rutgers-leslie: February 2014

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Western Mass. Is Fertile Ground for Dog Businesses Twenty years ago, Beth Ostrowski-Parks' career went to the dogs. "I was in property management, and I hated it," she said. "I [...]

Greenfield's Location, Technology Aid Reinvention As a former economic-development director for 13 years with the Economic Development Council (EDC) of Western Mass., Robert Pyers was consulted several times by various [...]

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Clerk of Courts Laura Gentile Has a Lot on Her Docket For almost two decades, Laura Gentile has been exposed to plenty of things she'd rather not think about - [...]

Auto Dealers Expect Sales to Accelerate in 2014 By MICHAEL REARDON With the recession in the rear-view mirror, the automobile industry is poised for another successful year fueled by a [...]

ADA-related Claims May Rise Due to New Psychiatric Disorders In the U.S., the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the primary authority for the [...]

Employers Should Update Policies on Office Dating, Sexual Harrassment By ANNIE E. LAJOIE, Esq. and TANZANIA C. CANNON-ECKERLE, Esq. Jill arrives at work on Valentine's Day to find a box [...]

State Creates a Hospitable Environment for Photovoltaic Developers All across the four western counties of Massachusetts, solar farms are popping up on previously unutilized or underutilized land. This green technology [...]

Make Sure Your Heirs Can Access Your Super Sale Information As a society, we have become more reliant on the Internet as a mechanism to keep in touch with family members [...]

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TommyCar Auto Group Expands with Two New Dealerships Carla Cosenzi is all about numbers ... and customers. The numbers come in the form of monthly markdown specials, which attract customers [...]

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Planned United, Rockville Merger Has the Industry's Attention They're called MOEs, or mergers of equals. And while neither the phrase nor the acronym is new to the banking industry, they [...]

Integrity and Accountability Are Central to Barr & Barr's Business Philosophy Stephen Killian was asked to put the Great Recession and its many - and still-lingering - consequences into perspective, [...]

Switch to Santander Banner Brings Some Change, but Also Stability When the Sovereign Bank signs suddenly came down across Massachusetts last fall, replaced by the Santander Bank name, it was [...]

Opinion

An Opportunity for the EDC Allan Blair, the long-time director of the Economic Development Council (EDC) of Western Mass., announced at a recent council board meeting that he will be [...]

Electricity Grid and Markets Need Fixing By MARC BROWN This has been a cold winter, and rate payers shouldn't expect their electricity costs to thaw anytime soon. Wholesale electricity prices [...]

"We have a very good relationship with the president and he doesn't want to sell the player," agent Oliver Cabrera said.

"Yehven and his father respect that so a move is very unlikely."

Former Arsenal and Ukraine defender Oleg Luzhny had earlier cast doubt over Konoplyanka's ability to settle in the Premier League.

"When you play in the Ukraine, you can afford not to run," Luzhny said.

"In the match against France, it was evident that Konoplyanka barely runs at all. Konoplyanka is a good player, but he is suited to Spain or Italy, not England.

"I don't think the English league is right for him. The game in England is totally different - it's about power. You have to run back and forth, back and forth.

"You run at speed up and down, and it's like that for 90 minutes."

Spurs, rumoured to be in contention to sign the Ukrainian, have since pulled out of the race.

When asked what percentage he would put on them signing anyone before the Friday night 11pm deadline, the Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood said: "Zero."

"Daniel (Levy) asked if I want to strengthen in this area or need any help, but I'm confident with the players we've got," he revealed.

"I don't need anyone else, thank you very much."

Reds managing director Ian Ayre has been in Ukraine for a number of days hoping to broker a Amazon Deal Online for Dnipro's 24-year-old playmaker and believed he was close to concluding the transfer until Tottenham entered the race.

If the Reds are to succeed, they will need to part with at least £15m.

Konoplyanka is rumoured to earn in the region of £100,000-a-week and talks were ongoing with the Ukrainian club, who are bankrolled by billionaire owner Kolomoyskyi.

Rodgers is especially keen to sign the midfielder after missing out on Mohamed Salah to Chelsea last week and has ordered Ayre to prioritise the deal above everything else.

"There is no update yet," Rodgers said. There is obviously an interest in the player, but there is no update.

"We'll see how it evolves. It is obviously a little complicated, but the staff that are over there have done brilliant work in terms of giving us every chance to get a player.

"So we will just have to see how that develops over the course of the day.

"It has all happened very quickly. Obviously the timeline on everything makes it tight."

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