.execute()
int returnValue = proc.getInt(1)
println(returnValue)
while(result){
    ResultSet rs = proc.getResultSet()
    println("rs")
    result = proc.getMoreResults()
}

And now I get exception:
Output parameters have not yet been processed. Call getMoreResults()

I tried several approaches for some hours but didn't find correct one. Some others produced another exceptions.
Could you please help me with the issue?
Thanks In Advance!
Update (for Tim):
 I see rc while I launched code:
 Connection connection = dbGetter().connection
 CallableStatement proc = connection.prepareCall("{ ? = call Procedure_Name($param_1, $param_2)}")
 boolean result = proc.execute()
 while(result){
     ResultSet rs = proc.getResultSet()
     println(rs)
     result = proc.getMoreResults()
 }

I see rc as object: net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.JtdsResultSet@1937bc8

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It's not just choosing the right color, anymore. There are now dozens of kinds of fibers in residential carpet. How do you decide what's best for you?
Wool has been used to make rugs for thousands of years. Heirloom rugs, ones that are handed down from generation to generation, are made with wool. Throwaway rugs, ones you buy for a theme or for color; ones that don't last very long, are not made from wool. Wall-to-wall carpet must have the same long-lasting properties as a good rug. Because wool fiber has a natural twist (like a corkscrew) it will bounce back after long and heavy use. But the twist in a synthetic fibers is created using heat, so friction (like walking) and external heat (like steam cleaning) will untwist a synthetic. While synthetic fibers are transparent, like a window, wool is opaque, like a wall. If you have soil on one side of your window you can see it from either side. But the opaque wool hides soil that is on the far side of the fiber. Modern synthetic fibers are molded in shapes to re-direct light so they also hide soiling.
Wool has tiny scales along the outside of every fiber. Dry soil clings to these scales and is held at the top of the carpet so it can be easily removed by regular vacuuming. Synthetic fibers are slippery so dry soil slides down the fiber toward the bottom of the carpet. That is why vacuuming with agitation (a beater bar or a bar with brushes) is needed to get dry soil out of synthetics. Wool traps airborne contaminants and pretty much holds them forever.
Wool is inherently flame retardant. Being the hair from sheep, wool is a renewable resource. Wool can absorb up to 30% of its weight in water vapor (vapor, not liquid like spills). This makes wool carpet fluff up – rejuvenate itself – when it is steam-cleaned. A synthetic fiber will absorb no more than 1% to 6% and a flattened-down synthetic will generally stay flat. While wool can absorb vapor, it has a membrane that sheds liquid water along with any stain that might travel with the water. Wool is a great insulator, feeling warm in the winter and cool in the summer. When wool holds water vapor it is also less able to create static electricity. Wool is soft to the touch but strong under foot.
Modern wool carpet is moth proofed and an amazing property of that moth proofing is that crawly bugs, like scorpions, cannot get across a room of wool carpet without being "proofed" also. Wool fibers are short – no longer than the hair of the sheep they came from. Several different processes are used to make them stay together [more of that in the next chapter] but in general it is the scales of the fibers that lock together to hold them tight. As fibers on the top of the carpet get damaged or badly soiled, they slip free from their neighbors and are swept up into the vacuum. Thus, wool shedding is a good thing, making for a fresher, cleaner surface with each vacuuming. Synthetic fibers are long (sometimes hundreds of feet long), like a fishing line, and tenaciously stay part of the carpet even when they are soiled, flattened or ugly. A good wool carpet will just wear out after many years. Most synthetic carpets will "ugly out" early but just never wear out. Wool carpet truly wears with elegance.
Next Chapter: Wool's other side.


GEORGETOWN, Ky. -- For the second time in three weeks, Georgetown lost an overtime thriller and Saturday, it came at the hands of No. 4 Lindsey Wilson 37-31.
With the loss, Georgetown drops to 4-3, 1-2 in Mid-South play and all three losses have come to ranked teams.
Georgetown returns to action October 20 at Kentucky Christian.


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