Lampedusa, another European dissension?

The Italian Police has announced a few hours ago that “Eight boats coming from North Africa and transporting approximately 1.300 migrants reached the Italian island of Lampedusa”, which is located between Tunisia and Sicily.

This new arrival brings up the total of migrants currently living on the island to the number of 1.800. Since the beginning of the year more than 35.000 Africans, (24.000 from Tunisia), reached the Italian coast. Several thousands of them were already transferred to “reception” centres of the peninsula.

" Europe does not keep its promises", declared yesterday evening the Italian Minister of the Interior, Roberto Maroni. The member of the Ligua Norte reminded that Rome had asked for help to its European partners.

We have witnessed lately the willingness by several European countries to find solutions in order to face this influx of immigrants that came after the Tunisian revolution and the civil war in Libya.

Roberto Maroni added that "There is a war in Libya and, as long as this war is not finished we shall have refugees who will try to come live here”.

He however considered that the agreements concluded with Tunisia a couple of weeks ago to stop this influx were already helping a lot.

Europe is facing a difficult situation because we have to choose to understand or not the need for other people to come to our countries. People are risking their lives trying to reach us and are often mislead by what is waiting for them here.

Should we close our borders? Should we carry on to accept everyone? This is one of the most important debates that our governments have to lead. Sensibilities are very different among the population and tensions are noticeable.

With the elections coming in a lot of European countries, are the governments ready to have this debate? This is the question. What is sure is that the population is waiting for them to act…in a way or another..

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Feel like playing? Be one of the Navy Seals… a bit too soon?

Having thrown Osama Bin Laden’s body in the sea like a vulgar pair of socks wasn’t apparently enough.

This Saturday, Kuma Games has decided to launch a game where the player can be of one of the Navy Seals during the attack of the military complex in Abbottabad. Kuma Games is offering its players the opportunity to repeat the assault made by the Navy Seals on a specially designed “map”.

The only difference with what happened last week is that Osama Bin Laden’s position changes at the beginning of every new game, allowing people to play it as much as they want.

The development and the implementation of the game have been done following the different elements that have been published in the media.

It is not Kuma Games’ first tendentious production. They have built their image on editing special games and maps retracing real life military operations.

Players have already had the possibility to play different missions like the assault against Saddam Hussein, military drones’ attack in Afghanistan or several battles in Iraq.

If you feel like watching how it looks like, check this video:



Everyone is entitled to its own opinion of course but releasing such a game a week after seems a bit tendentious especially if we look at the way the whole situation has been dealt with by American officials.

For sure an amazing communication boost for the editor… and probably a lot of players in the couple of days along with a torrent of misplaced hatred…

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Bruno "ADAILYSONG" Bavota, a talented musician

Bruno Bavota is an Italian man with a passion for music.

Since the early stage of his life, he was attracted to music. He learned on his own how to play guitar and since 2007 he is cooperating with Miss Alessia Viti on composing music samples with guitar, violin and piano acoustics.

Some of the tracks contained in "Between pain, love and hope" (the first Ep made in cooperation with Miss Viti) have been chosen for commercial spots and films.

For example Mr Bavota did the soundtrack of the commercial spot for "Opportunity Job":

The real capability of Mr Bavota is to play piano. He discovered his talent only in 2010 but after having taken lesson with Miss Di Natale he developed his knowledge pretty easily.

"Lo specchio dell'anima" is the first Ep played by piano by Mr Bavota and is already a success!
In 2007, Mr Bavota and Mr De Rosa won the first prise at "Eccellenza Napoletana".

The last Ep released by Mr Bavota is "il Pozzo d'amore". It is an authentic piece of emotions put together and deeply touches the listener from the start in a way that just the "already famous ones" can do.
It is something not expected, something that leaves the listener amazed.

this is the track N°8 "Respiro":

Yes, knowledge is everything and Bruno Bavota is a perfect example of how music is one of the best explanation of what a talented musician can do.

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iPhone 5! are they giving us technology in pills?

In a few months Apple will launch the new iPhone 5. Already a lot of rumours are going on the web, but how is it going to be?

This fantastic product is being developed really quickly and in a way we can say that its development is beating the normal “consumerist timing”.

Indeed, the technology is getting easier and faster almost everyday; and people are now submerged by new information, product and trends.

The problem comes out if you want to keep yourself updated on every single new development. Today, it is getting almost impossible to do so.

In two years, already three different types of iPhone, two different types of iPad have been released plus plenty of updates. For a normal middle-class consumer, it is getting very hard to follow buying the latest product almost every three months.

One day, Bill Gates said that if Microsoft was developing cars we would nowadays drive for a 100 km with a litre of petrol and we could buy a car for 10$.

If we accept this assumption we should get an iPhone for one penny or maximum 2. We would have then the possibility to have the latest product every time we would like to!

Going back to the iPhone, hopefully it will be thinner, lighter and with a better camera but this is the least Apple could do..

What do we really want to see included in the iPhone 5? Do we really need a new product or do we just need another update?
By buying it, are we satisfying a real need or are we feeding our “thirst to appear”?




Your call.. THE iPHONE5 OR YOUR OLD ONE WITH UPDATES?

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Breaking news: Egypt asks the IMF for its help!

The International Monetary Fund just received a loan request on behalf of Egypt’s military government.

The IMF is planning to send a team of experts to the Cairo within a couple of days to discuss Egypt’s real needs and to determine the amount of the loan and the associated conditions.

This has just been announced by a spokeswoman of the International institution based in Washington D.C.

We have to remind you that on the 8th of April, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled Tahrir Square, criticizing the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces for not following through on revolutionary demands.

They demanded the resignation of remaining regime figures and the removal of Egypt’s public prosecutor due to the slow pace of investigations of corrupt former officials.

Surkld will carefully look for more information and let you know as soon as possible.

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The Chromebook, Google’s new bet!

The Californian search engine is soon going to launch notebooks equipped with its operating system Chrome. Google is planning to launch them on the 15th of June.

These computers will be produced by Samsung and Acer and should be sold online at the price $349. They will first be released in the United States, in France, in Great Britain, in Germany, in Italy, in Spain and in the Netherlands.

With these “Chromebook”, Google clearly wants to walk on Microsoft’s territory.

Thanks to these new computers optimized for Internet, Samsung and Acer will get a chance to penetrate a market that has been dominated for years by Microsoft and Apple.

For the last two years, Google has presented Chrome as a valuable alternative to Windows and really expects consumers to follow. It is not the first time that we hear such noises but the release of these laptops has been repeatedly postponed to make sure that the quality of the products will meet Google’s expectations.

Although Chrome is free, Google expects that it will help increasing its activities of online advertising by facilitating Internet access to its users. By attracting in much quicker way its users online, Google bets that they will be connected more often and therefore launch more “searches”.

Consumers and Google followers will probably welcome these new notebooks, as it will increase the competition and lower the prices. We still have to wait to see if the sales go well at the beginning but we are convinced that its competitors will soon raise a few concerns about data protection.

Surkld will announce the release a bit before and update you if any relevant information is published.

Meanwhile, have a look at this video made by Google presenting the Chromebook:

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What is a QR code?

A QR a code (quick response) is a specific matrix barcode invented by Denso-Wave (a Toyota’s subsidiary) in 1994.

It’s two-dimensional code readable by QR barcode readers and camera phones.

It’s a very nice app widely used in Japan and nowadays is becoming quite used also in the West.

If you have an iPhone or an iPad and you want to use this technology you have just to download the FREE specific app from the app store and then you will have the faster access from your mobile to web sites or specific texts.

The application it’s really easy to use, you will have just to frame the QR code and the app will take you straight to the specific URL.

Do you want to start using it? find out what there is behind this two ones :)

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Do you want to lose weight? “Big Brother nutritionist!”

Yes, if you want to loose weight hopefully in a few month you will be helped by the new version of the Big Brother… the Nutritionist one!

This is the ambitious project supported by the American first lady, Michelle Obama.

This project cost $2 million and it consist on installing cameras in the refectory of 5 primary schools in Texas,

These cameras will take pictures of the trays of all the students when they take food and after the meal when they leave the trays in the apposite space.

This new system will match the taken information and thanks to the bar code of the packages and an accurate analysis of the food left in the trays of each student will calculate the numbers of calories that any student has got.

Then this new software will give advices according with all the analyzed info and the type of student to improve his/her specific diet and let them have a better alimentation.

This program has been widely accepted by the 90% of the parents of the students attending these 5 specific “test” schools in Texas.

All the schools in Texas will use this system if proven to be successful.

Surkld’s point of view:  unfortunately in US the obesity is a big problem, it cost million every year and obese have a really bad life style.

The health care is struggling with the debt and only rich people can afford specific medical expenses.

The idea of the “big brother in the refectory” is not bad.  Ok for sure someone will complain for privacy, etc..  

But anything done to prevent a disease as to be analyzed carefully hoping that it will finally works.

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Breaking News: Gaddafi is now a “legitimate target”

Libyan leader, Mouammar Gaddafi, is now a legitimate target for the NATO that is leading airstrikes in the country.

Moustapha Abdeljalil, The President of the Libyan National Council of Transition, has made this announcement a few hours ago in London.

Mr Abdeljalil, who represents Libyan opposition, has declared during a press conference, “As Gaddafi is the commander in chief of armed forces, he is the one who encourages everybody to fight. It is therefore logic to consider him a legitimate target of the NATO”.

The Atlantic Alliance has been present in Libya since end of March in order to, according to the officials; dismantle the military devices used against the civilians by Colonel Gaddafi.

The Alliance has not directly aimed Gaddafi for the moment but has only warned him according to the official reports.

But this morning, the vast residential complex owned by Gaddafi has been hit by airstrikes, making 6 deaths declared a Libyan official earlier on.

As we can see, the situation in Libya is still very hard to read and nobody really knows what will happen in the next couple of weeks.

More information to follow on our blog….

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“Planking", the new trend on social networks!!

A new trend has appeared on social networks lately and Surkld wanted to share this story with you as we had a good laugh hearing it.

This new wave, called “planking” consists of lying down on the stomach in unusual and sometime dangerous places. Someone has then to take a picture and post it online on social networks’ accounts.

Watch this great compilation:



From our point of view, it sounds quite fun and seems to be harmless but apparently not to everyone.

Michael Brannon, 20 years old Australian, got arrested by the police while he was performing his “planking” on one police car.

Yesterday, the police of the State of Queens land in Australia arrested him and decided to pursue him for “being on police equipment without any prior authorization”.

Michael Brannon, on his side, wrote on Facebook “quite frankly, I think it is absolutely ridiculous for them to arrest me. We were just having harmless fun and they waste both my time and theirs instead of running after criminals”.

In Australia, “planking” Facebook page counts around 10,000 fans and displays hundreds of pictures of people lying down on rails, escalators, fire hydrants and other unusual places.

This is why Australian police decided to monitor closely planking activities.

Matthew Russell, from the police of Gladstone, declared that” planking can be dangerous and its followers take the risk of exposing themselves to further legal proceedings”. He explains it by the fact that “people are putting themselves in danger by always trying to do more than their neighbour”.

Whether you find it stupid or not, we have to admit that some people really have a limitless imagination.

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