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Revelers reach for trinkets from the Krewe d'Etat parade as it rolls down historic St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans February 8, 2013, on the last weekend of the Carnival season. Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, is February 12. UPI/A.J. Sisco