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You can watch Arctic digital stories about the Arctic environment, how it is changing, how it is being studied, what the impacts might be, and most importantly, what life in this beautiful part of the planet is all about in a new website called. Arctic Stories. The site takes visitors on a digital journey highlighting [...]

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Ontario Arts Council has awarded an $8,000 grant to fund three eight-hour sessions from 23-25 March 2010, with the Centre for Digital Storytelling. Ten young people from in and around Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, will create their own digital stories, with the option of having their work screened during the 5th annual Queer Voices of [...]

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In New Jersey, a group of inner-city teens and young adults is using computer skills to compose stories that offer glimpses into their personalities, interests and struggles. The digital stories were created through a program at Hopeworks ‘N Camden, a youth advocacy group that aims to prepare teens and young adults for technology jobs by [...]

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1/700 RN Diorama (HMS Diadem accompanies HMCS Haida and Huron on a channel sweep) by Chris Drage (Diadem: Skytrex metal kit, Haida & Huron: Ultracast)
http://www.steelnavy.com/gallery_dioramas.htm

posted by Gareth Morlais

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Vaughan Roderick  - BBC Cymru Wales Welsh Affairs Editor and noted blogger - has just returned from holiday and he made two interesting points about indigenous languages:
1. he heard ads in Malaysia urging people to speak their own language. The ads were in English!
2. he commended a museum in Melbourne for having more Welsh [...]

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photo caption: HMS Diadem (Cruiser)was a Bellona-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was a modified Dido design with only 4 turrets but improved AA armament – aka Dido Group 2. She was built by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited (Hebbum- on- Tyne, UK), with the keel being laid down [...]

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photo of ship from http://www.russianconvoyclub.org.nz/MembersShips.htm

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There are eight mentions of HMS Diadem in the BBC’s The People’s War archive:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/search/index.shtml?scope=ww2peopleswar&q=hms-diadem&x=0&y=0

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1. A postcard of the 1947 Fleet review 2. Anonymous hero John 3. The story of Regulating Petty Officer Daniel Victor Wells
http://www.aberth.com/diadem/index.html

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