Zuki has done it again. This time it’s the city at night. This is a theme for those who cherish their happy hour and out time. The icons are a nice neon seagreen and the theme is fast and beautiful. I have the screenshots to prove it! So let me introduce you to Zuki Urban.

Zuki Urban is available in the BlackBerry Sync Store for $4.99 and only works with 5.0 for the Tour, 97xx Bold, and the 89xx Curve. The description from the store is this:

Everyone loves that Friday feeling after a long week of work. That moment at half 5 on a Friday evening, the weekend’s arrived and it’s time to enjoy your weekend with your mates. You go home, get showered, get changed, have a drink and head out into the city to live it large.

Get that feeling every time you look at your BlackBerry with Zuki Urban. Designed with ultra HQ graphics, neon icons, fantastic font changes and slick transitions, this theme will remind you of your great weekends and get you ready for the next one.

Zuki Urban captures city life at it’s best. From a stunning cityscape wallpaper, neon icons, fade transitions and blurred wallpapers on the menu to enhance the icons, you’ll really feel the weekend coming when you look at your BlackBerry.

The features listed are here:

I downloaded this theme to show it in it’s glory on my BlackBerry 9630 Tour. The homescreen is a sharp picture featuring the city at night or dusk. Then the icons sit above, six customizable icons. The time sits in the lower left and the date below that. To your bottom right the signal indicator, GPS, and battery indicator rest.

When you click options, the options screen is there immediately. All the icons sit bright with yellow edging. The time and battery indicator move to the top left and the signal indicator and GPS move to the top right. They sit in front of a blurred city background. The icons are big and easy to know what they are. Messages have a dark blue bar on top and highlight is a darker purple color. The messages have a white background with black lettering which turns white when highlighted. Options comes up black with white lettering and the purple highlight bar.

The call screen is in front of a blurred city and is very visible. It’s simple yet nice and bright, and very city like. Anyone care to take a guess as to what city is in the background?

The theme is great, sfw, classy enough for work and play.

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In April 2009, the Kauffman Foundation formally engaged on the ground to support the New Economy Initiative, TechTown, and other efforts to re-energize the Detroit entrepreneurial ecosystem. More than 1,500 individuals have since attended Kauffman’s FastTrac to the Future one-day events, which have exposed them to the opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurship. Over 800 individuals have completed the Kauffman/FastTrac workshops that provide the learning curricula that equip aspiring and existing entrepreneurs with the information, skills, and tools to start and grow businesses. The next series of workshops in Detroit will launch next week, on May 25 and 26.

While everyone in Detroit has been working at a fever pitch to build out a new ecosystem for entrepreneurship, the refreshing response from entrepreneurs NOT located in the region who want to help has been inspiring and encouraging. At Tim O’Reilly’s FOO Camp last summer, I led a session on recovery in Detroit. Since that time, we have been watching the planning for the first Maker Faire Detroit scheduled for July 31 – August 1, 2010 at the Henry Ford Museum. Maker Faire aims to bring together inventors, designers, and artists of all ages to share their skills in an inspiring and exciting public forum. Bob Buderi, Wade Roush, and Howard Lovy at Xconomy, and the national voice of Xconomists in this column, have begun to chime in with great advice and a strong show of support.

The experience of Detroit over the next five years will be important. Can entrepreneurs working in partnership with innovators big companies, and with the support of state and federal government, lead a city to recovery? What are the lessons from other cities or regions that today we would call a cluster? I, for one, am committed to bringing my own social network to Detroit, and I bet if many of you who read Xconomy show up on July 31 for Maker Faire we could all work together to show what entrepreneurs can actually accomplish.

[Editor’s note: To help launch Xconomy Detroit, we’ve queried our network of Xconomists and other innovation leaders around the country for their list of the most important things that entrepreneurs and innovators in Michigan can do to reinvigorate their regional economy.]

UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS

It will be a thoughtful reckoning today. Put on your thinking cap. There is a lot to think about. What exactly is going on in the world and what, if anything, can you do about it?

Let’s start with China, where Shanghai stocks fell 5.1% yesterday and are 26% off the index’s 52-week high. If Chinese stocks are leading the economy, one crash is in and another could be just beginning.

About the only bright side of predicting a crash in Chinese construction and real estate spending is that it’s a run-of-the-mill kind of crash and not a systemic failure. That might not sound positive. But it is. It means that while the pain of China crash would be sharp and probably not short, it wouldn’t be the end of the world. Just the end of the world as we know it.

And that would be fine too. Because over the next few decades, you get the sense that the balance of economic power in the world will have decisively shifted. It’s shifting away from the over-indebted industrialised Western Welfare States and toward the higher-saving nations of the developed world. Back a few years ago, we called this The Money Migration. And our view then was that this shift favoured Australia, despite Australia’s own massive private debt levels.

But who knew that so much paper money would be destroyed in transit between points A and B? Markets in Europe and the Americas were again indifferent yesterday. It’s like investors can’t quite believe that you’re actually watching a junior reserve currency (the euro) slowly take off its shoes and socks and lower its dishevelled self into its deathbed.

Can this really be it for the Euro? Well, there is always the possibility that reports of the euro’s demise are simply being exaggerated. That’s the 24/7 news media cycle works these days. Everything is a crisis all the time, especially right now. A lot of what passes for urgency is just manufactured panic.

Despite the theatrics, though, there’s something rotten at heart of the currency. The real problem for the Euro is that it is the unbacked liability of a political union that is slowly unravelling. It must be unthinkable for the planners and bureaucrats of Europe to imagine the economic landscape without a common currency. But they better start thinking fast and printing D-marks.

This must be what it’s like to live in the shadow of a dormant volcano. You plant a colourful green garden in the fertile soil and live on the gentle slopes and pass your days quietly. And then one fine day you are erased from existence in the time it takes to scratch your nose by a searing hot pyroclastic flow. Game over.

Except, switching metaphorical gears, we have always known a global financial system built on debt was an active volcano capable of blowing at any time. Throwing virgins into the crater to appease the gods – like throwing Fed money onto bank balance sheets – is not a realistic survival strategy. Virgins don’t prevent volcanic eruptions and more money doesn’t improve bad debts.

So what IS a realistic survival strategy?

Well, the conventional wisdom – and we say this not really knowing what conventional people think – is probably to not try and time the market, to have a diversified portfolio with an asset allocation strategy designed to suit your risk and your financial goals, and to let time do your work for you, with annual rebalancing to make sure you are not over-exposed or under exposed to any particular asset class. That’s how they write it up in the textbooks.

For most of the last twenty years, that strategy has worked. But will it keep working in a world where you may see de facto default by sovereign governments or, if they manage to avoid that, massive inflation? What do you reckon?

Meanwhile it is beginning to dawn on more people that the Rudd government has introduced its resource rent tax at almost the worst time imaginable for the Aussie share market. China’s banks are being instructed to tighten lending. This ought to reduce the demand for base metals used in China’s infrastructure and housing industries. Base metals prices are falling.

Yet in this environment the government has submitted a budget which assumes perpetual boom times in the resource patch and projects a surplus based on a big tax it hasn’t yet passed. If you have some time today, make sure to read this article by Business Spectator’s Robert Gottliebsen in which he warns of a looming ‘capital strike’ by the mining industry.

A ‘capital strike’ sounds like something out of Atlas Shrugged doesn’t it? Wealth producers of Australia unite! And do nothing! You have nothing to lose but the profits the government was going to take from you anyway.

The government seems to believe that the miners will still develop project in Australia under the new regime. Why the miners would do this when there are other projects in other countries, well, we don’t know. But the bottom line is that nearly $100 billion in mining projects may get shelved as a result of the tax.

You might be of the opinion that this is a good thing; that accidentally the government has done the right thing by slowing down the development of Australia’s resources so they can be managed more deliberately and for the greater good. That would make you a communist. And besides, it’s a pretty risky and presumptuous gamble to say that you can handle an entire industry like a finely tuned automobile, or that you know how to run it better than the people who actually run it for a living.

In any event, it looks like a bigger battle is brewing between the industry and the government. From an investment perspective this is a massive negative for Australian stocks. It introduces a huge amount of uncertainty. And in that environment, no one wants to take many risks.

However, as our mate Kris Sayce pointed out in the note we sent you yesterday, the only good news is that when the playing field is deserted, you have it all to yourself. And if you preserve your capital in the big corrections, you can pick and choose the projects you want to invest in, usually at a cheaper price. At least that’s how it worked for Kris in2008.

Frankly, we’re not sure how anything’s going to work the rest of the year. The sun will come up. It will go down. But in the hours between, what happens next is anyone’s guess. Stay tuned.

Dan Denning
for The Daily Reckoning Australia

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Denialism: what is it and how should scientists respond?
Black is white and white is black

HIV does not cause AIDS. The world was created in 4004 BCE. Smoking does not cause cancer. And if  limate change is happening, it is nothing to do with man-made CO2 emissions. Few, if any, of the readers of this journal will believe any of these statements. Yet each can be found easily in the mass media.

Denialism is a process that employs some or all of five characteristic elements in a concerted way. The first is the identification of conspiracies…

…There is also a variant of conspiracy theory, inversionism, in which some of one’s own characteristics and motivations are attributed to others…

…The second is the use of fake experts. These are individuals who purport to be experts in a particular area but whose views are entirely inconsistent with established knowledge…

The use of fake experts is often complemented by denigration of established experts and researchers, with accusations and innuendo that seek to discredit their work and cast doubt on their motivations…

…The third characteristic is selectivity, drawing on isolated papers that challenge the dominant consensus or highlighting the flaws in the weakest papers among those that support it as a means of discrediting the entire field…

The fourth is the creation of impossible expectations of what research can deliver…

…The fifth is the use of misrepresentation and logical fallacies…

..Logical fallacies include the use of red herrings, or deliberate attempts to change the argument and straw men, where the opposing argument is misrepresented to make it easier to refute…

…The normal academic response to an opposing argument is to engage with it, testing the strengths and
weaknesses of the differing views, in the expectations that the truth will emerge through a process of debate.
However, this requires that both parties obey certain ground rules, such as a willingness to look at the evidence as a whole, to reject deliberate distortions and to accept principles of logic. A meaningful discourse is impossible when one party rejects these rules…

…Instead, we argue, it is necessary to shift the debate from the subject under consideration, instead exposing to public scrutiny the tactics they employ and identifying them publicly for what they are. An understanding of the five tactics listed above provides a useful framework for doing so.

Pascal Diethelm, Martin McKee
OxyGene`ve, Geneva, Switzerland
London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
London, UK
European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2–4

Oscar-nominated Amy Adams and her fiancé Darren Le Gallo welcome their first child who is a baby girl. The named their 7 lb daughter Avianna Olea Le Gallo. Amy Adams, 35 years old, gave birth last Saturday in Los Angeles. Adams’ rep said “Mom and baby are home and doing great… Everyone’s healthy and happy.”

Adams and Le Gallo met in 2001. They got engaged in 2008. Amy announced her pregnancy last December 2009 and said that she was “excited” to be a mom.  Adams also said, “I’m trying to work on my relationships. I’ve been gone so long. I’ve had relationships that have been really great and supportive, but I need to learn how to keep in touch with people better, and it will be nice to have the time to focus on other people, instead of just myself and my career. Any woman that intends on having a career and a family, simultaneously, thinks about the challenge of balancing that, and also balancing that with the relationship and keeping that going well.” Adams, now a proud mom, also stated that Le Gallo was “doing everything humanly possible” to spoil her while she was pregnant, “will be an amazing dad!”

Congratulations to the couple and their baby girl!

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Who will not know Jacob Black of the twilight movies and his popular smile? Who would not wish to dream to touch his face and his enormous body? Yes, every teenage girl is dreaming to be with him! But wait, here is an important information that you must read.

Taylor Lautner also known as Jacob Black in Twilight movies is finally having a comic book! Arriving on your nearby stores in August is the “Fame: Taylor Lautner” from Bluewater Productions. This comic book promises to show once-unknown actor’s meteoric rise in Hollywood, including his pre-”Twilight” years and upcoming roles. And do you know who will script the 32-page issue? It will be Kimberly Sherman who is the author of Bluewater’s “Fame: Robert Pattinson” and “Fame: Kristen Stewart” comics. The feature interior art will also be made by Warren Martineck and covers will be created by JuanMar Studios.

“The Twilight series has become a pop culture phenomenon,” Darren Davis, president and founder of Bluewater Productions, said. “It’s transformed previously unknown actors into superstars. It seems that the same thing is happening with Taylor Lautner. We at Bluewater are happy to bring Taylor’s story to his fans, and hope that his comic helps introduce these readers to the joys of graphic storytelling.” Yeah right! Many fans of Taylor Lautner will be waiting for the release of the comic book to buy and read it.

It was great that Bluewater Productions got an idea like this. Not only they created a comic book about Taylor, but they also created comic books for Robert Pattinson, Kirsten Stewart and even Lady Gaga!

** Here is one of the the images that you will see in the “Fame: Taylor Lautner” comic book

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Reaction is pouring in from Connecticut and around the country on The New York Times story about U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal and his service in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve during the Vietnam era.

The story made news on CNN’s Anderson Cooper show, where Cooper said, “Politically, it makes no sense to do this.”

Longtime Democrat Paul Begala, who was a strong defender of President Bill Clinton, said, “It’s indefensible. It is a catastrophic mistake.”

The panel was talking about U.S. Senate races where Democrats were in trouble, including Arlen Specter, who is facing a difficult challenge in a primary Tuesday. CNN’s John King said that the Blumenthal case was “another wrinkle to another state” for Democrats across the nation.

The panelists, however, noted that they were responding as the story was breaking late Monday night and they had not yet heard Blumenthal’s full explanation.

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Nate Silver: “A Murphy or DeLauro would be a safer bet”

Colin McEnroe: “For Blumenthal, integrity has always been given. What will happen to him if, suddenly, it’s not? ” 

Hearst Newspapers’ Brian Lockhart: “Who’s Worse: A candidate who fudges military service or one who gloats about the story?” 

TIME.com’s Swampland: Paging Chris Dodd

Cillizza: Possible Game changer?

Healy: “Blumenthal’s 30 Years of Shameful Lies”

NPR’s Ken Rudin: Shades of Wes Cooley

You may already know about the D:Light collection of  watches from Swarovski. You know those expensive bracelet watches that at the push of a button display the time on 171 crystals. Well the gold and silver metal versions must have been such a hit that they just released a newer version, the D:Light White. What’s the difference exactly? Nothing much really, expect that the band is made of a white rubber and the face is stainless steel. The same 171 crystals are here and when you press a button the time still displays in all its LED crystal glory. Lastly the price is still up there at $1500 so a Swatch watch this ain’t. You can get a hold of the D:Light White at Swarovski’s website.

The prospect of more affordable large screen OLED TVs has taken another step towards becoming reality with the announcement by DuPont that it has developed a manufacturing process that can be used to print large, high-performance OLED TVs cost effectively. The announcement could see OLED TVs become more widespread and affordable than the pint-sized and prohibitively-priced offerings that we have been restricted to until now…
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Another record has been broken by Modern Warfare 2 on the PSN. Never mind that their Xbox 360 counterparts were hating on the Stimulus Package, it was good enough for the PS3 players.
 
 
 
 

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Theres a new leaked Windows Phone 7 ROM getting spread all over but what caught everyone eyes was the image of a handset dubbed to be the HTC Mondrian. If the specs stay true the Mondrian could end up being the most powerful HTC smartphone ever heck make that the most powerful smartphone of all time.From within the registry and the RGU files the XDA-Developers boys found something interesting apparently the HTC Mondrian will have a 4.3 WVGA touch display at 480×800 resolution th

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Rand Paul, a republican running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by retiring Senator Jim Bunning, said he will not “run away  from the Tea Party” if he wins the Kentucky GOP primary nomination.

At a rally downtown Bowling Green, Paul said that there is a “Tea Party tidal wave coming,” and that Kentucky is next.

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For nearly 50 years, the best known name in four-wheeled performance has been Carroll Shelby, and while not quite everything he touched turned to gold – hello Dodge Dakota – the Shelby American works in Las Vegas have teamed up with Ford to crank out some especially impressive hits lately. Leftlane sat down with Shelby’s new president, John Luft, to talk about where the company stands today – and we took the opportunity to poke and prod to find out about future Shelby models.

Luft was promoted from within last month after now-former president Amy Boylan stepped down from the position. For the last 10 years, Luft oversaw Shelby’s vast licensing efforts.

You’re new to the presidency, but not to Shelby or to performance cars.

John Luft: I grew up as a teenage street racer in San Diego. When you grow up in Southern California, you’re all about what kind of car you drive. I grew up in the late ’70s and all your friends had different types of cars. I just happened to be the guy that had the Mustang. I raced up and down Valley Parkway challenging all oncomers as we often did back then. I hardly had two nickels to rub together to put gas in the car, but I could race up and down the street.

I was raised with a father that was into off road racing. We had all kinds of dune buggies and sand rails. Speed was part of my upbringing; I guess you could say I cut my teeth on it.

I’ve been in Carroll’s organization for 10 yrs as the president of licensing and I’ve served on the board with Shelby automobiles and I’ve been dealing with every strategic issue from 2003 on. I often dealt with it at 30,000 feet and now I’m at ground zero.

I was always involved in the Ford negotiations because they always involve a license agreement. I’ve been knee deep in it.

Carroll is a veritable fountain of youth despite his 87 years. What is his involvement in Shelby American today?

Luft: Carroll will always say that he is not involved and that he leaves it up to his executives to manage, but the reality is that I know it’s a slow day at my desk if I don’t get at least six calls from him.

He’s highly involved and he’s approachable. He calls me six times along with probably a dozen different employees he talks to regularly.

He’s very hands on, even at 87.

We’ve seen other performance brands struggle in the current economy. How has Shelby American fared?

We have felt the downturn, but Carroll’s philosophy has saved us from any dramatic impact. His philosophy is that if you have 5,000 people who really want this car, you only build 4,000. Carroll says, ‘I want to leave that last thousand with a thirst in anticipation of the next car we build.”

Let’s talk about new and upcoming products. Tell us about the development of the reborn GT350.

Luft: The [original] GT350 is the Holy Grail of Shelbys. Much like Star Wars, they launched the original and then did a prequel. So for us to launch GT500 and then back up to the GT350 was in true Star Wars fashion. The original GT350 had some of the earliest history of street performance, and of course the R model was designed to win.

In SCCA circles, the GT350 very handily beat Corvettes. That was the genesis of the Mustang-based Shelbys, so it was only fitting that history repeated itself.

The base model was introduced a few months ago with the supercharger and styling and performance enhancements, and now we have announced the naturally aspirated version . The naturally aspirated car was the result of customer requests. I’d say five out of 10 calls for the GT350 were asking the question, ‘Is there a naturally aspirated version? Or an automatic?’

When you have that type of feedback from consumers, you’ll give them what they want.

We just recently attended a huge Ford dealer preview in Detroit and the dealers were unanimously pleased with the naturally aspirated model.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, are there plans for a Terlingua package for the Ford Mustang’s new 3.7-liter V6?

Luft: That’s to be determined. At this time, we don’t have a new product on the drawing board. We have focused all of our design and engineering efforts toward the development and launch of the GT350.

How much of the positioning of the naturally aspirated GT350 was driven by price?

Luft: Price resistance was never a factor when people were considering purchasing the supercharged conversion. It was really the result of SCCA track potential, which we learned from the Shelby GT, which had such a great presence. And then it gets down to drivability – not everyone wants that blower and that kind of power. Like the Shelby GT, you can use the naturally aspirated GT350 as an easy daily driver, too.

You had access to Ford’s new 5.0 long before Ford announced the Mustang. Obviously there is a close relationship between Shelby American and Ford Motor Company.

Luft: When the book is written, the last chapters will obviously include Ford. I joined Carroll in 2000 and he was in negotiations with Ford when I joined the company. And I think they finished the negotiations in 2004 or 2005. It was a long process [laughs].

If you remember history, when Carroll and Ford parted ways, it was a changing of the guard. There was a certain animosity and at that time emissions were coming into the automotive world and it was time to go on hiatus.

That’s when Carroll spent 10 to 12 years in Africa. Always an interesting time in his life.

So for Carroll to come back today, it’s almost the script he couldn’t have written for himself.

Carroll just came back from a week in Detroit, where he sat for hours with the designers working on the new GT500. They put him behind the wheel, they sat there just listening to his every comment. Carroll, at 87, just amazes me. When he shifts gears and really focuses on the issue at hand, his responses are instinctive. They’re not anything he learned in engineering school, they’re just instinctive.

They’re ecstatic with his involvement and we’re ecstatic with our involvement with Ford.

Let’s dream a little. You’re the man at the top at Shelby American and you grew up around off road performance. Shelby American’s best friend is Ford Motor Company, which conveniently produces a phenomenal desert racing truck, the F-150 SVT Raptor. See where we’re going here?

Luft: I have learned to never say never [Laughs].

   

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As it happens it appears one can install Palm webOS on a PC boot it up and have it running but dont expect anything jaw dropping because it is just a mobile OS running on a PC so it wont work as expected. The easiest way to with webOS on your PC is to download the SDK but you might want to try something more geeky so this here is for you.The guy who did it found a way to get webOS image file on the hard drive of a Dell C600 laptop whatever techniques he used to get it booting off

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OLED televisions are notoriously expensive and difficult to make; but like all technologies there is always someone working on making the technology cheaper. DuPont recently announced the development of a new process that prints OLED screens in sheets, much like a inkjet prints on paper.

This means that DuPont could possibly produce a 50-inch screen in under two minutes, resulting in a product that is cheap and reliable. Of course, this technology is in it’s infancy so there’s really not much information about when we should expect to see these new screens, and DuPont hasn’t had much to say on the subject. It’s a pretty safe bet that we won’t see these any time before summer 2011.

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