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Location of Florida's Emerald Coast
Emerald-green waters at St. Andrews State Park, near the eastern edge of the Emerald Coast
Pensacola Beach, the western part of the Emerald Coast
The Emerald Coast is an unofficial name for the coastal area in the US state of Florida on the Gulf of Mexico that stretches about 100 miles (160 km) through five counties, Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, and Bay, which include Pensacola Beach, Navarre Beach, Fort Walton Beach, Destin, and Panama City Beach. Some south Alabama communities on the coast of Baldwin County, such as Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, and Fort Morgan embrace the term as well.
Origin of term
Beginning in 1946, for marketing purposes the coast from Fort Walton Beach to Panama City was named the "Playground of the Gulf Coast", as witnessed by the name of the Fort Walton Beach newspaper, the Playground News, later the Playground Daily News, and now the Northwest Florida Daily News.
In 1952, this stretch of coast was dubbed the "Miracle Strip" by Claude Jenkins, a local journalist. The term was reflected in the former Miracle Strip Amusement Park, its successor Miracle Strip at Pier Park and other local businesses.[1][2] The name "Miracle Strip" was officially adopted by 35 officials and members of three district Florida Motor Courts Association chapters on March 14, 1956, at a meeting held at the Staff Restaurant in Fort Walton Beach, for the 100-mile stretch of scenic Highway 98's "fabulous string of motels, hotels and nightspots" from Pensacola to Panama City. Members included representatives of local chambers of commerce.[3]
According to the Daily News, the term Emerald Coast was coined in 1983 by a junior high school student, Andrew Dier, who won $50 in the contest for a new area slogan.[4] Since then, the term has been expanded by popular usage to cover all of the northwest coast of Florida from Pensacola Beach to Panama City Beach.
The area and particularly the beaches along the Emerald Coast from Pensacola to Panama City are also referred to as the "Redneck Riviera", alluding to the strong Southern culture of the hinterland. The Flora-Bama in Perdido Key at the Alabama border is a bar and music venue with a diverse Southern clientele.[5]
Beach in Destin, at the center of the Coast
Popular vacation destinations include Panama City, Pensacola, Pensacola Beach, Gulf Breeze, Navarre, Navarre Beach, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, WaterColor, Panama City Beach, Destin, and Seaside, a planned community whose iconic pastel-paint and tin-roof construction was made famous in the Jim Carrey movie The Truman Show, filmed in the area from 1996–1997. Other communities on the Emerald Coast are Perdido Key, Sandestin, Mexico Beach, Grayton Beach, Inlet Beach, and Santa Rosa Beach.
The area is a family drive destination, attracting tourists from across the Southern United States due to its close proximity. The Emerald Coast is a three-hour drive east of New Orleans.[5] In the first decade of the 21st century, the popularity of the Emerald Coast expanded greatly, leading to new construction and rapid growth.[6] Many development communities similar to Seaside sprang up in the southern part of Walton County and at the western end of Panama City Beach, raising property values.
Deep-sea fishing is an area attraction, with Destin holding the nickname "World's Luckiest Fishing Village"[7] (and several saltwater world records) and Panama City Beach hosting the annual high-dollar Bay Point Billfish Invitational. The area has many seafood restaurants.
On 15 October 2019, the Okaloosa Board of County Commissioners approved a new "destination logo" that the Tourist Development Council had recommended, to be introduced in the TDC's new marketing campaign beginning in January 2020. The "Emerald Coast" will be dropped for a simplified logo reading Destin Fort Walton Beach, Florida. This aligns with the renaming of the Northwest Florida Regional Airport to the Destin–Fort Walton Beach Airport in February 2015.[8]
This part of Florida is home to several military bases, with installations including Naval Air Station Pensacola (home of the Navy's Blue Angels demonstration team and the initial training site for all naval aviators), Hurlburt Field, Eglin Air Force Base (one of the largest military bases in America), Tyndall Air Force Base (home to the Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter jets), Coastal Systems Station-Naval Surface Warfare Center (home to the Navy Experimental Diving Unit and Naval Diving & Salvage Training Center), and Corry Station Naval Technical Training Center.
The well-established military presence in the region has led to many film appearances, the earliest being the practice takeoff runs by Doolittle Raiders for Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, shot at Peel Field, an auxiliary field at Eglin Field, in 1944. Some scenes in the 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High, another film about World War II, were also shot at Eglin.
The 1972 eco-horror film Frogs was filmed in Walton County, Florida, in and around the Wesley House, an old Southern mansion located in Eden Gardens State Park in the town of Point Washington, situated on Tucker Bayou off Choctawhatchee Bay.
Exterior shots and several interior scenes for 1998's The Truman Show were filmed in Seaside.[9]
The 1998 Sega Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure features a level called Emerald Coast.
The majority of scenes for Jaws 2 (1978) were filmed in the region, in the Navarre area. Interiors for the youth's pinball hang-out were filmed in Fort Walton Beach at the now-razed original location of Hog's Breath Saloon on Okaloosa Island, and Bruce the Shark's control sled was placed on the bottom of the Gulf off Navarre Beach and the mainland community of Navarre.
"Redneck Riviera" is the title of a song by Tom T. Hall (from his 1996 album Songs from Sopchoppy) about this region and the nearby Forgotten Coast. The song's lyrics include:
Gulf Shores up through Apalachicola
They got beaches of the whitest sand
Nobody cares if Grandma's got a tattoo
Or Bubba's got a hot wing in his hand
Parts of John Grisham's book The Whistler (2016) take place in and around the Emerald Coast.
Country singer Luke Bryan opened a cigar store on 30A in Watersound, FL named "Shore Thing Cigars" on June 30, 2016. [10]
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Forgotten Coast (neighboring coastal area to the east)
^ Hollis, Tim. Florida's Miracle Strip: From Redneck Riviera to Emerald Coast. University of Mississippi Press, 2004, p. 23.
^ "The Florida Handbook". Peninsular Publishing Company. 2 August 1985. Retrieved 2 August 2017 – via Google Books.
^ Fort Walton Beach, Florida, "'Miracle Strip' Tag Official For This Area", Playground News Thursday 22 March 1956, Volume 11, Number 7, page 14.
^ "Who owns 'Emerald Coast'? | owns, coast, don - EDITORIAL - Northwest Florida Daily News". Archived from the original on 2011-07-02. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
^ a b Gold, Scott (February 5, 2016). "Why the Redneck Riviera Is an American Paradise". HuffPost. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
^ Higgins, Michelle (11 March 2011). "14 Easy Weekend Getaways". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
^ "Destin's battle of the brands | editorial, use, editorialized - EDITORIAL - Northwest Florida Daily News". Archived from the original on 2011-08-12. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
^ "Tourist Development Council gets new logo and eliminates use of "Emerald Coast"". 15 October 2019.
^ "The Truman Show (1998)". IMDb. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
^ "Shore Thing Cigars".
Bouler, Jean Lufkin. Exploring Florida's Emerald Coast: A Rich History and a Rare Ecology. University of Florida Press, 2007. ISBN 0813030862
Hollis, Tim. Florida's Miracle Strip: From Redneck Riviera to Emerald Coast. University of Mississippi Press, 2004. ISBN 1578066263
Jackson, Harvey H., III. "The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: The Northern Rim of the Gulf Coast since World War II," Southern Cultures, 16 (Spring 2010), 7–30.
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Q: Jasper Reports Two records in detail band instead of one? I am using the follwing sql with a subquery in jasper reports. The result is one record per id, but in the report there are always two records withe the same date.
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A: SQL SELECT DISTINCT should prevent your query from returning duplicate results. https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_distinct.asp
Otherwise (assuming every row is duplicated) a Print When Expression of ($V{REPORT_COUNT} % 2) != 0 will hide every second row. (Be aware that Variables used to sum your values will also need to be adjusted.)
There are plenty other solutions. Please update your question with ideally a  minimal jasper file showing both your query and issue for a more specific answer.

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Research conducted by Money Advice Trust the debt charity has highlighted the increasing use of debt collection agencies by councils. In England and Wales combined local authorities instructed debt collectors to chase payment of parking debts, council tax, overpayment of benefits and business rates a staggering 2.2 million times in 2014, with that figure expected to rise by at least 15% in 2015.
The figures represent an increase of over 20% compared to 2013 figure of 1.8 million. The 2014 increase is quite surprising when you take into account the number of debt charities and organisations that urged councils to improve their debt recovery procedures after the 2013 figures were released. It is apparent that these calls for moderation have been ignored and the increase in collection activity and the use of external agencies is set to continue to rise.
The Money Advice Trust, which operates the National Debtline, reported marked variations in debt recovery procedures throughout the UK, inferring that a postcode lottery in effect controls how businesses and residents who find themselves in arrears to the council are treated.
Chief executive, Joanne Elson, commented: "Our research in to the use of debt collection agencies by local authorities began in 2012. The findings of this research resulted in widespread condemnation and calls for reforms to council debt collection activities. We hoped and expected that there would have been at least some improvement in the situation by now, however, over 50% of local authorities have actually increased their reliance on external agencies to recover unpaid arrears and debts".
"There is something fundamentally and seriously wrong here. We offer debt advice at the front line, we are inundated with calls from vulnerable people and know that sending in debt collectors just makes the situation these people find themselves in worse, it does not solve the problem".
Ms Elsom explained further: "The action taken by Debt collection agencies is not only distressing for those in debt, but also counterproductive for councils; our research clearly shows that councils who use external collectors are less successful in actually recovering unpaid debts than those councils who operate internal collection practices".
Over 25% of the people that called Debtline in 2015 were in arrears with council tax and the tax has now become the fastest growing debt category, which accounted for over 1.2 million council instructions to an internal agency in 2014.
The figures for individual councils showed that the London Borough of Dagenham and Barking in relation to the number of households in its jurisdiction used debt collection agencies the most with 34,000 instructions in 2014. Interestingly most of the top ten places were filled by London Borough councils.
At the other end of the scale, there were nineteen suburban local authorities with a responsibility to collect council tax who used debt collectors in less than 1% of cases of arrears. Just three councils, the Isles of Scilly, Wyre and Charnwood made no use of external collection agencies.
Chair of the Local Government Association, Councillor Claire Kober, commented: "Council tax support from Government funding has declined sharply in recent years creating a vacuum and the need for councils to find £1 billion by 2016 to maintain tax relief for low income households. Many councils face a desperate choice, do they offer relief to low-income families on benefits who might never have paid council tax or the working poor who are struggling to make ends meet, there are simply not enough funds available to help everyone that needs help. The only alternative is to spend less on council services which would affect everyone".
"Councils do not want to demand low income families to pay more, but, these local authorities have had to deal with a 38% reduction in core funding from central Government to pay for local services in the last 5 years. Councils throughout England and Wales simply have no choice but to scale back the discounts offered on council tax".
The Councillor further commented that: "Local authorities have a duty of care to collect council tax in order for essential services to be provided. It is council tax that pays for waste collection, road repairs the care of the elderly, if nobody paid council tax, our society would grind to a halt".
In reply Ms Elsom stated: "Yes, the duty to collect arrears is clear and the increase in funding pressure councils are under cannot be underestimated, but, many councils are just too quick to refer cases for debt collection".
She went on to suggest: "There are far better options available, including earlier detection of arrears before they escalate, early preventative measures and increased contact with the people who have fallen in to arrears".
Ms Elsom's suggestions have been made based on the findings of the Money Advice Trust research and it will be interesting to find out if local authorities finally start listening to advice from organisations that deal with the consequences of debt collection, or if the rise in instructions continues as budgets are further stretched by Government spending cuts.


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Bill Owens endorses Jeb Bush, will help lead Colorado campaign
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2016, Bill Owens, Colorado, Frank McNulty, George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Mark Waller, President George H.W. Bush, presidential campaign, Republican, Walker Stapleton
Former Gov. BIll Owens
Jeb Bush's inability to break from the pack of Republican presidential candidate is drawing plenty of attention in Washington. But former Colorado Gov. Bill Owens said Bush is in a "good place right now."
"He's well-funded. He has an organization that is strong in many, many states because of himself and his family," Owens said in an interview Wednesday. "This process has a long way to go."
Owens endorsed Bush earlier this week and will serve as a campaign co-chairman in Colorado, along with State Treasurer Walker Stapleton.
Both Republicans have strong ties to Bush.
State Treasurer Walker Stapleton
Stapleton is a second cousin (his mother is a first cousin of former President George H.W. Bush).
And Owens' connections go back decades. He first met then-Congressman George H.W. Bush in 1968 when he served as a page in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1972, as a college student, Owens worked on the congressman's U.S. Senate campaign, reporting to none other than George W. Bush, the candidate's son and future president. "I go back with the Bushes quite a ways," Owens said.
Owens served as governor from 1999 to 2007 — the same eight years that Jeb Bush was governor in Florida — and got to know Bush personally. "When your friend's running, I'm going to support him," Owens said.
Asked about Trump and the wide-open race at the start of the campaign, Owens pointed to past election cycles in which "initial candidates who attract a lot of attention frequently dissipate later under further scrutiny."
Jeb Bush "doesn't need to be the front-runner right now — the front-runner is a dangerous place to be."
Other prominent Republicans who endorsed Bush include former House Speaker Frank McNulty, former House GOP leader Mark Waller, former state GOP Chairman Ryan Call, former state Rep. Keith Swerdfeger, Douglas County school board member Doug Benevento and lobbyist Melissa Kuipers. GOP operative Michael Fortney will serve as a Colorado campaign adviser.
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is Bill Owens still around? Now we understand why he was such a poor governor.
"I go back with the Bushes quite a ways," Owens said.
Comment by VINNIFER CAROLE — September 9, 2015 @ 5:23 pm
Owens left office with an above 60% approval rating.
Why was he such a "poor governor"?
Is it because he didn't turn Colorado into a socialist utopia?
Comment by Dillwinkle — September 9, 2015 @ 6:41 pm
Whatever happened to that poor GOP governor? Out of office, out of mind. Good riddance.
How about Columbine & his poor response to the slaughter? But of course Republicans have no answer on how to stop the daily carnage in America from gun violence.
We had that idiot Charleston Heston come to town right after Columbine and Owens was right there cheering on the NRA = domestic terrorist organization.
STUPID GOP liberal gun policies enable domestic terrorism
Comment by VINNIFER CAROLE — September 10, 2015 @ 8:31 am
Who is Bill Owens and why should anyone care who he supports? But then, if he supports another Bush, I guess that says it all.
Comment by denvermanjb — September 9, 2015 @ 7:36 pm
Comment by smallbear — September 10, 2015 @ 4:29 pm
I think Jeb Bush should have listened to his mother Barbara–who told him not to run, that this country wouldn't elect a 3rd Bush.
The Trump/Clinton strategy has entered stage 2. Donald Trump just insulted Carly Fiorina's face. 1st it was Hispanics, now women. Two major voting blocks that Republicans need to win the White House. This now CONFIRMS that Donald Trump is is not in this race to win it, but to drive it into Hillary Clinton's lap.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/253178-trump-insults-fiorinas-physical-appearance-look-at-that-face
Carly Fiorina is surging in this race–now coming in at number 3. Soon to be gone Trump will make her # 2 behind Ben Carson. While I think Ben Carson is a brilliant surgeon and very nice man, he really is not prime time ready to be POTUS. So it's possible we will be seeing Fiorina leading the pack soon.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/09/09/gop-power-rankings-week-2-carly-fiorina/71942842/
Comment by bnk11839 — September 9, 2015 @ 9:51 pm
I would say Ben Carson is as ready as Barack Obama was to be POTUS, probably more ready. The country is not ready to train another amateur in the White House. It may take 8 more years to undo the damage Mr Obama has done to this country.
Comment by Migrant3 — September 10, 2015 @ 2:49 pm
Ben Carson is a brilliant surgeon and a very nice man, but he's really not prime ready to be POTUS. He's been having problems with answering questions. NATO questions, etc.
In my opinion, Carly Fiorina is the best candidate in this race. She has the executive experience managing 150,000 employees. She's very articulate and intelligent. She understands not only the US economy but the global economy also. I think when Republicans start noticing her–she's going to be leading the pack.
Comment by bnk11839 — September 10, 2015 @ 8:44 pm
Mr Obama came to the White House not knowing how many states there were in the union. But the voters felt that he was ready for prime time. It's been 8 years and Obama is still trying to get it right. after leaving the country in shambles.
I agree with you about Carly Fiorina being a sterling candidate.
Comment by Migrant3 — September 11, 2015 @ 11:56 am
Well, I still can't figure out what a community organizer does. It's not listed anywhere, under any job description I can find.
Carly Fiorina is surging–her facebook likes have gone through the roof. Everyone is watching her.
Jeb! is polling 9% nationally. They guy with the name recognition and a giant bucket of money is polling a very weak third.
GOP: Party of Hate® voters do not like him.
Comment by davebarnes — September 11, 2015 @ 12:11 pm
Render the Bush family to Mosul now!
Comment by Robert Chase — September 13, 2015 @ 1:53 pm
Is congratulation in order for the GOP for eliminating the straw poll?
Now supporters are going to have endorse, really endorse their candidate. An endorsement for Bush, maybe another for Trump, and still another for Carson. Colorado is now a state that is in play for multiple candidates.
Comment by Right Stuff — September 16, 2015 @ 5:58 am
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Our mission is to serve as a resource to the community and to create a network of support and communication among herbalists in the upper Midwest.
Our programs are designed to encourage ethical collection and preservation techniques and to promote education that increases awareness of ecological balance and a healthy environment.
The North Country Herbalist Guild sponsors monthly meetings that take place on the first Wednesday of every month (except January and July). The meetings are open to the Guild's membership and the public. At each of these meetings we sponsor a local speaker who discusses topics designed to advance the study of the therapeutic use of herbs.
Lectures are from 7:00 to 9:00 pm on the first Wednesday of the month (except January and July). One or two of our summer meetings are plant walks. We invite you all for social time with tea and snacks from 6:30 to 7:00.
The North Country Herbalist Guild makes every effort to present a broad educational program and to make these programs available and affordable. Local speakers, members, and board members all donate their time in these efforts. Meetings are open to the public with a suggeted donation of five dollars, however no one will be turned away. Members attend meetings at no charge.
The Guild sends out a reminder of our upcoming meetings and events to our members. If you would like to sign up for our member mailing list to receive our annual postcard and monthly email newsletters visit our join page to sign up online. We send out monthly email notices & an annual postal mailing.
The Guild also conducts an annual meeting of its membership that includes election of board members in November.
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1st global annual survey of IoT platform users
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Munich, February 19, 2019: Today, research and consulting firm teknowlogy has published the results of its The IoT Survey 2019. It is the first survey of its kind to evaluate leading IoT platform providers based on the feedback of more than 2,000 users, e.g. developers, administrators or project managers, from all over the world. Among the evaluated platform providers were Altair SmartCore, AWS, Bosch Software Innovations, Device Insight, DIGIMONDO, Eurotech, FIWARE, Google, and Microsoft. The survey provides an invaluable resource to companies in the process of identifying a suitable IoT platform for their specific needs, as well as to vendors eager to know how they perform against their competitors. As of today, the results are available at www.iot-survey.com.
There is hardly any other market that is as dynamic and hard to predict as the one for IoT platforms, where a huge number of providers offer highly diverse types of IoT platforms. Most user companies have in common that they lack one holistic source that covers and compares the many different kinds of IoT platforms to help them decide in which to invest. "The market for IoT platforms is gaining in maturity, and the number of live users is growing. This is where the IoT Survey comes in. It gives a voice to the users of IoT platforms, who can share their experience with one or several different IoT platforms first hand," says Arnold Vogt, Principal Consultant & IoT Analyst at teknowlogy Group. "We are happy to present the world's first comprehensive market overview from a user perspective!"
Reduce complexity!
The providers are rated based on 24 key performance indicators (KPIs) in six different categories. KPI dashboards help to provide precise information at a glance. In addition, the providers are segmented into eight different peer groups, so that competing products can be easily identified and a fair and useful comparison of products is possible. The peer groups have been defined by teknowlogy analysts using their experience and judgment, and the categorization was made according to different provider sizes, locations, and product-related focus topics: device development, device management, rapid application development, and analytics. The provider rankings for each KPI and peer group are displayed in one or more overview charts.
Product satisfaction and vendor support drive the recommendation rate
The IoT Survey shows the recommendation rate as a key indicator of overall user satisfaction. There are multiple KPIs that play an important role when it comes to the impact on user recommendations; however, product satisfaction and supplier support have been identified as the key drivers across the platforms. What was surprising to see was that some users made a recommendation for an IoT platform even though they stated not being entirely satisfied with the product itself or the associated supplier support. In each of these cases, other KPIs prevailed.
More details on this and the report itself, a comprehensive overview of all the vendors analyzed as well as an executive summary of the report, including vendor performances per peer group, are available at www.iot-survey.com.
About The IoT Survey 2019:
The IoT Survey is teknowlogy's annual report on the global landscape of IoT platform providers, which was created on the basis of the world's first comprehensive survey of IoT users, conducted in the second half of 2018. More than 2,000 users, also including system integrators, were asked about their opinion on 50 different IoT platforms. The survey received a wide range of user feedback on 38 IoT platforms, which are now compiled and evaluated in The IoT Survey 2019. For more information visit: www.iot-survey.com.
About teknowlogy Group:
teknowlogy Group is the leading independent European research and consulting firm in the fields of digital transformation, software, and IT services. It brings together the expertise of four research and advisory firms, each with a strong history and local presence in the fragmented markets of Europe: Ardour Consulting Group, BARC (Business Application Research Center), CXP and PAC (Pierre Audoin Consultants).
We are a content-based company with strong consulting DNA. We are the preferred partner for European user companies to define IT strategy, govern teams and projects, and de-risk technology choices that drive successful business transformation. We have a second-to-none understanding of market trends and IT users' expectations. We help software vendors and IT services companies better shape, execute and promote their own strategy in coherence with market needs and in anticipation of tomorrow's expectations.
Capitalizing on more than 40 years of experience, we operate out of seven countries with a network of 150 experts. For more information, please visit www.teknowlogy.com and follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
For further information or queries, please contact:
Arnold Vogt
Principal Consultant and IoT Analyst
Phone:+49 (0)7073 85 21 917
Email: avogt@teknowlogy.com
Wiebke Lörcher
Communications Manager DACH
Email: wloercher@teknowlogy.com
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