It's fairly common to hear the CEO of a company that makes most of its money doing thing-X announce that the future of this company is thing-Y.
Why might they do this? I think it's often just to sound visionary and bold. In rare cases it might be a clever plan to distract thing-X challengers by redefining the competitive agenda to include both things X and Y (Oracle excelled at this with many failed initiatives such as the NC). There are certainly also cases where markets go bad and must be exited, such as when Intel needed to flee the commoditizing DRAM market.
It takes guts to say it. TechCrunch and the VCs will get goosebumps. There's a certain burn-the-ships attitude that one can't help but admire.
But is a good idea? I think, for the most part, no.
While it is sometimes absolutely necessary to lead companies through major transitions, I think the "future is Y" tactic is overused and often misapplied.
Sometimes burning the ships drives a high level of commitment to developing a fertile new world. Sometimes, however, it leaves a bunch of starving sailors on a barren rock.
My two favorite examples of this principle are Ingres and MarkLogic.
The RDBMS market was not commoditizing. Ingres confused the growing dominance of a standard query language (SQL) with product commoditization. The products were all quite different. SQL would be extended and, in effect, re-made proprietary. The market wasn't trending to pure competition and commoditization; it was headed towards oligopoly. Oracle drives 50%+ margins in RDBMS.
The notion of carving a segment off the market was never considered. When someone loses the battle for dominance in market A, you don't need to move to market B; you can segment the market instead. For example, Ingres was always very strong in query optimization. As Ingres was bailing out of RDBMS, a new multi-billion dollar segment was opening in databases specific to data warehousing, where that optimization technology would have been critical. Open source was another option was hiding in plain sight (the original University Ingres was always open-source; even before the term or concept was widely in use).
Application development tools were a non-attractive market maybe 1/5th the then-current size with low barriers to entry, boatloads of competitors, strong downward pricing pressure (e.g., free runtimes), a powerful entry Visual Basic / Visual Studio and a bevy of other PC-based tools.
The statement, and accompanying reallocation of resources, alienated all the database people who thought "why do I want to work at a database company not committed to databases?" The answer was you didn't. Many of them ended up at Oracle and Sybase.
Tools were indeed the future of Ingres and that future ended up pretty bleak. In 1994, the whole struggling ASK/Ingres mess was sold to CA for $311M, a fraction of annual revenues.
Now, let's look at MarkLogic. MarkLogic was founded in 2000, to create a hybrid DBMS / search engine based on the XML data model and the XQuery language. In 2003, Gartner wrote a note called XML DBMS: The Market That Never Was. Despite that, I joined the company as CEO in 2004 because, while I was aware that there was no horizontal momentum for the XML DBMS category, the company did have outstanding technology, strong investors, a great team, and a handful of good early customers. I strongly believed it was a classic case of where a "bowling alley" strategy could be applied successfully.
To me, it was clear cut and, God bless Geoffrey Moore, it worked. Of the dozen or so XML DBMS vendors in existence in 2004, the only one who succeeded in building a real business was MarkLogic. Some went out of business. Some repositioned into XML publishing applications. Some were sold for a pittance. Do you remember any of these names: Tamino, Ipedo, x-Hive, TigerLogic, Ixiasoft, Xyleme, eXist? It wasn't exactly a hot category.
Despite the fact that 90%+ of the revenue was coming from the media and government verticals, several "important people" persisted in believing that the future of the company was enterprise. (Meaning, selling horizontally to F1000 IT.) I never liked that because a horizontal enterprise assault had played no role in the company's success to that point, and the data I saw suggested that wasn't going to change in the future. To me, anyone paying close attention to the present might well conclude that if enterprise were the future, then that future might be pretty bleak.
Several things happen when leaders of thing-X companies declare the future of the company is thing-Y.
You make counter-intuitive investment decisions. For example, if I told you that thing-X salespeople sold $2M/year and thing-Y salespeople sold $1M/year, you might expect that a company would consist of 100% thing-X salespeople. (For a given number of salespeople that maximizes revenue.) But once thing-Y is declared strategic, the company will seek to hire more of the lower productivity salespeople to support the strategy.
Thing-X employees feel disenfranchised. I'd always felt that Oracle never forgot it was a database company. No matter the timeframe, a top database engineer was a prestigious job. At Ingres, after about 1989, it wasn't prestigious to be in the database group. Oracle never said tools or apps were the future of the company. Oracle, in effect, said: we are the leader in database and will leverage that to expand into tools and apps.
Your best employees will want to move to thing-Y. By saying the future is thing-Y, you are announcing to your team that the past is thing-X. Your best and brightest will quickly get the message that to maximize their career opportunity, they should be working on thing-Y.
I firmly believe that there are situations where companies must leave an old market and enter a new one. Cognos's exit from mid-range application development tools into BI is a great example. In 1996, you could safely say that the future of Cognos was BI. I'm sure that created many transition issues internally for them and, for the record, I believe that Cognos managed those issues extremely well. But given what was happening to VAX/VMS and MPE/XL Cognos had no choice. They needed to burn the ships and move to a new world.
But for, the most part, I believe that VCs, board members, and executives make one of two mistakes when they say the future of a thing-X company is thing-Y.
They are hoping the future is thing-Y because for some reason they find that market more attractive than the market for thing-X. Often this may be a case of boredom with your own market (i.e., grass-is-greener syndrome) or a lack of creativity in developing it. Recall that Google was in part born by Yahoo declaring search non-strategic, and instead choosing to focus on portals and content.
They are creating an artificial rhetorical "or" for dramatic purposes when the real message should be "and." Follow the Oracle model instead: we are going to lead in databases and, by hook or by crook, we are going to build an applications business because we believe that both are strategic to our future.
So the next time you hear anyone say the future of your company is Y, challenge them. Ask about X. Ask about Z. Ask about X and Y as opposed to X or Y. Then consider the real consequences of having your entire organization — and customer base — truly believe that the future is Y.
If you like that picture, stick with it. If you don't, think a bit harder and change the plan.
I'm not sure if I'm a big ERP customer that telling me Hana is the future makes me feel good, should it? I'd argue that customers, almost definitionally, want the future to include the present that they bought into. Smart ones also want to know that you're not heading down a blind alley into obscurity as a vendor.
Independent of that, much as I hate to disagree with you, I'd argue the "and" should never be implicit because people may not hear it that way. If you're burning the ships, say the future is X (and the past is thing Y). If you're evolving, then say the future is both. That's my take.
As a 6-yr veteran with Sybase, and more recently nearly 8-yrs at MarkLogic, this is pretty darn relevant. I worked for great leaders (and some not so great). Dave, you hit it on the nail. What about thing-x and thing-y. What about the thing-x customers, partners and ecosystem that are not necessarily trending thing-y, or that have bet their job's on the thing-x technology roadmap as relates to their own vision? Anyway, thanks for the clear thinking here. Nicely handled too.
As a MarkLogic x-customer this is very pointed post. I was sitting in the audience for that user conference and felt pretty uncomfortable at the new y-direction and the lack of out reach from the new management to explain how y relates to x. As we see an exodus of x-staff and y-staff leave MarkLogic we do wonder if its time to look at plan z. Great technology and company but to loose the x-talent (inc the x-CEO) seems careless. Well at least we don't have to listen to the y-CEO at the next conference – painful.
This is an interesting post – for technocrats and customers who have invested lot of time in MarkLogic technology and still love it – the question is not whether it works or not (because we know it continues to work at least for media and publishing businesses) but would management be able to convey the right messages (currently it seems to be big data database with analytics capabilities).
It would also be helpful to hear the plan z which customers have started thinking about.
I agree with the criticisms of "the future is Y". It is one thing to bet the company within your business, like Boeing does. It is an entirely other thing to bet it in a new area.
I would not be excited about enterprise as the new thing. I've been on the buying side of enterprise software.
1. There is no enterprise market. There are a lot of distinct and dissimilar enterprises. ML already knows how different each publisher can be. This guarantees a revenue mix that is heavy on consulting and light on license.
2. Enterprise has very long planning cycles and a vendors end up slowing down to match that. A choose-budget-buy cycle can easily be over a year. So you must have rock-solid roadmap over a year out and serious roadmap for three, and your revenues are a year out from heavy engagement with the customer, maybe longer.
Essentially, you've decided you are no longer a fast-growing company.
Specific to MarkLogic, all enterprise software is now cloud software, period. MarkLogic is not natively designed to be happy in a cloud. It is designed for a few fast, reliable servers, not for thousands of crappy, slow, virtual boxes.
The home field for MarkLogic is stuff that a company doesn't dare trust to a cloud.
In addition, I will add one more case-study – BEA Systems. BEA was a leader in middleware segment with market leading product – WebLogic server (thing-X). SOA market became thing-Y for the company and they bet the farm at the expense of the core business. The company even created a new brand to go after this market – AquaLogic.
• Thing-X employees disenfranchised – the WebLogic team couldn't get any new resources and the core team responsible for the growth engine for the company slowly dispersed.
• Thing-X customers get potentially rattled – customers took full advantage of portability and migrated from Weblogic to Open-source offerings or IBM Websphere. WebLogic lost it's #1 position.
Finally, Oracle acquired the company and put it's weight behind the core "WebLogic" products.


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Trump Impeachment 2.0: Necessity Or Farce?
After the January 6th mob ruckus inside the US Capitol building, the US House, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, rushed to put together articles of impeachment (again) for President Trump. Trump, they claim, led an insurrection on that day and must be held accountable. Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley recently wrote in The Hill of the dangers of lowering the bar for impeachment. Do the House Democrats have a point that Trump must be removed from office days before he is removed from office, or is Impeachment 2.0 as much of a farce as Impeachment 1.0?
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I've Been Struggling to Get My Head Around What's Happening in Our Country
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Mike Rowe - January 13, 2021
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To state the obvious, Louis, I think President Trump was wrong to wait so
Ron Paul Speaks Out On Social Media Dominance
Written by Ron Paul - January 11, 2021
Last week's massive social media purges – starting with President Trump's permanent ban from Twitter and other outlets – was shocking and chilling, particularly to those of us who value free expression and the free exchange of ideas. The justifications given for the silencing of wide swaths of public opinion made no sense and the process was anything but transparent. Nowhere in President Trump's two "offending" Tweets, for example, was a call for violence expressed explicitly or implicitly. It was a classic example of sentence first, verdict later.
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Ron Paul: Facebook has blocked me from managing my page
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Alphabet Inc.'s Google late Friday suspended Parler, a free-speech focused social-media network favored by conservatives, from its app store, and Apple Inc. threatened to do the same in the wake of the U.S. Capitol riot.
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Oppression... The 'Great Reset' is about Expanding Government Power and Suppressing Liberty
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World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab has proposed using the overreaction to coronavirus to launch a worldwide "Great Reset." This Great Reset is about expanding government power and suppressing liberty worldwide.
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Ralf Freeman. . , Free black served as a Baptist pastor at Rocky River Church until law in 1831 barred blacks from public preaching. Buried 500 yards west. . This historical marker was erected in 1998 by Division of Archives and History. It is in Ansonville in Anson County North Carolina
Free black served as a Baptist pastor at Rocky River Church until law in 1831 barred blacks from public preaching. Buried 500 yards west.
Erected 1998 by Division of Archives and History. (Marker Number K-57.)
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Churches & Religion. In addition, it is included in the North Carolina Division of Archives and History series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1831.
Location. 35° 5.868′ N, 80° 6.384′ W. Marker is in Ansonville, North Carolina, in Anson County. Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 52) and Cemetery Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Wadesboro NC 28170, United States of America. Touch for directions.
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In the field of nursing, it's possible to explore two different terminal degrees, and one of them is your Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). The purpose of this degree is for equipping APRNs (advanced practice registered nurses) and nurse administrators with the requisite skills for implementation of the latest medical care practices that are evidence-based and help lead medical care profession teams across many healthcare environments.
A DNP is a practice-based doctorate while, in comparison, a Ph.D. in nursing is research-based. Furthermore, sometimes DNP programs are compared to Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) programs. An FNP is usually a specialty within a Master of Science Nursing (MSN) degree; however, some DNP programs have FNP specializations tied to the doctoral degree as well.
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Chef 'Cooked' Parts of Girlfriend's Body
Australian police said Monday they had begun a murder probe after they found human remains in an apartment, but refused to confirm reports that body parts were cooking on the stove.
Authorities went to the home in an upmarket area of Brisbane on Saturday night after neighbours reported a terrible smell.
"Management were concerned about the welfare of some occupants," Detective Inspector Tom Armitt said.
"Upon attendance there, we've had cause to commence an investigation in relation to a murder-suicide."
Police have given few details on the case, but confirmed that human remains were found inside the apartment in Teneriffe and that a man's body was found in a nearby street.
Queensland's Courier-Mail said the dead man was a 28-year-old chef who had worked on cruise ships and had recently moved into the apartment with his Indonesian girlfriend.
Police would not comment on the paper's report that the man slit his own throat after he fled the apartment, or that they had found parts of the woman's body cooking in an industrial pot on the stove.
Forensic officers were at the scene on Monday, with drums used to store medical waste rolled out of the apartment by officers, reports said.
CBI approaches HC seeking extension to make effective Anil Deshmukh's bail order
Maharashtra minister under scanner over land allocation
"There should be criteria regarding Governor's appointment," says Uddhav Thackeray
'The Kashmir Files' brazen plot exposed at film festival
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What is the difference between a thriving church and one that's static—or even crumbling? The right kind of leadership structure and vision can make all the difference. And the right type of structure and vision doesn't start with the leaders themselves, but with Jesus Christ and his kingdom.
Christian leaders must continually follow Jesus and learn to lead alongside him. In Where Jesus Leads, Jim Gettel draws on Scripture to prepare readers to truly follow Jesus, build communities, make and strengthen disciples, and serve others in this exciting post-Christendom, post-Modern, emergent time. He starts by reviewing basic kingdom truths, giving leaders a solid theological foundation upon which to grow. Then he gives practical tips on how best to love and disciple people within the Christian community, as well as the greater communities. Finally, he equips leaders to nurture and guide other leaders, just as the earliest disciples did.
Where Jesus Leads weaves Scripture and kingdom vision into every section, so readers don't lose sight of the big picture. But practical needs also remain at the forefront, through insights and tools for conflict resolution, organization, and ministry evaluation.
Each chapter includes questions for personal reflection and group discussion. These pave the way for essential conversations about gospel-based objectives and effective leadership practices, both in general and in the readers' specific communities. Leadership teams will learn to identify the ways their Christian communities are called to serve, articulate their community visions, involve others, and lead Christian transformation.
Jim Gettel serves as the Canon for Congregational Life for the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, helping ordained and lay Christian leaders to follow Jesus and lead loving communities that make a difference in the world.
As Jim helps other leaders, he draws on his own broad experience in entrepreneurship, organizational development, and leadership. In addition to church communities, he's helped establish and lead Our Next Generation, a faith-based nonprofit that reaches inner-city children; two staffing companies with over 1,000 employees; an investment banking practice for Schenck M & A Solutions, one of the forty largest CPA and consulting firms in the country; and a commercial finance practice for Michael Best & Friedrich, one of the two hundred largest law firms in the country.
Jim received his BA in philosophy from Northwestern University in 1980 and went on to earn his JD and MBA from the University of Illinois in 1984. In addition to Where Jesus Leads, he has published two other books: The Fundamental Reform of Philosophy, and God's Love, Human Freedom, and Christian Faith.


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Former American professional basketball player Ulrich Alexander Rick Fox is all retired and is currently established as a film and television actor. With his dual career, Rick Fox has managed to collect a tremendous net worth of $25 Million.
Here we are going to discuss how did Rick Fox make up this huge net worth. Stick with us to find all about his net worth, a lifestyle he has achieved.
How did Rick Fox make up his net worth?
As mentioned already about Rick Fox's net worth as of the year 2018 is $25 Million. Rick Fox has been able to collect up this net worth with his dual career one being a professional basketball player and another being a television and film actor.
With his long-term career as a basketball player, Rick Fox pocketed a huge amount of money. Want to know about Rick's earnings from television series and films? If yes find it out in the following paragraphs.
Rick who started his acting career in the year 1994 has also added up a handsome amount from his career at acting in his net worth. He has appeared in movies like Blue Chips(1994), Eddie(1996), He Got Game(1998). In the year 1997 Rick got his biggest role of Jackson Vahue in HBO drama Oz alongside Lee Tergensen, Ernie Hudson, and Terry Kinney.
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newswire article reposts global 25.Feb.2008 15:20
health | social services
Prescribing anti-depressants: little or no impact at all
author: Salamander Davoudi
Alison Cobb, policy officer at mental health charity Mind, said: "This study represents a serious challenge to the predominance of pharmacological treatments for depression. Anti-depressants have been shown to help many people, but by no means all."
"Too many GPs are being forced to dish out drugs because they don't have proper access to psychological therapies services which are recommended by Nice."
Mind is urging GPs to consider alternative therapies such as exercise - particularly outdoor exercise - which it believes has shown to be very effective in combating depression.
Study casts doubt on anti-depressants
By Salamander Davoudi
Published: February 25 2008 19:25 | Last updated: February 25 2008 19:25
Prescribing anti-depressants to the vast majority of patients is futile, as the drugs have little or no impact at all, according to researchers.
Almost 50 clinical trials were reviewed by psychologists from the University of Hull who found that new-generation anti-depressants worked no better than a placebo - a dummy pill - for mildly depressed patients.
Roche to face probe over sales of slimming pill - Feb-25Roche under spotlight over diet pills case - Feb-11Large Roche orders aroused suspicions - Feb-11Researchers hail new MS drug - Jan-30Analysis: The ethics of offshoring clinical trials - Jan-28Measures to limit drug marketing questioned - Jan-18Even the trials that suggested some clinical benefit for the most severely depressed patients did not produce convincing evidence. Professor Irving Kirsch from the university's pyschology department said: "The difference in improvement between patients taking placebos and patients taking anti-depressants is not very great.
"This means that depressed people can improve without chemical treatments. Given these results, there seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients."
The researchers focused on four widely prescribed anti-depressants and the clinical trials that were submitted to win licensing approval from the US Food and Drug Administration.
The drugs included fluoxetine (Prozac), venlafaxine (Efexor), and Paroxetine (Seroxat).
All belong to a family of drugs known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs). These drugs have become popular over the past 15 years as doctors consider them to be safer than tricyclic drugs that carried a high risk of overdose. In 2006, 31m prescriptions for anti-depressants were issued in England, up 27 per cent since 2001.
However, Dr Gary Bell, consultant psychiatrist at Capio Nightingale Hospitals, the provider of private psychiatry treatment, contested the conclusions of the Hull research. "Anti-depressants are one of the great breakthroughs in the treatment of depression in last 20 to 30 years," he said.
"They do not always suit everybody but the results are often life-saving. People who do studies do not have the hands-on experience of using these medicines."
According to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, at least one person in five will suffer from a depressive illness at some point.


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Fu la terza statunitense a salire sul podio della gara dei 100m farfalla alle Olimpiadi di Melbourne 1956 dove giunse terza dietro alle connazionali Shelley Mann e Nancy Ramey.

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Melbourne 1956: bronzo nei 100m farfalla.

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Città del Messico 1955: oro nella 4x100m misti e argento nei 200m rana.

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Judy's Journal ジュディの日記
Peter Pan – Chapter 5 – The Island Come True
Posted byJudy Shinohara July 20, 2021 July 20, 2021 Posted inClassic Literature, Fantasy Story, StoryTags:やさしい英語, ピーター・パン, Easy English Stories, English Readers, ESL Reading, 英語 多読 無料, 英語多読, Peter Pan, 小説, 洋書
This is the story of the boy who never grew up.
Start Reading from Chapter 1
Chapter 5 – The Island Come True
Feeling that Peter had returned, Neverland awakened into life again.
In his absence, things are usually quiet on the island. The fairies take an extra hour in the morning to get up. The beasts quiet down and take care of their children. The natives eat for six days and six nights straight. And when the pirates and lost boys meet, they merely make angry faces at each other.
But now Peter was back, and he hated all things boring. So the island started up again. If you put your ear to the ground, you could hear the whole island breathing with life.
On this evening, Neverland's main forces were as follows:
The lost boys were out looking for Peter.
The pirates were out looking for the lost boys.
The natives were out looking for the pirates.
And the beasts were out looking for the natives.
They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because they were all going at the same speed.
All of them were blood-thirsty, except the boys. Sometimes, they liked blood, but at the moment, they were focused on finding their captain.
How many lost boys are there, you ask? Well, it depends. Of course, sometimes they get killed by pirates and so on. And sometimes they grow up, which is against the rules, and Peter gets rid of them. At this time, there were five of them. Well, technically there were six, if you counted the Twins as two separate people.
Right now, they were walking through the sugar cane field in a single file, each with his hand on his dagger.
One of Peter's rules was that they couldn't look like him. So instead of leaves, they wore bear skin. Of course, they hunted the bears themselves. Hunting bears wasn't easy, so all of the boys had become very agile.
The first one in line was Tootles. He wasn't a coward, but he was very unlucky. You see, he had been on fewer adventures than the others because exciting things always happened when he wasn't there. The moment he stepped away from the group, something amazing always seemed to happen without him. He would go away to do a chore, such as gathering sticks for the fire, and when he returned, the others would be sweeping up the blood. This misfortune made him a sad character, but instead of becoming sour, it made him humble. In fact, he was the most humble of the group. Poor kind Tootles. He didn't know it yet, but tonight he would finally get a chance to face real danger. Tinker Bell had plans for him because she believed that he was the easiest to fool.
Tootles, beware of Tinker Bell! I wish he could hear our warning.
Next in line was Nibs. As always, he was cheerful and confident.
After him was Slightly. He often made whistles out of wood and danced merrily to his own music. Out of all the boys, he was the cockiest (although, not as cocky as Peter). He thought he could remember the days before he was lost, when he was taught proper manners and customs, so he held up his nose high in the air.
Curly was the fourth. He was the meekest of the group. Whenever Peter had to scold the boys, he would say, "Who did this? Step forward!" Curly would always step forward automatically whether he did something bad or not.
Last came the Twins. It's difficult for me to describe them because I never know which one is which.
Peter never quite understood what a "twin" was. And Peter didn't like it when his band knew something that he didn't know, so they never explained themselves. They simply kept close together as if they were one person and were apologetically silent.
One by one, the boys passed and vanished into the gloom.
Shortly after them, the pirates appeared. Actually, you could hear them before you could see them. They were singing the same dreadful song as always:
🎵 "Ay! Pirating we go,
and if we're parted by a fight,
we're sure to meet below!" 🎵
You've never seen a more villainous group, not even if you've seen prisoners waiting for their execution.
In front was the handsome Italian pirate named Cecco. He walked with his great bare arms and eight piercings hanging from his ears. He had escaped from the prison of Gao and carved his name into the back of the prison governor.
Then came Bill Jukes. Every inch of his body was tattooed.
Next was Cookson, who was said to be Black Murphy's brother (although it hasn't been proven).
Gentleman Starkey came after. He used to work in a public school, so even as a pirate, he was well-mannered when he killed.
Then came Skylights, Smee, and Noodler. Noodler was a bit strange because his hands were backward.
Finally was Robt. He was a Spanish man that was feared by many.
And in the midst of them all, was Captain James Hook. He was the darkest and largest of the group, and he lied back at ease in his chariot, which was pulled by his men. And instead of a right hand, he had an iron hook. He treated his men like dogs, and they obeyed him like dogs.
In person, he looked like a corpse. His hair was styled in long black curls, which looked like black candles from a distance. His expression was threatening, yet handsome. His eyes were as blue as the sea, and filled with sorrow. Well, they weren't always blue and sad. When he plunged his hook into an enemy, his eyes lit up with a red glow.
There was something very refined about him. Even when he was ripping someone apart, he was very polite and elegant. And when he talked, and even when he was swearing, he did so in a cultured way.
He was the most courageous of them all. In fact, it was said that the only thing he was scared of was his own blood. His blood, by the way, was thick and quite an unusual color.
And his clothing? He dressed like someone who was related to Prince Charles II. And he always had a cigar in his mouth. Actually, he liked to smoke two cigars at once. But undoubtedly, the grimmest part of him was his iron claw.
Are you wondering if pirates kill pirates? Well, yes they do! Would you like to see it? Now is the perfect opportunity because they are about to kill Skylights. You'll be able to see Hook's method.
As they crossed the field, Skylights walked clumsily. He bumped into Hook and ruffled his lace collar. The next moment, the hook shot forward and there was a tearing sound. And then a scream. And then the body was kicked aside and the pirates kept walking. He didn't even remove the cigars from his mouth.
He's a terrible man, isn't he? Don't you wonder who would win if Peter Pan and Hook fought against each other?
After the pirates disappeared into the gloom, the field was silent for only a few moments. Soon after them, came the natives. They walked with their eyes wide open. They carried axes and knives, and their bodies were painted.
They were not a peaceful tribe. They were always ready for war. As decoration, they wore necklaces with the hair of their victims. Hair from the lost boys and hair from the pirates.
Walking at the front of the tribe was Great Big Little Panther. He walked on all fours, like a real panther. He was so brave that he wore many necklaces that weighed him down.
At the back of the group, which is the most dangerous position, was Tiger Lily. She stood tall and proud. She was the princess of the tribe, after all. She was more beautiful than the princesses of Europe. And she was unpredictable, too. She could be cold one moment, and lovely the next. Every boy who met her seemed to fall in love, but she kept love away with an ax.
Look! Watch them as they walk! Can you hear them? No! They walk over the sticks and grass without making the slightest noise. The only sound you can hear is their breathing.
Indeed, the natives seemed to be breathing heavily. It was because they had just finished eating a banquet. Now, they were fat and heavy, but soon, they would work it off.
And they disappeared into the gloom. Behind them, the beasts entered the field.
Lions, tigers, bears and an uncountable number of smaller savage things. This island seemed to be home to every kind of beast that ever lived.
Their tongues were hanging out because they were hungry. When they disappeared into the gloom, one more animal appeared. The last figure was a gigantic crocodile.
When the crocodile slowly crawled past and into the gloom, the lost boys appeared again.
And this is the cycle that would continue until one of them stopped or turned around. You see, all of them were focused on hunting. None of them imagined that they were being hunted! This was how the island always was.
The first to fall out of the moving circle was the boys. Getting tired, they flung themselves down on the grass near their underground home.
"I wish Peter would come back," they all said nervously. They didn't feel right when Peter wasn't around, even though all the boys were taller and larger than their captain.
"I am the only one who is not afraid of the pirates," Slightly said in a bossy tone that never made him popular. But even still, he must have felt nervous because he quickly added, "but I wish he would come back and tell us whether he has heard anything more about Cinderella."
They started chatting about Cinderella. Tootles was confident that his mother must have been like her.
It was only in Peter's absence when they could talk about mothers. When Peter was around, that topic was forbidden because it was "silly."
"The only thing I remember about my mother," Nibs told them, "is that she often said to my father, 'Oh, I wish I had a bank account of my own!' I don't know what a bank account is, but I would love to give her one."
While they were talking, they heard a distant sound. A normal person, such as you or I, wouldn't have been able to hear it. But the lost boys, who lived in the woods like wild creatures, could hear very well.
It was the grim song of the pirates:
🎵 "Yo ho, yo ho, the pirate life,
The flag of skull and bones,
A happy hour, a long, thick rope,
And hey for Davy Jones." 🎵
Before the song ended, the lost boys were no longer there. Even rabbits couldn't have disappeared more quickly.
Where did they go? I'll tell you.
With the exception of Nibs, who darted up to their look-out spot, they all went to their home under the ground.
How did they reach it? That's a good question because there is no entrance to be seen. There isn't a door. There isn't even a suspicious rock that might be hiding a door. But if you look closely, however, you might notice that there are seven large trees. And each of those trees has a hole in its truck that is as large as a boy. These are the seven entrances to the home under the ground. Hook has been searching for the entrance for a long time, and all his effort has been in vain. Will he find it tonight?
As the pirates came closer, the quick eye of Starkey spotted Nibs disappearing through the woods. At once, he pulled out his gun, but an iron claw gripped his shoulder.
"Captain, let go!" he cried, writhing.
Now, this will be the first time you hear the voice of Hook. You'll be surprised. It's a dark voice that gives you chills down your back.
"Put away that gun," the dark voice said, threateningly.
"It was one of those boys you hate. I could have shot him dead."
"Ay, and the sound would have led Tiger Lily's tribe to us. Do you want to lose your scalp?"
"Should I chase after him, Captain," asked pathetic Smee, "and stab him with Johnny Corkscrew?"
Smee had pleasant nicknames for everything. His sword was nicknamed Johnny Corkscrew because he wiggled it in the wound. Smee had a lot of strange quirks. For example, after killing, instead of wiping his sword, he wiped his glasses.
"Johnny Corkscrew is silent and quick," he reminded Hook.
"Not now, Smee," Hook said darkly. "He is only one boy. I want to get all seven of them. Scatter and look for them."
The pirates disappeared among the trees, and in a moment their Captain and Smee were alone.
Hook let out a heavy sigh. I don't know why, (perhaps it was because of the soft beauty of the evening), but Hook suddenly had a strong desire to tell his life story to the faithful Smee. He spoke openly and honestly for a long time. But Smee, who was rather stupid, could hardly follow the conversation. But the word "Peter" caught his attention.
"And most of all," Hook was saying passionately, "I want their captain, Peter Pan. He was the one who cut off my hand." He brandished the hook threateningly. "I've waited a long time to shake his hand with this. Oh, I'll tear him apart!"
"And yet," said Smee, "I have often heard you talk gratefully about your hook. You said it was worth twenty hands. You said it was great for combing hair and other things."
"Ay," the captain answered. "If I was a mother, I would pray to have my children born with hooks instead of hands." He looked with pride at his hook, and then he looked with scorn at his regular hand. Then, he frowned again.
"Peter flung my arm," he said, wincing, "to a crocodile that happened to be passing by."
"I have often noticed," said Smee, "that you have a strange dread of crocodiles."
"Not of crocodiles," Hook corrected him, "but of that one crocodile." He lowered his voice. "It liked my hand so much, Smee, that it has followed me ever since. It follows me from sea to sea and from land to land, licking its lips for the rest of me."
"In a way," said Smee, "it's sort of a compliment."
"I want no such compliments," Hook barked. "I want Peter Pan, who first gave the beast its taste for me."
He sat down on a large mushroom, and now there was a quiver in his voice. "Smee," he said huskily, "that crocodile would have had me before this, but by a lucky chance it swallowed a clock. And that clock goes 'tick tock' inside it. And so before it can reach me, I hear the tick tock and run." He laughed in a hollow way.
"Someday," said Smee, "the clock will stop working, and then he'll get you."
Hook licked his dry lips. "Ay. That's the fear that haunts me."
Since he sat down, he had started feeling strangely warm. "Smee," he said, "this seat is hot." He jumped up. "What in the odd bobs! I'm burning!"
They examined the mushroom and realized that it was much larger than any other mushrooms found on the island. They tried to pull it up, and it came out easily in their hands because it didn't have a root. Stranger still, smoke began to ascend. The pirates looked at each other. "A chimney!" they both exclaimed.
They had indeed discovered the chimney of the home under the ground. The boys had a habit of plugging it with a mushroom when enemies were in the neighborhood.
Not only smoke came out of it. There also came children's voices. The boys felt so safe in their hiding place that they were chattering happily. The pirates listened grimly, and then replaced the mushroom. They looked around and noted the holes in the seven trees.
"Did you hear them say Peter Pan's come home?" Smee whispered, fidgeting with Johnny Corkscrew.
Hook nodded. He stood for a long time lost in thought, and at last, a sneaky smile lit up his face.
Smee saw the smile. "Tell me your plan, captain," he cried eagerly.
"We will return to the ship," Hook replied slowly through his teeth, "and cook a large, delicious, thick cake with green sugar on top. The boys' hideout must only have one room, because there is only one chimney. The stupid moles didn't have the sense to realize that they only needed one door, not seven. That shows that they have no mother. We will leave the cake on the shore of the Mermaids' Lagoon. These boys are always swimming around there, playing with the mermaids. They will find the cake and gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don't know how dangerous it is to eat a wet cake that has been sitting in the sun." He burst into laughter. Real, deep laughter. "Aha, they will die."
Smee had listened with growing admiration.
"It's the wickedest, prettiest plan I've ever heard of!" he cried. And in their joy, they danced and sang:
🎵 "They stop when I appear,
By fear, they're overtook.
Nothing left on their bones,
When they have met the Hook." 🎵
They began the song, but they never finished it because another sound made them still. At first, it was such a tiny sound that it might have just been a leaf that fell. But as it came nearer, it was more distinct.
Tick, tick, tick, tick!
Hook stood, shuddering. He had one foot in the air.
"The crocodile!" he gasped, and bounded away, followed by Smee.
It was indeed the crocodile. It had passed the natives, who were now on the trail of the other pirates. It crawled after Hook.
Once more, the boys emerged into the open, but the dangers of the night were not over yet. At the moment, Nibs rushed breathlessly to them, chased by a pack of wolves. The tongues of the wolves were hanging out, and their barking was horrible.
"Save me, save me!" cried Nibs, falling to the ground.
"But what can we do? What can we do?"
"What would Peter do?" they all cried.
Don't you agree that it is such a compliment to Peter? When they are in the presence of danger, their thoughts turn to their captain.
And immediately, the boys answered their own question.
"Peter would turn his back to them and look at them through his legs." And then, they said, "Let's do what Peter would do."
It was quite successful. Nibs bent over and looked at the wolves through his legs. This angered the wolves. The next moment—and I suppose it was a long moment—the boys advanced on the angry wolves and fought them off. The wolves dropped their tails and ran away.
Now Nibs stood up straight and stared out. The others thought he was still staring at the wolves in the distance, but it wasn't the wolves.
"I have seen something wonderful!" he cried as they gathered around him. "A great white bird. It is flying this way."
"What kind of a bird, do you think?"
"I don't know," Nibs said, awestruck, "but it looks so weary. And as it flies, it moans, 'Poor Wendy'."
"Poor Wendy?"
"I remember," said Slightly. "Aren't there birds called Wendies?"
"Look! Here it comes!" cried Curly, pointing to Wendy in the sky.
Wendy was now almost overhead, and they could hear her crying. But even louder was the shrill voice of Tinker Bell. The jealous fairy had stopped pretending to be kind and she was now darting at Wendy from every direction. She pinched her savagely each time she touched.
"Hello, Tink," cried the boys.
Tinker Bell screamed out.
You do not speak fairy language, so I will translate it for you here: "Peter wants you to shoot the Wendy."
The boys, of course, never questioned Peter's orders. "Let's do what Peter wants!" cried the simple boys.
"Quick, bows and arrows!"
All of them, except Tootles, popped down their trees to get their weapons.
But you see, Toodles was always afraid of missing adventures, so he made a habit of being prepared. Toodles had a bow and arrow with him. When Tinker Bell saw it, she rubbed her little hands together.
"Quick, Tootles, quick," she screamed. "Peter will be so pleased."
Tootles excitedly fitted the arrow to his bow. "Get out of the way, Tink," he shouted. And then he fired, and Wendy fell to the ground with an arrow in her chest.
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Cranking the resolution up to 24 bit / 192 kHz is a great thing… for a great recording. But on a not-so-great recording, all it does is highlight the flaws. Each. And. Every. One.
So what makes a great recording?
On the one hand, it's subjective. The choice of venue, microphone and A/D equipment certainly plays a role. And, of course, a great recording is usually one that captures great music.
But, I want to point out something today that we don't often discuss in audiophilia — the mastering process. Most recordings are mastered for general consumption. General consumption was historically radio or vinyl. More recently, it's become radio or MP3 (thanks Zune, iTunes, Pandora, Spotify…). That means most tracks are not mastered for a system with a wide dynamic and wide frequency range. And as audiophiles, we pay the price.
So before you run out and re-buy your digital collection in high res, you may want to find out what you're actually getting. A re-mastering + high resolution release (which likely targets the audiophile crowd) is bound to sound absolutely amazing. An old master, re-released in a higher resolution is likely to be a lamentable letdown.
To wrap up, I can tell you this: I would listen to a great recording in plain old 16 bit / 44.1 kHz (CD Quality) any day. And on most days, I do.


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