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at 22:49 on 21 August 2005
I saw the small section near the bottom of the screen just now about composing in your head. I am fairly young and have much to learn, I can see that well established composers go on this site so this is mainly for them, but anyone feel free...
I just always felt that thats how composition starts. In ones head. I ALWAYS do the writing in my head, then onto fresh paper for analysis, then into sibelius for pubishing. I'd be interested to know how others approach their own works.
Re: Composing in your head.
at 01:43 on 03 November 2005
I too am a young composer (only 18, a senior in high school)I have had no formal training and also no performances of my works (other than having my bassoon works, quartets and duets mostly, read at the studio where I study). but I like you have to hear a good thematic idea (that can be developed...an important stipulation) in my head first. Then unlike you I do all of my writing editing and publication in Finale. I have to have the aid of a playback mechanism for three main reasons.
1) I have little aural training and what little I have is self taught..mostly from choral work. Band is no good for sight singing...because you don't have to sing...just press the right buttons!
2) I am not a pianist and cannot play complicated counterpoints that I come up with.
3) I am not that skilled a bassoonist.
Hopefully next year at college I improve my piano and aural skills...as well as my shoddy theory background...intervals?...What are those?
Re: Composing in your head.
James McFadyen
at 20:11 on 24 November 2006
I have never advocated using Sibelius or any other computer software for the composition process.
I use manuscript and a healthy stock of 2B pencils. And, well, of course my 'brain' and a keyboard to run a few ideas through my ears.
Re: Composing in your head.
at 16:49 on 26 November 2006
I think that there are many possibilities for the creation and development of musical ideas.
Of course, something has to be going on in your head. But, I also think that through improvisation, ideas can be arrived at through paths that the imagination cannot achieve without practical in the moment realization and exploration. If there is an idea in your head, take it to the piano and start repeating it over and over. Then, let the ego take a break, and let the depth of your unobstructed creativity take over. The brain is designed to exist in the now with incredible efficiency. Under the thin blanket of the conscious lies a busy working universe of ideas that are all yours. Get into the physicality of making the sound let your hands wander. Listen closely to what you are doing from another place in the room - project yourself as an audience. How does it make you feel? What do you want to hear next? I think you will find that ideas will surface that were not predictable with the conscious subjective mind. Also, it can be really fun to jam out! I also heartily encourage you to improvise with others. The bouncing around of ideas can lead to some beautiful music making. It is also great for ear development and exploring instrumental technique.
I do like to use finale software as a part of my compositional process not always, and not exclusively. It allows me the opportunity to quickly jot ideas down and play them back for further study and perspective. Yes, the sounds suck @$$, but, there is a certain degree of accuracy in the representation of the idea. Of course, this can only work for certain kinds of musical expressions. Nothing improvised can be realized only the pure notes are heard. Specialized instrumental sonority, tesitura, balance, timbre blend etc. are lost in this medium. None-the-less, I think that if you are aware that the music coming from the speakers is not the be-all of the music, I think it can serve as an excellent tool for building a musical composition, especially for studying and developing form, harmony, and rhythm. Certainly not for all, but, I don't think it is useful to be dogmatically opposed to using the machine as a part of the musical development.
Lastly, be open to the idea that musical expression exists everywhere. Be less critical of others, and more inspired. This is not just for compositional development, but also for living a contented and joyful life. I can't tell you how much this has made a difference for me.
...oh, bassoon guy, learn your intervals, scales, modes inside and out, and always sing music before playing it. Work hard, and your learning curve will be exponential. The bassoon will get much easier, and become a tool of expression, not of frustration.
Re: Composing in your head.
at 15:10 on 27 November 2006
BassoonBuffoon said:
> ...intervals?...What are those?
An interval is the drinking bit in the middle of a concert - you know, the bit that gets interrupted by all that ghastly music...!
Re: Composing in your head.
The Piano King
at 06:05 on 02 December 2006
Intervals are like inches on a piano and other instruments. Many songs have intervals to give the song more of a classical and blues feeling. Sometimes jazz. Say the first note in the music you are playing is in c (middle C) the interval you might use is c/e or c/f or c/a you are basically skipping keys on the instrument or notes if that makes more sense. If anyone has any questions concerning composing or theory just send me a message.
God Bless
The Piano King
Re: Composing in your head.
The Piano King
at 06:06 on 02 December 2006
Intervals are like inches on a piano and other instruments. Many songs have intervals to give the song more of a classical and blues feeling. Sometimes jazz. Say the first note in the music you are playing is in c (middle C) the interval you might use is c/e or c/f or c/a you are basically skipping keys on the instrument or notes if that makes more sense. If anyone has any questions concerning composing or theory just send me a message.
God Bless
The Piano King
Re: Composing in your head.
The Piano King
at 06:09 on 02 December 2006
Many people compose in their head. It is an ability that iam proud to say i have. But it only comes through years of practice and experience.Iam able to compose on the spot like if i had a performance but had nothing ready i would play what i knew and play stuff on the spot and mostly they are on the spot medleys or arrangements.
Re: Composing in your head.
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at 03:57 on 12 April 2007
I have been reading the entries in this topic with much interest. It seems to me everyone has a different method for composing, so what I am discussing here is just the way I do it, with no pretensions to its orthodoxy or even usefulness for others.
I often (though not always) have some kind of seed I start from. For example, a text (for choral pieces), a short piece (for a theme-and-variations type piece), an idea, image or story to render musically (for example "Autumn" or "In the Womb"). Sometimes I want to write a piece for a friend and tailor it to them. It's best if it's something that inspires or intrigues me.
Then I sit down at my computer and fire up Finale. Like you, "BassoonBuffoon" I use Finale for similar reasons. I do not play any instrument well enough to do more than work out ideas -- slowly. And I cannot hear my compositions in my head totally either, especially those with more complex harmonies. My main instrument is voice, which severely limits my contrapuntal playback (although the Tibetan monks have managed to sing two tones simultaneously, that's about the limit as far as I know! And I don't think they can do counterpoint!) However, the more I do, the better my ability to hear in my head gets. When people ask me what I play, I say 'I play the computer.' (I was also a software engineer for 14 years, so I suppose I can say that in more than one sense.
The version of Finale I have has 2 options for playing the score -- the second one uses Garritan Personal Orchestra, which are good quality sampled sounds. I find this invaluable for composing because of the instant feedback. Garritan can also play most commonly used dynamic and articulation markings (slurs, pizzicato, arco, accents, etc) as they are written in the score, which is very useful. I would not be able to write anywhere near as quickly without this tool (not mention to print professional-looking scores and parts and create CD's with reasonable facsimiles of a performance -- handy for sending to publishers).
So back to what I do in my head -- I usually have an idea of the mood and rhythm and a more approximate idea of the melody and harmony. I write a line, listen. Then -- and I don't know how to describe this -- I "feel" what should come next, that "what" being the rhythmic interplay between instruments, the particular instrument(s) to be used, and a general idea of the harmony. Once I have a melody or theme, I may methodically develop it in the ways one learns about in music schools and composition lessons -- ie, augmentation, diminution, imitation, key changes, perversion and intimidation (haha just kidding -- I'll leave those two to the self-appointed critics :-D), etc. Sometimes I just kind of let the music "tell" me what comes next.
(I think that is where waiting, a kind of patient meditation or inner listening comes in -- the music is out there somewhere, just waiting for someone to hear it. This attitude serves me better than feeling these are totally my creation. Of course, I have to cooperate. But ultimately, I am just a tool the music uses, is how I try to look at it.)
I write some more. And I listen listen listen -- for balance, for places where I need to add something to keep the movement going, to tone quality, to the dynamic balance. It's something part art and part intuition (and part childlike curiosity and playfullness, too)-- but for me it all starts with listening over and over. When I do this, subtle things start to become apparent that I could not hear before. That's the best I can explain it -- listen and you'll suddenly have this gestalt as to what comes next.
Sometimes, though, I just "try something" to see if it works, and I mean small scale, a few notes. As far as harmony, that is not my strongest point, so often I have an idea of how it sounds, but I need to play with the notes before I recognize exactly what I am looking for. But again through this process, I learn more and more what kind of harmony I am hearing in my head (sometimes it's fuzzy!)
Finally, I get others to listen and give their impressions, constructive critique. Especially people who excel in their compositions. And take it in and mull it over. When you get such feedback, it is invaluable; treat it as such. This is not about ego, it's about serving the Muse who gave her name to our art...
I am working on the second movement to my second attempt at a symphony -- it (as a work in progress) is on the web. Feedback welcome, though it could change radically by the time it's done. Also, in it you can hear what the Garritan sounds I mention are like if that interests you.
OK just my evening thoughts, for what they're worth, or not. :-)
PS Oh and you young or newer composers on the forum -- Bravo for you! Don't ever let yourselves be intimidated by anyone on this forum. Older or more experienced composers ought to be encouraging and helping you grow -- that does include advice, and honest constructive critique. But if it doesn't help you grow, have the courage to throw it out (including this advice if applicable!)
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Since we have decide not to find out the gender until the baby is born, I have decided with this pregnancy that I am busying small things here and there.
With my first son, I didn't buy anything until about 16 weeks. Then I had two M/C's. Then my second son was set to arrive and I bought a few gender nuetral things around 10 weeks. With my daughter I waited until about 20 weeks, because we had just had my son and we had almost eevrything we needed already. We just needed to buy girl clothes, more diapers, and wipes.
With this one, I have decided to slowly aquire things. I bought a few things on clearance that will go with my baby's theme and I also bought an gender nutral outfit. I bought a baby bottle set that I will using for pumping my breast milk. Everything that I have bought I could always use as baby shower gifts if for soem reason this pregancy takes a turn for the worse.
Everyone is different and I say if you are comfortable with buying things now, then go ahead and do it. If not, then hold off until you are a safer gestational age. It is very much a personal choice. I have done it both ways and I guess as a mom of several, I have gotten more comfotable with buying earlier.
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Angela has posted an article with the reg key you'll need to figure out if Outlook is installed via Click-to-Run. I still haven't figured out a good way to get MFCMAPI running against a C2R environment, but when I do, I'll post it here. 🙂
Hi Stephen,
I have a semi related question. Outlook 2010 beta does not display our custom mapi form verbs anymore. So when I right click on an item in Outlook 2010 which has our message class our verbs (custom commands) are missing. Double clicking that item shows our MAPI form. Right clicking that element in Outlook XP/2003/2007 shows our mapi form verbs.
Our MAPI form was installed from a cfg file where the verbs are defined.
Unfortunately I did not get in the tech beta of Office, so I could not check the RC. The Office folks are pretty closed down – no chance to get in even as an ISV gold partner. I asked in MSDN news groups and forums, our partner rep – but no answers showed up.
Is that problem known and still existing in the current bits of Outlook?
Is there any way to install both Outlook versions 32 bit and 64 bit in the same OS.
I don't know more about application virtualization but name looks like "it can do".
So virtualization will hide one version from another version and allow to install both in the same OS.
I eagerly await your findings on C2R, Stephen!
I'm guessing that OL2010C2R virtualizes its MAPI client components, right?
I tried this: Write an OL2010 addin that does this on startup:
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo info = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo(@"C:mfcmapiMFCMapi.exe");
info.WorkingDirectory = @"C:mfcmapi";
When it launches, MFCMAPI inherits the MAPI client environment from Outlook 2010!
Awesome idea Kevin! That'll work until I get time to figure out what I really want, which is a way to launch MFCMAPI directly into the virtual environment, even if Outlook isn't running.
Just to add, I was able to use System.IO to dump the Q: tree, so one should be able to snoop all the files there. You know, in case one wants to see the side by side manifests, peruse DLL entry points, etc.


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HealthCare.gov is back online after a network failure at Verizon's Terremark cloud service took the site and its main data hub down Oct. 27.
"Verizon Terremark successfully resolved the issue with the networking component overnight, and as of 7 a.m. ET this morning the Data Services Hub was fully operational," HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters said in a statement. "The HealthCare.gov technical team continued troubleshooting one issue with the online account creation process in the application and has now opened the online application and enrollment tools back up to consumers."
The outage was the latest in a series of technical glitches for the site, including long waits for service for users and problems in delivering information to insurance carriers on the back end.
However, this was the first problem caused by a cloud service provider.
The failure originated in a Verizon Terremark data center and likely affected other companies that purchase computing power from the tech giant, though Verizon has thus far not responded to media inquiries on the cause of the problem.
It is also unclear how many potential customers attempted to reach the site while it was down only to receive a message that said: "We are experiencing technical difficulties and hope to have them resolved soon. Please try again later."
The outage affected both the Federally Facilitated Exchange which serves insurance customers in 36 states, and the individual exchanges in 14 states and the District of Columbia. The state-based health insurance exchanges as well as the federal system, are dependent on the data hub to operate properly.
HeathCare.gov is the front door to a system for registering for insurance and shopping for policies under the 2010 health care overhaul. Since launching on Oct. 1, it has been plagued by errors and long waits for service on the user interface side, and problems in delivering information to insurance carriers on the back end. This is the first reported outage related to a failure at a cloud provider.
Separately, the HealthCare.gov website was redesigned over the weekend to remove a picture of a smiling woman, which was replaced with navigation icons that show users how to apply by phone, in person and by mail, in addition to online.
The administration is encouraging applicants to use these alternative enrollment methods while contractors focus on repairing software bugs and capacity issues. This effort is being led by Jeff Zients, a health care entrepreneur and former acting director of the Office of Management and Budget. The administration is promising that online enrollment will work as advertised for the vast majority of users by the end of November.
CMS did announce that it had knocked a few items off the "punch list" being managed by Zients. The load times for comparing insurance plans have dropped considerably, from minutes to seconds. Also, eligibility notices which had been garbled now appear as designed to shoppers at the end of the application process.
Healthcare.gov is still delivering faulty enrollment information to insurance carriers. A fix to the delivery of enrollment forms, called 834s in the industry, remains a high priority for the team working on Healthcare.gov, but there's no work on when it will be completed. The issue "is on the top of the punch list," CMS spokeswoman Julie Bataille said, adding that CMS is having ongoing conversations with insurance issuers, "to identify , diagnose, and prioritize issues as we work through our punch list of fixes."
Bataille also acknowledged that CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner was in charge of implementing the IT pieces and other aspects of the 2010 health care overhaul. Tavenner is scheduled to testify before a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee on Oct. 29 about the buggy launch of HealthCare.gov. However, CMS is still declining to name the technology specialists inside government and from the private sector who were tapped to lead a "tech surge" to identify problems with the software and the performance of Healthcare.gov. The group is thought to include several members of the Presidential Innovation Fellows team, as well as Federal CTO Todd Park.
It's not known which private sector firms outside of the contractors working on the project are pitching in, or whether they are getting paid. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is threatening to issue subpoenas to find out the identities of the team behind the tech surge, and has also sent letters to leading technology firms inquiring whether they have detailed any staff to work on Healthcare.gov.
The highly public failure of Healthcare.gov is attracting a lot of attention in the federal IT community.
The American Council for Technology and the Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) is holding its Executive Leadership Conference in Williamsburg, Va. While government CIOs and other IT executives aren't commenting for the record on HealthCare.gov, it is clear that there is an appetite to change some aspects of federal IT contracting and development.
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Read the article, commenters. This was a outage in the networking services of cloud Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) provided to the government by a commercial vendor. It affected multiple customers not just healthcare.gov. "Government requirements" for "programming" have nothing to do with this when it's a networking outage. "Good IT professionals (contractors)" would know the difference. And most major commercial cloud providers have had service outages or failover problems after launch. This points to issues with the commercial cloud provider's service, not the government's system.
So a network problem at a Good IT professionals (contractors" facility goes down and it is a gov't requirement problem?lol
please do you know the location of the affected Terremark Data Center?
Likely the problem is poor govt requirements. Good IT professionals (contractors) will program to requirements. Requirements definition is VERY diffifult and not something the govt does well, but they are in the driver's seat. The old saying, "garbage in, garbage out" comes to mind here. The govt shovels in garbage requirements and guess what comes out......?
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Its all about balancing the books. We lose £30 million for relegation in TV money ALONE, never mind reduced advertising revenue etc. We've recouped 23 million in transfer fees and cut about 8 million per year off the wage bill with the sales so far.
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Thers no denying they have gone on the cheap, and theres no prospect of incoming 'help' I tend to think that Southgaff has written this season off and is going to blame lack of funds for no promotion ( if he lasts that long). As for less income from advertising we are now on apar with B the Synners for advertising in the ground, now we have gone back to boards all round the pitch and a scoreboard you can only read in thre dark - fans still shortchanged with both the team and all else
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Personally I don't think that this is Southgate's decision. The players will have clauses in their contracts that allow them to leave, should they wish, in the event of relegation. You can't blame the players for wanting to leave either, they want to be playing in the top leagues.
There is money there as the Premier league give all clubs a 'parachute' payment when they are relegated, combine this with the sales and wage bill reduction it sets the club up financially as we don't want a repeat of liquidation do we!
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- Setting up a workspace
- Working with the seven key selection tools
- Using the Color Range command
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In this exercise I will show you how we can make quick use of modifying a really good selection outline using the Refine Edge command. I'll also show you how you can use Refine Edge to confer the selection outline into a layer mask. I am working inside a file called Guy with mask.psd found inside the 07 Refine folder. The reason I've created this file is that I've gone ahead and saved my selection as an Alpha channel called face mask here inside the Channels panel. If you're working along with me, I'd like you to do that too. So go ahead and drop down to the Save selection as channel icon and click on it.
The reason is, because we actually need to adjust the selection, before we visit Refine Edge. Notice this area behind the guy's neck. That's actually part of the background. So we need to deselect it. Then you might figure, well, we should have done that while we were in the Color Range command. The problem is that this is such a dark region. You may recall that we were actually selecting the background. And the background over here on the left-hand side is quite light. If we had tried to add this dark area to the selection, then we would have integrated portions of his hair and his beard and his eyebrows and so forth.
That would've made for a big mess. So we are better off making a second approach. Go ahead and press Ctrl+D or Command +D on a Mac to deselect the image. Then press the D key in order to reinstate the default colors, which are black for the foreground and white for the background, and go up to the Select menu and choose the Color Range command. That way Color Range is basing the selection on black and this area behind his neck is pretty darn dark. Now we don't want to select too many dark regions. So let's take the Fuzziness value down to 20.
That will help us out tremendously. Then I want you to Shift+Drag all over the place inside of this area behind his neck, just Shift+Drag up and down Shift+Drag to the edge and so forth. We want to make sure that we are integrating as many colors as possible. Notice I went ahead and Shift+ Dragged three separate times. With these settings in place, go ahead and click OK in order to create that selection. Let's drop down once again to the Save selection this channel icon and Alt+Click or Option+Click on it, to bring up the New Channel dialog box.
I will call this channel neck and click OK. You can press Ctrl+D now or Command+D on a Mac to deselect the image, and you'll notice your new channel down here at the bottom of the panel. Go ahead and drag it up below face mask, so the two are right in a row. You will see that I've created a few other alpha channels in advance for you. We will come back to them later. Go ahead and click on the neck channel in order to select it. Using the Rectanglar Marquee go ahead and marquee this large left portion of the image, like so. Then I'm going to Shift+Drag around his beard, Shift+Drag down here in the lower right corner, Shift+Drag up in this region to select the top of his hair, and then Shift+Drag around the sideburns.
I might as well enclose this area as well. With this large region selected, make sure that your background color is black. If it's not, press the D key to make it so. Then press Ctrl+Backspace or Command+ Delete on the Mac to fill that large selection with black. Let's check our work, press Ctrl+D, Command+ D on a Mac in order to deselect the image. Select the Magic Wand tool, make sure that the Tolerance value is set to 0 and Anti-alias is turned off. Then click inside the black region. Mine is nice and clean, so that's good.
Now I am going to zoom in over here in this neck region that I selected and go ahead and click on it in order to make sure that it's completely selected as well. And I didn't select all the way to the edge. So I have some slight problems here. I'll go ahead and grab my Rectangular Marquee tool and I'll Shift+Drag around this region, like so. That looks like I got everything. I am pretty far zoomed in, so I should be able to see all the marching ants. Press Alt+Backspace or Option+Delete on a Mac to fill that region with white. Press Ctrl+0 or Command+0 on a Mac to center my image.
Then I'll press Ctrl+D or Command+ D on the Mac to deselect the image. Now let's load the face mask and subtract the neck from it. Ctrl+Click or Command+Click on face mask and then Ctrl+Alt+Click or Command+Option+Click on the neck channel in order to subtract that small area. Now let's switch back to the RGB image and I'll also switch back to the Layers panel. Now I could convert this selection into a layer mask and I'll go ahead and do it, so you can see what that looks like. I'll click on the Add layer mask icon at the bottom of Layers panel.
You can see that we have a pretty good selection. Here is the problem though. I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on some regions. Notice that we have some pretty rough stuff going on in the bottom of the forward portion of his hair and then if we scroll down into his beard, also very rough, and down here along your shoulder we have some rough details as well. That's all stuff that ought to be nice and soft, because those are blurry details. The focus is dropping off along the edge of his face. We can make those details nice and soft using Refine Edge.
All right, I am going to press Ctrl +0, Command+0 on a Mac once again. I'm also going to undo the creation of that layer mask by pressing Ctrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac. Now you could just go ahead and modify the layer mask using the Refine Mask command. The only reason I'm not doing that is so I can show you yet another trick. So I am going to work with the selection outline and I'll go up to the Select menu and choose Refine Edge, or you can press Ctrl+Alt+R or Command+Option+R on a Mac. That brings up the Refine Edge dialog box of course. Let's go ahead and change the view from On White to On Black, which you also get just by pressing the B key.
Instead of painting inside the image window, I am just going to take advantage of the automated edge detection values. I am going to take that Radius value up to 50 pixels and turn on the Smart Radius check box and now notice how we have soft edges. Now they may not be perfect everywhere. For example, right along this area of the beard I'm not too happy with things and I could go ahead and increase the size of my brush cursor and paint around that area to see if things get better. In my opinion they actually got a little bit worse, but this is a much better selection outline.
Now I was telling you that you can return a layer mask if you want to, by default, you're going to output to a selection outline. If you want to make it a layer mask instead, go ahead and click this down pointing arrowhead and choose layer mask like so, then click OK, and Photoshop goes ahead and automatically generates a layer mask for this layer. All right. Now I want to take care of that little weird spot inside of his beard. So I am going to zoom in there, and I am going to click of a layer mask thumbnail here inside of the Layers panel. I'll go ahead and grab the Smudge tool.
I've got a big soft brush, my Strength value is set to 50%, now I am just going to go ahead, and smudge in and out here, until I get something that looks a little better. And this is looking pretty darn good to me. Now if you still have a problem with things, it's not all you want it to be, then you could in this case, because we have the soft focus, you could switch over to the Brush tool, go ahead and reduce the size of your cursor by pressing left bracket key. I am going to right-click inside the image window and I am going to take the Hardness down to 50% and press the Enter key or the Return key on a Mac.
My foreground color is set to white. So I am just going to click in a few of these problems spots like so, in order to add a little bit of soft beard back into the picture. This is actually looking pretty darn good to me. Press Ctrl+0, Command+0 on the Mac, center my zoom. That is our progress so far. That's all of the work we need where Refine Edge is concerned in terms of compositing this guy against a new background. In the next exercise, we are going to apply a handful of Smart Filters in order to get the foreground and background in agreement with each other.


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It is Nobel season and as good a time as any to discuss theories. As with any theory, even this one is only as good as the proof on the table. On the basis of what the last weekend has thrown at us, it is safe to say that destiny seeks out its darlings with the same unbridled enthusiasm as a teenager. Destiny it seems plays butler to pull over the coat of success over its chosen champion, embracing them in encomiums that underline the fact that they are first among equals.
Not for the first time, we saw the game stall and wait as if bound by the sole purpose of decorating its masters. In Muirfield, the American team waited nearly an hour for Tiger Woods to give them the all-important 18th point. It was no accident then that the world woke up to headlines about Tiger helping America to another President's Cup.
At around the same time in India, in a game where you'd expect some nascent young man to emerge in a triumphant burst of glory, the grand old man of cricket was cornering it all. Champions League T20 came to a conclusion with 40 year old Sachin Tendulkar holding aloft the shining trophy even as the Mumbai Indians jumped into a song and dance.
Standing in the shadows ruminating over the hand dealt to them were Ernie Els in Dublin, Ohio and Rahul Dravid in New Delhi. These are men who have learnt to live under the shade, accustomed to fate's partial methods. Both men had seen their fair share of battles and no doubt enjoyed some grand moments under the lights.
But life had taught them more than their fair share of lessons and dinned their veins with a fine appreciation of the skewed methods of fate. Dravid has lived in the giant shadow of Sachin ever since he donned national colours. The Karnataka batsman is a disciplined man with a nuanced understanding of the virtue of method.
Over the years people have witnessed Dravid's methods and admired his undiluted diligence. He spent many thankless hours in the nets working on the minute details that defined his elegance and consistency. Even to the end of his career, Dravid was more than happy to learn and adapt – as is amply endorsed by his more than respectable record in the shortest version of the game.
As luck would have it, Dravid could only muster a single before departing the ground for the last time as a batsman. Interestingly, the legend from Bengaluru was more than happy to drop way down the order even if this was his grand finale. To his last moment as a player, he was mindful of the fact that he was just one among eleven men pursuing a collective goal.
None of that matters though to the cruel hand of fate. It had already picked its favourite son and was only too happy to relegate the rest to being the props for the anointed child. The warm hands of fate were once again saving themselves to embrace Tendulkar, who is now the reigning World Champion, the CLT20 Champion and IPL Champion.
The man known as "Big Easy" is in reality anything but that. Ernie Els has been a fiercely competitive golfer who has done everything in his physical powers to compete with the impossible standards set by Tiger. Four major titles is no mean achievement, but Els will be the first to admit that he could have hauled far more than that if the prime of his career did not coincide with that of Woods.
But it has and despite making a determined effort, there wasn't much Els could do against a phenomenon like Tiger, except play second fiddle. On Sunday, it took a near putt from 30 yards for Woods to give the American team the 18th and decisive point. As difficult as this might be to explain, this was the third time in a row that Tiger has scored the winning point in a President's Cup.
You cannot manufacture that, not even with the talents of Tiger Woods. There is a hand of fate guiding success carefully into the vicinity of these men, who are only too eager to lap it up at every opportunity. And the case isn't too different with Sachin – except that he had to wait for five world cups before gaining the much sought after world cup prize at his sixth attempt.
The sight of Sachin on the shoulders of his Mumbai Indian team at Feroze Shah Kotla was reminiscent of that night in Mumbai when Tendulkar was paraded around the stadium in the aftermath of the final. Expect no such mercies for the likes of Els and Dravid. It appears destiny is a biased tsar who makes no qualms about handing differential treatment to its subjects.