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In earlier stages, material from the companion flowed onto the pulsar, increasing its spin and fueling a powerful wind.

From Science Daily

With Stewart’s debut feature fresh in the public’s consciousness and garnering awards buzz, it’s peculiar that Kate Winslet — whose pedigree is arguably stronger than Stewart, Dickinson and Johansson’s combined — had her directorial debut all but dumped onto a streamer.

From Salon

Winslet’s “Goodbye June,” about a family coming together over the holidays when their terminally ill mother takes a turn for the worse, was unceremoniously plopped onto Netflix on Christmas Eve, far from the red carpet rollout one would expect for an artist of her stature.

From Salon

“You can’t really take a five-pound dumbbell into the ocean,” he says, “so we’d do that part of the workout on the sand, then do swimming drills in the ocean, plus treading water or maybe aqua jogging with fins, then going back onto the sand. Half and half.”

From Los Angeles Times

The parade begins on Orange Grove Boulevard, then turns east onto Colorado for the bulk of the trek before ending at Sierra Madre Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times