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Georg Friedrich Händel - Lascia Ch'io Pianga (performed by Cecilia Bartoli)[^]
I heard this song on the radio about two weeks ago.
Although I didn't know Händel composed it, I recognized the song right away.
A couple of days later I remembered, I knew this song from a Best Of Sarah Brightman album.
Someone else later said to me that Celtic Woman sang it too, so I've heard it from them too.
It's also a popular classical piece, so I've probably heard it performed by orchestras as well.
So I've known this song for many years, but this time it really got to me and I've been playing it a lot.
Apparently, Händel used the melody in his opera Almira and later used it in his opera Rinaldo, for which it's mainly associated with.
Bonus SOTW joke!
What are the first three numbers of an opera singer's phone number?
The aria code
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Infected Mushroom is always good 
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Wow, I am enjoying your tastes on this wavelength. Wonder if I can lure you into Gesualdo territory: [^] ?
Lascia ch'io pianga
mia cruda sorte,
e che sospiri
la libertà.
Il duolo infranga
queste ritorte,
de' miei martiri
sol per pietà.
Let me weep over
my cruel fate,
and let me sigh for
liberty.
May sorrow shatter
these chains,
for my torments
just out of pity.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Never heard of Gesualdo, but it seems he was quite skilled as a composer: "As a composer he is known for writing intensely expressive madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century."
Maybe he's lost some popularity because of this: "However, the best-known fact of his life is his brutal killing of his first wife and her aristocratic lover upon finding them in flagrante delicto." 
Oh, I'm sorry, it appears he's innocent: "Due to his status as a nobleman, the Gran Corte della Vicaria found that Gesualdo had not committed a crime."
Anyway, I got into choral music just last month: Sound of the Week of 20 Dec 2019[^] 
So yes, you can lure me into Gesualdo territory.
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During one of my presentation the statement I wrote was " blah......., therefore the possibility of missing the deadline is very high".
The whole discussion later was if I Should have used possibility or probability. My argument was that since its more on a gut feeling and guestimate , I used Possibility.
IMHO probability should be used if its backed on the solid and valid statistical numbers.
Your thoughts?
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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My thought is that if you're going to miss the deadline you shouldn't worry so much about probability vs. possibility 
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That's the funny part, I was hoping we will be discuss the reason for the delay but I was way wrong.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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But it's going to be the best bike shed ever. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Please read the life changing book called "How to conduct long and pointless meetings with no significance to real work whatsoever".
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Judging from the meetings I've been in, that book must be a best seller!
Everyone read it... 
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Looks like we are same boat. There have been cases where I have had meetings which took at least 3 times more time than work which was, for lack of better word, discussed in them.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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>Too much of good is bad, mix some evil in it.
Too much of good already contains bad within, so it's already a mix of evil, correct? Probably. 
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I always think like this: Possible has two states, either it is possible or not. While probability is something when you are not sure whether something is possible or not.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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agree
possible has two finite states: it can or it cant/wont - as a measurement only and ever: 0% or 100%
probability though can be expressed as anything including and between 0% and 100%.
and being pedantic: probability is not ever less than 0% nor ever beyond 100%
- that would be yield which is altogether a different animal.
so true: the OP should have used "probability" (or some contextual synonym like "chance.")
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Probability is what those aliens called mathematicians discuss.
Lesser mortals like us settle for possibility.
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If it is being quantified (even as a vague estimate) then it is a probability.
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Agreed. Also a possibility can't bei high. It either exists with a probability of that thing occurring being greater than zero and less than one. If it's impossible the probability ist exactly zero. If the probability is one then it is not a possibility but rather a certainty.
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I think it depends on how you use the word. If you check the dictionary I think you will find a definition that fits with the way you use it:
For example[^]: "a chance that something may happen or be true."
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All of those examples treat possibility as a binary thing...it can be possible or not possible. None of them treat it as a gradient or scale, eg that a possibility can be "high". The reason for that is because possibility is not the word to use in this context, probability is.
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from link: The forecast said that there's a possibility of snow tonight
from link: There's a distinct possibility (that) I'll be asked to give a speech.
Both those examples clearly indicate that the possibility is unknown. i.e. cannot be guaranteed to be either true or false.
The first one especially is basically saying: "The forecast said that there's a chance of snow tonight".
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It's still a binary construct though, and not a scale. Possibility of snow....there will be snow (1), there won't be snow (0). I will have to speak (1), I will not have to speak (0). Neither of those examples indicate a range. The probability of snow is high. The probability of snow is low. The probability of snow is 50-50. The probability of snow is almost certain. The probability of snow is highly unlikely.
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Well by that logic, then the OP is correct in using possibility: Either they will miss the deadline (1), or they won't miss it (0).
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No, because the "possibility" was described as "high" which moves it from a binary construct to a scale.
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