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Businessmodel of SunTrust Banks
Customer Segments
SunTrust provides a diverse portfolio of banking services, which caters to a wide range of customers. The Company’s clients can be organised broadly into the following categories:
- General Consumers, comprising general consumers to which the Company provides consumer banking products and services, as well as high-net worth individuals to which the Company offers wealth management services;
- Commercial and Corporate Clients, comprising various commercial entities and large enterprises across multiple business sectors to which it provides dedicated commercially-focused services; and
- Institutional Clients, comprising various banking and financial services institutions, as well as non-profit and public institutions. SunTrust’s key market is its native US. The Company does not appear to have any significant international operations.
Value Propositions
SunTrust provides value to its clients in the following ways:
- Its industry standing and reputation, with the Company established as a reliable provider of banking and financial services to its customers, with a positive reputation within the banking industry;
- Its broad portfolio of products, with the Company offering abroad range of services that cater specifically to the needs of a diverse customer base, including individuals, commercial entities, and banking and government institutions;
- Its financial strength, with the Company controlling significant financial reserves, and having been awarded positive long-term debt ratings from major credit agencies;
- Its accessibility, with the Company providing services to its clients through various channels, including a branch network across the US, as well as online banking and mobile channels, making the Company’s services easy to access and utilise; and
- Its industry expertise and experience, with the Company employing large teams of highly-trained financial professionals across its operating segments, as well as a team of experienced industry executives. ### Channels
SunTrust operates a website at www.suntrust.com, through which it provides information on its various products and services, as well as its branch network. The Company also offers an online customer portal, through which clients are able to manage their accounts, move money, and monitor their financial products.
SunTrust provides much of its services to customers through its network of bank offices and branches across the US, including in Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The Company employs in-branch sales and services employee who serve clients directly.
SunTrust additionally provides services to its clients through various full-, self-, and assisted-service channels, including call centre operations, third party origination partners, and a network of Teller ConnectTM machines and automated teller machines. The Company also operates a number of specialist subsidiaries that provide capital markets, mortgage banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management services to the Company’s clients directly.
Customer Relationships
SunTrust provides a range of services to its clients on a self-service basis through its online client portal, as well as its network of automated teller machines and Teller ConnectTM machines. The Company’s online portal allows clients to manage their accounts, transfer money, and monitor the performance of their various financial products without interacting directly with members of the Company’s sales and service teams.
Through its in-branch personnel, and other direct sales and service teams, SunTrust is able to provide personalised assistance and tailor products to suit the individual needs of each client. Clients can access direct support form in-branch personnel, as well as over the phone through the Company’s call centre staff.
SunTrust provides ongoing customer support, with customers able to contact the relevant departments and personnel over the phone, via email, or by post, receiving personalised responses to queries and complaints. The Company also provides various support resources through its online Help Centre, including FAQs, account information, and security guidance.
SunTrust additionally maintains social media presence – having accounts with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, and LinkedIn – through which it is able to update clients on company developments and interact with customers directly.
Key Activities
SunTrust functions as a bank holding company and a financial holding company. Through its principal subsidiary, SunTrust Bank, the Company offers portfolio of financial services targeted at consumers and businesses, including deposit, credit, mortgage banking, and trust and investment services.
The Company’s also operates a number of more specialised subsidiaries, through which it provides asset and wealth management, securities brokerage, and capital market services. SunTrust organises these various operations into three reportable business segments: Consumer Banking and Private Wealth Management, Wholesale Banking and Mortgage Banking.
It also operates a Corporate Other segment, which includes various investment, long-term debt, balance sheet risk management activities.
The Company serves its customers primarily through a network of branches and offices across the US, as well as through online and mobile banking channels.
Key Partners
SunTrust works closely with a network of partner companies and organisations that support the Company’s operations across its three segments. These partners can be organised broadly into the following categories:
- Supplier and Vendor Partners, comprising suppliers of services, equipment, and technologies that support the Company’s efficient provision of products and services, as well as companies to which certain non-technical functions can be outsourced;
- Social and Community Partners, comprising various industrial bodies, charitable organisations, and non-profits with which the Company collaborates on social and community projects across the US;
- Sponsorship and Marketing Partners, comprising various business and franchises with which the Company partners on sponsorship and marketing deals; and
- Strategic and Alliance Partners, comprising market leading companies across multiple industries with which the Company works on a range of projects and operations and shares certain resources. SunTrust has arranged a number of partnership deals in recent years. This includes a sponsorship deal with Atlanta United under which it is the team’s official banking partner, and a tie-up with Florida International University with which it is seeking to promote financial literacy.
Key Resources
SunTrust’s key resources are its financial reserves, its online portal and website, its IT and communications infrastructure, its physical network of branches and offices, its partnerships, and its personnel.
SunTrust owns and or leases a portfolio of properties across the US which are key to its ongoing operations. This includes the Company’s network of 1,401 full-service banking offices across Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, of which 562 are owned and the remainder are leased.
Cost Structure
SunTrust incurs costs in relation to the development of its website and online portal, the maintenance of its IT and communications infrastructure, the procurement of professional services, the management of its partnerships, the implementation of marketing and advertising campaigns, and the retention of its personnel.
In 2015 SunTrust recorded total non-interest expenses in the amount of $5.54 billion. This included employee compensation costs totalling $2.58 billion, employee benefits totalling $386 million, outside processing and network costs totalling $741 million, and net occupancy costs totalling $340 million.
Revenue Streams
SunTrust generates revenue through the provision of various banking and financial services to individuals, corporations, and institutions. The Company derives revenue in the form of various service fees, including transaction fees, investment management fees, and mortgage processing fees.
In 2015 SunTrust generated revenue for the year in the amount of $8.17 billion, down slightly o the $8.31 billion recorded by the Company in 2014.


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I had been seeing this new girl named liz and we were starting to get close so i asked her if she wanted to do ecstasy with me on a particular friday night, and she said that she wanted to so we made arrangements. I picked her up from her house at 7:00 pm and we drove to the parking lot of the Lucky's near my house and we both ate 1/2 a green motorola (pure product MDMA, my rough approximation on dose is 60 milligrams), and 1/2 a blue D&G (pure MDA, approx. 50 milligrams).
After we took the stuff, we went to the football game because we were playing our rival school and there was going to be people there to talk to and we didn't have anywhere better to go to that night so we cruised over and chilled for a while until we started to feel it coming on. We talked with our friends katie and ben as we began to peak and they were amused to watch us acting the way we were because we were so euphoric and empathic. We tried to explain to them how and what we were feeling, but they had never done any e-like drugs before, so they didn't get it. As we began to be hit by the waves with more intensity, we decided to leave so we could be alone. We went and parked in a secluded little spot and climbed into the big backseat. We talked for a while about how we felt our lives were progressing, and in our discussing she had a revelation that her stopping hanging out with her old friends was the best thing she ever did, because they just are nothing like her.
Then we both started to really feel the e and we started to massage each other with lotion because it felt so good.   I ended up playing with her clitoris until she had a mind bending orgasm, then we got dressed.
This whole time we were deeply under the effect of the two drugs and i noticed that this roll was slightly different, i felt as though i was more on a 'drug' than my previous rolls, but it still was pretty much what i would expect from e also. At this point we went over to the park and met brian and katie there, brian gave us a fat bowl of chronic so me and liz smoked it to our heads right there.
This is when we both started to feel really really good. We already felt really good, but now we felt really really good. I noticed that the weed greatly intensified the visual aspect of my high, and also made me feel very mellow and it let my body high really come on strong. The rest of my roll consisted of me and liz talking about e and how it makes us feel so perfect and so wonderful, intermittently we would kiss and fondle each other while in the back seat of my car. And when we were coming down but not off of it, I drove her back to her house and she snuck me in (even though it was like 2, and her parents were asleep) and we started getting really hot, at this point the e was well on it's way out, so we got on the floor and had sex because her bed was too loud and we didn't want to wake her parents up.
It was the first time i slept with that girl, and the only time i've ever got lucky enough to definitively find a pill that i knew had MDA in it. That in combination with MDMA and weed, made this a very wonderful experience. At the time, i didn't even know the blue D&G had pure MDA in it, but i saw the same pill later on erowid and dancesafe. I had a test kit and both came out positive in their tests, so I know the other pill had MDMA in it also. The Motorola was slightly fatter than the D&G, which is why i gave the MDMA a slightly higher dose in my estimates of the dose I took. I actually noticed some differences before i knew i had MDA, it was slightly more psychedelic and gave me a more intense body high than my MDMA experiences had, i noticed that colored lights were even more spectacular than they are when on MDMA. MDA in combination with MDMA made me feel as though i was drinking euphoria, in combination with weed i felt like i was bathing in it.
Afterwards, I noticed that my 'hangover' was actually a good deal more intense than it usually is, my brain probably took a beating from three different drugs in combo. Liz and I saw each other the next day and we couldn't stop talking about how much fun we had had last night. We plan on doing it again together alone soon, but I don't hink i'll be able to get MDA again. I may never come across MDA again, but at least i know i tried it once and it was actually way fun in combo with MDMA and some good old weed. My only regret is that i never got to take just MDA so i could really know what that is like by itself.
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2,4,8 16 - these aren't just numbers to count or calculate. These are years that how SQL Server evolved as number of years! Why Upgrade? Data Platform Upgrade topic has been a popular session that I've presented in major conferences like Microsoft Tech-Ed (North America, Europe India) and SQLbits since 2008. In this session, we will overview in depth end-to-end upgrade process that covers the essential phases, steps and issues involved in upgrading SQL Server (2000 to 2012), SQL Server 2014 (with a good overview on 2016 too) by using best practices and available resources. What to-do and what not-to-do? A popular session that I have been presenting since the year 2008, in MS Tech-Ed, SQL Saturday SQLbits UK. We will cover the complete upgrade cycle, including the preparation tasks, upgrade tasks, and post-upgrade tasks. Real-world examples from my Consulting experience expanding on why how such a solution.
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Nothing is perfect, which means that your database may be not perfect as well. And one day you may decide that your database is slow and it's time to optimize it. But.. Where to start? When to end? What to look at? Which queries are slow? How to identify the real bottleneck? And so on, and so on. There are a lot of questions that should be answered in a process of performance tuning. In this session, we will find answers to all these questions going from collecting data for analysis, through identifying bottlenecks to optimization of the particular queries. On this way, we will learn performance tuning practical techniques and solve a bunch of issues in real-time. And despite I'm a big fan of Profiler and old-fashioned tools and technics, new, more interesting and useful instruments are available nowadays, so will use them to find the bottleneck and tune performance. Minimum of theory and a lot of practice.
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Tuning large queries is going to show techniques and tools that allow to find optimizing solution when query plan is large. Multiple joins, function calls, many views and inline functions is what I call complex plan. In this short session I will try to tune large queries with multiple techniques.
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There are few DWH environments out there which struggle with their data loading window and whole night is not enough for them to push all fresh data to those hungry star schemas. Since SQL Server 2016 we may speed up things by enabling new way of dealing with data processing – SSIS Scale Out. This full-of-demos session will show you how to set up workers, establish communication, split your workload among them in attempt to shorten execution times and where to find additional log files. This session will show you if parallel processing is the future of ETL in Microsoft world of data.
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Microsoft finally released Power BI Server - on-premise platform for Power BI solutions. During the session I’m going to explain licensing model and show how to use it. Finally, I’ll compare Power BI cloud service and on-premise capabilities.
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Learn how to build a bot that will answer questions asked by users. Learn how to customise it and embed it on your website. Learn how to do all of this without having to write a single line of code. I’ll be using Microsoft’s qnamaker.io site to build an FAQ bot and the putting it live with an Azure Bot Service and the Skype Web Control. The end result is a little snippet you can add to any web page, making implementation a breeze. You can follow along as I build the bot live, or just soak it all in. Either way, you’ll see how easy it is to build a bot and you’ll know the next steps to follow to start building more complex bots.
Speaker(s): Stephanie Locke,
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R becomes a commodity in Microsoft Data Platform, including Power BI as one of this platform's elements. By learning R data analysts and BI developers can significantly expand capabilities of Power BI, and perform much more sophisticated analysis. R can be used for getting data, for data transformations, for analysis with additional power of statistics and predictive algorithms, and finally for nontrivial visualizations. The purpose of this session is to showcase some step by step examples of how R code can be an integrated part of Power BI reports, as well as provide several scenarios in which R brings more power into Power BI.
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Contact: http://www.sqlserver-qa.net
My experience surrounded with high focus on the data platform with a track record of defining strategy, designing and delivering digital transformation migrations with major enhancements to current working methods. Worked in a capacity of Head of Data Engineering, Enterprise Data Architect and Solutions Key career accomplishment recognition as an industry expert technical excellence from the Microsoft as Data Platform Most Valuable Professional (MVP) recognition since the year 2006 (13 years as MVP and counting), which recognizes exceptional technical community leaders worldwide who actively deliver, present share their extraordinary contributions, high quality, and real-world expertise. Twitter pod (http://twitter.com/sqlmast
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Contact: https://codingfamily.net
SQL Server MVP amp; MCT Software engineer with 18+ years of professional experience in all aspects of software development. Damian participated in a number of projects in international environments and possesses practical knowledge of procedures and tools which are necessary for successful implementation of such projects. Now he focuses on building solutions based on Microsoft SQL Server environment (including complex database driven systems, database tuning and optimization).
Contact: http://www.wedham.com
Mikael Wedham is the first SQL Server MCM in Sweden and the only one who also is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He has been paid to do things in SQL Server since 1993. His long experience makes him an appreciated speaker at events and conferences all over Europe. To be prepared for deep dives, he is also certified as an Open Water Scuba Instructor.
LinkedIn: https://pl.linkedin.com/in/grzegorzstolecki
Business Intelligence expert with 20+ years of experience. Grzegorz worked as architect, developer and trainer. Currently he focuses on developing specialized analytical and reporting solutions using machine learning models for large and mid-size enterprises. He also works on financial planning, consolidation and budgeting applications. Grzegorz is one of the leaders of Polish Data Community (former Polish SQL Server User Group PLSSUG). You can meet him very often at community meetings, conferences and other events. He is an active speaker and ATE member. Microsoft MVP in Data Platform Area since 2010.
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/stephanielocke
Contact: https://itsalocke.com
Steph Locke leads a life of data, coffee, books and board games. During the day, Steph runs her own consultancy helping people start doing data science. Steph enjoys being her own gal as it means she gets to spend plenty of time building communities to provide platforms for people to help each other be better with data.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grzegorzlyp/
Contact: http://www.lyp.pl/blog
SQL Server Database Engine tuning enthusiast. Product Manager and Team Leader at Asseco Business Solutions. Developing SQL Database Engine enterprise scale solutions for 10 years.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/slunyakin
Contact: https://slunyakin.wordpress.com
Sergiy Lunyakin (MCSA, MCSE, MCTS) is a Big Data Architect at SoftServe, Inc. He has extensive experience in designing and developing Big Data Analytics, Data Warehouse, and BI solutions, using both on-premises and cloud products. In 2016, Sergiy became Microsoft Data Platform MVP and has since maintained his MVP status. Sharing knowledge is another one of his passions. He regularly speaks at international conferences such as SQLSaturday, SQLDay, SQLNexus, and SQLBits. He also runs the Lviv SQL Server User Group in Ukraine and organizes SQLSaturday Lviv.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpostlethwaite
Contact: http://www.gethynellis.com/
David Postlethwaite has been a DBA for Liverpool Victoria in Bournemouth, England since 2008 He supports both Oracle and SQL Server from 2000 to 2017, DBMS, SSIS, SSAS and Reporting Services. In 2015 David built and deployed the company's first cloud solution using Microsoft Azure SQL Database and web services Before becoming a DBA David was a .NET developer and way back in history a Windows and Netware administrator. He is an occasional blogger on www.gethynellis.com David is a regular speaker for SQL Saturday. Most of his presentations can be found on his YouTube channel www.youtube.com/c/DavidPostlethwaiteSQL
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CTO at Elitmind. Focused on determining the company's technological directions and transforming Clients into successful data driven organizations. Former Microsoft employee (Data Insights Product Manager for Poland). In 2007 Pawel started Polish SQL Server User Group (PLSSUG), currently known as Data Community Poland, an official PASS Chapter in Poland. Pawel has been a speaker at many conferences in Poland and worldwide (e.g. SQLDay, SQLSaturday, European PASS Conference). He has been awarded with Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) sixtimes in his career. Father of three. Avid runner.
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Consultant and trainer in SQLExpert.pl with more than 20 years of IT experience. Architect of HA/DR solutions, BI solutions, Data Platform solutions, cloud solutions. Solves SQL Server related problems, including performance tuning. Passionate about SQL Server and programming. Speaker at various conferences including SQLSaturday, SQLDay, SQLNexus, AzureDay, Global Azure Bootcamp and local user groups.
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Marek works as a Principal Database Analyst at Sabre Polska where he is developing a database solution for flight planning system. He supports teams of developers, testers, delivery, and technical support staff in this large international project. Fan of query optimization and exploration of knowledge about SQL Server Internals. He professionally works on databases and in particular with SQL Server since 2010. Earlier, a Java and C# coder. An active member of the Krakow chapter of the Polish Data Community. Marek is MCSE: Data Platform and MCSE: Data Management and Analytics.
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BUILD files
A large, well-organized codebase divides into many small components. These components, and the code dependencies between them, form a directed graph.
In Pants paralance, these components are called targets. The information about your
targets and their dependencies lives in files named BUILD
, scattered throughout your
source tree. A BUILD
file in a given directory describes targets that own the
source files in or under that directory.
- See tutorial for an easy introduction to
BUILD
files. - See the BUILD Dictionary for an exhaustive list of all
BUILD
file syntax.
Target Granularity
A target can encapsulate any amount of code, from a single source file to (as a silly hypothetical) the entire codebase. In practice, you'll want to pick a granularity that reflects a "sensible" level at which to express dependencies: Too coarse, and you lose the benefits of fine-grained invalidation. Too fine, and you drown in BUILD boilerplate.
Many programming languages (E.g., Java, Python, Go) have a concept of a package, usually corresponding to a single filesystem directory. It turns out that this is often the appropriate level of granularity for targets. The idiom of having one target per directory, representing a single package, is sometimes referred to as the 1:1:1 rule. It's by no means required, but has proven in practice to be a good rule of thumb. And of course there are always exceptions.
Note that Pants forbids circular dependencies between targets. That is, the dependency graph must be a DAG. In fact, this is good codebase hygiene in general. So if you have any tightly-bound cross dependencies between certain packages, they will all have to be part of a single target until you untangle the dependency "hairball".
Target Definitions
A target definition in a BUILD
file looks something like
java_library( name='util', dependencies = [ '3rdparty:commons-math', '3rdparty:thrift', 'src/java/org/pantsbuild/auth', ':base' ], sources=globs('*.java', exclude=[['Base.java']]), )
java_library
Each target will have a different target type, which is java_library
in this case.
This tells Pants tasks what can be done with the target.
name
The target's name, along with the path to its BUILD file, forms its address.
The address has two important roles:
- It's used on the command line to specify which targets to operate on.
- It's used in other
BUILD
files to reference the target as a dependency.
dependencies
List of targets that this target depends upon. If this target's code imports
or otherwise depends on code in other targets, list those targets here.
- To reference a target
target
defined inpath/to/BUILD
usepath/to:target
. - If the target has the same name as the BUILD file's directory, you can omit the repetition:
path/to/target
instead ofpath/to/target:target
. - If the target is defined in the same BUILD file, you can omit the path:
:target
instead ofpath/to:target
. - More details on how to address targets in a list of dependencies.
sources
The source files in this target. These are usually specified in one of two ways:
- Enumerating the files:
sources=['FileUtil.java', 'NetUtil.java']
. - Globbing over the files in the BUILD file's directory:
sources=globs('*.java')
.
This means you don't have to modify your BUILD file when you add a new source file.
You can exclude files from the results of a glob. For example, to glob over unit tests
but not integration tests you could use something like this:
sources=globs('*.py', exclude=[globs('*_integration.py')])
.
The value of exclude=
is a list of things that evaluate to lists of source files,
i.e., globs or literal lists. This is why there are double-brackets around Base.java
in
the example target above.
You can also recursively glob over files in all subdirectories of the BUILD file's directory: sources=rglobs('*.java')
.
However this is discouraged as it tends to lead to coarse-grained dependencies, and Pants's
advantages come into play when you have many fine-grained dependencies.
BUILD.*
files
BUILD files are usually just named BUILD
, but they can also be named BUILD.ext
, with any
extension. Pants considers all files matching BUILD(.*)
in a single directory to be a single
logical BUILD file. In particular, they share a single namespace, so target names must be
distinct across all such files.
This has various uses, such as the ability to separate internal-only BUILD definitions from those
that should be pushed to an open-source mirror of an internal repo: You can put the former
in BUILD.internal
files and the latter in BUILD.oss
files.
Debugging BUILD Files
If you're curious to know how Pants interprets your BUILD
files, these
techniques can be especially helpful:
What targets does a BUILD file define? Use the list
goal:
$ ./pants list examples/src/java/org/pantsbuild/example/hello/greet
examples/src/java/org/pantsbuild/example/hello/greet:greet
Are any BUILD files broken?
List every target to see if there are any errors:
Use the recursive wildcard ::
with the list goal:
$ ./pants list :: ...lots of output... File "pants/commands/command.py", line 79, in __init__ File "pants/commands/goal_runner.py", line 144, in setup_parser File "pants/base/build_graph.py", line 351, in inject_address_closure TransitiveLookupError: great was not found in BUILD file examples/src/java/org/pantsbuild/example/h ello/greet/BUILD. Perhaps you meant: :greet referenced from examples/src/scala/org/pantsbuild/example/hello/welcome:welcome
Do I pull in the transitive dependencies I expect? Use depmap
:
$ ./pants depmap examples/tests/java/org/pantsbuild/example/hello/greet
internal-examples.tests.java.org.pantsbuild.example.hello.greet.greet
internal-3rdparty.junit
internal-3rdparty.hamcrest-core
org.hamcrest-hamcrest-core-1.3
junit-junit-dep-4.11
internal-examples.src.java.org.pantsbuild.example.hello.greet.greet
internal-examples.src.resources.org.pantsbuild.example.hello.hello
junit-junit-dep-4.11
org.hamcrest-hamcrest-core-1.3
What source files do I depend on? Use filedeps
:
$ ./pants filedeps examples/src/java/org/pantsbuild/example/hello/main
~archie/workspace/pants/examples/src/java/org/pantsbuild/example/hello/greet/BUILD
~archie/workspace/pants/examples/src/java/org/pantsbuild/example/hello/main/config/greetee.txt
~archie/workspace/pants/examples/src/resources/org/pantsbuild/example/hello/BUILD
~archie/workspace/pants/examples/src/java/org/pantsbuild/example/hello/main/HelloMain.java
~archie/workspace/pants/examples/src/resources/org/pantsbuild/example/hello/world.txt
~archie/workspace/pants/examples/src/java/org/pantsbuild/example/hello/main/BUILD
~archie/workspace/pants/examples/src/java/org/pantsbuild/example/hello/greet/Greeting.java
Use the -h
flag to get help on these commands and their various options.


HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the code that is used to structure a web page and its content. For example, content could be structured within a set of paragraphs, a list of bulleted points, or using images and data tables. As the title suggests, this article will give you a basic understanding of HTML and its functions.
HTML is a markup language that defines the structure of your content. HTML consists of a series of elements, which you use to enclose, or wrap, different parts of the content to make it appear a certain way, or act a certain way. The enclosing tags can make a word or image hyperlink to somewhere else, can italicize words, can make the font bigger or smaller, and so on.
Let's explore a paragraph element a bit further.
The main parts of the element are as follows:
- The opening tag: This consists of the name of the element (in this case, p), wrapped in opening and closing angle brackets. This states where the element begins or starts to take effect — in this case where the paragraph begins.
- The closing tag: This is the same as the opening tag, except that it includes a forward slash before the element name. This states where the element ends — in this case where the paragraph ends. Failing to add a closing tag is one of the standard beginner errors and can lead to strange results.
- The content: This is the content of the element, which in this case, is just text.
- The element: The opening tag, the closing tag, and the content together comprise the element.
Elements can also have attributes that look like the following:
Attributes contain extra information about the element that you don't want to appear in the actual content. Here, class is the attribute name and editor-note is the attribute value. The class attribute allows you to give the element a non-unique identifier that can be used to target it (and any other elements with the same class value) with style information and other things.
An attribute should always have the following:
- A space between it and the element name (or the previous attribute, if the element already has one or more attributes).
- The attribute name followed by an equal sign.
- The attribute value wrapped by opening and closing quotation marks.
You can put elements inside other elements too - this is called nesting. If we wanted to state that our cat is very grumpy, we could wrap the word "very" in a  element, which means that the word is to be strongly emphasized:

My cat is very grumpy.

You do however need to make sure that your elements are properly nested. In the example above, we opened the
 element first, then the  element; therefore, we have to close the  element first, then the
 element. The following is incorrect:

My cat is very grumpy.

The elements have to open and close correctly so that they are clearly inside or outside one another. If they overlap as shown above, then your web browser will try to make the best guess at what you were trying to say, which can lead to unexpected results. So don't do it!
Some elements have no content and are called empty elements. Take the  element that we already have in our HTML page:

This contains two attributes, but there is no closing  tag and no inner content. This is because an image element doesn't wrap content to affect it. Its purpose is to embed an image in the HTML page in the place it appears.
That wraps up the basics of individual HTML elements, but they aren't handy on their own. Now we'll look at how individual elements are combined to form an entire HTML page. Let's revisit the code we put into our index.html example (which we first met in the Dealing with files article):
<!DOCTYPE html>   <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>My test page</title>
Here, we have the following:
<!DOCTYPE html>
- doctype. It is a required preamble. In the mists of time, when HTML was young (around 1991/92), doctypes were meant to act as links to a set of rules that the HTML page had to follow to be considered good HTML, which could mean automatic error checking and other useful things. However these days, they don't do much and are basically just needed to make sure your document behaves correctly. That's all you need to know for now.
- the
element. This element wraps all the content on the entire page and is sometimes known as the root element.
- the
element. This element acts as a container for all the stuff you want to include on the HTML page that isn't the content you are showing to your page's viewers. This includes things like keywords and a page description that you want to appear in search results, CSS to style our content, character set declarations, and more.<meta charset="utf-8">
— This element sets the character set your document should use to UTF-8 which includes most characters from the vast majority of written languages. Essentially, it can now handle any textual content you might put on it. There is no reason not to set this and it can help avoid some problems later on.<title></title>
- the<title>
element. This sets the title of your page, which is the title that appears in the browser tab the page is loaded in. It is also used to describe the page when you bookmark/favorite it.
— the
element. This contains all the content that you want to show to web users when they visit your page, whether that's text, images, videos, games, playable audio tracks, or whatever else.


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How to verify the resource files for missing file, entries, obsolete entries and old files. This task enables the Host to verify all the installed language packs in the site and check their status against the default system language. The verification process will look at all the system default resource files and compare them to the localized version for all supported languages.
Once you receive the report, and if any issues are found, you can use the Languages Localization Editor to solve all the issues reported. Restricted to SuperUsers only.
- Navigate to Admin > Advanced Settings > Languages - OR - Go to a Languages module.
- Select the Languages tab.
- Click the Verify Language Resource Files button. This displays a report for each locale.
- Click the Maximize button to view details of any missing files, entries or obsolete entries. More on the types of issues that can be found for any resource file:
- Missing Resource Files: The localized version for a given resource file is missing. To correct this issue select the resource file on the Languages Localization Editor and the language where the error is given. The localized file will be automatically created.
- Files With Missing Entries: The localized version for a given resource file does not include some entries that are present on the default system resource file. To correct this issue select the resource file on the Languages Localization Editor and the language where the error is given. You will be given the option to add all missing keys to the localized resource file.
- Files With Obsolete Entries: The localized version for a given resource file includes some entries that are not present on the default system resource file. To correct this issue select the resource file on the Languages Localization Editor and the language where the error is given. All keys that are not necessary will be automatically deleted.
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Files Older Than System Default:
- Click the Cancel button to return to the module.


Unit test with child components
We again have the same simple count component.  Your job is now to
test the component again this time handling the child component
Additional Task:
Change the ButtonComponent to emit a custom void EventEmitter everytime
the button is clicked. Choose a name for you like. Change your tests, so
that your custom event emitter is tested instead of the click event.


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650 mg |
oral |
Mescaline |
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Saturday, 2:30pm @ my place: Extracted and divided into two uneven parts: one 450mg and one 650mg dose (approximate) of 'mescaline Hcl'.
A good friend for whom it was the first time took the lower 450 dose, weighing it at 165lb or so. He was nervous but excited.
I took the heavier dose after having taken a 450mg dose a week ago, weighing it at 150lbs. This was my 2nd time.
In less then 30 minutes, I started feeling uncomfortable body sensations. My stomach seemed to be twisting and churning, thoughts speeding up, and distorted eyesight present. I didn't like this phase of the trip, and the mild unpleasantness continued for the first 1.5-2 hours. Taking a shower didn't help, but I sure was glad I took 1 pill of Dramamine beforehand, or otherwise I could have gotten nauseus.
Like on Mushrooms, I felt for a while as if I was poisoned. Thoughts would turn negative inside my head, and I went to my own room for a moment, seperating myself from my friends downstairs. I would keep going back and forth like this, feeling disoriented and sick, for an hour or so.
We watched snowboarding videos for a while and I was tripping in an uncomfortable, body-sensation/disorientation wave. Visuals were weird and unpleasant at this point - I saw a picture on my wall shrink and expand over and over as long as I watched it. Things moved or jittered in my vision. Anything I looked at would move around in a jittery way and despite the uniqueness of the effects, the unpleasant body sensations kept me from enjoying myself fully.
Then we went outside!
Oh my, yes, the great outdoors and Mescalito play very well together. It was a beautiful, sunny day and we went to a nearby park by the sea. Kids playing, people jogging, laughter, noise, sunshine. Movement was very easy, probably because I couldn't feel my body at all! It was like my head was floating along. Patterns, twirling dots and a varriety of colorful visual distortions followed throughout.
I was also relieved that my friend was having a great time. He did not feel any strong effects until the 1.5 hour mark, but in the park, it kicked his ass good! We sat around and marveled. We walked around and marveled. We came to some basic conclusions:
1) We were legally and ILLEGALLY insane.
2) Nothing matters.
3) It's all a circle, maaaan...
Conversation was almost as difficult as on shrooms, but much more enjoyable. Lots and lots of giggling, laughter and general craziness. At some point we went on a bridge overlooking the highway and the ocean bay, and it offered a magnificent view of ships, cars and people for miles away. The Mesc made everything appear even more brilliant and real. At the same time, my view seemed crunched towards the bottom, so thing appeared smaller in the bottom part of my vision, like a caricature of a person with a small body and a large head - except everything was like that.
We then went back to my house and watched Fear and Loathing on the bigscreen TV.  We were quoting along with the movie, something we never do usually but to me at least, I felt inside the film. I experienced the emotions of the characters. I marveled at Depp's skillful portrayal of Thompson's drug-bent gait. It was fun!
Some observations: Very long lasting. Dosed at 2:30pm and effects didn't fully wear off until maybe 5am. Mixing with weed and alcohol towards the end of the night no doubt prolonged it.
I took a heavy dose of 650mg in order to experience something like Carlos Castaneda described. I believed I could totally lose track of what I was doing and see things that weren't there - that didn't exactly happen. People didn't turn into animals or anything super-cool like that, but it was a powerful and fantastic trip none the less. The only bad part were the first 1.5 hours. On a heavy dose, the body sensations (especially my stomach) distracts me from the trip.  It was as if I forgot how to control my body and tell it to perform these functions! Unpleasant and irritable, but worth it in the end, for sure.
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Campus Technology published an article last week about a biomed course that saw mixed results from flipped instruction. The full article is open access (CC-BY 4.0) and available to read. I’ve read and annotated the original article and I’m going to distill a couple of points from bot the published report and the CT article.
The authors state right up front that there “were no statistically significant differences in examination scores or students’ assessment of the course between 2015 (traditional) and 2016 (flipped).” Campus Technology (and other publications) often latch on to the grade implications rather than qualitative student feedback on the efficacy of flipping. To the researchers’ credits, they do recognize higher retention and application as reported by students on self-reported feedback surveys.
The biggest red flag for me was in the definition of flipping. As Robert Talbert regularly points out, many research articles limit flipping to “video at home, discussion in class.” The article elaborated on the at home experience in the methods section. From the article,
Students were introduced to new material each week by completing assigned readings from textbooks and journal articles, then by watching recorded lectures given by faculty experts at MSPH on one of 10 core epidemiology topics. Next, students completed short online graded assessments of their understanding of the new concepts presented in these media based on the Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) pedagogy…
Students were also able to submit questions to instructors prior to the in-person meeting that would be addressed at the start of the session. The article also makes note that doctoral students and instructors would monitor questions via email or office hours in between in-person meetings.
So, students watched a lecture (no discussion on the format, length, or content of the lecture), read some articles, and then began to apply material in preparation for the lecture. More on this later.
Students reported confidence in their learning and ability to apply materials with a slight increase in the flipped (84.1%) vs traditional (80.6%) cohorts (non-statistically significant, however).
The opening sentence proclaims:
A study at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health found that in a health science course following the flipped classroom model, there was no statistically significant differences in test scores or students’ assessments of their course, compared to a traditional lecture course.
They do not note that the study took place over two years (two different groups of students) but did report positive impacts due to freedom to watch lectures when they wanted to (improved flexibility). CT also included an insightful quote from one of the authors about the lack of time to process information in a traditional setting after a lecture (discussion was immediately after lecture in the traditional design) but that flipping doesn’t allow for “[direct engagement] with the lecturers”
The research study and the ensuing report highlight two things for me:
Students reported a higher satisfaction with the class due to flexibility and because they felt more confidence in the material. Time to process information is important and they were better able to contribute to discussions after having time to think through the lecture. But, all the CT article focused on was the grade. It isn’t a secret that few practitioners (K-12 or higher ed) actually read the reports unless they’re actively planning their own study. There is a responsibility for news outlets and blogs to include gains beyond the final exam score.
How did students grow beyond the test? What improvements did instructors see in the cohort? These are important factors that should be included in followup interviews if not in the research report itself. The research did have the six instructors full out surveys, but they were not reported in the results with student feedback.
Secondly, course design is critical if we want to improve student performance. Several of the citations were quite old (early to mid 2000’s) and were in a similar vein, looking at student exam scores rather than course design and teaching methodology (granted, several of the cited articles were paywalled so I couldn’t do a full evaluation of each).
If we simply bottle courses and reverse the time of interaction, why would we have an expectation of student improvement on exams? This article shows that the course is consistent, if nothing else, with no change in student exam performance. How would it have changed if students had explored material before the lecture, as in Ramsey Musallam’s or Dan Meyer’s work? How would students have benefitted from interactive items at the beginning of the discussion period rather than a rehash of the lecture from the instructor?
While the research makes some interesting points, it is far from conclusive in its results on the efficacy of flipping. The authors make conciliations at the end, but we need to continue to push the discussion away from a particular technology solution and start by analyzing our instruction methods as the real turning point in student learning.
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i have been experimenting with connecting a device with relay switch output to my new emonPI so that i can count the closures from the relay switch.
i have tried to connect the relay contacts between the RJ45 connections IRQ and Gnd, with a pullup resistor to Vcc.
i then disconnected and rewired so that the relay contacts were between IRQ and Vcc, with a pulldown resistor to Gnd.
the total length of cable between emonPI and the relay contacts is about 6 feet.
In both cases the emonPI counts the relay closures properly. it also, less helpfully, registers spurious counts when the relay is not being operated.
Does anyone else see this and is my simple setup incorrect? All the documentation seems to suggest a resistor (and probably the pulldown configuration) is what i should be doing.
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
Two possible causes spring to mind. If "Not being operated" means the relay contacts are open, then it has all the hallmarks of pickup on the cable. Look for sources of interference and maybe you need to add a small capacitor to remove what are hopefully spikes being picked up from adjacent cables. You could also wire the contacts in twin screened 'microphone' cable, earthing the screen. If it's when the relay is energised, it could also be vibration causing a momentary break. Clean contacts suitable for the very low current, i.e. gold flashed, might be the solution. If you can afford the current, then lowering the value of the pull-up/down resistor should help, both in reducing the input impedance when the relay contacts are open, and in providing a 'wetting' current for the relay contacts (especially if they are silver cadmium oxide or a material that's more suited for high current switching).
According to the data sheet, the IRQ pin is the same as the rest, so it should be switching at 0.3 Vcc and 0.6 Vcc, i.e. it sees a 'low' below 0.3 Vcc and a 'high' above 0.6 Vcc, so there should be no difference between pull-up and pull-down.
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
Which firmware are you running, and does it have any debouncing logic? Good debouncing logic will usually see off any actual contact bounces that occur at the time of the relay opening and closing and also any brief noise-induced spikes that occur when the relay is steady-state.
If you go the pull-down route, make sure the firmware hasn't enabled the internal pull-up on that pin.
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
Most of the time the relay contacts are open and that's when these spurious counts occur.
i have just measured the voltage on the IRQ terminal and it's normally 0.7V, rising to 4.69V when the relay closes for a short while, and it's wired pulldown. If I drop the resistance, I suppose it will lower than resting voltage, and it should still rise to nearly 4.7V. Sounds to me as if the normal voltage is too high.
Thank you for looking at the data sheet. I wouldn't have known where to find that and it suggests to me that I need to reduce the resistor to drop the normal (contacts open) voltage.
The meter came with built in relay so it's impossible to see what specification it is, and the plumbing company is well set up for water queries and rather less so for such detailed physics materials questions! If I make it a 2.7K resistor, I think the normal voltage will drop to < 0.2V and the contact closed current still only be 2ma so the emonPI should be all right with that (limit 20ma did I see somewhere?).
Make sense?
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I'm no expert but I think the emonPi is a 3.3V system isn't it? Are you sure the contacts on your meter are dry relay contacts and not some solid state output? What exactly is the meter?
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
The emonPi is indeed a 3.3 V system, but there's only 5 V available on the RJ45 connector. That 5 V is NOT Vcc.
You should not be wiring relay contacts to apply 5 V to the input. If you haven't done so already, you're in grave danger of damaging the processor.
You should use a pull-up resistor (4.7 kΩ should be fine) and wire the relay to be 'active low', i.e. closed contacts = logical low on the input.
If it's a water meter, what makes you think it's a relay? Unless it has an internal battery or some other energy supply, it's more likely to be a reed switch operated by a magnet than a relay, and those are well known for contact 'bounce'.
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
I had not realised that the 5v was a different supply from Vcc.
i will modify the setup at once to remove any risk of the 5v on the IRQ [hangs head]
hidden traps for a newbie.
as for the water meter contacts, my loose language. Yes, I'm sure it's a reed relay. I expect contact bounce - my issue was the random pulses when the contacts wer just stationary normally open.
how do I tell whether my 2 week old emonPI has debounce enabled? I saw so where it should have with a 110 ms period.
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
What brand is your meter? I've seen some Elster meters fitted with the official Elster T-probe reed switch do what you're describing, while others work fine. It's not a matter of bouncing contacts but more that if the meter happens to stop right where the reed switch opens (or closes) it becomes unstable and randomly flips between the two states for hours (or days if the meter remains in that position). No amount of debouncing can fix that because the period of the spurious pulses are so long as to be indistinguishable from the real pulses.
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
Frustratingly the water meter doesn't have a maker's name.
Today, with IRQ wired to the junction of a 4.7k resistor to the 5V and a 10k to ground, I still had lots of spurious pulses when the reed contacts were open. I therefore wired a .01mu capacitor across the reed contacts and the spurious pulses dropped enormously.
I am now monitoring to see how accurately the reed closures are counted. That's when I will see whether I have a bounce issue. Still not sure how to tell whether the new emonPI has debounce logic enabled by default.
Most importantly: thank you to those whose comments have helped me get to this stage.
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
Still not sure how to tell whether the new emonPI has debounce logic enabled by default.
Nor am I. We'll need someone familiar with OEM release procedures and version numbers to work that out. I guess in the meantime you could try manually touching the IRQ pin to GND and see how many pulses that counts. If you can do that with only one pulse counted I'd say it's enabled... if you see 40 or 50, then probably not.
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
EmonPi's ATmega328 is 3.3v with internal chip pull ups enabled on irq input
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
Glyn; and for the record, debounce logic ON by default?
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
Yes, min_pulse_width is set to 110ms
https://github.com/openenergymonitor/emonpi/blob/master/Atmega328/emonPi...
https://github.com/openenergymonitor/emonpi/blob/master/Atmega328/emonPi...
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
Currently tearing (what's left of) my hair out. Good electronics skills as an A-level student (dates me) is too long ago.
Anything plugged into the RJ45 port of the emonPI seems to generate spurious pulses, even when it is just a shop sold temperature sensor. Even with the pull-up 10k and pulldown 4.7k in place, my reed switch reading is doomed as an hour of open contacts will give me 30-50 pulses. A .01mu capacitor across the switch contacts Reduces the incidence but does not eliminate.
i have tried a totally different switch: same result.
Wondering whether it is a glitch with the emonPI I have bought and tried the count into an emonTX: same result.
1. This must be RFI must it not?
2. Are the IRQ inputs really that sensitive?
3. Has anyone on the forum found a simple preferably passive solution to eliminate those?
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
Hi
I had a similar problem. Discussed here:-
https://openenergymonitor.org/emon/node/5022
I solved it by using a Maxim 6816 hardware de bounce ic. (A bugger to solder, buy several!)
Regards
Ian
Re: Pullup or Pulldown?
I shall take your advice and buy a debounce switch though the link was very helpful and I shall start with a simple hardware RC filter to test whether that's enough.
i do think my problem is probably interference so I will also have to look at using screened cable even though the cable run is only 1 metre.


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On November 21, BTSarrived at the Gimpo International Airport following their 5th fanmeeting in Chiba, Japan. As soon as BTS showed-up, the group's members stole fans attentions with their charming visualsㅡ especially BTS's official visual, Jin. He flaunted his new hairstyle and fans have fallen for him all over again.
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According to social psychologist Dr. Claude Steele, one of the major barriers holding back the achievement of black people, women and other underrepresented groups is a phenomenon he calls “stereotype threat,” the threat of being viewed through the lens of a negative stereotype or the fear of doing something that would inadvertently confirm that stereotype. I only recently have learned about stereotype threat and its role in the achievement gap, but I see how it can have meaningful effects on the self-confidence of groups who have negative stereotypes attached to them.
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POCAHONTAS A film review by Fred Edwords Copyright 1995 Fred Edwords
>From the July 1995 issue of the Interracial Club of Buffalo Newsletter
DISNEY'S FIRST INTERRACIAL CARTOON FEATURE: NEW SONGS, OLD STORY, TIRED FORMULA
It's as though Disney has been beating around the bush for a long time on this whole mixed-couple thing. First it was a love story between a cocker spaniel and a mongrel in LADY AND THE TRAMP. A sexy songstress and a bunny got it together in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? Then a fish/woman and a handsome prince fell in love in THE LITTLE MERMAID. Finally, it was a young gal and a bewitched prince in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. But never in all this was there a decidedly non-white lead character. That didn't happen until ALADDIN, which, though not an interracial film, was definitely a welcome change of habit.
Not until last month, then, can we say that Disney finally took the plunge. Yet when they did, it wasn't entirely worth the wait. True to traditional Hollywood form, their scriptwriters saw to it that the interracial love affair was a fleeting thing indeed. And the artists made sure that Pocahontas was comfortably anglicized. (She may have had her mother's eyes, but definitely *not* her father's nose. As NEWSWEEK put it, "... tall and shapely in a buckskin minidress, with miles of floating hair: she's Native American Barbie.")
Remember American TV's first interracial kiss? It was on STAR TREK in 1968 and the faces were turned away from the camera so the lips would not be seen. Ditto for Disney's first interracial kiss in POCAHONTAS. Fortunately, however, there is a second kiss at the end of the film that is much more honest. Perhaps those doing the storyboard figured the audience would be softened up by then.
Meanwhile, the tired script offers, as TIME magazine put it, "... a boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl story whose plot is familiar in every weepie affair, from ROMEO AND JULIET to THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY." However, the boy-loses-girl ending is the weakest part of the tale, and totally unnecessary. After Pocahontas saves Captain John Smith's life by placing her body between him and her father's war club, Smith saves her father by standing between him and Governor Ratcliffe's bullet. Smith is wounded. So in the next scene we learn that Smith must be taken back to England.
"Does he have to go?" Pocahontas asks.
"Going back is his only chance," she is told. "He'll die if he stays here."
In other words, the only way to save this seriously wounded man is to break his heart by hustling him away in a primitive sailing ship where he will suffer months at sea in the raging Atlantic Ocean until he can get to England where some quack with no knowledge of sanitation or anesthesia will cut him up, bleed him, and then put leeches on his wounds. Trust me: he's far better off staying with Pocahontas in the wilds of old Virginny!
"Will you come with me?" John Smith asks his lady love.
Pocahontas looks up at her father, who tells her, "You must choose your own path, my daughter."
So Pocahontas thinks for a moment, then says. "I am needed here."
"Then I will stay here with you," Smith responds.
Pocahontas shakes her head. "No, you have to go back."
And that's that. The relationship is over and, in the manner of ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO, the film ends with Pocahontas running after Smith's ship as it sails away, seeking that one last glimpse of the one she loves.
How convenient.  Both of their motives are made pure -- the union simply wasn't meant to be.
Now, to some, this criticism will seem unfair. After all, the real historic Pocahontas didn't marry Captain John Smith, either. After being abducted by the English in 1612, Pocahontas married a different white guy, John Rolfe, had a son by him, went with him to England, and died there of smallpox in 1617. But if historic accuracy is an issue, then Disney's POCAHONTAS has other problems. The real Pocahontas was only 12 when she rescued John Smith (or performed a *pretended* rescue as part of a tribal adoption ritual for the good captain). The supposed romance never happened, it being an invention of the 1790s, and the legend has grown ever since.
So let's not talk history, or even faithfulness to the original forms of great fairy tales: Disney has never had much regard for either. Let's talk cultural bias. After all, if the studio was willing to change the poignantly tragic ending of Hans Christian Anderson's THE LITTLE MERMAID in favor of a happy Hollywood finish, then why did it break its own tradition this time to give us a tragic POCAHONTAS? In the usual manner of film scripting, they could have merged the character of John Smith with that of John Rolfe and had Pocahontas marry him. Then the reward for her courage would have been complete. But racism can be a hidden and subtle thing. I'm sure most everyone involved with the film felt they had done something truly advanced and enlightened.
Well, they certainly tried. Pocahontas is depicted as intelligent, independent, fearless, assertive, athletic, and, in the words of her father, a young woman who "speaks with a wisdom beyond her years." She's definitely the best Disney female role model since Belle in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Furthermore, the film goes out of its way to be politically correct when it comes to its depiction of Native Americans. And it promotes environmentalism in the bargain. TIME said, "As teacher of the land's bounty with John Smith as her student, Pocahontas becomes the first eco-feminist."
So, despite the fact that Disney Studios couldn't quite shake off all the vestiges of entrenched, unconscious racism, they at least gave us a generally positive interracial romance, a strong non-white heroine, a clear preachment against racial bigotry, and an upbeat ecological outlook put beautifully to music. The rest of Hollywood hasn't given us better, and generally provides much worse. So, despite my caveats, I'd recommend taking the kids and making a family affair of it. We did.
And if you happen to find yourself chuckling a bit at the excessive use of heroic images of Pocahontas perched commandingly atop precarious precipices, or drifting wistfully through the weaving mist, her long black hair blowing engagingly about her shoulders and face in the colorful autumn wind, just remember that this too can be part of the fun. And POCAHONTAS is definitely a fun movie.
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