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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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04-17-2006, 05:34 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
I can't; TSA freaks out if they're in a 'secure' area.
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04-17-2006, 05:37 PM
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Batman's Gal/Mickey's Pal
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Owensboro, KY USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 95,254
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
I do every day she is a senior at the high school where I teach.
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04-17-2006, 06:12 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
Posts: 13,884
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
I used to go to work with my Dad (he was an Army Signal officer), so I got to see him being all important and such. There was one time that I had to sleep over (he had some kind of duty & my mom was on one of her "jaunts") and I was awakened by a 3 star general who read me a story and talked through my teddy bear. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/bear.gif[/img] I remember how awesome it was that they were all so nice to a little kid "on the job". Fast forward and I had my own DDs. I took them to work with me not so they could see what they might aspire to, but to see what *I* do in order to make the money necessary to support them. I wanted them to see that no matter what you do, it's valuable and it's hard to earn that paycheck. Now that I'm a WAHM/SAHM, they have a better sense, but DH and I do have them go work with him for a half day several times a year so they can see firsthand what it takes to feed and clothe them.
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04-17-2006, 06:17 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Virginia - a day's drive to WDW
Posts: 3,317
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
I have no kids but thanks for the warning. I'll be calling in sick that day. Everyone brings their kids, they run all over the place - total chaos!
It had meaning years ago but has strayed so far off of that - it is totally ridiculous now.
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04-17-2006, 06:25 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Dreaming of the Future
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 24,867
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
I went as a kid to my mom's work but i have no kids and i work for a casino they legally can't in the area i work in.
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04-17-2006, 07:00 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: NC
Posts: 3,536
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
Antonio attends the same school that I teach at so he is very familiar with my classroom, my students, my job.
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04-17-2006, 07:16 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 9,547
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
I wish I could still go, we used to have a lot of fun. The female news anchors (all except Katie Couric, she was too busy for us every year but one [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]) would do a whol news broadcast with us. We'd go through hair and makeup, learn our lines, and then everyone would get a chance to do the news. They would tape it and give us each a copy to take home. It was a lot of fun, but you have to be under 16 to do it. I could still go, but I have school that day so it's not worth it [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img]
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04-17-2006, 07:19 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Indiana
Posts: 909
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
Since we have a home based business, Daughter gets to go to work every day......well almost everyday....and after home work....saving up her spending money for Disney...video games....Teenage Girl necessaties....
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04-17-2006, 07:26 PM
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Tinkerbell's Aunt
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: McHenry IL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,254
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
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Lesley
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04-17-2006, 07:52 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Northern NV
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 12,516
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
I take my son and daughter to work with me every day. I'm a teacher at their school.
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04-18-2006, 01:26 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: LITH, Illinois
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 3,205
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
I don't have to work that day.
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04-18-2006, 08:54 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Chapel Hill, NC USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 36,592
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
Doubt it.....they'll be in classes. I do take them to work on occasion though.....so I don't feel bad on missing out on the official day. (PS...DD begged me to take her to the office yesterday, but I said no, I am taking the day off to do things around the house).
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04-18-2006, 08:59 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
Nope, I won't. I'll be out of class by then, and the only work I have is housework. they get enough of that on non-school days.
I used to send the kids to work with their God-parents (a lawyer, another lawyer who was also a spec. ed. teacher, an anetheisologist (sic), an Episcopalian priest, and a housewife)
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04-18-2006, 12:54 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 1,742
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
Nope, I'm taking them to DISNEY WORLD!
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04-18-2006, 08:50 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Chicago Illinois
Posts: 5,421
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Re: Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day
We're not permitted to bring our kids to work. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
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