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T-Mobile has really been stepping up the rhetoric against Sprint since the backroom acquisition deal allegedly fell through a few weeks ago. T-Mobile's latest promotion takes direct aim at the Now Network, but it targets the other big carriers too. Starting next week, if you bring a friend over to T-Mobile on a Simple Choice plan, you and they both get a free upgrade to unlimited LTE for one year. Also, there will be awkward dancing, if T-Mobile's promo image is to be believed.
The rumors that Sprint was moving on from the Hesse era were true. After seven years at the helm of the Now Network, Dan Hesse is stepping aside so Sprint's parent company SoftBank can bring in someone new. Its choice is Marcelo Claure, the founder and current CEO of SoftBank subsidiary Brightstar.
French telecom company Iliad made a surprise bid for T-Mobile US late last week after months of rumors that Sprint and T-Mobile would be getting hitched. Iliad offered $15 billion for a 56.6% stake in T-Mobile, but now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that T-Mobile isn't even willing to entertain that deal and has opted not to give Iliad access to its financial data.
In some emergency situations it might not be practical or possible to make a voice call to 911, but starting today, you might have another option. It took a bit of wrangling with wireless carriers, but the FCC's deadline for having the necessary wireless infrastructure in place is today. That doesn't mean everyone will be able to text 911 yet, but the pieces are in place.
Bucking the status quo of American wireless companies seems to be working for Legere and Company. For the first three months of 2014 T-Mobile added 2.4 million new wireless customers, according to the company's financial report published this morning. In the crucial post-paid segment (as opposed to the less reliable prepaid segment) T-Mobile added 1.3 million new subscribers.
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text: INTERNATIONAL and Multimedia (IJGM), ISSN 0976 – 6448(Print), International Journal of Graphics JOURNAL OF GRAPHICS AND ISSN 0976 – 6456(Online) Volume 4, Issue 1, January - April 2013, © IAEME MULTIMEDIA (IJGM) ISSN 0976 - 6448 (Print) ISSN 0976 -6456 (Online) IJGM Volume 4, Issue 1, January - April 2013, pp. 20-30 © IAEME: www.iaeme.com/ijgm.asp Journal Impact Factor (2013): 4.1089 (Calculated by GISI) ©IAEME www.jifactor.com ENTROPY FEATURES TRAINED SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE BASED LOGO DETECTION METHOD FOR REPLAY DETECTION AND EXTRACTION FROM SPORTS VIDEOS Vilas Naik1, Raghavendra Havin2 1 Department of CSE, Basaveshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot, India 2 Department of CSE, Basaveshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot, India ABSTRACT In many sports, the majority of highlights are confined to relatively short durations of intense action. In some sense these segments capture the essence of a game and summarize the moments of important action. Automatic detection of these highlights could provide an important browsing mechanism in a video library of sports games. These replays often cor- respond to highlights in a game and can be used as indices of a sports video. The proposed mechanism employs support vector machine (SVM) for detection of logos that are flashed at beginning and end of every reply action. The algorithm is composed of logos detection and replay segment extraction. First SVM is trained with features of all possible logos normally used in various sports videos. Then the SVM is used for detection of logos that sandwich replay segment further that segment is automatically extracted to produce replay clip. The SVM classifier is trained with histogram features of logos is utilized. Experiments conducted on IPL and Soccer videos demonstrate the effectiveness of this method. Moreover, algorithm can be easily applied to other sports videos where replay is sandwiched by pair of logos. Keywords: Logo-based detection, Support vector machine (SVM learning (ML), Sports replay detection, Video summarization. 1. INTRODUCTION In a sports video library, one may find thousands of hours of recordings, representing many hundreds of individual games. Fortunately, in any given game, not every minute com- mands the same interest. A majority of the excitement is contained in a small fraction of the coverage of the game. These highlights are the essence of the game and present a succinct 20 International Journal of Graphics and Multimedia (IJGM), ISSN 0976 – 6448(Print), ISSN 0976 – 6456(Online) Volume 4, Issue 1, January - April 2013, © IAEME summary of the significant actions and events. For many viewers of sports video these high- lights are all they are really interested in seeing. Detection of these highlights is therefore of interest in itself, but might also serve as an important indexing mechanism for searching for more substantial sections of material from large archives. With the rapid increase of media data, it is in urgent need of an efficient and effective method for information management and retrieval. Semantics based event detection and indexing has been attracted much attention recently for interesting events are highly useful for video browsing, indexing and highlights generation. Replay is an important video editing way in broadcasting programs. Commonly, an important or interesting segment will be played with a slow-motion pattern in order to let audiences explore and enjoy the detail. Replay is a significant indication for highlights and often taken as a key factor in event detection. The sports video summarization is widely in- vestigated since sports holds a large amounts of audiences worldwide. As an important com- piled clue, the replay shows the details of an important video segment with a slower speed. Thus it is widely employed in sports video analysis especially for event detection, highlight creation and summarization etc. Replays are related to the sports, which are shown more than once when any impor- tant event in sports takes place. To get more information from replay, generally it is shown with slow motion. Hence it is also called slow motion replay (SMR). Replay is which is ne- cessary for highlights generation. Highlight is a shorter version of sports video that is also called as sports video summarization. Replay is important for all spectators and referees to judge and take final decision in most of the sports. When an important event happen like goal in football or hockey cricket. When referee is in doubtful condition, or strong appeal is made by players, putting all such events in an original temporal order we can have highlights of any sports video. Replay contains all-important events. Replays are used for highlight making. Replays can be used as a summary of game for searching it in digital video library. Replay is an important video editing way in broadcasting programs. Commonly, an important or interesting segment will be played with a slow-motion pattern in order to let au- diences explore and enjoy the detail. Replay is a significant indication for highlights and of- ten taken as a key factor in event detection. In recent years, researchers have reported many approaches of replay detection in lite- ratures. In this paper, an automatic and effective logo based replay detection method is pro- posed. It is well known that in most cases there exists a special transition at both start and end of a replay, in which a highlighted logo comes in and out gradually. This transition is called as "logo-transition". Logos often keep the same during the whole program. Our motivation is to use the logos to assist replay segments detection. Firstly some logo-transitions are de- tected and further extract logo-samples from them at the beginning of a program. After that, the logo-template is extracted from these samples. Further, this template is employed to detect the other logos. After all logos are obtained, the video can be partitioned into segments with taking logos as boundaries. Then, shot and motion features are extracted in each seg- ment. Finally, based on these cues, an SVM classifier is used to replay segment identification. 2. RELATED WORK Slow motion replays in broadcast sports video are important and reliable clues for highlights and key events, since they are usually chosen by human experts. Therefore, detec- tion of replays could facilitate semantic-based high level video processing tasks such as high- light generation [1], event detection [2], video summarization [3], etc. 21 International Journal of Graphics and Multimedia (IJGM), ISSN 0976 – 6448(Print), ISSN 0976 – 6456(Online) Volume 4, Issue 1, January - April 2013, © IAEME Some slow motion replay detection methods have been proposed in the literature. They can be broadly classified into three categories. The first category of method directly analyzes the inherent attributes of replay video segments and tries to use those attributes to differentiate the slow motion replays from the normal plays. Before high speed cameras are widely used, slow motion replays were usually produced by repeating frames recorded from standard cameras. A few detection methods are based on this assumption. A replay detection method based on the macroblock type, motion vector and bit rate information is presentd in [4]. The detection is performed in the MPEG compressed domain to find the locations of re- peating frames. The algorithm in [1] calculates the image differences between adjacent frames and search fluctuations in the differences to identify replays. These methods usually get low performance on replays that captured by high speed cameras and they can not provide accurate boundaries of replays. The second category of method employs statistical techniques to perform shot classi- fication for the purpose of detecting replay shots. The author of [5] presented a method based on the difference of motions between replays and normal plays. A support vector machine (SVM) was trained with features of color ratio, shot length, mean color value and motion re- lated feature to detect replay shots. The proposal in. [6] applied scene transition structure analysis on the shot classification results. Replays were extracted based on the generated shot label sequences by using some predefined rules. A HMM to classify replay and non-replay shots is employed in [7]. The performance of this category is usually not satisfied and results are still not precise enough. The third category of method tries to find the differences between replays and normal plays in terms of specific production behaviors, such as special video effects or logo patterns. Replays are then determined according to the existence of such behaviors. The work pre- sented in [8] captures a digital video effect (DVE) l interactively for given videos. It is de- scribed by color and motion of the gradually changing boundary between adjacent shots. A replays are located by two DVEs detected with the model. Based on the observation that more and more replays that are sandwiched in between two certain logo transition sequences, some researchers try to use logo transition locations to identify replays. The mean-square dif- ferences of intensity and color histogram as frame similarity measure to detect logo template and to search logos in videos is discussed in[9]. A method in [10] employed the spatiotem- poral mode seeking on selected logo sequences to capture the dominant color mode. This color mode is then used to perform EMD-based similarity matching for logo searching pur- pose. Tong et al. [11] used frame-to-frame difference with MSD to select candidate logo se- quence. They calculated the average image of those candidate logo frames near to the center to obtain logo template. Template matching was performed based on color and shape fea- tures. Huang et al. [12] first extracted gradual transitions and employed motion features to learn the logo template. A color representation was then computed from the logo template and was used to search logos. Dang et al. [13] semiautomatically extracted logo template se- quences and detected replays based on template sequence matching. Han et al. [14] learned gradual transition patterns based on motion vector reliability classification from a database by SVM. Replay detection was performed by fusing the pattern matching results and slow mo- tion detection results based on motion vector information. The third category of method can usually obtain high accuracy on replay boundaries and the performance is better than above two categories. However, these methods often make assumptions on the logo transition se- quences such as logo locations, moving patterns and speed, types of digital effects, etc. And 22 International Journal of Graphics and Multimedia (IJGM), ISSN 0976 – 6448(Print), ISSN 0976 – 6456(Online) Volume 4, Issue 1, January - April 2013, © IAEME nearly all of them assume that the two logo transition sequences before and after the replay are identical. The Proposed solution is a methodology of determining the replay detection in a sports video using support vector machine for classifying frames as Logo frame and non logo frame. In most of sports video a logo swaps at beginning and end of the replay, the frames in- between the start logo frame to its corresponding end logo frame of a videos construct a rep- lay event. Applying same procedure for total video it results into collection of replays of sports video. These replays can be used to form a summary of video. 3. PROPOSED ALGORITHM FOR REPLAY DETECTION The proposed method employs a Support Vector Machine based classifier for detect- ing the logos that will swap across the screen in broadcasted video at start and end of the rep- lay action. The proposed algorithm consist of mainly TWO stages i. Train the SVM classifier with logo patterns and non logo patterns for classifying the frames in the video as logo frames and non logo frames. ii. Detecting logos at start and end of the replay action and extracting the frames be- tween them. The flow charts for two phases of proposed algorithm are presented in Fig. 1. Start Start Read the Input Video Extract Logo frames from the Input Video and take some Non logo frames Extract the Entropy Features of each Extract the Entropy Features of a frames frame Test the frame on trained SVM Clas- Train the SVM Classifier with Entropy sifier Features of Logo frame and Non logo frame Detection of Two logos at beginning END and end of each replay event Extraction of frames between two logos END Fig. 1 Flow diagram of proposed Algorithm, (a) Flow diagram for Training SVM Clas- sifier (b) Flow diagram for Replay Detection and Extraction. 23 International Journal of Graphics and Multimedia (IJGM), ISSN 0976 – 6448(Print), ISSN 0976 – 6456(Online) Volume 4, Issue 1, January - April 2013, © IAEME In most of the sports video typical logo-transition lasts 0.5-0.8 seconds or 5-24 frames. In logo-transition, there is an image frame that contains the clearest and the most complete logo. Usually, the logo is highlighted and located at the middle part of a frame. With these prior knowledge, the logo-samples from video can be detected and extracted. 3.1 Logo-transition Detection A typical logo-transition lasts 0.5-0.8 seconds or 15-24 frames. The frame-to-frame difference is measured by intensity mean square difference (MSD). The difference sequence after median filtering is a plateau-like shaped pattern (Fig. 3). Therefore, the logo-transition detection can be performed through plateau-like shape detection over the frame-to-frame dif- ference sequence. The proposed algorithm is i. Compute frame-to-frame difference with MSD. ii. Check the frame difference. Proceed to step 3 When the difference exceeds a threshold, otherwise go back to step 1) for next frame. iii. Count the number of consecutive frame-differences that all exceed the frame- difference-threshold until encounter several consecutive frame-differences that drop below this threshold. If the counter exceeds a certain threshold, a wipe transition can be determined. Otherwise go back to step 1) for next frame. Fig. 2 A logo-transition (8 frames are displayed) Fig. 3 Frame difference sequences. Original(left) and after median filtering(right) 3.2 Logo-sample Determination In a logo-transition, there is an image frame that contains the clearest and the most complete logo. Usually, the logo is highlighted and located at the middle part of a frame. With these prior knowledge, the logo-samples can be extracted. 24 International Journal of Graphics and Multimedia (IJGM), ISSN 0976 – 6448(Print), ISSN 0976 – 6456(Online) Volume 4, Issue 1, January - April 2013, © IAEME 3.3 Feature Extraction The color, texture, shape and motion estimation have been commonly used features in the literature, It is observed that color and motion features play a dominant role in the extrac- tion of characteristics from the videos and hence the color information is adopted in this work. Normally color distribution is estimated in the form of histogram, the proposed work estimates the information of color content at different color intensity planes of images in terms of entropy values. The entropy computed for a color plane in an image gives the aver- age information conveyed by an image. In the pr oposed work the entropy of three layers of RGB are computed and feature vector is written as in equation (1) (1) Where : Feature vector of frame from video sequence : Entropy of Red plane : Entropy of green plane : Entropy of blue plane of an RGB frame from video sequence. The feature vectors as above are constructed for Logo templates extracted from vari- ous videos and some Non logo frames and are used for training SVM. 3.4 Support Vector Machine (SVM) The support vector machine (SVM) algorithm seeks to maximize the margin around a hyperplane that separates a positive class from a negative class [20]. Given a training dataset with n samples (x1, y1); (x2,y2)……….(xn, yn), where xi is a feature vector in a v- dimensional feature space and with labels yi {-1,1}belonging to either of two linearly se- parable classes C1 and C2. Geometrically, the SVM modeling algorithm finds an optimal hyper plane with the maximal margin to separate two classes, which requires to solve the op- timization problem, as shown in equations (2) and (3). (2) (3) where, αi is the weight assigned to the training sample xi. If αi > 0, xi is called a sup- port vector. C is a regulation parameter used to balance the training accuracy and the model complexity so that a superior generalization capability can be achieved. K is a kernel func- tion, which is used to measure the similarity between two samples. Different choices of ker- nel functions have been proposed and extensively used in the past and the most popular are the gaussian radial basis function (RBF), polynomial of a given degree, and multi layer per- ceptron. These kernels are in general used, independently of the problem, for both discrete and continuous data. 25 International Journal of Graphics and Multimedia (IJGM), ISSN 0976 – 6448(Print), ISSN 0976 – 6456(Online) Volume 4, Issue 1, January - April 2013, © IAEME 3.5 SVM classifier based Replay detection Algorithm The proposed algorithm model uses priorly retrieved logos of sports video for the training, then its features i.e its entropy values are extracted and trained to SVM classifier. SVM is used as a classifier due to its clear classification method. Some randomly selected frames without logo are also trained to SVM classifier as Non Logo templates.It classify two Class vectors by a linear hyper plane , by which classifier can easily classify Logo and Non Logo frames. Start READ Video file (.avi,.mpeg) frame wise LOGO_COUNT =0 Extract Entropy features of current frame Test the Frame with trained SVM for LOGO or NON LOGO frame For LOGO frame LOGO_COUNT =1 for NON LOGO LOGO_COUNT =2 Is LOGO frame detected Extract all the frames between Current LOGO detected and previous detection write them to file which gives a replay event. End Fig. 4 Flow chart of replay detection Algorithm 26 International Journal of Graphics and Multimedia (IJGM), ISSN 0976 – 6448(Print), ISSN 0976 – 6456(Online) Volume 4, Issue 1, January - April 2013, © IAEME Algorithm: Step 1: Extract the Logo frames from the input videos as explained in above sections. Step 2: Extract the entropy features of a frames as given in section 3.3. Step 3: Store these entropy features into vectors as feature patterns. Step 4: Train the SVM Classifier with the feature patterns. Step 5: Include non logo frames features in SVM training set. Step 5: The pair of logos can be detected as described in flowchart of Fig. 4. Step 6: Replay is Detected between a pair of logos. Flow Diagram of Testing Phase to Identify an Logo Image in a Sports Video and Replay Detection Phase is shown in Fig. 4 4. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS In the proposed work experimentation is conducted on data set of ten videos compris- ing of soccer and IPL videos. The dataset of all videos logo frames are extracted from all ten videos and are shown in next page in Fig.5, the features of which are used to train support vector machine. The SVM trained with these features is employed for detection of pairs of logos at the beginning and end of each replay action in soccer and cricket videos. The sum- mary of experimentation is presented in Table 1. . 27 International Journal of Graphics and Multimedia (IJGM), ISSN 0976 – 6448(Print), ISSN 0976 – 6456(Online) Volume 4, Issue 1, January - April 2013, © IAEME Fig. 5 Logo frames trained to SVM classifier The Table 1 summarizes the performance of proposed algorithm for replay detection over ten sample sports video out of which 3 are soccer video and 7 are cricket video. The proposed mechanism for replay detects the two logos that sandwich the replay action. The logos are detected by SVM classifier by testing every frame of the video. The video segment between two consecu- tive logos is picked as replay. The average values of performance parameters recall and precision up to 94% and 97% for the algorithm indicates that the proposed mechanism is suitable for ex- traction of replay actions in sports video and construct summary of sports videos. 28 International Journal of Graphics and Multimedia (IJGM), ISSN 0976 – 6448(Print), ISSN 0976 – 6456(Online) Volume 4, Issue 1, January - April 2013, © IAEME TABLE1 Results of proposed algorithm for 10 test video samples Video File Actual Num- Total Num- Undetected False Recall Precision Name ber of Replays ber of replay replays detected correctly replays detected replays Video1.avi 10 9 1 1 90.00% 90.00% Video2.avi 60 56 4 2 93.33% 96.55% Video3.avi 20 20 0 0 100.00% 100.00% Video4.avi 34 31 3 1 91.17% 96.85% Video5.avi 8 7 1 0 87.50% 100.00% Video6.avi 15 14 1 1 93.33% 93.33% Video7.avi 19 19 0 0 100.00% 100.00% Video8.avi 10 10 0 1 100.00% 90.90% Video9.avi 25 23 2 0 92.00% 100.00% Video10.avi 12 12 0 0 100.00% 100.00% 5. 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Tori broke up with her boyfriend for Doug but it turns out he was just craiging on her.
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Hey man craigings a great pool game.
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Award-winning Macau hotel offers 40,000-square-foot spa, casino, moreThe Golden Dragon Hotel Macau is located on the outer harbor of Macau. Guests can walk to several area attractions, like the Sands Casino, Macau Fisherman's Wharf, ferry terminal and Macau Culture Center. The hotel boasts a world-class, 40,000-square-foot spa with sauna and pools, two floors of casino action, three restaurants, a nightclub, live dance shows, a jewelry shop and more. Select rooms and suites at Golden Dragon Hotel Macau offer shimmering harbor or Fisherman's Wharf views.
- One lounge, three restaurants
- A 40,000-square-foot spa
- Casino, nightclub, jewelry shop
RoomsThe 483 rooms at the spacious Golden Dragon Hotel Macau provide double or twin beds and decor styled in a warm, neutral palette. Some rooms offer harbor and Fisherman's Wharf views. Amenities may include wired Internet access, a color television with satellite channels, a desk, a private bathroom with a tub and rainfall showerhead, a hair-dryer, a minibar, a safe, and an electric kettle. Suites offer two bedrooms, two bathrooms, king and twin beds, a living room with a dining table, a whirlpool tub, and a 42-inch flat-screen television.
FeaturesGolden Dragon Hotel Macau guests try their luck on two floors of gaming at the casino. Guests sweat it out in the fitness center, swim in the refreshing outdoor pool and dance in the nightclub. Travelers searching for trinkets shop in the on-site jewelry store, dine on dim sum and take in a live dance show. After a day of exploring Macau, guests get massaged or lounge in the sauna or pools in the sumptuous 40,000-square-foot spa.
DiningGolden Dragon Hotel Macau guests go to Villa Picasso for irresistible buffets featuring regional and international cuisine, while Dragon Palace crafts Chinese specialties and dim sum from fresh ingredients. At Tatuda Japanese Restaurant, guests go for lobster sashimi and eat in VIP rooms. At Nice Lounge, guests settle in for beer and sports.
- Macau International Airport (8.6 mi/13.8 km)
- Free ferry terminal shuttle
- Macau Fisherman's Wharf (0.5 mi/0.8 km)
- A-Ma Temple (1.9 mi/3.1 km)
- Ruins of St. Paul's (1.2 mi/2 km)
- Macau Tower Convention and Entertainment Center (2.1 mi/3.3 km)
- Taipa Houses Museum (4.4 mi/7.1 km)
- Karting Track (6.8 mi/11 km)
- Seac Pai Van Park (6.9 mi/11.1 km)
- Hac Sa Beach (8.9 mi/14.4 km)
- Cheoc Van Beach (9.5 mi/15.3 km)
- Hotel meeting space fits up to 200
- Wired Internet access (charges may apply)
- Business center with computers, fax, copy, Internet, secretary
Golden Dragon Hotel Macau Rooms
- Deluxe Harbour View Room
- Rooms are 25 square meters with harbour view and Safety Deposit Box, Air Conditioning, Carpeted Floor, Hairdryer, Toilet, Bathroom, Slippers, Bath and Shower, TV, Minibar, Electric Kettle. Twin Beds or Double Bed can be arranged on request.
- Standard Room
- Rooms are 25 square meters with Safety Deposit Box, Air Conditioning, Carpeted Floor, Hairdryer, Toilet, Bathroom, Slippers, Bath and Shower, TV, Minibar, Electric Kettle. Twin Beds or Double Bed can be arranged on request.
- High-speed internet
- Outdoor pool
- No smoking rooms/facilities
- General
- No smoking rooms/facilities
- Concierge
- Elevators
- Activities
- Outdoor pool
- Fitness center or spa
- Casino
- Night club
- Dining
- Bar/Lounge
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Services
- Business center
- Laundry service
- Childcare Service
- In-Room Safe
- Gift shop
- Currency exchange
- Internet
- High-speed internet
- Parking
- Parking
Hotel Map
- Area served
- Adjacent to Macau Fishermans Wharf,Sands Casino,Macau Cultural Center and Macau Lotus Square;Ten minutes drive from Macau International Airport and Border Gate to Zhuhai,China;Within walking distance from Macau Ferry Terminal.
- Nearby airports
- Macau International Airport -- 10 minutes drive from Hotel.
- Area description
- Hotel Golden Dragon is a modernized hotel situated in the city center of Macau Peninsula. Vicinage with Macau Ferry Terminal, Macau Fishermans Wharf, Casino District and Macau Cultural Center, it's an ideal hotel for both leisure and business travellers.
Nearby points of interest
- Lotus Square: 0.1 mi
- Grand Prix Museum: 0.1 mi
- Macau Fisherman's Wharf: 0.2 mi
- Vasco Da Gama Water World: 0.3 mi
- Guia Hill: 0.3 mi
- Farol da Guia: 0.3 mi
- Macau Ferry Terminal: 0.3 mi
- Handover Gifts Museum: 0.4 mi
- Museum of Art: 0.4 mi
- Dr Carlos Park: 0.5 mi
- Communications Museum: 0.6 mi
- Lou Lim Leoc Garden: 0.6 mi
- Kun Lam Temple: 0.6 mi
- Kun Lam Statue: 0.7 mi
- Na Tcha Temple: 0.8 mi
- Lotus Square: 0.1 mi
- Grand Prix Museum: 0.1 mi
- Macau Fisherman's Wharf: 0.2 mi
- Vasco Da Gama Water World: 0.3 mi
- Guia Hill: 0.3 mi
- Farol da Guia: 0.3 mi
- Macau Ferry Terminal: 0.3 mi
- Handover Gifts Museum: 0.4 mi
- Museum of Art: 0.4 mi
- Dr Carlos Park: 0.5 mi
- Communications Museum: 0.6 mi
- Lou Lim Leoc Garden: 0.6 mi
- Kun Lam Temple: 0.6 mi
- Kun Lam Statue: 0.7 mi
- Na Tcha Temple: 0.8 mi
- Mount Fortress: 0.8 mi
- Macau Museum: 0.8 mi
- St. Dominic's Church: 0.9 mi
- Ruins of St. Paul's: 0.9 mi
- Holy House of Mercy: 0.9 mi
- The Red Market: 0.9 mi
- Senado Square: 0.9 mi
- Old Protestant Cemetery: 1 mi
- Mongha Hill: 1 mi
- Camoes Garden: 1 mi
- Nam Van Lake: 1.1 mi
- Sir Robert Ho Tung Library: 1.1 mi
- Lin Zexu Museum: 1.1 mi
- Cybernetic Fountain: 1.1 mi
- Canidromo: 1.1 mi
- Dom Pedro V Theatre: 1.1 mi
- Penha Church: 1.4 mi
- Barrier Gate: 1.5 mi
- Convention and Entertainment Centre: 1.5 mi
- Macau Tower: 1.6 mi
- Sun Yat Sen Park: 1.6 mi
- Penha Hill: 1.6 mi
- A-Ma Temple: 1.6 mi
- Maritime Museum: 1.7 mi
- Leal Senado: 2.2 mi
- Macau Jockey Club: 2.7 mi
- City of Dreams: 3.2 mi
- Venetian Casino: 3.3 mi
- Villa Picasso
- Villa Picasso is a caf restaurant serves a la carte and buffet running through from morning to evening with a wide selection of Western and Asian Cuisines. With different varieties from hot food, cold dishes, seasonal soup and dessert, all are irresistible.
- Dragon Palace
- Hotel Golden Dragon is famous for its dining restaurants. Dragon Palace achieves compliments from guests with its extraordinary presentation of Chinese Cuisine and also its comfortable dining hall and elegant private VIP Room for both gathering and banquet services.
- Nice Lounge
- A Lounge for drinks and snacks for relaxing or friends gathering.
Hotel Policies
- Check-in:
- 1400
- Check-out:
- 1200
Terms and conditions
Rates quoted in currencies other than the hotel's base currency are subject to the rate of the international exchange. Rate may change throughout stay. Rate may reflect average nightly rate. Extra charges may apply. Incidental charges, such as room service, are not included in the rate.
The amenities and/or facilities may not be located at the hotel, but within a reasonable distance, and additional charges may apply for use.


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Flame exploits Windows bug to attack PCs
Microsoft releases software to fix bug, repair systems; other cyber weapons could have exploited same flaw-experts; Experts say other cyber weapons may soon be discovered
June 5, 2012 11:26 by Reuters
Microsoft Corp warned that a bug in Windows allowed PCs across theMiddle East to become infected with the Flame virus and released a software fix to fight the espionage tool that surfaced last week.
Security experts said they were both surprised and impressed by the approach that the attackers had used, which was to disguise Flame as a legitimate program built by Microsoft.
"I woke up to this news and I couldn't believe it. I had to ask, 'Am I reading this right?'" said Roel Schouwenberg of Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab, one of the researchers who helped discover the Flame virus.
Experts described the method as "elegant" and they believed it had likely been used to deliver other cyber weapons yet to be identified.
"It would be logical to assume that they would have used it somewhere else at the same time, Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for security software maker F-Secure.
If other types of cyber weapons were indeed delivered to victim PCs using the same approach as Flame, then they will likely be exposed very quickly now that Microsoft has identified the problem, said Adam Meyers, director of intelligence for security firm CrowdStrike.
Cyber weapons that bear the fake Microsoft code will either stop working or lose some of their camouflage, said Ryan Smith, chief research scientist with security firm Accuvant.
A spokeswoman for Microsoft declined to comment on whether other viruses had exploited the same flaw in Windows or if the company's security team was looking for similar bugs in the operating system.
Flame's code included what is known as a digital certificate, which falsely identified it as a piece of software from Microsoft.
The creators of the virus obtained that certificate by manipulating a component of the Windows operating system known as terminal services licensing, or TS licensing, that is designed to authorize business customers to use advanced features of Windows.
A bug in TS licensing allowed the hackers to use it to create fake certificates that identified Flame as being from Microsoft, Mike Reavey, a senior director with Microsoft's Security Response Center, said in a blog post.
He feared that other hackers might be able to copy the technique to launch more widespread attacks with other types of viruses, Reavey said.
"We continue to investigate this issue and will take any appropriate actions to help protect customers," Reavey said in the blog post.
News of the Flame virus, which surfaced a week ago, generated headlines around the world as researchers said that technical evidence suggests it was built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010. Researchers are still gathering information about the virus.
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- Publisher: Xseed Games
- Release Date: Nov 22, 2011
- Also On: iPhone/iPad
- Summary: Corpse Party is an adventure game that uses hand-drawn 2D sprite and tile art to tell the story of a group of Kisaragi Academy High School students who are trapped in a haunted elementary school filled with the decaying corpses and tormented souls of countless children who'd mysteriously vanished from the Japanese countryside years, months or sometimes only days prior. Desperately trying to escape and survive, players will experience unnatural, unnerving and decidedly uncensored horrors through the eyes – and ears -- of these frightened teenaged victims. Detailed 2D sprite animations and art stills show the bloody and unsettling fates that await those who enter, and full Japanese-language voice-acting combines with 3D audio support to create a simulated surround sound experience when playing with headphones, offering players a delightfully uncomfortable level of immersion.… Expand
- Developer: Team GrisGris
- Genre(s): Horror
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
Positive: 9 out of 18
Mixed: 8 out of 18
Negative: 1 out of 18
Jan 3, 2012If you own a PSP at all and love a good horror story then I absolutely recommend getting Corpse Party from the PlayStation Network.
Jan 10, 2012Corpse Party proves that a minimalistic approach can get some of the best results when it comes to horror. If a little blood gets you weak in the knees, this game is not for you.
Jan 3, 2012While not fantastic in terms of gameplay, Corpse Party shines as a journey in surviving a world of disturbing horror.
Dec 19, 2011Corpse Party has a lot in common with fully interactive point-and-click games. The tone, storytelling and characters make what could have been a plodding experience, truly memorable. It's wonderful that XSeed has brought this over and, hopefully, will do well enough to encourage more of these unique titles to make a North American appearance.
Dec 5, 2011Lamentations over wasted time come easily when you consider the unexpected deaths, but the powerful last words of the narrative reminded me of Corpse Party's chilling highlights. Instances of fear and melancholy occur with startling frequency.
Dec 4, 2011Corpse Party is good at setting an unnerving scene, which is even more impressive considering how silly it looks.
Jan 6, 2012As a game, it's abo - game ever, please try again. [Jan 2012, p.86]
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Positive: 13 out of 15
Mixed: 1 out of 15
Negative: 1 out of 15
Jun 22, 2014Astonishingly creepy and shamelessly violent, with equal and fair indifference to all of its characters, Corpse Party is one of the most, if not the single most, most brutal video attacks on your tolerance for real horror. Outstanding writing, gorgeously violent art, and an exceedingly precise soundscape, with a completely unforgiving, yet appropriate difficulty (you, and everyone else around you, *will* be killed, repeatedly, as it should be--who would want a forgiving horror game in which everything is easily escaped?) makes this any horror fan's wettest dream. Spits on pseudo-horror nonsense like Resident Evil, and even Fatal Frame. The Golden Standard for how to terrify the player.… Expand
Nov 23, 2011Pues a mi si me saco sustos o.o . Estilo de RPG antiguo pero con tantos factores en su desarrollo, el miedo que van generando en los personajes, las decisiones rapidas que hay que tomar, hasta la decision mas casual puede llevarte a un final malo. Pero si sabes moverte con suerte llegaras al final del capitulo......entre comillas final "bueno"… Expand
Sep 6, 2014**** me. I just watched Pewdiepie's playthrough of this, and all the words have pretty much been sucked out of my mouth with a five-thousand-watt vacuum cleaner. Whenever such a talented group of writers, coders, producers and artists get together and make a masterpiece...I never can fathom the amount of emotional attachment I acquire with the characters. Naomi, Satoshi, Yuka, Seiko (damn it, the manly tears!) and everyone else are unforgettable characters, with an unforgettable and gruesomely real story behind them.
Whatever you do in the coming week, play this game. Or watch Pewdiepie play through it on YouTube, I found it just as, or even more enjoyable.
P.S. I noticed you might die sometimes and would get a 'wrong' ending. You don't want that. Save your game often and try to collect all the information (you should do that anyway, it makes the plot and game that much better).… Expand
Feb 4, 2012This is one of the best horror games I'd played for such a long time. Even though Corpse Party is not totally similar to survival horror games like old Resident Evil and Silent Hills, it involves light puzzle solving, exploration & best of all, a great atmosphere.
Corpse Party is a must play game for fans of true survival horror games along with visual novel lovers.… Collapse
Dec 16, 2011One of the best horror games I have played in a long time. In terms of gameplay it consists of simple puzzles and moments of intense pacman-esque evasion. It's definitely a game that's meant to be played for the story. It's unpredictability and shocking twists will keep you going till the very last chapter. The sound design and voice acting (although in Japanese) is top notch and really sets the mood. Playing with headphones is highly recommended. Being largely a text driven game, it may not appeal to today's ADD Call of Duty gamers. However, for those looking for something unique, original, and truly unsettling it's definitely worth the 20 bucks. Those who say Japanese gaming is dead have clearly not picked up this horror gem of a game. So dust off that PSP and prepare to give the system it's final hoo-rah before Vita's release.… Expand
Feb 10, 2014Corpse Party - I saw a reference to this game on STEAM and decided to give it a go. After looking online I managed to find the website for the game and was able to investigate a little bit more into the game. More importantly the original Corpse Party was actually designed in RPG Maker in the 90's and it's glaring problems are a direct result of that, namely poor writing, bad design and complete lack of game-play.
I want to be perfectly clear, the website that advertises Corpse Party is incredibly misleading. In it, the game gives you the feeling that it is more of a gruesome, survival horror, adventure, RPG game. Further is misleads people by advertising features such as constantly changing paths, maps or branches of the school.
The entire game is incredibly static. Do not expect the maps to shift or change on you at any given time. The only time the maps are even remotely altered is when a plot device requires it and even then, the most the maps do is simply redirect your routes, nothing more.
Beyond that, don't let the idea of having an inventory, save system or even "HP" fool you, this game is the furthest thing from a RPG you'll ever get. It is more of an interactive novel, much like a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' book.
The problem is, the game is far too much like those books, in the fact you can expect and most likely will experience completely unfair and unannounced deaths that are in no way the fault of player in any sense. Stupid, thoughtless death traps that give no indicators at all are scattered throughout the game, forcing you to start over.
Speaking of starting over, the save system is fairly limited, few and far between. Expect to be back tracking a lot to save once you understand how annoying and long winded this game is. It wouldn't be so bad if you could just pick up from where you last left off, but when a death sequence takes several minutes to get through and you repeat it several times, it gets frustrating beyond belief.
There are no in game animations, almost everything is completely static besides character animations and even then, they are stiff and lifeless. The game suffers from an incredible lack of details, which can be especially bad when considering you are dealing with a survival horror adventure game. The game advertises itself as being incredibly gory and gruesome, but that is simply not true.
Even when considering this as a visual novel, it barely even passes. A lot of the time, writing is dry, long winded and annoying. More often then not, you'll find yourself simply mashing on the 'X' button of your PSP simply so you can get through their bull crap.
What really sucks is, I've been given the impression that the original 90's version of Corpse Party actually has more game-play and RPG elements then the PSP version. How the hell did that happen?… Expand
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- Publisher: Nintendo
- Release Date: Mar 6, 2011
- Summary: Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version feature new Pokémon that players can catch, train and battle as they progress through the game, and some Pokémon can only be caught in one version of the game. For example, the Legendary Pokémon Reshiram can only be caught in Pokémon Black Version, while the Legendary Pokémon Zekrom can only be caught in Pokémon White Version. Additionally, the two games feature different areas for the first time in the series, with the game world of Pokémon Black Version featuring a unique metropolitan area called Black City, and a lush, green area named White Forest only found in Pokémon White Version. Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version also mark the first time in a Pokémon video game that the seasons will change in the game world. Certain Pokémon appear more frequently during different seasons, and players can only access some areas during a specific season.… Expand
- Developer: Game Freak
- Genre(s): Console-style RPG
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Positive: 56 out of 56
Mixed: 0 out of 56
Negative: 0 out of 56
Mar 16, 2011The fact that Game Freak dared to remove all the old pokémons from the main story line and replace them with 156 new ones is only one of the reasons for the series feeling fresher than ever. Pokémon Black and White is the most entertaining game yet, and is a must-buy for all Nintendo DS owners.
Mar 9, 2011The new battle system and the big new Poké-world feel great. There are a lot of new Pokémon to collect and train. You've got to get used to some of them. Poké-Fans shouldn't miss the new Black and White editions.
Apr 7, 2011One of the best generations of Pokemon titles to date, Black & White take almost all of the best elements from the series and then carefully craft it into something truly wonderful; recreating that same sense of adventure from the very first titles.
Mar 4, 2011Strip away the unmanageable bulk and Pokémon is a truly great RPG. Add it back on later and it remains a flashy, if conventional, entry in the franchise.
Mar 30, 2011It's not perfect and can still feel a bit over-familiar to veterans, but it's still a well-constructed and extremely addictive entry which is well worth checking out.
Mar 4, 2011What it lacks in originality, Pokemon Black more than makes up for with a vast world to explore and an absorbing battle system that's heaps of fun.
Score distribution:
Positive: 45 out of 62
Mixed: 9 out of 62
Negative: 8 out of 62
May 1, 2012Pokemon white version is an awesome RPG, its different (that isn't a bad thing), they've changed it a lot! Its better than the Pokemon games in the past, I can't believe how good it is, its got triple battles, double battles in the grass, much bigger places, a big map, very cool new Pokemon, much better graphics and much more great new things!… Expand
Apr 2, 2012Not only are black and white the best of the series, but they are some of the greatest games ever created for the Nintendo DS. They are true masterpieces because of improved graphics, area, battle system, amount of creatures, and even small editions such as triple battles and c-gear.… Expand
Aug 29, 2011Going into Pokemon White after not having played a Pokemon game since Ruby, part of me felt skeptical that this was going to be a complete copy and paste of Diamond/Pearl, with better graphics and new Pokemon. However, it is much more than that.
First of all, the story has been given A LOT of care this time round, and it shows. This time, it's Team Plasma that you have to stop, this time being a Pokemon version of PETA, wanting to let all Pokemon be free and away from humans. The story isn't what you'd call 'award-winning', but it did keep me going all the way to the end.
They did also improve the graphics and add new Pokemon, as well. The graphics don't look that much different to the fourth generation, but have been made more 3D with different camera angles and makes the Unova region feel more alive than any other region in the series. The new Pokemon, however, are kind of a mixed bag. There are certainly good ones, such as the three starters and their evolutions, Zekrom and Reshiram shown on the front covers as well as Zoura and Zoroark. However, ones such as Klink and Vanillish seem like Game Freak are reaching the end of the barrel. The gameplay has been slightly changed too. The combat feels a bit faster and the animations look pretty great, even if the Pokemon graphics look a bit pixelated. There are even small details, such as a shiny Pokemon glistening and a sleeping Pokemon closing their eyes. There has also been some music changes, such as a small remix of the original beeping sound whenever your current Pokemon's health gets into the red. But the satisfying crunch of a super effective hit and the disappointing bump of a non-effective hit are still there. Oh, and Team Plasma's theme? Awesome. That's all I can say.
Overall, if you're a fan of Pokemon, you probably have this game by now, and if you don't, you really should.
If you're someone that complains about Pokemon 'not being the same' or 'having too many Pokemon', then try it out. From start to end of the story, it's JUST the new Pokemon. Some may not like that at first, but you'll probably get used to it at the end.
I wouldn't recommend this to critics of Pokemon in terms of the gameplay, because it's only a slight change since Diamond/Pearl. In my opinion, though, this is the best Pokemon game since the first generation. And that should mean a lot.… Expand
Mar 14, 2011I have played Pokemon for a very long time. I told myself that this game would be no different to the ones that came before it. I can't believe I ever thought that. This game is new and fun and full of surprises! I can't wait to get my 3DS in the mail and pop this into it, that will be the first thing I do. This game has replay value out the back and I can't wait to buy my second copy. Well done Nintendo.… Expand
Jan 10, 2012Some features from HS/SS (like the button to hold run on the touch screen) have been removed, but still a great game nonetheless. Fresh, and has a great story.… Expand
Aug 7, 2011This is actually my first experience with Pokemon after my nephew coerced me in to the purchase to play with him. It's an interesting RPG with a depth I didn't expect from the long-running Pokemon series. It often draws me back in to finding pokemon that I haven't captured yet, and the story is interesting enough to where I've wanted to complete it to see how things come together. The problem is I've reached an area about halfway through after obtaining 4 badges and dozens of pokemon where the general combat and exploration is getting pretty monotonous. This might just be a game I never completely finish, but even only playing it halfway through, it was worth the purchase for me to enjoy trading with the nephew and finally seeing what the games are like for myself.… Expand
Sep 20, 2013What a waste of a game. First off, you cannot get older pokemon only all of the newer and dumber ones. Secondly, if you pick black you get the white legendary and if you pick white you get the black legendary because that makes perfect sense. As for everything else, have you played any other pokemon game? Yes, then you have absolutely no reason to play this one because it's just the same only Nintendo must've put their retard hats on when making it.… Expand
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Pilates in Moxley,Darlaston
Fully Qualified Level 3 Mat Pilates Intstructor. Suitable for all levels. Please bring a mat/towel. Every Wednesday 7.30 - 8.30 pm. *******Only £3.00******** Pilates is a system of controlled...
Moxley People's Centre.3 Queen Street,Moxley, Bilston, West Midlands WS10 8TA
Today to Wednesday 14 Jan 2015
Police Dog Hogan
Imran Qureshi, Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2013
Lily Allen
Hal Cruttenden
A Celebration of the music of Walter Trout with Walter Trout Band
Moseley Village Band
Hidden in Plain View
Psychic Fayre at the famously haunted Station Hotel, Dudley on 28th November
Colourful Salsa Party
Kinver Big Tree Lighting Up Event
Book Launch - Circ. A novel written by 10 international authors
An evening showcasing a unique experiment in which ten authors co-wrote a novel through a reality TV type competition. Is the resulting book, Circ, a success or failure? Judge for yourself! The...
Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham, West Midlands B1 2ND
Friday 28 Nov 2014
Hollywood Undead
Sweet Baboo
Sweet Baboo & Pictish Trail
The Amity Affliction
Christmas festival and craft fayre-Saturday 29 November,10am-6pm & Sunday 30 November 2014,10am-4pm
Get Christmas off to a flying start at the Red House Glass Cone and Broadfield House Glass Museum. At Red House Glass Cone, alongside the annual craft fayre, there's glassmaking...
Red House Glass Cone, High Street, Wordsley, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 4AZ
Saturday 29 Nov 2014 and Sunday 30 Nov 2014
Counterfeit Stones
A Drawing Room Christmas, with Dodici Corde and Friends
Tree of Light Service
Saturday 29th November St Mary's Church Oldswinford 4:00pm and Sunday 30th November St John the Baptist Halesowen 4:00pm Remember a loved one by sponsoring a light on our Tree of Light in the...
St Marys Church Oldswinford & St John the Baptist, Halesowen, West Midlands DY8 3HA
Saturday 29 Nov 2014 and Sunday 30 Nov 2014
Santa's Grotto opens in Victorian Arcade, Walsall
Victorian Arcade Shopping Centre in Walsall is delighted to announce that this year's Santa's Grotto is set to open on Saturday 22 November at 10am. The ever popular grotto will then be open every...
Victorian Arcade Shopping Centre, Walsall, West Midlands WS1 1RE
Saturday 29 Nov 2014, Sat 6 Dec, Sat 13 Dec, Sat 20 Dec