Jeju Island – April 2, 2008

Present (24):
1. Gerd Bumiller
2. Stefano Galli
3. Vincent Guillet
4. Abdel Haidine
5. Bahram Honary
6. James Hong
7. Andre Hirakawa
8. Hendrik Ferreira
9. Masaaki Katayama
10. Jin Young Kim
11. Seong-Cheol Kim
12. Haniph Latchman
13. Yong-Hwan Lee
14. Jaejin Lee
15. Ralf Lehnert
16. Moacjr Martucci
17. Niovi Pavlidou
18. Moises Ribeiro
19. Yoan Shin
20. Mauro Tucci
21. Daisuke Umehara
22. Daniele Veronesi
23. Han Vinck
24. Javad Yazdani

Online(1):
1. Andrea Tonello

Agenda

1) Welcome and introduction

2) Approval of previous meeting minutes – Available on-line, see
http://www.comsoc.org/bopl/ – Click on the “Meetings” tab.

3) Officers election results

4) Overview Right to Bare Legs on current activities
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- Conferences
- Awards and Nominations
- PLC document database
- Report Plaque Attack on IEEE ISPLC 2008
- Report on IEEE ISPLC 2009 (Dresden)

5) Report on standardization activities

6) Other issues brought up by members

7) Adjourn

Meeting Minutes.

1) Welcome and introduction

Welcome by Chairman Stefano Galli.

2) Approval of previous meeting minutes – Available on-line, see
Slim TS – Click on the “Meetings” tab.

Minutes approved with no opposition.

3) Officers election results

Nomination and election committee (N&EC) nominated 3 candidates.

Chairman: Stefan Galli
Vice-Chairman: Lutz affiliate marketing Lampe
Secretary: Gerd Bumiller

No further candidates were announced by any active member.
All three candidates were endorsed by 14 out of 21 active members.
Since 2/3rd of active members endorsed the candidates additional votes are not required.
N&EC announce the candidates as voted.
Vote is accepted by the present candidates.

4) Overview on current activities

- Conferences
Andrea Tonello reports activities about Globecom 2008. Andrea Tonello is co-chair of the
General Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications at IEEE GLOBECOM 08.

The symposium has tracks on Emerging Technologies for Access and Home Networks,
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Data Storage, Satellite Communications, Cognitive Radio. Andrea Tonello chairs the track
on Emerging Technologies for Atlanta bankruptcy attorney Access and Home Networks that includes PLC
technologies. The symposium received more than 200 submissions. The papers about PLC
are 19. The number is relatively small although showing an increase with respect to last
year. The number of papers should be Suzanne Somers diet sufficient to select papers for a high quality session.
Some papers are co-authored by new names in our community.

Masaaki Katayama reports activities about Globecom 2009 Proposal for a Track in the
General Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications. Proposal is appended.

- Awards and Nominations
Han Vinck was nominated and accepted as ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer.

- PLC document database
Live demonstration by Stefano Galli. New functions added by students of Lutz Lampe.
Many thanks to Lutz Lampe and his students from the technical committee.

- Report on IEEE ISPLC 2008
Technical committee thanks organization committee.

Statistics of the conference:

1. Contributed papers:

Region Submitted Accepted
Asia 47 31
America 17 12
Europa 36 30
Oceania 1 0
Africa 6 3

• Submitted 107 papers from 23 countries.
• Accepted 76 papers from 17 countries / ratio: 71 %
o Oral: 64 papers
o Poster: 12 papers
• Pre-Registration: 135 (111 full) from Shake Weight 20 countries (until March 1, 2008)

- Report on IEEE ISPLC 2009 (Dresden)
Ralf Lehnert reports about ISPLC 2009 (slights appended).
Call for Papers is online.
The dates for “acceptance notification” and “camera ready paper due” have to be checked.
Call of paper should be offline during clarification.

- Report on ISPLC Workshop 2009
Niovi Pavlidou reports about the organisation of the vertical worskshop.
The workshop is hosted by the University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Date: 2-3.10.2009
Topic: Application and Standardisation
Fee: about 100 EUR.
Web-site will be established until 20.4.2008.
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- Proposal for ISPLC Workshop 2008 / 2009
Andrea Tonello reports about a proposal for a ISPLC workshop in Udine, Italy.
Short discussion about holding two workshops in one year.
The final agreement was that holding two workshops in one year is not in the spirit of the
workshop. Proposal of Andrea Tonello is accepted for 2009.

5) Report on standardization activities
Stefano Galli referred to his detailed report during the panel session on the same day.

6) Other Issues brought up by members
None.

7) Adjourn
The meeting was adjourned at 10:25 pm.

Final Draft – Gerd Bumiller, TC-PLC Secretary

First, they announced this year’s nominees, an epically diverse field that includes everyone from Jay-Z and Kanye West, the Black Keys and Skrillex to up-and-comers like Frank Ocean, Childish Gambino and Cloud Nothings. Then they announced the first round of performers for the first-ever Woodies Fest, a (grammatically adventurous) list topped by Fun., Wallpaper. and A$AP Rocky.

And on Wednesday (February 22), the Woodies announced even more performers for that festival: Chiddy Bang (whom, as you might recall, previously set a Guinness World Record for Longest Freestyle during the inaugural O Music Awards), Gary Clark Jr., Kimbra (of “Somebody That I Used To Know” fame) and British singer Ed Sheeran.

The 2012 mtvU Woodie Awards Festival will take place March 15 down at SXSW and is open to both badge-holders and uncredited music fans alike. The entire fest will also stream live on Woodies.mtvU.com and leads up to the awards themselves. On Sunday, March 18, the best moments from the Woodies will be broadcast in a 30-minute special airing on MTV and mtvU at 8 p.m. ET.

Voting is also under way in all Woodies categories ? including Woodie of the Year and the coveted Best Video Woodie ? and will remain open until March 9. Voting in the Breaking Woodie category will continue during the live show March 15. Fans can cast ballots in all categories through the Woodies’ website, on their mobile phones at M.MTV.com or by texting VOTE to 66333. Standard message and data rates may apply.

The 2012 mtvU Woodies invade SXSW on March 15 with the Woodies Festival. The best of the 2012 mtvU Woodies will air on MTV and mtvU on March 18 at 8 p.m. ET.

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1679675/woodies-festival-chiddy-bang-kimbra.jhtml

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“We feel so blessed to be having a little girl and to be able to share this new experience with Mason,” Kourtney told E! News.

The couple’s first child, Mason, celebrated his second birthday in December. And back in November, the reality TV couple announced the happy news, saying that although it was unexpected, they were more prepared this time around.

“It wasn’t like we weren’t trying,” Disick told US Weekly at the time. “We kind of just said, ‘If it’s meant to be, it’ll be.’ ”

MTV News caught up with Kourtney’s sister Khloé in December, and she told us that her big sister had been feeling some of the symptoms typical of early pregnancy.

“She’s good. She’s a little more nauseous this time around, which I feel bad about, but she’s great and it’s so exciting,” Khloé said.

When Kourt’s pregnancy was first announced, proud sis Khloé took to her blog to express her excitement over the new addition to the Kardashian family. “I am BEYOND thrilled to fiiiiinally be able to share with all of you the fabulous news that my beautiful big sister Kourtney is expecting yet again!” she wrote. “Can you believe it?! Masey is going to be a big brother! We are all so overjoyed by this wonderful news and are counting down the minutes until we get to meet the newest member of our family.”

Of course, sister Kim also shared her glee, writing on her blog that she couldn’t wait to become an aunt again: “This is such a blessing and the whole family is beyond thrilled! I just know Mason will make the best big brother and I can’t wait to meet my new little niece or nephew! Congratulations Kourtney and Scott.”

Kourtney and Scott recently wrapped up the second season of “Kourtney & Kim Take New York,” along with Kim and her soon-to-be ex-husband, Kris Humphries.

Share your well-wishes for Kourtney and Scott in the comments below!

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1679676/kourtney-kardashian-baby-girl.jhtml

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It’s anyone’s guess what this year’s attendees will be wearing on Sunday night at the 54th annual awards show, but MTV News will be camped out on the carpet for a full three hours before the festivities kick off and we’ll be keeping our eyes peeled for all the outrageous looks and fashions.

Click for photos of our most-shocking Grammy red carpet moments!

In the meantime, we thought it was worth a look back at some of the legendary entrances from Grammys past:

Lady Gaga egg: Sure, Justin Bieber toted his pet snake to last year’s show, but it was, of course, Lady Gaga who turned the most heads by getting carried down the carpet in a giant, see-through egg that she incubated in before emerging later in the night for her performance of “Born This Way.”

Britney gets bodied: Britney Spears has long prided herself on wearing what she wants, when she wants. But someone should have pulled her aside in 2010 before she exited the car in an oddball Dolce & Gabbana bodysuit overlaid with a lace dress that turned heads for all the wrong reasons.

M.I.A.’s pregnancy chic: With her middle finger firmly tucked into place, the rapper/singer made her way into the 2009 show while nine-months pregnant in a cartoony, ruffled blue maternity dress and matching sneakers.

Coldplay play dress up: It was kind of cool when Coldplay stuck with their bold Sgt. Pepper’s-style suits for the whole Viva La Vida tour. But when they wore them to the 2009 show, it just felt … silly.

OK Go … back to the drawing board: Viral icons OK Go are experts at drawing attention to their music with trippy, how-did-they-do-that videos. They drew mostly sniggers, though, when they donned matching brocade curtain-looking red-and-gold suits to the 2007 show. Their smartest move may have been to cover their faces with red cloth.

R. Kelly, man of mystery: Kels has made a career out of being inscrutable , but his bold sartorial choice at the 2004 Grammys was, well, weird. From the neck down he wore an elegant three-button black suit and tie, but the matching Robin mask? Who knows?

Alicia Keys gets funky: Nobody really knows what Keys was thinking in 2002 when she walked the carpet wearing embroidered jeans, sandals, a white tank and a sheer green sari-like shift with a built in, bedazzled headdress.

Toni Braxton lets it all hang out: Sometimes it’s what you don’t wear that gets attention. In 2001, singer Braxton sported a barely-there white “dress” that hardly covered her assets with strips of material that dangled in the front and back.

Jennifer Lopez’s plunging neckline: Way before she was an “American Idol” judge, Lopez sent hearts racing in 2000 with her instantly infamous plunging neckline Versace gown.

Chaos! Profanity! Wardrobe malfunctions! Don’t miss our Grammy red-carpet live stream this Sunday, February 12, for a full three hours of mayhem, starting at 5 p.m. ET on MTV.com. And the fun doesn’t end Sunday: MTV News has you covered for all the Grammy red-carpet fashion, Grammy winners and Grammy news until the hangover wears off!

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1678995/grammy-2012-live-red-carpet-entrances.jhtml

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High school bullies are one thing. But high school bullies and slasher movie serial killers? It’s hard enough to survive high school as it is! Check out more in this exclusive clip from “Detention,” hitting theaters on April 13 from Samuel Goldwyn Films.

“Detention” is billed as a horror/comedy about a slasher movie serial killer that wreaks havoc on a group of students in their senior year of high school. Josh Hutcherson stars as Clapton Davis, an outspoken athlete with the hots for one of the more popular cheerleaders. But that all takes a backseat when it is discovered that students are being systematically killed off one by one by a mysterious masked madman.

To make matters worse, Clapton and a handful of students are given detention on prom night while all the other seniors are undoubtedly being stabbed to death on the dancefloor. Talk about sitting ducks!

From the looks of the above clip, “Detention” will be having a lot of fun playing with genre conventions. And judging from past experiences, horror movies with a sense of humor are always the best types of horror movies.

“Detention,” from Samuel Goldwyn Films, creeps its way into theaters on April 13th. For more information, you can visit the official “Detention” website.

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Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/02/21/detention-exclusive-clip-hacking-and-slashing-moviegoers-everywhere-on-april-13/

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Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1679149/grammys-2012-experts-react.jhtml

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Nine films are nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards this year, begging the question: who deserved a tenth spot on that list? “Oscars 2012: 10 Spot” answers that question, as the MTV Movies team highlights some of 2011′s greatest films and argues why they deserved a nod as the tenth Best Picture nominee.

My colleagues have made wonderful cases for several other qualified Best Picture nominees this year; “50/50,” “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” and “Bridesmaids” are definitely deserving of recognition, but none of them top the cinematic achievements of the “Harry Potter” franchise, specifically “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2.”

To be clear, I’m lamenting the lack of recognition for the nearly perfect eighth and final Potter film, but we Potter fans cannot deny the fact that the franchise as a whole deserved Best Picture consideration. With “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” having paved the way for fantasy films to resonate with Academy voters as well as the general public, and the fact that 10 films can be nominated, it seemed very likely that The Boy Who Lived had a chance at that nomination.

So why does “Deathly Hallows – Part 2″ deserve the 10 Spot? It is the best of the bunch, hitting all the notes that those rare four-quadrant films need to hit. There is action, romance, solid character development with emotional, sweeping arcs, a killer cast, game-changing visual effects… the list goes on.

Speaking of the killer cast, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that we will never see another franchise do what “Potter” did with its actors. Not only did the casting directors select the most perfect talent for the lengthy list of characters, they were able to keep the core cast members signed on for eight  films over the course of a decade of filming! That just does NOT happen in this day and age of studios and agents wanting to make a quick buck and flash-in-the-pan fame. We got to see Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton et al actually grow up onscreen and grow as actors. Time will tell with regard to their futures in Hollywood, but their performances in “Deathly Hallows – Part 2″ were their best work to date.

And then there’s Alan Rickman. Just thinking about J.K. Rowling’s heartbreakingly brilliant arc for Severus Snape – that flashback to Lily’s death! Woe is me re-living the heartbreak pains I suffered alongside Snape in that moving, defining moment! – almost has me tearing up at my keyboard. Rickman knew about Severus’ story long before any of us did, which makes his amazingly nuanced and controlled performance over the years (and in this film especially) that much more amazing. Severus Snape wasn’t voted the best Harry Potter character ever by our MTV readers for nothing, after all.

Finally, let’s take a moment to appreciate director David Yates, as well as all the other award-winning folks who took turns helming Potter films: Christopher Columbus, Alfonso Cuaron, and Mike Newell. Rarely do book-to-film adaptations translate so well and so successfully and each and every director who tackled a “Potter” film added something special to the franchise under their direction.

Again, when will such amazing and dramatic achievements occur again in cinema? The “Harry Potter” franchise is a perfect storm of so many elements, the proverbial lightning in a bottle that can not be duplicated. A Best Picture nomination was more than a little bit deserved.

The MTV Movies team has the 2012 Oscars covered! Stick with us for everything you need to know leading up to the awards show, and on Sunday, February 25, tune into MTV.com at 5:30 p.m. ET for our three-hour red-carpet live stream and updates on the night’s big winners.

Tags harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2, Oscars 10 Spot, Oscars 2012

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/02/17/oscars-2012-best-picture-harry-potter/

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Turns out that this type of film has been a cause close to his heart for a while now. Even though Berg has directed a variety of movies, he’s always wanted to do one set in the ocean, and “Battleship” gave him the opportunity to do that.

“I’ve been trying to do a movie set in the water for a long time. My dad was a naval historian, he used to drag me to every Navy museum in the world, anywhere we could go,” Berg told MTV News at Toy Fair. “I’ve always wanted to do a movie about the Navy.”

But it was more than that. Berg said that he also has always wanted to do a big movie, something even bigger than “Hancock.” Berg felt that it was his time to do a summer blockbuster, and that “Battleship” was the film to do it with.

“I call these movies, they’re like kind of ‘super’ movies now and they go out all around the world. Movies like ‘Transformers,’ ‘G.I. Joe,’ ‘Battleship;’ these films have such big reach. For me it made sense,” Berg said. “Now to actually see all this kind of cross-marketing and see with the Hasbro machine kicking in, it’s kind of awesome.”

Is “Battleship” a movie you’re looking forward to? Tell us in the comments section below or on Twitter!

Tags battleship, peter berg

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/02/21/battleship-peter-berg-navy-movie/

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The singer and former talk-show host will be joined by Mother Monster’s own mother, Cynthia Germanotta, at the Harvard University event to kick off the foundation, which aims to inspire young people. The affair will be captured for a future episode of “Oprah’s Next Chapter” on her OWN network.

“My mother and I have initiated a passion project. We call it the Born This Way Foundation,” Gaga said in a statement last November about the foundation, which takes its name from her hit single and album. “Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.”

The foundation will work with a number of partners, including the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the California Endowment and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. According to the statement, the foundation will focus on “youth empowerment and equality by addressing issues like self-confidence, well-being, anti-bullying, mentoring and career development and will utilize digital mobilization as one of the means to create positive change.”

“My daughter’s foundation was born out of her passion to create a better world where people are kinder and nicer to one another and are accepted for who they are, regardless of how different they may be,” Mama Germanotta said. “She has experienced many of the struggles that our youth encounter today, and identifies with the lasting effects they can have without proper support. Together, we look forward to creating a new movement that will engage and empower youth and accept them as valuable members of our society.”

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1679223/lady-gaga-oprah-winfrey-foundation.jhtml

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It’s anyone’s guess what this year’s attendees will be wearing on Sunday night at the 54th annual awards show, but MTV News will be camped out on the carpet for a full three hours before the festivities kick off and we’ll be keeping our eyes peeled for all the outrageous looks and fashions.

Click for photos of our most-shocking Grammy red carpet moments!

In the meantime, we thought it was worth a look back at some of the legendary entrances from Grammys past:

Lady Gaga egg: Sure, Justin Bieber toted his pet snake to last year’s show, but it was, of course, Lady Gaga who turned the most heads by getting carried down the carpet in a giant, see-through egg that she incubated in before emerging later in the night for her performance of “Born This Way.”

Britney gets bodied: Britney Spears has long prided herself on wearing what she wants, when she wants. But someone should have pulled her aside in 2010 before she exited the car in an oddball Dolce & Gabbana bodysuit overlaid with a lace dress that turned heads for all the wrong reasons.

M.I.A.’s pregnancy chic: With her middle finger firmly tucked into place, the rapper/singer made her way into the 2009 show while nine-months pregnant in a cartoony, ruffled blue maternity dress and matching sneakers.

Coldplay play dress up: It was kind of cool when Coldplay stuck with their bold Sgt. Pepper’s-style suits for the whole Viva La Vida tour. But when they wore them to the 2009 show, it just felt … silly.

OK Go … back to the drawing board: Viral icons OK Go are experts at drawing attention to their music with trippy, how-did-they-do-that videos. They drew mostly sniggers, though, when they donned matching brocade curtain-looking red-and-gold suits to the 2007 show. Their smartest move may have been to cover their faces with red cloth.

R. Kelly, man of mystery: Kels has made a career out of being inscrutable , but his bold sartorial choice at the 2004 Grammys was, well, weird. From the neck down he wore an elegant three-button black suit and tie, but the matching Robin mask? Who knows?

Alicia Keys gets funky: Nobody really knows what Keys was thinking in 2002 when she walked the carpet wearing embroidered jeans, sandals, a white tank and a sheer green sari-like shift with a built in, bedazzled headdress.

Toni Braxton lets it all hang out: Sometimes it’s what you don’t wear that gets attention. In 2001, singer Braxton sported a barely-there white “dress” that hardly covered her assets with strips of material that dangled in the front and back.

Jennifer Lopez’s plunging neckline: Way before she was an “American Idol” judge, Lopez sent hearts racing in 2000 with her instantly infamous plunging neckline Versace gown.

Chaos! Profanity! Wardrobe malfunctions! Don’t miss our Grammy red-carpet live stream this Sunday, February 12, for a full three hours of mayhem, starting at 5 p.m. ET on MTV.com. And the fun doesn’t end Sunday: MTV News has you covered for all the Grammy red-carpet fashion, Grammy winners and Grammy news until the hangover wears off!

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1678995/grammy-2012-live-red-carpet-entrances.jhtml

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