The Parrot Head Perception
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The Parrot Head Perception
The Providence Sunday Journal has a story about the New England Parrot Head convention in Newport, RI on February 28th. It discusses the Parrot Head Phenomenon and the story behind the causes that the chapter's support. Read the article Parroting the party line (for a good cause)
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Parroting the party line (for a good cause)
03/23/2003
BY LAURA MEADE KIRK
Journal Staff Writer
Jimmy Buffett fans mix community service with the wacky hats and tropical drinks
It's 27 degrees outside, but C.J. Adams seems impervious to the ice and snow glistening outside the Hyatt Regency on Goat Island as he strolls down the hall in shorts, flowered shirt and boat shoes.
He's got a plastic flowered lei around his neck and a cup of Newport Storm in his hand as he makes his way past the "waterfall" of shiny blue streamers, fake palm trees and tiki statues against a painted backdrop of a "warm, sandy beach."
Local musician Mark Quinn is playing upbeat tropical tunes on guitar and harmonica as Adams checks out the ballroom that's steadily filling with hundreds of people in bright outfits, some with foam parrots or palm trees atop their heads, others with neon flamingos in tow.
These, Adams says, are Parrot Heads -- die-hard fans of singer and songwriter Jimmy Buffett, and the laidback, tropical lifestyle he espouses.
The throngs of people here at the Hyatt are among thousands of Parrot Heads in a network of more than 160 community service groups in the United States, Canada and Australia.
More than 500 of these so-called "phans" commandeered the Hyatt one recent weekend for the eighth annual New England Parrot Head Convention "to party with a purpose," as Adams said. They ate, drank and danced their way to raising about $30,000 for the Jimmy Fund/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
That's what Parrot Head club members do, said Adams, who's president of the Ocean State Parrot Head Club, which hosted the convention. "We try to have as much fun while doing as much good as we can."
After all, said Mike Mulligan of Coventry, a longtime member of the local club: "If we can have this much fun doing good for people and giving back to the community, it's a no-brainer. This is great!"
THE OCEAN STATE PARROT HEAD Club "is a lot more than just a fan club," said Bob Bagana, 46, a real estate appraiser from New Bedford. He, his wife, Cheryl, and son, Ben, now 14, have been members for about six years.
"I don't think people really understand what the Parrot Heads do," he said. "They think we're just a little on the wild party side. But there's a lot more to it than that."
This local club, which has 140 members from throughout Southeastern New England, regularly participates in a variety of community service projects, whether helping with the state's Adopt-A-Highway program, or collecting pledges for the annual Alzheimer's Association Walk, or simply passing the hat at monthly meetings to raise money for the victims of 9-11 and, more recently, The Station nightclub fire.
But, they also love to party -- whether celebrating with a cookout after a cleanup, or organizing tailgating extravaganzas when their idol comes to town. Over Labor Day weekend, Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band normally play two concerts at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, and tickets regularly sell out within 15 minutes of going on sale.
The fans come as much for the pre-concert party as the music itself.
"Basically, local parrot head clubs wait for this event all year," Bagana said. "The parking lot becomes a cross between a tailgate party and a Mardi Gras party. Lately, there's been a little bit of spring break (thrown) in too."
THE BUFFETT TAILGATING PARTIES are legendary, from the traffic jams they generate to the colorful costumes -- lots of Hawaiian shirts, grass skirts and coconut bras -- and decorations. One guy has a swimming pool, complete with slide, built into the back of his pickup truck.
There's also the endless stream of tropical drinks and piles of food shared with "20,000 of your closest friends," as one fan said.
The concerts are also pretty incredible, said Brenda Braley, 62, one of the founders of the local club who's since retired to Florida. But she struggles to explain why Buffett is such a draw. He's not the best-looking singer, she noted. He doesn't even have a particularly good voice. And he hasn't had a hit in years. In fact, most people would be hard-pressed to name one of Buffett's songs, aside from his trademark, Margaritaville.
But there's just something about him, Braley said. He has an amazing ability to engage each person in the audience and make each person "feel so special," she said. And, his enthusiasm for his music is infectious, she said. "It just looks like he's having so much fun."
He makes his fans a part of the show, and they feed off each other's energy, she said.
The shows are so much fun that Braley said she and her husband, John, now "spend every cent we have to follow him" from one concert to the next. "We just can't get enough of him."
MOST PARROT HEAD CLUB FANS have never met Buffett personally, and he seems to distance himself from the clubs. There's no apparent mention of them, nor the good works they do, on his Web site, www.margaritaville.com.
As Adams said, "We are recognized by, but in no way attached to Jimmy Buffett nor his business interests."
But Buffett definitely supports and appreciates his fans' efforts, said a spokeswoman for his management company, HK Management. She said Buffett has been out of the country for the past several weeks and is unavailable for comment, and she declined to speak further on his behalf.
Adams said Buffett occasionally attends the national convention of the Parrot Heads in Paradise in Key West, and his management company tries to set aside some concert tickets to sell to some of the many people who've been involved in clubs and community service projects through the years.
But the club is about much more than Jimmy Buffett, Braley said. "The Jimmy Buffett music brought us together and we have a common bond together because of that. But we don't sit and worship Buffett. We don't bow to Buffett." It's not "like a cult," she said.
The club is simply a way for people who enjoy the same kinds of things -- especially music and fun -- "to get together and have a good time while doing good things," Adams said.
"It's known as partying with a purpose," Adams continued. "That's what all Parrot Head Clubs do. They party with a purpose."
THE FIRST PARROT HEAD CLUB dates back to 1994, when one of Buffett's fans established a club in Atlanta, Adams explained. It was a way to maintain the camaraderie of the tailgate party all year long, while helping the community.
Soon, there were spin-off clubs in other states -- the Ocean State Parrot Heads Club was launched in 1995. But even then, some people thought it was just a way to get together and party with other Buffett fans.
That's what attracted John Microulis, of Harrisville, an employee of the Rhode Island Department of Human Services, who figures he's seen Buffett perform "about 70 times" since the late 1970s. "I thought it was going to be some people hanging out together and going to the concerts. It turned into something much different," Microulis said. And it's better than he dreamed.
Bob Soucy, who now lives in Charlestown, Mass., agreed. He was a fisherman living in Snug Harbor when he heard that his friend John was trying to start a local Parrot Head club. Soucy, an aspiring musician, assumed the club was a chance for Buffett fans to get together and jam Buffett songs.
But he was glad to find out that so much more was involved.
Braley, another one of the initial members, credits Soucy with getting the club involved in so many community programs -- from helping raise money to save the birds injured in the South County oil spill in 1996 to helping local charities in their fundraising efforts.
But Soucy just enjoyed being involved. As he said: "There's something to be said about having a heck of a good time helping others."
THE CLUB STARTED SMALL, with highway cleanups and fundraisers for a variety of charities. That's what appealed to C.J. and Pat Adams of Cranston.
Adams, 37, a business systems analyst for Amica insurance, wasn't a Buffett fan until his wife "basically dragged me to a Jimmy Buffett concert in 1992." He was an instant convert.
"I just had a great time with everybody," Adams recalled. "I didn't know a single soul there, but it was like running into old friends you haven't seen in a couple of years. Everybody that you met treated you that way -- like old friends who haven't yet met."
Pat Adams learned about the Ocean State Parrot Head Club in 1997, while poking around on the computer, looking for information on Buffett's next concert appearance around here.
The couple went to their first meeting that fall, where club members were busy planning the next cleanup for their Adopt a Highway Project and their fundraiser for an Alzheimer's Walk. It sounded like a fun way to help, Adams said.
Around that time, the club was planning to sponsor the New England Parrot Head Convention in Newport in 1998. About 500 Jimmy Buffett fans from throughout New England -- and elsewhere in the country -- came, and they raised $9,000 for the Special Olympics program.
Everyone had such a great time and the club attracted so much attention that membership soared, Adams said.
"We probably had 75 people in the club before that convention, but lots joined after," Adams said. Today, the Ocean State Parrot Head Club has 140 dues-paying members and is one of the most active of the nine clubs scattered throughout New England.
Meanwhile, Adams became so involved in the club that in 1999, a year after he joined, he was elected club president. And, in true Buffett style, he's been "living on island time" and having fun ever since.
TODAY'S CLUB MEMBERS include men and women of all ages, from all different walks of life, from college students to retirees. Many members also include their kids, who are referred to as the club's "Parakeets."
"There are no age restrictions for being a Buffett fan," Adams said. "You go to the concert, you see all kinds of people there -- you see college kids having a good time, you see children who are just as decked out as their parents are."
Ben Bagana, who's been active in the club since he was about 6, admits that most of his teenage friends think the Parrot Heads "are weird."
"I don't care,' he said. "They're normal to me."
Caribbean clothes and crazy headpieces are all part of the laid-back, island frame of mind, Adams said. Actually, he said, most club members appreciate their membership as a chance to break free of their hectic routines and let loose. "It's that little vacation from your day-to-day lives, even if it's for an hour."
The Ocean State Parrot Head Club meets on the second Thursday of each month at a different restaurant each time -- to accommodate members from throughout the region. They review the community service projects members have performed during the month and plan for the future, such as an upcoming collection of money and materials to benefit the Providence Animal Rescue League. But they make sure to make it fun.
When the work is done, "it's happy hour," Adams said. "If we're doing a charitable activity, we try to couple it with a social activity immediately following." That can mean anything from dinner and drinks at a local restaurant after a regular meeting to a barbecue or beach party at someone's house after a major project.
This social aspect breeds friendships, and it's this friendship and camaraderie that makes the club special, Adams said.
OVER TIME, THE CLUB actually grew too big for some of the initial members, who've moved on to other things, Microulis said. " . . . But had it stayed the local club, we never could have done what we're doing."
Consider the recent convention, Microulis said. "If anyone said [back then] that eight years from now, we're going to be hosting a convention that's going to raise $25,000 for the Jimmy Fund, I would have said, 'That's impossible.' "
Adams said his club had been planning the event for more than a year. So when it finally kicked off at noon on Feb. 28, he was among the first of the 500 attendees to raise a toast: "If you want to live on island time, you've come to the right place," Adams said, hoisting his cup of beer.
Adams and his club members had convinced the hotel staff to wear their summer uniforms, despite the frigid cold and snow outside. And partygoers would walk into the hotel in "street clothes" -- heavy coats and boots -- and emerge from their rooms minutes later in shorts and sandals, with leis draped around their necks.
The tropical atmosphere and decorations were a welcome break for many club members, Bagana noted. "After the winter we've had, this is a little taste of summer. We love it!"
The party included live bands day and night, ranging from Mark Quinn and Scott Kirby to the BaHa Brothers, a tropical band from Massachusetts.
There was a skit contest where seven teams from different Parrot Head clubs throughout New England and New York put on skits to Buffett's music.
Everyone seemed to know one another, though most people knew barely a soul. That's just the way it is, Adams said. "You walk in and you run into old friends that you never met before. That's the mentality that you have here . . . It's one huge family."
03/23/2003
BY LAURA MEADE KIRK
Journal Staff Writer
Jimmy Buffett fans mix community service with the wacky hats and tropical drinks
It's 27 degrees outside, but C.J. Adams seems impervious to the ice and snow glistening outside the Hyatt Regency on Goat Island as he strolls down the hall in shorts, flowered shirt and boat shoes.
He's got a plastic flowered lei around his neck and a cup of Newport Storm in his hand as he makes his way past the "waterfall" of shiny blue streamers, fake palm trees and tiki statues against a painted backdrop of a "warm, sandy beach."
Local musician Mark Quinn is playing upbeat tropical tunes on guitar and harmonica as Adams checks out the ballroom that's steadily filling with hundreds of people in bright outfits, some with foam parrots or palm trees atop their heads, others with neon flamingos in tow.
These, Adams says, are Parrot Heads -- die-hard fans of singer and songwriter Jimmy Buffett, and the laidback, tropical lifestyle he espouses.
The throngs of people here at the Hyatt are among thousands of Parrot Heads in a network of more than 160 community service groups in the United States, Canada and Australia.
More than 500 of these so-called "phans" commandeered the Hyatt one recent weekend for the eighth annual New England Parrot Head Convention "to party with a purpose," as Adams said. They ate, drank and danced their way to raising about $30,000 for the Jimmy Fund/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
That's what Parrot Head club members do, said Adams, who's president of the Ocean State Parrot Head Club, which hosted the convention. "We try to have as much fun while doing as much good as we can."
After all, said Mike Mulligan of Coventry, a longtime member of the local club: "If we can have this much fun doing good for people and giving back to the community, it's a no-brainer. This is great!"
THE OCEAN STATE PARROT HEAD Club "is a lot more than just a fan club," said Bob Bagana, 46, a real estate appraiser from New Bedford. He, his wife, Cheryl, and son, Ben, now 14, have been members for about six years.
"I don't think people really understand what the Parrot Heads do," he said. "They think we're just a little on the wild party side. But there's a lot more to it than that."
This local club, which has 140 members from throughout Southeastern New England, regularly participates in a variety of community service projects, whether helping with the state's Adopt-A-Highway program, or collecting pledges for the annual Alzheimer's Association Walk, or simply passing the hat at monthly meetings to raise money for the victims of 9-11 and, more recently, The Station nightclub fire.
But, they also love to party -- whether celebrating with a cookout after a cleanup, or organizing tailgating extravaganzas when their idol comes to town. Over Labor Day weekend, Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band normally play two concerts at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, and tickets regularly sell out within 15 minutes of going on sale.
The fans come as much for the pre-concert party as the music itself.
"Basically, local parrot head clubs wait for this event all year," Bagana said. "The parking lot becomes a cross between a tailgate party and a Mardi Gras party. Lately, there's been a little bit of spring break (thrown) in too."
THE BUFFETT TAILGATING PARTIES are legendary, from the traffic jams they generate to the colorful costumes -- lots of Hawaiian shirts, grass skirts and coconut bras -- and decorations. One guy has a swimming pool, complete with slide, built into the back of his pickup truck.
There's also the endless stream of tropical drinks and piles of food shared with "20,000 of your closest friends," as one fan said.
The concerts are also pretty incredible, said Brenda Braley, 62, one of the founders of the local club who's since retired to Florida. But she struggles to explain why Buffett is such a draw. He's not the best-looking singer, she noted. He doesn't even have a particularly good voice. And he hasn't had a hit in years. In fact, most people would be hard-pressed to name one of Buffett's songs, aside from his trademark, Margaritaville.
But there's just something about him, Braley said. He has an amazing ability to engage each person in the audience and make each person "feel so special," she said. And, his enthusiasm for his music is infectious, she said. "It just looks like he's having so much fun."
He makes his fans a part of the show, and they feed off each other's energy, she said.
The shows are so much fun that Braley said she and her husband, John, now "spend every cent we have to follow him" from one concert to the next. "We just can't get enough of him."
MOST PARROT HEAD CLUB FANS have never met Buffett personally, and he seems to distance himself from the clubs. There's no apparent mention of them, nor the good works they do, on his Web site, www.margaritaville.com.
As Adams said, "We are recognized by, but in no way attached to Jimmy Buffett nor his business interests."
But Buffett definitely supports and appreciates his fans' efforts, said a spokeswoman for his management company, HK Management. She said Buffett has been out of the country for the past several weeks and is unavailable for comment, and she declined to speak further on his behalf.
Adams said Buffett occasionally attends the national convention of the Parrot Heads in Paradise in Key West, and his management company tries to set aside some concert tickets to sell to some of the many people who've been involved in clubs and community service projects through the years.
But the club is about much more than Jimmy Buffett, Braley said. "The Jimmy Buffett music brought us together and we have a common bond together because of that. But we don't sit and worship Buffett. We don't bow to Buffett." It's not "like a cult," she said.
The club is simply a way for people who enjoy the same kinds of things -- especially music and fun -- "to get together and have a good time while doing good things," Adams said.
"It's known as partying with a purpose," Adams continued. "That's what all Parrot Head Clubs do. They party with a purpose."
THE FIRST PARROT HEAD CLUB dates back to 1994, when one of Buffett's fans established a club in Atlanta, Adams explained. It was a way to maintain the camaraderie of the tailgate party all year long, while helping the community.
Soon, there were spin-off clubs in other states -- the Ocean State Parrot Heads Club was launched in 1995. But even then, some people thought it was just a way to get together and party with other Buffett fans.
That's what attracted John Microulis, of Harrisville, an employee of the Rhode Island Department of Human Services, who figures he's seen Buffett perform "about 70 times" since the late 1970s. "I thought it was going to be some people hanging out together and going to the concerts. It turned into something much different," Microulis said. And it's better than he dreamed.
Bob Soucy, who now lives in Charlestown, Mass., agreed. He was a fisherman living in Snug Harbor when he heard that his friend John was trying to start a local Parrot Head club. Soucy, an aspiring musician, assumed the club was a chance for Buffett fans to get together and jam Buffett songs.
But he was glad to find out that so much more was involved.
Braley, another one of the initial members, credits Soucy with getting the club involved in so many community programs -- from helping raise money to save the birds injured in the South County oil spill in 1996 to helping local charities in their fundraising efforts.
But Soucy just enjoyed being involved. As he said: "There's something to be said about having a heck of a good time helping others."
THE CLUB STARTED SMALL, with highway cleanups and fundraisers for a variety of charities. That's what appealed to C.J. and Pat Adams of Cranston.
Adams, 37, a business systems analyst for Amica insurance, wasn't a Buffett fan until his wife "basically dragged me to a Jimmy Buffett concert in 1992." He was an instant convert.
"I just had a great time with everybody," Adams recalled. "I didn't know a single soul there, but it was like running into old friends you haven't seen in a couple of years. Everybody that you met treated you that way -- like old friends who haven't yet met."
Pat Adams learned about the Ocean State Parrot Head Club in 1997, while poking around on the computer, looking for information on Buffett's next concert appearance around here.
The couple went to their first meeting that fall, where club members were busy planning the next cleanup for their Adopt a Highway Project and their fundraiser for an Alzheimer's Walk. It sounded like a fun way to help, Adams said.
Around that time, the club was planning to sponsor the New England Parrot Head Convention in Newport in 1998. About 500 Jimmy Buffett fans from throughout New England -- and elsewhere in the country -- came, and they raised $9,000 for the Special Olympics program.
Everyone had such a great time and the club attracted so much attention that membership soared, Adams said.
"We probably had 75 people in the club before that convention, but lots joined after," Adams said. Today, the Ocean State Parrot Head Club has 140 dues-paying members and is one of the most active of the nine clubs scattered throughout New England.
Meanwhile, Adams became so involved in the club that in 1999, a year after he joined, he was elected club president. And, in true Buffett style, he's been "living on island time" and having fun ever since.
TODAY'S CLUB MEMBERS include men and women of all ages, from all different walks of life, from college students to retirees. Many members also include their kids, who are referred to as the club's "Parakeets."
"There are no age restrictions for being a Buffett fan," Adams said. "You go to the concert, you see all kinds of people there -- you see college kids having a good time, you see children who are just as decked out as their parents are."
Ben Bagana, who's been active in the club since he was about 6, admits that most of his teenage friends think the Parrot Heads "are weird."
"I don't care,' he said. "They're normal to me."
Caribbean clothes and crazy headpieces are all part of the laid-back, island frame of mind, Adams said. Actually, he said, most club members appreciate their membership as a chance to break free of their hectic routines and let loose. "It's that little vacation from your day-to-day lives, even if it's for an hour."
The Ocean State Parrot Head Club meets on the second Thursday of each month at a different restaurant each time -- to accommodate members from throughout the region. They review the community service projects members have performed during the month and plan for the future, such as an upcoming collection of money and materials to benefit the Providence Animal Rescue League. But they make sure to make it fun.
When the work is done, "it's happy hour," Adams said. "If we're doing a charitable activity, we try to couple it with a social activity immediately following." That can mean anything from dinner and drinks at a local restaurant after a regular meeting to a barbecue or beach party at someone's house after a major project.
This social aspect breeds friendships, and it's this friendship and camaraderie that makes the club special, Adams said.
OVER TIME, THE CLUB actually grew too big for some of the initial members, who've moved on to other things, Microulis said. " . . . But had it stayed the local club, we never could have done what we're doing."
Consider the recent convention, Microulis said. "If anyone said [back then] that eight years from now, we're going to be hosting a convention that's going to raise $25,000 for the Jimmy Fund, I would have said, 'That's impossible.' "
Adams said his club had been planning the event for more than a year. So when it finally kicked off at noon on Feb. 28, he was among the first of the 500 attendees to raise a toast: "If you want to live on island time, you've come to the right place," Adams said, hoisting his cup of beer.
Adams and his club members had convinced the hotel staff to wear their summer uniforms, despite the frigid cold and snow outside. And partygoers would walk into the hotel in "street clothes" -- heavy coats and boots -- and emerge from their rooms minutes later in shorts and sandals, with leis draped around their necks.
The tropical atmosphere and decorations were a welcome break for many club members, Bagana noted. "After the winter we've had, this is a little taste of summer. We love it!"
The party included live bands day and night, ranging from Mark Quinn and Scott Kirby to the BaHa Brothers, a tropical band from Massachusetts.
There was a skit contest where seven teams from different Parrot Head clubs throughout New England and New York put on skits to Buffett's music.
Everyone seemed to know one another, though most people knew barely a soul. That's just the way it is, Adams said. "You walk in and you run into old friends that you never met before. That's the mentality that you have here . . . It's one huge family."
Carry on as you know they would want you to do. ~~JB, dedication to Tim Russert
Take your time
Find your passion
Life goes on until it ends
Don’t stop living
Until then
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Take your time
Find your passion
Life goes on until it ends
Don’t stop living
Until then
~~Mac McAnally
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I love this comment!
Everyone seemed to know one another, though most people knew barely a soul. That's just the way it is, Adams said. "You walk in and you run into old friends that you never met before. That's the mentality that you have here . . . It's one huge family."
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Minor historical correction: the Atlanta Parrot Head Club was founded in 1989, not 1994. And, what do the lyrics at the very end of the article have to do with Pacing the Cage. The lyrics are from "It's my Job." I know, who cares; still a great article, and describes well the whole parrot head phenomanon.
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Pacing the cage and the lyrics from It's My Job have nothing to do with the article... That's my signature line... And they're in different colors BECAUSE they come from different songs.....Anonymous wrote:Minor historical correction: the Atlanta Parrot Head Club was founded in 1989, not 1994. And, what do the lyrics at the very end of the article have to do with Pacing the Cage. The lyrics are from "It's my Job." I know, who cares; still a great article, and describes well the whole parrot head phenomanon.
Carry on as you know they would want you to do. ~~JB, dedication to Tim Russert
Take your time
Find your passion
Life goes on until it ends
Don’t stop living
Until then
~~Mac McAnally
Take your time
Find your passion
Life goes on until it ends
Don’t stop living
Until then
~~Mac McAnally
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I agree!
I've been to assorted Phlockings and MOTM's, including one in New Orleans, and I couldn't have said it better!
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I enjoyed the article but take exception with one part: "MOST PARROT HEAD CLUB FANS have never met Buffett personally, and he seems to distance himself from the clubs. There's no apparent mention of them, nor the good works they do, on his Web site, www.margaritaville.com. "
If you look on Margaritaville.com under the section Parrot Heads, you will find several mentions of clubs and their activities. Fundraising, Parrot Head of the Week, links to PHIP--it's all there!
If you look on Margaritaville.com under the section Parrot Heads, you will find several mentions of clubs and their activities. Fundraising, Parrot Head of the Week, links to PHIP--it's all there!
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I came away with the same reaction as dj... excellent article with that one exception, which to me made Jimmy sound indifferent to the PHC's.
I emailed the projo news staff to point out all the PHC stuff on margaritaville.com.
I feel better knowing I wasn't the only one to notice that! Thanks!
I emailed the projo news staff to point out all the PHC stuff on margaritaville.com.
I feel better knowing I wasn't the only one to notice that! Thanks!
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