#Alyson Walton

[amorinarose]

Book Chilling July 2024, an Aussie writer, a Melbourne excursion, and imperfections

Hoping this month gets me back on track with my blogging. I often consider giving it up, but the thing is, I like blogging. Obviously, a lot of what I write revolves around writing but then again a lot doesn’t. For example, this month is a spotlight on a fellow Indie author, a segment on Melbourne (love this city), my toe-dipping entry into selling my books in public and the segment on books and…

[paulsprogress]

Sunday 19th July

This week saw Paul making good progress with eating and drinking again but we warned the staff...NO CHEESE!. Tom dropped Paul’s phone off at the hospital so he could call us and we could call him and this really improved  the way we could stay in touch. with the help of the nurses still. His rehab everyday got Paul up and out of bed to do physio so when we zoomed at night he was quite tired

On Wednesday I got a call to say a bed had become available in the neurological rehabilitation centre at Salford Royal Hospital, although we would have liked him to have stayed with the Walton centre team for continuity, his Wigan post code meant Paul had to change to a different trust.  This was a big day as Paul was transferred by ambulance to a new hospital, new ward and new team, Alyson and I were hot on his heels with a big bag of his clothes, toiletries and a pair of swimming trunks just in case! 

We still can’t visit but can speak to Paul on his phone and face time a few times a day, he will start his new rehab programme on Monday 20th July but he is already much more alert and speaking more clearly than this time last week, we have also seen the return of his sense of humour in small doses so when I told him we had bought him a new Samsung tablet to play music, watch films, follow Leeds United etc..his first response wasn’t thank you but “how much was that!!”

As a family we are now feeling much more optimistic so although we still have a way to go, the Paul we all know and love is starting to come back to us now.

l update next week with our news 

[mateushonrado]

Status Post #8067: Yellow and Citrine Rangers

Row 1: Trini Crystal (Tricia Fisher) / Biorhythm Yellow (Bio-Man), Trini Crystal (Audri DuBois) / Yellow Ranger (MMPR pilot), Trini Kwan (Thuy Trang) / Yellow Ranger (MMPR S1-2), Trini Chang / Yellow Ranger (MMPR Hamilton), Tina (Jhoanna Trias) / Yellow Dark Ranger (MMPR S2), Aisha Campbell (Karan Ashley) / Yellow Ranger / Yellow Ninja Ranger (MMPR S2-3), Alicia Campbell (Karan Ashley) / Wild West Yellow Ranger (MMPR S2) and Aisha Campbell (Karan Ashley) / Yellow Ranger / Yellow Ninjetti Ranger (MMPR: TM)

Row 2: Nelida Valensis / Yellow Dark Ranger (MMPR Marvel), Tideus (Jim Gray) / Yellow Aquitar Ranger (Alien Rangers), Tanya Sloan (Nakia Burrise) / Zeo Ranger II Yellow / Yellow Turbo Ranger (Zeo-Turbo), Ashley Hammond (Tracy Lynn Cruz) / Yellow Turbo Ranger / Yellow Space Ranger (Turbo-In Space), Ashley robot (Tracy Lynn Cruz) / Yellow Turbo Ranger (Turbo), Astronema (Melody Perkins) / Yellow Space Ranger (In Space), Psycho Yellow (Kamera Walton) (In Space) and Maya (Cerina Vincent) / Galaxy Yellow (Lost Galaxy)

Row 3: Kelsey Winslow (Sasha Williams) / Yellow Lightspeed Ranger (Lightspeed Rescue), Katie Walker (Deborah Estelle Phillips) / Time Force Yellow (Time Force), Taylor Earhardt (Alyson Kiperman) / Yellow Eagle Ranger (Wild Force), Dustin Brooks (Glenn McMillan) / Yellow Wind Ranger (Ninja Storm), Dustin Brooks [Wild Wipeout] (Glenn McMillan) / Yellow Wind Ranger (Ninja Storm), Kira Ford (Emma Lahanlna) / Yellow Dino Ranger (Dino Thunder), Ivan Lane (Gregory Cooper) / A-Squad Yellow Ranger (SPD) and Elizabeth Delgado (Monica May) / SPD Yellow Ranger (SPD)

Row 4: Chip Thorn (Nic Sampson) / Yellow Mystic Ranger (Mystic Force), Ronny Robinson (Caitlin Murphy) / Overdrive Yellow (Operation Overdrive), Lily Chilman (Anna Hutchison) / Yellow Cheetah Ranger (Jungle Fury), Summer Landsdown (Rose McIver) / Ranger Yellow (RPM), Yellow Shogun Ranger (Samurai), Emily and Serena's mother (uncredited actress) / Yellow Samurai Ranger (Samurai) and Serena Robertson (Jacinda Stevens) / Yellow Samurai Ranger (Samurai, candidate)

Row 5: Emily Robertson (Brittany Anne Pirtle) / Yellow Samurai Ranger / Yellow Shogun Ranger (Samurai), Gia Moran (Ciara Hanna) / Megaforce Yellow / Super Megaforce Yellow (Megaforce-Super Megaforce), Terona Washington / Yellow Ranger (MMPR/GGPR-MMPR: Beyond the Grid), Trini Kwan / Yellow Ranger (MMPR/GGPR), Jason Lee Scott / Yellow Ranger (MMPR/GGPR) and Trini Kwan [Coinless] / Yellow Ranger (MMPR/GGPR-MMPR: Shattered Grid)

Row 6: Sabertooth Sentry (MMPR/GGPR), Pyre / Supersonic Yellow (MMPR/GGPR), Aisha Campbell / Yellow Ranger (MMPR/GGPR), Trini Kwan / All-New Yellow Ranger (MMPR: Pink), Aisha Campbell / Yellow Ranger (MMPR: Pink), Calvin Maxwell (Nico Greetham) / Ninja Steel Yellow (Ninja Steel), Cenozoic Yellow Ranger (Fiona Vroom) (PR 2017), Trini Crystal (Becky Gomez) / Yellow Ranger (PR 2017), Jack Thomas / Hyperforce Yellow (Hyperforce) and Tanya Sloan / Zeo Ranger II Yellow / Yellow Solar Ranger (MMPR: Shattered Grid-Beyond the Grid)

Occupying the sixth spot of Row 6-7: Kelsey Winslow / Yellow Lightspeed Ranger (MMPR: Shattered Grid)

Occupying the seventh spot of Row 5-7: Zoey Reeves (Jacqueline Scislowski) / Beast Morpher Yellow (Beast Morphers)

Occupying the eighth spot of Row 4-7: Roxy (Liana Ramirez) / Cybervillain Yellow (Beast Morphers)

[tasksweekly]

[TASK 045: FRECKLES]

There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 220+ faceclaims with freckles categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaim with freckles. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by a freckled artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

Note: If you’re using this masterlist for casting purposes please do further research before casting any of the following, it was difficult finding sources for most of these and don’t know if they’re ethnically or nationally Turkish. Many thanks.

We haven’t included those in THIS masterlist by @lazyresources so combined there are 220 facecalims!

Ladies:

Sissy Spacek (67) - actress and singer.

Dana Delany (61) - actress,, producer, presenter, and activist.

Sade (58) Nigerian (Yoruba), British - singer.

Mariska Hargitay (53) - actress.

Stacey Williams (49) - fashion model.

Alicia Coppola (49) - actress.

Jennifer Garner (45) - actress.

Julianne Nicholson (45) - actress.

Alyson Hannigan (43) - actress.

Neve Campbell (43) - actress.

Kate Moss (43) - model.

Amber Valletta (43) - model and actress.

Eva Longoria (42) Mexican (Spanish, Indigenous/Mayan, and African) - actress, producer, director, activist and businesswoman.

Kari Byron (42) - television host and artist.

Amy Smart (41) - actress and former fashion model.

Melissa Joan Hart (41) - actress, voice actress, director, producer, singer, fashion designer, and businesswoman.

Anna Friel (40) - actress.

Shakira (40) Lebanese / Colombian, including Italian/Sicilian, Spanish [Catalan, Castilian], possibly other - singer, songwriter, dancer, and record producer.

Jessica Chastain (40) - actress and film producer.

Annie Wersching (40) - actress.

Jennifer Hall (39) - actress.

Andrea Navedo (39) Puerto Rican - actress.

Jennifer Morrison (38) - actress, singer, producer, and director.

Angela Lindvall (38) - actress.

Michaela Maurerová (37) - actress.

Erin Cahill (37) - actress.

Vica Kerekes (36) - actress.

Gisele Bündchen (36) - model.

Bryce Dallas Howard (36) - actress, director, producer, and writer.

Meghan Markle (35) African-American / White -   actress, humanitarian, and activist.

Sienna Miller (35) - actress, model, and fashion designer.  

Diora Baird (34) - actress and former model.

Danielle Gamba (34) - model, dancer, and former NFL Cheerleader.

Natalie Britton (32) - actress.

Sarah Agor (32) - actress.

Anne Vyalitsyna (31) - model.

Michelle Trachtenberg (31) - actress.

Nicola Roberts (31) - recording artist, fashion designer, and songwriter.

Katrina Law (31) Taiwanese, German, Italian - actress.

Devin Kelley (31) - actress.

Caity Lotz (30) - actress, dancer, martial artist practitioner, singer, and model.

Katie Leclerc (30) - actress.

Kesha (30) - singer, songwriter, and rapper.

Virginia Petrucci (30) - actress.

Rose Leslie (30) 1/8th Mexican - actress.

Zoe Sloane (29) - actress.

Kristýna Kolocová (29) - beach volleyball player.

Blake Lively (29) - actress.

Karen Gillan (29) - actress and director.

Alia Shawkat (28) 50% Iraqi 25% Norwegian 12.5% Irish 12.5% Italian - actress.

Zoë Kravitz (28) 37.5% African-American 12.5% Afro-Bahamian 50% Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, singer, and model.

Gabriela Soukalová (27) - biathlete.

Adwoa Aboah (25) Ghanaian-British - model.

Binx Walton (21) Unknown Ethnicity - model.

Natalie Westling (20) - model.

Faye Reagan (?) - pornographic film actress.

Mia Sollis (?) - pornographic film actress.

JoJo (26) - singer, songwriter, and actress.

Meaghan Martin (25) - actress and singer.

Karle Warren (25) - actress.

Saoirse Ronan (23) - actress.

Laura Gwyneth Butler (born in 1997) - model.

Alexandra Porfirova (?) Unknown Ethnicity - model.

Jamillah McWhorter (?) Unknown Ethnicity - model.

Amit Freidman (?) - model.

Scarlett Fay (?) - pornographic film actress.

Adele Jacques (?) - actress.

Kim Blair (?) - actress.

Caroline Ford (?) - actress.

Ryann Shane (?) - actress.

Sarah Newswanger (?) - actress.

Juliet Oldfield (?) - actress.

Miyamoto Ayana (?) Japanese.

Males:

Damian Lewis (46) - actor.

David Tennant (46) - actor.

Jesse Williams (35) African-American, possibly Seminole Native American / White - actor, model, and activist.

Adam Wylie (33) - singer, musical performer, and voice actor.

Bob Morley (32) Filipino / White - actor.

Jay Hayden (30) - actor.

Higashide Masahiro (29) Japanese - actor and model.

Calum Worthy (26) - actor.

Diego Barrueco (26) - model.

Stephen Joffe (25) - actor.

Josh Hutcherson (24) - actor.

Adam Hicks (24) - actor, tapper, singer, and songwriter.

Adam Taylor Gordon (23) - actor.

Gabriel Basso (22) - actor.

Austin MacDonald (21) - actor.

Dylan Riley Snyder (20) - actor.

Zane Huett (20) - actor.

Dylan Minnette (20) - actor.

Jae Head (20) - actor.

Grayson Russell (19) - actor.

Justin Tinucci (18) - actor.

Elijah Nelson (18) - actor.

Tucker Albrizzi (17) - actor.

Shane Cambria (16) - actor.

George Hard (?) stated as biracial - model.

Johnny Harrington (?) - model.

Linus Wordemann (?) - model.

Kim Wonjung (?) Unknown Ethnicity - model.

Mat Lachance (?) - model.

Jester White (?) - model.

Devon Usher (?) - model.

Simonas Pham (?) Unknown Ethnicity - model.

Naleye Junior Dolmans (?) Unknown Ethnicity - model.

Jake Cassar (?) - model.

Tom Webb (?) - model.

Wynston Shannon (?) - model.

Calin Sitar (?) - model.

Victor Ross (?) Unknown Ethnicity - model.

Skyler James Sandak (?) - actor.

Bodhi Schulz (?) - actor.

Johannes Ibelherr (?) - model.

Peter Badenhop (?) - model.

Rodrigo Calazans (?) - model.

Adam Lee (?) - model.

Davi Vath (?) - model.

Florian Van Bael (?) - model.

Ismaelpeter Casillas Nelson (?) - actor.

Trans:

Buck Angel (44) film producer.

Taylor O'Keefe (?) - Youtuber.

Casil McArthur (?)

Use @ ur own discretion:

Eddie Redmayne

Emma Stone

Colton Haynes

[malte1mj-blog]

2011/2012 TV Awards

Best Drama Series: Boardwalk Empire Breaking Bad Game of Thrones The Good Wife Homeland Mad Men HONORABLE MENTION: Game of Thrones, Justified, Luck, Men of a Certain Age, Parenthood, Scandal, Shameless, Southland Best Actor - Drama Series: Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire - "To the Lost" Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad - "Crawl Space" Jon Hamm, Mad Men - "The Other Woman" Damian Lewis, Homeland - "Marine One" Timothy Olyphant, Justified - "Slaughterhouse" Michael Pitt, Boardwalk Empire - "Under God's Power She Flourishes" HONORABLE MENTION: John Barrowman, Torchwood: Miracle Day; Kelsey Grammer, Boss; Michael C. Hall, Dexter; Dustin Hoffman, Luck; Charlie Hunnam, Sons of Anarchy; Peter Krause, Parenthood; Denis Leary, Rescue Me; William H. Macy, Shameless; Ben McKenzie, Southland; Ray Romano, Men of a Certain Age Best Actress - Drama Series: Claire Danes, Homeland - "The Vest" Kelly Macdonald, Boardwalk Empire - "Peg of Old" Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife - "Blue Ribbon Panel" Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men - "The Other Woman" Jessica Pare, Mad Men - "A Little Kiss, Parts 1 & 2" Emmy Rossum, Shameless - "A Great Cause" HONORABLE MENTION: Rose Byrne, Damages; Glenn Close, Damages; Lauren Graham, Parenthood; Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy; Katey Sagal, Sons of Anarchy; Kerry Washington, Scandal Best Supporting Actor - Drama Series: Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones - "Blackwater" Giancarlo Esposito, Breaking Bad - "Hermanos" Vincent Kartheiser, Mad Men - "Signal 30" Mandy Patinkin, Homeland - "The Weekend" Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad - "End Times" John Slattery, Mad Men - "Far Away Places" HONORABLE MENTION: Jonathan Banks, Breaking Bad; Andre Braugher, Men of a Certain Age; Josh Charles, The Good Wife; Michael Cudlitz, Southland; Alan Cumming, The Good Wife; Dennis Farina, Luck; Walton Goggins, Justified; Jared Harris, Mad Men; Shawn Hatosy, Southland; Jack Huston, Boardwalk Empire; Robert Sean Leonard, House; Neal McDonagh, Justified; Nick Nolte, Luck; Dean Norris, Breaking Bad; John Ortiz, Luck; Ron Perlman, Sons of Anarchy; Michael Shannon, Boardwalk Empire; Jeremy Allen White, Shameless; Mykelti Williamson, Justified Best Supporting Actress - Drama Series: Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad - "Cornered" Christina Hendricks, Mad Men - "The Other Woman" Regina King, Southland - "Risk" Sandra Oh, Grey's Anatomy - "Support System" Kiernan Shipka, Mad Men - "Commissions and Fees" Maggie Siff, Sons of Anarchy - "Hands" HONORABLE MENTION: Morena Baccarin, Homeland; Christine Baranski, The Good Wife; Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones; Joan Cusack, Shameless; Lena Headey, Game of Thrones; Megan Hilty, Smash; January Jones, Mad Men; Lucy Liu, Southland; Gretchen Mol, Boardwalk Empire; Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife; Monica Potter, Parenthood; Madeleine Stowe, Revenge; Sophie Turner, Game of Thrones Best Writing - Drama Series: Boardwalk Empire - "Under God's Power She Flourishes" - Howard Korder Breaking Bad - "Crawl Space" - Sam Catlin & George Mastras Breaking Bad - "End Times" - Thomas Schnauz & Moira Walley-Beckett Breaking Bad - "Salud" - Peter Gould & Gennifer Hutchison The Good Wife - "Another Ham Sandwich" - Leonard Dick Mad Men - "Far Away Places" - Semi Chellas & Matthew Weiner HONORABLE MENTION: Boardwalk Empire - “To the Lost”; Boardwalk Empire - “Two Boats and a Lifeguard”; Breaking Bad - “Bullet Points”; Breaking Bad - “Face Off”; Breaking Bad - “Hermanos”; Game of Thrones - “Blackwater”; The Good Wife - “The Dream Team”; The Good Wife - “Executive Order 13224”; Grey’s Anatomy - “Support System”; Homeland - “The Vest”; Homeland - “The Weekend”; Mad Men - “At the Codfish Ball”; Mad Men - “Commissions and Fees”; Mad Men - “The Other Woman”; Men of a Certain Age - “Hold Your Finish”; Sons of Anarchy - “Hands” Best Directing - Drama Series: Breaking Bad - "Face Off" - Vince Gilligan Breaking Bad - "Salud" - Michelle MacLaren Game of Thrones - "Blackwater" - Neil Marshall Homeland - "Marine One" - Michael Cuesta Mad Men - "Far Away Places" - Scott Hornbacher Mad Men - "The Other Woman" - Phil Abraham HONORABLE MENTION: Boardwalk Empire - ”To the Lost”; Boardwalk Empire - “Under God’s Power She Flourishes”; Breaking Bad - “Crawl Space”; Breaking Bad - “Hermanos”; Breaking Bad - “Problem Dog”; Game of Thrones - “Blackwater”; The Good Wife - “The Dream Team”; The Good Wife - “Parenting Made Easy”; Homeland - “The Weekend”; Luck - “Episode Nine”; Mad Men - “Commissions and Fees”; Mad Men - “Signal 30”; Rescue Me - “Ashes”; Sons of Anarchy - “Burnt and Purged Away”; The Walking Dead - “18 Miles Out” Best Guest Actor - Drama Series: Dylan Baker, The Good Wife - "Marthas and Caitlins" Andre Braugher, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - "Child's Welfare" Michael J. Fox, The Good Wife - "Parenting Made Easy" Mark Margolis, Breaking Bad - "Face Off" Matthew Perry, The Good Wife - "Blue Ribbon Panel" Michael Zegen, The Walking Dead - "Judge, Jury, Executioner" HONORABLE MENTION: Patrick J. Adams, Luck; Zachary Booth, Damages; John Corbett, Parenthood; Michael Gladis, Mad Men; Erik LaRay Harvey, Boardwalk Empire; Michael B. Jordan, Parenthood; Jon Manfrellotti, Men of a Certain Age; Dylan Minnette, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Mos Def, Dexter; Pruitt Taylor Vince, Justified; Jeffrey Wright, House Best Guest Actress - Drama Series: Louise Fletcher, Shameless - "Parenthood" Marin Ireland, Homeland - "The Weekend" Carrie Preston, The Good Wife - "Alienation of Affection" Anika Noni Rose, The Good Wife - "Another Ham Sandwich" Chloe Sevigny, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - "Valentine's Day" Chloe Webb, Shameless - "Hurricane Monica" HONORABLE MENTION: Jane Adams, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Debbie Allen, Grey’s Anatomy; Lisa Edelstein, The Good Wife; Mamie Gummer, The Good Wife; Natasha Lyonne, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Julianne Nicholson, Boardwalk Empire; Julia Ormond, Mad Men; Mary Beth Peil, The Good Wife; Martha Plimpton, The Good Wife; Amy Sedaris, The Good Wife; Carice van Houten, Game of Thrones; Sofia Vassilieva, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Best Ensemble - Drama Series: Boardwalk Empire Breaking Bad Game of Thrones The Good Wife Mad Men Shameless HONORABLE MENTION: Grey’s Anatomy, Homeland, Justified, Luck, Men of a Certain Age, Parenthood, Rescue Me, Scandal, Sons of Anarchy, Southland, True Blood, The Walking Dead Best New Drama Series: Homeland Luck Revenge Scandal Smash HONORABLE MENTION: Boss Best Comedy Series: Community Girls Louie Modern Family Parks and Recreation Veep HONORABLE MENTION: The Big Bang Theory, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Enlightened, Happy Endings, Hung, I Just Want My Pants Back, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Middle, New Girl, Nurse Jackie, Raising Hope, 30 Rock Best Actor - Comedy Series: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock - "Live From Studio 6H" Louis C.K., Louie - "Duckling" Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm - "Larry vs. Michael J. Fox" Joel McHale, Community - "Introduction to Finality" Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory - "The Ornithophobia Diffusion" Adam Scott, Parks and Recreation - "The Trial of Leslie Knope" HONORABLE MENTION: Will Arnett, Up All Night; Garret Dillahunt, Raising Hope; Jason Gann, Wilfred; Thomas Jane, Hung; Zachary Levi, Chuck; Danny McBride, Eastbound & Down; Lucas Neff, Raising Hope; Jeremy Sisto, Suburgatory; Peter Back, I Just Want My Pants Back Best Actress - Comedy Series: Zooey Deschanel, New Girl - "Secrets" Lena Dunham, Girls - "The Return" Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie - "Disneyland Sucks" Laura Linney, The Big C - "Crossing the Line" Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep - "Fundraiser" Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation - "The Debate" HONORABLE MENTION: Jane Adams, Hung; Beth Behrs, 2 Broke Girls; Kat Dennings, 2 Broke Girls; Laura Dern, Enlightened; Tina Fey, 30 Rock; Patricia Heaton, The Middle; Jane Levy, Suburgatory; Lea Michele, Glee; Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds; Martha Plimpton, Raising Hope; Kim Shaw, I Just Want My Pants Back Best Supporting Actor - Comedy Series: Ty Burrell, Modern Family - "Virgin Territory" Max Greenfield, New Girl - "Control" Nick Offerman, Parks and Recreation - "Ron and Tammys" Ed O'Neill, Modern Family - "Baby on Board" Danny Pudi, Community - "Virtual Systems Analysis" Jim Rash, Community - "Studies in Modern Movement" HONORABLE MENTION: Aziz Ansari, Parks and Recreation; Darren Criss, Glee; Adam Driver, Girls; Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family; Neil Flynn, The Middle; Donald Glover, Community; Tony Hale, Veep; Simon Helberg, The Big Bang Theory; Jake Johnson, New Girl; Rob McElhenney, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia; Adam Pally, Happy Endings; Jeremy Piven, Entourage; Chris Pratt, Parks and Recreation; Jason Segel, How I Met Your Mother; Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family; James Van Der Beek, Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23; Damon Wayans Jr., Happy Endings Best Supporting Actress - Comedy Series: Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory - "The Shiny Trinket Maneuver" Julie Bowen, Modern Family - "Go Bullfrogs!" Eliza Coupe, Happy Endings - "The Butterfly Effect Effect" Naya Rivera, Glee - "Mash Off" Sofia Vergara, Modern Family - "Tableau Vivant" Merritt Wever, Nurse Jackie - "No-Kimono-Zone" HONORABLE MENTION: Alison Brie, Community; Anna Chlumsky, Veep; Elisha Cuthbert, Happy Endings; Alyson Hannigan, How I Met Your Mother; Anne Heche, Hung; Cheryl Hines, Suburgatory; Gillian Jacobs, Community; Jemima Kirke, Girls; Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock; Diane Ladd, Enlightened; Kaitlin Olson, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia; Aubrey Plaza, Parks and Recreation; Eden Sher, The Middle; Gabourey Sidibe, The Big C; Anna Deavere Smith, Nurse Jackie; Cobie Smulders, How I Met Your Mother; Betty White, Hot in Cleveland; Allison Williams, Girls; Casey Wilson, Happy Endings Best Writing - Comedy Series: Community - "Remedial Chaos Theory" - Chris McKenna Girls - "All Adventurous Women Do" - Lena Dunham Louie - "Duckling" - Louis C.K. Modern Family - "Baby on Board" - Abraham Higginbotham Parks and Recreation - "The Trial of Leslie Knope" - Dan Goor & Michael Schur Veep - "Baseball" - Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche HONORABLE MENTION: Community - “Curriculum Unavailable”; Community - “Studies in Modern Movement”; Girls - “Hannah’s Diary”; Girls - “The Return”; Girls - “She Did”; Happy Endings - “The Butterfly Effect Effect”; Hung - “A Monkey Named Simian or Frances Is Not a Fan”; Louie - “Subway/Pamela”; Modern Family - “Aunt Mommy”; Modern Family - “Go Bullfrogs!”; Modern Family - “Leap Day”; Nurse Jackie - “Disneyland Sucks”; Parks and Recreation - “The Debate”; Parks and Recreation - “The Treaty”; Parks and Recreation - “Win, Lose or Draw”; 30 Rock - “Today You Are a Man”; Veep - “Catherine”; Veep - “Fundraiser” Best Directing - Comedy Series: Community - "Remedial Chaos Theory" - Jeff Melman Curb Your Enthusiasm - "Palestinian Chicken" - Robert B. Weide Girls - "Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident" - Jody Lee Lipes Louie - "Duckling" - Louis C.K. Modern Family - "Tableau Vivant" - Gail Mancuso Parks and Recreation - "Citizen Knope" - Randall Einhorn HONORABLE MENTION: Community - “Basic Lupine Urology”; Community - “Documentary Filmmaking Redux”; Curb Your Enthusiasm - “Larry vs. Michael J. Fox”; Curb Your Enthusiasm - “Mister Softee”; Girls - “All Adventurous Women Do”; Girls - “Hannah’s Diary��; Girls - “She Did”; Glee - “Goodbye”; Happy Endings - “Spooky Endings”; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - “The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore”; Louie - “Joan”; Louie - “Subway/Pamela”; Modern Family - “After the Fire”; Modern Family - “Baby on Board”; Modern Family - “Leap Day”; Nurse Jackie - “Handle Your Scandal”; Parks and Recreation - “Bus Tour”; Parks and Recreation - “The Debate”; Parks and Recreation - “Win, Lose or Draw”; Raising Hope - “Jimmy’s Fake Girlfriend”; 30 Rock - “Live From Studio 6H”; Veep - “Baseball”; Veep - “Catherine” Best Guest Actor - Comedy Series: Matt Bomer, Glee - "Big Brother" Michael J. Fox, Curb Your Enthusiasm - "Larry vs. Michael J. Fox" Andrew Rannells, Girls - "All Adventurous Women Do" Paul Rudd, Parks and Recreation - "The Debate" Peter Scolari, Girls - "The Return" Doug Stanhope, Louie - "Eddie" HONORABLE MENTION: Alan Alda, The Big C; Dan Byrd, Suburgatory; Louis C.K., Parks and Recreation; Bob Einstein, Curb Your Enthusiasm; Chris Elliott, How I Met Your Mother; Jeff Goldblum, Glee; Don Johnson, Eastbound & Down; Justin Long, New Girl; Ricky Martin, Glee; Chris O’Dowd, Girls; Josh Rabinowitz, I Just Want My Pants Back; Ben Schwartz, Parks and Recreation; James Wolk, Happy Endings Best Guest Actress - Comedy Series: Pamela Adlon, Louie - "Subway/Pamela" Becky Ann Baker, Girls - "The Return" Whoopi Goldberg, The Middle - "The Guidance Counselor" Megan Mullally, Happy Endings - "Yesandwitch" Joan Rivers, Louie - "Joan" Robin Wright, Enlightened - "Sandy" HONORABLE MENTION: Lizzy Caplan, New Girl; Margaret Cho, 30 Rock; Olympia Dukakis, Bored to Death; Kathryn Hahn, Girls; Kathryn Hahn, Parks and Recreation; Nene Leakes, Glee; 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Florida Beach Access Imperiled in Clash With Panhandle Landowners

The rights of beach-front landowners and vacationers are in apparent conflict in the Florida Panhandle. Pictured is Panama City Beach, Florida. Visit Florida

Skift Take: Who will will the turf war on Florida beaches between landowners and vacationers trying to spread out their towels to enjoy some fun in the sun? The courts will have to figure it out, and there will be big tourism dollars at risk in the outcome.

— Dennis Schaal

Nestled between the high-rise condominium towers lining Panama City Beach to the east and Destin to the west is Walton County Road 30 A, which takes in a 24-mile stretch of multi-million dollar beachfront homes and exclusive resorts that are experiencing a tourism boom.

The once remote swath of turquoise Gulf waters and gleaming white-sand beaches serves as a vacation home to Nashville stars like Faith Hill and Kenny Chesney and national Republican notables like former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and strategist Karl Rove.

Once known for its Southern charm and casual atmosphere, this Panhandle beach has become a flashpoint in a fight between beachfront homeowners and Gulf coast vacationers with the outcome potentially defining who controls access to Florida’s beaches.

While Florida’s bright sandy coast seems open to all, beachgoers could be walking on someone’s backyard without knowing it. Only the wet sand — the beach up to the high tide line — is public under state law, not all areas where visitors lay their towels or anchor their umbrellas.

Most beachgoers wouldn’t know if they set up a chair or blanket on private sand. No big red line dissects the beach. Fences are rare. Landowners try to make their beach private with varying effect.

Property owners can legally kick sunbathers off the beach — except in Walton County.

There is no landmark court ruling, no overarching state law outlining who ultimately controls access to Florida’s beaches. Only a few narrow rulings challenging moves by counties over beach access are on the books.

Many property owners avoid provoking beachgoers. But some owners have tried to limit public access to their land. A Naples hotel blocks beach access some days to save room for guests; south Lee County beach residents placed “No Trespassing” signs on their sand.

Many counties want to keep things quiet, mainly to avoid conflict, said Alyson Flourney, University of Florida Levin College of Law professor.

“There may be a few conflicts, but if it isn’t causing a lot of problems, a county might not want to weigh into this contention area,” she said. “But as the sea level rises and beachfront shrinks, counties will be faced with this sort of conflict, and they need to address it more systematically.”

The lack of a statewide answer to who controls access to Florida’s beaches looms larger as coastal communities prepare to spend millions of public dollars to put sand on shores damaged by Hurricane Irma.

A proposal for such a statewide measure, in favor of private property rights, failed in the Legislature this year. A late-hour amendment to a bill would have prohibited local governments from enacting laws that provide public access to beaches. The bill died under the amendment’s weight.

House sponsor Katie Edwards, D-Plantation, said the amendment, which she will offer again in the next session, was not meant to block public access to privately owned beaches. But a judge should decide the issue on a case-by-case basis so local governments don’t act as Walton County did with its ordinance.

“Things like this happen to spread like wildfire,” said Edwards, who represents an inland portion of Broward County.

Public access to Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach is unique from other Florida beaches because the local beaches were deeded to Escambia County by the federal government after World War II. Development of land on the two beaches is controlled by a system of 99-year leases.

Walton County tore apart the status quo by adopting a law in December that opens dry sand for basic beach activities, even if it’s privately owned.

Homeowners quickly sued the Walton County Commission in federal court, and now local governments across the state are watching to see whether the case is decided in favor of landowner rights or public beach access.

The county measure, the first in Florida, created a private 15-foot buffer from the toe of the dune or habitable structure. Any other sand is open to basic public beach activities including walking, picnicking and building “sand creations.”

The law is not completely open-ended, specifically prohibiting use of tobacco, walking animals or putting up tents on the privately-owned beaches.

The local measure spawned several state lawsuits focused on individual pieces of property. But it’s the federal lawsuit that could define beach access in Florida.

“If Walton County (wins the case), we could see other counties following suit,” said attorney D. Kent Safriet, representing homeowners suing Walton County. “It’s important that way. That’s a reason there’s not a bunch of ordinances like this.”

A federal judge has ruled on part of the case, saying landowners should be allowed to post signs on their private beach, including “No Trespassing” signs, as a First Amendment right. But the judge has yet to rule on the potentially groundbreaking aspect of the suit — whether a local government is allowed to create a customary use law.

“Customary use” means a beach that has been continuously used, sometimes since ancient times, remains public even if it is privately-owned.

The homeowners say the county overstepped its authority by passing a law declaring the beach qualified for “customary use.”

“Establishing” customary use is not up to a local government, Safriet argued. It must be proven through a court process, allowing cross-examination and other legal steps.

From Walton County’s perspective, the law is simply “recognizing and protecting” customary use, said county representative David Theriaque.

“The county’s position is that customary use of dry sand areas has been in existence for generations,” he said. “Even before plaintiffs bought property here, customary use already existed.

“The plaintiffs are saying (the customary use ordinance) is taking away their rights. We disagree. What we are doing is preventing property owners from interfering” with beachgoer rights.

The entire case came about because of rowdy beachgoers. Visitors have boomed in recent years, and conflicts have become more common, Safriet said.

“The real problem are tourists disrespecting the people who own the beach,” he said. “People will set up stadium tents and leave them there for days.”

Land owners began placing “no trespassing” signs along their beaches, which prompted the county law restricting use of signs or fences on the sand.

Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson said his deputies have responded to many calls through the years involving disputes about beach access.

“We were getting calls from the public saying that they were being asked to move off the beach,” he said. “There have been quite a few conflicts as places hire private security and the security officers tell people they have to leave.”

Adkinson said his deputies are not issuing trespassing tickets involving the sandy beach.

At Rosemary Beach, an exclusive beachfront neighborhood where vacation rental cottages go for up to $1,800 a night, security guards monitor each of the beach entrances.

Vacationer Jacob Marek said the exclusive feel is part of the reason he drives 12 hours from Austin, Texas, for his annual family vacations.

“The beach is beautiful. You don’t get beaches like this in Texas. I like that once we get here I can loosen up for the week and just relax,” he said.

While Walton County is tackling the beachfront battle in court, much of the state is content to ignore public use of private sands unless forced into conflict.

For decades, Collier County’s beachfront in Southwest Florida has been a welcoming place.

Naples’ founding fathers ended the city’s east-west avenues at a street now buried under the sand. The extended avenues mean that, even today, each beach end has parking on every block. For a while, that was enough.

But explosive growth soon made beach parking a big issue. City leaders threatened to start charging county residents for beach parking stickers. The county built the Vanderbilt Beach parking garage to help alleviate the coastal space strain.

So when the Ritz-Carlton first tried to mark off its beach south of the new garage for the exclusive use of hotel guests, the public fought back. It was Collier’s first realization that the beach might not be the publicly owned sandy park everyone believed they had an undisputed right to roam.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection was called in to make sure the line was drawn in the right place. During especially busy times, the Ritz would post a guard to shoo away visitors who weren’t hotel guests. The county and the Ritz settled into an uneasy understanding in which the hotel uses the entire length of its beach for guests about 30 peak days a year and opens some of it to the public on other days.

Then one spring morning in 2010, visitors walked onto Vanderbilt Beach and found cones and signs marking off a part of the beach in front of the Moraya Bay condominium.

For more than a week, the condo was the focus of angry beachgoers who wanted back what they thought was theirs all along: the beach.

They overran County Commission chambers, demanding commissioners fight back. They did, voting to take whatever steps were needed, including going to court.

Moraya Bay eventually relented, removing the cones and the signs, and making court action moot.

“It looks like a free country,” a 77-year-old Cape Cod woman observed as beachgoers spread their chairs and blankets over sand that had been off-limits the day before.

Moraya Bay developers argued they were simply trying to make the same use of its private beach as other Collier beach clubs, including the Port Royal Club, the Edgewater Beach Hotel, the Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club, the Ritz-Carlton and La Playa.

After a new County Commission was seated this year, commissioners received emails from the Naples Park Association and beach access advocate Graham Ginsberg about Moraya Bay again marking off its beach.

“Collier County government has yet to provide a solution and fairness for the public use of our beaches,” Ginsberg wrote in one email.

County Attorney Jeff Klatzkow told commissioners this summer he could offer a public beach access law for their review. It would be limited to Vanderbilt Beach and based on the customary use doctrine and the $20 million in public money used to maintain the beach, he wrote.

But, he added, it also might not be worth the trouble unless more beach visitors come forward with stories of being wrongfully run off the beach.

“My concern is that such an ordinance will be controversial, will bring out both the private property groups as well as the public access groups, and may result in bad feelings among many,” Klatzkow wrote.

Residents of Lee County shared horror stories similar to beachfront owners in Walton County, said Dawn Koncikowski, long-time resident of Little Hickory Island.

“Since the early 2000s, I’ve had a ‘No Trespassing’ sign on the beach behind my house,” she said. “There were break-ins in people’s homes and property, and the police recommended to put up signs. I’m just protecting my private property rights.”

On a recent sunny afternoon, Mike and Traci Duckworth of Evansville, Indiana, relaxed under an umbrella at a public beach access point off Walton County Road 30 A. The couple, who had rented a vacation home across the street from the beach, said they were surprised by the limited beach access.

“It used to be quainter here, smaller,” Mike Duckworth said.

Traci Duckworth said she can understand why people who own beachfront property would want to keep their property private. But tourism dollars benefit the entire region and restricting beach access makes tourists feel less welcome, her husband said.

“Without the tourists, they have a hard time paving the roads and providing public services,” he said.

In the exclusive Seaside neighborhood, known for its pastel beach cottages and boutique shops, the beach recently was lined with the resort’s blue umbrellas and lounge chairs.

Signs up and down the beach read: “Private beach wristband required — Seaside Neighborhood Association.”

Vacationer Eric Hammons, visiting from West Monroe, Louisiana, with his wife, daughter and grandson, said he can see both sides of the beach access dispute. The restrictions are needed to protect property values, but it seems wrong for people to be kept off the state’s beaches.

“It’s not an easy issue,” he said.

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Florida Beach Access Imperiled in Clash With Panhandle Landowners

The rights of beach-front landowners and vacationers are in apparent conflict in the Florida Panhandle. Pictured is Panama City Beach, Florida. Visit Florida

Skift Take: Who will will the turf war on Florida beaches between landowners and vacationers trying to spread out their towels to enjoy some fun in the sun? The courts will have to figure it out, and there will be big tourism dollars at risk in the outcome.

— Dennis Schaal

Nestled between the high-rise condominium towers lining Panama City Beach to the east and Destin to the west is Walton County Road 30 A, which takes in a 24-mile stretch of multi-million dollar beachfront homes and exclusive resorts that are experiencing a tourism boom.

The once remote swath of turquoise Gulf waters and gleaming white-sand beaches serves as a vacation home to Nashville stars like Faith Hill and Kenny Chesney and national Republican notables like former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and strategist Karl Rove.

Once known for its Southern charm and casual atmosphere, this Panhandle beach has become a flashpoint in a fight between beachfront homeowners and Gulf coast vacationers with the outcome potentially defining who controls access to Florida’s beaches.

While Florida’s bright sandy coast seems open to all, beachgoers could be walking on someone’s backyard without knowing it. Only the wet sand — the beach up to the high tide line — is public under state law, not all areas where visitors lay their towels or anchor their umbrellas.

Most beachgoers wouldn’t know if they set up a chair or blanket on private sand. No big red line dissects the beach. Fences are rare. Landowners try to make their beach private with varying effect.

Property owners can legally kick sunbathers off the beach — except in Walton County.

There is no landmark court ruling, no overarching state law outlining who ultimately controls access to Florida’s beaches. Only a few narrow rulings challenging moves by counties over beach access are on the books.

Many property owners avoid provoking beachgoers. But some owners have tried to limit public access to their land. A Naples hotel blocks beach access some days to save room for guests; south Lee County beach residents placed “No Trespassing” signs on their sand.

Many counties want to keep things quiet, mainly to avoid conflict, said Alyson Flourney, University of Florida Levin College of Law professor.

“There may be a few conflicts, but if it isn’t causing a lot of problems, a county might not want to weigh into this contention area,” she said. “But as the sea level rises and beachfront shrinks, counties will be faced with this sort of conflict, and they need to address it more systematically.”

The lack of a statewide answer to who controls access to Florida’s beaches looms larger as coastal communities prepare to spend millions of public dollars to put sand on shores damaged by Hurricane Irma.

A proposal for such a statewide measure, in favor of private property rights, failed in the Legislature this year. A late-hour amendment to a bill would have prohibited local governments from enacting laws that provide public access to beaches. The bill died under the amendment’s weight.

House sponsor Katie Edwards, D-Plantation, said the amendment, which she will offer again in the next session, was not meant to block public access to privately owned beaches. But a judge should decide the issue on a case-by-case basis so local governments don’t act as Walton County did with its ordinance.

“Things like this happen to spread like wildfire,” said Edwards, who represents an inland portion of Broward County.

Public access to Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach is unique from other Florida beaches because the local beaches were deeded to Escambia County by the federal government after World War II. Development of land on the two beaches is controlled by a system of 99-year leases.

Walton County tore apart the status quo by adopting a law in December that opens dry sand for basic beach activities, even if it’s privately owned.

Homeowners quickly sued the Walton County Commission in federal court, and now local governments across the state are watching to see whether the case is decided in favor of landowner rights or public beach access.

The county measure, the first in Florida, created a private 15-foot buffer from the toe of the dune or habitable structure. Any other sand is open to basic public beach activities including walking, picnicking and building “sand creations.”

The law is not completely open-ended, specifically prohibiting use of tobacco, walking animals or putting up tents on the privately-owned beaches.

The local measure spawned several state lawsuits focused on individual pieces of property. But it’s the federal lawsuit that could define beach access in Florida.

“If Walton County (wins the case), we could see other counties following suit,” said attorney D. Kent Safriet, representing homeowners suing Walton County. “It’s important that way. That’s a reason there’s not a bunch of ordinances like this.”

A federal judge has ruled on part of the case, saying landowners should be allowed to post signs on their private beach, including “No Trespassing” signs, as a First Amendment right. But the judge has yet to rule on the potentially groundbreaking aspect of the suit — whether a local government is allowed to create a customary use law.

“Customary use” means a beach that has been continuously used, sometimes since ancient times, remains public even if it is privately-owned.

The homeowners say the county overstepped its authority by passing a law declaring the beach qualified for “customary use.”

“Establishing” customary use is not up to a local government, Safriet argued. It must be proven through a court process, allowing cross-examination and other legal steps.

From Walton County’s perspective, the law is simply “recognizing and protecting” customary use, said county representative David Theriaque.

“The county’s position is that customary use of dry sand areas has been in existence for generations,” he said. “Even before plaintiffs bought property here, customary use already existed.

“The plaintiffs are saying (the customary use ordinance) is taking away their rights. We disagree. What we are doing is preventing property owners from interfering” with beachgoer rights.

The entire case came about because of rowdy beachgoers. Visitors have boomed in recent years, and conflicts have become more common, Safriet said.

“The real problem are tourists disrespecting the people who own the beach,” he said. “People will set up stadium tents and leave them there for days.”

Land owners began placing “no trespassing” signs along their beaches, which prompted the county law restricting use of signs or fences on the sand.

Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson said his deputies have responded to many calls through the years involving disputes about beach access.

“We were getting calls from the public saying that they were being asked to move off the beach,” he said. “There have been quite a few conflicts as places hire private security and the security officers tell people they have to leave.”

Adkinson said his deputies are not issuing trespassing tickets involving the sandy beach.

At Rosemary Beach, an exclusive beachfront neighborhood where vacation rental cottages go for up to $1,800 a night, security guards monitor each of the beach entrances.

Vacationer Jacob Marek said the exclusive feel is part of the reason he drives 12 hours from Austin, Texas, for his annual family vacations.

“The beach is beautiful. You don’t get beaches like this in Texas. I like that once we get here I can loosen up for the week and just relax,” he said.

While Walton County is tackling the beachfront battle in court, much of the state is content to ignore public use of private sands unless forced into conflict.

For decades, Collier County’s beachfront in Southwest Florida has been a welcoming place.

Naples’ founding fathers ended the city’s east-west avenues at a street now buried under the sand. The extended avenues mean that, even today, each beach end has parking on every block. For a while, that was enough.

But explosive growth soon made beach parking a big issue. City leaders threatened to start charging county residents for beach parking stickers. The county built the Vanderbilt Beach parking garage to help alleviate the coastal space strain.

So when the Ritz-Carlton first tried to mark off its beach south of the new garage for the exclusive use of hotel guests, the public fought back. It was Collier’s first realization that the beach might not be the publicly owned sandy park everyone believed they had an undisputed right to roam.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection was called in to make sure the line was drawn in the right place. During especially busy times, the Ritz would post a guard to shoo away visitors who weren’t hotel guests. The county and the Ritz settled into an uneasy understanding in which the hotel uses the entire length of its beach for guests about 30 peak days a year and opens some of it to the public on other days.

Then one spring morning in 2010, visitors walked onto Vanderbilt Beach and found cones and signs marking off a part of the beach in front of the Moraya Bay condominium.

For more than a week, the condo was the focus of angry beachgoers who wanted back what they thought was theirs all along: the beach.

They overran County Commission chambers, demanding commissioners fight back. They did, voting to take whatever steps were needed, including going to court.

Moraya Bay eventually relented, removing the cones and the signs, and making court action moot.

“It looks like a free country,” a 77-year-old Cape Cod woman observed as beachgoers spread their chairs and blankets over sand that had been off-limits the day before.

Moraya Bay developers argued they were simply trying to make the same use of its private beach as other Collier beach clubs, including the Port Royal Club, the Edgewater Beach Hotel, the Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club, the Ritz-Carlton and La Playa.

After a new County Commission was seated this year, commissioners received emails from the Naples Park Association and beach access advocate Graham Ginsberg about Moraya Bay again marking off its beach.

“Collier County government has yet to provide a solution and fairness for the public use of our beaches,” Ginsberg wrote in one email.

County Attorney Jeff Klatzkow told commissioners this summer he could offer a public beach access law for their review. It would be limited to Vanderbilt Beach and based on the customary use doctrine and the $20 million in public money used to maintain the beach, he wrote.

But, he added, it also might not be worth the trouble unless more beach visitors come forward with stories of being wrongfully run off the beach.

“My concern is that such an ordinance will be controversial, will bring out both the private property groups as well as the public access groups, and may result in bad feelings among many,” Klatzkow wrote.

Residents of Lee County shared horror stories similar to beachfront owners in Walton County, said Dawn Koncikowski, long-time resident of Little Hickory Island.

“Since the early 2000s, I’ve had a ‘No Trespassing’ sign on the beach behind my house,” she said. “There were break-ins in people’s homes and property, and the police recommended to put up signs. I’m just protecting my private property rights.”

On a recent sunny afternoon, Mike and Traci Duckworth of Evansville, Indiana, relaxed under an umbrella at a public beach access point off Walton County Road 30 A. The couple, who had rented a vacation home across the street from the beach, said they were surprised by the limited beach access.

“It used to be quainter here, smaller,” Mike Duckworth said.

Traci Duckworth said she can understand why people who own beachfront property would want to keep their property private. But tourism dollars benefit the entire region and restricting beach access makes tourists feel less welcome, her husband said.

“Without the tourists, they have a hard time paving the roads and providing public services,” he said.

In the exclusive Seaside neighborhood, known for its pastel beach cottages and boutique shops, the beach recently was lined with the resort’s blue umbrellas and lounge chairs.

Signs up and down the beach read: “Private beach wristband required — Seaside Neighborhood Association.”

Vacationer Eric Hammons, visiting from West Monroe, Louisiana, with his wife, daughter and grandson, said he can see both sides of the beach access dispute. The restrictions are needed to protect property values, but it seems wrong for people to be kept off the state’s beaches.

“It’s not an easy issue,” he said.

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Do you think the “school choice” alliance between KIPP, TFA and DeVos acolytes is unusual or expected? Also, have you ever had a public or private debate and someone says something that is really not true? Have you ever laid a trap for someone in a discussion?

Well, the Berks County Community Foundation invited several guests to Reading, PA to have a “Consider It” conversation about “school choice.”

They invited two choice proponents and two choice critics. This of course is opposite of what the Harvard University Kennedy School is doing tonight— which is providing a voice to only one side of the “choice” debate for Betsy DeVos— not incidentally the Kennedy school program was funded by the Koch brothers and the Gates Foundation. You can read more about that event Harvard Program on Choice: Protest Expected, Funders Hide Their Names

I have never been one to shy away from taking on school choice proponents. Here are a few examples from my YouTube School Choice Debates playlist.

I believe there were two primary reasons why the Reading debate occurred. First, the local district attempted to close down a Reading charter chain for low performance. The charter did not want to close for low performance and instead took the local authorizer to court. They have now spent nearly a half of million dollars battling in courtroom whether the charter should be closed. Second, Pennsylvania has one of the most unequal funding systems in the United States. So much so that there will be an upcoming school finance trial (See Good News! Pennsylvania Supreme Court Gives OK to Trial about School Funding!)

So, without further ado, here is the Reading Consider It debate. Below the debate, I have included my opening remarks as prepared, but not necessarily as delivered. You’ll have to watch the video to see the trap that I laid (with cheese) in the discussion.

Even though the popularity of charter schools has plummeted recently (2017 Education Next survey), the rise in the number of charters has been particularly rapid during the past ten years.

Many states have lifted caps on the number of charter schools contained within the original state legislation, owing in part to millions of dollars in financial incentives created by federal grant programs.

Funding encouraging charter growth has also poured in from state grant programs and funding from private foundations, especially the Walton Family Foundation (of Walmart fame) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The American Federation for Children, represented here tonight by Alyson Miles, and was formerly chaired by Betsy DeVos, has also been in the mix.

In fact, Donald Trump has pledged to spend 20 billion charter schools and vouchers.

The selection of Betsy DeVos, signals that 45 is serious about privatizing public education and turning it into a profit center.

Many in the civil rights community have become very concerned about a lack of transparency and accountability for charters schools culminating in the Movement for Black Lives, Journey For Justice and the NAACP calling for a charter school moratorium last year.

What are the concerns in the civil right community? Last year’s NAACP resolution got allot of attention, but I think it important to understand that our nation’s vanguard organization for civil rights has been concerned about charters for quite some time.

In 2010, the NAACP passed a resolution that said,

“Charter schools draw funding away from already underfunded traditional public schools”

This is certainly an issue here in Reading and in PA considering the way traditional charter schools and cyber charters are funded.

In 2014, the NAACP passed a resolution that said,

The NAACP “opposes the privatization of public schools.”

The NAACP “opposes public money for-profit public schools.”

Opposes “the redirect of monies from public schools to charter schools.”

Again, all certainly issues here in PA.

Then in 2016, because charter proponents have been largely unwilling in PA and many other states to pass transparency and accountability for charter schools, the NAACP called for a moratorium.

Now I want to tell you about the 2017 NAACP resolution you may not have heard about yet.

More than sixty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in the Brown vs. Board of Education decision to abolish the separate but equal legal doctrine and Jim Crow segregation by race.

In the summer of 2017, 2,000 NAACP national convention delegates passed a new resolution entitled Public and Charter Schools Fulfilling the Promise of Brown v. Board that decries the segregation of African American students into under-resourced public schools and charters.

The intensification of segregation in charters is especially important for the African American community because a new report by the NAACP’s Task Force on Quality Education found that one in eight African American students in the United States now attends a charter school.

A national research study found that charter schools are “more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the nation.” A big problem with school choice is that “Parents choose to leave more racially integrated district schools to attend more racially segregated charter schools.” which “helps to explain why there are so few racially balanced charter schools.”

The same study found that choice was also bad for achievement on average as, “the relatively large negative effects of charter schools on the achievement of African America students is driven by students who transfer into charter schools that are more racially isolated than the schools they have left.”

Which is where we must talk about the achievement data in PA.

What is actual data on charters in PA? Honestly, the policymakers in Harrisburg should be ashamed. The bottom line is the traditional public schools outperform charter schools on average across the state.

Here is the data.

  I think the NAACP said it best in their 2010 resolution,

“NAACP rejects the emphasis on charter schools as the vanguard approach for the education of children, instead of focusing attention, funding, and policy advocacy on improving existing, low performing public schools and will work through local, state and federal legislative processes to ensure that all public schools are provided the necessary funding, support and autonomy necessary to educate all students”

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Barbara Cook’s Family 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Barbara Cook’s Family 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Barbara Cook’s Family 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Cook married acting teacher David LeGrant in 1952. He passed away in 2011 at age 87. LeGrant coached a number of successful actors and actresses over the course of his life, including Tobey Maguire, Danny Glover, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Steve Martin, Walton Goggins, Alyson Hannigan, and Sara Gilbert. According to Variety, he was born in LA to a father who was a carpenter and a mother who was in the movie industry.

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The 2017 Elite Is Earned Spring Invitational in Walnut Creek,Ca did not disappoint with the teams and the talent. A lot of new players that should make some noise this summer. Standouts over the course of the tournament are listed below.

2019 Destiny Jackson and 2017 Michaela V.

2018 Rachel Bowers

2020 Cameron Brink

2018 Shalyse Smith

2018 Kiera Bush and 2019 Ali Bamberger

2019 Liz Scott

2019 D’aja Bryant

2019 Alissa Pili

2018 Nalyssa Smith

Cal Stars EYBL: Aquira DeCosta, Ariel Johnson, Haley Jones, Hannah Jump, Haley Van Dyke, Clair Steele, Kenzie Forbes, Neenah Young, Lesila Finau.

SA Finest Cee’: Desiree Caldwell, Liz Scott, McKinzie Green, Nalyssa Smith, Nyah Green, Sophia Ramos.

ECBA Swish Hines: 2020 Dalayah Daniels 6’3, 2019 Grace Sarver 5’9, 2020 Meghan Fiso 5’10.

ECBA Swish Wasberg: 2020 Jordyn Jenkins 6’1.

Northside Swarm 17U: 2018 Shalyse Smith 6’1, 2020 Raigan Reed 5’8, 2018 Alexandra Morrison 5’11, 2019 Sharaya Coe 6’0.

NW Stars Black: 2020 Cameron Brink 6’4, 2020 McKelle Meek, 2018 Natalie Hoff 6’1, 2021 Maya Hoff 5’10.

Cal Stars 15U: 2020 Abigail Muse 6’1, 2019 Ali Bamberger 6’3, 2019 Cristina Oliva 5’9, 2019 Nyah Willis 5’10, 2019 Jordan Sweeney 5’8

Cal Stars Valley Elite: 2018 Rachel Bowers 6’3, 2018 Kianna Fisher 5’10, 2018 Tylynn Perryman 5’4.

NW Stars Navy: 2018 Reed Hazard 5’9, 2018 Courtney Clemmer 6’1, 2019 Alyson Miura 5’8.

Modesto Magic Black: 2019 D’aja Bryant, 2018 Delia Moore 5’8, 2018 Hope Salsig 5’6.

East Bay Tigers: 2019 Destiny Jackson 5’5, 2018 Leah Walton 5’3, 2017 Michaela VanderKlugt 6’0, 2018 Mikaela Bismillah 5’5, 2019 Emily Tincher 5’11.

Alaska Stars Elite: 2019 Alissa Pili 6’0.

Cal Stars Flight: 2018 Jordyn Bryant 5’10, 2018 Tiana Lowery 5’7, 2019 Tatyana Modawar 6’3, 2019 Mele Finau 5’10.

Bay City 17U: 2018 Aliyah Arcillas, 2018 Brittney Cedeno, 2019 Lily Donovan.

EJ Hoops 15: 2021’s Abby Wrede, Karissa Lukasiewicz, Dasiya Jones.

EJ Hoops 17U: 2019 Alisha Davis 6’0, 2019 Allyah Marlett 5’8.

Lady Style: 2020 Kayla Siler 5’10, 2018 Kiera Bush 6’0.

NCYS Lady Elite: 2023 Trinity Zamora, 2023 Tamari’a Rumph, 2024 Laniece Bowen.

  Elite Is Earned 2017 The 2017 Elite Is Earned Spring Invitational in Walnut Creek,Ca did not disappoint with the teams and the talent.

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Chilling with Books November 2023

Spotlight on obsession, passion, writing and a glutton – reflections on behaviours An Indie Author’s life is difficult no matter the passion for the art form, or should I say, obsession. The process is fraught with stumbling blocks allowing self-doubt to raise its ugly head constantly.  Thus, the question arises. Are Indie Authors gluttons for punishment? In fact, are authors in general gluttons…

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Sunday 9th August

This week has been steady compared to others, Paul has been stable and the therapy teams have been working on his mobility, speech , swallowing and his “ centre” so he can sit without leaning and this will help with being able to stand and eventually walk.

I have been working full time in a relatively new role and my employer has been very supportive especially has I have to take many phone calls through the day from the team at the Walton Centre and now from the rehab at Salford Royal Hospital. This has changed this week with frequent calls from Paul!!

He mainly asks if I am OK and what I am doing ( coming out of meetings to speak to you, Paul....) ,  I think Paul’s filing system in his head is trying to get some order and speaking to me, Alyson, Tom & Alex and his friends is helping him to do this.

His long term memory is quite good but short term is a bit hit and miss so this is where we need to focus with gentle reminders of previous conversations.

The highlight of the week was dropping off Paul’s laundry and being allowed to speak to him in the garden next to his ward but through a glass window. He knew me and Alyson straight away and we chatted about easy stuff for about 10 minutes...very emotional but amazing.

If you would like to send a message to Paul, please send to Tom ( 0795 2242563)  and we will get it to him on Whatsapp, I think he is ready for some new conversations and messages to cheer him up and help pass the days on his road to getting better.

Thanks as always x

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SPRING 2017!

March 4, NORTH TEXAS TEEN BOOK FESTIVAL, IRVING TEXAS

Come see more than 60 fabulous YA and MG authors participate in dozens of panels! My new book, PRETTY FIERCE, will be available for purchase ONE MONTH EARLY! Get the info here: http://www.northtexasteenbookfestival.com

March 18, 12 noon - 3pm, YA FEST, EASTON, PA

Dozens of YA authors descend on the Easton, PA library with a special Golden Ticket Event at noon (where you get to meet moi!) https://yafest.org

APRIL 5, 6:30 - 8pm, TEEN AUTHOR READING NIGHT, NYC, (Jefferson Market Branch of the NYPL, 6th Ave. & 10th St.)

Here’s the awesome line up:

Daphne Benedis-Grab, Army Brats Elizabeth Eulberg, Just Another Girl Alyson Gerber, Braced Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love Barry Lyga, Bang Lance Rubin, Denton Little’s Still Not Dead Kieran Scott, Pretty Fierce K. M. Walton, Ultimatum

More events will be added as they become available!

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Barbara Cook’s Family 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Cook married acting teacher David LeGrant in 1952. He passed away in 2011 at age 87. LeGrant coached a number of successful actors and actresses over the course of his life, including Tobey Maguire, Danny Glover, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Steve Martin, Walton Goggins, Alyson Hannigan, and Sara Gilbert. According to Variety, he was born in LA to a father who was a carpenter and a mother who was in the movie industry. by Celebrity News