Euro 2012 Finals Match Schedule

GROUP A

Poland
Czech Republic
Greece
Russia

June 8: Poland v Greece, Warsaw
June 8: Russia v Czech Republic, Wroclaw
June 12: Greece v Czech Republic, Wroclaw
June 12: Poland v Russia, Warsaw
June 16: Greece v Russia, Warsaw
June 16: Czech Republic v Poland, Wroclaw

GROUP B

Netherlands
Denmark
Portugal
Germany

June 9: Netherlands v Denmark, Kharkiv
June 9: Germany v Portugal, Lviv
June 13: Denmark v Portugal, Lviv
June 13: Netherlands v Germany, Kharkiv
June 17: Portugal v Netherlands, Kharkiv
June 17: Denmark v Germany, Lviv

GROUP C

Spain
Republic of Ireland
Croatia
Italy

June 10: Spain v Italy, Gdansk
June 10: Republic of Ireland v Croatia, Poznan
June 14: Italy v Croatia, Poznan
June 14: Spain v Republic of Ireland, Gdansk
June 18: Croatia v Spain, Gdansk
June 18: Italy v Republic of Ireland, Poznan

GROUP D

Ukraine
Sweden
France
England

June 11: France v England, Donetsk
June 11: Ukraine v Sweden, Kiev
June 15: Sweden v England, Kiev
June 15: Ukraine v France, Donetsk
June 19: Sweden v France, Kiev
June 19: England v Ukraine, Donetsk

QUARTER FINALS

June 21: Winner Group A v Runner-up Group B, Warsaw
June 22: Winner Group B v Runner-up Group A, Gdansk
June 23: Winner Group C v Runner-up Group D, Donetsk
June 24: Winner Group D v Runner-up Group C, Kiev

SEMIFINALS

June 27: Winner Q1 v Winner Q3, Donetsk
June 28: Winner Q2 v Winner Q4, Warsaw

FINAL

July 1: Winner S1 v S2, Kiev

Source : http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/02/sport/football/football-euro-2012-fixtures/index.html?hpt=ifo_bn2

Could A Computer Write This Story?

By John Sepulvado, CNN

May 11, 2012

Computer applications can drive cars, fly planes, play chess and even make music.

But can an app tell a story?

Chicago-based company Narrative Science has set out to prove that computers can tell stories good enough for a fickle human audience. It has created a program that takes raw data and turns it into a story, a system that's worked well enough for the company to earn its own byline on Forbes.com.

Kristian Hammond, Narrative Science's chief technology officer, said his team started the program by taking baseball box scores and turning them into game summaries.

"We did college baseball," Hammond recalled. "And we built out a system that would take box scores and historical information, and we would write a game recap after a game. And we really liked it."

Narrative Science then began branching out into finance and other topics that are driven heavily by data. Soon, Hammond says, large companies came looking for help sorting huge amounts of data themselves.

"I think the place where this technology is absolutely essential is the area that's loosely referred to as big data," Hammond said. "So almost every company in the world has decided at one point that in order to do a really good job, they need to meter and monitor everything."

Narrative Science hasn't disclosed how much money is being made or whether a profit is being turned with the app. The firm employs about 30 people. At least one other company, based in North Carolina, is working on similar technology.

Meanwhile, Hammond says Narrative Science is looking to eventually expand into long form news stories.

That's an idea that's unsettling to some journalism experts.

Kevin Smith, head of the Society of Professional Journalists Ethics Committee, says he laughed when he heard about the program.

"I can remember sitting there doing high school football games on a Friday night and using three-paragraph formulas," Smith said. "So it made me laugh, thinking they have made a computer that can do that work."

Smith says that, ultimately, it's going to be hard for people to share the uniquely human custom of story telling with a machine.

"I can't imagine that a machine is going to tell a story and present it in a way that other human beings are going to accept it," he said. "At least not at this time. I don't see that happening. And the fact that we're even attempting to do it -- we shouldn't be doing it."

Other experts are not as concerned. Greg Bowers, who teaches at the Missouri School of Journalism, says computers don't have the same capacity for pitch, emotion and story structure.

"I'm not alarmed about it as some people are," Bowers said. "If you're writing briefs that can be easily replicated by a computer, then you're not trying hard enough."

Source : http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/11/tech/innovation/computer-assisted-writing/index.html?hpt=hp_bn9

A Beautiful Lie

A Beautiful Lie is the second album written and performed by the rock band 30 Seconds to Mars. It was released on August 16, 2005 under Virgin Records. The album was produced by Josh Abraham and 30 Seconds to Mars.

The album has so far produced three singles, "ATTACK", "The Kill", and "From Yesterday"; all three songs managed to chart within the top thirty on the U.S. Modern Rock chart, with "The Kill" and "From Yesterday" both entering the top ten. It has also gone Platinum, shipping over 1 million copies.

A Beautiful Lie is different from the band's debut album 30 Seconds to Mars both musically and lyrically. Whereas the eponymously-titled debut album's lyrics focused on human struggle and the music was heavily atmospheric, the lyrics of A Beautiful Lie are "personal and less cerebral" and the music takes on a more alternative rock approach.

Track listing

1.	"Attack"	3:09
2.	"A Beautiful Lie"	4:05
3.	"The Kill"	3:51
4.	"Was It a Dream?"	4:15
5.	"The Fantasy"	4:29
6.	"Savior"	3:24
7.	"From Yesterday"	4:08
8.	"The Story"	3:55
9.	"R-Evolve"	3:59
10.	"A Modern Myth"	3:00
	Hidden track "Praying for a Riot" starts at 12:26	1:48
11.	"Battle of One" (Bonus track)	2:47
12.	"Hunter" (Bonus track)	3:54