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Time of India
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 episode 3 release date: When and where to watch the Prime Video show
The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 episode 3 release date: Season 3 of The Summer I Turned Pretty has kicked off with emotional moments and engaging drama, keeping fans invested from the start. With Episodes 1 and 2 already available on Prime Video, viewers are now looking forward to the next chapter. Here's a quick guide on the release date and where you can watch Episode 3. The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 episodes 1-2 recap Season 3 opens with the favourites Belly and Jeremiah in college, navigating the ups and downs of their relationship. While Jeremiah faces academic challenges, Belly hides her acceptance into a study-abroad program in Paris. Tensions rise when Belly discovers Jeremiah had a fling during a past break. Conrad on the other hand is in medical school and is still mourning his mother and struggling with his feelings for Belly. Though invited to speak at her memorial, he's reluctant to return. The drama peaks when Jeremiah proposes to Belly, and she accepts. The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 episode 3 release date and time The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 episode 3 will be released on 23rd July 2025 on Prime Video. The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 episode 3 release date and time (as per different time zones) India: 12:30 PM (IST) UK: 8:00 AM (BST) US: 12:00 AM (Pacific Time) 3:00 AM (Eastern Time) It's not summer without you. The first two episodes of Season 3 drop July 16. Then stream new episodes weekly, only on Prime Video. How many episodes does The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 have? The number of episodes in The Summer I Turned Pretty has steadily increased with each season. The first season had 7 episodes, giving a brief but impactful look into the story. Season 2 followed with 8 episodes, allowing more time to develop the characters and plot. Season 3, the final installment, will feature 11 episodes, making it the most extensive season yet. This extended format will allow the series to fully explore the characters' journeys and bring the story to a meaningful close. The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 cast Rain Spencer as Taylor Jewel Christopher Briney as Conrad Fisher Jackie Chung as Laurel Park Gavin Casalegno as Jeremiah Fisher Sean Kaufman as Steven Conklin Lola Tung as Belly Conklin Where is The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 filmed? Season 3 of The Summer I Turned Pretty was primarily filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, capturing the show's signature coastal charm. This season also brought a fresh backdrop with scenes shot in Chapel Hill at the University of North Carolina, standing in for Finch College. The updated locations mirror the characters' growth as they step into a new phase of their lives.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
McConnell, KY has too much to lose if Medicaid is cut. We won't 'get over it.'
No, Sen. McConnell, people who need health care aren't going to 'get over it.' The stakes are far too high for such a dismissive response about proposed cuts to Medicaid. The Congressional Budget Office estimates these changes could leave nearly 11 million Americans uninsured by 2034. These aren't abstract budget decisions. This legislation will have dire consequences for families, communities, and the providers that serve them. Kentucky has more hospitals at risk of closure than any other state, according to the Sheps Center for Health Service Research at the University of North Carolina. With proposed Medicaid reductions threatening up to $1.3 billion in lost federal funding, as many as 35 hospitals could close, many of them in regions that are already underserved. That kind of loss isn't just a health-care crisis; it's an economic one. According to the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, these cuts could result in 12,100 fewer jobs and $98 million less in state tax revenue, with ripple effects on education, infrastructure and public safety. Medicaid expansion has been one of the most impactful health policy decisions in our state's history, with Kentucky's uninsured rate falling from 14.5% in 2013 to 5.6% in 2023. This coverage has meant improved access to cancer treatment, preventive care, lifesaving medications, and mental health and addiction recovery services. It's helped stabilize rural hospitals, improve health outcomes, decrease racial disparities in coverage, and reduce medical debt. Now, all of that is at risk. And for what? Opinion: McConnell wants KY coal miners to 'get over' Medicaid cuts closing their hospitals Medicaid cuts in Kentucky will hit kids, elderly and people with disabilities Proponents claim these cuts target waste, fraud and abuse. However, the legislation does nothing to rein in drug prices, stop corporate price gouging or address the administrative inefficiencies that drive up costs. Instead, it strips care away from people with the least resources while giving tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and the largest corporations. Medicaid is vital in Kentucky. It covers roughly a third of the state's population, including: 68% of nursing home residents 46% of Kentucky children 51% of working-age adult Kentuckians living with disabilities Medicaid also plays a critical role in our fight against addiction. Kentucky has one of the highest drug overdose death rates in the country, and Medicaid is the largest payer of substance use disorder treatment. Cutting Medicaid would mean fewer detox beds, less access to counseling and longer waits for recovery services at a time when families can't afford to wait. Beyond Medicaid, other provisions in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' threaten to destabilize the ACA Marketplace, where 24 million Americans, many of them self-employed or small business owners, purchase coverage. Failing to extend enhanced subsidies could cause an additional 4 million Americans to become uninsured, leading to higher premiums and reduced benefits for those who remain. Letters: McConnell got caught telling a truth he didn't want us to know about Cutting Medicaid services for Planned Parenthood, other providers is alarming As an OBGYN who spent her clinical career promoting gynecologic health, I am dismayed by the bill's intent to prohibit Medicaid funding for nonprofit essential community providers, such as Planned Parenthood clinics, for 10 years. I am further alarmed by the Supreme Court's ruling that will allow states to withhold Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood. This money pays for contraception and screening services, such as pap smears, for primarily low-income patients. It almost never funds abortion; it simply helps those who do not desire or cannot afford to have children avoid unplanned pregnancies, keeps people from getting cancer, and helps people to be healthy so that they can be productive members of society. Bills such as this 'save' money by denying care. Going without medication, heart surgery or cancer treatment costs payers less. Is that the answer? I say NO. Health care is not a luxury. It is a human right. Legislation that makes health care more expensive or difficult to access is morally and ethically wrong. It says that those in power determine who gets care and who doesn't, who lives and who dies. Kentuckians don't need to 'get over it.' We need to demand a system that protects every one of us, before more hospitals close and more lives are lost. Agree or disagree? Submit a letter to the editor. Susan G. Bornstein, MD, MPH, is an OBGYN by training. She became so frustrated with the challenges that many of her patients faced with cost and access to care that she returned to school for a master's degree in public health. In 2021, she founded The Asclepius Initiative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Learn more at This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: McConnell's Medicaid dismissal will save money, not Kentucky | Opinion Solve the daily Crossword
CNET
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNET
Unlock 30,000+ Movies and TV Shows for Free With This One Tool
When I was an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I added a concentration in film studies as part of my English and Comparative Literature degree. This choice exposed me to the marvelous world of film scholarship, adding to my already fervent love for movies. The decision also meant I was screening anywhere from four to seven movies each week for assignments and my honors thesis. The one platform that saved me throughout my semesters of frantic screenings was the streaming service Kanopy. Kanopy is an on-demand video platform that boasts a catalog of 30,000-plus titles, including classics, film noirs and award nominees. And unlike other streaming services like Netflix that are consistently raising their prices, Kanopy is still free. As a college student, I had free access to the platform with my university email address. The best part -- besides Kanopy being ad-free -- is that I didn't have to give up my account after I graduated; I'm still streaming its robust offerings for free thanks to my public library card. Below, I'll show you how you can sign up with Kanopy, and why it's worth it. Read more: 9 of the Best Netflix Alternatives to Entertain You How to create a Kanopy account With Kanopy, you can stream for free — without ads — movies, TV shows and documentaries. To create a Kanopy account, you can do the following: Go to and click Get Started . . The next window will ask if you're signing up with a university credential or a public library card. Select which option applies to you. You'll need to select your library system or university from the dropdown list. To find a library near you, share your location when prompted or search for your library by name, city or ZIP code. You can do the same when searching for your university. Hit Continue. Create your Kanopy account by filling out the requested fields (name, email address and password). Click Sign Up . . You will receive a verification email from kanopy@ Open the message, and click Verify My Email . . Start streaming. You'll need to select your library system or university from the dropdown list when creating a Kanopy account. Kanopy/Screenshot by CNET Are there limits to the number of films I can watch per month? Yes, Kanopy does not offer unlimited streaming. After signing up, you can stream up to 10 titles per month. Your 10 play credits will renew at the beginning of every calendar month. These credits do not carry over if you don't use them. Why is there a monthly limit? CNET Kanopy works on a pay-per-checkout model, meaning the public library system pays a small fee each time you check out a title. By limiting checkouts to 10 titles per month, libraries can ensure they stay on budget. Which films are offered on Kanopy? Kanopy catalog gives you access to over 30,000 titles, including: Award-winning foreign films Critically acclaimed movies A24 films Documentaries Classic films from the Criterion Collection Content from the Great Courses and PBS Festival indie or world cinema Storybooks Films and series for children Some notable standout films include Memento (2000), Donnie Darko (2001), Dial M for Murder (1954), and my personal favorite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019). If you're interested, you can read my commentary about why I love this film so much. Does Kanopy offer seasonal collections? Yes, Kanopy offers select seasonal and speciality collections. Kanopy's Holiday Collection is released each December and includes a slew of Christmas features and documentaries, and Yuletide classics. In October, Kanopy released its Fright Fest collection -- a catalog of Halloween favorites -- comprised of horror flicks, slashers, thrillers and more. The Fright Fest collections includes A24 favorites, creepy classics, cozy horror and so much more. Kanopy/Screenshot by CNET You should also explore our full rundown of the best movies on Max, Netflix and Amazon Prime. Plus, stream our favorite horror double-feature now on Netflix.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Pastures of faith sowed seeds of Viera's growth
Andrew Duda had faith. He had faith in America when he immigrated here in 1909 from his native Slovakia. He had faith in the 1920s that he could turn 40 acres of Central Florida muckland that he had bought for $800 into profitable farmland. In the 1940s, his sons had faith that 43,000 acres of scrubland in Brevard County they had just purchased could be turned into a thriving cattle ranch. In the late 1980s, his descendants had faith that they could transform that same ranchland into a thriving new community of homes and businesses. They decided to name that community "Viera," the Slovak word for faith. It was a drumbeat of faith that kept them going — and growing — in more ways than one, for over a century in Central Florida. Brevard's boom town In the early 1990s, billboards at the Wickham Road exit of Interstate 95 read "Welcome to Viera: A New Town." But all anybody likely would have seen at the time were brand-new roads leading through vast acres of cow pastures. If one squinted hard, they might have noticed the new government center and baseball stadium far off in the distance. Now, nearly 40,000 people call Viera home. Projections are that twice as many will by 2045. The development is one of the core reasons a recent national study ranked Brevard County's economy as one of the fastest-growing in the country for midsized communities and is projected to continue to rank high in the future. Viera is projected to almost double to a population of about 77,400 by 2045. The study by University of North Carolina and Fifth Third Bank found that the Space Coast had the highest growth rate among 100 midsized communities over the past five years, as measured by gross domestic project — the value of an area's goods and services. Brevard also had the second-highest growth rate over the past decade. For the coming year, the study ranks the county's projected growth at No. 10 in the nation among 100 midsized areas. "It's a special place," said Eva Rey, senior vice president for community management and communications at The Viera Co. "And I think people feel that, and it drives them there." From veggies to Viera The Dudas' dream began when Andrew Duda emigrated from Slovakia in 1909. He was among others fleeing economic plight and religious suppression in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Once discharged from the Czech Army, Andrew settled with friends and relatives in Cleveland. He worked as a carpenter to save for his dream of buying land in Florida and moving his family from Velečice, Czechoslovakia. His faith kept him going. In 1912, Andrew and 11 other Czech immigrants journeyed to a 2,200-acre site near Oviedo in Seminole County. They joined others who founded the community of Slavia, just northwest of Brevard. Andrew borrowed to buy 40 acres of rich muckland, at $20 an acre. Then, in the summer of 1912, his dream came true. He was carrying buckets across a sandy road when his wife, Katarina, and their children arrived on wagon at their homestead, a few miles from today's Duda corporate headquarters. The wagon's driver also had a telegram for Duda that the family had sent to announce they were coming to America. They had yet to learn English. In Slavia at the time, there were a half-dozen shacks for sawmill workers and a church. The house the Dudas moved into had a dirt floor. Most of the Duda family still lives in the area. A crunchy no-frills vegetable helped build the Dudas' empire in Central Florida. Celery was among the first crops the Dudas tried in Seminole County. In Brevard, the Dudas would raise mostly cattle and grew sod that ultimately would turf one of Florida's fastest-growing areas. Their first celery crop in Slavia went well, but three bad years followed. They went bust in 1916, so they went back to Cleveland. Andrew worked in a furniture factory, made payments on his Slavia property and set his family up on a small farm. He kept the faith. By 1926, the Dudas had saved $2,000 and, by 1928, returned to Florida. Within a few years, they borrowed enough to buy a few hundred acres in Zellwood and Belle Glade, Florida. They'd expand their holdings in the 1930s, when Andrew bought land the state had foreclosed on. Further expansions in the 1940s and 1950s included the more-than-42,000-acre Duda Ranch in Brevard, and citrus and vegetable farms in Belle Glade. Articles in 1951 in the Cocoa Tribune noted some had warned Andrew Duda that the land was "too wet" to raise cattle. "But Mr. Duda reasoned otherwise," the article continued. "He figured that to grow cattle successfully you must have grass and to have grass you must have water." That, he had plenty of. He would drain it to his will. What's in a name? As Brevard grew in the 1980s, the Dudas envisioned a master-planned community on their ranch. In 1989, they announced their master plan for Viera and broke ground for the Brevard County Educational Services Facility on land donated by The Viera Co. Dudas would donate additional lands for several other Brevard government buildings. The name the family first considered for the new community was Duran, short for Duda Ranch. But instead they chose Viera. "What we finally decided on was not to name our project after our founder or a family name, but to name it after what we believe in," Joseph Duda, executive vice president for real estate at the time, told FLORIDA TODAY in 1989. "When my grandfather left Czechoslovakia, he came to this country, and one thing he had was faith. That is about all he had. He had a strong faith in the Lord and strong faith in this country, America." FLORIDA TODAY readers also had voted 394-56 against the Duran name in a call-in poll earlier that year. Years later, Duran would become a golf-course community within Viera, which would take steps to become certified by Audubon International by limiting chemicals and enacting environmentally friendly management practices. A Sept. 24, 1989, story showcased Six Mile Creek, the first residents of Brevard's "city of the future" along 200 acres. Now, about 38,700 people live in Viera, with about 77,400 expected by 2045. There are challenges. Traffic is getting worse. Businesses like that, but those who live there, not so much. The new developments weren't without oppositions, though. Throughout much of the 20th century, Central Florida farmers like the Dudas drained the St. Johns floodplains to farm and stake claims on more land. Then, it was considered progress, but long-term environmental consequences were poorly understood. The Clean Water Act and other environmental laws in the 1970s would temper the old ditch-drain-fill ways of creating more uplands from wetlands. The late Leroy Wright and other activists with the nonprofit SAVE the St. Johns River Inc. fought for 15 years to have one dike removed that the Duda family had created just east of Lake Winder and west of Interstate 95 to drain land for farming. In the 1990s, Duda had hoped to develop parts of a 14-mile stretch of riverfront along the St. Johns, which included the Moccasin Island area. Early plans envisioned 200,000 people in Viera, with condos along the shoreline of Lake Winder. Wright and others fought for a state survey to determine what's called an "ordinary high water mark." That's the highest mark the water forms along the shoreline during the wet season, averaged over 20 years. With Wright's urging, the Brevard County Commission in 1994 tried to require the ordinary high water mark survey before Duda could build any closer to the river than Viera's first phase of development. But the survey didn't happen. It might have lowered the land's per-acre worth, Wright suspected, if it resulted in more land being called wetlands. In 1999, Duda would sell 14,137 acres, including the Moccasin Island area, to the St. Johns River Water Management District for $24.8 million for conservation and recreation. Current plans are much more environmentally friendly than what was possible when Viera was first envisioned in the 1980s. After negotiations with county and environmental officials, the overall development plan evolved to include a 5,200-acre wilderness park. It preserved large wetlands and made up for species impacted by the surrounding development, as well as to continue ongoing farming operations. It's the open spaces — even the man-made ones — that lure many families here. The parks add to all the reasons Worawat Srimaart moved to new apartments southwest of Borrows West three years ago. This recent day, he brought his 2-year-old son, Davin, to Borrows West Park. 'I love it here," Srimaart said. "It's the best place to relax." The Viera 'bubble' Rey, The Viera Co.'s senior vice president, sees a bubble in Brevard, but not the bubble we typically imagine. It's more a defense mechanism against more extreme market swings, driven by a strong presence of the defense, space and tourism industries. "There's almost like a dome over Brevard," Rey said. "The Space Coast has a great economic bubble here. I think we're a lot more insulated than a lot of other communities." Viera's median household income is 30% higher than the rest of Florida, $103,016, compared with $76,993 in all of Brevard and $71,711 in all of Florida, according to The Viera Co.'s marketing research. Among Viera's more than 13,200 employees, public employment is its largest employment sector, at 21.7%, with the prominence of government, educational and judicial facilities in the community. Almost one in four working-age adults in Viera has a master's degree or higher. "I think what really stands out is the level of education," Rey said. "You have a lot of white-collar here in Viera." While other analysts show people leaving Florida and a glut of homes on the market, The Viera Co.'s research shows many still moving here from places associated with aerospace, such as Texas, Colorado and California The Dudas always knew the area would take off. They kept the faith. Andrew always did. Waymer covers the environment. Contact him at 321-261-5903 or at jwaymer@ Dave Berman and Tim Shortt contributed to this story. This article originally appeared on Florida Today: Dudas' faith turns humble pastures into the Space Coast Solve the daily Crossword
USA Today
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Alan Bergman, Oscar-winning songwriter for Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, dies at 99
Alan Bergman wrote a song with his future wife on the day they first met. Over the next 60 years, they never stopped making music together. Bergman was one half of one of the greatest American songwriting duos. The other half was his wife Marilyn, who died in 2022. On July 17, Alan Bergman died at 99, family spokesperson Ken Sunshine told Reuters. Together, the Bergmans wrote the lyrics for "The Way We Were" and "The Windmills of Your Mind," tunes for the film "Yentl," and the theme songs for 1970s television comedies "Maude," "Alice" and "Good Times." "It was a terrible song, but we loved the process," Bergman said in 2011 of that first collaboration. "And from that day on, we've been writing together." The songwriting team went on to win three Oscars, four Emmys and two Grammy awards, and to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980. Their lyrics were set to the music of composers including Michel Legrand, Marvin Hamlisch, John Williams and Quincy Jones. Singers ranging from Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra to Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand and Sting recorded their songs. Johnny Mercer of 'Moon River' fame mentored Bergman Alan Bergman was born in September 1925 in Brooklyn, New York, in the same hospital where his wife was born a few years later. But the couple didn't meet until 1956, when they were introduced by the composer Lew Spence in Los Angeles. The couple married in 1958 and had one daughter. Bergman wrote his first song when he was 13 years old and continued to pen lyrics into his 90s, after his wife's death. The song "Wherever I May Go (for Marilyn)" was a tribute to her. Bergman studied at the University of North Carolina and completed a Master's degree in music at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he met songwriter Johnny Mercer. Mercer, who wrote the lyrics of "Moon River" for the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" in 1961, became his mentor. Despite his desire to write songs, Bergman first worked as a TV producer in Philadelphia. At Mercer's urging, he moved to California in the 1950s. "I was writing both music and lyrics in those days, and he would listen to what I was writing and critique it and encourage me," Bergman told JazzTimes magazine in 2024. "I would not be here today without him. He was a great influence." Bergman liked to use a baseball analogy to explain the couple's writing process — pitching and catching ideas back and forth. He preferred to have the music before he began to write the lyrics. Composers would leave their compositions with the couple. They would then write words that fit the notes. "We believe that words are at the tips of those notes and it's our job to find them," he told NPR in 2011. "That's the adventure." Alan Bergman, wife Marilyn Bergman's big break came on Frank Sinatra's 'Nice 'n' Easy' "Yellow Bird" was the duo's first money-making song, but their big break came with Frank Sinatra's 1960 album "Nice 'n' Easy." The crooner became a friend of the couple. He referred to them as "the kids." They had another career breakthrough when they worked with composer and producer Quincy Jones in 1967 on the song "In the Heat of the Night," for the film of the same name. They won their first Academy Award for best original song for writing "The Windmills of Your Mind" the following year, with Michel Legrand, for the film "The Thomas Crown Affair." They were awarded another Oscar in 1974 for "The Way We Were" with Marvin Hamlisch, as well as a Grammy for Song of the Year in 1975. In 1983, the couple were the first songwriters to have written three of the five Oscar-nominated songs. Two years later they took home their third Academy Award for "Yentl," starring Barbra Streisand. The singer became a friend and frequent interpreter of their music, recording more than 50 of their songs. She released the album "What Matters Most" as a tribute to the Bergmans and their music. The couple's Emmys included awards for the TV movies "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom" (1975) and "Sybil" (1977), and the song "Ordinary Miracles" from the 1995 Streisand special "Barbra: The Concert."
