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* Become highly proficient in design and development of the WCDMA network elements in the Alcatel-Lucent family of Wireless products.
* Should be Proficient in C/C++ programming and data structures.
* Should be highly motivated and creative.
* Develop both manual and automated tests which exercise product functionality.
* Work on nodal testing / end to end testing of the products.
* Work closely with all of R&D and Product Management to jointly deliver high quality products and solutions.
* Augment test strategies with feedback and analysis from real-world Customer deployments
Desired Candidate Profile:
* Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
* Good analytical and problem-solving skills
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We understand most of your beauty regimen is not up for debate. We would never try to come between your nightlyClarisonic sessions or weekly in-shower deep conditioning treatments. But other parts of your tried and true beauty routine may have strayed off course over the years. We won’t mention the dangers of popping pimples or falling asleep with your makeup on—we know you’ve been getting that since high school. However, there are a few bad beauty habits you may have picked up since graduation that need to be broken now.
The Problem: Focusing Only on the Face
Why it’s a habit: You already spend countless precious moments in the bathroom slathering your face with every beautifying potion you can find (isn’t that enough?).
Why you need to quit: Aging is not limited to the skin between our hairline and jawline. Neglecting your neck and décolletage leaves that skin unprotected against damaging environmental factors and can cause the region south of your chin to age quicker than your face. Remember, no area of skin is cancer-proof–with every slather of moisturizer and SPF, you’re not just warding off age spots and thinning skin, you’re protecting your health.
The Problem: Working Out in Makeup
Why it’s a habit: You rush in to the gym straight from work and just want to get your sweat on. Plus, you never know who you might see, right?
Why you need to quit: Rounding out mile three with mascara running down your cheek is never a good look. Yes, getting a regular sweat session in is great for your skin, but makeup blocks pores and prevents sweat from escaping, which traps bacteria and leads to breakouts. Besides, no one wants to look over and see your face smeared all over your gym towel. Luckily there is an easy fix for this one, run a makeup removing towelette across your face before you hop on the treadmill. MDC Tip:L’Oréal Ideal Clean All Skin Types Makeup Removing Towelettes are our gym bag staple.
The Problem: Tweezing Ingrown Hairs
Why it’s a habit: Because you can feel it, you can see it, and you know it’s there!
Why you need to quit: The truth is no matter how determined you are, you will never get that hair. Digging for it, however, will lead to scarring and possibly infection—certainly not the satisfaction you seek. Instead, exfoliate regularly and apply a pimple treatment with salicylic acid (like SkinCeuticals Blemish + Age Defense or Ole Henriksen Roll On Acne Clearing Solution). If you see a head start to appear, make an appointment with a pro to finish the job.
The Problem: Messing with Your Hair When Wet
Why it’s a habit: Your post shower rituals are pretty much set in stone at this point:towel dry, brush, blow dry.
Why you need to quit: Twisting your locks up in a towel is a recipe for disaster. Wet hair is far more delicate than dry hair, making prone to breakage and damage. It needs to be treated with extra care. That means no vigorous rubbing with the terry cloth, no wrapping it up tightly, no forceful hair whipping, and no brushing. Save your strands and swap your bath towel for a gentler option. Use an old, worn-in cotton t-shirt to gently squeeze and blot water from your hair, section by section. And keep the brush away until at least 90% dry. If you must detangle, make a wide-tooth comb your go-to tool.
The Problem: Rubbing Your Eyes
Why it’s a habit: Allergies, itchy contacts, just because… You don’t know–it’s just a habit, OK?
Why you need to quit:The skin around your eyes is very delicate. In the short term, all that rubbing can cause inflammation. In the long term, it damages collagen and elastin, making it harder for your beloved eye cream to the job you want it to do. For a quick fix, moisturize and soothe dry eyes with a few drops of unpreserved artificial tears. And keep the skin around your eye properly hydrated with a mild eye cream. MDC Tip: be prepared for the day and pop a pot of Kiehl’s Abyssine Eye Cream + in your purse.
Troubled smartphone maker, whose shares have plummeted in recent times, ready to be sold to Canadian buyer for $9 a share
BlackBerry, the once-dominant maker of smartphones that fell on hard times in recent years, has found a suitor willing to pay $4.7bn for the troubled company.
Fairfax Financial, a Canadian firm that already owns 10% of BlackBerry, has agreed to join forced with an unnamed consortium of other buyers to acquire the company for $9 a share.
The move would take BlackBerry private, removing it from a public listing on Nasdaq, where stocks have fallen from a high of $148 in June 2008 and now languish at about $8 a share. On the announcement, BlackBerry stock rose a modest 2% to $8.85 a share, giving the company a market value of $4.65bn.
The deal is not done, however. First, Fairfax will spend two months vetting the company's financial statements. That due diligence is expected to be complete by 4 November, BlackBerry said in a statement.
BlackBerry said it could take a better offer if another buyer appears.
The agreement, which halted BlackBerry's stock on the Nasdaq at $8.23 a share in midday trading, is only a letter of intent, which is a step below a full merger agreement. Fairfax is still "seeking financing from BoA Merrill Lynch and BMO Capital Markets," BlackBerry said, indicating that any deal is in its very early stages.
Analysts have been skeptical about BlackBerry's efforts to turn itself around, and several of them released a batch of downbeat assessments before the sale announcement.
BlackBerry announced last week that it would miss revenue estimates by a large amount, warning Wall Street that it would only record revenues of $1.6bn instead of the $3.1bn expected by analysts. The company also said it would write off about $1bn due to excess inventory of the BlackBerry 10, which suffered disappointing sales.
That announcement was greeted as calamitous by analysts, including Nomura's Stuart Jeffrey, who wrote to clients about BlackBerry's sharply shrinking revenue: "This might just be the worst miss that we have seen in 17 years of covering tech stocks."
In an effort to cut costs, BlackBerry also plans to lay off 4,500 employees.
RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Sue told investors on Monday morning that BlackBerry "may run out of cash in 12–24 months" if it did not go through another round of layoffs. Sue said BlackBerry burned cash fast and that its patents are declining in value, as rivals slow down their interest in buying companies purely for intellectual property.
Jeffrey listed the litany of BlackBerry's ills in a note to clients last week, and particularly noted BlackBerry's difficulties in finding a suitor.
"Management has announced more headcount cuts, a further slimming down of the handset portfolio, and an exit from the consumer market. Many IT departments have started looking at BlackBerry alternatives," Jeffrey wrote in a short but critical research note.
"The board still has no update on its search for strategic alternatives. In the absence of an announcement on strategic options by the board, management can only try to manage the pace of declines."
Michael Genovese, of MKM Partners, estimated that BlackBerry's real value is only $7 a share. Of that, the company's services division is worth $5 a share, Genovese estimated, while the operating system is $1 and the intellectual property is worth another $1 a share.
"We expect BlackBerry will soon go away as a handset brand and likely as a smartphone operating system too. The brand may only remain as part of the standalone BlackBerry Messenger application before long," Genovese wrote before the deal was announced.
It's not clear whether the Fairfax agreement will be enough to answer BlackBerry's critics about the future of the company. While it shows that BlackBerry has done the work to attract a buyer – which not many analysts believed it could – the agreement is so soft that it may not provide the certainty that the market wants.
It may instead serve as a lure to other buyers, putting what Wall Street calls "a floor" on the company's value, and, in essence, starting a bidding process.
Fairfax Financial, headed by Prem Watsa, is a life insurance and investment management company based in Toronto.
Mapping authority uses open data tools to build a scale version within the popular construction game featuring 22bn blocks
If you've ever dreamed of making the fabled journey from Lands End to John O'Groats but can't quite summon the energy for the 874-mile trek, Ordnance Survey may just have the answer. The mapping authority has constructed a scale model of the country in the popular PC gameMinecraft, using more than 22bn virtual building blocks.
Programming
OS Innovation Lab manager Graham Dunlop said the work took two weeks to complete by an intern, Joseph Braybook, a third-year physics student from the University of Bristol.
"When Joseph joined the team as part of Ordnance Survey's summer internship programme, we discovered he was an avid Minecraft fan," he added.
"We decided to build a Minecraft world using free-to-use OS OpenData products to display the landscape and terrain of Great Britain."
Braybook's project revolved around creating a software interface between the OS's OpenData and the complex but publicly documented Minecraft mapping format.
"It's not feasible to build that kind of scale by hand, so it was a good project for our software development house and our new internship program," said Dunlop.
Combining the data sets, the lab produced a scale reproduction with 86,000 geographically accurate square miles of Great Britain. To maintain the appearance of low-lying coastal features but still fit in mountainous terrain such as Ben Nevis – which is just over 128 blocks high within the game – Braybook chose a maximum height of 2,500 metres, scaling it down to fit the 256-block height limit in Minecraft.
Building and 'crafting'
Minecraft is a popular video game that allows its 33 million players to build, explore and play in a virtual 3D world, using small cubes representing different materials such as rock, sand and lava.
Players can co-operate within the virtual world to build structures, create user-generated adventures and challenges, and defend against a variety of in-game monsters.
The OS's Minecraft Britain consists of 22 billion blocks built in the virtual world, which is the "largest and most detailed geographically accurate model built yet within Minecraft," according to Dunlop.
To Southampton and beyond
It starts with the OS's head office in Southampton, through which Minecraft players can enter and explore the geographically-accurate 3D representation of Great Britain.
Ordnance Survey's Minecraft map of Great Britain: mountains in Snowdonia are among the higher features. Photograph: Ordnance Survey
Users can then recreate real-life man-made features on the map, such as Stonehenge or the Shard in London, iconic landmarks from fiction such as Hogwarts school or Wuthering Heights, or construct their own buildings and monuments with their imagination the only limitation.
Getting the map
Minecraft fans who already own the game on their PC or Mac can download the map from the OS website. The homepage provides useful information, such as the XYZ co-ordinates of some geographic locations such as Mount Snowdon and Lake Windermere. Players can then customise the map, adding their own favourite scenic features.
"We have no immediate plans for the map, but we'll wait and see what kinds of requests the OS gets revolving around the data. For now, it's our gift to the world of Minecraft," Dunlop said.
Flipboard, the digital magazine app, has raised another $50m (£31m) in funding from investors, valuing the Silicon Valley company at $800m.
The investment will be used to finance greater international expansion, finalise a Windows 8 app, and allow the company to hire more sales staff, Mike McCue, Flipboard's chief executive and co-founder, told technology blog TechCrunch.
The funding round was led by investors including Rizvi Traverse Management, which led a funding round attempt to take PlayBoy Enterprises private, and Goldman Sachs, with existing investors Insight Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers also participating, marking it as the latest sign of investors' appetite for novel Silicon Valley-based content distribution platforms such as the Material, Zite and Pulse apps.
Flipboard first launched in July 2010 as an iPad app with an interesting new spin on news aggregation, which turned people's Twitter and Facebook feeds into a digital magazine, later launching on the iPhone and Android.
Version 2.0 of the Flipboard app was then launched in March as the company's "largest release we've ever done", McCue told the Guardianat the time, allowing users to curate and share their own digital magazines within the app, hoping to add to its existing 50m-strong user base.
Fliboard's user base now totals about 85m users, according to McCue, with more than 2 million user-created magazines now available via theFlipboard apps and website.
The recent funding round comes after an initial investment of $10.5m, and a second round of funding totalling $50m in April 2011, whichpreviously valued Flipboard at $200m.
Flipboard is adding at least 200,000 new users a day with "sometimes 250,000 or 300,000" users, McCue told TechCrunch. “We have some of the world’s best brands advertising on Flipboard, such as Gucci and Louis Vuitton.”
“When you tap on the ad, it will take you to a brand magazine. With version 2.0, these brands are curating magazines. [We are] generating revenue for all of our publisher partners,” McCue added.
Postponement could last at least a week as BlackBerry struggles to shut out unreleased version which has had a million downloads on Google Play store
BlackBerry has postponed the launch of its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) messaging app on the iPhone and Android platforms, after a rogue version was released onto Google Play over the weekend.
The postponement will hold up the official release for at least a week, Andrew Bocking, head of BBM at BlackBerry, said in a blogpost. He explained that the release of an "older, unreleased version" of BBM for Android which was posted on file-sharing sites and then onto Google Play interfered with the company's plans for launch of its official, finished app.
The early version "resulted in volumes of data traffic orders of magnitude higher than normal for each active user and impacted the system in abnormal ways", Bocking wrote. But if the company had gone ahead and released the official version, "we could not block users of the unreleased version".
The rogue version has now had more than a million downloads, Bocking said. A search on Google Play for "BBM" presently shows a number of fake apps, including one which claims to be from "Activision LLC" - but is not associated with the famous videogame publisher which runs the Warcraft franchise.
One developer who offered a version of BBM on Google Play last week told the Guardian by email "Our purpose isn't bad, we are tying to make some money. Yes, this is illegal, so Google will delete this app 4-6 hours later." The app was deleted soon afterwards.
Fake apps can make money by offering adverts. Some of the apps garner five-star ratings by forcing users to give them a five-star rating before the app will start working - thus pushing them up the rankings.
For BlackBerry, which is struggling to open up potential new lines of revenue after the implosion of its handset business during the past quarter - leading to a writeoff of $1bn - the launch of BBM on other platforms is key to a future strategy built around services. BBM has been viewed as a potentially valuable element of the company, which hassigned a letter of intent for a leveraged buyout by a Canadian finance group.
Bocking said that the BlackBerry team is now trying to adjust the system to block the fake app when the official one goes live.
A Google spokesperson said: "we remove infringing apps as soon as we become aware of them." Google's Developer Program Policies tells developers not to use "impersonation or deceptive behaviour" - though the evidence from the store suggests this is repeatedly flouted.
BlackBerry has postponed the launch of its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) messaging app on the iPhone and Android platforms, after a rogue version was released onto Google Play over the weekend.
The postponement will hold up the official release for at least a week, Andrew Bocking, head of BBM at BlackBerry, said in a blogpost. He explained that the release of an "older, unreleased version" of BBM for Android which was posted on file-sharing sites and then onto Google Play interfered with the company's plans for launch of its official, finished app.
The early version "resulted in volumes of data traffic orders of magnitude higher than normal for each active user and impacted the system in abnormal ways", Bocking wrote. But if the company had gone ahead and released the official version, "we could not block users of the unreleased version".
The rogue version has now had more than a million downloads, Bocking said. A search on Google Play for "BBM" presently shows a number of fake apps, including one which claims to be from "Activision LLC" - but is not associated with the famous videogame publisher which runs the Warcraft franchise.
One developer who offered a version of BBM on Google Play last week told the Guardian by email "Our purpose isn't bad, we are tying to make some money. Yes, this is illegal, so Google will delete this app 4-6 hours later." The app was deleted soon afterwards.
Fake apps can make money by offering adverts. Some of the apps garner five-star ratings by forcing users to give them a five-star rating before the app will start working - thus pushing them up the rankings.
For BlackBerry, which is struggling to open up potential new lines of revenue after the implosion of its handset business during the past quarter - leading to a writeoff of $1bn - the launch of BBM on other platforms is key to a future strategy built around services. BBM has been viewed as a potentially valuable element of the company, which hassigned a letter of intent for a leveraged buyout by a Canadian finance group.
Bocking said that the BlackBerry team is now trying to adjust the system to block the fake app when the official one goes live.
A Google spokesperson said: "we remove infringing apps as soon as we become aware of them." Google's Developer Program Policies tells developers not to use "impersonation or deceptive behaviour" - though the evidence from the store suggests this is repeatedly flouted.
• Brazilian president attacks US over spying • World leaders in New York for UN general assembly • Obama and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani speak later • Speculation over meeting between US and Iranian leaders
Obama finishes. The hall applauds.
Remarkable speech by Obama. He goes out of his way to admit the CIA overthrew the last popularly elected leader of Iran. He borderline ridicules the contradictory bent of theories about the US role in the Middle East. He asserts a global need for American leadership. He points out that things didn't go well for the United States in Iraq and says the US has a "hard-earned humility" from the experience.
He's arguing with the world about what the US is and does, in a speech seeded with concessions of American fault and American weakness. It's a cunning rhetorical gambit. It's a characteristic swing for the fences.
Obama defends US participation in the intervention in Libya.
"Does anyone truly believe that the situation in Libya would be better if Ghadafi had been allowed... to brutalize his people?
"It's far more likely," Obama says, that Syria would be "engulfed in civil war and bloodshed."
The United States has "a hard-earned humility when it comes to our ability to" determine events inside other countries, Obama says.
There's an idea that America works constantly to expand its "empire," he says, but that idea "isn't born out by America's current policy or by public opinion," he says.
"The danger for the world is not that the United States" is overly engaged, it's that the US "... rightly concerned about difficulties back home.. may disengage, creating a vacuum of leadership that no other nation is ready to fill," Obama says.
Then Obama says he frankly believes that America is exceptional, because:
"We have shown a willingness to sacrifice blood and treasure to stand up not only for our own narrow interests but in the interests of all," he says.
Obama says democracy is for everyone.
"We reject the notion that these principles are western exports incompatible with Islam or the Arab world," he says.
"We will be engaged in the region for the long haul," he says.
US president Barack Obama addresses the delegates during the 68th session of the United Nations general asaembly at the United Nations in New York Photograph: Timothy Clary/AFP/Getty Images
Obama turns to Egypt.
"When peaceful transitions began in Tunisia and Egypt, the entire world was filled with hope," he says. "...We chose to support those who called for change.. in the belief that societies based on democracy and openness... will ultimately be more prosperous and more peaceful."
"Mohamed Morsi was democratically elected but proved unwilling or unable to govern in a way that was fully inclusive," Obama says. The interim government is supported by a large number of Egyptians but has taken non-democratic action by imposing emergency law, restrictions on the press, civil society and opposition parties, Obama says.
Meanwhile, the United States is "simultaneously accused of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and engineering their removal from power!" he says, sounding incredulous.
"In fact the United States has avoided choosing sides," Obama says.
Obama turns to a conflict he aptly describes as older than tensions between the US and Iran: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"The time is now right for the entire international community to get behind the pursuit of peace," he says.
He says Abbas has expressed a willingness to negotiate and the Netanyahu has released political prisoners and reaffirmed his commitment to a Palestinian state.
"And so the rest of us must be willing to take risks as well," Obama says. He says friends of Israel such as the US must recognize the need for a Palestinian state. Likewise friends of Palestine (he doesn't say "Palestine") must recognize the need for a two-state solution and for Israel's security.
"The roadblocks may prove to be too great but I firmly believe a diplomatic path must be tested," Obama says.
Obama says the supreme leader has issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons. He says mutual action to eliminate them must proceed in a way that is "transparent and verifiable."
"It is the Iranian government's choices that have led to the sanctions that are in place," Obama says.
"I am directing John Kerry to pursue a settlement with the Iranian government in close cooperation" with international partners, he says.
Now Obama turns to Iran. He makes a remarkable acknowledgment of the US role in taking outMossadegh,the democratically elected president of Iran, who was deposed in a CIA-led coup in 1953. "This mistrust has deep roots," Obama says.
Iranians complain of America's meddling, Obama says, including "America's role of overthrowing the Iranian government in the Cold War." Americans complain of Iranian taking hostages, threatening US troops and allies.
"I don't believe this difficult history can be overcome overnight. The suspicions run too deep." But resolving the nuclear question could serve as a first step down a long road, he says.
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Obama says US policy will turn on Two particular issues: Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Obama articulates guidelines for what he says will be his Middle East policy going forward. He says the US depends on the region for oil and will directly confront terrorist threats and proliferation threats.
But the US also sees a direct interest in "peace and prosperity" in the region, he says. It's not possible to act unilaterally though.
"Iraq shows us that democracy cannot simply be imposed by force," he says.
Obama announces new Syria aid
"We will be providing an additional $340m in aid for Syria," he says. No aid can replace a truce, he says, but "it can help people survive."
Then he describes a frustrating contradiction around the US role in the Middle East.
"The US is chastised for meddling... at the same time blamed for failing to do enough to address the region's problems."
"These contradictory attitudes have a practical impact" for the support of American people for US action in the Middle East, Obama says.
Obama at the UN. Photograph: Andrew Gombert/EPA
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Obama calls for a broader truce in Syria.
"An agreement on chemical weapons should energize a larger diplomatic effort" in Syria, Obama says.
He says the idea that Syria can return to its pre-war power structure is "a fantasy."
"We're no longer in a Cold War. There's no great game to be won," he says.
Obama pushes back against the Russian line that opposition groups may have been responsible for the 21 August chemical attack.
"It's an insult... to suggest that anyone other than this regime carried out this attack," he says.
Then the president turns to his vision for a political settlement:
As I've discussed with President Putin for more than a year... my preference has always been a diplomatic solution... We have reached an agreement to place Syria's chemical weapons under control ... The Syrian government took a first step by giving an accounting of its chemical stockpiles.
Obama says what's needed next is an enforceable resolution with consequences to destroy the weapons.
Obama begins to outline US policy on Syria.
"As a starting point, the international community must enforce a ban on the brazen use of chemical weapons."
The ban is "older than the United Nations itself," Obama says. He invokes "the searing memory of soldiers suffering in the trenches, Jews... in gas chambers, Iranians slaughtered..."
Obama turns to Syria.
"Peaceful protest ... were met with oppression and carnage," he says, and "many retreated to their sectarian identities."
"Our response has not met the scale of the challenge," Obama says. ..."The peace process is stillborn... America and others have worked to support the moderate opposition," he says, but extremist groups have taken over.
Then Obama at the UN accuses the Assad regime of using chemical weapons on Syrians:
"On August 21, the regime used chemical weapons in an attack that killed 1,000 people," he says.
In fact Obama's speech does contain a reply to Rousseff, if just one line:
"We've begun to review the way that we gather intelligence" to balance security concerns of Americans and allies with "privacy concerns that all people share," Obama says.
Then he says the "world is more stable than it was five years ago."
"Each year we come together to reconfirm the founding vision of this institution," Obama begins. It does not sound like the entirety of his remarks will be cued to Rousseff's attack on his intelligence services.
Indeed the American president works his way through a series of filigreed sentences paying tribute to the glory of the institution, which now, he says, faces one of its most difficult challenges.
Rousseff is done. Obama is next.
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Rousseff turns to other topics. But it's fair to say the 68th UNGA has delivered early on its promise of action.
Rousseff acquitted herself of the loudest, most public condemnation yet by a world leader of spying by the NSA, the GCHQ and associated intelligence services. She said the practice constituted a serious human rights violation, a crime, and an act of disrespect to the sovereignty of targeted countries. She expressed disbelief that friendly countries would spy on one another as intrusively as the NSA has done.
Rousseff said the UN needs to establish international protections for Internet users from spying.
Here's what Rousseff is so exercised about: NSA documents reported on in part by Glenn Greenwald on the Brazilian news program Fantasticoshowed that the American intelligence service had records of her internal communications:
A separate document displayed communication patterns between Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her top advisers, Fantastico said, although no specific written passages were included in the report.
Both documents were part of an NSA case study showing how data could be "intelligently" filtered, Fantastico said.
Read the full piece here. Rousseff snubbed Barack Obama in mid-September by postponing an official visit to Washington in protest at the spying activities.
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Rousseff calls on the UN to "properly regulate the behavior of states regarding these technologies..."
She announces that Brazil will put forth proposals to establish an international framework for Internet use and communications. "We must establish multilateral mechanisms for the world wide web.
She names five guiding principles:
Freedom of speech; multi-lateral governance with transparency; the principle of universality and non-discrimination; cultural diversity without imposing values; and network neutrality.
Rousseff is warming to her theme.
"What we have before us is a serious case of a violation of human rights... and disrespect to the sovereignty of my country.
We have sought guarantees that the spying "will never happen again," she says. It's impossible to allow "illegal" actions to go on "as if they are ordinary," she says. "They are unacceptable."
She says Brazil is taking steps to protect its communications and to "defend the human rights of all citizens of the world."
Rousseff launches a diatribe against international "spying activity." She calls it "a global network of international spying."
She says surveillance is a "breach of international law and an affrontment to the principles that should govern relationships among countries, especially friendly countries."
"In Brazil the situation was even more serious, since we as Brazil figure as a target." Rousseff says. She says individuals' and businesses' communications have been "indiscriminately" targeted.
THe issue is "utterly important and serious," she says.
Here's the schedule of today's speakers before the assembly. "Statements should be no longer than 15 minutes," warns current assembly president John Ashe, former UN ambassador for Antigua and Barbuda. Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has just begun speaking.
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Welcome to our live blog coverage of the 68th United Nations General Assembly. The session is stirring unusual excitement: it could produce the first face-to-face meeting between a US and an Iranian president since the hostage crisis, open a new way forward on negotiations over Iran's nuclear program; render a map for future international involvement in Syria's civil war, and set the stage for a new round of Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy.
Both US president Barack Obama and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani are scheduled to address the group of more than 200 national leaders in New York today (Obama speaks at 10am ET). Both leaders are expected to elaborate on expressions in the last weeks of mutual respect and a desire to interface. Rouhani is not two months in office and is the center of a great deal of optimism. Furthermore, according to former Iranian president Mohammad Khatamiwriting in the Guardianon Monday, Rouhani has the power to negotiate:
Explicit public support from the supreme leader of the Islamic republic provides Rouhani and his colleagues with the necessary authority for a diplomatic resolution of a number of foreign policy issues with the west, not just the nuclear issue.
The EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, met with Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in New York Monday. She said Zarif would meet with US secretary of state John Kerry on Thursday, in what would be the first ministerial talks between Tehran and Washington since the Islamic revolution in 1979.
Seasoned observers on all sides, and not just Israel, are counseling caution as a potential new phase of international conversation begins. The leaders of both Iran and Syria have projects they would like more time to complete – time that could be created by ultimately fruitless talk. But the assumption is the talks in New York this week don't have to be fruitless and might yield a breakthrough.
Headlines may also be provided by an early speech by the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. She cancelled a state visit to the US in protest at revelations that the National Security Agency had been spying on her personal communications and those of her aides. She may use the UN platform to tell Obama what she thinks of him.
Ordnance Survey's Minecraft map of Great Britain: mountains in Snowdonia are among the higher features. Photograph: Ordnance Survey
