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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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06-25-2004, 11:41 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: plainfield,in
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I\'m a moderator!
About three weeks ago I was asked to be a moderator for one of the National Spinal Cord Injury Assoication's websites. I'm the female "host" for injured persons who are 15-25 and are "care" oriented. The care side of SCI are people who want research directed at treating the side affects of SCI so we can live with the injury. I was asked to because I have been injured longer than anyone else (14 years in on 6/28) in my age group in the Assiocation. I also have a male co-leader because people can contact us privately and there are side affects that are unique to each gender. And not only do he and I both have the same level of injury, we were injured the same date, have red hair, and go to the same SCI hospital.
I would like it if you could give Pixie Dust to one of my families. We just got two kids (both 9 because 5-15 has no leader right now) who are a girl/boy set of twins. Both were injured at the same time in two separte cars while on a class field trip. The first car was T-boned by a drunk driver and the second car rear ended the first car. Tony the boy has a T-2 injury (working function from waist up)and has learned to do his own transfers, propels himself in a manual chair, and is working with braces to help him learn to walk again. Tori has it harder. She has a C-7 (think Chris Reeves with no vent and arm funtion) injury. They are terrified to go back to school in August (they were injured in April and haven't been back to school yet). Are there any advice you can give them? Ways to make it easier?
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06-25-2004, 11:51 AM
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The Original BagMan
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Shalimar, FL
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Re: I\'m a moderator!
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06-25-2004, 11:53 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
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Re: I\'m a moderator!
Congratulations and best of luck! 
I can't offer any advice to Tori or Tony, but I can offer them  and  for their return to school. |
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06-25-2004, 11:54 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Houston
Posts: 5,162
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Re: I\'m a moderator!
Congratulations on your new position as mod and for Tony and Tori. What a freak accident, but then again, I guess most spinal cord injuries are. Good luck to you and your group. |
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06-25-2004, 12:27 PM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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06-25-2004, 01:08 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 13,146
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Re: I\'m a moderator!
Congratulations Sam I Am that is a very meaningful thing to do, I don't have any advice for Tony and Tori but here is some for them.
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06-25-2004, 07:36 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: beautiful beachy FL
Posts: 2,357
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Re: I\'m a moderator!
Congrats to you and prayers for the people you're helping.
My only advice to the twins is that the mind is an amazingly powerful thing and to try not to get discouraged by the prognosis they are given. I don't mean they should blow off their doctors, but to not use what they are told as a reason to give up or slack off. Miracles happen...maybe to them, maybe not but the day is 24 hours whether they are giving it 100% or 0%!
Off my soapbox....
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06-25-2004, 08:47 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Maine
Posts: 1,831
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Re: I\'m a moderator!
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06-25-2004, 08:59 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
Posts: 5,064
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Re: I\'m a moderator!
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06-26-2004, 01:52 PM
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Community Rank: Day-Tripper
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chelmsford, MA
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 10
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Re: I\'m a moderator!
Congrats on becoming a moderator.
As a pediatric physical therapist in a school system I know that I work hard on physical disability awareness and acceptance for all students that are in the system. I don't know if the twins are still in rehab but if they are their therapists should be in close contact with their schools now well before the year begins. We have done programs in students classrooms to simualate blindness/visual impairment and to teach basic sign language to help integrate students and to help every to have a better understanding of what it feels like to be in another persons shoes. Maybe their therapists could make arrangements to bring in some of the equipment and mobility devices into the classrooms to let the other students get that first person exposure. They should do several "walk thru" in the buildings with the principal, teachers, maintainance personnel, parents and therapists now so that modifications such as lever door handles and toileting modifications can be done now rather that playing catch-up when school is already in session. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to talk any further.
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06-26-2004, 10:16 PM
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Magic Happens!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: E. Stroudsburg, PA
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: I\'m a moderator!
Congratulations! I have no advice, just lots of dust for Tori and Tony.
You are indeed a very special young lady for reaching out to help others in need.  |
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06-26-2004, 11:40 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: WI
Posts: 17,126
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Re: I\'m a moderator!
I just want to say congrats! It will help families tremendously to have you assist them! |
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06-28-2004, 02:16 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 21,228
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