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“We’re ready for a tough environment.”

– Keith Akerin, CFO, GE

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Mollie Marcoux, executive director of Chelsea Piers in Stamford.

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ince Gov. Dannel P. Malloy laid out reasons for an unexpected gap in Connecticut revenue that surfaced in January, some wondered whether his administration is withholding something else related to state finances.

Literally.

Shortly into an accelerated withholding schedule last year installed in the wake of income tax increases, Connecticut’s Department of Revenue Services (DRS) revealed that companies were withholding far too much income for tax bills due in 2011.

With bonuses complicating the amounts companies withheld approaching year end, some wonder if the state is on the cusp of having to

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return more money than it expected to taxpayers this spring – perhaps much more.

Contacted at press deadline, a Malloy spokesperson said the withholding snafu has had no impact on the state’s budget.

“We didn’t see anything on that front,” said Andrew Doba, director of communications in Malloy’s office.

Doba reiterated instead the admin-

istration’s central theory laid out in a press release: The state Office of Policy and Management (OPM) thinks high-income earners may have shifted capital gains and income last year as a result of uncertainty surrounding the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, with bonus declines in the financial service industry also a contributing factor.

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Chelsea Piers aims for summer opening

BY ALEXANDER SOULE casoule@westfairinc.com

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ace it – you and your colleagues just can’t beat Mollie Marcoux’s workday workout options, what with laps on the ice or in the pool, some dodge ball – yes, dodge ball – or scaling the face of a climbing wall.

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em as the saying goes.

In the coming months, Marcoux is hoping the best workouts she gets are wind sprints to field phone calls from people intent on doing just that, in her new role as executive director of Chelsea Piers’ sports entertainment complex under construction in Stamford.

Targeting a July 9 opening date, the facility will possibly represent Fairfield County’s best option yet in helping colleagues bond in after-hours recreation, with devotees of Stamford’s “Alive at Five” downtown summer concert series possibly quibbling with that notion.

Area businesses can expect phone calls from Chelsea Piers, Marcoux promised, including commercial printers, caterers and other businesses offering needed products or services. But the facility’s real value lies in the new options it provides area busi-

nesses looking to bolster employee health and morale.

“It’s been just so amazingly positive,” Marcoux said, of her initial interactions with Stamford and its residents as the Chelsea Piers takes shape. “People have been so receptive; people are so excited about sports in Fairfield County.”

Marcoux comes to Stamford via Ithaca, N.Y., where she grew up; Princeton University, where she chalked up Ivy League accolades in ice hockey, also playing soccer and lacrosse; and Chelsea Piers in New York City, where she has worked her way up the ladder since the foundation was laid.

For the record, given Fairfield County’s split loyalties when it comes to pro sports, she is a New York Yankees fan. But she professes herself a certifiable sports nut, whatever the color of the jersey. For now the color she is most concerning herself is green – as in the color of money. As such, Chelsea Piers hopes to draw members from a wider orbit around Stamford to include Westchester County, N.Y., where she lives.

If a singular facility in New York City, running corporate and recreational leagues across a wide spectrum of sports, Chelsea Piers’ is counting on being the star of Stamford’s extracurricular scene, which has comparatively few other outlets.

Chelsea Piers runs competitive sports leagues under which individuals can sign up to join teams, as can organizations that want to field their own team. In New York City, between 30 percent and 40 percent of soccer teams are sponsored by a business or organization, she estimates.

“There is going to be a ton of opportunities,” Marcoux said. “Bring down 50 people for a team building day, we can do experiential games, rock climbing, jumping on trampolines.”

In fact there will be a trampoline room – and if you haven’t played dodge ball since you were a kid, Marcoux suggests you give

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budgetary course corrections based on early returns from income, sales and property taxes, according to Joe McGee, vice president of public policy for the Business Council of Fairfield County in Stamford. He said he did not know how any withholding glitches would affect the budget, but said the income tax implications of bonuses are very real in Connecticut.

“It’s a very big deal,” McGee said.

“Estimating that, for OPM, is not always easy.

That is one of the tough things to judge.”

In January, Moody’s downgraded its outlook on Connecticut bonds, resulting in a public protest from OPM Secretary Ben Barnes who in a prepared statement lambasted the rating agency’s “historic lack of credibility” and suggested some kind of dirty tricks at play, even as Malloy readied to attend the highbrow Davos Economic Summit in Switzerland.

Malloy separately introduced a new schedule for funding the state’s pension liabilities, with Connecticut facing a multibillion-dollar balloon payment years down the line as currently structured.

“Today, we have a structurally balanced budget,” Barnes stated. “(We) have converted to GAAP; have fully funded our current pension obligations and seen their funding ratio rise; have negotiated significant pension benefit concessions from organized labor; have negotiated significant employee contributions to retiree health benefits; and have begun to add jobs to the state economy.”

If pending tax withholding returns played no part in the shortfall, they nevertheless caused major headaches among private and public sector organizations alike, whose workers found themselves with unexpectedly smaller paychecks starting in August when tax increases kicked in retroactive to January, prompting the accelerated withholding. On multiple occasions since, DRS has prompted companies to review the amounts they were withholding.

“This was a very unusual problem they

the game a second try with the ability to go vertical.

Marcoux did not venture a guess as to how many members Chelsea Piers expects annually in Stamford. In New York City, the facility totals some 4 million visits annually.

If practiced in running a sports facility, overseeing a staff of 100 people in New York City, Marcoux said the startup of the Stamford facility has been daunting.

“Just keeping all the balls in the air,” Marcoux said, asked to cite the area she is finding the biggest challenge. “We take for granted now that we’ve been (in New York) 16 years … Got to go back to the basics.” had to deal with,” said David Lewis, CEO of OperationsInc, a human resources consultancy based in Stamford. “To have to go in and make those kinds of adjustments, and make all the ‘what ifs’ – that’s hard to do.

“It has now returned to normal, or it should, in the (payroll) cycle that ran (in January),” he said.

“Look, we look at budgets – every line item gets scrutinized. We are expanding a major office into Chicago, we have an office in New York.

In these times we attack cost, we attack revenue, we attack efficiencies as it relates to cost and revenue … We’re still in Connecticut.”

— Pat Cummings, CEO, Marketing Managementalytics,Wilton.

While some feared Malloy’s tax increases might drive off wealthy residents to establish residency in other locales – namely Florida or New York where they might have a second home – with the tax increases just a year into effect, it seems unlikely such a large number would pack their bags, figuratively or literally, so quickly.

If nothing else, entering a second year of the Malloy administration, businesses are looking at the bottom line.

“Look, we look at budgets – every line item gets scrutinized,” said Pat Cummings, CEO of Marketing Management Analytics in Wilton. “We are expanding a major office into Chicago, we have an office in New York. In these times we attack cost, we attack revenue, we attack efficiencies as it relates to cost and revenue … We’re still in Connecticut.”

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“I’ve been trying to buy this site since I was 12!” – Bob Scinto Robert D. Scinto, Inc. is pleased to announce that contracts have been signed for the purchase of

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Outside the box ad exposure

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emember those weeks in 2005 when parcels piled up from Amazon. com Inc. and other shippers during the holiday shopping season of 2005?

Remember chucking all those ad inserts to get at what was inside?

Well, you weren’t thinking outside the box that day.

The light bulb did not click on immediately either for the founders of Zadspace Inc., according to CEO Jeff Giordano, who leads the company following its relocation from California to Norwalk last year after securing funding from Connecticut Innovations.

After discarding several ideas, Zadspace founders Todd Outten and James Ho settled on a business of printing ads to run on shipping labels, an otherwise mostly blank slate and one that promised to grab attention like few other direct-mail pieces targeting households for specific product pitches.

People are looking for that box, the argument goes – even more so than the catalog from which they ordered it – and so a “Zad” will have a better chance at making an indelible impression. The readiest analogy Giordano he can draw to mind is Catalina Marketing, the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based company that pioneered systems to print targeted coupons on receipts as grocery shoppers check out.

“A lot of catalogers are spending more to ship packages out the door,” Giordano said.

“They are looking for ways to do free shipping; to offset their distribution costs.”

Zadspace’s system not only allows targeted ads to be attached to parcel shipments, but also promotion codes allowing marketers to track the effectiveness of those ads as orders roll in.

If a simple idea, it is not easy in practice.

“Most of our partners control their own

distribution,” Giordano said. “They are used to doing other things at fulfillment (like) putting promotions inside the package.

Most distribution centers are equipped to do a variety of tasks and functions around the box.”

Additionally, many are not equipped for full-color printing – a needed capability to make advertising most effective. Zadspace is addressing that by connecting fulfillment centers with color printer manufacturers.

Zadspace’s solution has caught the eye of at least one manager at Norwalk-based Xerox Corp., itself a major manufacturer of color printers. Christa Carone, Xerox chief marketing officer, who reportedly highlighted Zadspace’s system while addressing an audience at the DMA 2011 conference in November sponsored by the Direct Marketing Association.

Peter Longo, president of Connecticut Innovations, cites Zadspace as the best example of his organization drawing a startup with major growth potential from another state.

“Connecticut Innovations … provided more than simply capital,” Giordano said.

“They … helped us establish an infrastructure that includes accountants and lawyers.

They have been a major backstop for us.”

Giordano also credits both Connecticut’s tax credit for angel investors on any startup investments totaling $25,000 or more; and Fairfield County’s pocket of companies expert at reaching consumers, including Norwalk-based Priceline.com Inc. and Synapse Group Inc.. Synapse knows a thing or two about mailboxes – the Stamfordbased company bills itself as the largest marketer of magazine subscriptions in the country, and counts Amazon among its customers.

“We are (in) an area where Priceline grew up, where Synapse grew up,” Giordano said.

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erhaps second only to pay, it is the glue that ties business owners and their workers.

It is trust. And in Connecticut – at the extreme fringe, anyway, but maybe closer to home than you would hope – it is coming unglued in the most pernicious form.

Embezzlement.

A new study from Marquet International Ltd. listed Vermont and Connecticut as the one-two punch nationally on an “embezzlement propensity factor” index covering known cases in 2011.

When it comes to embezzlement, of course, so much is about the unknown.

Fairfield County is home to a significant financial services sector, the industry that suffered the greatest losses last year on the embezzlement front, according to Boston-based Marquet International.

But nonprofits – also a major “industry” around here – and religious groups combined accounted for one-sixth of all the incidents studied.

In other words, keep an eye on the plate wherever it is being passed.

Problem is, close to three in four of known embezzlers are the people charged with doing just that – finance, bookkeeping and accounting staff.

In all, prosecutors chased down 18 cases in Connecticut last year in which $16.7 million was stolen by people inside companies. The state had one case that registered among the top 10 nationally last year – the woman who stole more than $6 million from Waterbury-based Webster Bank and Bank of America Corp.

Other cases investigated by U.S. Attorney David Fein in the past year

involved embezzlement at Greenwichbased Clearwater Capital, Greenwich Automotive Services, Latex International in Shelton, and Omega Engineering in Stamford.

New York, meanwhile, topped the list for the highest average loss among states at approaching $2.5 million per episode.

In concocting what would become one of the more famous con-artist episodes in literary history – the King and Duke of “Huckleberry Finn” – Mark Twain imagined the swindlers floating into town just long enough to execute their schemes, then hightailing it.

Indeed, the one town where they go for the big score, they stick around one day too many and see the bag of gold slip from their grasp (of course, it is not without a smidgen of irony that Hartford’s Mark Twain House & Museum itself fell victim to an embezzlement scheme, with the perpetrator getting a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence last year).

Embezzlers baffle us due to the amount of time they work their plots among the very people that trust them – more so even than Ponzi schemers who are typically smooth-talking third parties who work to get people to trust them with their money.

The average embezzlement scheme’s duration, according to Marquet International? Five years. That’s anywhere from 130 to 260 pay and expense reimbursement runs.

Most major embezzlers appear to have been motivated by a desire to live a relatively more lavish lifestyle, rather than driven by financial woes, according to Marquet International.

Forged checks were the most preva-

lent form of embezzlement in 2011, followed by unauthorized electronic transfers and by theft of cash receipts, depending on how you stack the numbers.

Marquet International notes the most “effective” method of embezzlement two years running, however is vendor fraud, which accounts for more than twice its percentage in losses as compared to occurrences.

“Rationalization is the most elusive segment of the fraud triangle,” author Chris Marquet writes in his report.

“There is a paucity of data on this subject and we believe the psychology behind the embezzlement phenomenon must be studied further to understand what motivates certain individuals to commit these kinds of frauds.”

But we do know some, Marquet adds.

Among other motivations, embezzlers typically believe they are: • entitled to the money; • in desperate financial straits; • only borrowing the money; or • not doing anything wrong.

When a company brings a new person on board, it is a statement of implicit faith that individual will work to further the collective company’s interest.

Whether a small business or a corporate giant, that individual joins a workinghours family that could number 100 people, 10, a few.

Problem is, the embezzlers make themselves right at home.

To quote Twain’s king: “Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?”

To quote another great yarn spinner, Ronald Reagan: “Trust, but verify.”

Last fall’s special legislative session showed what can happen when Connecticut’s policymakers set politics aside and focus on jobs and economic growth.

And while the business community was encouraged by the bipartisan actions of the governor and legislature, the key is

what happens next.

As we approach the 2012 General Assembly session, it’s critical that policymakers now work together and build on last October’s initiatives by developing a healthy, competitive business climate.

Connecticut must show it can and will be business friendly and that policymakers and regulators are open to the concerns and interests of employers and their ideas

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GE Capital boosts Q4 for parent

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E Capital does not see the commercial real estate markets as healthy enough to be in buy mode, but it is leasing them – notably taking IMS Health’s former offices in Norwalk.

Earnings at GE Capital soared nearly 60 percent in the fourth quarter, as the finance arm of General Electric Co. expanded its Norwalk headquarters operation with an expanded lease for 35,000 square feet. According to the commercial broker Newmark Knight Frank, GE Capital Real Estate is taking space formerly occupied by IMS Health at 901 Main St. before that company moved its headquarters last year to Danbury.

its totaling $14.2 billion and revenue of $147.3 billion, off 2 percent from 2010.

As of Dec. 31, GE had a backlog of orders touching $200 billion, the largest in its history.

In December, GE Capital announced that it would acquire MetLife’s U.S. retail deposit business with $7.5 billion in U.S. deposits and an established online banking platform. If approved, GE Capital sees the deals as an initial step to launch a U.S. deposit platform, diversify its funding base and improve service to its middle-

“I don’t think Europe was really worse than what we expected. I think we’re preparing for a recession and that’s what we expect.”

to date, while acknowledging the uncertainty ahead.

“I don’t think Europe was really worse than what we expected,” Sherin said. “I think we’re preparing for a recession and that’s what we expect. I think, encouragingly, it looks like there’s more liquidity in the market now than there probably was even (in mid-December), but we’ll see how it all shakes out. We’re ready for a tough environment.”

Editor’s note: The reporter holds shares of GE.

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General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt reiterated plans to seek federal approval this year for GE Capital to resume dividends, even as the unit eyes new rules on capital ratios under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. In December, GE’s board approved a twocent increase in the company’s quarterly dividend to 17 cents a share, the fourth increase in the past two years.

In a conference call with investment analysts in mid-January, Immelt said federal regulators have been assessing GE Capital’s structure fully six months now.

“They are looking at our risk systems and risk teams, our risk models,” Immelt said. “They’re looking at our capital levels.

They’re looking at our liquidity and our liquidity risk management.

“It’s a ton of oversight,” Immelt acknowledged. “We’re pleased with operating results of GE Capital and ultimately that’s the proof of the pudding.”

GE Capital contributed $1.6 billion toward total General Electric earnings totaling $3.7 billion, with GE revenue dropping 8 percent to $38 billion due to the sale of a majority stake in NBC Universal to Comcast Corp.

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One area GE Capital is not currently pursuing is direct investments in commercial real estate.

“We’re not buying any properties,” Immelt said “We have done some debt investing, but we’re not buying any properties. We’re running the equity book down.”

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efficient. As recent budget projections underscore, the need to implement costsaving measures to streamline our state bureaucracy is urgent.

The size and cost of state government must be kept within taxpayers’ means by implementing efficiencies and controlling the growth of state spending. And tax policy should be leveraged to help drive economic growth, private investment, job growth, innovation, and productivity.

Year after year, Connecticut fares poorly in national surveys ranking state business climates. Some of the biggest barriers to job creation and economic growth are the high costs of doing business and the administrative burdens placed on employers.

Policymakers will restore confidence by making it easier for businesses to compete here. And that includes reforming regulatory policies, cutting red tape and promoting consistency, predictability and fairness.

Upgrading our airports, seaports, railways and highways also is vital to supporting a growing economy. Policymakers must make strategic choices to modernize our transportation infrastructures.

Gov. Dannel Malloy’s education reform

principles, which generated positive reactions from both Democrat and Republican leaders, are a sign of real progress in ensuring that every child in Connecticut has the opportunity to succeed.

The need for change has never been greater. If we’re going to compete and grow as a state, we must raise the academic performance of all students.

These priorities – making government more efficient, improving fiscal policy, reducing business costs and cutting red tape, modernizing transportation, and education reform – recognize both the state’s strengths and weaknesses.

For example, Connecticut is home to a highly skilled, highly compensated workforce, yet numerous government mandates make business costs among the highest in the country.

We live in a dynamic, global economy and we must become more competitive – just as other states are working hard to make their businesses more competitive.

It’s time to move forward and recognize that strong businesses mean plentiful jobs, a thriving economy, and more opportunities for everyone.

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Scinto snags Stew’s site

R.D. Scinto Inc. acquired a 44-acre site in Orange that was originally slated to become a Stew Leonard’s supermarket, before a small group of residents sued to block the Norwalk-based company’ project.

It marked Shelton-based R.D. Scinto’s first major announced sale since CEO Bob Scinto completed a prison sentence last year, after admitting to lying to federal agents regarding the nature of valuable gifts he gave a Shelton official.

In an advertisement for the property, Scinto offers to build to suit prospective tenants’ specs, and touts the property as “the last major development site on I-95 between Boston and the Bronx.”

Regis still a millionaire Regis Philbin, Connecticut’s most visible resident – according to the Guinness Book of World Records anyway noting Philbin’s record-setting appearances on TV – sold his longtime Greenwich home for $3 million.

Raymond and Yanina LaChance bought the home at 39 Meeting House Road in September, according to the Greenwich Time, with the property totaling 6,000 square feet on six acres. Philbin moved to another house in Greenwich a few years ago, according to reports.

Lucerne likes Greenwich Lucerne Capital Management L.L.C. is relocating from Harrison, N.Y., to Greenwich taking 3,000 square feet of space at 35 Mason St. Lucerne was represented by Darienbased Signature Group, with the building owner’s negotiations handled by Tedesco Realty Associates.

Friedman’s home sold More than four years after being slapped with a massive penalty in a high-profile pharmaceutical marketing case, the home of former Purdue Pharma CEO Michael Friedman was sold.

William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty, which brokered the transaction, said the $4.6 million sale of the 12,700-square-foot home at 69 Deer Meadow Lane was the highest price of any Stamford residence last year.

Lois Friedman was listed in documents as the seller. In a 2009 lawsuit against the U.S. government, Michael Friedman listed

69 Deer Meadow Lane as his primary residence. Michael Friedman was fined $19 million in 2007, stemming from Stamfordbased Purdue Pharma’s marketing of the Oxycontin pain medication, and was barred from participating in any federal health programs, a decision he fought in court. Purdue Pharma paid $600 million in fines.

Bread maker opens café Artisan baker Wave Hill Breads is opening its first café and market at 30 High St. in Norwalk, to include a wireless Internet hotspot and making itself available for charity and organizational events.

The company was founded in 2005 in Wilton by Mitchell Rapoport and Margaret Sapir, and added chef Michael Devlin while relocating to Norwalk last summer with the assistance of the Norwalk Redevelopment Agency. Wave Hill Breads supplies area stores, restaurants and farmers markets in Connecticut, Westchester County, N.Y., and New Jersey.

El Coyote lopes north El Coyote Mexican restaurant is opening a second location in Brookfield, also operating one in Monroe.

Commercial broker Goodfellow Ashmore CORFAC International represented both the tenant and landlord at 270 Federal Road in Brookfield, where El Coyote Mexican will occupy 3,000 square feet with a bar and outdoor seating.

Stanley Steemer sweeps in A Stratford industrial building will become a Stanley Steemer International Inc. location, its first in Fairfield County.

Stanley Steemer signed a lease for more than 10,000 square feet at 1480 Stratford Ave. Angel Commercial L.L.C represented Stanley Steemer, which offers business and residential cleaning services.

Boston buildings sold For $12 million, an affiliate of Abbey Road Advisors sold two retail buildings in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood totaling more than 13,000 square feet of space.

Westport-based Abbey Road bought the buildings in 2008.

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ask andi Mind your time One of the people who works for me keeps missing deadlines. He’s a smart contributor otherwise, so I don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. On the other hand, I know I can’t count on him to deliver when I need him to and that adds a lot of stress to both our lives.

Thoughts of the day: Meeting deadlines is a crucial business skill. Check on the underlying contributing factors. Make sure there are support systems in place and that he’s using them. Work on building skills and habits that will correct this fault.

Learning how to deliver on time is essential in business. It builds trust and confidence. People who deliver on time often get praised, even if their work is less than top notch. People who deliver late are often chastised and overlooked, no matter the quality of their work.

Start with a check in: Is your employee even aware there’s a problem with missed deadlines? Whatever you need done may have a different priority for someone else.

There’s a big difference between saying, “Finish up and get it over to me” and “Have it in my hands by 2 p.m. today.” If you’re not specific about when something is due, you’ve left it open for interpretation. That means there’s no grounds for complaint when it comes in at a different time than you expected.

End every conversation with two things – a request that the other party repeat back to you what is their understanding about the task due and agreement as to “by when.”

Here’s how that part of the conversation goes.

“What, specifically, do you have to do, to meet this deadline?” Listen carefully to be sure you and the employee are agreeing to the same task to be completed and the same timeline. Finish up with, “And when will you have it done and on my desk?”

Discuss what to do if there are any problems along the way. Who should the employee check in with for instructions.

Emphasize the importance of early notification if there is a problem. In the beginning, you may want to have a midway check in to make sure that the employee is watching the clock. “Get back to me by noon, to let me know where you are, what still has to be done, to hit your time.”

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Make sure there’s a calendar in use, preferably on the computer. Is everything in it, including projects, to-dos, phone calls? Are things checked off when they’re complete?

Some employees get into trouble because they wait until the last minute to tell someone that a deadline will be missed. Explain that other people are depending on them to come through. Early notice on missed deadlines will help others plan work-arounds.

Most of us get overwhelmed with too many things on our plates. Take a look at what’s on your employee’s list. Take a few items off and see if they do better at delivering on time of what’s left.

If you’re not specific about when something is due, you’ve left it open for interpretation. That means there’s no grounds for complaint when it comes in at a different time than you expected.

Some employees, with the best of intentions and the worst of outcomes, want to be helpful. They keep saying, “Yes, I can do that, too,” even when there’s no way they can get to everything they’ve agreed to do. Before adding another project, ask the employee to review what they already have to do. Teach the employee to say, “I’d love to help you, but there’s no way I can do that, unless something else comes off the list.”

Check if it’s only one employee with a problem delivering on time, or many. There may be too much to do and not enough people. In that case, you’ll have to prioritize what truly needs to get done and what gets delayed. Consider bringing in another employee to chip away at the delay list.

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net,” said Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. “But for too long how we work with the nonprofit community has caused unnecessary delays and wasted time on their end and on ours. We are working to change that and focus on getting services to the people who need them.”

A Norwalk office building has a new owner.

SBA opened disaster centers throughout the state following Tropical Storm Irene and the October nor’easter. Credit: Jocelyn Augustino.

SBA to join Commerce President Obama plans to consolidate six federal agencies charged with promoting business prospects into one, including the Small Business Administration.

SBA backed loans totaling $282 million in Connecticut in the fiscal year ending in October, up 40 percent from fiscal 2010.

SBA would temporarily be elevated to a cabinet-level position in the Obama administration, before being subsumed into an expanded Department of Commerce. Four agencies charged with developing international trade would also join the Department of Commerce – the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corp. and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.

The federal government is also planning a BusinessUSA website to help companies export.

“Instead of forcing small-business owners to navigate the six departments … we’ll have one department,” Obama said in a midJanuary address. “One place where entrepreneurs can go from the day they come up with an idea and need a patent, to the day they start building a warehouse, to the day they’re ready to ship their products overseas.”

Easier contract process?

The Connecticut Office of Policy and Management plans to streamline and modernize the contracting process for nonprofits that deal with multiple state agencies addressing health and human services.

“Connecticut’s nonprofits serve over three million people each year and they play a substantial role in maintaining our safety

Xerox has expanded its outsourced business process offerings to companies like Michelin. Credit: Xerox Corp.

Outsourcing up, down U.S. outsourcing contracts tapered significantly last year even as the global market hit record levels, according to Information Services Group, a Stamford-based company that helps other businesses assess their outsourcing opportunities.

In the United States, ISG estimated total outsourcing contract value fell by 20 percent from 2010, despite an increase in the actual number of contracts signed. ISG said while the volume of mega-deals remains steady in the past decade, those valued at less than $100 million have tripled.

Among specific industries, financial services surged on the outsourcing front, particularly in the area of business processes offloaded to other companies.

Major outsourced services providers based in Fairfield County include Xerox Corp. in Norwalk, Pitney Bowes Inc. in Stamford and Cartus Corp. in Danbury.

Forensics firm to move Computer forensics firm Stroz Friedberg L.L.C. reportedly moved an office from Westport to Westchester County, N.Y. Stroz Friedberg took more than 8,000 square feet of space in Purchase, according to a report in the Journal News, which identified it as Stroz Friedberg’s headquarters. On its website, Stroz Friedberg lists an Avenue of the Americas address in New York City as its main office; it has had an office at 1175 Post Road East in Westport.

Norwalk building sold

Innovation finalists

For $11 million, LNR Partners sold a 175,000-square-foot office building in Norwalk to KABR Real Estate Investment Partners and Blackpoint Partners.

LNR acquired the property in a foreclosure, with the previous owner having obtained loans to buy the building for $26.5 million. The building is currently 43 percent leased, according to CB Richard Ellis.

KABR and Blackpoint said they planned to take advantage of the low purchase price to offer below-market rents to prospective tenants and potentially seek a “quick turnaround,” in their words.

“We believe this could be the first of many terrific opportunities for Blackpoint and KABR in the Fairfield County office market,” Saul Scherl, cofounder of Blackpoint, said in a statement.

Blackpoint has its main office in New York City and KABR in Paramus, N.J.

Four Fairfield County executives and three students are finalists in the Connecticut Technology Council’s annual Women of Innovation awards.

Local finalists include: • Jyl Camhi of Great Play in Stamford; • Mary-Ellen Devlin of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Ridgefield; • Elizabeth Garypie of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. in Stratford; • Sigal Zarmi of GE Capital in Norwalk; • Morgan Jordan, an Easton resident and student at Joel Barlow High School; • Maeva Metz, a student at Brookfield High School; and • Robyn Stanco, a Brookfield High School student.

CTC scheduled an awards event for March 1 at Aqua Turf Club in Southington.

The keynote speaker is Alicia Abella, executive director of the innovative services research department at AT&T Labs.

GE Capital’s Zarmi herself delivered the keynote address at the 2008 Women of Innovation awards.

SAC worker charged The FBI arrested a trader with SAC Capital, marking the first time a current employee with the Stamford-based hedge fund will face charges in a massive and ongoing investigation of insider trading.

John Horvath was arrested in New York, where he works for SAC affiliate Sigma Capital Management.

Also arrested was Anthony Chiasson, founder of Level Global Investors whose Greenwich office was raided last year by federal investigators.

Free tax prep software The Free File Alliance, a coalition of the Internal Revenue Service and tax software companies, launched the 2012 IRS Free File providing lower income people with free access to online commercial tax preparation software.

Any taxpayer with a 2011 adjusted gross income of $57,000 or less may prepare, and e-file their federal tax returns at no cost.

Information is available at www.irs.gov/ freefile with the service also available in Spanish.

New deal for LDH Energy Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy L.L.C. acquired a natural gas-fired peaking facility outside Dallas from Signal Hill Power L.L.C. Stamford-based LDH Energy said the deal marked the first time it has invested in a power generation facility, with previous investments focused on “midstream” energy assets.

Passur revenue takes off After maintaining a holding pattern in 2010, Passur Aerospace Inc. closed out its 2011 fiscal year with a 24 percent gain in revenue.

The Stamford-based company furnishes flight departure and arrival times and other data to air carriers and private corporations, pinpointing aircraft position through broadcast signals and other “passive radar” that reflect off fuselages.

In the fiscal year ending October 2011, Passur earned $2.6 million on $13.6 million in revenue.

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– Compiled by Alexander Soule.

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THE LIST

RANKED BY NUMBER OF FULL-TIME STUDENTS. LISTED ALPHABETICALLY IN EVENT OF TIE.

Colleges and Universities COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

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Rank

Ranked by number of full-time students. Listed alphabetically in event of tie.

Name, address, phone number Area code: 203 (unless otherwise noted) Website

President Admissions director(s) Email address Year college established

Number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in 2011-2012

Number of campuses within the county

Full-time/ part-time faculty

Total number of employees within the county

1

Norwalk Community College

2

Southern Connecticut State University*

3

Quinnipiac University*

4

University of Hartford *

5

Post University

6

Western Connecticut State University

7

Sacred Heart University

8

Fairfield University

9

University of New Haven*

188 Richards Ave., Norwalk 06854 857-7060 • ncc.commnet.edu

501 Crescent St., New Haven 06515 392-SCSU • southernct.edu

275 Mount Carmel Ave., Hamden 06518 (800) 482-1944 • quinnipiac.edu

200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford 06117 (860) 768-4100 • hartford.edu

800 Country Club Road, Waterbury 06723 (800) 345-2562 • post.edu

181 White St., Danbury 06810 (203) 837-9000 • wcsu.edu

5151 Park Ave., Fairfield 06825 371-7999 • sacredheart.edu

1073 N. Benson Road, Fairfield 06824 254-4000 ext. 3479 • fairfield.edu

300 Boston Post Road, West Haven 06516 (800) 342-5864 • newhaven.edu

10

University of Bridgeport

11

Housatonic Community College

12

University of Connecticut at Stamford

126 Park Ave., Bridgeport 06604 576-4000 • bridgeport.edu

900 Lafayette Blvd., Bridgeport 06604 332-5100 • hcc.commnet.edu

1 University Place, Stamford 06901 251-8400 • stamford.uconn.edu

University of Phoenix Fairfield County campus 535 Connecticut Ave., Norwalk 06854 523-4700 • phoenix.edu

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Rensselaer -- Hartford Campus* 275 Windsor St., Hartford 06120 (860) 548-2400 • ewp.rpi.edu

David L. Levinson Ph.D. Bill Chagnon admissions@ncc.commnet.edu 1961

Type of institution

Full-time tuition ($)

nonboarding semester

graduate per credit

8,042

1 700

140 400

1,703

No graduate program

Public, two-year, undergraduate college

0 N/A

438 More than 600

4,124 (in state)

521

Four-year and graduate public university

1893

7,254 undergraduate 938 graduate

Dr. John Lahey Joan Issac-Mohr admissions@quinnipiac.edu 1929

6000 undergraduate 2000 graduate

3 1,400

307 567

875

Private university

Walter Harrison Richard Zeiser uofhart@hartford.edu 1957

5,323

0 N/A

347 501

Varies by program

Private niversity

Tom Samph Ph.D. Jay Murray admissions@post.edu 1890

4,855 undergraduate 779 graduate

500 - 695 (range)

Four-year university with master's program

Dr. James Schmotter Steven Goetsch pr@wcsu.edu 1903

4,845

John J. Petillo Ph.D. Jamie P. Romeo 1963

4,256

3 1,229

234 236

16,237

Jeffrey P. von Arx S.J. Ph.D. Karen Pellegrino rsudhakar@fairfield.edu 1942

4,176

1 790

258 289

19,995

Steven H. Kaplan Ph.D. Kevin Phillips 1920

4,119 undergraduate 986 graduate

0 60

212 359

15,250

Neil Albert Salonen Bryan Gross admit@bridgeport.edu 1927

2,941

2 781

124 349

12,600

Anita T. Gliniecki Deloris Y. Curtis 1966

2,096

1 WND

WND

1,548

No graduate program

969

1 180

49 75

8,256 in state 25,152 out of state

554 in state 1,438 out of state

Public university

1 WND

WND

Varies by program

Varies by program

Private university

0 N/A

20 12

No undergraduate program

1,480

Dr. Mary A. Papazian Paula Kennedy (associate director of admissions)

2 435 full time and part time (including adjunct instructors)

Carol Mills (campus admissions officer) 1956 Dr. Bill Pepicello Nancy Pluzdrak (campus director) 1976/2006 locally Shirley Ann Jackson Ph.D. Admissions committee info@ewp.rpi.edu 1955

14,720

24,800

24 435

(main campus program)

495 (per undergraduate credit, online accelerated degree program)

2,062 2 954

227 330

in state

6,673 out of state

Dr. Sharon White (campus director)

19,000

285 instate 291 out of state

Four-year public, comprehensive unidversity

Varies by program

Private nonprofit, Roman Catholic university

600 - 875 (per hour)

750

540 - 700 (range)

Private university

Nonprofit private university

Nonprofit private university

Community college

1,100 total number of enrolled students (including full time and part time)

5

* College has no campuses in Fairfield County but is included because it serves the Fairfield County community. • N/A Not applicable. • WND Would not disclose.

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Graduate degree and certificate programs

SPECIAL REPORT Higher Education

Kevin Plancher created Orthopaedic Foundation for Active Lifestyles Inc. to spur training and interest in orthopedics, while attracting big-name supporters.

BY ALEXANDER SOULE casoule@westfairinc.com

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Hands-on hands training

any take lending a hand to students as a source of personal pride. Few take things as far as Kevin Plancher.

The surgeon created the Orthopaedic Foundation for Active Lifestyles Inc. in 2004 to help advance local training in orthopedic medicine. In addition to renting out an instructional facility to practicing doctors, OFALS runs a “bioskills” lab to interest high school students in the profession – with students allowed to operate on model hands formed from synthetic tissue.

“The idea was create an organization to, one: educate doctors who couldn’t afford to travel by building them a local teaching lab, and two: build a program for children to be a doctor for a day. Let them operate with real knives and … tissue.”

OFALS rents out its bioskills laboratory as an alternative to commercial or university facilities for groups with medical lab needs. The organization has participated in two active clinical trials, one sponsored by Pfizer Inc. that compared its Celebrex anti-inflammatory drug against over-the-counter alternatives such as ibuprofen. OFALS is also one of six U.S. sites participating in a five-year study of a new product from Zimmer,

cartilage “plugs” use to fill in arthritic lesions in the knee.

OFALS also runs: • sports medicine and athletic training programs for high school students; • self-management health education programs for arthritis sufferers; • seminars on preventing sports injuries; • rehabilitation programs for “weekend warriors;” and • anatomy and physiology lectures for medical and nursing schools to give their students off campus continuing education credit opportunities.

Plancher says OFALS remains one of the few privately operated medical labs not affiliated with any major university. The most famous, at least among sports buffs, is James Andrews and his Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center in Birmingham Ala., famed for diagnosing pitching injuries – in 2010 at its annual gala fundraiser, OFALS awarded Andrews its annual “excellence in sports medicine” award recognizing the surgeon’s contributions to the field.

In just seven years even while running his own Plancher Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine practice in New York City and Greenwich, Plancher has cobbled together for OFALS a group of advisers and supporters that would be the envy of far-more established nonprofits.

OFALS’ medical advisory board includes Michael Kaplan, ESPN’s lead medical correspondent and an instructor at Yale University’s orthopedics department, and Carl Nissen, an associate professor at the University of Connecticut who lead’s UConn’s sports medicine area.

Richard Berman, the former president of Manhattanville College in Westchester County, N.Y., also is a board member, with Plancher Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine the college’s official team physician.

Plancher has drawn other big names to support OFALS during its growth. For its seventh anniversary gala in November, the folk-rock group America played a set, with Martha Stewart in attendance; at the previous year’s event, tennis great John McEnroe lent his support along with former New York City Mayor David Dinkins.

Plancher will take all the support he can get – through 2009, the most recent year that the IRS has published OFALS’ annual reports online, the organization has never exceeded $600,000 in annual gifts.

“2011 was a difficult year, although we exceeded and surpassed our goals,” Plancher said. “Funding changed in the medical world; there are new rules and regulations for medical companies. They are no longer allowed to do certain things.”

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Looking ahead on college campuses

e asked a sampling of area college presidents about their schools’ goals for the new year. Here are their replies:

and helping our communities meet the challenges of the future.”

– Jeffrey P. von Arx, president, Fairfield University

“Fairfield University has set an ambitious goal for itself, and that is to be a leader in the renewal of Jesuit higher education for the 21st century. Broadly speaking, this means creating the kind of learning environment that fosters the development of the ‘whole person,’ helping our young men and women to reach their intellectual, moral and spiritual potential and thereby preparing them to be leaders in a time of dramatic global transformation. At the same time our professional programs in nursing, business, education and engineering are infused with our commitment to be of service to the common good, and to form professionals who want to serve their fellow men and women. In addition, we are always looking for ways that we may be more fully engaged locally. The university strives to be integral to the intellectual and cultural life of the region and we are keenly interested in becoming a center of learning that serves the professional and business community in the area

“As Southern’s new president, I am excited about what the future holds for the next year.

I hope to build upon the many accomplishments the university has made in numerous arenas as we position ourselves to address the ongoing challenges facing Southern and all state universities in these uncertain economic times. In this context, I look forward to working with our faculty, staff, alumni, and community and business colleagues to increase enrollment, improve our academic standards and begin working on a strategic plan to help us establish our priorities in the coming years. Southern is a major contributor to the regional and state economy with the vast majority of our graduates continuing to live and work in Connecticut. As such, it is important for us to enhance our students’ preparation for success in the knowledge economy of the 21st century so that we can better meet the changing workforce needs of Connecticut (and beyond). In turn, this will help bolster Connecticut’s competitiveness

in an increasingly competitive world, and at the same, ensures that our students have the tools and knowledge they need to launch successful careers and become engaged citizens in our democracy.”

– Mary A. Papazian, president, Southern Connecticut State University “The University of New Haven has been on an upward trajectory for the past few years with dramatic increases in enrollment, significant increases in the quality of the student body, and the completion of more than $110 million in new campus facilities. For 2012, we will strive to build on this momentum and further transform the university. This year, we anticipate securing funding for a new science building and a residence hall, continuing to work with New Haven on the preparation for the construction of a new $63 million engineering and science magnet school, and launching an innovatively redesigned EMBA program.”

– Steven H. Kaplan, president, University of New Haven

“In 2012, Quinnipiac University will begin to recruit the first class for the Frank H. Netter, M.D., School of Medicine, which is scheduled to

open in the Fall of 2013. In addition, Quinnipiac will add engineering to its academic offerings this fall. The new engineering department, which will offer course in civil, mechanical, industrial and software engineering, will eventually grow into the School of Engineering.”

– John L. Lahey, president, Quinnipiac University “Norwalk Community College’s goals include building upon its solid foundation as an educational institution of excellence, and positioning the college to meet the needs of students and the community. We recently opened our new Center for Science, Health and Wellness – a model of green building practices – and are poised in the coming year to integrate advanced technology into all our health care programs. NCC is committed to providing excellence in academics, being responsive to workforce needs, utilizing innovative technology and engaging our community partners. We will carefully manage our campus growth while expanding our role in promoting environmental sustainability.”

– David L. Levinson, president, Norwalk Community College and interim vice president, Connecticut State Colleges and Universities

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Innovation in flux

BY ALEXANDER SOULE casoule@westfairinc.com

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conomic uncertainty is impacting global corporate innovation, according to a new innovation “barometer” from General Electric Co., with nearly nine out of 10 executives reporting reduced appetite for risk.

GE’s study arrived even as authors of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor conversely said early stage business formation is surging both in the United States and overseas. The study is published by a consortium led by Babson College in Massachusetts and other institutions.

In Connecticut, after a tepid first quarter in 2011 the state finished the year with a 2 percent gain in new companies, according to the Connecticut secretary of state’s office, which maintains records on business incorporations.

In December, however, the number of companies pulling the plug spiked more than 60 percent from the year before, a worrisome signal entering the New Year.

Connecticut ranked 30th nationally on a 2010 entrepreneurship index published by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, trailing New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. And as reported by the Fairfield County Business Journal earlier this month, patent applications published

by Fairfield County inventors last year fell to their lowest level since 2002.

In a bid to increase entrepreneurship, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy unveiled multiple new sources of state funding last year – perhaps most critically a revamped tax credit for angel investments in startups, featuring a minimum $25,000 investment rather than the previous floor of $100,000. The state is also providing its Connecticut Innovations venture capital fund with fresh funding to poach startups from other states.

Fairfield-based GE surveyed some 3,000 executives in 22 countries, who cited the United States as the world’s most innovative nation, followed by Germany, Japan and China.

“Investing in innovation is a critical piece of global competitiveness and it comes in many forms – from traditional R&D to new products, markets and business models,” said Beth Comstock, chief marketing officer of GE, in a prepared statement. “Cutbacks today will have reverberations on economic and social progress for years to come, and may seriously hinder a company’s ability to compete. Governments and businesses both need to do their part to shore up the fragile innovation ecosystem.”

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Higher Education

Paying for school: Fees go up, but schools offer more help

BY MARY SHUSTACK mshustack@westfairinc.com

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t’s getting more expensive to do just about anything these days and that includes going to college.

In Connecticut, the Board of Regents for Higher Education of Connecticut State Colleges & Universities earlier this month voted to raise tuition at most of its public schools (four state universities and 12 community colleges) at rates between 3 and 4 percent.

In addition, the University of Connecticut last month announced an increase of tuition and fees of 4.5 percent annually over the next four years, while also planning to add some 300 faculty members during that timeframe.

While students will have to pay more for their education, what many may not realize is that the schools are often more than sympathetic to their plight.

Increasingly, schools are putting the spotlight on opportunities for students to get grants and scholarships, pointing them toward financial-aid help and stepping up counseling efforts.

Elizabeth Sullivan, Sacred Heart University’s vice provost for admissions and

financial assistance, said that “At this point in our budget development cycle for next year, we are reviewing our tuition cost as well as our ongoing level of financial aid support. Higher education is perhaps the most important investment students and their families will ever make, and it is one that will pay great dividends and bring a lifetime of returns. At Sacred Heart, our financial aid staff members work in partnership with our students and their families to ensure that they understand the guidelines for applying for aid and the real costs of college. They are also available to provide budget and financial literacy coaching.”

She said, “We are confident that a Sacred Heart education is extremely valuable and statistics bear that out. For example, even in this challenging economy 96 percent of our graduates have either secured jobs or gone on to graduate school. And our four-year graduation rate exceeds the national average for all institutions, public and private.”

At least one other Fairfield County school has things well in hand to also help students be able to continue to afford their schooling.

Pamela Edington, provost and dean of academic affairs for Norwalk Community

College, said her students, as at all public community colleges in Connecticut, will face a 3.1 percent increase, which translates to $108 per year for in-state students. The Regents’ ruling will mean undergraduates at state universities will pay 3.8 percent more, or $315, for commuters or 3.7 percent more, or $676, for residential students.

Edington said that having to pass more of the cost to the students is simply a reality “with the economic downturn and the reduction in the state allocation to the community colleges.”

“Unfortunately the tuition increases are just part of the landscape,” she said. “We need those to open our buildings and hire our faculty and staff.”

But, she said, that doesn’t mean the institutions are not ready to offer more concrete help to students in need. Instead, she says, current and future students should look to their schools as “a resource to help.”

Edington said plans are continuing for the school to work on its internal processes that determine “the way that we bring students into the college.”

In meetings and school brochures, there is a push to offer more detailed information about payment plans and financial-aid

options, she said.

Sessions have also been held to offer both individual and group counseling to incoming students to make them aware of all the help available to them.

One example is the school’s participation in College Goal Sunday (held this year Jan. 29).

The free afternoon, she said, offers “the opportunity for families to come and get assistance with filling out financial-aid applications … regardless to what college they intend to apply to.”

It’s a process, she notes, that will point out both federal programs and grant options and help guide them through a process that can be “pretty complicated.”

In addition, Edington adds, the college’s foundation remains an active force in helping students meet their tuitions.

“The Norwalk Community College Foundation donated $800,000 in scholarship aid to our students in the past year,” she said.

“I think the bottom line to communicate to people (is) getting a credential.”

“You always hope that finances are not the determining factor in keeping them from advancing their life. Our mission is to provide access to higher education.”

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Academic abstracts

Space Grants

The Connecticut Space Grant Consortium awarded $5,000 grants to multiple students at the University of Bridgeport, who are working with faculty to develop new technologies in conjunction with area companies.

Matthew Breland is developing solar cells that can provide sufficient power for broadband communications on spacecraft. Manuel Curillo is developing new engineering curricula and facilities to support NASA-sponsored engineering competitions at the campus – including a small lab to emulate lunar and Martian surfaces. And Edwin Gravrand is investigating technology that recognizes environmental sounds and noise.

Media Lab West The Westport Arts Center is opening a new media lab in a 42 Main St. loft space, with courses available covering film, animation and photography.

Faculty include Bridget Dalen of

Fairfield University’s media center, photography instructor Michael Elsden and Evan Pullman Neidich, a mixed-media artist and animator who teaches comics, animation and drawing at the Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County and Darien Arts Center.

SHU Sacred Heart University Prof. Peter Maresco is representing the Fairfield school’s Welch College of Business this spring in a campus-wide “research showcase.”

Maresco is scheduled to lecture March 14 on his research while writing a book titled “The Business of Christianity: The Growing Market for All Things Christian.”

“It’s a fascinating topic,” Maresco said in a statement. “The Christian marketplace ranges from a Christian wrestling organization to movies, T-shirts, dolls, candy and more.”

– Alexander Soule

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New direction for state arts funding I’ve written before about “creative placemaking,” mentioning how the National Endowment for the Arts and ArtPlace, a national grant program, are encouraging cities to use the arts to enhance their communities and create cross-sector partnerships. Now the Connecticut Office of the Arts is rolling out its new directions for arts funding with the creative place-making model at the core of the new plan.

The Connecticut Office of the Arts will be presenting a series of public forums throughout the state to communicate the new direction to the arts and cultural community and to engage constituents in a planning discussion regarding the reorganization of programs and services for fiscal year 2013. Christopher “Kip” Bergstrom, DECD’s deputy commissioner, and his staff will be present. There will be time for a Q&A and public comment, and small-group breakout sessions to exchange ideas about constituent needs. This will offer an opportunity to add the public’s experience and wisdom in developing the new direction on arts-based place-making.

The rationale behind the changes as expressed by Bergstrom is that art makes great places. Great places attract great talent. Great talent creates great jobs. In order to strengthen and align the effectiveness and impact of arts and cultural organizations, artists and emerging groups, and to focus outcomes on collaborative activities that create jobs and revitalize communities, the new direction of the Connecticut Office of the Arts granting will change.

The regional forum for Fairfield County will be hosted by the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County at 10 a.m. Feb. 8 at the Westport Country Playhouse. To register, go to cultureandtourism.org

Ryan Odinak, Executive Director Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County

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Join us Feb. 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., for food and music featuring Rob Silvan at the Sara Victoria Hall Auditorium, 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan. Silvan has been creating music in new ways for more than 30 years. His group plays jazz, that is if you allow the term jazz to mean “an international cross blending of standards, current waves, tropical styles, original composition and improvisation, and whatever else may come up in the moment.” He will be performing as a soloist, doing everything from jazz to popular, all with romantic overtones.

Reservations are required. Tickets are $20 for members; $25 for nonmembers. For more information, call 966-9700, ext. 22, or visit silvermineart.org

Rob Silvan

CALLING ALL CAMPERS The Greenwich Historical Society is now taking reservations for its History and Art Summer Camp. The program is based at Bush-Holley Historic Site, the historical society’s headquarters. The camp offers a highly interactive, two-week experience designed to utilize the artifacts and original art in Bush-Holley House, Greenwich’s only National Historic Landmark.

As a dual interpretation museum, the house illustrates two distinct time periods: the new nation era, 1790 to 1825, and the period from the late 1800s to early 1900s when the site was home to America’s first art colony. While at the site, which also features period gardens, campers focus on colonial history for their first week and study art during the second. Sessions

are fun, challenging and age appropriate. A field trip and a Friday Parents Day are part of each week’s schedule. The professional staff includes museum educators and counselors who have a special interest in art and history. Re-enactors, working artists, musicians and guest educators round out the leadership team. Activities vary by age group but may include games, baking, soap and candle making, weaving, acting and role playing. Art instruction encompasses painting, pastels, sculpture, origami and photography.

Art shows and performances cap off each session. To learn more about the camp and to download a brochure, visit greenwichhistory.org or call camp director Jaime Villaneda at 869-6899, ext. 31.

DARIEN CASTING CALL The mission of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County is to support cultural organizations, artists and creative businesses by providing promotion, services and advocacy.

For more information, visit CulturalAllianceFC.org or email infoCulturalAllianceFC.org or call 256-2329.

For events lists, visit FCBuzz.org.

The Darien Arts Center’s (DAC) Cabaret Theatre will have auditions for its upcoming production of the musical, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” directed by Stefanie DeLeo and music directed by Dwayne Condon Monday and Tuesday evening, Jan. 30 and 31 at 7 p.m. The auditions will be held in the DAC Stefanie DeLeo Visual Arts Studio (in back of the Darien Town Hall), 2 Renshaw Road, Darien. For infor-

mation, call 655-8683 or email dacadmin@darienarts.org. Performances run two weekends, Fridays and Saturdays, April 13, 14, 20, and 21. Producing is Anne Wright of Darien, and Linda Wilson of Stamford. Please prepare 16 bars of music that demonstrate vocal range. You should bring a headshot and resume to Dwayne Condon the audition, as well as sheet music in your key range. Music will not be transposed.

Visit FCBuzz.org for more information on events and how to get listed.

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Unilever, Ryan renew leases

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n a pair of transactions exceeding 100,000 square feet of space, Unilever and Ryan Partnership renewed leases in Trumbull and Wilton respectively.

Unilever has had a longtime presence in Trumbull, where it focuses on developing personal care products like Pond’s, Dove, Q-Tips, and Vaseline among myriad offerings from the London-based giant. It is one of a half-dozen major research and development centers for Unilever and its only major R&D site in the United States; in 2008, the company consolidated operations in Trumbull that previously were in Edgewater, N.J. and Rolling Meadows, Ill., while relocating its U.S. food product headquarters from Greenwich to Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Unilever’s Trumbull complex today

totals more than 500,000 square feet of space and at last report had more than 1,000 workers. The company took out a new lease on a building at 55 Merritt Blvd., with Cushman & Wakefield brokering the transaction.

Ryan Partnership, a marketing agency whose clients include Unilever, renewed a lease at 50 Danbury Road in Wilton. The company also has offices in Chicago and Westerville, Ohio.

For the first time in three years, Fairfield County companies showed signs of expanding in the fourth quarter, according to an analysis of fourth-quarter commercial real estate trends by Cushman & Wakefield.

The company went out on a limb to add that the potential for a double-dip recession appears to have passed.

“We’re still only in the preliminary stages of a full market recovery,” said Jim Fagan, senior managing director in Cushman &

Wakefield’s Stamford office. “Compared with 2009, the market is much healthier, but 2011 has certainly been a year of extreme fluctuations with vacancy levels and unemployment remaining stubbornly high. We’re confident that we’re well on our way to a full comeback, but there’s still a long road to travel.”

In addition to Unilever and Ryan, FactSet Research Systems also expanded in Norwalk, where it now has more than 600 employees according to brokers with Newmark Knight Frank, which has a Greenwich office.

Businesses and organizations leased 2.4 million square feet of space in Fairfield County in 2011, down 17 percent from the year before, but far better than the two previous years.

Cushman & Wakefield said six leases were completed in 2011 totaling 100,000 square feet. Despite the big deals, including NBC Sports Group’s massive Stamford deal in the fourth quarter, the vacancy rate in

Fairfield County climbed to 20.4 percent, its highest level since 2002.

Vacancy rates varied widely across the county – for instance in the town of Fairfield, just 5,000 square feet of class-A office space are available in a market with more than 1 million square feet of total space. At the other end of the range, Danbury’s office vacancy rate now tops 27 percent.

Despite that fact, landlords have increased their average asking rental rates, by more than a dollar through the course of 2011 to nearly $36 a square foot.

Greenwich remains the most expensive place to get office space, though its $54-plus per square foot price remains a bargain compared to the average rate exceeding $76 in 2007.

Historically low interest rates have helped even poorly performing buildings continue to operate, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

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on the record Bankruptcies The following petition was filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Bridgeport. Chapter 11 indicates the filer intends to submit a plan of reorganization to the court. Chapter 7 indicates a liquidation of assets.

Elm Knoll Farm L.L.C., 294 E. Canaan Road, East Canaan.

Chapter 12 (family farmer bankruptcy), filed Jan. 13, case no.

12-50057. Assets: $1 million to $10 million. Liabilities: $1 million to $10 million. Type of business: limited liability company.

Debtor’s attorney: Anthony S. Novak, Lobo & Novak L.L.P., Manchester.

Building Permits

Negron, Amilcar, Stamford, contractor for Peter Ozols & Son Inc. Perform interior alterations at an existing commercial building, 168 Connecticut Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $104,000.

Filed Jan. 5.

Capital Construction, Norwalk, contractor for Rich-Taubman Associates. Fit out an existing commercial space for tenant The Art of Shaving at 100 Greyrock Place, Stamford. Estimated cost: $117,000. Filed Jan. 12.

Ninety-Three East Avenue L.L.C. Perform alterations and renovations at an existing commercial building, 93 East Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $450,000. Filed Jan. 10.

Capital Equities West Avenue L.L.C. Fit out an existing commercial space for tenant World Health Clinicians at 618 West Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $162,000. Filed Dec. 29.

Pinnacle Construction Group, Stamford, contractor for Darien Station Associates. Perform renovations at an existing commercial building, 20 West Ave., Darien.

Estimated cost: $150,000. Filed Dec. 19.

Avarado, Hector. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 10 Burwell St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $80,000. Filed Jan. 10.

Stamford Hospitality L.P. Perform alterations at an existing commercial building, 2701 Summer St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $750,000. Filed Jan. 18.

Barchetta Construction L.L.C., Sandy Hook, contractor for Rebecca and Samuel Howe. Construct an addition at an existing single-family residence, 84 Shorefront Park, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $330,000. Filed Jan. 10.

Clark Construction, Ridgefield, contractor for Wee Burn Country Club. Perform interior alterations at an existing commercial building, 410 Hollow Tree Ridge Road, 345 Ely L.L.C./SoNo Court As- Darien. Estimated cost: $50,000. sociates. Perform interior altera- Filed Dec. 8. tions at an existing commercial building, 345 Ely Ave., Norwalk.

Consultants, Estimated cost: $576,000. Filed Construction Stamford, contractor for HPHV Jan. 10.

Direct L.L.C. Perform interior demolition at an existing comA. Pappajohn Co., Norwalk, mercial building, 290 Harbor contractor for Darien YMCA. Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: Construct a foundation for a new $52,000. Filed Jan. 17. commercial building at 2420 Boston Post Road, Darien. Estimated Fairfield Merrittview L.P. Fit cost: $350,000. Filed Jan. 5. out an existing commercial space for tenant Assignment Ready at 383 Main Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $200,000. Filed Dec. 21.

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Residential

BLT Management L.L.C., Norwalk, contractor for One Harbor Point Square L.L.C. Fit out an existing commercial space for tenant Walgreens at 2200 Summer St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $81,775. Filed Jan. 17.

Malkin Construction Corp., Stamford, contractor for First Stamford Place SPE L.L.C. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, 151 Greenwich Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $66,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Merritt 7 Venture L.L.C. Fit out an existing commercial space for tenant Fact Set at 501 Merritt 7, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $1.4 million. Filed Dec. 28.

Apazidos, Christos. Convert an existing three-family residence to two-family at 15 Myrtle St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $350,000.

Filed Dec. 30.

Augustyniak, Grzegorz. Construct additions and perform alterations at an existing singlefamily residence, 201 Scribner Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $120,000. Filed Dec. 22.

Stieger, Mary. Re-roof an existing commercial building at 11 Baylis, Lois and Robert BayBelden Ave., Norwalk. Estimated lis. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family cost: $106,000. Filed Jan. 11. residence, 116 Delafield Island, Darien. Estimated cost: $100,000.

Truchoose L.L.C. Fit out an ex- Filed Dec. 28. isting commercial space for tenant Laundry Basket of Norwalk at 15 Cross St., Norwalk. Estimated Beyman, Jonathan. Perform interior renovations at an existing cost: $65,000. Filed Dec. 20. single-family residence, 1 Singing Woods Court, Norwalk. EstimatTurner Construction Co., ed cost: $50,000. Filed Jan. 11.

Sandy Hook, contractor for One Stamford Realty L.P. Perform interior renovations at an existing Charles Shafer Construction, commercial building, 201 Tresser contractor for Dawn and Mark Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: Crouch. Construct additions and perform alterations at an existing $56,000. Filed Jan. 18. single-family residence, 8 Garden City Road, Darien. Estimated Wee Burn Country Club. Con- cost: $150,000. Filed Dec. 6. struct additions and perform alterations at an existing commercial building, 410 Hollow Tree Dayton Builders L.L.C., Old Ridge Road, Darien. Estimated Greenwich, contractor for Candace and Michael Jemiolo. Percost: $55,000. Filed Dec. 19. form interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 508 Fairfield Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $78,000. Filed Jan. 10.

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ERI Building & Design L.L.C., Darien, contractor for Frank Hawkins. Construct additions and perform alterations at an existing single-family residence, 4 Seagate Road, Darien. Estimated cost: $250,000. Filed Dec. 1.

Improta, Dave, West Redding, contractor for John Herbert.

Construct additions and perform alterations at an existing singlefamily residence, 4 Hollister Lane, Darien. Estimated cost: $50,000.

Filed Dec. 13.

Ericson Construction, New Canaan, contractor for Nikia Jones.

Perform alterations at an existing single-family residence, 1155 Shippan Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $55,595. Filed Jan. 10.

Kearney, Frederick. Construct additions and perform alterations at an existing single-family residence, 8 Victoria Lane, Stamford.

Estimated cost: $343,916. Filed Jan. 17.

Fox Hill Builders, Darien, contractor for Bloom. Construct additions and perform alterations at an existing single-family residence, 80 Raymond St., Darien.

Estimated cost: $80,000. Filed Dec. 20.

McGovern, John, Stamford, contractor for Jocelyn and Peter Graseck. Construct additions and perform alterations at an existing single-family residence, 14 Phillips Lane, Darien. Estimated cost: $200,000. Filed Dec. 20.

Fox Hill Builders, Darien, contractor for Elizabeth Berry. Construct additions and perform alterations at an existing singlefamily residence, 26 Brush Island Road, Darien. Estimated cost: $250,000. Filed Nov. 22.

Michael Greenberg & Associates L.L.C., Westport, contractor for Michael Greenberg. Construct a foundation for a new single-family residence, 22 Shorehaven Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $72,500. Filed Dec. 20.

Fox Hill Builders, Darien, contractor for Jerre and Lawrence Skeats. Construct additions and perform alterations at an existing single-family residence, 25 Highfield Lane, Darien. Estimated cost: $210,000. Filed Jan. 11.

Milewski, Michael. Construct a new single-family residence, 47 Gerik Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $609,780. Filed Jan. 10.

Pasciak, Marek, Stamford, contractor for Melina Brown.

Construct a new single-famFox Hill Builders, Darien, con- ily residence, 1244 Riverbank tractor for Karen and Michael Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: Kuehler. Perform interior altera- $941,000. Filed Jan. 10. tions at an existing single-family residence, 7 Whaling Road, Darien. Estimated cost: $420,000. Quality of Living Builders, Darien, contractor for Hilary Filed Nov. 22. and Charles Jackson. Construct an addition at an existing singleFox Hill Builders, Darien, con- family residence, 83 Maywood tractor for Michael Grigorich. Road, Darien. Estimated cost: Perform interior renovations at $85,000. Filed Jan. 4. an existing single-family residence, 41 Buttonwood Lane, Darien. Estimated cost: $500,000. S&W Building, Norwalk, contractor for Christina and Stephen Filed Dec. 7.

Karper. Construct an accessory building at an existing singleHannah, Emily. Perform inte- family residence, 7 Englewood rior renovations at an existing Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: single-family residence, 27 South $104,000. Filed Dec. 27.

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on the record Scalise, Jeff, Wilton, contractor for Spengler. Construct additions and perform alterations at an existing single-family residence, 21 Overbrook Lane, Darien. Estimated cost: $95,000.

Filed Dec. 21.

Signature Pools, Norwalk, contractor for Megan and Rafael Solis. Install an in-ground pool and enclosure at an existing single-family residence, 62 Stanton Road, Darien. Estimated cost: $68,000. Filed Dec. 19.

Stamford Building Company L.L.C., Stamford, contractor for Helen and Stephen Benjamin.

Construct an addition at an existing single-family residence, 40 Quintard Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $91,000. Filed Dec. 28.

SWS Builders, Stamford, contractor for Pamela Bass. Construct additions and perform alterations at an existing singlefamily residence, 240 Long Neck Point, Darien. Estimated cost: $300,000. Filed Dec. 20.

Sykes, George. Construct additions and perform alterations at an existing single-family residence, 175 Brookside Road, Darien. Estimated cost: $225,000.

Filed Dec. 7.

Tito’s Home Improvements, Stamford, contractor for Julia and Peter Ford. Re-roof an existing single-family residence at 2183 Boston Post Road, Darien. Estimated cost: $52,000. Filed Jan. 11.

VAS Construction, Darien, contractor for 19 Devon Road L.L.C. Construct a new singlefamily residence, 19 Devon Road, Darien. Estimated cost: $700,000.

Filed Dec. 13.

Water’s Edge Pools, Stamford, contractor for Foster Kaali-Nagy.

Install an in-ground pool and enclosure at an existing singlefamily residence, 144 Five Mile River Road, Darien. Estimated cost: $50,000. Filed Jan. 5.

Wood Brothers, contractor for Polaki and Chinta. Construct additions and perform alterations at an existing single-family residence, 7 Knollwood Lane, Darien. Estimated cost: $450,000.

Filed Dec. 2.

Zaccone, Concetta and James Fusaro. Construct an addition at an existing single-family residence, 300 Soundview Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $71,000. Filed Jan. 6.

Casey Electric L.L.C., Bridgeport. Filed by Thielsch Engineering Inc., Cranston, R.I. Plaintiff’s attorney: Jacobs & Rozich L.L.C., New Haven. Action: The plaintiff alleges that prior to the date of this action it delivered goods and/or services to the defendant and that $3,274 relating to those deliverCourt Cases ies remains outstanding and past due from the defendant despite repeated requests for payment by the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repayment of all outstanding amounts plus interest, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed 1209 Post Road L.L.C., Fairfield. Dec. 5. Case no. CV116023750.

Filed by Marvin Gelfand, Easton.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Mark T. Stern, Fairfield. Action: The plaintiff al- Fidelity and Deposit Company leges that he fell while visiting of Maryland, et al., Schaumthe defendant’s premises as the burg, Ill., et al. Filed by Simresult of an unsafe condition aris- plexGrinnell L.P., Boca Raton, ing from negligence on the part Fla. Plaintiff’s attorney: Ciulla of the defendant, its agents and & Donofrio L.L.P., North Haemployees, which caused him ven. Action: The plaintiff alleges to suffer serious, painful inju- that the defendants have refused ries and incur substantial medi- to honor a payment bond they cal expenses. The plaintiff seeks posted for the plaintiff’s delindamages in excess of $15,000 quent customer and that $14,982 plus applicable costs and reason- remains outstanding and past able attorneys’ fees. Filed Dec. 7. due from the defendants despite repeated requests for payment by Case no. CV116023784. the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repayment of all outstanding All-American Environmental amounts plus interest, costs and Services L.L.C., et al., Brook- reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed field. Filed by Newtown Savings Dec. 2. Case no. CV116023712.

Bank, Trumbull. Plaintiff’s attorney: Evans Feldman & Ainsworth L.L.C., New Haven. Action: The J&J Enterprizes L.L.C., et al., plaintiff alleges that during No- Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Kap vember 2006 it provided a busi- One L.L.C., Monroe. Plaintiff’s ness credit line to the defendant attorney: Welch Teodosio Stanek All-American Environmental & Blake L.L.C., Shelton. Action: Services, for which payment was The plaintiff alleges that the deguaranteed by a co-defendant and fendant is infringing on property that $13,129 relating to that credit that is owned by the plaintiff by remains outstanding and past virtue of its uncontested use of due from the defendants despite the property for an extended perepeated requests for payment by riod (adverse possession). The the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks plaintiff seeks a judgment from repayment of all outstanding the court determining owneramounts plus interest, costs and ship rights of the disputed parcel reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed plus appropriate damages, applicable costs and reasonable attorDec. 6. Case no. CV116023759. neys’ fees. Filed Dec. 5. Case no.

CV116023737.

American Flag Granite and Stone L.L.C., Stratford. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Warwick, R.I. Plaintiff’s attorney: Cohn Dussi & Bilodeau L.L.C., Warwick, R.I. Action: The plaintiff alleges that prior to the date of this action it delivered goods and/or services to the defendant and that $12,751 relating to those deliveries remains outstanding and past due from the defendant despite repeated requests for payment by the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repayment of all outstanding amounts plus interest, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Dec. 8. Case no. CV116023799.

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Kolich Holding L.L.C., Stamford. Filed by Schindler Elevator Corp., Rocky Hill. Plaintiff’s attorney: Kenny O’Keefe & Usseglio P.C., Hartford. Action: The plaintiff alleges that prior to the date of this action it provided goods and/or services to the defendant, that related amounts are past due and outstanding despite repeated requests for payment by the plaintiff, and that the plaintiff filed a mechanics lien in the amount of $27,850 against the defendant during October 2011.

The plaintiff seeks repayment of all outstanding amounts plus interest, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees, including without limitation, by means of foreclosure of its mechanic’s lien. Filed Dec. 7.

Case no. CV116023790.

Preservation Development Corp., et al., Shelton, et al. Filed

by Alexander Marranzino, Stratford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rodie & Connolly P.C., Stratford. Action: The plaintiff alleges that he fell while a business invitee on premises owned or otherwise under control of the defendants as the result of an unsafe condition arising from negligence on the part of the defendants, their agents and employees, which caused him to suffer serious, painful injuries and incur substantial medical expenses. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Dec. 2.

Case no. CV116023717.

Watermark 3030 Park L.L.C., Bridgeport. Filed by Marilyn Capozzi, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Plaintiff’s attorney: Jonathan E. Spodnick, Trumbull. Action: The plaintiff alleges that, while she was a business invitee on the defendant’s premises, she contracted a skin disease by using its swimming pool, constituting an unsafe condition arising from negligence on the part of the defendant, its agents and employees, which caused her to suffer serious, painful injuries and incur substantial medical expenses. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Dec. 2. Case no. CV116023718.

William Pitt Real Estate L.L.C., Stamford. Filed by Trumbull Park Business Center L.L.C., Trumbull. Plaintiff’s attorney: Welch Teodosio Stanek & Blake L.L.C., Shelton. Action: The plaintiff alleges that the defendant owes $16,134 in lease payments, which it has refused to honor despite repeated requests for payment by the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repayment of all outstanding amounts plus interest, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Dec. 5. Case no. CV116023740.

Danbury Superior Court BAC Home Loans Servicing L.P., Plano, Texas. Filed by Berkshire Hills Townhouse Condominium Association, Danbury.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Collins Hannafin Garamella Jaber & Tuozzolo P.C., Danbury. Action: The plaintiff alleges that the defendant has accumulated unpaid common charges of $2,631 relating to its unit in the defendant’s condominium project, that this amount remains outstanding despite repeated requests for payment by the plaintiff and that the plaintiff has filed a lis pendens regarding this amount. The plaintiff seeks repayment of all outstanding amounts plus interest, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees, including without limitation, by means of foreclosure on the defendant’s condominium unit. Filed Jan. 6.

Case no. CV126008344.

Campopiano Carting Inc., Mahopac, N.Y. Filed by Winters Brothers Waste Systems of Connecticut L.L.C., Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Chipman Mazzucco Land & Pennarola L.L.C., Danbury. Action: The plaintiff alleges that prior to the date of this action it delivered goods and/or services to the defendant and that $13,272 relating to those deliveries remains outstanding and past due from the defendant despite repeated requests for payment by the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repayment of all outstanding amounts plus interest, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Jan. 4. Case no. CV126008320.

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The Home Depot USA Inc., Hartford. Filed by Roger Lagratta, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Pinney Payne P.C., Danbury. Action: The plaintiff alleges that he was struck by falling merchandise while a business invitee on the defendant’s premises as the result of an unsafe condition arising from negligence on the part of the defendant, its agents and employees, which caused him to suffer serious, painful injuries and incur substantial medical expenses. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Jan. 12. Case no.

CV126008406.

Strickland Road L.L.C., et al., Greenwich, et al. Filed by Connecticut Community Bank N.A., Greenwich. Plaintiff’s attorney: Murtha Cullina L.L.P., Hartford.

Action: The plaintiff alleges that it is the owner of a March 2010 mortgage note in the amount of $990,000 issued by the defendant Strickland Road, for which payment was guaranteed by codefendants and that $900,852 relating to this note remains outstanding and past due from the defendants despite repeated requests for payment by the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repayment of all outstanding amounts plus interest, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees, including without limitation, by means of foreclosure on the defendants’ mortgaged premises. Filed Jan. 10.

Case no. CV126008381.

Walmart Stores Inc., Danbury.

Filed by Otilda Remache, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Edwin Camacho, Norwalk. Action: The plaintiff alleges that she fell while a business invitee on the defendant’s premises as the result of an unsafe condition arising from negligence on the part of the defendant, its agents and employees, which caused her to suffer serious, painful injuries and incur substantial medical expenses. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Dec. 2.

Case no. CV116008412.

on the record Credits, Clients and Awards Beverly Cusack of Danbury has been named the December 2011 CAREGiver of the Month by Home Instead Senior Care (HISC) in Trumbull. Cusack has been with HISC, a network of independently owned and operated senior care franchises worldwide, since July 2009.

Noel Robin of Stamford, a physician with Stamford Hospital, has been named Teacher of the Year by the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons’ Class of 2013. He was selected by members of that class to receive their Outstanding Teacher Award, because he was identified as the single educator whom they felt influenced them the most across all four years of their education.

Daniel B. Fitzgerald, an attorney with the law firm of Brody Wilkinson P.C. has been recognized in Connecticut Law Tribune’s annual “Dozen Who Made A Difference” news feature for his work in the area of sports law. The feature profiles attorneys each year that had an impact in the legal community and on the state’s landscape in general.

Paul A. Slager, a partner in the Stamford law firm of Silver Golub & Teitell L.L.P., was named one of the “Dozen Who Made a Difference” in the yearend issue of the Connecticut Law Tribune. The honor is based on Slager’s legal efforts on behalf of the victims of traumatic brain injuries and his active involvement with the Brain Injury Association of Connecticut.

Geoffrey M. Goodale has joined the law firm of Shipman & Goodwin L.L.P. as a partner. The full-service law firm is based in downtown Hartford, with offices in Stamford, Greenwich and Lakeville, and Washington, D.C. Goodale is a key member of the firm’s International Trade Compliance and Enforcement practice group, one of the largest in New England and will work out of Shipman & Goodwin’s Connecticut and Washington, D.C. offices.

Peter J. Buscemi of Stamford has been elected a partner in the law firm of Finn Dixon & Herling L.L.P., headquartered in Stamford. Buscemi represents borrowers, agents, senior lenders and junior lenders in commercial financings. Buscemi is a 2002 magna cum laude graduate of New York Law School and a 1997 cum laude graduate of Union College.

On the Go: Business, Etc. Gayland Pedhirney has joined TrueNorth Capital Partners in Norwalk as a senior advisor. Most recently, he served as president of AB Foods L.L.C. formerly Washington Beef L.L.C. TrueNorth provides corporate advisory services on mergers and acquisitions and restructurings as well as valuations and fairness opinions primarily to middle-market companies.

Karen Morstad & Associates (KM&A), a Greenwichbased marketing and branding firm serving the financial services industry, has launched its annual program, “KM&A Gives Back.”

Now until Feb. 6, KM&A will welcome proposals from nonprofit groups in need of marketing and branding services. Each year, KM&A selects a nonprofit organization to benefit from its professional expertise.

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Tuesday, Jan. 31 Jim Himes, Scott Frantz, Larry Cafero headline Politics and Business Panel, 7:30 a.m. registration; 8:30 to 10 a.m. program, Norwalk Inn and Conference Center, 99 East Ave., Norwalk. $35 nonmembers; 24 members. To register, call (860) 244-1977.

Wednesday, Feb. 1 Stamford Business Group networking meeting, 7:29 a.m., Cafeteria at 9 W. Broad St., Stamford. For information, call 975-2950 or visit stamfordbusiness.com.

Association for Fundraising Professionals Fairfield County chapter has announced its 2012 board of directors. The leadership includes Fairfield residents Bill Lerchen, Christine Rose and new members Madeline Lee and Donna Schmidt (not pictured).

Friday, Feb. 3 FemCity Danbury’s inaugural “connection lunch” for women, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Bar & Grille on 7, 967 Ethan Allen Highway, Ridgefield. $30. For information, email danbury@femfessionals. com.

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on the record Stamford Superior Court

Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich. Filed by John Esposito, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Richard H. Raphael, Westport.

Action: The plaintiff alleges that he fell while visiting the defendant’s premises in the course of his employment as the result of an unsafe condition arising from negligence on the part of the defendant, its agents and employees, which caused him to suffer serious, painful injuries and incur substantial medical expenses.

The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Dec. 13. Case no.

CV116012226.

Barcelona Restaurant L.L.C., et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Elizabeth Jaramillo, Stamford.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Tooher Wocl & Leydon L.L.C., Stamford. Action: The plaintiff alleges that she fell while a business invitee on the defendant’s premises as the result of an unsafe condition arising from negligence on the part of the defendant, its agents and employees, which caused her to suffer serious, painful injuries and incur substantial medical expenses. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reason- K-Tech Services L.L.C., et al., able attorneys’ fees. Filed Dec. 14. Stamford. Filed by Security SoCase no. CV116012248. lutions Inc., Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorney: Karen Riggio, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff alCamsan Inc., Stamford. Filed leges that the defendants failed

by Charles Schwab & Company to honor terms and conditions Inc., Stamford. Plaintiff’s attor- of a July 2009 asset purchase ney: Bingham McCutchen L.L.P., agreement among the parties Hartford. Action: The plaintiff specifically in that they failed to alleges that the defendant filed refund an $81,391 price adjusta mechanic’s lien that it intends ment required by the agreement to contest in good faith since it and, further, that they breached was filed after the statutory filing noncompetition terms of the period had expired. The plaintiff agreement, causing the plaintiff therefore seeks a court order to to incur a substantial financial substitute a performance bond loss. The plaintiff seeks damages for the defendant’s lien and to in excess of $15,000 plus applidissolve the existing lien plus cable costs and reasonable attorapplicable costs and reason- neys’ fees. Filed Dec. 12. Case no. able attorneys’ fees. Filed Dec. 7. CV116012203.

Case no. CV126012176.

Cortes D.D.S., Efren, et al., Stamford. Filed by Maria Aleman, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Meehan Meehan & Gavin, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff alleges that the defendants have been guilty of professional malpractice in connection with their negligent diagnosis and treatment of the plaintiff, equipping her with ill-fitting dentures that caused her to suffer serious, painful injuries and incur substantial medical expenses. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Dec. 14. Case no. CV126012247.

Murphy’s Townhouse Café Inc., Stamford. Filed by Thomas Heide, Wilton. Plaintiff’s attorney: Tooher Wocl & Leydon L.L.C., Stamford. Action: The plaintiff alleges that he fell while a business invitee on the defendant’s premises as the result of an unsafe condition arising from negligence on the part of the defendant, its agents and employees, which caused him to suffer serious, painful injuries and incur substantial medical expenses.

The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees Filed Dec. 7. Case no.

CV116012183.

U.S. District Court Architectural Builders Hardware Manufacturing Inc. Filed

by Sargent Manufacturing Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Peter W. Peterson. Action: claim filed in connection with patent infringement. Filed Jan. 18. Case no.

12CV00085.

Base Line II Inc., et al. Filed by Brian St. Pierre. Plaintiff’s attorney: Daniel X. Montagna. Action: claim filed in connection with breach of contract. Filed Jan. 16.

Case no. 12CV00076.

Nationwide Credit Inc. Filed by David Wilder. Plaintiff’s attorney: Lawrence Katz. Action: claim filed under the Fair Debt Collection Act. Filed Jan. 13. Case no.

12CV00070.

Corle Building Systems Inc. Filed by Ironshore Indemnity Inc. Plaintiff’s attorney: Andrew J. Soltes Jr. Action: claim filed in connection with product liability. Filed Jan. 17. Case no.

12CV00078.

NCO Financial Systems Inc. Filed by Michelle Spicer. Plaintiff’s attorney: Daniel S. Blinn.

Action: claim filed under the Fair Debt Collection Act. Filed Jan. 13.

Case no. 12CV00068.

Dimar Electric L.L.C. Filed by the trustees of IBEW Local Union No. 488 Pension Fund, et al. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gregory S. Campora. Action: claim filed in connection with labor/management relations. Filed Jan. 11.

Case no. 12CV00051.

Palisades Collections L.L.C., et al. Filed by Bradley Kimbell.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Sergei Lemberg. Action: claim filed under the Fair Debt Collection Act. Filed Jan. 12. Case no. 12CV00059.

Portfolio Recovery Associates L.L.C. Filed by Katherine Daigle.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Angela K. Diversified Collection Ser- Troccoli. Action: claim filed under vices Inc., et al. Filed by Jessica the Fair Debt Collection Act. Filed Echeverria. Plaintiff’s attorney: Jan. 12. Case no. 12CV00061.

Sergei Lemberg. Action: claim filed under the Fair Debt Collection Act. Filed Jan. 16. Case no. Post University Inc., et al. Filed

by Kathleen Ring. Plaintiff’s at12CV00075. torney: Richard O. LaBrecque.

Action: claim filed in connecEG Contractors Inc. Filed by tion with employment discrimiEduardo Ossio. Plaintiff’s attor- nation. Filed Jan. 18. Case no. ney: Kenneth J. Krayeske. Action: 12CV00081. claim filed in connection with breach of contract. Filed Jan. 13.

Safeco Insurance Company of Case no. 12CV00073.

America. Filed by Trent Von Lee. Plaintiff’s attorney: Frank J. Raio.

Irvine Scientific Sales Com- Action: claim filed in connection pany Inc. Filed by Genx Inter- with an insurance contract. Filed national Inc. Plaintiff’s attorney: Jan. 12. Case no. 12CV00066.

David R. Schaefer. Action: claim filed in connection with trademark infringement. Filed Jan. 12. SCJ Inc., et al. Filed by Robert Cumento. Plaintiff’s attorney: Case no. 12CV00060.

Daniel S. Blinn. Action: claim filed under the Magnuson-Moss Matrixx Initiatives Inc., et al. Warranty Act. Filed Jan. 11.

Filed by Michael Brague Jr. Plain- Case no. 12CV00050. tiff’s attorney: Frank C. Bartlett Jr. Action: claim filed in connection with personal injury. Filed Jan. 11. Smith & Nephew Inc. Filed by Frank Bethin. Plaintiff’s attorCase no. 12CV00055. ney: David J. Scully. Action: claim filed in connection with product Merriam Manufacturing Com- liability. Filed Jan. 12. Case no. pany Inc., et al. Filed by United 12CV00064.

States of America. Plaintiff’s attorney: Susan M. Akers. Action: claim filed in connection with a Total Wine and Spirits. Filed real property tort to land. Filed by Retail Services & Systems Inc. Plaintiff’s attorney: James Jan. 11. Case no. 12CV00054.

M. Andriola. Action: claim filed in connection with trademark National Debt Adjusters Inc. infringement under the LanFiled by Dorothy Burlison. Plain- ham Act. Filed Jan. 11. Case no. tiff’s attorney: George T. Holler. 12CV00049.

Action: claim filed under the Fair Debt Collection Act. Filed Jan. 15.

Case no. 12CV00074.

University of Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Balayla Ahmad.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Bradford D. Conover. Action: claim filed in connection with civil rights. Filed Jan. 10. Case no. 12CV00046.

Ceci, Amanda and Michael Demirjian, Stamford. Seller: BCI Housing S.p.A., Stamford.

Property: Unit L5, 143 Hoyt St., Stamford. Amount: $375,000.

Filed Jan. 5.

Deeds

Cernuto, Frank, Danbury. Seller: Toll CT III L.P., Newtown. Property: 27 Mill Road, Danbury.

Amount: $459,280. Filed Jan. 18.

Commercial 32 Burwood Avenue L.L.C., Greenwich. Seller: Richard Miller, Darien. Property: 32 Burwood Ave., Stamford. Amount: $470,000. Filed Jan. 5.

535 Connecticut Avenue L.L.C., Paramus, N.J. Seller: LBUBS 2002-C4 Connecticut Avenue L.L.C., Miami Beach, Fla. Property: 535 Connecticut Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $13.8 million.

Filed Jan. 10.

Chaturvedi, Alankrita and Manish Chaturvedi, Stamford.

Seller: Dubois Street Partners L.L.C., Stamford. Property: 50 Dubois St., Stamford. Amount: $627,800. Filed Jan. 3.

Comport, Amy, Weston. Seller: Hamie DiMiceli and Edgar StellaTurner, Norwalk. Property: 8 Red Barn Lane, Norwalk. Amount: $502,000. Filed Jan. 6.

Kingdom Way Pentecostal Church, Danbury. Seller: Paul Patterson, Bethel. Property: 39 Rose St., Danbury. Amount: $670,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Coxe, Karen, Brittany Coxe, Jennifer Coxe and Danielle Coxe, Stamford. Seller: Joan and Donald Bomann, Stamford.

Property: 311 Webbs Hill Road, Stamford. Amount: $1.1 million.

Filed Jan. 4.

Park Square West Associates L.L.C., Stamford. Seller: Park Square West I L.P., Boston, Mass.

Property: Stamford town map 12916, Stamford. Amount: $40 million. Filed Jan. 3.

Degtyur, Irina and Roman Degtyur, Stamford. Seller: Mitzie and Chan Park, Sharonville, Ohio. Property: 1175 Rock Rimmon Road, Stamford. Amount: $740,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Residential

Ditmi, Terri and Paul Ditmi Sr., Stamford. Seller: Subinai Mazumdar, Stamford. Property: 135 Bambina, Christina and Leon- Courtland Ave., Unit 28, Stamard Bambina, Darien. Seller: ford. Amount: $290,000. Filed Heather Dalton and Jason Ptire, Jan. 3.

Darien. Property: 15 Christie Hill Road, Darien. Amount: $1 milHichman, Carole, New York lion. Filed Dec. 28.

City. Seller: Doris and James Linville, Norwalk. Property: Bernheimer, Jason, Stamford. Norwalk town map 2216, NorSeller: Joanne Desrochers, Stam- walk. Amount: $4.6 million. ford. Property: Unit G6, Riverside Filed Jan. 6.

Terrace Condominium, Stamford. Amount: $252,500. Filed Hill, Jennifer, Darien. Seller: Jan. 6.

Kimberley and Nigel Ekern, Darien. Property: 741 HolBridenbaker, Lindsay and low Tree Ridge Road, Darien.

Mack Bridenbaker, Stamford. Amount: $3.7 million. Filed Seller: Julita and Michael Cin- Dec. 15. guina, Wilton. Property: 113 Willard Terrace, Stamford. Amount: Hu, Ying, Stamford. Seller: $505,000. Filed Jan. 4.

Jeanne and Terry Rhodes, Stamford. Property: 1931 Shippan Brown, Rebecca and Timothy Ave., Stamford. Amount: $1 milBrown, New York City. Seller: lion. Filed Dec. 29.

Margaret and John Culbertson, Darien. Property: 30 Old Farm Road, Darien. Amount: $3 million. Filed Dec. 15.

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on the record Jeffries, Julie, Hoboken, N.J. Seller: Melissa and Kenneth Fitter, Norwalk. Property: 2 Tierney St., Norwalk. Amount: $345,000.

Filed Jan. 9.

de Lima, Magna, et al. Creditor: Bankunited F.S.B. Property: 5 Woodside Ave., Unit B17, Danbury. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 17.

Jagodzinski, John, Stamford. $3,140 in favor of Carlos Rosas, Stamford, by Carlos Rosas. Property: 44 Idlewood Drive, Stamford. Filed Jan. 6.

Kim, Richard, et al. Creditor: U.S. Bank N.A., trustee. Property: 104 Summer St., Unit 1B, Stamford. Mortgage default.

Filed Dec. 30.

Neptune, Carl, Danbury. $576 in favor of Jennings Oil Co., Danbury, by Philip H. Monagan.

Property: 11 Mirijo Road, Danbury. Filed Jan. 17.

Stote, Stephanie and Jeffrey Collins Jr., Stamford. Seller: Susan Purnell, Darien. Property: 73 West Ave., Darien. Amount: $350,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Pannini, Alison, et al. Creditor: Landmark at Golden Hill Condominium Association Inc. Property: 6 Golden Hill Road, Unit 8, Danbury. Delinquent common charges. Filed Jan. 17.

Soto, Miriam and Roni Soto, Stamford. $1,925 in favor of Stamford Radiological Associates P.C., Stamford, by Joseph P. Latino. Property: 52 Treat Ave., Stamford. Filed Jan. 3.

Taranto III, John, Darien. Seller: Zita O’Brian, trustee, Darien.

Property: 22 Bailey Ave., Darien.

Amount: $625,000. Filed Dec. 28.

Riofrio, Edward, et al. Creditor: U.S. Bank N.A., trustee. Property: 49 Wildman St., Danbury. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 17.

Tirado, Carlos, Danbury. $893 in favor of Capital One Bank (USA) N.A., Richmond, Va., by Stephen A. Wiener. Property: 16 Olympic Drive, Danbury. Filed Jan. 12.

Tomczak, Grazyna and Tadeusz Zalewski, Darien. Seller: Patricia and George Rowan Jr., Darien.

Lanahan, Elizabeth and Bren- Property: 60 Relihan Road, dan Lanahan, Darien. Seller: Darien. Amount: $465,000. Filed Erin and Daniel Soi, Ridgefield. Jan. 10.

Property: 11 Raymond Heights, Darien. Amount: $606,735. Filed van Campenhout, Jeannette Dec. 16. and Toriblo Averza, Darien.

Seller: Kim and Scott McKessy, Lang, Quyen and Thuan Nguy- Darien. Property: 10 Birch Road, en, Stamford. Seller: Gussie Darien. Amount: $1.4 million.

Kelley, Stamford. Property: 50 Filed Dec. 15.

Alvord Lane, Unit 12, Stamford.

Amount: $280,000. Filed Jan. 3.

Velasco, Anacleta and Warren Miike, Stamford. Seller: VivMaher, Terrence, Danbury. ian and Raul Villacis, Stamford.

Seller: Nita and Gordon Kimlin, Property: 39 North St., Stamford.

Danbury. Property: 23 Hillan- Amount: $350,000. Filed Jan. 3. dale Road, Danbury. Amount: $261,000. Filed Jan. 18.

White, Borah, Stamford. Seller: Sandra Blinder, Stamford. PropOzkan, Banu and Umit Ozkan, erty: 39 Dagmar Road, Stamford.

Schenectady, N.Y. Seller: Push- Amount: $427,500. Filed Jan. 6. kar Merwah, Danbury. Property: 1907 Eaton Court, Danbury.

Amount: $291,000. Filed Jan. 11. Zagoreos, Nicholas, New Canaan. Seller: Amy and Benjamin Happ, Darien. Property: 104 Palmiero, Theresa and Peter Gardiner St., Darien. Amount: Palmiero, Darien. Seller: Marga- $573,400. Filed Dec. 29. ret and Eric Zitzman, Greenwich.

Property: 147 West Ave., Darien.

Amount: $555,000. Filed Dec. 29.

Rivera, Jasmine, et al. Creditor: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., trustee. Property: 33 Town Hill Ave., Unit 12, Danbury.

Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 11.

Liens

Kells, Sharon, Darien. Seller: Reilly Builders L.L.C., Darien.

Property: 2271 Boston Post Road, Darien. Amount: $1.9 million.

Filed Jan. 4.

Kilcoyne, Michael, Stamford.

Seller: Stephanie Orange and Robert Martian, Stamford. Property: 392 Wire Mill Road, Stamford. Amount: $505,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Kurada, Sagar, Riverside. Seller: John Manby and C. Robert Man

by Jr., trustees, Norwalk and South Royalton, Vt., respectively.

Property: 65 Malvern Road, Stamford. Amount: $500,000.

Filed Jan. 6.

Sclafani, Bruce, New Canaan.

Seller: Nancy and Rocco Cassone, Columbia, S.C. and Orangeburg S.C., respectively. Property: Stamford town map 3512, Stamford.

Amount: $580,000. Filed Jan. 3.

Solomon, Georgia and Kevin Solomon, Rye, N.Y. Seller: Barbara Calnan, trustee, Norwalk.

Property: 40 Ridgeley St., Darien.

Amount: $900,000. Filed Dec. 20.

Foreclosures

Robbins, Lee and Jay Robbins, Darien. Seller: Hudson City Savings Bank, Paramus, N.J. Property: 212 Tokeneke Road, Darien.

Amount: $570,000. Filed Dec. 30.

Romanowski, Marek, Port Chester, N.Y. Seller: Liberty Development Group L.L.C., Stamford. Property: 59 Liberty St., Unit 42, Stamford. Amount: $319,900.

Filed Dec. 30.

Judgments

Federal Tax Liens – filed

Norwalk Luggage Inc., 53 Wall St., Norwalk. $21,064, FICA and Bouknight-Marcus, Gloria, employee withholding tax. Filed Stamford. $1,100 in favor of Jan. 9.

Tam’s Pools Inc., Cos Cob, by John Tambucio. Property: 113 Mayapple Road, Stamford. Filed Paul’s Marble Depot L.L.C., Jan. 5.

40 Warshaw Place, Stamford. $10,408, FICA and employee withholding tax. Filed Jan. 3.

Costanzo, Michele, Danbury. $6,378 in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio, by Stephen Paul’s Marble Depot L.L.C., A. Wiener. Property: 11 Jarrod 40 Warshaw Place, Stamford.

Drive, Danbury. Filed Jan. 18. $20,690, Federal unemployment tax, FICA and employee withholding tax. Filed Jan. 3.

Davis, John, Stamford. $17,725 in favor of the Connecticut Light and Power Co., Berlin, by Alexan- Paul’s Marble Depot L.L.C., 40 der G. Snyder. Property: 133 Haig Warshaw Place, Stamford. $7,211, Ave., Stamford. Filed Jan. 4.

Federal unemployment tax, FICA and employee withholding tax.

Filed Jan. 3.

DeForest, Richard, Darien. $4,712 in favor of Elizabeth Serrano, Bridgeport, by Ronald D. Japha. Property: 17 Fitch Ave., Darien. Filed Dec. 20.

Braten, Andrew, et al. Creditor: Citimortgage Inc. Property: 24 Guzman, Martha, Danbury.

Crescent St., Stamford. Mortgage $306 in favor of Danbury Hospidefault. Filed Jan. 6. tal, Danbury, by Stephen A. Wiener. Property: 19 Fairfield Ave., Danbury. Filed Jan. 12.

Dasilva, Jorge, et al. Creditor: Residential Credit Solutions Inc. Property: 22 Stetson Place, Dan- Helfer, Allen, Stamford. $1,516 bury. Mortgage default. Filed in favor of Capital One Bank Jan. 17.

(USA) N.A., Richmond, Va., by Stephen A. Wiener. Property: 18 Vincent Court, Stamford. Filed Jan. 4.

Federal Tax Liens-released

City Electric of Stamford L.L.C., 60 Old Barn Road, Stamford. $1,632, FICA and employee withholding tax. Filed Jan. 3.

Michael Blanc & Associates, 20 Hoyt St., Stamford. $4,592, FICA and employee withholding tax.

Filed Jan. 3.

Mechanic’s Liens-filed Hartman, Leah, Stamford. Filed

by Keller Williams Prestige Properties, Stamford, by Lorraine Leonard. Property: 26 Ocean Drive North, Stamford. Amount: $48,125. Filed Jan. 6.

LeClerc, Tara and Raul LeClerc, Darien. Filed by Sound Renovation L.L.C., Norwalk, by James dePasquale. Property: 16 Cross Road, Darien. Amount: $19,200.

Filed Dec. 14.

Bachar, John, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Minneapolis, Minn.

Property: 7 Dean St., Unit 106, Danbury. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $168,000 dated October 2007. Filed Jan. 12.

Brodbeck, Albert, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Onewest Bank F.S.B., Pasadena, Calif. Property: 56 Dundee Road, Stamford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $712,500 dated August 2007. Filed Jan. 5.

Morgan Gregory L.P., Stamford. Filed by Abatement Industries Group Inc., West Haven,

by Mike Bannon. Property: 95 Morgan St., Stamford. Amount: $10,116. Filed Dec. 30.

Cadelina, Noel, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 4 Papp St., Unit B, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a Morgan Gregory L.P., Stam- delinquent mortgage in the origiford. Filed by Abatement Indus- nal principal amount of $280,250 tries Group Inc., West Haven, dated May 2008. Filed Jan. 10.

by Mike Bannon. Property: 83 Morgan St., Stamford. Amount: Caputo, Matthew, et al., Nor$10,973. Filed Dec. 30. walk, et al. Filed by Simon Sumberg, Norwalk, for Highland Mews Association Inc., Norwalk.

Property: Unit 2-2C, Highland News, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the Gottfried, Cheryl, Stamford. association. Filed Jan. 9.

Filed by Elite Builders L.L.C., Darien, by Marcin Michalzyk.

Property: 69 Ocean Drive East, Coelho, Roginaldo, et al., DanStamford. Amount: $19,900. bury, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Filed Jan. 4.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., trustee, Los Angeles, Calif.

Property: 14 Newtown Road, Unit A24, Danbury. Action: to Lis Pendens foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount The following filings indicate a le- of $152,000 dated May 2004. gal action has been initiated, the Filed Jan. 18. outcome of which may affect the title to the property listed.

Cohen, Harvey, et al., Danbury,

et al. Filed by Robert N. Sensale, Akuamoa, Richard, et al., Dan- New Haven, for American Tax bury, et al. Filed by O’Connell Funding L.L.C., Jupiter, Fla. PropFlaherty & Attmore L.L.P., Hart- erty: 19 Fox Den Road, Danbury. ford, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Action: to foreclose on the proptrustee, Bloomington, Minn. erty to recover delinquent municProperty: 22 Second Ave., Unit ipal taxes assigned to the plaintiff 6, Danbury. Action: to foreclose a for collection. Filed Jan. 11. delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $280,000 Corrie, Judith, et al., Danbury, dated June 2006. Filed Jan. 12. et al. Filed by Robert N. Sensale, New Haven, for American Angarita, Kenny, et al., Stam- Tax Funding L.L.C., Jupiter, Fla. ford, et al. Filed by Alan P. Rosen- Property: 53 Washington Ave., berg, West Hartford, for Redstone Danbury. Action: to foreclose Manor Condominium Asso- on the property to recover delinciation Inc., Stamford. Property: quent municipal taxes assigned to Unit 30, Laurelton House Con- the plaintiff for collection. Filed dominium, Stamford. Action: to Jan. 11. foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. Filed Jan. 6.

Mechanic’s Liens—released

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on the record Dickens III, William, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Robert N. Sensale, New Haven, for American Tax Funding L.L.C., Jupiter, Fla. Property: 32 Concord Road, Danbury. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent municipal taxes assigned to the plaintiff for collection. Filed Jan. 11.

Karamanian, Carlos, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for GMAC Mortgage L.L.C., Horsham, Pa. Property: 151 W. Cedar St., Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $393,750 dated August 2006.

Filed Jan. 9.

Nunez, Lillian, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 151 Triangle St., Danbury. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $284,000 dated November 2006.

Filed Jan. 11.

Silva, Carlos, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for GMAC Mortgage L.L.C., Horsham, Pa. Property: 1 Beaver Brook Road, No. 56, Danbury. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $246,137 dated May 2009. Filed Jan. 17.

Donahue, Joseph, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., trustee, Bloomington, Minn. Property: 16 Turn of River Road, Unit A4, Stamford.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $167,200 dated December 2006. Filed Dec. 30.

Khotsombath, Chanta, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 5 Butternut Lane, Danbury. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $25,000 dated August 2006. Filed Jan. 11.

Ouellette, Estate of Francis, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 34 Lois St., Danbury. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $155,000 dated July 2008. Filed Jan. 17.

Stewart, Jennifer, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Steven A. Certilman, Stamford, for Schuyler Condominium Inc., Stamford.

Property: Unit 9B, Schuyler Condominium, Stamford. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. Filed Jan. 3.

Morgenthaler, Walter, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Law Office of Martha Croog L.L.C., Hartford, for U.S. Bank N.A., trustee, Minneapolis, Minn.

Property: 12 Dagmar Place, Stamford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $552,500 dated July 2005. Filed Jan. 5.

Palinkas, Jucara, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A., New York City.

Property: 6 Francis Road, Danbury. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $310,500 dated August 2005. Filed Jan. 10.

Stover Jr., Glenn, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 47 Mendes Road, Danbury. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $327,000 dated August 2006. Filed Jan. 17.

Dougherty, Brett, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., trustee, Bloomington, Minn. Property: 5 Tulip Tree Lane, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $637,500 dated April 2005.

Filed Jan. 10.

Evangelista, Jacqueline, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., trustee, Los Angeles, Calif.

Property: 8 Farview Ave., Danbury. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $308,000 dated May 2006. Filed Jan. 11.

Gabrielson, Stanley, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Robert N. Sensale, New Haven, for American Tax Funding L.L.C., Jupiter, Fla. Property: 11 Hull Road, Danbury.

Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent municipal taxes assigned to the plaintiff for collection. Filed Jan. 11.

Gage, Ronald, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Robert N. Sensale, New Haven, for American Tax Funding L.L.C., Jupiter, Fla. Property: 8 Lincoln Ave., Danbury. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent municipal taxes assigned to the plaintiff for collection. Filed Jan. 11.

James, Anthony, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Andrew J. Buzzi Jr., Danbury, for Union Savings Bank, Danbury. Property: 40 Oil Mill Road, Danbury. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $300,000 dated March 2005.

Filed Jan. 17.

Mullins, James, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Brynne E. Nichols, Stamford, for Hundley Court Common Association Inc., Stamford. Property: Unit 2D, Hundley Court, Stamford. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. Filed Jan. 3.

River Park Property Owner L.L.C., et al., Darien, et al. Filed

by Tara L. Trifon, Hartford, for MLIC Asset Holdings II L.L.C., Morristown, N.J. Property: 800 Connecticut Ave. and 11 Boston Post Road, Norwalk and Darien, respectively. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $67 million dated October 2007. Filed Mulvey, James, et al., Danbury, Jan. 5. et al. Filed by Robert N. Sensale, New Haven, for American Tax Funding L.L.C., Jupiter, Fla. Sasloe, Stephen, et al., Norwalk, Property: 13 Westview Drive, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh Danbury. Action: to foreclose P.C., Farmington, for The Bank of on the property to recover delin- New York Mellon Trust Company quent municipal taxes assigned to N.A., New York City. Property: the plaintiff for collection. Filed 14 E. Meadow Lane, Norwalk.

Jan. 11.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $395,000 dated April Muniz, Elizabeth, et al., Dan- 2004. Filed Jan. 9. bury, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for The Bank of New York Mellon, Sayers, Larion, et al., Danbury, trustee, New York City. Property: et al. Filed by Robert N. Sensale, 14 Greenridge Road, Danbury. New Haven, for American Tax Action: to foreclose a delinquent Funding L.L.C., Jupiter, Fla. Propmortgage in the original principal erty: 110 Great Plain Road, Danamount of $237.600 dated Octo- bury. Action: to foreclose on the ber 2005. Filed Jan. 12. property to recover delinquent municipal taxes assigned to the plaintiff for collection. Filed Jan. Newkirk, Theresa, et al., Dan- 11. bury, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Minneapolis, Minn. Property: 7 Clairann Drive, Danbury. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $270,000 dated March 2007. Filed Jan. 17.

Wholey, Robert, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for GMAC Mortgage L.L.C., Horsham, Pa. Property: 54 Whitmore Lane, Unit 7, Stamford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $280,000 dated June 2007. Filed Jan. 5.

Mortgages 23 Shorehaven L.L.C., Westport,

by Michael Greenberg. Lender: Fairfield County Bank, Ridgefield. Property: 22 Shorehaven Road, Norwalk. Amount: $2.8 million. Filed Jan. 6.

New Businesses The Business Journal is not responsible for typographical errors contained in the original filings.

A&S Auto Repair, 41 Center Ave., Apt. C, Norwalk 06854, c/o Santos Garcia. Filed Jan. 4.

Alan Barry Photography, 5 Shelter Rock Road, Danbury 06810, c/o Alan Barry. Filed 695 East Main Stamford L.L.C., Jan. 17.

Stamford, by Paul Kuehner. Lender: Citibank N.A., New York City. Amrut Financial, 520 West Ave., Property: 695 E. Main St., Stam- Norwalk 06850, c/o Narottan ford. Amount: $17.5 million. Nundra. Filed Dec. 27.

Filed Jan. 3.

Bartlett Properties L.L.C., Stratford, by Kevin Bartlett. Lender: Investors Bank, Short Hills, N.J. Property: 3 April Lane and 64 Perry Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $1.9 million. Filed Jan. 6.

Suchy, Ellen-Ann, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Onewest Bank F.S.B., Pasadena, Calif.

Property: 115 Fillow St., Apt. 10, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the origi- Danbury Sports Dome L.L.C., nal principal amount of $457,500 Danbury by Frank Mariano. dated June 2009. Filed Jan. 9.

Lender: TD Bank N.A., Wilton.

Property: 2 Shelter Rock Lane, Treffs, Andrew, et al., Danbury, Danbury. Amount: $4.1 million. et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Ja- Filed Jan. 17. cobson P.C., Hartford, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Kingdom Way Pentecostal Property: 84 Merrimac St., Dan- Church, Danbury, by Ramon bury. Action: to foreclose a delin- Ramos Jr. Lender: Union Savquent mortgage in the original ings Bank, Danbury. Property: principal amount of $312,000 39 Rose St., Danbury. Amount: dated June 2006. Filed Jan. 18. $536,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Urvina, Miguel, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for U.S. Bank N.A., trustee, Minneapolis, Minn.

Property: 1 Skyline Terrace, Danbury. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $304,800 dated March 2006. Filed Jan. 17.

T&T Associates L.L.C., Norwalk, by Richard Tavella. Lender: Clifford St. John & Sons L.P., Norwalk. Property: 26 Fitch St., Norwalk. Amount: $500,000.

Filed Jan. 6.

LT Propco L.L.C., Purchase, N.Y., by Francis Casale. Lender: Credit Suisse AG Cayman Islands Branch, New York City. Property: 7 Backus Ave., Danbury. Amount: $450 million. Filed Jan. 17.

New Creek II L.L.C., Boston, Mass., by Anastasios Parafestas.

Lender: Morgan Stanley Mortgage Capital Holdings L.L.C., New York City. Property: 79 Newtown Road, Danbury. Amount: $62.7 million. Filed Jan. 12.

Ward, Frank, et al., Danbury, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for GMAC Mortgage L.L.C., Horsham, Pa. Property: 18 Garry Knolls, Danbury.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal Sharon Holdings Inc.,Stamford, amount of $178,000 dated May by S. L. Barone. Lender: Webster Bank N.A., New Britain. Prop2003. Filed Jan. 17. erty: 222 Selleck St., Stamford.

Amount: $150,000. Filed Dec. 30.

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Artist Showcase, P.O. Box 2430, Darien 06820, c/o Darrin Lamorte. Filed Dec. 6.

Bizzy B’s Home Improvement, 4 Sniffin Court, Danbury 06810, c/o Brendan Sniffin III. Filed Jan. 10.

City Construction, 40 Ward Drive South, Danbury 06810, c/o Eugene Bates. Filed Jan. 17.

Cresa Fairfield County, 200 Connecticut Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Jeffrey Gage. Filed Dec. 21.

DC Web Design, 583 Belden Hill Road, Norwalk 06850, c/o Dana Cole. Filed Jan. 11.

Design Darling L.L.C., 7 Fresh Meadows Lane, Darrin Lamorte 06820, c/o Mackenzie Horan.

Filed Dec. 2.

Diamond Chocolatier, 7 Weatherbell Drive, Norwalk 06851, c/o Maria Hughes. Filed Dec. 29.

Epic Scents, 21 Finance Drive, Danbury 06810, c/o Robert Bedoukian. Filed Jan. 18.

Homestead Refuse, P.O. Box 3376, Darien 06820, c/o David Newton. Filed Jan. 6.

on the record Hope for Orphans in Haiti, P.O. Organic CT Cleaning Service Werner Associates, 13 Pennoyer Box 871, Norwalk 06852, c/o Ma- L.L.C., 28 Dr. Martin Luther King St., Norwalk 06853, c/o Gerald Jr. Drive, No. 85, Norwalk 06854, Werner. Filed Dec. 28. cette Joseph. Filed Jan. 11. c/o Martha Kale. Filed Jan. 12. iComputerland, 60 Newtown Road, Danbury 06810, c/o Umar Original Bag Rack Limited, The, 3 Terrace St., Danbury Jarrar. Filed Jan. 9.

06811, c/o Elizabeth Hawley.

Filed Jan. 10.

In a Jar Foods, 9 Renshaw Road, Darien 06820, c/o Kristin Farrell.

Overhead Door Company of Filed Jan. 9.

Fairfield County, 2 Broad St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Mark HuniJ&S Custom Gifts, 19 Chestnut kan. Filed Dec. 30.

St., Unit right, Darien 06820, c/o Stewart Stanley. Filed Jan. 13.

Rainbow Painting, 11 Lexington Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Noe J. D. Clark Marketing Group, 51 Diaz. Filed Jan. 9.

Bayview Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o James Clark. Filed Dec. 20.

Roberto Roofing, 10 Ann St., Norwalk 06850, c/o Roberto ValJAS Regal Limousine, 1 Eclipse dovinos. Filed Jan. 9.

Ave., Norwalk 06851, c/o Javier Salinas-More. Filed Dec. 27.

Sanchez Family Practice, 83 East Ave., Suite 302, Norwalk Lamps Circle, 13 Valley View 06851, c/o William Sanchez M.D. Road, Norwalk 06851, c/o Dal- Filed Jan. 3. hinsce Joint. Filed Jan. 3.

Yost Wealth Solutions, 200 Connecticut Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Charles Yost. Filed Jan. 5.

Patents 4-amino-1H-pyrimidin-2-onebased compounds, compositions comprising them and methods of their use. Patent no. 8,093,245 issued to: David J. Augeri, Princeton, N.J.; Marianne Carlsen, Yardley, Pa.; Kenneth G. Carson, Princeton, N.J.; Qinghong Fu, Plainsboro, N.J.; Alexander Heim-Riether, Newtown; Theodore C. Jessop, Lawrenceville, N.J.; James E. Tarver, Morrisville, Pa.; and Jerry A. Taylor, Trenton, N.J. Assigned to Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc., The Woodlands, Texas.

Adjustable filling and sealing apparatus. Patent no. 8,096,333 issued to: Daniel Py, Stamford; Benoit Adamo, Norwalk; and John Guthy, Stamford. Assigned to Medical Instill Technologies Stephenson Residential Ser- Inc., New Milford. vices L.L.C., 111 S. Main St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Chiquita Ste- Adjustable item transport. Patphenson. Filed Jan. 6. ent no. 8,096,410 issued to W. Scott Kalm, Sarasota, Fla. and Tail Adventures Dog Walking, Nathan Johnson, Clearwater, Fla. 25 Terra Glen Road, Danbury Assigned to Pitney Bowes Inc., 06811, c/o Kim Botelho. Filed Stamford.

Jan. 9.

Belt overload device. Patent no.

Tea-riffic! Ice Cream L.L.C., 33 8,096,552 issued to: Brad A. SwinHyatt Ave., Norwalk 06850, c/o ford, New Milford; Boris Rozenfeld, New Milford; and David W. Mario Leite. Filed Dec. 30.

Purcell, New Milford. Assigned to Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford.

That’s My Limo, 11 Fillow St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Hubert Binder for whiteware ceramic Leach. Filed Dec. 28. mixture and method of using same. Patent no. 8,097,078 isTop Hat Catering, 9 Pearl St., sued to Clayton Collins, NashApt. 3, Danbury 06810, c/o Den- ville, Tenn. Assigned to Unimin nis Hammer. Filed Jan. 9.

Corp., New Canaan.

Shining Shield Cleaning SerLiberty Tax Service, 238 Main vice, 71 Aiken St., Norwalk St., Danbury 06810, c/o Peter 06851, c/o Gabriel Gurgitano.

Suozzi. Filed Jan. 9.

Filed Jan. 17.

Loving Image Health Services, 971 Hancock Ave., Bridgeport 06605, c/o Tysinia Thompson.

Filed Dec. 20.

M&M Carpentry, 245 Grumman Ave., Norwalk 06851, c/o Marian Misiak. Filed Dec. 28.

Manahan Sound, 24 Winfield Court, Norwalk 06855, c/o David Manahan. Filed Dec. 21.

Motorworks Outfitters, 99 Commerce St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Elias Kutrubis. Filed Dec. 23.

MRC Painting, 23 Elmwood Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Mario Cardona. Filed Dec. 28.

Norwalk Cleaning Service, 5 Buda St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Tumble Jungle, 250 Westport Marco Flores. Filed Dec. 20.

Ave., Norwalk 06850, c/o Todd Morin. Filed Dec. 23.

Norwalk Paranormal, 27 Stuart Ave., Norwalk 06850, c/o Lisa Vered’s Wirework, 5 Ox Yoke Harrington. Filed Jan. 9.

Lane, Norwalk -06851, c/o Vered Brandman. Filed Jan. 11.

NWR Glass, 31 Abbott Ave., Danbury 06810, c/o Nick Roma- Vincent Place Trading, 8 Vinno. Filed Jan. 18. cent Place, Norwalk 06853, c/o Stephanie Vail. Filed Jan. 5.

Bottle. Patent no. D652,308 issued to Shriram Venkataraman, Danbury and Kim D. Lufkin, Auburn, N.H. Assigned to Tropicana Products Inc., Bradenton, Fla.

Combination grounding rod bridge. Patent no. D652,388 issued to Eric J. Cerasale, Southington. Assigned to Bridgeport Fittings Inc., Stratford.

Electronic amusement device and method for operating same. Patent no. RE43,114 issued to: Jay S. Walker, Ridgefield; James A. Jorasch, New York City; and Robert R. Lech, Dublin, Ohio. Assigned to International Game Compartmentalized dosage Technology, Reno, Nev. form. Patent no. 8,097,278 issued to Richard S. Sackler, Greenwich.

Assigned to Purdue Pharma L. Glycoluril resin and acrylic P., Stamford. resin dual members. Patent no.

8,097,320 issued to: Jin Wu, Pittsford, N.Y.; Jonathan H. Herko, Conformable, electrically re- Walworth, N.Y.; Scott J. Griffin, laxable rubbers using carbon Fairport, N.Y.; Michael S. Roetker, nanotubes for BCR/BTR ap- Webster, N.Y.; Dante M. Pietranplications. Patent no. 8,099,023 toni, Rochester, N.Y.; and David issued to Kock-yee Law, Penfield, W. Martin, Walworth, N.Y. AsN.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., signed to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Norwalk.

Content-aware uniform rosette color halftone image resizing using iterative determination of energy metrics. Patent no. 8,098,404 issued to: Edgar Bernal, Webster, N.Y.; Robert P. Loce, Webster, N.Y.; and Shen-Ge Wang, Fairport, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Integrated BEOL thin-film resistor. Patent no. 8,093,679 issued to: Anil K. Chinthakindi, Haymarket, Va.; Douglas D. Coolbaugh, Highland, N.Y.; John M. Cotte, New Fairfield; Ebenezer E. Eshun, Newburgh, N.Y.; ZhongXiang He, Essex Junction, Vt.; Anthony K. Stamper, Williston, Vt.; and Eric J. White, Charlotte, Vt. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. Laser-docking station. Patent no. D652,514 issued to: Duncan Reynolds Sherwood, Fairfield; Kevin Young, Needham, Mass.; Jung Tak, Newton Upper Falls, Mass.; Jennifer Ashman, Boston, Mass.; Damien Vizcarra, Pasedena, Calif.; and Jeremy Zietz, Cambridge, Mass. Assigned to Conopco Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

Image-conditioning coating.

Patent no. 8,096,649 issued to: Varun Sambhy, Webster, N.Y.; Bryan J. Roof, Newark, N.Y.; Kock-Yee Law, Penfield, N.Y.; and Hong Zhao, Webster, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Laser-docking station. Patent no. D652,515 issued to: Duncan Reynolds Sherwood, Fairfield; Induction heated member. Pat- Kevin Young, Needham, Mass.; ent no. 8,099,035 issued to: Yu Jung Tak, Newton Upper Falls, Qi, Canada; Qi Zhang, Canada; Mass.; Jennifer Ashman, Boston, Nan-Xing Hu, Canada; Gerald A. Mass.; Damien Vizcarra, PasaDomoto, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.; dena, Calif.; and Jeremy Zietz, and Nicholas P. Kladias, Flushing, Cambridge, Mass. Assigned to N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Conopco Inc., Englewood Cliffs, Norwalk.

N.J.

Cross-linking outer layer and process for preparing the same. Patent no. 8,097,388 issued to: Matthew A. Heuft, Canada; Nan-Xing Hu, Canada; Jennifer A. Coggan, Canada; Vladislav Skorokhod, Canada; Yvan Gagnon, Canada; and Sarah Kavas- Ink compositions and methsalis, Canada. Assigned to Xerox ods. Patent no. 8,097,661 issued Corp., Norwalk. to: Naveen Chopra, Canada; Stephan V. Drappel, Canada; Michelle N. Chretien, Canada; Diamond-containing nano- Barkev Keoshkerian, Canada; and composite interfacial layer in Peter G. Odell, Canada. Assigned fusers. Patent no. 8,097,319 is- to Xerox Corp., Norwalk. sued to Jin Wu, Webster, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Ink melt device with solid state retention and molten ink passDocument-targeting sys- through. Patent no. 8,096,648 tems and methods. Patent no. issued to Brent Rodney Jones, 8,098,402 issued to: William S. Sherwood, Ore. Assigned to XeJacobs, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mi- rox Corp., Norwalk. chael E. Farrell, Williamson, N.Y.; David E. Rumph, Pasadena, Calif.; and Stephen M. Strasen, San Inkjet printed wirebonds, enPedro, Calif. Assigned to Xerox capsulant and shielding. PatCorp., Norwalk. ent no. 8,097,497 issued to: Peter M. Gulvin, Webster, N.Y.; Peter J. Nystrom, Webster, N.Y.; and John Duplex printing with integrat- P. Meyers, Rochester, N.Y. Ased image-marking engines. signed to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Patent no. 8,096,650 issued to Paul McConville, Webster, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Laser hand piece. Patent no.

D652,512 issued to: Duncan Reynolds Sherwood, Fairfield; Kevin Young, Needham, Mass.; Jung Tak, Newton Upper Falls, Mass.; Jennifer Ashman, Boston, Mass.; Damien Vizcarra, Pasadena, Calif.; and Jeremy Zietz, Cambridge, Mass. Assigned to Conopco Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Laser hand-piece. Patent no.

D652,513 issued to: Duncan Reynolds Sherwood, Fairfield; Kevin Young, Needham, Mass.; Jung Tak, Newton Upper Falls, Mass.; Jennifer Ashman, Boston, Mass.; Damien Vizcarra, Pasedena, Calif.; and Jeremy Zietz, Cambridge, Mass. Assigned to Conopco Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Lid. Patent no. D652,248 issued to Vincent Valderrama, Stamford and Stuart Naft, Fairfield.

Assigned to Playtex Products L.L.C., Shelton.

Casket enclosure and methods for making and using the same. Patent no. 8,096,028 issued to Mark Hopkins Bates, Westport. Assigned to The Norwalk Wilbert Vault Company L.L.C., Bridgeport.

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on the record Management of virtual universe item returns. Patent no.

8,099,338 issued to: Boas Betzler, Germany; Kulvir S. Bhogal, Fort Worth, Texas; Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va.; Jenny S. Li, Danbury; and Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. Method and apparatus for issuing and managing gift certificates. Patent no. 8,099,360 issued to: Jay S. Walker, Ridgefield; Daniel E. Tedesco, Shelton; James A. Jorasch, New York City; Robert R. Lech, Columbus, Ohio; and Sanjay K. Jindal, Los Angeles, Calif. Assigned to Walker Digital L.L.C., Stamford.

Method and apparatus for printing that considers an undesirable optical density printing range. Patent no. 8,098,401 issued to: Richard P. N. Veregin, Canada; Karen A. Moffat, Canada; Dale R. Mashtare, Bloomfield, N.Y.; Daryl W. Vanbesien, Canada; Jordan H. Wosnick, Canada; Cuong Vong, Canada; and Robert P. Loce, Webster, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Method and apparatus for providing electronic credits at a gaming device without first requiring payment therefor.

Patent no. 8,096,872 issued to: Jay S. Walker, Ridgefield; James A. Jorasch, Stamford; Dean P. Alderucci, Westport; Magdalena M. Fincham, Ridgefield; Keith Bemer, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Daniel E. Tedesco, Huntington; Geoffrey M. Gelman, Stamford; and Stephen C. Tulley, Fairfield. Assigned to International Game Technology, Reno, Nev. Method for controlling a feed rate of a printer, and printer employing same. Patent no.

8,098,399 issued to: Keith M. Smith, Fairfield; Gary S. Jacobson, Norwalk; Brad L. Davies, Derby; and Elaine B. Cristiani, Stratford.

Assigned to Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford.

Method for determining email address format rules. Patent no. RE43,118 issued to Douglas B. Quine, Bethel and Karl H. Schumacher, Westport. Assigned to Turnpike Data Processing L.L.C., Wilmington, Del.

O-linked pyrimidin-4-aminebased compounds, compositions comprising them and methods of their use to treat cancer. Patent no. 8,093,246 issued to: David J. Augeri, Princeton, N.J.; Marianne Carlsen, Yardley, Pa.; Kenneth G. Carson, Princeton, N.J.; Qinghong Fu, Plainsboro, N.J.; Jason P. Healy, Flemington, N.J.; Alexander Heim-Riether, Newtown; Theodore C. Jessop, Lawrenceville, N.J.; Philip E. Keyes, Flemington, N.J.; Min Shen, Pennington, N.J.; James E. Tarver, Morrisville, Pa.; Jerry A. Taylor, Trenton, N.J.; and Xiaolian Xu, Princeton, N.J. Assigned to Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc., The Woodlands, Texas.

Method, system, and apparatus for validation. Patent no.

8,095,544 issued to: Keith W. Boone, Randolph, Mass.; Sunitha Chaparala, Weymouth, Mass.; Sean Gervais, Dorchester, Mass.; Robert G. Titemore, Lexington, Mass.; Harry J. Ogrinc, Westwood, Mass.; Jeffrey G. Hopkins, Lincoln, R.I.; Roubik Manoukian, Belmont, Mass.; and Cameron Fordyce, Providence, R.I. Assigned to Dictaphone Corp., Stratford.

Online waiting-room system, method and computer program product. Patent no.

Methods and apparatus for 8,095,400 issued to: Patrick managing an account to fund Herde, Hollywood, Fla.; Bill benefits for a player. Patent no. Binenstock, Hollywood, Fla.; 8,096,873 issued to: Jay W. Walk- Antonio Fernandez, Pompano er, Ridgefield; James A. Jorasch, Beach, Fla.; John R. Hopwood, Stamford; Stephen C. Tulley, Denver, Colo.; Terrence Lee, Fairfield; Geoffrey M. Gelman, Norwalk; Steve Snyder, Coral Stamford; and Magdalena M. Springs, Fla.; Kar Loong Wong, Fincham, Norwalk. Assigned to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Natalie AdInternational Game Technol- ams, Davie, Fla.; Ronnie Paskin, ogy, Reno, Nev. Plantation, Fla.; Louis Thomas, Coral Springs, Fla.; Brijesh SutarMethods for preparing ben- ia, Tamarac, Fla.; Daniel L. Smith, zodithiophenes. Patent no. Pompano Beach, Fla.; Fausto 8,097,735 issued to: Anthony Albamonte, Greensboro, N.C.; James Wigglesworth, Canada; and Christopher M. Kerlin, Ft. Yiliang Wu, Canada; Ping Liu, Lauderdale, Fla. Assigned to CBS Canada; and Nan-Xing Hu, Can- Interactive Inc., New York City. ada. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Paper roll with precut windows. Patent no. 8,097,312 isNested laser hand piece and sued to Ira Kristel, Manhasset, docking station. Patent no. N.Y. Assigned to Cenveo Corp., D652,516 issued to: Duncan Stamford.

Reynolds Sherwood, Fairfield; Kevin Young, Needham, Mass.; Photoconductors and processJung Tak, Newton Upper Falls, es thereof. Patent no. 8,098,925 Mass.; Jennifer Ashman, Boston, issued to: Markus R. Silvestri, Mass.; Damien Vizcarra, Pas- Fairport, N.Y.; Jin Wu, Webster, edena, Calif.; and Jeremy Zietz, N.Y.; M. John Hinckel, Rochester, Cambridge, Mass. Assigned to N.Y.; David M. Skinner, RochConopco Inc., Englewood Cliffs, ester, N.Y.; Kent J. Evans, Lima, N.J. N.Y.; Robert J. Meyer, Penfield, N.Y.; Kathleen M. Carmichael, Williamson, N.Y.; and Dale S. Renfer, Webster, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Photoreceptors comprising aligned nano-sized domains of charge transport components that have significant intermolecular pi-pi orbital overlap.

Patent no. 8,097,387 issued to Hany Aziz, Canada and Kathy L. De Jong, Canada. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Pouch used to deliver medication when ruptured. Patent no.

8,096,458 issued to Thomas R. Hessler, Bethel. Assigned to Tyco Healthcare Group L.P., North Haven.

Rho-kinase inhibitors. Patent no. 8,093,266 issued to: Georg Dahmann, Germany; Eugene Richard Hickey, Danbury; Xiang Li, Danbury; Wang Mao, Milford; Daniel R. Marshall, Sandy Hook; Tina M. Morwick, New Milford; Robert Sibley, North Haven; Roger John Snow, Danbury; Ronald J. Sorcek, Bethel; Frank Wu, Ridgefield; and Erick Richard Roush Young, Danbury. Assigned to Boehringer Ingelheim International G.m.b.H., Germany.

Surgical stapling apparatus.

Patent no. 8,096,460 issued to: Kenneth Blier, Meriden; Kevin Sniffin, Danbury; and John Beardsley, Wallingford. Assigned to Tyco Healthcare Group L.P., North Haven.

System and method for delivering customized content to mobile devices. Patent no.

8,095,919 issued to: Michelle Harris, New York City; Jethanamest; Dan, Palisades Park, N.J.; LeRoux; Thomas, New York City; Tripp; Corey, New York City; Peter DeLucia, Freehold, N.J.; Lin Hsu, South Windsor; Lee Boyle, Emerson, N.J.; Dan Liu, Washington Crossing, Pa.; George Yi, New York City; Rocio Katsanis, Shreveport, La.; Harry Kargman, New York City; and Evan Herbst, Rules engine for mail-piece Baldwin, N.Y. Assigned to ACK content modification. Patent Ventures Holdings L.L.C., Westno. 8,099,444 issued to: David port.

R. Welch, Shelton; James L. Harman, Southport; Joseph D. Collins, Watertown; Patrick Rolling, System and method for proSouthington; and Elaheh Zama- cessing nested/unnested mailnian, Trumbull. Assigned to Pit- piece content material. Patent no. 8,096,932 issued to: Michael ney Bowes Inc., Stamford.

R. Ifkovits, Danbury; Edward M. Ifkovits, New Fairfield; Daniel J. Selective polishing of fuser Williams, Woodbury; Russell W. members. Patent no. 8,097,339 Holbrook, Southbury; and Adriissued to Daniel L. Coughlin Jr., an S. Ruck, Norwalk. Assigned to Elba, N.Y. and Patrick J. Finn, Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford.

Webster, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

System and method for the generation of multilayer corSnap-on switch module assem- relation-based digital waterbly. Patent no. 8,096,826 issued marks. Patent no. 8,098,880 isto Sorin Ioan Mortun, Irvington, sued to Shen-ge Wang, Fairport, N.Y. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Shelton.

Norwalk.

Solid ink sticks having a verification interlock for verifying position of a solid ink stick before identifying the ink stick.

Patent no. 8,096,647 issued to Brent Rodney Jones, Sherwood, Ore. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Sorter having a container shuttle system. Patent no. 8,096,402 issued to David P. Chastain, New Milford. Assigned to Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford.

Surgical fasteners coated with wound treatment materials. Patent no. 8,097,017 issued to Frank J. Viola, Sandy Hook.

Assigned to Tyco Healthcare Group L.P., Norwalk.

Temperature compensation for full-width arrays write heads. Patent no. 8,096,634 issued to Douglas Wiggins, Ontario, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Temporary wet strength system for tissue paper. Patent no. 8,097,125 issued to: Michael Ryan, Newtown; David Dauplaise, Stamford; and William Brevard, Stamford. Assigned to Kemira Chemicals Inc., Atlanta, Ga. Ternary aluminum alloy films and targets for manufacturing flat panel displays. Patent no. 8,097,100 issued to: Jaydeep Sarkar, Thiells, N.Y.; Chi-Fung Lo, Fort Lee, N.J.; and Paul S. Gilman, Suffern, N.Y. Assigned to Praxair Technology Inc., Danbury.

Trim retention spring and method for recessed lighting fixtures. Patent no. 8,096,686 issued to Shawn Wilcox, Simpsonville, S.C. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

Ultra low.kappa.plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition processes using a single bifunctional precursor containing both a SiCOH matrix functionality and organic porogen functionality. Patent no. 8,097,932 issued to: Son Van Nguyen, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.; Stephen McConnell Gates, Ossining, N.Y.; Deborah A. Neumayer, Danbury; and Alfred Grill, White Plains, N.Y. Assigned to System and method for trans- International Business Maferring high-definition multi- chines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. media signals over four twisted-pairs. Patent no. 8,098,690 issued to Wolfgang Roethig, San Universal display exposure Jose, Calif. and Amir Bar-Niv, monitor using personal locator Sunnyvale, Calif. Assigned to service. Patent no. 8,098,152 issued to: Jack K. Zhang, Ijamsville, TranSwitch Corp., Shelton.

Md.; Jack C. Crystal, Owings Mill, Md.; James M. Jensen, Columbia, Telecommunications con- Md.; Eugene L. Flanagan III, Wilnector panel with interport ton. Assigned to Arbitron Inc., crosstalk isolation. Patent no. Columbia, Md. 8,096,839 issued to: Shadi A. Abughazaleh, Oakdale; Joseph E. Dupuis, Ledyard; Christopher W. Gribble, Westerly, R.I.; Naved S. Khan, Portland; and Douglas P. O’Connor, Richmond, R.I. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

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y now you’ve probably driven down Route 9A in Hawthorne and seen the sign outside of the Color Group Building. Don’t call the cops – but there are now four additional businesses under the familiar sawtooth roof. We’ve been accused of collaborating with one another.

Yes, we’re collaborating and there is nothing criminal about it – in fact it works like a charm. We recently completed a catalogue for a large Westchester packaged food distributor. We designed it, photographed it, produced it, and printed it. All without ever sending anything out of our cells at 168 Saw Mill River Road.

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The hottest new hamburger franchise in the County “The Westchester Hamburger Company” has a truly distinctive neon sign over their front door that was also created and produced by the collaborators at Color Group.

We invite you to take advantage of our wild bunch.

We’re not handcuffed together but we are very close and as you can see, we do work very well together.

Whatever your project may be, the collaborators at Color Group will get it done for You. We’ll be keeping an eye out for you – don’t leave town without checking in with us.

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