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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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09-30-2006, 04:33 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
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Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
Last night when I got home from work, I was shocked to be informed that tomorrow Dan has to go Up North for a week. Why a week? Because it's so far north that it's going to take 3 days to get there. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] The job itself is only going to take about 3 hours. He is going to Eureka, Nunavut which is at 80ºLatitude. To put this in perspective, the 49th is the US/Canadian border (from Manitoba west), and the Arctic Circle is about the 68th. If you draw a line between Resolute and Alert, Eureka is halfway between the two. He's going to be directly East of the Magnetic North Pole. Do you think he'll see Santa while he's there? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
I'm sorry, this is a bit bigger than it's supposed to be but I can't get it smaller. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
Oh! And I just checked the weather there an hour ago.... it was 4ºF!!!  |
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09-30-2006, 04:43 PM
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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: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
Wow! that's a long way for a short job!
Three days traveling, and he's not leaving the country!
Hope he at least sees some elves.
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09-30-2006, 04:50 PM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 26,975
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Re: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
EEEEEEEE! Yikes!
What is it exactly that he does again, Donna? (I can never remember that and Mike just asked me! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img])
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09-30-2006, 05:16 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: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
DDs just got done with a lesson on latitude and longitude so this was fun for them, at least! 10yo said, "That's just COOL!" [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] 7yo asked him to wave at Santa...[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smileysanta.gif[/img]
Hope he has a good and safe (and warm!) trip!
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09-30-2006, 05:19 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Tulsa, OK
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 21,627
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Re: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
Wow that's going to be quite a trip. Wishing him safe travel.
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09-30-2006, 05:52 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
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EEEEEEEE! Yikes!
What is it exactly that he does again, Donna? (I can never remember that and Mike just asked me! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img])
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He does environmental work for the Canadian government. Mostly he cleans up environmental contaminents like diesel fuel, lead, mercury and asbestos. All those nasty things that are bad for you [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] I'm not sure what he's looking for in Eureka, but I would suspect that it's one of those bad boys - most likely diesel. There is a small weather station/settlement there, so it could easily be any of them. I do know that he's worried that they left this project too late, because he has to dig down 3 feet into the ground and it's probably already frozen pretty deep.
He's not usually the guy who actually does the clean up; he's got enough seniority now that he's one of the guys that comes along with the instruments before the job and says what has to be done to meet environmental standards, and then after the job he checks to make sure that the job has been done right.
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09-30-2006, 06:01 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: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
wowzers!! Tell him to take his warmest chook! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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09-30-2006, 07:08 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2000
Posts: 9,619
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Re: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
I think thats too far north for Santa!
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09-30-2006, 07:11 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
Wow! Tell Dan that if he sees Santa to put in a good word for me! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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09-30-2006, 07:31 PM
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Magic Happens!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: E. Stroudsburg, PA
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
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Do you think he'll see Santa while he's there? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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Wait! Let me send him my list! I've been VERY GOOD this year!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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09-30-2006, 08:26 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 948
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Re: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
Wow that's cold! Don't forget the thermal undergarments.
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09-30-2006, 09:02 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Posts: 13,817
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Re: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
Brrr. Make sure he packs he's thermal underwear. Safe travels to Dan. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img]
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09-30-2006, 09:33 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 1,268
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Re: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
Is he going to take his Carpenters CD and sing "I'm on top of the world looking down......."
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09-30-2006, 09:36 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Kissimmee, Fl
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 25,061
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Re: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
That is a bit of a distance to have to travel for work. Tell him to let Santa know we all said hello and we would all like trips to Disney for Christmas [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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09-30-2006, 09:58 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: central Iowa
Posts: 11,837
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Re: Do you think he\'ll see Santa?
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DDs just got done with a lesson on latitude and longitude so this was fun for them, at least! 10yo said, "That's just COOL!" [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] 7yo asked him to wave at Santa...[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smileysanta.gif[/img]
Hope he has a good and safe (and warm!) trip!
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Not so much "COOL", sounds cold to me!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
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