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The Legacy of Akira Toriyama – This Week in Anime

This week, Nick and Lucas talk about the recent, ongoing, and not-yet-released works of the late, great Akira Toriyama—as well as the potential future of his most popular franchise.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.
Spoiler Warning for discussion of the series ahead.

Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, and Dragon Ball Super are currently streaming on Crunchyroll, while Sand Land is currently streaming on Hulu and Disney+.

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CSA snubs ‘Proteas’ most complete batsman’ – LNN

Herschelle Gibbs has questioned David Bedingham’s omission from CSA’s group of contracted Proteas.

The 29-year-old Bedingham has made an excellent start to his Test career, scoring 347 runs at an average of 49.57, including a century and two fifties.

However, it wasn’t enough to earn him a CSA contract for the 2024-25 season.

“No national contract for the Proteas most complete batsman,” former Proteas batsman Gibbs posted on X, with a facepalm emoji.

When someone responded, “Yet the Test captain [Temba Bavuma] chose to be on the sidelines during the SA20 while the national team struggled in New Zealand,” Gibbs

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MSNBC hosts criticize NBC News for hiring Ronna McDaniel

Maddow said that MSNBC staff “unanimously and instantly expressed outrage” after McDaniel’s hiring was announced Friday but that the cable network’s executives “heard us, understood and adjusted course.”

“We were told in clear terms Ronna McDaniel will not be on our air, Ronna McDaniel will not be on MSNBC,” Maddow said.

Deadline reported earlier Monday that MSNBC President Rashida Jones told staffers that it would be up to individual shows whether to book McDaniel. A person familiar with the cable network leadership’s thinking said Jones made clear that shows always have editorial control, and decisions about booking contributors can change

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Bradley Union joins nationwide network for school innovation

Bradley Union joins nationwide network for school innovationBradley Union joins nationwide network for school innovation

District’s acceptance into the league was announced on March. 25

– Bradley Union School District has been accepted into the League of Innovative Schools, a national network aimed at advancing innovation and excellence in education. Organized by Digital Promise, a global non-profit focused on expanding opportunities for learners, the league connects and supports forward-thinking education leaders.

The district’s acceptance into the league was announced on March. 25. Chosen from a competitive national pool of applicants, Bradley Union School District demonstrated educational leadership, commitment to equity and excellence, innovative vision for learning, key achievements, and collaborative spirit.

Since 2011, the Digital

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Chuck Todd Chides NBC News Over Handling Of Ronna McDaniel Hire; Network Gets Backlash Over Decision To Retain Former RNC Chair As Analyst

NBC News is facing an internal and external backlash over its hiring of former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor, with critics blasting the decision given her past support of Donald Trump’s unfounded election claims.

On Friday, the network announced that McDaniel would be joining the network to offer election year analysis across NBC News platforms, including NBC News Now and MSNBC.

McDaniel appeared on NBC News’ Meet the Press this morning for a sometimes contentious sit down interview with moderator Kristen Welker. Welker had told viewers that the interview was scheduled weeks before it was

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NBC Drops Ronna McDaniel After Network Stars Revolt

After an unprecedented barrage of on-air opposition from network stars, NBC News has cut ties with Ronna McDanielthe former Republican National Committee chair, whom they hired last week as a contributor.

“No organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned. Over the last few days, it has become clear that this appointment undermines that goal,” NBCU News Group Chairman Cesar Conde said in a memo to the entire news group on Tuesday evening. The memo came hours after Puck’s Dylan Byers reported that NBC planned to drop McDaniel, executives were deliberating over details, and McDaniel

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Complex, unfamiliar sentences make the brain’s language network work harder | MIT News

With help from an artificial language network, MIT neuroscientists have discovered what kinds of sentences are most likely to fire up the brain’s key language processing centers.

The new study reveals that sentences that are more complex, either because of unusual grammar or unexpected meaning, generate stronger responses in these language processing centers. Sentences that are very straightforward barely engage these regions, and nonsensical sequences of words don’t do much for them either.

For example, the researchers found this brain network was most active when reading unusual sentences such as “Buy sell signals remain a particular,” taken from a publicly

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TV Network Ratings Winners & Losers

There are several popular social media accounts that graph weekly cable network schedules, and it’s always stunning to see how many schedulers have just given up. Nearly every cable network, large and small, now mostly program marathons of their most popular shows.

You know about “Ridiculousness” on MTV, of course. But did you know how much time Disney Channel runs “Big City Greens,” Nick Jr. airs “Paw Patrol,” Adult Swim telecasts “Bob’s Burgers” and “American Dad,” and Nick at Nite runs “Friends”? A lot.

As basic cable gets zombified, the double-digit declines continue. Live sports, of course, is saving the

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