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Popular property highlights
Hotel Regina places you in Alsergrund, within a leisurely stroll of popular sights such as Vienna City Hall and Burgtheater. This 165-room, 4-star hotel has free breakfast and a restaurant, along with free in-room WiFi. It's in central Vienna and also close to Vienna State Opera and Schoenbrunn Palace.
Free buffet breakfast is offered each morning. Enjoy a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, or relax with a drink at the bar/lounge. Savor a meal from the privacy of your room with room service, or get a pick-me-up at the coffee shop/café.
All 165 individually decorated accommodations feature sitting areas. Guests can expect free WiFi and flat-screen TVs with satellite channels. Beds sport premium bedding and bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries. Sofa beds, private yards, and minibars are other standard amenities.
Property features
Hotel Regina features free WiFi in public areas, 8 meeting rooms, and conference space. If you drive, self parking is EUR 17 per day, or you can take advantage of the airport shuttle (available on request) for EUR 55 per vehicle one way. The 24-hour front desk has multilingual staff ready to assist with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this family-friendly hotel include a business center, coffee/tea in a common area, and a computer station.
- Walking distance to Vienna City Hall and Burgtheater
- Free buffet breakfast
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Onsite dining
Hotel Regina
Renovations & Closures
- Exterior
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
The multilingual staff provide concierge services like arranging city tours and excursions, as well as transport to and from the airport (surcharge). A choice of wines, cocktails and beers are available in the café bar, and complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access is available. Further amenities include 8 meeting rooms, audio visual equipment, computer station, and terrace. Guests arriving by car will find garage parking nearby for a surcharge. The property was renovated in 2014. Guests will find many activities nearby including golf, tennis, boating, hiking, and fishing. Babysitting is available for a surcharge.
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Computer station
- Conference space size (meters) - 89
- Number of meeting rooms - 8
- Year Built 1880
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Terrace
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Concierge services
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- 24-hour front desk
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop or café
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Conference space
- Business center
- Porter/bellhop
- Multilingual staff
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Total number of rooms - 165
- Babysitting or childcare
- Number of floors - 6
- Restaurant
- Free breakfast
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Laundry facilities
- Meeting rooms 8
- Luggage storage
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Playground on site
- Sofa bed
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge), Offsite parking discounted rates available
Room Amenities
Hotel Regina offers 165 air-conditioned accommodations with minibars and safes. These individually decorated and furnished accommodations have separate sitting areas and include single sofa beds. Beds feature premium bedding. Flat-screen televisions come with satellite channels.
Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. This Vienna hotel provides complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access. Hypo-allergenic bedding and irons/ironing boards can be requested. Housekeeping is provided daily.
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free WiFi
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
- Sofa bed size
- Premium bedding
- Separate sitting area
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Phone
- Yard
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- Room service (limited hours)
- Sofa bed
- Satellite TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Guests of the Hotel Regina enjoy a breakfast buffet of hot and cold items each morning.
Restaurant Roth - The menu features Austrian and international dishes, with Viennese specialties, accompanied by wines, cocktails and beers. Seating extends to the shaded garden in summer months.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Segway rental/tour nearby
- Boat tours nearby
- Playground on site
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 10 per accommodation (varies based on length of stay)
- 2 per room
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 18 years old.
Minimum guest age is 18
- Deposit: EUR 30 per stay
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 74
- A city/local tax will be charged
- New Year's Eve gala dinner fee
- Christmas Eve gala dinner fee
- Resort fee
Optional extras
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 55 per vehicle (one way)
- Self parking fee: EUR 17 per day (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: EUR 10 per accommodation (varies based on length of stay)
- Early check-in fee: EUR 260
- Late check-out fee: EUR 100
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
- Onsite credit card charges are subject to a surcharge
Hotel Name
- Hotel Regina Vienna
- Regina Vienna
We should mention
This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 72 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. A fee for a mandatory Christmas Eve gala dinner is included in the total price displayed for stays on 24 December. A fee for a mandatory New Year's Eve gala dinner is included in the total price displayed for stays on 31 December. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
National Rating
Hotelstars Union assigns an official star rating for properties in Austria. This property is rated 4 star.


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"You may wish to take your clothes off unless you want to lose them when you transform," I told Ross, who was standing in the center of a circle I had scratched into the cement with my knife. He ignored me, however.
"How are candles and weird symbols supposed to make him turn into a dragon?" Dave asked, squatting down to trace the symbol for 'dragon' with his fingertip. I had drawn the symbols with chalk and his oily skin was smearing it.
"Would you quit that?!" I snapped, baring my teeth at him.
Spyro's eyes grew wide at my fierce expression.
Leaping to his feet, Dave dusted the chalk off on his pants, looking sheepish.
Hmm...Sheep. Perhaps I would pretend he was such a sheep and devour him. I traced the outline of my human lips with my tongue, relishing the thought of sinking my teeth into his flesh.
Then again, Spyro wouldn't be too happy....Ross.... How many times must I remind myself that he can't remember who he is?
I blinked, bringing myself back to the present.
"Sp- Ross. Ross, I need you to close your eyes and concentrate on the dragon in your dreams. Imagine yourself becoming that dragon. Don't be afraid,"
He nodded, slamming his lids shut firmly.
And then it began. It was slow, at first, but it began to go smoother and quicker the more Ross appeared to concentrate. His clothes already laid in tatters around him. But it was hurting him. It was going wrong.
"Whatever you do, don't open your eyes!" I cried above the horrendous sounds of his half-human howling.
His skin had changed to a rich purple, wings beginning to unfurl from his back. Ross's human knuckles had turned white from clenching them - but he slowly opened them to reveal sharp yellow claws.
The last to go was his spine. Oh thank the Ancients....it worked.
As he fell forwards onto his front legs, the transformation was complete.
And so was mine.
I bounded up to him, touching my nose to his.
"You can open your eyes now," I rumbled affectionately in Dragon.
He opened them slowly - they glinted a magnificent purple, as his human eyes had before.
"I think...." He furrowed his brow in concentration.
I flicked my tail, anxious, "Yes?"
He looked into my eyes. Those sad eyes, filled with so many memories....
My God. Did he remember?
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Suffering from loose motion since last 2 month. Currently I'm taking following medicine: 1. Telma 80 2. Amaryl 25 3. Galvus 50 4. Rejusite 5. Razo 20 6. Betaone XL 100 7. Firsito plus Taken oflotas oz on the advice of local doctor for controlling loose motion, but didn't got any relief. Can you please help in knowing the real reason for loose motion. Any side effects from the above medicines I'm taking or it's just another medical problem? What should I do? Any doctor for all treatment you would advice? Anything?
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Get used to it...it doesn't stop after marriage
PS: I'm out of town so I don't have to worry about Lima booting me to the couch....yet
Lima, I love you honey
This is a discussion on [How-to] Blow a small argument into a knock down drag out fight to the death. within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; God relationships are glorious~! So the gf (omgz grlz) and I got into a huge fight about something retarded today. A couple weeks ago I ...
God relationships are glorious~!
So the gf (omgz grlz) and I got into a huge fight about something retarded today. A couple weeks ago I came back to my college apartment to move back in for the rest of my summer as my summer job was kaput. During this time I didn't call my gf because I was busy moving stuff and getting everything squared away. Now, I am not really a phone person and she knows that, but it didn't really bother me not talking to her for 3 days.
Well when I get back(I came back home to get the rest of my stuff and tie up loose ends back home) we get into a fight because she was upset that I didn't call her for 3 days. I informed her that phones magically work both ways and she should have called me if she wanted to talk to me. Her excuse was "I was giving you space so you could move in and I didn't want to bother you." I told her that I didn't need "space" and that if she called me when I couldn't talk I would let her know and call her later.
Well I came back with my second load of stuff and have been moving in some more. I have been calling her every time we talk--so for the last 7-10 days all of the conversations we have had were initiated by me. I didn't really mind or even notice at first, but it started to bother me when I noticed that if I didn't call her for a day she wouldn't call me at all. So I did an experiment (shouldn't have but whatever) and didn't call her for about 2 days--but I had to ask her a question about something (giving her my old couch if she wants it). Well she was really "catty" on the phone and I could tell something was wrong.
One thing lead to another and we got into a big fight about it--again. I told her that she could call me and that I don't need space. Her excuse THIS time was, get this, "gender roles". "Girls aren't suppose to call guys;guys are suppose to call girls! Don't you agree that we have a pretty 'traditional' gender role relationship?" To this I responded "Yea, so why don't you come down and clean my kitchen, do my laundry, and make me dinner." She didn't take this as bad as I thought...she said "if we were married I WOULD do that stuff". So I said "if we were married I WOULD call you first" --just to be an ass.
I explained that I don't like to talk on the phone but I get over it and call her. She doesn't like to call me because it makes her "feel weird"...but she won't get over herself and call me. We argued about this for forever because she didn't understand that not calling me because it makes her feel weird is the same thing as me not calling because I don't like to talk on the phone. I told her that if a neutral party was listening to our argument they would say that I was being stupid ANNND she was being stupid--stupid^2. She told me "Maybe you should talk to your parents, because they usually straighten you out when you are being stupid." ( Which is true. They will tell me when I am in the wrong.)
So I called my dad, but he didn't answer. So I called my mom's cell (she was still at work), I filled her in on the story and she started laughing. At this point I am not as upset as I am just "this is ridiculous". My mom doesn't "take my side" per se but I can tell she agrees with me. She was very diplomatic--saying: "You aren't wrong and she isn't wrong. In relationships there are fights like these and you need to compromise..not try to be right." I quickly informed my mother that if we "compromised" then I would be right. If I was "right" then we would compromise. My whole argument was that if I can call her then she can call me. My mom pretty much agreed, but I let her go because I didn't want to keep her any longer at work.
While I was talking to my mom my dad called me back because he had a missed call. I explained why I called and he started to give me a "solution" then quickly stopped and said that I needed to talk to my mother. My dad and I are on the EXACT same wave length 99% of the time and he was thinking what I was thinking, but he didn't want to escalate our fight. I laughed and told him that I already got her side and that I wanted his. He and I both agreed that I should tell her: "I am completely fine with being the one that has to call every time. I really am. But if that's what you want you have to understand that you CAN'T get upset when I don't call you as much as you would like...and if you really want to call me then you can pick up your phone and do it." My dad also added that I shouldn't call her for a few days and see what she does (jokingly, but half serious).
So anyway my gf and I got into a fight 7th graders would have because she doesn't want to call me.
(As I was typing this thread my gf called and we got into it some more but she finally admitted that she "was being irrational" (read: I totally WON this fight But, now I am all spooled up and there is nothing left to fight about )
Get used to it...it doesn't stop after marriage
PS: I'm out of town so I don't have to worry about Lima booting me to the couch....yet
Lima, I love you honey
so young.... so naive......
Then he is finished
I think that this problem is rooted in your lack of understanding.
hahaha, you really haven't figured this out yet! You will never, ever....even in your wildest dreams "win a fight". Even if you get a moral victory, and get her to admit she's being irrational, you still lose. She'll just pick a fight she knows that she can win to make up for your measely "triumph". The only way to "win" is to let her win and still get what you want. As in "I know honey, I'm a pig of a man and don't deserve you,...but if you really want to help me out on this and call me when you start to get pissed about me not calling I'd really appreciate it......thanks babe,....I love you sooooo much."
Snatch the pebble, it's snatch the pebble.
"Yes, dear."
"If you think so, dear."
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliott
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
Dump her. Maybe in a year, she'll call, if not nothing lost. Guns are more fun.
Anyway, kavity, to help you in your predicament.
If you have a problem or a question or a concern, just come out and say it. If you don't think she never calls you, go through your phone history, call her up and say, "Hey, going through my phone history I see that the last seven times I have talked to you have been me calling you. If I didn't call you, I don't think you would ever call. What gives?"
2. Fight her emotional, irrational response with an emotional irrational one of your own.
Even if it's BS, tell her you feel bad when she doesn't call. You feel like she doesn't love you. Put on big sappy eyes and start to fake cry. She'll feel horrible and call you everyday for the next six months.
Okay, maybe point 2 is a bad idea.. I usually don't condone lying.
No, tell her the truth and hopefully you two will come to some kind of compromise. A compromise is just that, somewhere between what you want and what she wants. Both are supposed to "win" in a compromise.
A compromise in this instance would be you agreeing to call every now and then and her agreeing to call too. You both don't want to do it, but that's the definition of a compromise, now isn't it.
Fact of the matter is, if she wants to talk to you she needs to pick up the phone every now and then, and you need to help her out in her sexist ideals by giving her a ring (and by ring, I don't mean the one that goes on any fingers, I meant the phone ringing) every now and again two.
You both win, you both loose. It's perfect.
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This 8 1/2" long, 1.6 T. oz., table or place spoon is marked "L. Heck" for Lewis or Ludwig. The volume "Silversmiths of Lancaster, Pennsylvania" by Vivian Gerstell lists his dates as 1755-1817, first showing up in tax records in 1778.
Gerstell also notes that he "held various positions in the community," indicating he was a person of standing and good reputation, and she illustrates both hollow and flatware made by him.
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Having moved to Britain just a month before their deaths, Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez were described as "two young men who had the misfortune to cross the paths of Farmer and Sonnex".
That misfortune began six days before their deaths when, rushing from the shower on the morning of Tuesday 23 June 2008, Laurent Bonomo saw a man fleeing his flat, in Sterling Gardens, New Cross. A laptop was stolen.
Although it has never been proven, it is almost certain that that man was Dano Sonnex, given that he had complained to friends about having a laptop that reverted to French. It follows that the next weekend, when looking for a house to burgle, Sonnex decided to revist familiar territory.
What came next was a "relentless and merciless onslaught" in which Mr Ferez was stabbed 50 times and Mr Bonomo, who "would not die", stabbed 194 times.
Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, met while studying biochemistry at university in France. In the summer of 2008 they enrolled on a three-month course at Imperial College in London. Mr Bonomo was later joined by his girlfriend, Marie Bertez, but she left London on 21 June, intending to return nine days later.
The day before their death Mr Bonomo and Mr Ferez had gone to the tennis at Wimbledon, then to a pub to watch a French rugby match. They were captured on CCTV at Victoria, South Kensington and, later, at Canada Water stations. The last footage of them was at 9.43pm, where they were seen leaving a McDonald's restaurant in Surrey Quays shopping centre. The last anyone heard from them was Mr Bonomo's final text message to Ms Bertez when he told her that he and Mr Ferez were playing computer games on their handheld Sony PSP systems.
Five hours later, in the early morning of Sunday 29 June, the sleeping men were disturbed by Sonnex and Farmer. They were tied up and tortured for their bank cards and PINs. The students suffered appalling injuries. Mr Ferez's 50 wounds were to his eyes, head, neck and chest. Mr Bonomo was stabbed in the head, face, neck, back, chest, stomach, arms, hands and legs. The gruesome details were too much for Ms Bertez. Twice during the four-week trial she fled the courtroom in tears.
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... Just buskers on the street and loads of people just dancing along with them, especially Peter! Eric and Blake were true gents helping me walk the wonky paths in my heels, literal slopes I had to be guided along which was hilarious! Blake helped me all the way back to my car, by which this point me and Carlie had our shoes off walking the cobbles! The night ended with a dance party in the car on the way home and getting in at half 3! Perfect night ...
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The haze that has been a feature of our time in the US lifted as we approached Texas. The views ahead became clearer, but also the temperature in the little 'plane became increasingly warmer!
Over Tyler and past Terrell and we were soon making our approach to Mesquite Metro Airport to the south-east of the city of Dallas – the journey had taken just under three hours. We had chosen Mesquite as it was closer to Rowlett, where ...
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The investigation by Paula Rebstock into the leaking of Cabinet papers on the restructuring of foreign affairs has caused deep unease in the public service, writes former top diplomat Neil Walter.
OPINION: Last week saw the release of a report on a long-running investigation into the leak of three Cabinet papers relating to the restructuring of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
There are serious questions about the conduct of the investigation, the content of the report and State Services Commissioner Iain Rennie's response to it.
While the views expressed in this article are my own, they reflect a widespread and deep unease around many past and present members of the public service about how this matter has been handled.
No-one would have a problem with the decision to launch a formal investigation into the leak of the three Cabinet papers along the lines proposed in the initial terms of reference.
As has been reported, the investigation was unable to come up with any conclusive proof but found that the likely source of the Cabinet papers leak was a State Services Commission employee.
I am, however, bemused by the decision to expand the investigating team's mandate and concerned at the unfairness of the comments made in the report about the two former diplomats - and other unnamed senior MFAT officers - who now stand accused of inappropriate and unprofessional conduct.
Also to be considered are the implications for the way New Zealand's public service is to be run. A recent report issued by Transparency International emphasised the importance of open discussion and challenge in the public service and expressed concern at the erosion of the proud tradition whereby New Zealand's public servants give the Government impartial and professional advice based on the national interest - ie tell ministers what they should hear rather than what they want to hear.
On the question of fairness, the process followed by the investigating team has been heavily criticised by two leading Queen's Counsel representing the targeted individuals.
It is known that a third Queen's Counsel shares these views. One Queen's Counsel advised his client that the setting up and conduct of the investigation was in his view "flawed and unjust". The other described the report as "seriously unreliable, unjust and in error on many matters". This should be of concern to the state services commissioner.
Nothing in the report supports the view that the actions of the two targeted senior MFAT staff were politically motivated or would have encouraged anyone to believe that it was acceptable to leak information and documents. Certainly there were leaks into the public domain of ministry papers with an in-house classification - apparently from management as well as staff. But neither Derek Leask nor Nigel Fyfe ever went public with their concerns about the plan to reinvent the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The investigating team's report contains no assessment of the merits or otherwise of the ministry's "new business model" and other change proposals.
Yet the new approach represented an untested and fundamental change in the way the ministry had traditionally - and, by all accounts, very effectively - operated. It drew strong criticism from past and present ministers (including current Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully, Winston Peters and Phil Goff) as well as senior members of New Zealand's diplomatic service, the business community and the general public.
Five previous secretaries of foreign affairs and trade felt sufficiently concerned about the proposal to dismantle New Zealand's career foreign service that they made representations to the State Services Commissioner.
Finally the Government stepped in and directed that the proposals be heavily modified, recognising that the changes would have been damaging to New Zealand's national interests and its ability to deliver on the Government's foreign policy and trade objectives.
Neither does the report have much to say about the way in which the proposed changes were managed. Although a formal process of consultation was established, the senior leadership team did not seem particularly disposed to listen to staff concerns. Yet a tradition of open debate and robust discussion of both policy and capacity issues has served the ministry - and the public service - well over the years.
The investigating team was charged with assessing the environment in which the ministry was operating during this period. It failed to do so.
At the time the changes were signalled, morale in the ministry was at an all-time low. Budget cuts were being imposed and restructuring had already begun. Staff turnover was at an historically high level. Staff engagement scores were worryingly low. And political appointments to head of mission positions overseas were running at an all-time high.
The standards against which the actions of Mr Leask and Mr Fyfe are measured in the report are not grounded in the provisions of the employment documents that governed them. Connections between the detailed accounts of private email exchanges and the report's findings seem to be missing.
The questioning of the loyalty and integrity of the two targeted MFAT officers is underpinned neither by evidence nor by closely reasoned analysis. At no stage did either Mr Leask or Mr Fyfe act in a manner that might call into question the political impartiality of the public service.
The report overlooks the tradition whereby heads of mission in particular and senior public servants in general talk frankly with ministers.
Ministers have always wanted to discuss issues - including capacity and resourcing issues as well as policy matters - with senior public servants in an open and free manner. Mr McCully confirmed in a radio interview last week that he had expected and encouraged heads of mission around the world to discuss the "new business model" with him - and that this had been helpful to him in forming his views. His remarks since the publication of the report do him no credit.
It is particularly regrettable that the criticisms of the two targeted officers should be the subject of a publicly released report. (The state services commissioner obviously knew, or if he didn't he should have known, that the identities of the two officers would become apparent as soon as the report came out.)
If indeed there were instances of behaviour "contrary to the standards expected of public servants", then it was the right and responsibility of MFAT's chief executive, John Allen, to take action in accordance with normal agency processes. If evidence of inappropriate behaviour came to light in the course of the investigation, then the appropriate course of action was for the investigating team or State Services Commission to refer it to the chief executive for his action.
Both Mr Leask and Mr Fyfe had long and distinguished careers in New Zealand's foreign service. They held senior positions in the ministry and represented New Zealand effectively and well as heads of mission abroad.
A large number of people would willingly testify to their commitment, integrity and loyalty and would feel that they were right to challenge and speak out against - though, I repeat, not publicly - a change process which in their view posed a threat to New Zealand's national interests and would seriously damage the ministry's ability to continue promoting and protecting the country's security, foreign relations and external economic interests.
Neil Walter, a former diplomat, was chief executive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 1999 to 2002. Since his retirement he has held a number of senior governance positions in the public sector.
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Discussion in 'Draft Zone' started by cowboyjoe, Apr 27, 2011.
Yikes.... One of the rumors they have Colin Kaepernick going 15 to Miami!!!!!
I feel like either all of these qb rumors are going to come true and a ridiculous amount of average looking qb prospects are going to go in the first round or none (rumors) will come true and not very many at all will be taken.
I really like the upside of Kaepernick (sp?) but whoa not that much. :laugh2:
A lot of people laughed when I said teams were going to go QB stupid this Draft, but I know what I was talking about.
we tried to tell them didnt we Hos? They laughed when I said Dalton and Kaerpenick would be taken high too.


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By FRANCO PANIZO
Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey, Carlos Bocanegra and Tim Howard headline a 21-man roster called in by U.S. men's national team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann for a friendly against Italy.
A heavily European-based roster was called in for the match on Feb. 29 in Genoa, with only five players plying their trade elsewhere. The match and preceeding camp will mark the first time in 2012 that Klinsmann will have his top players together, even if some are currently training with the U.S. Under-23 team.
"We're looking forward to having all the European-based players back in the roster and picking up where we left off with them from the Slovenia game," Klinsmann told USsoccer.com. "I'm excited about getting everybody together and challenging a world-class team like former World Cup winner Italy on their home soil. I think we have put a very competitive roster together. This roster was co-developed with the U-23 team because we wanted them to have a great preparation game before they go into Olympic Qualifying in March. Our roster is highly competitive and ready to give Italy a real fight."
Here is the roster:
Goalkeepers: Tim Howard (Everton), Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)
Defenders: Carlos Bocanegra (Rangers), Geoff Cameron (Houston Dynamo), Timmy Chandler (Nurnberg), Steve Cherundolo (Hannover 96), Clarence Goodson (Brondby), Michael Parkhurst (FC Nordsjaelland), Jonathan Spector (Birmingham City)
Midfielders: Michael Bradley (Chievo Verona), Maurice Edu (Rangers), Fabian Johnson (Hoffenheim), Jermaine Jones (Schalke 04), Jose Torres (Pachuca), Danny Williams (Hoffenheim)
Forwards: Jozy Altidore (AZ Alkmaar), Terrence Boyd (Borussia Dortmund), Edson Buddle (LA Galaxy), Clint Dempsey (Fulham), Landon Donovan (LA Galaxy)
This camp marks the first time that Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey will represent the U.S. team under Klinsmann and their first time together since last summer's Gold Cup. Both players had missed previous camps for various reasons, including Donovan wanting to focus on MLS Cup back in November.
Donovan, Edson Buddle, Geoff Cameron and Nick Rimando are the four MLS players who made this roster. Jose Torres, who has missed the last few camps with an injury, is the only player on this squad who is plying his trade in Mexico.
Arguably the biggest surprise on this roster is Terrance Boyd. The 21-year-old striker was scheduled to join the U.S. U-23 team for its current camp in Texas, but those plans changed at the last minute.
Sources confirmed to SBI that Boyd packed his bags on Wednesday evening and was set to fly to Texas on Thursday morning before Klinsmann called to inform him that he would be flying to Genoa on Sunday instead.
Donovan, Dempsey, Buddle and Jozy Altidore are the other forwards on this roster.
"I'm curious to see Jozy Altidore and Edson Buddle," said Klinsmann. "Obviously seeing Jozy lose his starting spot worries us, and Edson is now back in MLS after leaving the Second Bundesliga, so there are a lot of interesting things to observe as we go into camp for these few days."
Regulars of Klinsmann's team who were not called in are Juan Agudelo, Teal Bunbury, Brek Shea and Oguchi Onyewu. The former three are currently in their first U-23 camp and the latter just suffered a knee injury that will keep him sidelined for two months, though Klinsmann is optimistic Onyewu will return for the start of World Cup qualifying in June.
"Obviously losing Gooch was a bummer, but we expect that he'll be back and ready to go this summer," said Klinsmann.
Some of the more notable players missing from this camp are Sacha Kljestan, Benny Feilhaber and DaMarcus Beasley. Kljestan has been on a run of fine form with Anderlecht, starting in league matches and Europa League games. Beasley, too, has been playing well as of late for his club, Puebla.
Italy's roster is expected to be announced on Sunday.
What do you think of the roster? Who are you surprised to see/not see on this team? Do you think this team can beat Italy?
Share your thoughts below.
Rimando has earned this callup. It's a shame he never made a go of it in Europe, but he's certainly a quality keeper in anyone's book, even without going overseas. Seeing minutes in Italy would be good for him I think.
did you just say that Chandler is a waste at LB?
switch jones and torres and you've got it.
here's another thought:
first half:
Jozy Deuce LD
MB90 Jones
second half:
Buddle LD
MB90 Jones
Johnson Parks Cameron Williams
I'm with him on that though: The Bundesliga is better than the Dutch league
The more I watch Barca, the more I realize that they are the PERFECT team for him, and vice versa. It could be that what people expect from Messi is far from what they should: He's not Maradona, yet, is a very much a better club player than Maradona. Having said that, my money is on Messi winning one WC in his life.
Anyone know why Zak Whitbread never gets call-ups?
Germany doesn't give a rat's a** about the players we are taking.
We haven't taken anyone they really wanted. And if there is some sort of problem between the two teams, it's worth remembering that the manager of Germany and the manager of the US know each other pretty well and apparently have a very good relationship.
Whatever else you want to say about JK I would think he is on top of our relationship with Germany.
Boyd is 21 and promising.
Davies is 25 and faces an uncertain future.
Boyd has far greater upside and the odds of him becoming a productive forward for the US in the near future are better than the odds of Davies regaining the magic of his 2009-10, ten game run for the US.
US fans are really stuck on semantics and terminology.
Bradley is an all around versatile player.
He plays the way he does at Chievo because
that is how the team wants him to play. Serie A teams generally play in a comparatively technical, disciplined and conservative style.
Zak has the unfortunate habit of getting hurt just as he is about to get called up.
It's happened often enough that you get the feeling he is trying to make Stu Holden feel better about his bad luck.
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I dunno man, but without Bornstein, we're in serious trouble.
Anyways, I'm surprised Klestjan isn't in the squad. As someone stated below, we have a great deal of DM's and it sucks because 3 of them will probably start. We could use more attack minded mid's for depth.
I hope to see something like this:
I think Boyd is going to be awesome, but I figure Klinsmann will go more experience up top to start and hopefully bring Boyd in around the 70 minute mark.
With the way Spector has been playing, you could also see him starting at the RB spot, or possibly on the left and move Chandler back to RB. Dolo is a great player, but his speed is deteriorating quickly, as is Boca's. However, Boca will get the nod, and I'm assuming Goodson, but Cameron also seems like a viable option.
Jones is a mad man, and I like him bossing the midfield. I prefer that he is the lone DM so we don't have so much congestion up the middle. This will leave Dempsey to his prized role of CAM. Leave Donovan and Johnson to be the attacking wingers, as we don't have anyone else to do it (great choices, just no depth).
The likelihood is I'm way off and we'll be playing some form of the 4-3-3 and having the Italian midfield destroy us. I certainly hope our pace and possible chemistry can lead to waves of attack that troubles the Italians. We shall see.
i didn't realize i was trying to convince you torres could play as an attacking mid. i don't even think he can. do we do't disagree in that regard. i was simply making the point that Holden, Torres and Sasha all play the same position. then i said Holden is more likely to get forward then all of them. adu and feilhaber are some of the only true attacking mids we have. johnson could be, but he is such a utility player right now it's hard to know for sure.
dude, you need to relax. parkhurst is not on the A team until this call up. just look at the previous call ups! he is being given a chance because Gooch is hurt and since he did well for the B team. Boca, Gooch, Goodson, Ream, John, Cameron, Omar, Williams, Fiscal, and Parkhurst are our CB depth right now. it's not hard to see that. so relax, get off his nuts, and realize i don't dislike the guy, i'm just making the point that i think sasha deserved it more than him.
PD – i agree, what i am saying is that Williams and Cameron are the same type of player. so, in my opinion, i would have dropped parkhurst so that i could fit sasha onto the squad.
why would jones be better in that position? they both don't play attacking mids, but i think torres would be better.
he has played LB, left mid, and center mid. most recently LB though. been ok, he is better when he is more forward.
Donovan and Dempsey as forwards is a great move by Coach Klinsmann.
We need more goals and they're our best 2 players.
Great to see this decision.
Donovan and Dempsey as forwards is a great move by Coach Klinsmann.
We need more goals and they're our best 2 players.
Great to see this decision.
I'm waiting for the argument that Sacha is more consistent for the nats than Torres. LOL
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This is very good lineup. I'd really like to see it..


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A convicted rapist from Northern Ireland who fled to the Republic has been released on conditional bail by a court in Dublin and warned that he must contact the PSNI within 14 days.
Jobless Edward Connors (19), who currently has an address in Ballyfermot in Dublin, was charged on July 26 with failing to notify gardai of his name, address and date of birth contrary to the Sex Offenders Act 2001.
He was aged 15 when he twice raped a 29-year-old American tourist in Colin Glen forest in west Belfast four years ago.
Afterwards, he fled to Dublin but later gave himself up.
In 2009, he was jailed for eight years; he had spent a year in custody on remand prior to his trial and was released from custody earlier this year after serving four years.
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Connors consented to being remanded in custody last week but successfully applied for bail when he appeared at Cloverhill District Court in Dublin yesterday.
A garda witness told the judge that the Northern Ireland Public Prosecution Service intends to get a European Arrest Warrant issued for Connors.
A defence lawyer said Connors' father was prepared to stand bail and her client would comply with bail conditions if released.
Contact would also be made with the authorities in Northern Ireland.
Bail was granted with a number of conditions.
Connors was ordered to reside at the Labre Park address, obey a curfew from 10pm to 7am, sign on twice daily at Ballyfermot Garda station and provide confirmation that he has made contact with the PSNI station at Grosvenor Road in Belfast within 14 days from yesterday.
Connors spoke briefly to indicate he understood the terms.
He was warned that his bail would be revoked if he breaks any of the conditions.
He was then released and ordered to appear again in four weeks.
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|Julien: Kessel shouldn't be afraid "to do extra" while in slump
|02.20.09 at 5:00 pm ET
It's pretty clear that one of Bruins head coach Claude Julien's famous messages is being extended out to winger Phil Kessel, who hasn't scored a goal in his last 13 games — including 10 since returning from mononucleosis in late January.
The streak is the longest since he had a pair of 15-game goal-scoring droughts back in his rookie season of 2006-07.
The 22-year-old was pulled off the power play in Boston's win against Carolina on Tuesday night, and Julien indicated he wants to see something out of his skilled winger before he's placed back on the unit. The man advantage scored two goals without Kessel buzzing around at his normal position, so it wasn't exactly a ringing endorsement for the youngster's immediate return to the special teams' squad.
It's not exactl akin to benching Kessel in the playoffs as he did last season against the Montreal Canadiens, but it's another example of some tough hockey love from a coach imploring he see more out of his budding superstars. The Bruins will need Kessel's firepower with the playoffs on the horizon, and — reading between the lines — they'd like to see him work a little harder at lighting the lamp.
Skating with playmaking David Krejci — who appears to have turned the corner earlier this week against the Hurricanes — and the gritty, aggravating Vladmir Sobotka could be just what the doctor ordered for Kessel. But the B's bench boss clearly wants to see more oomph and effort out of his ice-cold forward with whichever linemates he finds himself with.
"The message you've got to give to any young player that's (not scoring) is to work your way through it," said B's coach Claude Julien following this morning's practice at Incredible Ice in Coral Spring, Fla. "That's the biggest thing. Some people wait for it to happen again, and some people work to make it happen again. That's that the message that we're giving him. Don't stop doing things or don't be afraid to do extra stuff to get yourself going. If you can shoot 100 extra pucks at the end of practice, then you go and do it."
The additional work extends out to his work in the shootout, where Kessel has gained a slight air of predictability while continuing to employ his his favorite "deke and drive" move during the shootouts. Maybe it's just me, but the whole thing sounded quite a bit like a parent telling a young child that they'll get a better grade if they start doing a little more studying.
"Even in the shootouts it's about trying to use different moves for him as well and to expand his different types moves," added Julien. "Nowadays everybody has those scouting reports on both the goalies and the shooters for the shootouts."
|Phil Kessel looking to put an end to "frustrating" scoring drought
|02.11.09 at 7:37 pm ET
WILMINGTON — Phil Kessel is quick to admit that he's frustrated after going a season-high 10 long games without lighting the goal lamp.
For a 21-year-old that was on pace to score 50 goals during a white hot first half of the hockey season, it's a pretty stunning cold stretch for a young sniper that had seemed to be putting it all together. During those aforementioned 10 games Kessel has managed only four assists and is sitting at a -1 amid a battlefield of hockey games against playoff teams across the Eastern and Western Conference.
It should be noted that Kessel — who missed a handful of January games with mononucleosis and has been mired in the goal-less stretch in games sandwiched around the illness — said he's only felt 100 percent himself on the ice in the last few games. But it's clear that Kessel has been among the stick-wielding culprits in a Boston offensive slowdown since the All-Star break that's seen them average only 2.6 goals per game over their last eight games.
The B's right winger has already set career highs in virtually every offensive category this year as he heads into restricted free agency, but that doesn't stop this current slump from bugging the Bruin.
"Obviously you get a little frustrated, but you've got to go out there and keep doing your job until things change," said Kessel, of the longest goal-scoring drought of what's been a pretty charmed season for the third-year skater. "I've had some good opportunities, but they're not going in. You've got to keep going and try to get back into it.
It's gonna come…stuff changes," added Kessel. "It's a funny game like that. You go through little stretches and stuff won't go in. You get a little frustrated, but things will turn."
Some of it has been an inability to get to the spots and creases he found so plentiful in the first half of the season, and some of it has simply been getting back into the flow with linemates Marc Savard and Milan Lucic. Kessel has averaged 3.3 shots per game over the course of the season, but he's dropped down to 2.4 shots per game since coming back from mono on Jan. 29.
Bruins coach Claude Julien pointed to some progress in Kessel's game, but there's still improvement to be made in getting to the grimy areas of the ice and "digging deeper" after the coaching staff went through video work with the young forward last week.
"He's gotten some chances," said Julien. "Sometimes you can work at creating more as well. But it's never a one-sided thing. The fact that he's getting some chances is a good sign, but you've also got to find a way to bury those and dig deeper to score goals. That's what good goal scorers do."
–B's coach Claude Julien didn't have anything to add to the conditions of injured players Petteri Nokelainen (eye) and Chuck Kobasew (upper body, lower body, knee), and said they will both be evaluated and perhaps an update will be available on Thursday. Kobasew was at the B's practice rink to receive treatment on Wednesday morning, but didn't get out on the ice.
|Chiarelli: Kessel a "good bet" to play tomorrow night
|01.28.09 at 4:50 pm ET
Bruins General Peter Chiarelli confirmed to WEEI.com this afternoon what winger Phil Kessel and coach Claude Julien both alluded to after Bruins practice this morning: Kessel is likely to make his return to the B's lineup tomorrow night against the New Jersey Devils at the TD Banknorth Garden. Kessel has been out since Jan. 10 with a case of mono, but was cleared by team doctors yesterday to play in game action.
"I'm hoping. I think there's a good bet that he's going to play," said Chiarelli. "It may be a game time decision, but I'm hoping that he'll play."
|Kessel cleared by doctors to play
|at 1:17 pm ET
Phil Kessel has been out since Jan. 10 with mono, but said after practice that team doctors cleared him yesterday afternoon for a return to game action. With the ruling and positive testing that his spleen is again functioning normally, it isn't out of the question that the skilled sniper will be available against the New Jersey Devils tomorrow night at the TD Banknorth Garden.
"I'm fine," said Kessel, who still leads the B's with 24 goals scored this season. "I got all my testing back from the doctors yesterday, so I'm cleared. I'm pretty happy."
The 21-year-old forward wore a cloth wrap around his midsection as a precautionary measure to protect his spleen — which is the organ affected during mononucleosis — and admitted afterward that he hadn't been feeling quite right for weeks heading up to the diagnosis in early January. Kessel had actually gone scoreless in the three games leading up to the doctor's diagnosis of mono.
"I thought I had it for a while when I was still playing, and I didn't feel good for a while," added Kessel. "I feel good again. A normal schedule again, you know? I hate watching. I wanted to be out there helping the team. I think I feel pretty good, and I've been skating around here and there."
Claude Julien confirmed the good news and also concluded that Kessel could be ready for tomorrow night's tilt against the Devils after another positive step in tomorrow's morning skate the Garden.
"Late yesterday we had some news that he's been cleared (to play)," said Julien. "So hopefully after today and tomorrow morning's skate he should be able to come back and play. When you haven't done much in the last couple of weeks it comes down to timing, and that's what we were working on with him today at the end of practice: skills and handling the puck.
"We were helping him try to get his timing back," added Julien.
|Sounds of the game… Bruins 3, Canadiens 1
|01.14.09 at 10:57 am ET
The Bruins appear to have re-discovered their mojo and they can thank their captain, Zdeno Chara, in large part for it. After dropping two straight to Buffalo and Minnesota, the Bruins stood 1-2 on their season-long six-game homestand. But then they rebounded to win an uneven 6-4 decision against Ottawa. They put together a dominant effort in a 5-1 win over Carolina and capped it off with a 3-1 win in a playoff-like atmosphere Tuesday night at the Garden against the Canadiens.
With Marco Sturm likely gone for the season with ACL surgery to his left knee and leading goal scorer Phil Kessel out for at least three weeks with mono, someone had to step up. Chara not only scored his team's first two goals, he was a physical force on the ice, playing over 32 minutes and covering Montreal's best player, Alex Kovalev. Our own Joe Haggerty looks further into how Chara is earning his 'C'.
Add to the mix a boarding major called on Andrei Kostitsyn when he hit Aaron Ward and Tim Thomas coming out of the net to take out Kostitsyn, and you have all the makings of a regular season match-up between two ancient rivals that had everyone looking ahead toward the spring.
Bruins head coach Claude Julien said Chara showed why he's a captain.
Julien on Kostitsyn's hit on Aaron Ward.
Zdeno Chara said this was an exciting game.
Chara said everyone picked it up.
Chara said Thomas showed the code of loyalty to his teammates.
Tim Thomas said it was a fun game to play in.
Thomas explains why he took the hit on Kostitsyn.
Thomas said the game felt like the playoff meeting between the two teams last spring.
|Thoughts from the pre-Habs morning skate
|01.13.09 at 12:38 pm ET
There's always a bit more life in the catacombs of the Old Garden when the Montreal Canadiens are in town for a Northeast Division showdown, and that's again the case this morning on Causeway Street. The Habs are looking for revenge after a pair of beat downs in their last two epic games against each other, and the B's are beginning to really deal with some roster and depth issues as the injury/illness bug continues to creep up and crawl through the team.
–Center Patrice Bergeron again skated before practice this morning — along with Andrew Ference and Milan Lucic — and that makes three consecutive days that the 23-year-old has laced up the skates and got the heart rate up and the blood pumping without any evidence of headache or setback.
This is music to ears of the Bruins' fan base and, more importantly, to Bergeron himself.
"It's great to be back out on the ice. I'm very happy," said Bergeron, who pumped his heart rate up to 155-160 on the bike before he was cleared to get back on skates. "When I talked to you guys the other day
I didn't know it was going to be that quick. It's just skating for now and taking some shots and we'll see further on. It's just good to be back and a relief that I have a chance to skate again.
"I don't want to have any setbacks, so we're taking it slowly and surely," added Bergeron. "If I feel good, then I feel good.
–Bruins coach Claude Julien had Martin St. Pierre and Milan Lucic both alternating turns with Chuck Kobasew and Marc Savard on the B's top line during the morning skate and it really appears to be a mix-and-match game for Claude Julien with Phil Kessel removed from the lineup for the near-future. Lucic is a game-time decision with his undisclosed injury after sailing through the morning skate, but — either way — there won't be a much-anticipated bought between Looch and Big George Laraque with the Habs' enforcer out of the lineup tonight.
Facing the loss of 21-year-old star forward Phil Kessel to mononucleosis for a minimum of 2-4 weeks while also balancing significant injuries to Marco Sturm and Patrice Bergeron, Bruins coach Claude Julien said that the Bruins will do what they've always done best: survive.
"He's no different than any of the guys that we've lost [to injury] so far," said B's coach Claude Julien, whose team will face a highly motivated Montreal Canadiens squad tonight at the TD Banknorth Garden. "Every time you lose key players like that it's a big loss. But we've had a lot of practice with it, especially last year. We survived it, and we'll survive it again.
"We have to rely on the guys at our disposal to play solidly and to play well."
–The search for Manny's name plate ended at the Garden this morning as it stood there firmly in place along with his mask and all of the rest of his equipment in the Boston dressing room. Julien said that Fernandez is dealing with, as GM Peter Chiarelli confirmed yesterday, "general soreness" and something "very minor" that has the veteran puckstopper currently on day-to-day status.
No word on the whereabouts of his much-discussed Ristuccia Arena name plate, but there appears to be a burgeoning request by the Bruins Faithful to have it appear on EBay — and available to the tip-top bidder — after a wee little piece of laminated paper with the goalie's name on it sparked an avalanche of message board trade rumors on the great HFBoards yesterday afternoon.
"Hopefully we'll see him on the ice tomorrow. That really is the situation with Manny," said Julien, attempting to close the case of the 'tender name plate.
|Kessel out a month with mono
|01.12.09 at 9:52 pm ET
With Marco Sturm and Patrice Bergeron already on the shelf with injuries, the injured reserve list grew by one yesterday when Phil Kessel was put on the shelf with mononucleosis. The illness is believed to be about a month-long recovery process from the high-scoring winger with a team-high 24 goals, and leaves the B's with a gaping hole on their top line.
The B's brass has been resolute in their desire to fill any roster vacancies with in-house solutions, and — truth be told — things didn't seem all that bad when it was simply Sturm and Bergeron on the injured reserve. The B's have won all season with Sturm alternating between an ice-cold start to his season and injuries that nagged at him all winter long leading up to the knee issue. In Bergeron's case, he's laced up the skates and made it out on the ice and is weeks away — rather than months from a return to game action.
But there isn't anybody capable of replacing a potential 40-goal scorer in Kessel over the next month when the Black and Gold will play 13 games and head into the stretch run prior to the playoffs. A large B's cushion in both the Northeast Division and the Eastern Conference will allow them some patience in trying out some Providence Wanna-B's — but the need for a trade may become an inevitability.
After playing in all 82 regular season games last season, Kessel skated in all 42 games this season and has potted a team-high 24 goals and added 17 assists. His 24 goals rank tied for third in the entire NHL and
he owns the longest point streak in the league, having accumulated points in 18 consecutive games from November 13-December 21, 2008.
Boston's first round pick (5th overall) in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, the 21-year-old Kessel has recorded 54-53=107 totals in 194 career NHL games. He had played in 167 straight regular season games, dating back to January 9, 2007.
Along with Kessel's trip to the injured reserve, the B's assigned both South Boston native Kevin Regan and defenseman Matt Lashoff back to Providence and called both center Martin St. Pierre and Tuukka Rask back up to Boston. The move appears to be an admission that the "minor issue" involving Manny Fernandez won't be sufficiently resolved by tomorrow night's game against the Canadiens, but — then again — that situation seems to keep changing by the minute.


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Beach Walks with Rox: My partner Shane Robinson and I created this internet TV show, with over 750 episodes & over 2.5 million downloads. Winner of three Vloggies, you can find us at www.beachwalks.tv. Our program has been featured in these books:
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