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Countdown is on for 121st Rose Parade

The admission is on for one of the nation's better New Year's celebrations — the Tournament of Roses Parade.Thousands of bodies clutching sleeping bags, backyard chairs and affair favors staked their claims to sidewalk amplitude forth Pasadena's Colorado Boulevard and added stretches of the avenue aboriginal Friday.They spent the night beneath the ablaze of a attenuate dejected moon — the additional abounding moon in a ages — apprehension the alpha of the 121st parade, themed "A Cut Above the Rest." The admirable align of the New Year's Day comedy is Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who landed a stricken jetliner on New York's Hudson River.It was mostly peaceful forth the array avenue backward Thursday, except for some accessory skirmishes. A brace of fights resulted in two arrests, but no injuries, Lt. John Dewar said.Police backer Janet Pope-Givens said Friday morning 37 bodies had been arrested, mostly for chaotic conduct and accessible drunkenness.We camped out back 7 a.m. yesterday. My little cousins were bouncing about all night, and now they're anesthetized out," she said, pointing to some awash bodies beneath a sleeping bag .