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by Deighv, reporter, Founder 3dpNet.ca has been continuing it’s “25 Days Of Christmas” and many new goodies have been added to the site, you just have to look around and find them! More movies, games and goodies will be added over the coming weeks.A Festivus Party/Meet-And-Greet is scheduled in 3dpNet for December 22’nd from 8-11 p.m. EST. Details will be posted in 3dpNet soon.
Dave’s Rant Of The Week – Saggy Pants
by Editorialist Dave Everyone hates to see kids walking around with saggy pants, however, as much as I hate to say it, I would rather see these kids walking around with sagging pants than strolling down a city street wearing just a pair of Speedo's. ..... which would be entirely legal.Does it look stupid? Yes, definitely! These kids prolly have IQ's no higher than their shoe size, but we can't start dictating what a person cannot wear as long as it doesn't violate any common decency rules or regulations. What if a buncha people "decided" that you couldn't walk down a street without having your shirt tucked in, couldn’t wear sneakers in WalMart or couldn't wear a striped tie on Tuesdays ..... you get the idea!
It's a fashion statement and like all fashion statements it will pass. Bringing attention to it however just makes the kids more rebellious and more likely to continue this ridiculous fad. Also, in advertising it, it brings it to the attention of MORE kids who will now think it is cool to wear their jeans around their thighs.
That being said, hehe, I say if they DO ban them then they should be fined, and the fine should be that they be required to wear a pair of pink day-glo suspenders to hold their pants up whenever they are in public for a period of 30 days
Until next week, Happy Holidays!
New Cookie Recipes
Medeusa's page takes up Cookies, as promised!She comes through like the Star Reporter, she is! Mede's Recipe page:
Medeusa's Recipes Cookies and Updates!
by Cichlid, Sentinel Photographer, author, and reporter Well let me see. Okay I have has a very busy these past few weeks. I have my edits all finally done on Captured by Fate. Just waiting for the approval stage then my book will be paper back YA!! It can be purchased through, nook, amazon and createspace. I am designing my blog for the release as well. For Christmas, had a little stumble with the unemployment, but hopefully that is worked out. I plan on taking my mom and daughter out shopping soon. Should be, well, interesting. I have a great yummy desert to share, Called Oreo Cookie dessert. I have been making it for years. I see there are all kinds of different ways to make it now. 1 16 oz pkg Oreo cookies 1 8 oz cream cheese 2 16 oz pkg cool whip 1 stick butter 1 can chocolate pudding (can be found in baking area pie filling section) Take out 5 cookies and save for topping. Finley crush rest of cookies. Melt butter and mix into crushed cookies. Spread out in baking dish. Let cool. Combine 1 cool whip and cream cheese. Blend well. If you don't you will get little chunks of cream cheese. Spread over top cookie mixture. Take chocolate pudding spread over cream cheese mixture. Takes other cool whip spread over chocolate pudding. Do carefully or it will mix all up. Take remaining cookies crush and sprinkle on top. Chill or eat right away. Poor lonely, no updates, page! *sniff sniff*CVN Recipes.
Weird Lakes of the World
by Medeusa, Sentinel Star reporter Looking around on the net, you can find some really interesting things. Most may be found on the first link, but that is NOT guaranteed! Happy Surfing.http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/photos/13-of-the-most-bizarre-lakes-in-the-world/beautiful-but-bi
http://www.britainexplorer.com/ten-strange-places.html
http://www.weather.com/travel/10-spectacular-lakes-world-photos-20130724 No patience? Search using Bing. Just copy/past the name into search.http://www.bing.com/ Boiling Lake Dominica's Boiling Lake is the second largest hot spring in the world, though you wouldn't want to take a dip there. Along its edges the water temperature is a sweltering 180 to 197 degrees Fahrenheit, and its center is too hot to get close enough to measure. The lake is almost continuously veiled in clouds of vapor, and the greyish water is always bubbling. Laguna Colorada This eerie lake in Bolivia has blood red water and is dotted with strange white islands made of borax, the same stuff used in many detergents. Plitvice Lakes These breathtaking lakes in Croatia are truly exceptional, and Plitvice Lakes National Park is one of the world's most beautiful places. They are actually 16 lakes, all interconnected through a series of waterfalls and caves. Lake Nyos This lake in Cameroon is one of the world's only known exploding lakes. Just underneath it, a pocket of magma fills Nyos with carbon dioxide and transforms its water into carbonic acid. As recently as 1986, the lake burped a massive plume of carbon dioxide, suffocating as many as 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock from nearby villages. It was the first known large-scale asphyxiation ever recorded from a natural event. Aral Sea Once one of the four largest lakes in the world, today the Aral Sea is mostly an arid desert strewn with rusty old ghost ships, a reminder of the lake's former volume. The tragedy has been called "one of the planet's worst environmental disasters." Pitch Lake
Trinidad's grimy Pitch Lake is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world. The lake covers more than 40 hectares, can run about 75 meters deep, and even harbors alien-like extremophile organisms in its water. Dead Sea The deepest hypersaline lake in the world, the Dead Sea is too salty for animals to flourish here, thus the name. Its surface waters are also a remarkable 1,385 feet below sea level, making this body of water the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface. Taal Lake Located in the island nation of the Philippines, Taal Lake is particularly bizarre because it has an island in its center called Volcano Island. It is the site of the world's largest lake on an island, in a lake on an island. The tongue-twister actually doesn't stop there; Volcano Island's crater lake also contains its own small island, called Vulcan Point. Lake Balkhash Located in Kazakhstan, Lake Balkhash is the 12th largest lake in the world. This lake is bizarre because half of the lake consists of freshwater and the other half is saltwater. Tonlé Sap The unique ecosystem of Cambodia's Tonlé Sap evades classification as either a lake or a river. During the dry season, the waters of the Tonlé Sap drain into the Mekong River, but during the monsoon season the flow of water is so massive that it actually pushes back up from the Mekong, forming the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. Crater Lake
When Central Oregon's Mount Mazama violently erupted 7,700 years ago, it left a massive caldera running nearly 2,000 feet deep right through the heart of the mountain. Today, it is the second deepest lake in North America, and it has some of the bluest, clearest and least polluted waters in the world. Lake Baikal It is the world's oldest and deepest lake, is the second most voluminous in the world, and contains some of the world's clearest water. It has somehow remained contained for more than 25 million years, and currently holds 20 percent of the Earth's fresh water supply. Two thirds of the more than 1,700 species that call Baikal home are found nowhere else in the world. It's no wonder that the region was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. Glowing waves The most magical algal blooms in the world might be those that occur along the southern coast of California, where the shorebreak occasionally glows with an otherworldly majesty. A bioluminescent species of phytoplankton there called Lingulodinium polyedrum emits a neon-blue light in response to stress, causing the waves to light up as they crash. Lake Hillier From above the lake appears a solid bubble gum pink. The lake is about 600 meters long, and is surrounded by a rim of sand and dense woodland of paperbark and eucalyptus trees. No-one fully knows why the lake is pink. Scientists speculate that the colour comes from a dye created by bacteria that lives in the salt crusts. Kliluk The total number of these natural circular pools is around 365 Each pool has a different color, depending on the type and concentration of minerals, making the lake a unique natural scenery.
Last Week's News
by Deighv, reporter, Founder The Holidays are fast approaching and with that in mind 3dpNet is celebrating the “24 days of Christmas”. From December 1’st until December 24’th something new will be added to 3dpNet each day but you may have to explore the site to discover what it is! There are many Holidays and events scheduled around this time of year and to try and celebrate each one individually is nigh impossible, so this year we are having a party on December 22’nd to celebrate “Festivus”, a Holiday that is all-inclusive. Tentative time for the Festivus party will be from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. EST, details will be posted in 3dpNet as the date approaches. Events at the party will include "Airing of Grievances" and "Feats of Strength". Don’t forget to bring your own aluminum pole :) 3dpNet now has 100 Members! Many former Members have yet to rejoin since that nasty crash, so we expect that number to increase over the coming months. Starting January 1’st we are having a Cash Give-Away in 3dpNet! Thanks to a recent donation and some leftover cash from the fundraiser we held a couple years ago we have some funds just sitting around gathering dust. On the first of each month a Member will be selected at random and the winner will be announced on the Forum. The winner will have 3 days (72 hours) to reply to the announcement to qualify for a Grand Prize of $5.00. To qualify you MUST have a PayPal account as this is how the funds will be distributed. If the winner does NOT reply to the announcement within the allotted 3 days then another Member will be chosen at random. This will continue until the end of the month after which that months prize will be forfeit, if left unclaimed. Have a safe and Happy Holiday Season!News: from three weeks ago
By Toxic Terry, 3DP Founder No additional news has been received. "3dPlanets Server will Not be ready for at least another month. Still stuck in Florida. — feeling sad."FEATURE MOVIES MENU
Could there be anything else? SPECIAL HOLIDAY MOVIES AND SPECIALS A Charlie Brown Christmas Shrek The Halls thirty minute special Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Current Movies!Turbo (2013) Can a snail win the Indy 500? 1hr 36 min Animation/Comedy Rated: PG13
Monster University (2013)Before Mike and Sully were best buddies. 1 hr 44 min Rated: PG13
Despicable Me 2(2013) 1hr 38 mins Animation/adventure/Comedy Rated: PG
Man of Steel(2013) 2 hrs 23 min Action/Adventure/Fantasy (Superman) Rated: PG13
R.I.P.D. (2013)1 hr 36 min Action/Comedy/Crime Rated: PG13
Short Reviews
Man of Steel(2013) is not the old Superman. He is edgier, more conflicted and more real than ever before. Good Movie! Despicable Me 2(2013) A fun follow up to the original. My wife and I watched it while taking breaks to view the world series. Monster University (2013) Touching, sweet, and still filled with adventure and laughs.Have you Visited SantaLand?
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