android number picker default design changes in jelly bean and ice-cream sandwitch

Quoting from docs

If the current theme is derived from Theme the widget presents the current value as an editable input field with an increment button above and a decrement button below. Long pressing the buttons allows for a quick change of the current value. Tapping on the input field allows to type in a desired value.

You need to set your theme that is derieved from Theme like fro example Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen

activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="match_parent"     android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"     android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"     android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"     android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"     tools:context=".MainActivity" >       <TextView         android:id="@+id/textView1"         android:layout_width="wrap_content"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:text="@string/hello_world" />      <Button         android:id="@+id/button11"         android:layout_width="wrap_content"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"         android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"         android:text="Open" />  </RelativeLayout> 

dialog.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:layout_width="fill_parent"     android:theme = "@style/cust_dialog"     android:layout_height="fill_parent" >      <NumberPicker         android:id="@+id/numberPicker1"         android:layout_width="wrap_content"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:layout_alignParentTop="true"         android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"         android:layout_marginTop="64dp" />      <Button         android:id="@+id/button2"         android:layout_width="wrap_content"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:layout_below="@+id/numberPicker1"         android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"         android:layout_marginTop="98dp"         android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/numberPicker1"         android:text="Cancel" />      <Button         android:id="@+id/button1"         android:layout_width="wrap_content"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/button2"         android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button2"         android:layout_marginRight="16dp"         android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/numberPicker1"         android:text="Set" />  </RelativeLayout> 

Then to display custom dialog

public class MainActivity extends Activity implements NumberPicker.OnValueChangeListener {     private  TextView tv;     static Dialog d ;     @Override     public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)     {         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);         setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);         tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);         tv.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {              @Override             public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {                 if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {                        tv.setTextColor(Color.RED);                 }                 else if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {                         // set to normal color                      tv.setTextColor(0);                   }                  return true;             }               });         Button b = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button11);          b.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()          {              @Override             public void onClick(View v) {                  show();             }             });            }      @Override     public void onValueChange(NumberPicker picker, int oldVal, int newVal) {           Log.i("value is",""+newVal);       }      public void show()     {            final Dialog d=new Dialog(this,R.style.cust_dialog);          d.setTitle("NumberPicker");          d.setContentView(R.layout.dialog);          Button b1 = (Button) d.findViewById(R.id.button1);          Button b2 = (Button) d.findViewById(R.id.button2);          final NumberPicker np = (NumberPicker) d.findViewById(R.id.numberPicker1);          np.setMaxValue(100);          np.setMinValue(0);          np.setWrapSelectorWheel(false);          np.setOnValueChangedListener(this);          b1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()          {           @Override           public void onClick(View v) {               tv.setText(String.valueOf(np.getValue()));               d.dismiss();            }               });          b2.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()          {           @Override           public void onClick(View v) {               d.dismiss();            }               });        d.show();       } } 

Styles.xml

</style>   <style name="cust_dialog" parent="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen">  </style> 

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Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17993192/android-number-picker-default-design-changes-in-jelly-bean-and-ice-cream-sandwit

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US stocks end mixed, close out a strong July

Trader Kevin Coulter, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, July 29, 2013. Stocks were inching lower on Monday morning as a big week for economic news got underway.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Trader Kevin Coulter, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, July 29, 2013. Stocks were inching lower on Monday morning as a big week for economic news got underway.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NEW YORK (AP) ? The stock market is ending mixed after wavering in response to the Federal Reserve's latest assessment of the U.S. economy.

July was still the best month for the market since January.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 21 points, or 0.1 percent, to 15,499 Wednesday.

The Dow was up most of the day after the government reported that the U.S. economy grew more than economists expected in the second quarter.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost a fraction of a point to end at 1,685. The Nasdaq rose 10 points, or 0.3 percent, to 3,626.

Bond yields fell after the Fed said it would continue to support the economy.

Slightly more stocks rose then fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was above average at 3.8 billion shares.

Associated Press

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Avoid US taxes by forming a foreign merger

Business

Mark Koba CNBC

22 hours ago

A tactic to avoid corporate taxes has U.S. companies on the move?merging with foreign firms and then setting up residence overseas.

On Monday, Michigan-based medicine manufacturer Perrigo agreed to buy the Irish drug company Elan for $8.6 billion. In the bargain, the combined company's headquarters will be in Ireland, which has a corporate tax rate of 12.5 percent, versus 35 percent in the U.S.

Just the day before, American advertising giant Omnicom Group announced plans for a $35 billion merger with France's Publicis Groupe, saying that the combined company's tax residence will be in the Netherlands, which has a 25 percent corporate tax rate.

(Read more: 3 mergers Cramer says investors shouldn't miss)

Analysts say such mergers are likely to continue.

"Without tax reform in the U.S., I think you will see more of these types of deals," said Ian Shane, a tax lawyer at Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe.

"You have to start from the premise that most tax laws are a decade behind how business is done," he said. "More companies are global and looking globally, and taxes are part of the bottom line."

Calls to Omnicom from CNBC to discuss the tax issue in detail with were not immediately returned. A spokesman for Perrigo refused to speak on the record for this story.

In a conference call for reporters after Perrigo's announcement, however, Chief Financial Officer Nigel Cherkin acknowledged that being in Ireland would provide the company with more than $2 billion in tax deductions.

And Omnicom's CEO John Wren confirmed in a conference call after his firm's merger announcement that residence in the Netherlands was for tax purposes.

Michael Schwartz, director of accounting and taxes at the advisory firm WeiserMazars, said, "There is a tax on U.S. firms bringing profits from overseas, but if you're incorporated abroad, [the United States] can't tax it if you've merged with another company."

These recent mergers fly in the face of heavy criticism from those who say U.S.corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes in the first place and that loopholes allow most of them to avoid paying the full 35 percent rate.

In a Senate subcommittee hearing this past May, Apple was severely chastised for avoiding tens of billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on its income (all legally) by shifting the funds through a global web of offshore entities, including three that had no tax residency in any nation.

A report from the committee before the hearings said that those three entities were run by some of Apple's top executives but were located, on paper, in Ireland, though they in some cases had no employees.

(Read more:Experts predict long antitrust road for Omnicom, Publicis)

One entity reported $30 billion in net income for 2009-12, yet filed no corporate tax return and paid no income taxes to any government during those years, according to the report.

CEO Tim Cook defended Apple at the time saying, "We pay all the taxes we owe?every single dollar." He also insisted that the company doesn't rely on tax "gimmicks" and doesn't "stash money on some Caribbean island."

But it isn't necessary for U.S. firms to stash away money or rely on gimmicks in today's global economy, according to Shane, the tax lawyer.

"Countries in Europe and elsewhere are competing with each other with lower tax rates to bring in firms and have them headquartered there," Shane said. "They need revenues, but lower tax rates that bring in firms are much better than higher tax rates and not having anyone there," he added.

"Just look at the Netherlands," Shane said. "Firms headquartered there don't have to face rigid tax rules.They can apply for a ruling on the amount they want to pay and get it approved or not, just as long as they pay some taxes."

But a study released in December on U.S. corporate taxes stated that new companies are not avoiding the country in favor of tax havens. Among 918 new companies identified as multinationals with headquarters in the United States, just 27 were legally incorporated in tax havens.

"I think we can fine-tune our laws, but I don't see them as all that complicated," said Schwartz at WeiserMazars.

"Businesses don't all think alike when it comes to what they want when it comes to taxes. I actually think other countries will start to lean toward our model going forward," he said.

U.S. firms first pay income taxes to the countries in which profits were earned; the then pay additional U.S. taxes on any profits they bring home.

But since companies receive a tax credit for paying a foreign tax, the amount of tax they pay on foreign profits in the U.S. is equal to the difference between the U.S. rate and the foreign one. (For instance, a $100 profit in England at that country's 23 percent tax rate would come to $23 in those taxes. The amount paid to the U.S. on that $100 would total $12?the difference between 35 and 23.)

In a speech Tuesday, President Barack Obama said he wants to cut the corporate tax rate of 35 percent to 28 percent and give manufacturers a preferred rate of 25 percent. He also wants a minimum tax on foreign earnings as a tool against corporate tax avoidance and increased use of tax havens.

(Read more: Obama proposes 'grand bargain' on corporate tax rate, infrastructure)

But he tied the reform and the money generated by the tax overhaul to a mix of proposals such as funding for infrastructure projects and improving education at community colleges.

Congressional Republicans immediately condemned the plan, saying it further backs Obama's policies on taxes and spending "while leaving small businesses and American families behind." The GOP prefers a flat tax on corporate profits.

"They talk tax reform, but it's not going to happen," Shane said. "There's too much gridlock."

"In the meantime, U.S. firms will continue to explore other countries for what they think are better tax laws," he said.

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There Is A Church Decorated With The Bones Of 40,000 People

Love it. We haven't been there but we have been to the crypt (somehow it's always spookier underground in a crypt) under the Capuchin Church - Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini - right on the Via Veneto in Rome. They have the bones of 3,700 dead monks arrnaged artistically in several rooms down there.

The Marquis de Sade noted that he found his 1775 journey to the crypt was worth the effort, and Nathaniel Hawthorne noted its grotesque nature in his 1860 novel The Marble Faun.

Jeff

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Ex-USAF Chief Scientist Likens U.S. Cybersecurity Challenge to Whac-A-Mole

Mark Maybury holds forth on fending off cyber attackers, keeping humans in the loop during drone missions and outfitting pilots with computerized Band-Aids

By Larry Greenemeier

CYBER VISION: Former U.S. Air Force Chief Scientist Mark Maybury knows that stationary targets--whether in the air or in cyberspace--are easier to hit. Image: Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force

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From his vantage point as chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force, Mark Maybury had a bird?s-eye view of myriad advantages and challenges that modern technology presents not only to the military but also to society as a whole. During a three-year tenure that ended in June when Maybury returned to military contractor Mitre Corp. as vice president and chief technology officer, he led a series of three studies to expand the military?s understanding of energy use and cybersecurity.

The most recent?the June 2013 ?Global Horizons? report (pdf)?broadens the Air Force?s purview by evaluating the $1.4 trillion in annual public and private spending on research and development worldwide in areas including transportation, communication, information technology, pharmaceuticals and materials science. The report also makes a number of recommendations regarding how best to spend this money.

Global Horizons follows last December?s ?Cyber Vision 2025? study (pdf), which articulates how the Air Force can leverage cyberspace as part of its missions while minimizing its exposure to digital security threats. That report concluded the Air Force?s increasingly cyber-dependent operations are at risk from malicious insiders, insecure supply chains and increasingly sophisticated online adversaries. "Cyber Vision 2025" also includes several proposals for overcoming these risks through tightened security and networks that are resilient when attacked. Maybury?s initial research project?the January 2012 ?Energy Horizons? study (pdf)?outlined approaches to improving the Air Force?s energy efficiency and reducing demand over the next decade and a half.

While attending a conference for corporate security executives in New York City last month to promote ?Cyber Vision 2025,? Maybury spoke with Scientific American about some of the wide-ranging science and technology areas in which the Air Force is conducting research.

[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]

Why is so much of the Air Force?s research devoted to cybersecurity?
The amount of malware is growing exponentially. There are approximately three million pieces of malware in existence today and we project that number will grow to something like 200 million unique pieces by 2025. That?s going to make cyberspace a much more challenging environment to defend, probably even more difficult moving forward than space or air, which themselves are very contested [military] environments

That?s significant when you consider how much technology has come to rely on software and cyberspace. Just to give you a very concrete example of how complex our mission systems are and how dependent they?ve become on cyber: Our [McDonnell Douglas] F-4 Phantom aircraft that we flew in Vietnam were about 5 percent dependent on software. Our [Lockheed Martin] F-35s?our most advanced aircraft?are about 90 percent dependent on software. Those F-35s have on board between nine [million] and 10 million lines of code. And they can?t take off without their Automated Logistics Information System (ALIS) (pdf), which has another 15 million lines of code. So you?ve got 25 million lines of code to fly a modern aircraft.

What is the Air Force?s strategy for dealing with cybersecurity threats over the next decade?
When the Air Force was putting together our ?Cyber Vision? study, we came away with several good lessons from studying the business world. One is the principle of least privilege, which means you limit the access you give to people in your organization to only the information, facilities and other resources they need to do their job.

Another characteristic that can be applied to security is resilience, or the ability to absorb or deflect an attack and then respond to that attack. Closely related to that is agility, which is the ability to move and maneuver in the classic army sense of the term. To literally say, ?Okay, you attack my computers because I happen to be running a certain operating system,? well, I?m going to hit a button and switch my operations to another operating system, which requires a different attack. It?s like playing Whac-A-Mole.

An idea related to this is to change the network topology on demand, so that if an attacker spends time mapping your network, by the time they return to launch the attack, the arrangement of the nodes in that network has been changed. It?s a capability built at my old stomping grounds as a young lieutenant?the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y. It?s not something you can go and buy in commercial software. But it doesn?t necessarily have to be complicated. It can be something as simple as a random number generator in a router that switches network traffic. Cloud computing is important as well, because it gives us the opportunity to move mission applications amongst a multiplicity of virtual machines to create a moving target for attackers.

Source: http://rss.sciam.com/~r/sciam/basic-science/~3/NAS2VTAOcaw/article.cfm

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The trial campaign saw two vans drive around six London boroughs in the last week displaying billboards telling illegal immigrants to &quot;Go Home or Face Arrest&quot;, part of a wider government crackdown aimed at reducing net migration - the numerical difference between people coming in and out of the country. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/immigration-numbers-pose-political-problem-cameron-023824742.htmlMon, 29 Jul 2013 12:08:36 -0400Reutersimmigration-numbers-pose-political-problem-cameron-023824742<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/immigration-numbers-pose-political-problem-cameron-023824742.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/D61zOKleVi5YNK5IaUzLAA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-29T160836Z_2_CBRE96R140D00_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Britain&#039;s Prime Minister David Cameron answers a question during a joint news conference with Italy&#039;s Prime Minister Enrico Letta in 10 Downing Street in central London" align="left" title="Britain&#039;s Prime Minister David Cameron answers a question during a joint news conference with Italy&#039;s Prime Minister Enrico Letta in 10 Downing Street in central London" border="0" /></a>By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - An advertising campaign designed to get illegal immigrants to leave Britain opened up a rift in the government on Monday when Prime Minister David Cameron&#039;s spokesman said it was working but his coalition partner said the idea was &quot;offensive&quot;. The trial campaign saw two vans drive around six London boroughs in the last week displaying billboards telling illegal immigrants to &quot;Go Home or Face Arrest&quot;, part of a wider government crackdown aimed at reducing net migration - the numerical difference between people coming in and out of the country. ...</p><br clear="all"/>LONDON (Reuters) - Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is working closely with the London Metal Exchange (LME) on the exchange's efforts to fix its metals warehousing system, the FCA said on Monday. The FCA comments follow a U.S. Senate Banking Committee hearing last week in which commercial banks came under fire for their multibillion-dollar commodity trading operations and their control over oil pipelines, power plants and metals warehouses. ...http://news.yahoo.com/fca-says-working-lme-warehouse-problem-121626551.htmlMon, 29 Jul 2013 08:16:26 -0400Reutersfca-says-working-lme-warehouse-problem-121626551<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/retail-sales-grow-fastest-pace-since-january-cbi-100336453.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0_SZuaNfHBNotgMftjKnMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-29T100336Z_1_CBRE96S0RYG00_RTROPTP_2_SAINSBURY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Shopping trolleys are seen parked at a Sainsbury&#039;s store in London" align="left" title="Shopping trolleys are seen parked at a Sainsbury&#039;s store in London" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - British retail sales rose at their fastest pace since January this month, a survey by the Confederation of British Industry showed on Monday, adding to signs economic growth is continuing in the second half of the year. The CBI distributive trades survey&#039;s sales balance rose to +17 - matching January&#039;s level - from June&#039;s four-month high of +1. The expected sales balance for August slipped to +10 from +13, though orders placed with suppliers rose at their fastest rate in six months. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/retail-sales-grow-fastest-pace-since-january-cbi-100336453.htmlMon, 29 Jul 2013 06:11:14 -0400Reutersretail-sales-grow-fastest-pace-since-january-cbi-100336453<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/retail-sales-grow-fastest-pace-since-january-cbi-100336453.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0_SZuaNfHBNotgMftjKnMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-29T100336Z_1_CBRE96S0RYG00_RTROPTP_2_SAINSBURY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Shopping trolleys are seen parked at a Sainsbury&#039;s store in London" align="left" title="Shopping trolleys are seen parked at a Sainsbury&#039;s store in London" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - British retail sales rose at their fastest pace since January this month, a survey by the Confederation of British Industry showed on Monday, adding to signs economic growth is continuing in the second half of the year. The CBI distributive trades survey&#039;s sales balance rose to +17 - matching January&#039;s level - from June&#039;s four-month high of +1. The expected sales balance for August slipped to +10 from +13, though orders placed with suppliers rose at their fastest rate in six months. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/british-banks-still-credit-shy-towards-small-firms-053544644.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/q04nbPMrvVnohT3KDMdybA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-29T053544Z_2_CBRE96R1SME00_RTROPTP_2_EU-BONUS-KARAS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The Canary Wharf financial district is seen in east London" align="left" title="The Canary Wharf financial district is seen in east London" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - Britain&#039;s risk-wary banks are reluctant to lend to small firms or pass on cuts in interest rates, according to government-commissioned research that points to a lack of supply rather than demand as the main brake on transactions. Banks have clashed with policymakers and regulators over the reasons for scant flows of credit to small and medium-sized enterprises, seen as vital to Britain&#039;s economic recovery, arguing that firms lack confidence to borrow and invest. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/british-banks-still-credit-shy-towards-small-firms-053544644.htmlMon, 29 Jul 2013 01:35:44 -0400Reutersbritish-banks-still-credit-shy-towards-small-firms-053544644<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/british-banks-still-credit-shy-towards-small-firms-053544644.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/q04nbPMrvVnohT3KDMdybA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-29T053544Z_2_CBRE96R1SME00_RTROPTP_2_EU-BONUS-KARAS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The Canary Wharf financial district is seen in east London" align="left" title="The Canary Wharf financial district is seen in east London" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - Britain&#039;s risk-wary banks are reluctant to lend to small firms or pass on cuts in interest rates, according to government-commissioned research that points to a lack of supply rather than demand as the main brake on transactions. Banks have clashed with policymakers and regulators over the reasons for scant flows of credit to small and medium-sized enterprises, seen as vital to Britain&#039;s economic recovery, arguing that firms lack confidence to borrow and invest. ...</p><br clear="all"/>By Sam Cage BELFAST (Reuters) - When U.S. President Barack Obama visited Northern Ireland before the G8 summit in June, he hailed its extraordinary progress in the 15 years since a peace agreement to end three decades of what locals call "The Troubles". On the other side of Belfast the next day, a petrol bomb thrown over a fence dividing Protestant from Catholic communities exploded next to a four-year-old girl playing in the street - just one example of sporadic violence still haunting the British province. The region of 1. ...http://news.yahoo.com/northern-ireland-struggles-heal-deep-fracture-033409403.htmlSun, 28 Jul 2013 23:34:09 -0400Reutersnorthern-ireland-struggles-heal-deep-fracture-033409403<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/europe-banks-set-dividend-lift-regulators-allow-015117815.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/pr4yZDOqiK0Q_Rk2PBUEnw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-29T015117Z_1_CBRE96R1SSA00_RTROPTP_2_HSBC-PROBE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The Angel of Independence is seen near a HSBC building in Mexico City" align="left" title="The Angel of Independence is seen near a HSBC building in Mexico City" border="0" /></a>By Steve Slater and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) - A clutch of European banks are primed to lift dividends to put them back on the radar of yield-hungry investors after years spent using cash to repair balance sheets. HSBC, UBS, BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered, Swedbank and other banks in Switzerland, France and Sweden could lead the way back to bigger payouts. But obscuring the route for banks with excess cash is a stubborn regulatory fog, meaning investors in Europe may have to wait until 2014 or later for more juicy rewards, later than an expected pick-up in the United States. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/europe-banks-set-dividend-lift-regulators-allow-015117815.htmlSun, 28 Jul 2013 21:51:17 -0400Reuterseurope-banks-set-dividend-lift-regulators-allow-015117815<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/europe-banks-set-dividend-lift-regulators-allow-015117815.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/pr4yZDOqiK0Q_Rk2PBUEnw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-29T015117Z_1_CBRE96R1SSA00_RTROPTP_2_HSBC-PROBE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The Angel of Independence is seen near a HSBC building in Mexico City" align="left" title="The Angel of Independence is seen near a HSBC building in Mexico City" border="0" /></a>By Steve Slater and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) - A clutch of European banks are primed to lift dividends to put them back on the radar of yield-hungry investors after years spent using cash to repair balance sheets. HSBC, UBS, BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered, Swedbank and other banks in Switzerland, France and Sweden could lead the way back to bigger payouts. But obscuring the route for banks with excess cash is a stubborn regulatory fog, meaning investors in Europe may have to wait until 2014 or later for more juicy rewards, later than an expected pick-up in the United States. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/sfo-receive-funding-barclays-probe-ft-001642315.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/RgSYU8TjrwpofaKC.Wkvww--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-29T001642Z_1_CBRE96S00RZ00_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The logo of Barclays bank is seen at its office in the Canary Wharf business district of London" align="left" title="The logo of Barclays bank is seen at its office in the Canary Wharf business district of London" border="0" /></a>(Reuters) - Britain&#039;s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is expected to receive about 2 million pounds from the UK Treasury to support its criminal probe into the dealings between Barclays Plc and Qatar Holding, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Barclays is being investigated by the SFO and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for an allegation that the bank lent Qatar Holding, a part of the Qatar Investment Authority, money to invest in it as part of a rescue fundraising at the height of the 2008 financial crisis. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/sfo-receive-funding-barclays-probe-ft-001642315.htmlSun, 28 Jul 2013 20:16:42 -0400Reuterssfo-receive-funding-barclays-probe-ft-001642315<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/sfo-receive-funding-barclays-probe-ft-001642315.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/RgSYU8TjrwpofaKC.Wkvww--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-29T001642Z_1_CBRE96S00RZ00_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The logo of Barclays bank is seen at its office in the Canary Wharf business district of London" align="left" title="The logo of Barclays bank is seen at its office in the Canary Wharf business district of London" border="0" /></a>(Reuters) - Britain&#039;s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is expected to receive about 2 million pounds from the UK Treasury to support its criminal probe into the dealings between Barclays Plc and Qatar Holding, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Barclays is being investigated by the SFO and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for an allegation that the bank lent Qatar Holding, a part of the Qatar Investment Authority, money to invest in it as part of a rescue fundraising at the height of the 2008 financial crisis. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/newest-royal-heir-stirs-scottish-independence-debate-164300472.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qxUmpvqbxOmUDXPFuUnYFA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-28T164300Z_1_CBRE96R1AFW00_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN-ROYAL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Britain&#039;s Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge appear with their baby son, outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary&#039;s Hospital, in central London" align="left" title="Britain&#039;s Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge appear with their baby son, outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary&#039;s Hospital, in central London" border="0" /></a>By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - The birth of Britain&#039;s Prince George has reopened a rift among those campaigning for Scotland to vote for independence next year, playing into the hands of those who want it to retain its 306-year union with England. The &quot;Yes Scotland&quot; campaign says it wants to win a referendum on independence in 2014 and for the country to become fully independent by 2016, shaking off centuries of what it regards as oppressive rule from London. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/newest-royal-heir-stirs-scottish-independence-debate-164300472.htmlSun, 28 Jul 2013 12:43:00 -0400Reutersnewest-royal-heir-stirs-scottish-independence-debate-164300472<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/newest-royal-heir-stirs-scottish-independence-debate-164300472.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qxUmpvqbxOmUDXPFuUnYFA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-28T164300Z_1_CBRE96R1AFW00_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN-ROYAL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Britain&#039;s Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge appear with their baby son, outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary&#039;s Hospital, in central London" align="left" title="Britain&#039;s Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge appear with their baby son, outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary&#039;s Hospital, in central London" border="0" /></a>By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - The birth of Britain&#039;s Prince George has reopened a rift among those campaigning for Scotland to vote for independence next year, playing into the hands of those who want it to retain its 306-year union with England. The &quot;Yes Scotland&quot; campaign says it wants to win a referendum on independence in 2014 and for the country to become fully independent by 2016, shaking off centuries of what it regards as oppressive rule from London. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/twitter-faces-calls-britain-tough-online-abuse-143516247.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9Em5r9UymPWLdJJCgY4EHA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-28T143516Z_1_CBRE96R14IY00_RTROPTP_2_FRANCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="An illustration picture shows the logo of the Website Twitter on an Ipad, in Bordeaux" align="left" title="An illustration picture shows the logo of the Website Twitter on an Ipad, in Bordeaux" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - Twitter, the social media site, is under pressure in Britain to make it easier for Internet users to report abuse after more than 30,000 people petitioned it over the case of a feminist campaigner who says she was repeatedly threatened with rape. Caroline Criado-Perez helped lobby the Bank of England to make a woman, 19th century novelist Jane Austen, the new face on the country&#039;s 10 pound note, to defuse criticism that women were under-represented on the currency. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/twitter-faces-calls-britain-tough-online-abuse-143516247.htmlSun, 28 Jul 2013 10:35:16 -0400Reuterstwitter-faces-calls-britain-tough-online-abuse-143516247<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/twitter-faces-calls-britain-tough-online-abuse-143516247.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9Em5r9UymPWLdJJCgY4EHA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-28T143516Z_1_CBRE96R14IY00_RTROPTP_2_FRANCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="An illustration picture shows the logo of the Website Twitter on an Ipad, in Bordeaux" align="left" title="An illustration picture shows the logo of the Website Twitter on an Ipad, in Bordeaux" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - Twitter, the social media site, is under pressure in Britain to make it easier for Internet users to report abuse after more than 30,000 people petitioned it over the case of a feminist campaigner who says she was repeatedly threatened with rape. Caroline Criado-Perez helped lobby the Bank of England to make a woman, 19th century novelist Jane Austen, the new face on the country&#039;s 10 pound note, to defuse criticism that women were under-represented on the currency. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/uk-help-buy-scheme-risks-housing-bubble-says-135156837.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/NfNawWw9tOPTKFEG5vP3dw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-28T135156Z_1_CBRE96R12IO00_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Britain&#039;s Business Secretary Vince Cable holds on to his hat as he arrives to attend a Cabinet meeting at Number 10 Downing Street in London" align="left" title="Britain&#039;s Business Secretary Vince Cable holds on to his hat as he arrives to attend a Cabinet meeting at Number 10 Downing Street in London" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - A flagship scheme to help British housebuyers could fuel property price inflation, the business minister said on Sunday, in the latest clash over policy between the two parties in the country&#039;s governing coalition. &quot;I am worried of the danger of getting into another housing bubble,&quot; Business Secretary Vince Cable told BBC television&#039;s Andrew Marr Show of a proposed extension of the Help to Buy scheme of government-backed home loans designed to revive the housing market. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/uk-help-buy-scheme-risks-housing-bubble-says-135156837.htmlSun, 28 Jul 2013 09:51:56 -0400Reutersuk-help-buy-scheme-risks-housing-bubble-says-135156837<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/uk-help-buy-scheme-risks-housing-bubble-says-135156837.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/NfNawWw9tOPTKFEG5vP3dw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-28T135156Z_1_CBRE96R12IO00_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Britain&#039;s Business Secretary Vince Cable holds on to his hat as he arrives to attend a Cabinet meeting at Number 10 Downing Street in London" align="left" title="Britain&#039;s Business Secretary Vince Cable holds on to his hat as he arrives to attend a Cabinet meeting at Number 10 Downing Street in London" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - A flagship scheme to help British housebuyers could fuel property price inflation, the business minister said on Sunday, in the latest clash over policy between the two parties in the country&#039;s governing coalition. &quot;I am worried of the danger of getting into another housing bubble,&quot; Business Secretary Vince Cable told BBC television&#039;s Andrew Marr Show of a proposed extension of the Help to Buy scheme of government-backed home loans designed to revive the housing market. ...</p><br clear="all"/>By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Unilever is looking for a new auditor, after 26 years with PwC, to comply with a new rule, prompted by questions over why accountants gave banks a clean bill of health just weeks before they were rescued by taxpayers in the 2008 financial crisis. Britain's Financial Reporting Council (FRC) said last year that companies should consider changing their auditor at least every decade in order to end cosy long-term relationships. Only a few blue-chip companies have taken any action so far. ...http://news.yahoo.com/unilever-ditch-pwc-26-years-comply-uk-auditor-012020073.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 21:20:20 -0400Reutersunilever-ditch-pwc-26-years-comply-uk-auditor-012020073<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/uk-selects-eu-ambassador-next-bank-england-deputy-132354479.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9PHp9G7ExfbWQFEmpdxrjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T132354Z_1_CBRE96P118000_RTROPTP_2_BANKS-BOE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The Bank of England building is seen in central London" align="left" title="The Bank of England building is seen in central London" border="0" /></a>By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Britain unexpectedly named its ambassador to the EU as the Bank of England&#039;s next deputy governor for financial stability on Friday, moving to protect its financial sector on the international stage. Jon Cunliffe, 60, is a career civil servant who led British negotiators at G8 and G20 meetings during the financial crisis, and since January 2012 he has been Britain&#039;s top representative in Brussels. He will start at the BoE on November 1. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/uk-selects-eu-ambassador-next-bank-england-deputy-132354479.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 13:06:20 -0400Reutersuk-selects-eu-ambassador-next-bank-england-deputy-132354479<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/uk-selects-eu-ambassador-next-bank-england-deputy-132354479.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9PHp9G7ExfbWQFEmpdxrjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T132354Z_1_CBRE96P118000_RTROPTP_2_BANKS-BOE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The Bank of England building is seen in central London" align="left" title="The Bank of England building is seen in central London" border="0" /></a>By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Britain unexpectedly named its ambassador to the EU as the Bank of England&#039;s next deputy governor for financial stability on Friday, moving to protect its financial sector on the international stage. Jon Cunliffe, 60, is a career civil servant who led British negotiators at G8 and G20 meetings during the financial crisis, and since January 2012 he has been Britain&#039;s top representative in Brussels. He will start at the BoE on November 1. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/church-england-admits-investing-backer-payday-lender-054532623.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/G_atawv7bJg31mYSYiroWw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T163003Z_3_CBRE96O0U8600_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN-RELIGION-ANGLICANS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby leaves after his enthronement ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral, in Canterbury, southern England" align="left" title="The new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby leaves after his enthronement ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral, in Canterbury, southern England" border="0" /></a>By Adam Jourdan LONDON (Reuters) - The head of the Church of England said on Friday he was embarrassed to find out that his organisation had invested indirectly in a short-term loan company which he had vowed only days earlier to drive out of business. The discovery of the relatively small investment was a major setback for Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, after he launched a scathing attack on &quot;payday&quot; lenders who charge high interest rates on short-term loans that are typically repaid when borrowers receive their wages. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/church-england-admits-investing-backer-payday-lender-054532623.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 12:30:03 -0400Reuterschurch-england-admits-investing-backer-payday-lender-054532623<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/church-england-admits-investing-backer-payday-lender-054532623.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/G_atawv7bJg31mYSYiroWw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T163003Z_3_CBRE96O0U8600_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN-RELIGION-ANGLICANS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby leaves after his enthronement ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral, in Canterbury, southern England" align="left" title="The new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby leaves after his enthronement ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral, in Canterbury, southern England" border="0" /></a>By Adam Jourdan LONDON (Reuters) - The head of the Church of England said on Friday he was embarrassed to find out that his organisation had invested indirectly in a short-term loan company which he had vowed only days earlier to drive out of business. The discovery of the relatively small investment was a major setback for Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, after he launched a scathing attack on &quot;payday&quot; lenders who charge high interest rates on short-term loans that are typically repaid when borrowers receive their wages. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ultra-low-yields-suggest-london-property-crash-around-155354589.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/QqAmL2PI5RB1ccttcrdRMw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T155614Z_1_CBRE96P189S00_RTROPTP_2_PROPERTY-RETAIL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Border between Old Bond Street and New Bond Street is seen in London" align="left" title="Border between Old Bond Street and New Bond Street is seen in London" border="0" /></a>By Tom Bill LONDON (Reuters) - Voracious investor demand for the best London real estate is approaching record levels that could trigger a price crash in popular areas such as upmarket Bond Street, property experts said this week. The luxury shopping strip that is home to Prada, Louis Vuitton and Cartier has ultra-low yields that mark it out as the most in-demand stretch of real estate in Europe. The price of commercial property is dictated by the yield, which is the annual rent expressed as a percentage of a property&#039;s value. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/ultra-low-yields-suggest-london-property-crash-around-155354589.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 11:56:14 -0400Reutersultra-low-yields-suggest-london-property-crash-around-155354589<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ultra-low-yields-suggest-london-property-crash-around-155354589.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/QqAmL2PI5RB1ccttcrdRMw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T155614Z_1_CBRE96P189S00_RTROPTP_2_PROPERTY-RETAIL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Border between Old Bond Street and New Bond Street is seen in London" align="left" title="Border between Old Bond Street and New Bond Street is seen in London" border="0" /></a>By Tom Bill LONDON (Reuters) - Voracious investor demand for the best London real estate is approaching record levels that could trigger a price crash in popular areas such as upmarket Bond Street, property experts said this week. The luxury shopping strip that is home to Prada, Louis Vuitton and Cartier has ultra-low yields that mark it out as the most in-demand stretch of real estate in Europe. The price of commercial property is dictated by the yield, which is the annual rent expressed as a percentage of a property&#039;s value. ...</p><br clear="all"/>LONDON (Reuters) - John Lewis Partnership Britain's biggest department store group, on Friday appointed Waitrose managing director Mark Price as its new deputy chairman. Price will continue as managing director of the upmarket grocer, which is part of the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership, and one of Britain's fastest growing grocers, the company said. John Lewis has traditionally been seen as a bellwether retailer and has outperformed the wider market for about three years. ...http://news.yahoo.com/john-lewis-partnership-names-waitroses-price-deputy-chair-111435061.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 07:14:35 -0400Reutersjohn-lewis-partnership-names-waitroses-price-deputy-chair-111435061LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Office for National Statistics said on Friday that it had miscalculated changes in business investment in the first three months of this year, leading to the annual decline being overstated by a factor of three. Business investment in the first three months of 2013 was 5.5 percent lower than a year earlier, not 16.5 percent lower as reported on June 27, making the fall the sharpest since Q1 2011 rather than since Q3 2009. The ONS also corrected the fall on the quarter to 1.2 percent, again lower than the 1.9 percent as earlier reported. ...http://news.yahoo.com/uk-statistics-office-corrects-first-quarter-business-investment-105915827.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 06:59:15 -0400Reutersuk-statistics-office-corrects-first-quarter-business-investment-105915827<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/bskyb-upgrade-set-top-boxes-content-fend-off-105358636.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/aFErDuB_mI7GNOxYx3QujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T121610Z_1_CBRE96P0Y2Z00_RTROPTP_2_BREAKINGVIEWS-BSKYB.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Satellite dishes are seen on the side of a block of flats in south London" align="left" title="Satellite dishes are seen on the side of a block of flats in south London" border="0" /></a>By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - BSkyB plans to provide more and cheaper ways to access its premium content and Internet services to counter cash-rich rival BT&#039;s offer of free Premier League football to broadband customers. The group, which has dominated pay-TV in Britain since Rupert Murdoch launched it in 1989 and reaches 10 million homes, said it would invest about 70 million pounds in the next financial year to improve on-demand programming and connectivity. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/bskyb-upgrade-set-top-boxes-content-fend-off-105358636.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 06:53:58 -0400Reutersbskyb-upgrade-set-top-boxes-content-fend-off-105358636<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/bskyb-upgrade-set-top-boxes-content-fend-off-105358636.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/aFErDuB_mI7GNOxYx3QujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T121610Z_1_CBRE96P0Y2Z00_RTROPTP_2_BREAKINGVIEWS-BSKYB.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Satellite dishes are seen on the side of a block of flats in south London" align="left" title="Satellite dishes are seen on the side of a block of flats in south London" border="0" /></a>By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - BSkyB plans to provide more and cheaper ways to access its premium content and Internet services to counter cash-rich rival BT&#039;s offer of free Premier League football to broadband customers. The group, which has dominated pay-TV in Britain since Rupert Murdoch launched it in 1989 and reaches 10 million homes, said it would invest about 70 million pounds in the next financial year to improve on-demand programming and connectivity. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/church-england-seeks-put-end-payday-lenders-105250197.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2HgUJWZd_kR1xvL4bK6arg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-25T223353Z_1_CBRE96O0U8600_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN-RELIGION-ANGLICANS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby leaves after his enthronement ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral, in Canterbury, southern England" align="left" title="The new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby leaves after his enthronement ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral, in Canterbury, southern England" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - The Church of England confirmed on Thursday that its pension fund invests in Accel Partners, the U.S.-based venture capital firm that led fundraising in 2009 for Wonga, a payday lender. The Financial Times newspaper reported the investment a day after Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said that the church would seek to drive payday lenders, such as Wonga, out of business by launching its own credit unions. Payday lenders have been criticized for trapping borrowers in a cycle of debt. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/church-england-seeks-put-end-payday-lenders-105250197.htmlThu, 25 Jul 2013 18:33:53 -0400Reuterschurch-england-seeks-put-end-payday-lenders-105250197<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/church-england-seeks-put-end-payday-lenders-105250197.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2HgUJWZd_kR1xvL4bK6arg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-25T223353Z_1_CBRE96O0U8600_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN-RELIGION-ANGLICANS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby leaves after his enthronement ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral, in Canterbury, southern England" align="left" title="The new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby leaves after his enthronement ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral, in Canterbury, southern England" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - The Church of England confirmed on Thursday that its pension fund invests in Accel Partners, the U.S.-based venture capital firm that led fundraising in 2009 for Wonga, a payday lender. The Financial Times newspaper reported the investment a day after Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said that the church would seek to drive payday lenders, such as Wonga, out of business by launching its own credit unions. Payday lenders have been criticized for trapping borrowers in a cycle of debt. ...</p><br clear="all"/>LONDON (Reuters) - Essar plans to do its major turnaround and partial refurbishment at the 296,000 barrel per day Stanlow refinery in BrirIN from around mid-September to mid-October, traders said. Essar announced the plan earlier this year but had not specified the timing. A catalytic cracker will be refurbished during this period at a cost of around $35 million. A spokesman for the company declined to comment on the timing of the turnaround. (Reporting by Julia Payne; editing by Jane Baird)http://news.yahoo.com/uks-stanlow-refinery-major-turnaround-mid-september-172757805.htmlThu, 25 Jul 2013 13:27:57 -0400Reutersuks-stanlow-refinery-major-turnaround-mid-september-172757805<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/uk-economy-seen-doubling-pace-growth-second-quarter-012409635.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/7sm6CybUBUswno45rN4AeA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-25T170638Z_3_CBRE96O03WH00_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN-GDP.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Construction workers erect scaffolding in the financial district of the City of London" align="left" title="Construction workers erect scaffolding in the financial district of the City of London" border="0" /></a>By William Schomberg and James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - Britain&#039;s recovery from financial crisis sped up and spread through the economy in the second quarter, giving a boost to the government and to a swathe of companies which increased sales and profits. The pace of quarterly economic growth doubled to 0.6 percent between April and June, a contrast with worries just a few months ago about a return to recession. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/uk-economy-seen-doubling-pace-growth-second-quarter-012409635.htmlThu, 25 Jul 2013 13:06:38 -0400Reutersuk-economy-seen-doubling-pace-growth-second-quarter-012409635<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/uk-economy-seen-doubling-pace-growth-second-quarter-012409635.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/7sm6CybUBUswno45rN4AeA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-25T170638Z_3_CBRE96O03WH00_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN-GDP.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Construction workers erect scaffolding in the financial district of the City of London" align="left" title="Construction workers erect scaffolding in the financial district of the City of London" border="0" /></a>By William Schomberg and James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - Britain&#039;s recovery from financial crisis sped up and spread through the economy in the second quarter, giving a boost to the government and to a swathe of companies which increased sales and profits. The pace of quarterly economic growth doubled to 0.6 percent between April and June, a contrast with worries just a few months ago about a return to recession. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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UK 'slightly happier than last year'

30 July 2013 Last updated at 10:50 ET

A UK-wide well-being survey has found "small improvements" in people's happiness over the year.

The proportion of people rating their life satisfaction as seven or more out of 10 rose from 75.9% to 77.0%, the Office for National Statistics said.

It said the Olympics and Diamond Jubilee may have "influenced people's assessment of their... well-being".

The survey is carried out to help the government develop policies to improve people's well-being.

The ONS also compared its data from 2007-2011 with European Union figures for that period and found that the British were happier than the French, Germans and Italians.

The UK ranked 10th for life satisfaction out of 27 EU countries, according to the European Quality of Life Survey, with an average rating of 7.3 out of 10 in 2011.

The ONS said the UK's rating was unchanged between 2007 and 2011, showing a "picture of stability" in contrast to a decline in happiness in many EU countries.

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It also showed a small reduction in anxiety levels, with the proportion of people rating their anxiety at a higher level of six or more out of 10 falling from 21.8% to 20.9%.

Women rated their anxiety levels higher than men. The average anxiety rating for women is 3.1 compared with 2.9 for men.

Yet on balance, women were found to have higher life satisfaction, consider their activities to be more worthwhile and rate their happiness slightly higher than men.

People aged 45 to 54 were the most dissatisfied, while younger people rated their happiness above average and retired people were the most content age group.

Married couples or those in civil partnerships rated their life satisfaction highest, with the average score at 7.8 out of 10. The ONS pointed out that this was higher than for cohabiting couples who reported an average of 7.6 out of 10.

Widowed and single people rated their life satisfaction lower than those in couples, at an average of 7.3 out of 10 and 7.2 out of 10 respectively.

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Happiness by relationship status

Average life satisfaction, 2012-13
Status	Score*
*Life satisfaction rated 0-10. Source: ONS
Married/Civil partnerships	7.8
Cohabiting	7.6
Widowed	7.3
Single	7.2
Divorced/separated	6.8

However, divorcees or separated people rated their life satisfaction lowest, at an average of 6.8 out of 10.

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The ONS said the reason for the small uptick in the nation's well-being between 2011/12 and 2012/13 was "not fully understood at this stage".

Though measuring happiness was "complex", the ONS said the factors most associated with personal well-being were health, employment situation and relationship status.

The survey found no significant changes in average ratings for life satisfaction for any of the self-reported health groups or among unemployed people - despite improvements in the labour market.

It did however identify an improvement in average ratings for life satisfaction among people in all relationship statuses.

The ONS said that over the past year, the UK had celebrated several special events, such as the Queen's Diamond Jubilee which included a special bank holiday and the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic games.

Glenn Everett, programme director for measuring national well-being at the ONS, said the events may have boosted well-being because they were perceived as "one-off", "once-in-a-lifetime" events.

"The other part is that Britain did well in the Olympics and the Paralympics," he said.

The first well-being survey was released by the ONS in 2012. Prime Minister David Cameron described it then as crucial to finding out what the government can do to "really improve lives" - but Labour ridiculed the survey as a "statement of the bleeding obvious".

The government maintained that it wanted to take into account quality of life alongside its "key priorities" of creating economic growth, jobs and opportunities.

A spokesman for the Cabinet Office said: "Finding out what will really improve lives and acting on it is important and having evidence will help us to find the best ways of doing so. Today's figures published by ONS are a welcome further step towards developing trusted and accepted national statistics for well-being to inform our decisions."

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How to install and run Microsoft Windows for free on Linux

There are many circumstances where you wish to run Windows applications on Linux. Microsoft Windows has been a dominant operating system (OS) for more than a decade, and there are quite a lot of applications developed in the Windows ecosystem. It?s not surprising that some Windows applications that you wish to run, but are missing on Linux platforms.

There are several open-source or commercial software tools, such as Wine, PlayOnLinux or CrossOver, which allow you to run Windows applications on Linux platforms. However, these tools are not very reliable solutions as they are based on ?reverse-engineering? Windows APIs. Users can still encounter various application-specific compatibility issues with them.

A more reliable approach to running native Windows applications on Linux platform is to use a Windows virtual machine (VM). One problem of this approach is that we need to purchase a Windows license to install Windows OS on a VM.

The good news is that Microsoft recently made a set of Windows VMs publicly available for free! Microsoft decided to offer free Windows VMs to support development and testing for different versions of Internet Explorer.

In this tutorial, I will describe how to install and run Microsoft Windows on Linux, by using free Windows VMs.

The first step is to install Oracle VirtualBox on your Linux system. If you already installed VirtualBox, make sure to upgrade VirtualBox to the latest version (4.2.16 or higher).

Next, go to http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads to download a Windows VM. Choose ?Linux? as testing OS, and ?VirtualBox? as virtualization platform. Then, select one of available Windows VMs to download. Currently Microsoft offers the following Windows VMs for downloads.

• Windows XP Professional SP3 + IE 6 or 8
• Windows Vista + IE 7
• Windows 7 + IE 8, 9, 10 or 11
• Windows 8 + IE 11
• Windows 8.1 Preview + IE 11

In this tutorial, I download a VM with ?Windows XP + IE 8?.

The downloaded Windows VM is packed inside a self-extracting RAR archive. To unpack Windows VM from the archive, run this:

$ chmod 755 IE8.WinXP.For.LinuxVirtualBox.sfx
$ ./IE8.WinXP.For.LinuxVirtualBox.sfx

It will generate an OVA file for Windows VM.

Now launch VirtualBox, and choose ?Import Appliance? from its GUI menu. Go ahead and import the OVA file in VirtualBox.

By default, the imported Windows VM has its network adapter not attached to any network. So, open up network settings of the WinXP VM, and make the network adapter attached to bridged network.

Finally, power on the Windows VM. You will see the familiar-looking Windows booting procedure.

The Windows VM has a set of basic Windows utilities installed, as well as VirtualBox Guest Additions for Windows.

Here are several important pieces of information about free Windows VMs. As you can see, the free Windows VMs are for evaluation purposes, and are not supposed to be used for any production system.

• You may use the free Windows VM for testing purposes only, but not for commercial purposes.
• You can use the free Windows VM only for 90 days after it is installed. After 90 days, the Windows VM will stop running, and you will not be able to access data used in the VM.
• Windows 8.1 Preview version expires on 1/15/2014.
• Login information for Windows Vista, 7 and 8 VMs: IEUser, Passw0rd!

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