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CDSS: The Mindsets Paper
Non-profit the Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS) recruited individuals with Down syndrome to take part in research to prove the positive link between fitness and cognition for the community. Charities & voluntary organisations Canada Strategy Brand: Canadian Down Syndrome Society Brand owner: Canadian Down Syndrome Society Entrant company: Canadian Down Syndrome SocietyIdea creation: FCB TorontoMarket: CanadaSector: Charities & voluntary organisationsMedia channels:Word of...
CDSS: Project Understood
A small charity in Canada, the Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS) sourced voice samples from people with Down syndrome to enable the adaptation of Google's voice assistant technology, create meaningful change and positively shift public perceptions of the Down syndrome community.
Edinburgh Comedy Preview - Part 2 {Blake Connolly}
Post navigation ← Previous Next → The Edinburgh Festival Fringe officially kicks off today, so it really is about time I get on with part two. As I mentioned last time, all the shows I went to were previews, meaning that often the acts were still getting to grips with the show, testing out material and working from notes. So, while it’s a fair enough guide, in many cases I’ve not seen the finished show.
Edinburgh Comedy Preview - Part 1 {Blake Connelly}
It’s nearly that time again, when half of London converges on Edinburgh while the residents move away for a month and rent out their rooms for extortionate prices. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe started as an unofficial offshoot of the Edinburgh International Festival but over the years has grown to be the much larger of the two. While it is home to all forms of performance art, from theatre to dance, over the last 20 years or so comedy has started to take over, to the displeasure of some.
The IT Crowd are back {TV}
Post navigation ← Previous Next → The geeks are back! The IT Crowd, the award-winning sitcom written by Graham Linehan; co-writer of classics Father Ted, Black Books and Big Train; returns this Friday night on Channel Four and it’s as good as ever. The series is about the basement-dwelling IT department of Reynholm Industries, a large company that does something that’s never explained in the show.
Time runs out for 24 {TV}
Post navigation ← Previous Next → After the eight longest days of Jack Bauer’s life and 194 hours of incredible television, 24’s final episodes will be broadcast this Sunday night at 9 o’clock on Sky1 and Sky1 HD.
As It Occurs To Me {Radio}
Richard Herring returned to London’s Leicester Square theatre on Monday night to record the first in a new series of his stand-up and sketch show, As It Occurs To Me. Aided by comic actors Emma Kennedy and Dan Tetsell, with music from Christian Ryley, the show is, put simply, about whatever has occurred to Herring over the past week, whether they are things that have happened to him or his thoughts on things that have happened in the news.
Alternative Election Night {TV Preview}
Post navigation ← Previous Next → It’s only a couple of days until Britain goes to the polls for the closest general election in a generation. On Thursday night, the BBC will begin an epic 20-hour broadcast from it’s huge studio set, ITV will have Alistair Stewart and Julie Etchingham surrounded by virtual reality graphics and Sky will have it’s presenters at constituencies across the country. Meanwhile, Channel Four will be taking an entirely different approach to election night.
Strike Back {TV Preview}
Post navigation ← Previous Next → Next Wednesday night at 9 o’clock, Sky1HD will show the first two episodes of its new drama series based on former SAS operative Chris Ryan’s bestselling novel Strike Back. Ryan is best known as being the only member of the famous Bravo Two Zero patrol in the first Gulf War to evade capture.
Glee: Hell-o {TV Preview}
Post navigation ← Previous Next → Our lucky guest writer Blake Connolly got a sneaky peak from Channel 4 at the upcoming episode of Glee, if you want to know what’s instore; keep reading… Glee returns to E4 tomorrow after a few weeks off to catch up with the broadcasts in the United States. The musical comedy-drama has been a phenomenon around the world since it first appeared on American screens last September.
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