Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, would have celebrated his 51st birthday on Saturday, August 29. Mayor Oscar Goodman has declared the 29th "Michael Jackson Day."
The following Las Vegas celebrations have been planned by those inspired by his legacy:
1. American Superstars at the Stratosphere. The only impersonator show in Las Vegas to feature a tribute to Michael Jackson (and has since its inception), American Superstars will stage a special tribute to Jackson at both the 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. shows on Friday, August 28 and Saturday, August 29. Michael Jackson tribute artist Frederick Henry will be joined by the Desert Angels Gospel Choir for a medley of Jackson's songbook
2. Las Vegas Celebrates the Music of Michael Jackson, Pearl at the Palms. The list of performances has grown tremendously since this tribute performance, which benefits music education in Nevada schools, was announced just days after Jackson's death. Top-of-the-bill entertainers include ventriloquist Terry Fator singing a rendition of the song "Ben" and Holly Madison as the strumpet in "The Way You Make Me Feel." The celebration was spearheaded by Jersey Boys star Erich Bergen, whose life and career was greatly influenced by Jackson.
The show takes place at 3 p.m. Guests will be greeted by rare pieces of Michael Jackson memorabilia, thanks to Hollywood auctioneer Profiles in History. Tickets are $29-$129. A VIP package is available for $504 and includes VIP seating, admission into the exclusive afterparty with the cast, gift bag and limited edition autographed poster. (702) 942-6888.
At 7 p.m., Michael Jackson will be honored with a Brendan celebrity star in front of Brendan Theatres at the Palms. The star will be accepted by Jackson's father, Joe Jackson, and his longtime friend and executor of his estate, Frank DiLeo. DIrectly following the dedication, Brendan Theatres hosts a rare screening of Jackson's 1988 film, Moonwalker, at 8 p.m. Following the screening, there will be a Q&A session with choreographer Vincent Paterson , producer Frank DiLeo and co-star Kelley Parker. For tickets, visit http://latestnewscomm.blogspot.com.
3. Hawaiian Tropic Zone celebrates the birthday of the King of Pop, Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood. An evening of unforgettable activities begin at 10 p.m. with an MJ tribute artist who'll perform renditions of "Smooth Criminal," "Wanna Be Startin' Something," "Billy Jean," "Black and White" and "Thriller." In addition, a video tribute to the legend will run throughout the evening on HTZ's 36-foot-tall plasma screen wall. Fans can pay homage to Jackson and show off their best impersonations in a moonwalk contest. The first 100 ladies through the door will receive a complimentary commemorative sequined glove. All ladies drink free from midnight to 2 a.m. (702) 731-4858.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
communication
communication
CommunicationCommunication is a process where by information is encoded and imparted by a sender to a receiver via a channel/medium. The receiver then decodes the message and gives the sender a feedback. Communication requires that all parties have an area of communicative commonality. There are auditory means, such as speaking, singing and sometimes tone of voice, and nonverbal, physical means, such as body language, sign language, paralanguage, touch, eye contact, by using writing.It is thus a process by which we assign and convey meaning in an attempt to create shared understanding which requires a vast repertoire of skills in intra and inter personal processing, listening, observing, speaking, questioning, analyzing, memorizing, evaluating e.t.c.It is through communication that collaboration and co-operation occur directly through education, and by practicing those skills and having them evaluated.Types of communicationThere are three major parts in human face to face communication which are body language, voice tonality, and words. Based analytical research· 53% of impact is determined by body language--postures, gestures, and eye contact,· 35% by the tone of voice, and· 18% by the content or the words used in the communication processThough the percentage of influence may differ from variables such as the listener and the speaker, communication as a whole strives for the same goal and thus, in some cases, can be universal, methods of signals, such as voice sounds, pitch or intonation, gestures and written symbols which communicate, thoughts and feelings.If a language is about communicating with signals, voice, sounds, gestures, or written symbols, then,can animal communications be considered as a language?” But animals do not have a written form of language communication, yet use a language to communicate with each another. In exsense, an animal communication can be considered as a different language.Human spoken and written languages can be described as a lexemes (sometimes called system of symbols) and the rules by which the symbols are used. The word "language" is also refer to common properties of languages. Language learning is normal in human childhood. Most human languages use patterns of sound or gesture for symbols which enable communication with others who surround them. There are millions of human languages, and these seem to share certain properties, even though many of the shared properties have some exceptions. Though there is no defined line between a language and a dialect, but the linguist Bella is credited as saying that "a language is a dialect with a navy or an army". Constructed languages such as programming languages, and various mathematical formalars are not really restricted to the properties shared by human languages.verbal communicationA verbal or dialouge is a reciprocal conversation between two or more entities (individuals, animals e.t.c).The etymological origins of the word in Greek dialete διά (diá,through) + λόγος(logos, word,speech) concepts like flowing-through meaning) do not necessarily convey the way in which people have come to use the word, with some confusion between the prefix διά-(diá-,through) and the prefix δι- (di-, two) leading to the assumption that a dialogue is necessarily between only two parties.Non-verbal communicationNon verbal communication is the process of communicating through sending and receiving wordless messages through gesture, body or posture languages, facial expression (eye contact), object communication (clothing, hairstyles or architecture), or symbols or info graphics, as well as through an aggregate of the above, such as behavioral communication.Nonverbal communication plays a key role in every person's day to day life, from employment to sexuality to parental responsiblities to romantic engagements.Speech may also contain nonverbal elements known as paralanguage and prosodic features including voice quality, intonation, emotion and speaking style, rhythm, intonation and stress. Also, written texts may have said to contain nonverbal elements such as handwriting style, spatial arrangement of words, and the use of emoticons.A portmanteau of the English words emotion (or emote) and icon, an emoticon is a symbol or combination of symbols used to convey emotional content in written or message form.Other communication channels such as telegraphy fit into this category, whereby signals travel from person to person by an alternative means. These signals can in themselves be representative of words, objects or merely be state projections. Trials have shown that humans can communicate directly in this way without body language, voice tonality or words.Non-Human Living Organisms Communication (NHLOC)Communication in many of its facts is not limited to humans alone, or even to primates but to every information exchange between non-living living organisms i.e. transmission of signals involving a living sender and receiver can be considered as a form of communication. Though, there is the broad field of animal communication, which encompasses most of issues of ethology. On a more basic level, there is cell signaling, cellular communication, and chemical communication between primitive organisms like virus, bateria, and within the plant and fungal kingdoms. All of these communication processes are sign-mediated interactions with a great variety of distinct co-ordinations.Animal communication is at any behaviour on the part of one animal that has an effect on the behavior of other animals. And of course human communication can be presumed as a highly developed form of animal communication called zoosemiotics which is distinguishable from the study of human communication called anthroposemioticshas played an important part in the development of ethology, sociobiology, and cognition (the study of animal). This is an evident that humans are able to communicate with animals, especially animals like dolphins and other circuses animals. However, these animals may have to learn the special means in which they can communicate. Animal communication, and the understanding of animal world in general is a rapidly (constant) growing field even in the 21st century so far, many prior understandings related to diverse fields such as personal symbolic name use, animal emotions, animal culture and learning, and even sexual conduct, long thought to be well understood, which have been well revolutionized. Communication is observed within the plant organism, i.e. within plant cells and between plant cells, between plants of the same or related species, and between plants and non-plant organisms, especially in the rootzone. Plant roots communicate in parallel with rhizobia bacteria, with fungi and with insects in the soil. This parallel sign-mediated interactions which are governed by syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules are possible because of the decentralized "nervous system" of plants. As recent research shows 99% of intraorganismic plant communication processes are neuronal-like. Plants also communicate via volatiles in the case of herbivory attack behavior to warn neighboring plants. In parallel they produce other volatiles which attract parasites which attack these herbivores. In Stress situations plants can overwrite the genetic code they inherited from their parents and revert to that of their grand- or great-grandparentsFungi communicate to co-ordinate and organize their own growth and development such as the formation of mycelia and fruiting bodies. Additionally fungi communicate with same and related species as well as with non fungal organisms in a great variety of symbiotic interactions, especially with bacteria, unicellular plants and insects. The used semi chemicals are of biotic origin and they trigger the fungal organism to react in a specific manner, in difference while to even the same chemical molecules are not being a part of biotic messages doesn’t trigger to react the fungal organism. It means, fungal organisms are competent to identify the difference of the same molecules being part of biotic messages or lack of these features. So far five different primary signalling molecules are known that serve to coordinate very different behavioral patterns such as filamentation, mating, growth, pathogenicity. Behavioral coordination and the production of such substances can only be achieved through interpretation processes: self or non-self, abiotic indicator, biotic message from similar, related, or non-related species, or even “noise”, i.e., similar molecules without biotic content.Communication in relation to academic disciplineCommunication as an academic discipline, sometimes called “communicology”, relates to all the ways we communicate so it embraces a large body of study and knowledge. The communication discipline includes both verbal and nonverbal messages. A body of scholarship all about communication is presented and explained in textbooks, electronic publications, and academic journals. In the book, researchers report the results of studies that are the basis for an ever expanded understanding of how we all communicate with one individuals or the next.Communication happens at many levels even for one single action, in many different ways, and for most beings, also in certain machines. If not all, fields of study dedicate a portion of attention to communication, so when speaking about communication it is very important to be sure about what aspects of communication one is speaking about. Definitions of communication range widely, some recognizing that animals can communicate with each other as well as human beings, and some are more narrowly only including human beings within the parameters of human symbolic interaction.Visual communicationThe evaluation of a good visual design is based on measuring comprehension by the audience, not on aesthetic or artistic preference. There are no universally agreed-upon principles of beauty and ugliness. There exists a variety of ways to present information visually, like gestures, body languages, video and TV. Here, focus is on the presentation of text, pictures, diagrams, photos, et cetera, integrated on a computer display. The term visual presentation is used to refer to the actual presentation of information. Recent research in the field has focused on web design and graphically oriented usability. Graphic designers use methods of visual communication in their professional practice.Visual communication as the name suggests is communication through visual aid. It is the conveyance of ideas and information in forms that can be read or looked upon. Primarily associated with two dimensional images, it includes: signs, typography, drawing, graphic design, illustration, colour and electronic resources. It solely relies on vision. It is form of communication with visual effect. It explores the idea that a visual message with text has a greater power to inform, educate or persuade a person. It is communication by presenting information through visual form.No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. – Diplomat Chris EMany of the problems that occur in an organization are the direct result of people failing to communicate. Faulty communication causes the most problems. It leads to confusion and can cause a good plan to fail. Communication is the exchange and flow of information and ideas from one person to another. It involves a sender transmitting an idea to a receiver. Effective communication occurs only if the receiver understands the exact information or idea that the sender intended to transmit.Studying the communication process is important because you coach, coordinate, counsel, evaluate, and supervise through this process. It is the chain of understanding that integrates the members of an organization from top to bottom, bottom to top, and side-to-side.The Communication ProcessCommunication: That is what we try to do Speak to those near usFirst, information exists in the mind of the sender. This can be a concept, idea,Information, or feelings know as ”Thought”Next, a message is sent to a receiver in words or other symbolsKnown EncodingLastly, the receiver translates the words or symbols into a concept orInformation that he or she can understand known as Decoding.During the transmitting of the message, two elements will be received: content and context. Content is the actual words or symbols of the message which is known as language - the spoken and written words combined into phrases that make grammatical and semantic sense. We all use and interpret the meanings of words differently, so even simple messages can be misunderstood. And many words have different meanings to confuse the issue even more.Context is the way the message is delivered and is known as paralanguage - it is the nonverbal elements in speech such as the tone of voice, the look in the sender's eyes, body language, hand gestures, and state of emotions (anger, fear, uncertainty, confidence, etc.) that can be detected. Although paralanguage or context often cause messages to be misunderstood as we believe what we see more than what we hear; they are powerful communicators that help us to understand each other. Indeed, we often trust the accuracy of nonverbal behaviors more than verbal behaviors.Some leaders think they have communicated once they told someone to do something, "I don't know why it did not get done. I told Jim to it." More than likely, Jim misunderstood the message. A message has NOT been communicated unless it is understood by the receiver (decoded). How do you know it has been properly received? By two-way communication or feedback. This feedback tells the sender that the receiver understood the message, its level of importance, and what must be done with it. Communication is an exchange, not just a give, as all parties must participate to complete the information exchange.
CommunicationCommunication is a process where by information is encoded and imparted by a sender to a receiver via a channel/medium. The receiver then decodes the message and gives the sender a feedback. Communication requires that all parties have an area of communicative commonality. There are auditory means, such as speaking, singing and sometimes tone of voice, and nonverbal, physical means, such as body language, sign language, paralanguage, touch, eye contact, by using writing.It is thus a process by which we assign and convey meaning in an attempt to create shared understanding which requires a vast repertoire of skills in intra and inter personal processing, listening, observing, speaking, questioning, analyzing, memorizing, evaluating e.t.c.It is through communication that collaboration and co-operation occur directly through education, and by practicing those skills and having them evaluated.Types of communicationThere are three major parts in human face to face communication which are body language, voice tonality, and words. Based analytical research· 53% of impact is determined by body language--postures, gestures, and eye contact,· 35% by the tone of voice, and· 18% by the content or the words used in the communication processThough the percentage of influence may differ from variables such as the listener and the speaker, communication as a whole strives for the same goal and thus, in some cases, can be universal, methods of signals, such as voice sounds, pitch or intonation, gestures and written symbols which communicate, thoughts and feelings.If a language is about communicating with signals, voice, sounds, gestures, or written symbols, then,can animal communications be considered as a language?” But animals do not have a written form of language communication, yet use a language to communicate with each another. In exsense, an animal communication can be considered as a different language.Human spoken and written languages can be described as a lexemes (sometimes called system of symbols) and the rules by which the symbols are used. The word "language" is also refer to common properties of languages. Language learning is normal in human childhood. Most human languages use patterns of sound or gesture for symbols which enable communication with others who surround them. There are millions of human languages, and these seem to share certain properties, even though many of the shared properties have some exceptions. Though there is no defined line between a language and a dialect, but the linguist Bella is credited as saying that "a language is a dialect with a navy or an army". Constructed languages such as programming languages, and various mathematical formalars are not really restricted to the properties shared by human languages.verbal communicationA verbal or dialouge is a reciprocal conversation between two or more entities (individuals, animals e.t.c).The etymological origins of the word in Greek dialete διά (diá,through) + λόγος(logos, word,speech) concepts like flowing-through meaning) do not necessarily convey the way in which people have come to use the word, with some confusion between the prefix διά-(diá-,through) and the prefix δι- (di-, two) leading to the assumption that a dialogue is necessarily between only two parties.Non-verbal communicationNon verbal communication is the process of communicating through sending and receiving wordless messages through gesture, body or posture languages, facial expression (eye contact), object communication (clothing, hairstyles or architecture), or symbols or info graphics, as well as through an aggregate of the above, such as behavioral communication.Nonverbal communication plays a key role in every person's day to day life, from employment to sexuality to parental responsiblities to romantic engagements.Speech may also contain nonverbal elements known as paralanguage and prosodic features including voice quality, intonation, emotion and speaking style, rhythm, intonation and stress. Also, written texts may have said to contain nonverbal elements such as handwriting style, spatial arrangement of words, and the use of emoticons.A portmanteau of the English words emotion (or emote) and icon, an emoticon is a symbol or combination of symbols used to convey emotional content in written or message form.Other communication channels such as telegraphy fit into this category, whereby signals travel from person to person by an alternative means. These signals can in themselves be representative of words, objects or merely be state projections. Trials have shown that humans can communicate directly in this way without body language, voice tonality or words.Non-Human Living Organisms Communication (NHLOC)Communication in many of its facts is not limited to humans alone, or even to primates but to every information exchange between non-living living organisms i.e. transmission of signals involving a living sender and receiver can be considered as a form of communication. Though, there is the broad field of animal communication, which encompasses most of issues of ethology. On a more basic level, there is cell signaling, cellular communication, and chemical communication between primitive organisms like virus, bateria, and within the plant and fungal kingdoms. All of these communication processes are sign-mediated interactions with a great variety of distinct co-ordinations.Animal communication is at any behaviour on the part of one animal that has an effect on the behavior of other animals. And of course human communication can be presumed as a highly developed form of animal communication called zoosemiotics which is distinguishable from the study of human communication called anthroposemioticshas played an important part in the development of ethology, sociobiology, and cognition (the study of animal). This is an evident that humans are able to communicate with animals, especially animals like dolphins and other circuses animals. However, these animals may have to learn the special means in which they can communicate. Animal communication, and the understanding of animal world in general is a rapidly (constant) growing field even in the 21st century so far, many prior understandings related to diverse fields such as personal symbolic name use, animal emotions, animal culture and learning, and even sexual conduct, long thought to be well understood, which have been well revolutionized. Communication is observed within the plant organism, i.e. within plant cells and between plant cells, between plants of the same or related species, and between plants and non-plant organisms, especially in the rootzone. Plant roots communicate in parallel with rhizobia bacteria, with fungi and with insects in the soil. This parallel sign-mediated interactions which are governed by syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules are possible because of the decentralized "nervous system" of plants. As recent research shows 99% of intraorganismic plant communication processes are neuronal-like. Plants also communicate via volatiles in the case of herbivory attack behavior to warn neighboring plants. In parallel they produce other volatiles which attract parasites which attack these herbivores. In Stress situations plants can overwrite the genetic code they inherited from their parents and revert to that of their grand- or great-grandparentsFungi communicate to co-ordinate and organize their own growth and development such as the formation of mycelia and fruiting bodies. Additionally fungi communicate with same and related species as well as with non fungal organisms in a great variety of symbiotic interactions, especially with bacteria, unicellular plants and insects. The used semi chemicals are of biotic origin and they trigger the fungal organism to react in a specific manner, in difference while to even the same chemical molecules are not being a part of biotic messages doesn’t trigger to react the fungal organism. It means, fungal organisms are competent to identify the difference of the same molecules being part of biotic messages or lack of these features. So far five different primary signalling molecules are known that serve to coordinate very different behavioral patterns such as filamentation, mating, growth, pathogenicity. Behavioral coordination and the production of such substances can only be achieved through interpretation processes: self or non-self, abiotic indicator, biotic message from similar, related, or non-related species, or even “noise”, i.e., similar molecules without biotic content.Communication in relation to academic disciplineCommunication as an academic discipline, sometimes called “communicology”, relates to all the ways we communicate so it embraces a large body of study and knowledge. The communication discipline includes both verbal and nonverbal messages. A body of scholarship all about communication is presented and explained in textbooks, electronic publications, and academic journals. In the book, researchers report the results of studies that are the basis for an ever expanded understanding of how we all communicate with one individuals or the next.Communication happens at many levels even for one single action, in many different ways, and for most beings, also in certain machines. If not all, fields of study dedicate a portion of attention to communication, so when speaking about communication it is very important to be sure about what aspects of communication one is speaking about. Definitions of communication range widely, some recognizing that animals can communicate with each other as well as human beings, and some are more narrowly only including human beings within the parameters of human symbolic interaction.Visual communicationThe evaluation of a good visual design is based on measuring comprehension by the audience, not on aesthetic or artistic preference. There are no universally agreed-upon principles of beauty and ugliness. There exists a variety of ways to present information visually, like gestures, body languages, video and TV. Here, focus is on the presentation of text, pictures, diagrams, photos, et cetera, integrated on a computer display. The term visual presentation is used to refer to the actual presentation of information. Recent research in the field has focused on web design and graphically oriented usability. Graphic designers use methods of visual communication in their professional practice.Visual communication as the name suggests is communication through visual aid. It is the conveyance of ideas and information in forms that can be read or looked upon. Primarily associated with two dimensional images, it includes: signs, typography, drawing, graphic design, illustration, colour and electronic resources. It solely relies on vision. It is form of communication with visual effect. It explores the idea that a visual message with text has a greater power to inform, educate or persuade a person. It is communication by presenting information through visual form.No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. – Diplomat Chris EMany of the problems that occur in an organization are the direct result of people failing to communicate. Faulty communication causes the most problems. It leads to confusion and can cause a good plan to fail. Communication is the exchange and flow of information and ideas from one person to another. It involves a sender transmitting an idea to a receiver. Effective communication occurs only if the receiver understands the exact information or idea that the sender intended to transmit.Studying the communication process is important because you coach, coordinate, counsel, evaluate, and supervise through this process. It is the chain of understanding that integrates the members of an organization from top to bottom, bottom to top, and side-to-side.The Communication ProcessCommunication: That is what we try to do Speak to those near usFirst, information exists in the mind of the sender. This can be a concept, idea,Information, or feelings know as ”Thought”Next, a message is sent to a receiver in words or other symbolsKnown EncodingLastly, the receiver translates the words or symbols into a concept orInformation that he or she can understand known as Decoding.During the transmitting of the message, two elements will be received: content and context. Content is the actual words or symbols of the message which is known as language - the spoken and written words combined into phrases that make grammatical and semantic sense. We all use and interpret the meanings of words differently, so even simple messages can be misunderstood. And many words have different meanings to confuse the issue even more.Context is the way the message is delivered and is known as paralanguage - it is the nonverbal elements in speech such as the tone of voice, the look in the sender's eyes, body language, hand gestures, and state of emotions (anger, fear, uncertainty, confidence, etc.) that can be detected. Although paralanguage or context often cause messages to be misunderstood as we believe what we see more than what we hear; they are powerful communicators that help us to understand each other. Indeed, we often trust the accuracy of nonverbal behaviors more than verbal behaviors.Some leaders think they have communicated once they told someone to do something, "I don't know why it did not get done. I told Jim to it." More than likely, Jim misunderstood the message. A message has NOT been communicated unless it is understood by the receiver (decoded). How do you know it has been properly received? By two-way communication or feedback. This feedback tells the sender that the receiver understood the message, its level of importance, and what must be done with it. Communication is an exchange, not just a give, as all parties must participate to complete the information exchange.
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