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December 24, 2013 Volume 1 issue: #24
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Sentinel Christmas News

Merry Christmas

To all my brothers and sisters and you know who you are! To the ones who are more than friends, yeah, you know who you are too! To all my friends, frenimies, enemies, and acquaintances, To all my readers, to all I have ever met and have yet to meet: I wish you a truly Blessed Yule, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanza, and a most Happy 2014!!! May the upcoming New Year bring all of you goodness, beauty, and many blessings!!

NORAD Santa

Follow Santa's journey!!!!! on THE site: http://www.noradsanta.org/

Last Minute Shopping!!!

We know you are out there. I'm one of you. Today is for stocking stuffers and last minute shopping.
http://living.msn.com/shopping/10-drugstore-gifts-that-arent-lame

View Christmas changes through the decades!

Take a trip down one hundred years of Christmas, decade by decade in pictures. Personally we like to click on a picture and use it as a screenshow. But just looking at all the small pictures on each of the page links is pretty awesome, even with the many curious repeats that seem to pop up. http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/00/Xmas2013/Christmas2013.html

TOP Ten: Canada Does Better

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/15/travel/things-canada-does-better/index.html?hpt=hp_bn10

New Editorial Page!

Check it out! Rants, complaints, fun! You might even find some thinking going on, in an opinionated way, of course. Feel free to come play with Dave and John.http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Sentinel/Editorials.html

RACKING

Some amazing Random Acts of Kindness:
http://www.today.com/video/today/53836076/

Awesome Photos

If you have not see these photos, click away, click away now!! http://abcnews.go.com/International/slideshow/best-photos-2013-21221024

Get out your slow cooker!

Looking good: http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/slow-cooker-recipe-gift-doesn-39-t-easier-204100899.html

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.

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 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?

There are several mini-games available for your total distraction! See: ICE SLIDE, SNOWLINE, XMAS SLOTS, SANTA ADVENTURE, and SANTA HOP!

Jokes!

by jdb_educator
Medeusa posted this one, saying: How to clean your laptop screen safely:
http://www.formation-massage-stage.fr//outils/nettoyeurecran/cleanscreen.swf

The sites below do change their featured jokes. Take a look.

http://www.jokesclean.com/

http://www.danggoodjokes.com/

Comics!

by jdb_educator
These comics change daily. Take a look, comic fans:
Good old classic newspaper comics: http://news.yahoo.com/comics/

Editorial Cartoons and more: http://www.gocomics.com/

An Open Invitation

by Founder Deighv
OPEN INVITATION: To any creator who has made VRML 3D Items/Worlds for other blaxxun communities that are now closed. We invite you to have your work uploaded to 3DPlanets.com, a still thriving chat community. Our upload limits are VERY generous, 400kb for the .wrl - 250kb for the texture and a Universal Textures Library which allows you to use unlimited textures for your creation. Multiple upload Creators can even get your own Shop! All Worlds and 3D Items remain the sole property of the creator, we don't make any unreasonable demands as to their useage like Some communities did. For further information please contact info@3dplanets.com

The Sentinel Weekly Staff

jdb_educator, Managing Editor
Deighv, reporter,
Founder
Toxic, reporter
Founder
Medeusa, Star reporter,
Entertainment Director
Cheyla, Sentinel Photographer,
Places Director
Cichlid, Sentinel Photographer, author, and reporter

Cichlid's 3DP books

3DPlanet Stories:
1. The Games We Play by Cichlid http://3dpstory.blogspot.com/

2. Bull Headed Lion by Cichlid http://3dpstory.blogspot.com/p/bull-headed-lion.html

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