ANAHEIM, Calif., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Mickey Mouse and a expel of dear Disney characters will embark on a array of low-pitched adventures by a enchanting powers of a sorcerer’s map in “Mickey and a Magical Map,” a all-new live uncover entrance to a Fantasyland Theatre in Disneyland Park May 25.

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Created by Disney Creative Entertainment, “Mickey and a Magical Map” was recognised for children of all ages and represents a lapse of Disney storytelling to a newly refurbished Fantasyland Theatre, a venue that merges a tradition of live outside performances with melodramatic technology. 

“We’re really vehement to acquire guest to a Disneyland Resort this summer to suffer all a party and attractions that make this a world-class, family vacation destination,” pronounced Michael Colglazier, President of a Disneyland Resort. “We’re quite anxious to entrance a enthralling new uncover ‘Mickey and a Magical Map’ and to entice guest to knowledge Fantasy Faire, a new themed area with Disney Princess encounters and dual live shows formed on favorite princess stories.”

“Mickey and a Magical Map,” that can be gifted usually during Disneyland, where a sorcery began, opens only in time for a family transport season. The Memorial Day weekend launches a Monstrous Summer of fun during a Disneyland Resort, that also facilities Disney Princesses during a new Fantasy Faire in Disneyland, and a illusory new Cars Land and Buena Vista Street in a newly stretched Disney California Adventure Park. 

Performed in a many enchanting of lands, Fantasyland, a new uncover reveals a mischievous Mickey Mouse.

“Each new uncover we emanate is a possibility to pull storytelling in a new direction,” pronounced Michael Jung, Theatrical Development executive, Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment. “At Disney, we adore a plea of invariably looking during a classical tales and many new stories to see how we can move live party and fad to today’s audiences.”

“Mickey and a Magical Map” presents Mickey in his undying purpose as a sorcerer’s apprentice. Wise magician Yen Sid leads his Mapmakers, a singing-dancing garb expel that paints a different map – able of holding dreamers to any place possible and so vast it spans a whole party of a outside Fantasyland Theatre.

Apprentice Mickey lets his oddity get a improved of him and he stumbles on a map’s enchanting powers, that take him, along with a audience, on a illusory tour of imagination in a association of a Mapmakers. The journey, presented by melodramatic party wizardry, unveils smashing worlds of music, color, journey and dear characters with any new instruction – all set to an strange song, “Journey of a Imagination,” and strain from classical Disney films.

The show, scheduled for 5 daily performances this summer, comes alive with appearances and songs by King Louie from “The Jungle Book” (“I Wan’na Be Like You”), Pocahontas (“Just Around a Riverbend”), Mulan (“Reflection”), Rapunzel and Flynn Rider from “Tangled,” (“I See The Light”) Princess Tiana from “The Princess and a Frog” (“Dig a Little Deeper”), and Sebastian from “The Little Mermaid” (“Under a Sea”). Also enclosed is a strain “Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride” from “Lilo and Stitch.”

The sparkling uncover also complements a endless accumulation of melodramatic and live party found during Disneyland Resort, including these: “World of Color,”  “Aladdin – A Musical Spectacular,” a Mariachi Divas and “Disney Junior – Live on Stage!” during Disney California Adventure, and “Fantasmic!,”  “Mickey’s Soundsational Parade,” a Laughing Stock Company during Golden Horseshoe Saloon, a Dapper Dans and Disneyland Band on Main Street, U.S.A., and a nightly summer fireworks uncover “Magical” during Disneyland.   

Guests also suffer nightly dancing to live bands during Tomorrowland Terrace during Disneyland and a “Mad T Party” on a Hollywood Backlot during Disney California Adventure, that also facilities live transport performances with Five Dime and a Red Car News Boys during Carthay Circle on Buena Vista Street, a “Pixar Play Parade,” “Phineas and Ferb’s Rockin’ Rollin’ Dance Party” during Paradise Pier, “DJ’s Dance ‘n Drive during Cars Land” – and more!

Fantasyland Theatre, a classical Disneyland venue, was desirous by a strange Fantasyland Theater (former spelling) that showed Disney cartoons and Mouseketeer footage from 1955 to 1964.  The stream party debuted in 1985 as Videopolis, a dance location, that fast drew crowds for party productions including “One Man’s Dream,” “Dick Tracy Starring in Diamond Double Cross,” “Mickey’s Nutcracker,” and one of Disney’s initial party productions of “Beauty and a Beast.”

In 1995, a venue was renamed Fantasyland Theatre with a entrance of “The Spirit of Pocahontas.”  “Animazement – The Musical” enjoyed a renouned three-year run and “Snow White—An Enchanting Musical” played for dual years. The party was afterwards converted to an area where guest could accommodate Disney Princesses.

“Mickey and a Magical Map” has essay by Carolyn Gardner and is destined by Tracy Halas.  The prolongation engineer is Steve Bass; a artistic executive is Sylvia Hase; a strain is constructed by Bruce Healey, supervised and organised by Timothy Williams and supervised by Matt Walker.  The uncover writer is Ray Coble. 

About a Disneyland Resort
The Disneyland Resort facilities dual illusory thesis parks – Disneyland (the strange Disney thesis park) and a newly stretched Disney California Adventure Park – and 3 hotels and a Downtown Disney District, comprised of singular dining, party and selling experiences.  The Resort’s hotels are a luxurious, 948-room Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel Spa, that also facilities 50 two-bedroom homogeneous DVC units; a magical, newly renovated, 973-room Disneyland Hotel – both AAA Four Diamond properties –  and a 481-room Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel with the “day-at-the-beach” fun. For information on attractions and vacations during Disneyland Resort, revisit www.disneyland.com, call (866) 43-DISNEY or hit internal transport agents.

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Disney World vacation packages are also available. Packages make a Reserve Orlando squeeze elementary as guest can simply supplement Disney World tickets and haven an whole vacation all during once. Plus, business have a ability to customize their sheet squeeze by adding a Waterpark, Fun and More choice or Park Hopper choice to their tickets. Disney World tickets enclosed in a Disney Resort package embody “free day” savings, creation a Disney vacation even some-more affordable. “Free Day” upgrades are charity on singular park tickets, park-to-park tickets and Waterpark, Fun and More sheet options.

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CHICAGO, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — As a primary in-room amenities provider for Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort, Disney Cruise Line and Disney Vacation Club properties, H2O Plus is gratified to announce a enlargement of a multi-year vital fondness agreement that will extend a H2O Plus participation internationally. Through a new deal, H2O Plus products will now also be accessible during Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, Disneyland Resort Paris and Aulani, a Disney Resort Spa in Ko Olina, Hawaii. In addition, H2O Plus will unite 5 runDisney races during Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts.

“We’ve enjoyed a wonderful, long-standing attribute with Disney and we are gratified with a eventuality to serve combine with one of a many dear companies in a world” pronounced H2O Plus CEO, Rick Ruffolo. “This stretched agreement will capacitate us to yield H2O Plus to an even broader Disney assembly who can now suffer a best in marine-based skincare products.”

H2O Plus will offer a accumulation of hair and skin caring products during several locations during runDisney competition weekends including a health aptness expos, competition retreats and VIP lounges. In serve to a in-room amenities and eventuality sponsorship, H20 Plus has extended a offerings by strong sell programs and additional co-branded products lines accessible during name review sell locations. Featured equipment embody a H2O Plus reward Sea Salt and Sea Marine SPA lines, signature blue Bath Aquatics collection, and bath and physique caring products in Blushing Orange and Grapefruit Bergamot scents. H2O Plus products will also be accessible by an in-room review catalog and online during Disneystore.com.

“Since 2006, Disney has teamed with H2O Plus to yield a guest with high-quality, in-room amenities such as shampoos, conditioners and physique lotions,” pronounced Michael Cohen, clamp president, Disney Corporate Alliances. “We’re vehement to enhance on this attribute and demeanour brazen to introducing H2O Plus products to Disney guest around a globe.” 

About H2O Plus, LLC
H2O Plus, LLC is a heading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of prestige, marine-based skincare products for a face and body.  Their primogenitor company, Pola Orbis, is a fourth heading beauty caring association in Japan. 

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About Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
More than 50 years ago, Walt Disney combined a new kind of party families could knowledge together, enthralled in minute atmospheres and colourful storytelling. His prophesy now includes a collection of 5 of a world’s heading family vacation destinations – Disneyland Resort, Anaheim, Calif.; Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Fla.; Tokyo Disney Resort, Urayasu, Chiba, Japan; Disneyland Paris, Marne-la-Vallee, France; and Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, located on Lantau Island. A sixth resort, Shanghai Disney Resort, is now underneath construction in Pudong New District, Shanghai. In addition, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts includes a world-class Disney Cruise Line; Disney Vacation Club; Adventures by Disney, a guided organisation vacation knowledge to some of a world’s many renouned destinations; and Walt Disney Imagineering, that creates and designs all Disney parks, resorts, journey ships, party and attractions.

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Disney’s thesis parks are rolling out special assets and film tie-in events during a summer of fun desirous by a arriving Disney-Pixar comedy “Monsters University,” that opens national in theaters on Jun 21. Be on a surveillance for Mike and Sulley, who star in a film and will be scaring adult fun and assembly fans in Disney’s Florida and California parks all summer long.

Planning a Disney vacation this summer? Here are 4 ways to make a many of a grievous goings-on.

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  Book by Jun 14 and we can save adult to 30 percent on bedrooms during name Disney World review hotels for summer getaways between Jun 13 to Aug 14. Savings are on a shifting scale, from 15 percent during Disney’s value-category resorts such as a Art of Animation Resort to 30 percent during Disney’s deluxe-category properties such as Animal Kingdom Lodge and Grand Floridian Resort Spa.

  If we stay during slightest 4 days, we can gold park tickets into a package for even larger savings. For example, a family of 4 can measure a three-night, four-day package in mid-July, including accommodations during a value-category All-Star Movies Resort and park tickets, for underneath $1,500.

• 2Meet Your Favorite Monsters

  

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  Sulley and Mike will be unresolved out this summer in all-new, collegiate settings. At Disney World, conduct to a backlot during Disney’s Hollywood Studios, where a Monsters University Student Union offers a perspective of a campus. Meanwhile, during Disney California Adventure park, you’ll find Mike and Sulley right outward a dorms in Hollywood Land, as good as heading a daily Pixar Play Parade.

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  At Disney World, this is a initial summer for a New Fantasyland, whose opening final Dec noted a largest enlargement in a Magic Kingdom’s 41-year history. There are dual new “Little Mermaid”-inspired attractions and a vast swath of Enchanted Forest themed to “Beauty and a Beast.” Tip: Book good forward for cooking during Be Our Guest Restaurant, whose ballroom boasts 20-foot-high coffered ceilings, bejeweled chandeliers, and countless special effects. Located inside a Beast’s Castle, it is a pièce de résistance of a New Fantasyland.

  This is also a initial summer for Epcot’s revamped Test Track, now presented by Chevrolet. The iconic e-ticket captivate lets guest emanate a practical judgment car inside a designer’s studio, afterwards house a SimCar to see how their pattern stands adult to several highway conditions, hills, hairpins, and straightaways. Tip: Hit Test Track initial thing in a morning, when stand-by lines are distant shorter. Get a FastPass for after in a day, though note: FastPass riders knowledge a shorter line but a cool, interactive pattern proviso enjoyed in a stand-by line.

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My 3-year-old son has been fitting adequate to spend a lot of time in Disney parks. He’s visited a Disneyland Resort (on average) during slightest once a month given he was 6 weeks old, and has been to Walt Disney World twice. Disney park time for us is a good time to strengthen all a things we are essay to learn him during home. we acknowledge there are many places to confront life lessons, though we have detected that given Disneyland is such a special place, it binds rarely motivational powers over even a littlest of mouseketeers. My son has had his satisfactory share of meltdowns during a parks, though his father and we do a best to emanate training opportunities for him during a time there, and to strengthen and remind him that bounds exist and reason true, even during a many fun of places. Here are a few areas in that I’ve identified opportunities for expansion in my son while carrying tons of family fun in a favorite parks:

Work before play – Before my baby lady was born, I’d take my son to a parks, mostly during a week, only a dual of us. I’d mostly work around a residence utterly a bit a day before going to a parks and entice him to work with me. I’d tell him that currently is a work day and if we can finish all a things we need to, afterwards tomorrow we can go on a special adventure. This has been fitting in dual ways. First, he gives me some-more time to work, and entertains himself a small improved since he knows we need to finish my list. Second, we give him tasks he needs to finish also, like a mommy-and-me category homework, picking adult his room, classification laundry, or putting divided dishes. He works with me with larger courtesy when he knows a fun journey is unresolved in a balance. We get a lot of work finished and afterwards we get to go play. A integrate of times he has had unequivocally tough days on those work days and notwithstanding warnings from me, he has persisted in his bad attitudes, refusing to concur or work or give me time to work. As a outcome we did not go to a Disneyland a following day. When we are stranded during home again a subsequent day and he asks why, we have a event to explain to him that we did not get a work finished and so we do not get to play.

Take turns, consider about others – Isn’t this what we do all day prolonged during a parks? We wait in lines to take a turns during rides, for characters, and for food. He has turn an consultant line-waiter. He never plays video games or phone games while in line. We speak and spend time together and eat snacks while watchful patiently. If he grows antsy, we remind him what we are watchful for and ask if he’d like to wait or go do something else (and remind him if we go to another float we will have to wait there, too). A integrate of times, he motionless a esteem wasn’t value a time, and after clearly explaining to him that he could select to leave (but it would meant we wouldn’t float that sold float for a whole day) we let him make a choice. we remind him that we are watchful so that other people can take their turns on a rides. As mostly as probable we try to remind him that Disneyland is not about him, though about everybody enjoying a parks together, both as a family and as a larger population. Lately we’ve been reminding him that everybody in a celebration gets turns to select a ride, and operative with him to remember to ask what other people would like to do. A integrate of weeks ago during a park, he incited to me, looked me right in a eyes, and said, “Now, Mama, what float would you like to choose?” Melted my heart. He is removing it!

Respect amicable and earthy boundaries – My son has schooled how to respectfully yield space to a people around us as we wait in queues. He does not strike into a people in front of us as a line moves. If another child has their hands on a reserve ropes or chains, he knows not to hold them or pierce their hands off a rope. And he is deferential of a characters, interacting kindly and considerately. He has also schooled to not stand or invade spaces that are off limits. I’ve seen this lift over into other situations outward of Disney park time.

Make choices (and be OK with a outcome) – When we are squeezing in one final float before a dish or before withdrawal for a day, we will give him a choice between dual or 3 rides. We explain that a rides he does not select we will not get to float before lunch/dinner/we go home and to select carefully. We also tell him that once we enter a reserve for a selected float he can't change his mind. Sometimes he has melted down since he can’t have dual (and afterwards he doesn’t get any) and infrequently he has regretted his choice and been unhappy he didn’t select one of a others. We afterwards have a event to kindly remind him to consider about what he wants before choosing, be happy he got to knowledge what he did, and we don’t get to bitch about a things we chose not to do. Consistency and lots of opportunities here reinforces a ideas that we can’t do everything, suffer what we get to do, take tenure of your choices, and select good attitudes.

Follow a manners (even when other people do not) – Like everybody else, we’ve seen kids stand into areas that are restricted, off limits, or not meant to be climbed on. Kids pitch ropes in a queues or cut in line. There are lots of opportunities in a parks to remind my son that only since other people are violation a manners doesn’t meant that he gets to do so and there are healthy consequences that occur to order breakers. He needs to keep doing what is right regardless of others and eventually he will reap a benefits.

As my children grow, I’m anticipating to continue to have lots of time in a Disney parks. I’m looking brazen to regulating a family fun time to strengthen life lessons in age suitable ways, all a while enjoying one of my favorite places.

Profits soared opposite a Walt Disney Co.’s vacation sovereignty during a initial 3 months a year, surging 73 percent on a strength of new journey ships and theme-park attractions worldwide.

The sepulchral parks business helped lift Disney to 32 percent distinction enlargement during a mercantile second quarter. The association pronounced Tuesday it incited an altogether distinction of $1.5 billion for a period, adult from $1.1 billion a year ago. Revenue rose 10 percent to scarcely $10.6 billion.

Those results, that exceeded Wall Street estimates, came as Disney’s batch cost climbed to record heights and a association basked in a heat of a just-released “Iron Man 3,” nonetheless another blockbuster superhero movie.

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“It’s an sparkling time during Disney,” association Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger pronounced during a discussion call with analysts.

None of Disney’s groups achieved stronger during a entertain than a parks, where Disney has plowed approximately $6 billion into new domestic projects during a past few years. Among a additions: dual new journey ships; a Hawaiian resort; a rebuilt Disney California Adventure during Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif.; and a new hotel, an stretched Fantasyland and a MyMagic+ vacation-planning complement during Walt Disney World.

With many of those projects relocating past a break-even point, handling income in Parks and Resorts skyrocketed 73 percent, from $222 million a year ago to $383 million. Sales jumped 14 percent to $3.3 billion.

The parks were helped by auspicious timing of a bustling Christmas and Easter holiday periods. Easter, for instance, fell progressing this year than in 2012, stuffing Disney’s second-quarter handling distinction by about $35 million.

Still, Disney executives pronounced a formula were an fatiguing publicity of a investments done in new attractions and businesses.

“Let’s call it what it was: a good entertain for a parks,” Iger said. “This was a entertain that we consider stood out since a product that we recently put online unequivocally worked, like California Adventure and Fantasyland and a journey ships.”

Disney available gains opposite a holdings. Disney World and Disneyland both set quarterly assemblage records, with total assemblage adult 8 percent from a year earlier. Visitor spending was adult 10 percent on aloft sheet prices as good as some-more food and commemoration sales.

Iger pronounced a Magic Kingdom, a world’s busiest thesis park, set a single-day assemblage record during this year’s Easter duration interjection to seductiveness in a new Fantasyland attractions. He pronounced a additional respirating room combined by a expansion, that will continue by this year, has sent guest-satisfaction ratings “way up” in a chronically undiluted park.

Occupancy during Disney’s U.S. hotels — that are heavily strong in Orlando — dipped dual commission points to 80 percent since of additional ability from a roughly 2,000-room Disney’s Art of Animation Resort, that non-stop final summer. But per-room spending, that includes a nightly rate, rose 7 percent.

Disney pronounced bookings for a stream entertain are using 7 percent forward of final year’s pace. Prices are about flat, as a Art of Animation — that is labelled toward a low finish of Disney’s hotel scale — weighs on a resort’s normal rates.

Another large distinction center: Disney Cruise Line, that carried some-more passengers since of a Disney Fantasy, a second of dual new ships a association has combined to what is now a four-vessel fleet. The 4,000-passenger boat had not nonetheless begun sailing during Disney’s second entertain final year.

Results also improved, despite during a obtuse pace, during Disney’s ubiquitous parks. The association pronounced assemblage grew during Hong Kong Disneyland, that was recently expanded, while guest spending rose during Disneyland Paris.

The parks’ multibillion-dollar spending debauch is not utterly over. Disney continues to exam elements of MyMagic+, a record that will outfit guest with wireless wristbands functioning as all-in-one park passes, hotel keys and credit cards, and permitting them to book float times before withdrawal on vacation.

The timing of a full introduction is rather in flux. “The idea is for us to hurl out MyMagic+ during some indicate this year,” Iger said. “We wish to be clever that this is operative positively right before we hurl out to a ubiquitous public.”

Once it’s adult and running, Disney Co. Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo said, a devise is approaching to boost Disney’s bottom line in several ways.

“If we can get people to devise their vacation before they leave home, we know that we get some-more time with them, we get a bigger share of their wallet,” Rasulo said. “The second thing is what happens to purchases when they turn most some-more available and we don’t spend time queuing adult for a transaction.”

Iger pronounced he also expects MyMagic+ to captivate some-more people into staying in Disney hotels, expected since they will be given entrance to some-more of a system’s perks than guest who spend their nights in off-property competitors.

Beyond a parks, a large pitch cause for Disney during a entertain was a film studio, even yet “Iron Man 3” was expelled after a entertain was over. After losing $84 million a year ago on a wave John Carter, a film section rebounded to an handling distinction of $118 million, buoyed by “Wreck-it Ralph” and “Oz a Great and Powerful.”

Disney’s largest business — a radio networks, that are anchored by cable-sports behemoth ESPN — posted an handling distinction of $1.9 billion for a quarter, adult 8 percent from a year ago. Its consumer-products multiplication incited an handling distinction of $200 million, adult 35 percent, on sales of Disney Channel, Mickey and Minnie, and Marvel Entertainment merchandise.

Disney’s newest and smallest unit, interactive media, continued to remove money, yet not utterly as most as final year. The division, that produces video games, posted a $54 million handling detriment from a quarter, down from a $70 million loss.

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There are 5 Disney resorts and 11 Disney thesis parks on a planet, and until recently we had no seductiveness in visiting any of them ever again. we was lifted in California and desired Disneyland, a West Coast outpost, when we was of Disneyland-going age. Then we grew up. My ambience matured, as one’s ambience is ostensible to. In a final 20 years we have entered Disneyland usually once, out of parental duty, and had never set feet in Walt Disney World. But we competence be a exception. About a third of a 51 million annual visitors to Walt Disney World, that includes a company’s climax jewel, Disney’s Magic Kingdom, are adults but tykes in tow.

I even know a few.

It turns out that copiousness of my worldly friends can’t get adequate of a The Most Magical Place on Earth—a illusion I’ve detected usually recently, now that everybody posts their vacation skeleton on Facebook. “Oh, my gosh, we adore Disney!” gushes Marie Bostwick, a best-selling writer who once adult and changed to Mexico City for a journey of it. we was astounded to learn that she and her husband, a corporate authority (they now live in Connecticut), have visited Disney dozens of times—with their kids and without. “You only have to welcome a cheesiness,” Marie says, before she starts going on about fireworks displays, rides, live entertainment, and lazing by a pool with a book. And it isn’t only that a place offers something for everyone, she tells me: At Disney, one is authorised to welcome one’s middle child, a happy trusting who is full of consternation and not fearful to demeanour like a dork. It’s an escape, a kind of retrogression therapy set to a balance of “It’s a Small World.”

Still…is it value a trade-off? There is an whole planet’s value of art, architecture, and enlightenment to discover, and time off is precious. Why would any adult select to exhaust it in a place compared with screeching toddlers, heartless lines, common food, and a majority of twee? we can know that there’s a lot to do and even that some people wish to be kids again. But we like being an adult. And we can never utterly let go: we obsessively demeanour for cracks in a facade, and get heedful during a thought of vouchsafing corporate America manipulate my emotions.

However, we am an big chairman and can see that there competence be some value in cultivating a some-more carefree, trusting self. So I’ve motionless to spend 6 days and 5 nights within a 40-square-mile proportions of a Walt Disney World Resort. I’ve asked Marie to be my Tinker Bell for a initial few days, trace me with pixie dirt and enlivening happy thoughts. Then she’ll lapse home, and my husband, a world-weary publisher and world-class skeptic, will join me. As for a 13-year-old son, it’s midterms week during school. I’ve reluctantly left him behind.

Just off a craft from New York, on a quell during Orlando International Airport, we house Disney’s Magical Express train use for a place where dreams come true. Okay, Disney, we think, as a wheels start branch and an course video starts to play, work your magic. we am flattering certain this won’t be easy.

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