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Vol 48, No. 14 • April 2, 2012

For the public benefit – with benefits

In Pursuit of Moody’s and UBS

BY CAROL E. CURTIS

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BY ALEXANDER SOULE

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ay Moore had a big problem in 2009, a “turn-away-orders kind of problem” in her words, as she sought to build up a socially responsible business.

Now Connecticut faces a big question on whether to make it easier for Moore and entrepreneurs like her to stitch together viable, low-profit companies here.

Under multiple bills before the Connecticut General Assembly, businesses could organize as social enterprise or public benefit companies, making it easier for them to raise capital while freeing them from some of the onerous regulations governing nonprofits. Such businesses would have to demonstrate they are achieving a broader social benefit in fields such as social or health services, education, arts, or other endeavors dominated by nonprofits. New York enacted a similar law late last year.

Secretary of State Denise Merrill said she did not anticipate a large number of filings in any first year the bill became effective, but a significant number of supporters testified they would take advantage, including Day Moore, owner of Milford-based GG2G L.L.C. which as Green Goods 2 Give sells handbags and other accessories made out of salvaged restaurant seating and billboard materials.

Moore and co-founder Phyllis Fryzel won a social enterprise innovation award last October from ReSET Social Enterprise Trust, a Farmington organization that has been leading efforts in Connecticut to introduce the concept. ReSET has scheduled a “structure lab” for April 17 in Hartford to explore how hybrid corporate structures can help or hinder a business; and another conference for May 2 at Quinnipiac University in Hamden.

Moore said GG2G is prepared to open a “cut

Day Moore, left, hopes to see Connecticut stitch together a form of organization for low-profit companies.

n attorney predicted “shock” from the details of a local hedge fund’s lawsuit against Swiss banking giant UBS and credit rating firm Moody’s Investors Service Inc., now scheduled for trial next January.

If Pursuit Partners L.L.C. is successful in Connecticut Superior Court, the case could open the door to similar lawsuits from hedge funds or other parties who bought securities from investment banks leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.

Pursuit accuses UBS and Moody’s of fraud, alleging the defendants colluded in downgrading derivatives before selling them to Pursuit on the eve of the 2008 meltdown. Pursuit’s $35.6 million investment was wiped out when the notes became worthless.

‘n sew” facility in Bridgeport, but needs a public benefit corporation law on the books to give the company its best chance at success.

“We feel our next step is to grow our business into a for-profit social enterprise,” Moore stated.

“We are having trouble finding funding for this as it is not recognized as a business entity and our needs tend to fall through the cracks for traditional funding.”

Moore said she hopes to open a production shop in Bridgeport, if she can get the finances to work.

“I refused to go to Asia as that would not be in keeping with our low-carbon footprint, ecominded mission,” she said. “So this became a big problem.”

In March, Judge Barbara Brazzel-Massaro ruled that Pursuit properly stated claims against Moody’s and that the credit-rating giant is not entitled to have the case dismissed on constitutional or preemption grounds. Brazzel-Massaro rejected also Moody’s argument that it is entitled to First Amendment protection in the case.

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Pursuit, page 6

“It will be very dramatic”

Chris vs. Linda?

Murphy already running against McMahon

BY CAROL E. CURTIS

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emocratic Senate Candidate Chris Murphy said that he is assuming his Republican opponent will be Linda McMahon and not Chris Shays, her rival for the Republican nomination.

He also said he expects the Connecticut economy to be the dominant issue.

A recent Quinnipiac University poll showed McMahon leading Shays by 9 per-

cent. Shays, a veteran former Congressman, is not well known outside his home district of Fairfield County, said Murphy.

“The rest of the state is McMahon country,” Murphy said. “The [Republican] party changed. It is Linda McMahon’s kind of party.”

Murphy, the Fifth District congressman, is seeking the Democratic nomination for the seat of Sen. Joseph Lieberman. His primary opponents are Susan Bysiewicz, Connecticut’s Murphy, page 6

Another shot of solar?

BY ALEXANDER SOULE

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ith New Jersey again beckoning as a Northeast paradise for solar panel buyers and installers, Connecticut is still looking to recover its day in the sun by extending a tax break to commercial installations.

Connecticut legislators are considering a bill that would make solar panels on commercial establishments exempt from property taxes, a benefit currently extended to homeowners with photovoltaic systems.

Municipalities oppose the tax, saying it strips another source of potential funding at a time when they need every nickel they can get.

stayed ahead of Connecticut, and Vermont leapfrogged it.

Installations doubled nationally, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), which surveys more than 200 installers, manufacturers, utilities and state agencies each quarter. The boom was aided by a 50-percent drop in the cost of solar panels; the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; and a big fourth quarter in advance of U.S. Treasury 1603 program incentives and others expiring at yearend.

The 1603 program provided cash in lieu of tax credits for solar projects to spur demand following the 2008 financial panic; The program resulted in some $3 billion in new

“Property tax impacts are one of the most important economic factors in determining whether an on-site solar array makes sense,” stated Daniel Allegretti vice president of energy policy for Exelon’s Constellation Energy division, testifying this spring in favor of a Connecticut General Assembly bill that would do just that. “(This) will go a long way to making the installation of solar generation more attractive for these customers and enabling the expansion of solar power within Connecticut.”

The Assembly considers the bill even as the state’s utilities ready for a new round of renewable energy investments that could spur not just solar panel installations but

Connecticut could end property taxes on commercial solar arrays on rooftops like Stamford Twin Rinks.

And this month, Connecticut utilities are expected to solicit bids from solar panel installers on behalf of businesses who want to go solar.

“We are hoping this will be the first of many more solar projects on the horizon in the state,” said Kellie Walsh, a spokeswoman for Port Chester, N.Y.-based Mercury Solar Systems Inc. Late last year the company installed a solar array at Greenwich High School, with CEO Frank Alfano a resident of the town.

Solar installers have long maintained they will site their companies where the business is – and of late, that has meant New Jersey and New York.

Connecticut ranked 19th nationally for installations of photovoltaic systems in 2011, up three slots but still well back from its top ranking in 2007 when the state boasted comparatively generous incentives.

California and New Jersey maintained their status as the top two states in the nation; in the Northeast, New York and Massachusetts

work, according to an EuPD Research study published recently by SEIA. Of $3 million disbursed statewide from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act jobs bill, Fairfield County received just under $200,000 for a single project – a 54-kilowatt array at the Greenwich Racquet Club, owned by Leon Tennis L.L.C. and visible from Interstate 95.

EuPD estimates Connecticut is on pace to install nearly 1,100 megawatts of solar panel capacity between 2011 and 2016, not far behind New York but less than a third of New Jersey’s projected output.

The industry continues to cite the effect that tax policy can have on spurring demand and supply. Fairfield County is home to some of the larger commercial and industrial solar arrays in Connecticut, including General Electric Co.’s Fairfield headquarters; Daymon Worldwide headquarters in Stamford; and Honey Cell Inc. in Shelton.

If the new legislation is passed, those arrays will become even more cost effective.

also fuel cells, biomass and possibly wind turbines. In early March, Connecticut Light & Power Co. and United Illuminating Co. unveiled their plans to invest up to $1 billion in low-emission energy projects.

“Business owners will begin making decisions on whether to pursue solar projects,” said Michael Trahan, executive director of the Solar Connecticut Inc. nonprofit advocacy group. “These financial incentives … will have little consequence on helping businesses lower or steady their energy bills if the business owners’ savings are wiped out by increased property taxes on the solar project. With this much commercial solar development about to launch, it’s critical the legislature addresses how these projects are taxed.”

The U.S. Department of Energy, meanwhile, awarded Connecticut $500,000 to help lower the “soft” costs associated with rooftop solar panel installation – those that have nothing to do with the panels themselves, such as system design, and which can

add up to half the cost of a system.

The funding is part of DOE’s “SunShot” initiative, with Stamford, Greenwich, Fairfield and Danbury among the municipalities participating.

DOE’s goal is to bring the total costs of utility-scale solar energy systems down 75 percent – to roughly $1 a watt – by 2020.

The Connecticut Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority (CEFIA) is using the money to streamline permitting processes, address connectivity with the state’s utilities, and improve financing options for homeowners and small businesses who install rooftop solar power systems.

The federal money arrives even as CEFIA frees up $7.5 million for residential solar panel installations, the first tranche of what could ultimately total $40 million investments.

“Passage of last year’s energy bill has created a strong platform from which Connecticut can assume a leadership role on energy,” said Daniel Esty, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, in a statement. “This program is a perfect example of how the state is poised to become a national leader for energy efficiency and increasing our use of cleaner renewable power sources.”

In its report last month, the Solar Energy Industries Association noted the shadow cast by last year’s Solyndra bankruptcy case, after the California company had taken some $500 million in assistance from the U.S. government.

“The Solyndra story has brought a number of valuable questions to the forefront,” SEIA and GreenTech media researchers wrote. “First, has the support that has been given to the solar industry, both at the state and federal level, been successful? The market’s impressive recent growth points to yes. Installations are booming, jobs are being added, and solar has proven itself as a reliable technology to meet growing energy demand.”

SOLAR INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT IN 2016 Select states, including indirect jobs California

93,300

Ohio

61,600

New Jersey

15,800

Massachusetts

12,000

Pennsylvania

8,400

Connecticut

7,100

Florida

6,300

New York

6,100

North Carolina

2,200

Source: EuPD Research

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Startup stampede

BY ALEXANDER SOULE

capital funding is running below historic norms in the past few quarters in Fairfield t Stamford Startup Weekend heading County and Connecticut alike.

Perhaps surprisingly, Fairfield County into April, wannabe entrepreneurs got a chance to wangle together startups have yet to stampede to the angel teams to pursue their dreams over 48 hours investment tax credit since Malloy cut the minimum qualifying investment to $25,000, at the Stamford Innovation Center.

It appears they’ve got company – if from $100,000 the previous year.

Connecticut ranked 16th nationally and people are still working to get onto the same page when it comes to Connecticut’s startup fourth in the Northeast after Vermont, New York and Maine on the Kauffman index, economy.

Connecticut had the fourth-best which captures data from the first month improvement in the nation on an annu- of significant business activity by new comal entrepreneurship index put out by the panies.

Arizona posted the single best year-overKauffman Foundation. The index was published on the eve of Connecticut year improvement to zoom to the top of the Innovations publishing a new mobile app list. For Connecticut, it was the best perfordubbed CTiHub Mobile, allowing the state’s mance since 2001.

In the first two months of 2012, innovation community to connect with one another and with out-of-state partners. The Connecticut business starts were running 20 percent ahead of their pace a year ago, app is available free on iTunes. according to data published by the Connecticut KAUFFMAN INDEX OF secretary of state. The ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY 5,500-plus new businesses State ranks in 2011, and according to change from 2010 formed here in January and February were the STATE 2011 RANK CHANGE RANK most since 2008, and in Arizona 1 1 line with most of the past decade with the exception Connecticut 16 4 of the boom year of 2007.

New Jersey 31 13 Even if that’s a vast New York 11 16 improvement from 2011, Connecticut has plenMassachusetts 33 35 ty of room for further Rhode Island 41 31 improvement, ranking Source: Kauffman Foundation 16th nationally, five slots behind rival New York.

In an indication of the degree to which Still, Connecticut easily outpaced New Jersey that community is out of sync, what with and Massachusetts for new business formyriad organizations addressing innova- mation as captured on the index, though tion here, Connecticut Innovations did not one Kauffman researcher cautioned that list Stamford Startup Weekend on its own the 2008 recession changed the dynamics of website chronicling upcoming events for startup formation in the United States.

“The Great Recession has pushed many entrepreneurs, innovators and financiers.

Under Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, individuals into business ownership due to Connecticut has worked to increase startup high unemployment rates,” said Robert Litan, activity, sweetening a tax credit for angel vice president of research and policy at the investments in startups while increasing its Kauffman Foundation, in a prepared statebacking of the Connecticut Innovations Inc. ment. “However, economic uncertainty likely has made them more cautious, and they prefer venture capital fund.

While Connecticut Innovations has to start sole proprietorships rather than more announced several new investments, includ- costly employer firms. This ‘jobless entrepreing one to draw a Philadelphia-area life sci- neurship’ trend negatively effects job creation ences startup to Farmington, overall venture and the larger economic recovery.”

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FAIR ARGUMENT “I don’t worry about potholes or speed bumps. I worry about dead ends, and I don’t see a lot of those anywhere.

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PERSPECTIVES

Labor bills present mixed picture

BY KIA MURRELL

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usinesses usually cast a wary eye at the General Assembly’s Labor Committee during legislative sessions. This year, as the session passes its halfway point, the committee work is something of a mixed bag.

Proposals to set up how certain child care workers and personal attendants in Connecticut could unionize died when the committee ran out of time before votes were taken. However, advocates of the union-organizing proposals (SB 352 and HB 5433) have said they want to bring them back as amendments to other bills being considered in the legislature.

The bills are follow-ups to Executive Orders 9 and 10, which opened the door to the unionization of family child care providers who receive subsidies through the Care 4 Kids program run by the Department of Social Services, and to independent personal care attendants who also work with the state.

Businesses opposed the bills because the legislation would have resulted in added costs and intrusive burdens for these care providers.

Among the other proposals

approved by the committee this year were those raising the minimum wage and imposing the prevailing wage on economic development projects.

Jobs for young people in Connecticut are already scarce, but a proposal to hike the state’s minimum wage would put them even more out of reach.

HB 5291 will raise Connecticut’s minimum wage by 50 cents each year for the next two years; it will be indexed afterward. The state’s minimum wage would increase to $8.75 per hour on Jan. 1, 2013, and then to $9.25 one year later.

After that, the rate will be tied to the Consumer Price Index. The U.S. minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.

Studies show that minimum wage hikes are usually followed by drops in job opportunities for young people.

Faced with higher employment costs, businesses simply scale back their hiring.

Job creation is still slow in Connecticut and another proposal (SB 181) will keep it that way by requiring the standard and prevailing wage to be paid to certain employees of businesses receiving state financial assistance from economic development agencies. It also

requires the businesses’ contractors to pay prevailing wages to their employees.

What’s more, the Labor Committee recently expanded the mandate to apply to any contract of $1 million or more entered into by the business for constructing or renovating its property.

SB 181 is yet another attempt to impose the prevailing wage in Connecticut, which actually increases the costs of economic development projects and gives many companies a good reason not to do business with the state.

The committee also approved a proposal (SB 79) to prohibit discrimination against unemployed people in hiring notices and advertisements. The bill was scaled back from an earlier version that, along with HB 5199 (which died in the committee) would have added the unemployed to the list of protected classes (such as race, gender and sexual orientation) under state civil rights law.

This would have been a major obstacle to businesses, opening them to misguided potential litigation.

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an’t quite put your finger on it yet?

Something’s different.

Maybe it hit you in January when the thought-provoking “Fair argument” boxes began jumping off the Fairfield County Business Journal’s pages. It might have been the return to an extra, offbeat cover article in each edition. For sure, the new FCBJ Today cover side rails teasing the week’s stories grab your attention.

A cosmetic change here (briefs are now collected “in the field”); a major addition there (monthly roundtables on knotty business problems); a complete overhaul to come (www …) – but wait, there’s more.

It’s because we love business, and we love our business. You’ll see changes

even on this page – more voices from a wider range of people in the community, talking about what’s on their mind now and why you should care.

In fact, make one of those voices your own.

Twice to date this year in Mark Twain country, we’ve waxed poetic on Samuel Clemens’ prose. We’ll make it thrice, after rereading “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” and its hero publishing his first, sixth-century newspaper: “My paper traveled from group to group all up and down and about that huge hall, and my happy eye was on it always, I sat motionless, steeped in satisfaction,” Sir Boss waxes.

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steeping ourselves in the corridors of Fairfield County business – which in so many ways echoes and amplifies the profits, perils and promise of the national economy.

Give your paper another look, and the next week, and the week after – and get updates online in between.

You’ll find something new each time.

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Option paydays boost comp.

BY ALEXANDER SOULE

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f seeing Jeff Immelt’s take-home pay in 2011– the $18 million-plus he generated in the corner office of General Electric Co. – made you a little envious, think of it in these terms: In one sense, he didn’t do half as well as the next guy.

CEOs appear to be making up for lost opportunities in the Great Recession, with pay for nearly 20 executives up about 40 percent on average.

In fact, just one CEO received less in 2011 than the year before, as calculated by the Fairfield County Business Journal – Frits van Paasschen, Fairfield County’s newest Fortune 500 honcho at the head of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., which relocated to Stamford late last year from New York.

The overall trends cut against significant pay cuts at financial companies on Wall Street. For instance, UBS AG reportedly cut bonuses 40 percent for its employees. And of course, they go against another year of meager pay raises for many Main Street companies still husbanding their financial resources amid continued economic uncertainty.

In reporting executive pay, the Fairfield County Business Journal includes most summary compensation reported by companies save for stock and option awards that vest over time. A Wall Street Journal and Hay Group analysis of CEO pay published in late April, relying on corporate estimates of future stock and option values, found that CEO pay increased only slightly in 2011 and below the rate of increase in 2010.

Rather than reporting the estimated value of new awards in future years, the

Business Journal reports instead the value of awards made in previous years that vested or were exercised in 2011 and 2010.

In a recent blog on how companies can counter media reports of excessive pay for senior executives, consultants with Towers Watson advised using exercises of vested stock and options as a defense, in cases where a CEO did not cash in for whatever reason, and where estimates of future value otherwise ballooned his or her reported compensation.

It provides a fresh perspective on executive compensation, one that represents “take-home” money CEOs are putting in the bank today as they make critical decisions on hiring and firing.

It also corrects companies’ previous estimates on awards, whether too high or too low. For instance, in the case of Waterburybased Webster Financial Inc., CEO James Smith got a one-third increase in pay in 2011, but has forfeited shares awarded in previous years representing millions of dollars in compensation, after they failed to come into the money by the time their expiration date arrived.

The model can result in lumpier returns from companies’ reported compensation – particularly for cases in which an executive exercises or vests large chunks of stock, as the case with van Paasschen in 2010, leading to the drop in take-home pay in 2011; in cases where stock has appreciated faster than a company expected when awarded; or for new CEOs, for whom part of their compensation is in the form of stock vesting in future years, and which are too new on the job to be realizing payments from previous years.

CEO COMPENSATION AT FAIRFIELD COUNTY COMPANIES 2011 compensation with vested stock & options only, and change from 2010 COMPANY

CEO

COMPENSATION

CHANGE

Praxair Inc.

Steve Angel

$32.7 million

94%

Hexcel Corp.

David Berges

$19.9 million

170%

General Electric Co.

Jeff Immelt

$18.3 million

14%

Hubbell Inc.

Timothy Powers

$16.3 million

29%

Crane Co.

Eric Fast

$15.1 million

43%

Starwood Hotels & Resorts

Frits van Paasschen

$7.8 million

-55%

Pitney Bowes Inc.

Murray Martin

$7.5 million

20%

Frontier Communications

Maggie Wilderotter

$6.1 million

50%

Sturm Ruger & Co.

Michael Fifer

$5.8 million

57%

Webster Financial Inc.

James Smith

$4.0 million

33%

People’s United Financial Inc. Jack Barnes

$2.6 million

78%

Photronics Inc.

Constantine Macricostas

$2.2 million

230%

World Wrestling Entertainment

Vince McMahon

$1.5 million

76%

Citrin Cooperman Corner Business Owners Beware: You Can Be Personally Liable for Your Company’s Taxes

BY DAVID SEIDEN, CPA CITRIN COOPERMAN About a month ago, the New York State Tax Appeal Tribunal held the founder, CEO and major shareholder of an online retailer personally liable for the company’s outstanding sales tax liabilities. Despite the CEO’s argument that the size of the company and number of transactions processed made it impossible for him to personally oversee all aspects of the company’s operations, the Tribunal ruled that as a corporate officer he had a fiduciary responsibility to ensure that sales tax was being properly charged and remitted to the state. The Tribunal went on to say that an officer’s fiduciary responsibility could not be absolved simply by relying on others to perform the officer’s required fiduciary duties.

The above ruling is a good example of how business is NOT “as usual” in the world of state taxes. As states struggle to find new sources of revenue to balance budgets, a number of consequences have become clear with respect to state taxes, including: 1) The increasing frequency of new state tax laws being passed; 2) The aggressive tactics being taken by state taxing authorities with respect to enforcing existing state tax laws; 3) States holding owners/officers of companies personally liable for uncollected sales tax liabilities (In other words, piercing the corporate veil and holding the owners of companies personally liable for certain unpaid state taxes); and 4) The liberal interpretations being taken by state tax courts, in favor of the states, with respect to nexus.

Nexus is generally defined as the minimum connection between a business and a state that allows that state to subject the business to tax and/ or require the business to collect and remit sales tax. While the term nexus is not overly complicated to understand, how states apply the term has been vigorously debated in the courts and in Congress for many years.

In recent years, as the economy has slowed and revenues have

decreased, states have aggressively attempted to redefine nexus based not only on a business’s physical location of operations and employees, but also on the intent and reach of the business (i.e., “economic nexus”). The ability of a state to redefine nexus may ultimately be decided by either the U.S. Supreme Court or Congress. In the absence of definitive guidance by the Court or Congress, state courts and legislatures have taken on the matter themselves, resulting in a patchwork of regulation.

Therefore, given the increased complexities and ever changing landscape in state taxes, business owners should re-evaluate their business’s state tax posture. An owner’s risk tolerance for tax exposure three years ago may very well be unacceptable today given the increased scrutiny by states especially in light of the fact that states are personally going after the owners of businesses to collect certain unpaid taxes.

To learn more about your company’s state tax responsibilities, nexus and an owner’s/officer’s potential personal liability, join David Seiden, author of this article, on April 24, 2012 from 11am to 12pm, when he will be hosting a FREE one-hour webinar on state taxes and will be available to answer questions.

To register for the webinar use your smart phone to scan the code to the left or go to the registration address http://goo.gl/aXiIc. The next Citrin Cooperman Corner column will appear on this page, on Monday, May 7, 2012 with the topic: If your new business fails, can you still collect money?

About the Author: David Seiden is a leading authority on state and local taxes. He is a partner in Citrin Cooperman’s White Plains office, where he leads the firm’s State and Local Tax (SALT) Practice. He can be reached by phone at (914) 517-4447 or via email at dseiden@citrincooperman.com.

Citrin Cooperman is a full-service accounting and business consulting firm.

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*Promoted to CEO in 2011 or 2010

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former secretary of state, and state Rep. William Tong of Stamford. Polls showed Murphy with a comfortable primary lead as of mid-March, and he said recent polls show him beating either McMahon or Shays by 10 percent.

Speaking March 18 to a group of supporters at a private residence in Darien, Murphy laid out the reasons why he believes

POSSIBLE MATCHUPS IN CONNECTICUT U.S. SENATE RACE Poll by Quinnipiac University, March 14-19 POLL RESULT

MARGIN

Murphy over McMahon

52-37

Murphy over Shays

41-40

Bysiewicz over McMahon 49-39 Shays over Bysiewicz

43-42

McMahon over Tong

43-39

Shays over Tong

50-25

Margin of error: +/- 2.4 percent Source: Quinnipiac University

he is better equipped than McMahon to represent Connecticut.

“I think Linda McMahon will be the candidate, and I think the lines of contrast will be clear,” Murphy said. “Economic stability is at risk right now. The country has done

well with massive private investment on top of massive public investment. Connecticut benefits through federal public investment in infrastructure, education, bioscience and technology. McMahon will be an indiscriminate critic of government. Her vision will lead to the diminishment – not the expansion – of the recovery.”

Among the business issues emphasized

by Murphy, he supports: • continued implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform act • “buy American” rules to promote U.S. manufacturing • a nationwide, 15 percent renewable energy requirement and rescission of tax breaks for oil companies • flexible policies toward reforming underperforming schools Former World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. CEO McMahon has her own economic pitch, laid out on her website, which includes tax cuts for business and the middle class, and putting an end to “job-killing regulations.”

Murphy noted McMahon has already raised an exceptional amount of money.

The McMahon campaign did not respond to a query on fund-raising. The deeppocketed McMahon spent $50 million of her own money on her failed 2008 Senate bid against Richard Blumenthal. Murphy said he has raised $3.5 million to date, 85 percent of it in contributions of $200 or less.

“The silver lining of running against Linda McMahon is that we won’t have a lot of super PACs here, because she is one all on her own,” Murphy said. “We will win on grass-roots excitement.”

Benefits —

Pursuit —

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As the Connecticut General Assembly weighs details on any law authorizing such businesses, the Connecticut Bar Association indicated it has its own problems with the legislation – including a “living wage” requirement for such businesses requiring market-rate compensation for employees and contractors.

“These are not merely … concepts that will lie buried in the corporate documents,” testified John Lawrence Jr., a Shipman & Goodwin attorney in Hartford who is vice chair of the Connecticut Bar’s business law section. “These … would have a significant chilling effect on the use of social enterprise businesses and the willingness of individuals to serve as directors and officers of such organizations.”

No problem, says Moore.

“If you don’t want to be [a social enterprise business] then be a 501(c)(3),” she said.

“If you don’t want transparency and to leave a legacy of social welfare, then you should not be an SEB to begin with.”

Spokespeople for Moody’s and UBS separately say they expect their companies to prevail in any general trial, which Pursuit attorneys say could last two months.

“It will be very dramatic,” predicted David Hersh, a partner in the Englewood, Colo.-based law firm Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh and Jardine and counsel for Pursuit. “As the nation listens to the discovery, they will be shocked.”

Pursuit currently lists a Greenwich address as its main office, and previously has listed a Stamford headquarters. The company alleges that UBS and Moody’s conspired to defraud Pursuit out of more than $50 million in the sale of collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, which are a form of credit derivative that lumps various types of debt into one bundle, or tranche.

Pursuit contends that UBS knew that the CDOs were going to be downgraded, then sold them to Pursuit without telling

Sage Ross

Murphy—

The economy is at the top of Democratic candidate Chris Murphy’s platform.

At the Darien event, Congressman Jim Himes said he and Murphy have grown to be friends as they have served together in Congress.

“One of the things I do when I go to the floor is to see how Chris has voted, because I know he has thought deeply about the issues,” Himes said.

them they were little more than financial toxic waste.

Pursuit’s attorneys say they will produce UBS emails at trial in which bank employees referred to purportedly investment-grade securities as “crap” and “vomit.” Pursuit claims that in one email from August 2007, former UBS bond salesman Robert Morelli said he had “sold more crap to Pursuit,” referencing CDOs. Morelli is also named as a defendant.

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The case is being closely watched in Connecticut legal circles. It may lift the veil on the failure of credit rating agencies to tell buyers about the true quality of securitized mortgages and other products prior to purchase.

Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has said he is determined to obtain relief for Connecticut investors harmed by credit rating agencies and the structured financial products they rated during the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis.

“We had investment banks that were working with rating agencies on a pay-forplay basis, to obtain ratings on securitized products that could be used to empty out their busted warehouse,” Hersh said. “The case is a perfect example of the greed that resulted in rating agencies and investment banks working together to defraud my client.”

He said that prior to the financial crisis, the banks were holding “horrible” mortgage backed securities that they securitized and then sought good ratings for so they could “go around and sell it.”

Busted warehouse?

In the sale of securities, misrepresentations are a violation of the Connecticut Uniform Securities Act, which states that a person commits fraud if the sale is made by means of any untrue statement of a material fact, or omission of material facts.

“This decision will now allow Burg Simpson’s client, Pursuit Partners, to move forward with claims of fraud, aiding and abetting negligence/reckless conduct, civil conspiracy and violations of securities laws, in relation to the hedge fund’s lawsuit against the Swiss bank UBS AG and Moody’s,” said Burg Simpson in a March

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Neighborhood nukes?

BY ALEXANDER SOULE

casoule@westfairinc.com

A

ge hitachi

nuclear power station – not in your backyard, you say? Not even an itty, bitty one?

As Entergy Corp. hits the home stretch in its bid to extend the operating license of Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County, N.Y., the U.S. Department of Energy is investigating the concept of small modular reactors, with SMRs a third the size of nuclear plants in operation today.

DOE plans to provide $450 million in funding to investigate the feasibility of SMRs in operation within a decade, and private industry anteing up another $450 million.

In proposing smaller, “plug and play” power stations, the agency hopes to generate reduced opposition to nuclear plants, a year after Japan’s Fukushima disaster and as President Obama touts an “all of the above” approach to diversifying the nation’s energy supplies, with nuclear part of the mix.

Via its GE Hitachi joint venture in Wilmington, N.C., Fairfield-based General Electric Co. and Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse are the two major U.S. designers of nuclear power plants. Westinghouse, which is owned by Japan’s Toshiba Corp., confirmed it plans to apply for SMR funding from the Department of Energy, in partnership with multiple utilities.

In 2010, GE Hitachi began working with a South Carolina company called Savannah River Nuclear Solutions on applying its PRISM nuclear plant at SMR scale – 300 megawatts or less, sufficient power for more than 200,000 homes.

In New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo opposes any plan to extend Indian Point’s

operating license, despite critics who fret that would increase rates there.

Connecticut ranked in the middle of the pack nationally in average energy expenditure per person, at $3,800. The state’s ranking is bolstered, however, by a high electricity conservation rank that is among the best in the country. A few new standard power plants have come online in the past few years; Northeast Utilities is pushing ahead with new transmission lines to bring hydro electricity to New England from Quebec.

Connecticut currently derives nearly half its electricity from a single nuclear power plant: Millstone, which is operated

by Dominion with two reactors on extended license through 2035 and 2045 respectively.

The Union of Concerned Scientists ranked a Millstone incident last year as one of the two most-ominous “near misses” in the United States along with one at Massachusetts’ Pilgrim plant, with both the result of operator error, according to UCS. At Millstone, a test produced a brief, unexpected and uncontrolled increase in the reactor’s power levels.

Dan Esty, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, said last year that the Fukushima disaster altered his views on the role of nuclear power in Connecticut.

“That is a question I probably would have answered differently,” Esty said. “I do believe that nuclear power can be safe but I think the Japan situation has raised real questions.”

Asked in the 2010 campaign whether he would support any new nuclear plant in Fairfield County, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes said no, but did not rule out other parts of the state.

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In the field

won the contract, which involves building seven stations along a six-mile stretch of roadway. The project is expected to result in 4,000 construction jobs.

NYC recession: No worse than 2001

Connecticut is getting good feedback from “quiet cars” on the New Haven Line.

More “calmmute” cars coming down the tracks

Conversations THE HON. RICHARD C. BREEDEN Chairman Breeden Capital Management

Wednesday, April 11 | 7:00 p.m.

Schine Auditorium - Sacred Heart University 5151 Park Avenue, Fairfield, CT The Hon. Richard C. Breeden has been chairman and CEO of Breeden Capital Management in Greenwich, CT, since 2006. From 2007-2011, he served as non-executive chairman of the board at H&R Block after saving that company from failure during and after the financial crisis. Breeden also worked in the White House as a senior economics and domestic policy adviser during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He served as Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1989-1993 after appointment by President Bush and unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

All morning and evening peak-hour New Haven Line trains will have “quiet cars” free of cell phones, loud conversations and all manner of beeps and buzzes – with conductors issuing “shhh” cards to scofflaws.

The last car on all morning peak trains and the first car on all evening peak trains will be designated as the quiet car, the result of a successful pilot program that began in Connecticut in January.

In a recent survey of New Haven Line customers, 92 percent of the respondents said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the “calmmute” program.

MTA Metro-North Railroad operates the New Haven Line using cars owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation.

Conn. hitches pension to Pegasus, RFE The state of Connecticut is investing $50 million in Greenwich-based Pegasus Capital Advisors L.P., and $40 million in RFE Investment Partners of New Canaan.

As of December, RFE was more than a third of the way toward raising a $300 million fund; its portfolio companies include iMedX, a Shelton-based provider of health care transcription software and services.

Pegasus announced last October it had raised $186 million for a new private equity fund; last month portfolio company Molycorp announced the $1.3 billion acquisition of Neo Materials Technology Inc., with both companies mining and processing rare earth minerals for use in high-tech devices.

Mass. builder gets busway contract A Massachusetts company won a $130 million contract to build an express busway linking Hartford and Newington, one of the largest transportation projects in Connecticut.

Littleton, Mass.-based Middlesex Corp.

The New York City area had better momentum in the second half of last year than previously thought, according to a new study, and growth was “fairly robust” in the early part of 2012.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York publishes a monthly index of economic indicators covering New York and New Jersey, covering employment, manufacturing and real earnings. In New York City, economic activity has now exceeded its prerecession peak.

“The magnitude and duration of New York City’s downturn look no worse than they did in the 1990 and 2001 downturns,” Fed researchers stated.

Medical society wants M.D. loans The Connecticut State Medical Society is backing legislation that would designate up to 10 communities as targeted health areas based on a medically underserved population or a population with a high rate of chronic disease.

If enacted. physicians would be eligible for loans, hiring incentives and matching grants for capital needs, physician recruitment and other expenses.

Baldwin Tech HQ to St. Louis Forsyth Capital Investors L.L.C. completed its purchase of Baldwin Technology Co. Inc., taking the company, which had traded on the American Stock Exchange, private.

Baldwin Tech was based in Shelton until last summer, when it quietly designated Boca Raton, Fla. as its principal executive offices. With the acquisition, Baldwin Tech now lists its headquarters as St. Louis, where Forsyth is located.

Baldwin Tech sells accessories to keep printing presses clean and functioning at optimal efficiency. The company lost $7.9 million in the quarter ending last December, with sales down 5 percent to $39.3 million; under CEO Mark Becker the company cut 80 jobs in the fiscal year ending last June, giving it just over 500 at last report. Becker and other senior managers resigned following completion of the acquisition.

Tourism continues comeback U.S. tourism rose 8.1 percent last year, according to data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, with foreign visitors spending

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a record $153 billion.

Connecticut’s major attractions drew 1.6 million visitors last year, according to the state Department of Economic and Community Development, a 4 percent increase from 2010.

Littlejohn buys maritime company Littlejohn & Co. L.L.C., a private equity firm based in Greenwich, completed the acquisition of Direct ChassisLink Inc. from Maersk Inc. Charlotte, N.C.-based Direct ChassisLink rents and leases chassis – trailers for moving cargo containers – to shipping lines in the United States.

George nets indictment A grand jury in New Jersey indicted former UConn basketball star Tate George, with federal prosecutors there charging him with orchestrating a $2 million Ponzi scheme, including money raised for a proposed mixed-use development in Bridgeport.

George is alleged to have used some of the money for home improvement projects and other personal expenses.

CTC offers tech tours The Connecticut Technology Council is starting a “Tech Tour” series, offering tours of some of Connecticut’s leading high-tech innovators.

The debut tour is scheduled for April 11 at UPS in Hartford – no box lunch, but the tour includes a buffet dinner.

Scottrade settles with Conn.

Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen reached an agreement with online retail broker Scottrade Inc. as part of a multi-state investigation into potential violations of antitrust law in the retail securities brokerage industry.

The investigation focused on possibly collusive conduct by several retail securities brokers and firms that assist the brokers in executing their orders. Jepsen said the collusion may have hindered competition in the retail brokerage industry.

Scottrade, which has a Danbury office, agreed to cooperate with the inquiry and in any legal actions that may result. The company also agreed to create and implement an antitrust compliance policy and training program for Scottrade employees.

— Carol E. Curtis and Alexander Soule

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A Trumbull office building at 126 Monroe Turnpike is being repositioned for medical use.

Trumbull office positioned for medical The slow office-leasing market has prompted the owner of 126 Monroe Turnpike in Trumbull’s Trefoil Park to convert the building to medical use.

The Short Hills, N.J.-based Silverman Group hired Cushman & Wakefield to find health-care industry tenants.

The building totals 42,000 square feet, and is 75 percent leased.

Brownfields get green The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development awarded grants totaling $1.3 million to clean up a

trio of contaminated properties in Fairfield County, of $7.5 million awarded statewide in brownfield grants.

The projects include the Norwalk Co. mixed use site at 125 East Ave. in Norwalk; the U.S. Baird site at 1650-1700 Stratford Ave. in Stratford; and the former Cel-Lastik property at 93 Canal St. in Shelton.

Also securing a $2 million DECD loan was Walter Wheeler Drive L.L.C. and The Strand BRC Group, for work at Harbor Point Square in Stamford, among $8.7 million in brownfield remediation loans disbursed by DECD.

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CL&P furnishes affordable housing funding Connecticut Light & Power bought $2.7 million in tax credits to support housing programs across Fairfield County through the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority’s Housing Tax Credit Contribution program.

CL&P’s funding will support projects in Bridgeport, Stamford, Fairfield and Norwalk.

“These are shareholder dollars that go directly to organizations that need the money to fulfill their housing missions,” said CL&P President Jim Muntz in a written statement. “Tax credits have become a significant asset for the development of low-income and supportive housing across the state.”

— Alexander Soule

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THE LIST

Listed alphabetically

Fairfield County Next list: April 9 PR Firms

Golf and country clubs

Golf and Country Clubs

Next list: April 9 — Public Relations Firms

Listed alphabetically.

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

Aspetuck Valley Country Club 67 Old Redding Road, Weston 06683 226-4701 • aspetuckvalley.com

Birchwood Country Club + 25 Kings Highway South, Westport 06880 221-3280 • birchwoodcc.org

Country Club of Darien + 300 Mansfield Ave., Darien 06820 655-9726 • ccdarien.org

Country Club of Fairfield + 936 Sasco Hill Road, Fairfield 06824 255-3951 • ccfairfield.com

D. Fairchild Wheeler Golf Course + 2390 Easton Turnpike, Fairfield 06432 373-5911 • fairchildwheelergolf.com

E. Gaynor Brennan Golf Course 451 Stillwater Road, Stamford 06902 324-4185 • brennangolf.com

Griffith E. Harris Golf Course + 1300 King St., Greenwich 06831 531-7200 • greenwichct.org

H. Smith Richardson Golf Course 2425 Morehouse Highway, Fairfield 06824 255-7300 • hsrgolf.com

Oak Hills Park Golf Course 165 Fillow St., Norwalk 06850 838-0303 • oakhillsgc.com

The Patterson Club + 1118 Cross Highway, Fairfield 06430 259-5244 • thepattersonclub.com

Richter Park Golf Course 100 Aunt Hack Road, Danbury 06811 792-2550 • richterpark.com

Ridgefield Golf Course 545 Ridgebury Road, Ridgefield 06877 748-7008 • ridgefieldgc.com

Rockrimmon Country Club 2949 Long Ridge Road, Stamford 06903 322-3408 • rockrimmoncc.org

Rolling Hills 333 Hurlbutt St., Wilton 06897 762-4600 • rhcconline.com

Shorehaven Golf Club 14 Canfield Ave., East Norwalk 06855 866-5528 • shorehavengc.org

Silver Spring Country Club + 439 Silver Spring Road, Ridgefield 06877 438-2671 • silverspringcc.org

The Stanwich Club + 888 North St., Greenwich 06831 869-0555 • stanwich.com

Sterling Farms Golf Course 1349 Newfield Ave., Stamford 06905 461-9090 • sterlingfarmsgc.com

Sunset Hill Golf Club 13 Sunset Hill Road, Brookfield 06804 740-7800

Tamarack Country Club 55 Locust Road, Greenwich 06831 531-7300 • tamarackcountryclub.com

Tashua Knolls and Tashua Glen Golf Club 40 Tashua Knolls Lane, Trumbull 06611 452-5186 • tashuaknolls.com

Whitney Farms Golf Course 175 Shelton Road, Monroe 06468 268-0707 • whitneyfarmsgc.com

Woodway Country Club 540 Hoyt St., Darien 06820 322-1661 • woodway.org

Year course opened

Course type

1967

Private

1946

Owner/general manager Golf pro Superintendent

Holes

Par

Rating

Yards

Slope

Course designer(s)

Charles Torrance Jack Powers Rick Schock

18

71

71.1

6,594

127

Hal Purdy

Private

Curtis Angell Kammy Maxfeldt Edward Consolatio

9

36

37.3

3,157

131

Orin Smith

1957

Private

Paul M. Kruzel John E. Nicholson Tim O'Neill

18

72

73.1

6,908

132

Alfred H. Tull

1914

Private

Steve T. Klemenz David Renzulli David Koziol

18

70

71.6

6,358

133

Seth Raynor

1931

Municipal

Alex Head Stephen Roach Peter Kearney

18 red 18 black

72 red 71 back

71.0 red 71.5 black

6,568 red 6,559 black

124 red 123 black

Robert White

1949

Municipal

Michael Sullivan Vance Levin Michael Sullivan

18

71

71.1

6,492

124

Maurice McCarthy

1963

Municipal

Dave D'Andrea Joseph Felder Jay Collins

18

71 men 73 women

70.5

6,512

120

Robert Trent Jones

1972

Municipal

NA Jim Alexander Peter Grace

18

73

72.1

6,662

126

Hal Purdy Malcolm Purdy

1969

Municipal

Vincent Grillo Jr. Vincent Grillo Jr. Thomas Vorio

18

71

70.5

6,407

126

Alfred H. Tull

1947

Private

Sean McLaughlin Chris Kenney John Garcia

18

71

72.8

6,795

134

Robert Trent Jones Sr.

1971

Municipal

Marilyn Sanyshyn Brian Gehan Rob Dorsch

18

72

72.9

6,744

133

Edward Ryder

1974

Municipal

Frank A. Sergiovanni Frank A. Sergiovanni Anton Stager

18

71

70.9

6,444

123

George Fazio and Tom Fazio

1947

Private

Frank Benzakour Jerry Yochum Tony Girardi

18

72

73.7

6,832

130

Orrin Smith and Robert Trent Jones Sr.

1961

Private

Michael Catanzaro Ray Ford Glenn Perry

18

71

72.7

6,692

134

Alfred Tull; Updated in 2002

by Roger Rulewich

1923

Private

NA Mike Laganza Shannon Slevin

18

71

72.4

6,599

134

Robert White

1930

Private

Robert Sommer David Jones Peter Rappoccio

18

71

72.1

6,518

132

Robert White

1963

Private

Peter Tunley Michael Summa Scott Niven

18

72

76

7,133

144

William F. Gordon

1972

Public

Paul Grillo Angela Aulenti Tracey Holliday

18

72

71.7 blue 69.6 white 67.5 gold 73.3 red

6,509 blue 6,054 white 5,587 gold 5,539 red

129 blue 126 white 123 gold 124 red

Geoffrey S. Cornish 1969; renovated in 2005

by Robert McNeil

1950

Public

NA

9

69

62.6

4,720

100

NA

1929

Private

Brian Gillespie Bobby Farrell Jeff Scott

18

71

72.9

6,834

126

Charles H. Banks

1976/2004

Municipal

Bobby Brown Jon Janik Hidalgo Nagashima

27

72

71.9

6,540

125

Al Zikorus and Mike Zikorus

1982

Public

Paul McGuire Paul Christ Paul McGuire

18

72

72.4

6,628

130

Hal Purdy and Malcolm Purdy

1916

Private

Sam Kadi Michael Crawford Jamie Kapes

18

71

72.8

6,716

139

Willie Park Jr.

Questions or comments call (914) 694-3600, ext. 3005.

Note: This is a sampling of our Golf & Country Clubs List. The full list will be available online (westfaironline.com) through our digital edition.

Sources: United States Golf Association, Connecticut State Golf Association, GolfLink, and golf course respondents and websites + Information on managers, golf pros and/or superintendents from GolfLink and subject to change.

NA Not available.

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SPECIAL REPORT

Business Entertainment: Clubbing it

Par for the course in Fairfield County

BY ALEXANDER SOULE

casoule@westfairinc.com

W

hen it comes to Fairfield County corporate sponsorships, the Travelers Championship is not crawling at the pace of the turtles its predecessor golf tournament famously replaced – but it isn’t emulating the hare either.

The Travelers Championship has again set up an outpost in Stamford, but three years into a drive to increase its visibility in Fairfield County has yet to draw a major corporate sponsor based here.

For the first time in 2010, the Travelers Championship took space at a Stamford office of The Ashforth Co., with the goal of drawing additional sponsorships, including for charitable activities in conjunction with the PGA tour event.

To date, however, the only Fairfield County-based organization to emerge as a major tournament sponsor is the

pricy proposition, at $29 for a day pass and $75 for the week, the Travelers remains a good deal compared to the cost of attending other pro sports in the New York City area.

The PGA itself got a huge lift in March, after Tiger Woods won the Arnold Palmer Invitational, his first win in two-and-a-half years. While Woods has skipped the Travelers Championship in past years, several prominent golfers are on the card, including 2010 champion Bubba Watson, who is a supporter of the Hole-in-the-Wall-Gang Camps.

Sponsorship director Jason Soucy has expressed confidence that the Stamford office will drum up interest, given Fairfield County’s concentration of corporations, many of which already sponsor major sporting events. General Electric Co. and Wilton-based Golf Digest, for instance, are PGA Tour sponsors; and UBS in the past has sponsored the Players Championship major.

nonprofit Hole in the Wall Gang Camps, which has its camp association offices in Westport. While several Travelers Championship sponsors have a local presence, including Genpact, Robinson & Cole L.L.P., and Webster Financial Inc., none are among Fairfield County’s most prominent employers.

Multiple Fairfield County companies have taken smaller sponsorship opportunities.

The Travelers Championship is scheduled for June 21-24 at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, a week after the CVS Caremark Charity Classic in Barrington, R.I., and two weeks after the U.S. Open in San Francisco.

The two other Northeast PGA Tour tournaments this year are in August: The Barclays, Aug. 23-26 at Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale on Long Island, and the Deutsche Bank Championship Aug. 31-Sept. 3 at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass. As FedEx Cup playoff tournaments, both will draw more notice than the Travelers Championship, which nevertheless remains with University of Connecticut basketball the state’s most prominent sporting draw.

If some companies still find corporate sponsorship a

Bill Spruce

Sponsorship director Jason Soucy has expressed confidence that the Stamford office will drum up interest, given Fairfield County’s concentration of corporations, many of which already sponsor major sporting events.

UBS lets its PGA sponsorship lapse in 2010, but it was not the only company to do so –after an accelerating surge in corporate sports sponsorship in North America, revenue dropped 2.6 percent in the recession year of 2009, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, with Royal Bank of Scotland cutting its outlays by a quarter in two consecutive years.

Still, the $11.3 billion in total sponsorship was well above the levels in 2007, and PWC expects growth to continue going forward.

“The research underlines the increasingly integral role played by grass roots (programs) and corporate social responsibility in corporations’ sponsorship portfolios,” PWC researchers wrote. “A further significant funding is a new wave of interest in combining fans’ passion and engagement across sports and entertainment.”

Fan favorite Bubba Watson will be back for the Travelers Championship, after winning the PGA Tour event in 2010.

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Business Entertainment: Clubbing it

Chelsea Piers aims to be a big corporate draw

BY CAROL E. CURTIS

ccurtis@westfairinc.com

I

t might not have a driving range, but the 400,000-square-foot Chelsea Piers in Stamford offers most everything else for corporate sports enthusiasts, drawing on lessons learned from the highly successful Chelsea Piers sports and entertainment complex in New York.

The facility occupies the former headquarters of Clairol. It will also house parts of Stamford Hospital, which will occupy 18,500 square feet devoted to orthopedics, sports medicine and physical therapy services.

Chelsea Piers will get a big boost from

NBC Sports, which will consolidate its Philadelphia and New York operations and move in next door this September. The project, in which NBC will invest $100 million, is expected to bring 450 jobs to the area, in addition to the jobs created by Chelsea Piers.

The total cost of Chelsea Piers is expected to be $45 to $50 million, according to Erica Schietinger, vice president of corporate communications for Chelsea Piers Management in New York. The money was raised from private investors, she said.

A hard-hat tour of the facility in late March revealed that much work remains to be done. The facility still looks like a construction site, with large unfinished spaces yet to be fitted for individual sports.

However, Schietinger says the opening is still on schedule.

Missing, of course, are the stunning views of the Hudson River skyline that grace Chelsea Piers in New York. The Stamford facility is in a gritty part of town, with views of a parking lot.

Also missing is a golf range. Schietinger says golf was not included because there are already so many golf courses in the area.

ing to Schietinger. Meetings for groups of 10 to 150 can be arranged within the athletic venues, and meetings for up to 1,800 can be held in one of two dedicated event spaces.

When it’s done, Chelsea Piers promises to be as cool and cutting edge as any indoor sports facility in Connecticut. The facility will consist of seven core sports facilities encompassing more than 18 sports. They include: • twin rinks for ice hockey and figure skating • an Olympic-sized pool, warm-water instructional and exercise pool, and 6,000 square-foot water play area featuring three giant slides • a 15,000-square-foot gymnastics training space with a recreational trampoline center and cheerleading program • a baseball and softball training facility with an indoor turf infield and five batting cages; • an indoor, 100-yard turf field for soccer, lacrosse, football, field hockey, softball and baseball • a squash center with 12 courts • a tennis center with seven indoor courts The facility will also house a child care center, restaurant and pro shop.

The corporate event business will mimic many of the offerings in New York, accord-

When it’s done, Chelsea Piers promises to be as cool and cutting edge as any indoor sports facility in Connecticut.

“We plan to have a robust program for corporations where they will be able to give their employees access to all sorts of facilities and programs,” she said. “Based on a group’s size, budget and event goals, Chelsea Piers’ event planners will help you plan a seamless, productive event.”

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The real-world scripts, contained in state Supreme Court filings in Manhattan and Westchester County, include several employees’ claims last year that they were sexually harassed and threatened by Nancy Silberkleit, co-CEO of the comics publishing company since 2009 and widow of Michael Silberkleit, the former chairman and publisher of Archie

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However, the state’s private-sector employers posted a net loss of 11,200 jobs since last July, triggering what DiNapoli described as a noticeable slowdown.

“After a strong first half of 2011, job growth in New York was markedly weaker during the second half of the year, raising concerns about the pace of the recovery in 2012,” DiNapoli wrote.

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In January, Jonathan Goldwater, who shares the co-CEO title and company director duties with Silberkleit and is the brother of Michael Silberkleit’s late business partner and co-publisher, filed a second lawsuit in Manhattan seeking her removal as company director and officer. If she stays, Goldwater said, the “iconic American company” is in danger of failing and being liquidated.

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Valley added a net 4,000 jobs in the two years since, with the region’s job recovery rate of 13.8 percent ranking far behind the state and

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percent and 51.6 percent, respectively.

In the three-county region, “Gains in education, health services and tourism have been partially offset by sizable losses in government, construction and manufacturing,” DiNapoli wrote.

Unemployment in the region fell to 6.4 percent last December from 7.2 percent in December 2009; however, the report noted that much of that decline was due to a drop in the state’s labor force rather than employment increases.

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As small businesses get increasingly comfortable with During that same period the state as a the idea of running their information technology out of the whole cloud – housing applications and data on remote servers run saw the return of 46 percent of all jobsser that were lost, well above the national serby others – a building formation of relatively small cloud average of 34 percent, DiNapoli noted in his vice providers like UFlexData is selling those services locally.

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our hours out on the links works wonders. Just ask President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner.

In advance of a grueling debt ceiling fight last summer, Obama and Boehner teamed to defeat Vice President Joe Biden and Ohio Gov. John Kasich in a June 18 round of golf at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

While Democrats and Republicans clashed throughout the deficit debates, Obama and Boehner have consistently been portrayed as friends outside of their policy differences.

It is no different in the business world, numerous golf enthusiasts say.

With spring coming early this year, representatives of several Westchester and Fairfield County courses and golf clubs said they have moved up their opening dates in response to members who are eager to dust off their clubs..

Michael Summa, director of golf at The Stanwich Club in Greenwich, said the club has all of its operations up and running earlier than he’s seen in his 40 years working there.

“The weather certainly has been great and

there’s a lot more excitement than normal this time of year,” Summa said. “The courses are almost a month ahead as far as conditioning.”

The course at Stanwich is open yearround, weather permitting. Summa said the club has had the driving range open and golf cars available since March 14, “which is something I’ve never seen in my 40 years here.”

The unseasonably warm weather, combined with Tiger Woods’ recent win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and excitement surrounding the Masters – which starts April 5, has people buzzing, said Dan Scavino of Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Trump National Golf Club’s Briarcliff Manor and Hopewell Junction, N.Y., locations both were scheduled to open March 29, a week ahead of schedule.

“We are getting an early jump to the season due to the awesome weather,” said Scavino, the club’s executive vice president and general manager. “There’s no question – the buzz is in the air with the golf season this year.”

Both Scavino and Summa said the golf

course offers an ideal escape for businessmen and women looking to get away from their Blackberries and iPhones.

“Mr. Trump always says it best: there’s no better way to do business than out on the golf course,” Scavino said. “There’s no better way – especially when you’re working on those big deals. And at a lot of these private clubs, you’re talking million-dollar deals that take place literally every day on a private course in Westchester.”

Summa said the trend is swinging back toward relationships being formed and deals being struck during a round of golf as opposed to during a conference call.

“We’re starting to see more and more guys still understanding the importance of spending four hours on a golf course, face to face, playing a sport with a coworker or potential customer as opposed to how in this day and age everything is so electronic,” he said.

It’s not just men getting into the action either.

The Executive Women’s Golf Association has teamed with the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) and local clubs in an effort to make golf more inclusive for men and

women, said Westchester chapter president Hilary Tuohy.

“There always has been a perception that golf is more of a man’s game, and especially from a business perspective,” Tuohy said.

She said the PGA has launched a camOfficial White House photo: Pete Souza

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Obama, Biden, Boehner and Kasich after playing a round of golf last June.

paign called Golf 2.0, with one goal of the initiative being to get more women involved in the game.

“The EWGA has partnered with the PGA to try and help them achieve that goal and help us achieve our goal about getting more women into the game of golf and feeling comfortable playing the game.”

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Golf in brief

Milestone promotion at NBC Sports NBC Sports promoted Molly Solomon to executive producer of the Golf Channel, with the network saying she becomes the first woman to hold the post for a national sports network.

NBC Sports is readying to relocate its headquarters and main studio operations to Molly Solomon Stamford from New York City. The Golf Channel is maintaining a separate studio in Orlando, Fla., where Solomon will be based.

Solomon has won nine Emmy Awards, and is a longtime coordinating producer for NBC’s Olympics coverage.

Greenwich IT system hits hazard

There’s an app for that handicap

The town of Greenwich reportedly blames human error for a computer crash that wiped out a database with 15,000 records including golf course membership information and tee times.

The Greenwich Patch reported the snafu occurred in February, with the parks and recreation database also containing information on beach passes, marina slips and other data. Greenwich First Selectman Peter Tesei said the town would have the database rebuilt by mid-April.

The Connecticut State Golf Association is offering an app for golfers to manage and follow their game.

Available online at csgalinks.org, the app allows golfers to post scores, calculate handicaps and enter tournaments, among other features.

The Connecticut State Golf Association is an association of more than 180 clubs, including just over 100 public courses.

Stamford clubhouse: back to the drawing board Stamford’s planning board reportedly voted not to extend a lease at present with the Stamford Golf Authority for the Sterling Farms Golf Course, because of differences over renovations to the main clubhouse.

According to the Daily Stamford, Mayor Michael Pavia backed off an original proposal to demolish the existing clubhouse in favor of performing renovations instead.

ESPN author of “Babe” book gets honor The U.S. Golf Association awarded its annual prize in golf literature to author Don Van Natta Jr. and his “Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias.”

Van Natta is a Miami-based senior writer for Bristol-based ESPN and ESPN the Magazine.

Golf was just one of several sports at which Zaharias excelled. She won 10 major championships, including three U.S.

Women’s Open titles, was a founding member of the LPGA, and in 1938 became the first woman to play in a PGA Tour event. At the height of her fame, she was diagnosed with cancer, and was told by physicians that she would never return to competition.

Fifteen months after major surgery, Babe won the 1954 U.S. Women’s Open by 12 strokes.

“She overcame many obstacles through persistence, perseverance and tremendous courage, becoming the greatest all-sport athlete in history,” Van Natta said in a statement. “Golf is such a great sport to cover.

The game’s drama and emotion really lend themselves to the written word.”

Yale course among tops The Course at Yale in New Haven was listed as the top collegiate course in the country, and one of the top 100 classic courses built before 1960, according to a new ranking by Golf Digest magazine in Wilton.

Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y. was named one of the top 10 courses in the country last year by Golf Digest.

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The Discovery Museum and Planetarium Plotting a new trajectory for the next 50 years

The Discovery Museum celebrated its 50th anniversary this past January. Starting out in life as the Museum of Arts, Science and Industry (MASI) in the mighty city of Bridgeport, MASI garnered the support of a broad base of corporations, private industrialists and art patrons in Bridgeport’s heyday. Early in the 1990s, MASI became the Discovery Museum and Planetarium specializing in interactive science exhibits and awe-inspiring planetarium shows. The Discovery Museum has become best known for “engaging, exciting and educating” its visitors and schoolchildren who learn science, engineering and math while having fun. As we celebrate our past 50 years, the Discovery Museum looks toward the next 50 years continuing its mission of being a regional educational and cultural institution.

Science, mathematics and technology skills have become the global languages of the 21st century. Yet, Connecticut ranks 50th out of 50 states having the highest achievement gap in math, science and reading in the nation. The U.S. ranks 24th out of 30 industrialized nations in applied learning and problem-solving skills.

At the Discovery Museum we take these statistics seriously. Increasing science and math literacy is at the core of every hands-on program we offer to our more than 50,000 schoolchildren and 65,000 visitors each year.

The Discovery Museum is moving forward with the creation of the Discovery Outdoor Adventure Park to expand its cultural activities and add to its leadership-building programming. As the city of Bridgeport reinvents itself as an emerging arts and cultural center in the region, the Discovery Museum is there to play a leading role.

Jeffrey Bishop, Executive Director The Discovery Museum and Planetarium Member, Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County The mission of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County is to support cultural organizations, artists and creative businesses by providing promotion, services and advocacy.

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RURAL CHURCHES THROUGH THE LENS “White on White: Churches of Rural New England” is a visual journey through the New England landscape of the 18th and 19th centuries as viewed through the lens of architectural design and historic preservation.

Opening at the Bruce Museum June 30, this exhibition presented by Historic New England of Boston, displays 40 photographs of iconic New England churches taken by renowned architectural photographer Steve Rosenthal.

These remarkable small-town, white country structures were erected by local builders, joiners and occasionally by itinerant master carpenters. With no trained architects or schools of architecture in the country at the time, inspiration came from traditional designs and pattern books.

Steve Rosenthal began photographing the churches in the 1960s and the project gradually became a personal quest. His affinity for the subject is apparent in the luminous black-and-white photographs that capture the effect of light on three-dimensional forms and the abstract patterns of shingles and shutters. His work, which displays the intrinsic beauty of the architecture while creating a world of rich order and rational light, allows the viewer to follow the evolution of church styles from the early meetinghouse through the changing patterns of Greek and Gothic revivals.

“These are the buildings, which give New England towns and villages a unique sense of place and define, in many minds, the New England character,” Rosenthal said.

Rosenthal, who trained as an architect and is an accomplished architectural photographer, has traveled throughout the Northeast capturing what remains of these architectural gems. The photographs in “White on White: Churches of Rural New England” are personally selected by Rosenthal from his book of the same name.

For more information, call 413-6735 or visit brucemuseum.org.

BEWARE THE BLUE MEANIES The Westport Youth Film Festival (WYFF) will present a “Meet the Filmmaker” fundraising event featuring the 1968 animated film “The Yellow Submarine,” which has music by The Beatles.

The event will take place Friday, April 13 at 7 p.m. at the Westport Arts Center and will include a viewing Producer Al Brodax

of the film, performances by local teen bands, refreshments and a discussion with the movie’s producer, Al Brodax of Weston.

“The Yellow Submarine” follows The Beatles as they agree to accompany Captain Fred in his Yellow Submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the musichating Blue Meanies. The film won awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle.

Students are asked to make a donation in advance or at the door of $10. The admission price for adults is $15.

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540 Jewett Ave., Bridgeport. Filed City of Stamford. Perform alMarch 13. terations at Government Center, Saugatuck Construction Group, 888 Washington Blvd., Stamford. Stamford, contractor for Five Yale Bankruptcies Estimated cost: $100,000. Filed & Towne L.L.C. Fit out an existing commercial space for tenant HarMarch 12. lan Social at 500 Pacific St., StamThe following petition was filed ford. Estimated cost: $540,000. in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Bridgeport. Chapter 11 indicates the filer DMB Construction Inc., Win- Filed March 15. intends to submit a plan o f reor- chester, Mass., contractor for 345 ganization to the court. Chapter 7 Huntington L.L.C. Perform interi- Saugatuck Construction Group, or renovations at an existing comindicates a liquidation of assets. mercial building, 383 Huntington Stamford, contractor for LandTurnpike, Bridgeport. Estimated mark Square 1-6 L.L.C. Perform exterior renovations at an existKinship Academy Inc., 1027 cost: $125,000. Filed March 12. ing commercial building, 3 AtlanFairfield Ave., Bridgeport. Chaptic St., Stamford. Estimated cost: ter 11, filed March 13, case no.

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Division of S.L.Green Realty. Fit ration. Debtor’s attorney: Stephen out an existing commercial space P. Wright, Harlow Adams & Fried- Gomez, Bernardo, Norwalk, con- for tenant CF Capital at 101 Broad man P.C., Milford. tractor for St. Andrew’s Episcopal St., Stamford. Estimated cost: Church. Perform exterior renova- $103,000. Filed March 9. tions at an existing commercial Building building, 1231 Washington Blvd., Permits Stamford. Estimated cost: $75,000. Signature Construction, Stamford, contractor for One StamFiled March 5. ford Plaza Owner L.L.C. Perform interior alterations at an existing JCS Construction, Stamford, con- commercial building, 263 Tresser tractor for Seven Yale & Towne Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: 398 Fairfield Avenue L.L.C. Per- L.L.C. Fit out an existing com$420,000. Filed March 7. form interior alterations at an mercial space for tenant Lepain at existing commercial building, 398 699 Canal St., Stamford. Estimated Fairfield Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $505,000. Filed March 13.

Signature Construction, Stamcost: $102,270. Filed March 14. ford, contractor for One Stamford Plaza Owner L.L.C. Fit out an exMalkin Construction Corp., isting commercial space for tenant AP Construction, Stamford, Stamford, contractor for First Regus at 263 Tresser Blvd., Stamcontractor for Stamford Hospi- Stamford Place SPE L.L.C. Perford. Estimated cost: $64,000. Filed tal. Perform interior alterations at form interior alterations at an March 13. an existing commercial building, existing commercial building, 30 Shelburne Road, Stamford. 151 Greenwich Ave., Stamford.

Estimated cost: $350,000. Filed Estimated cost: $80,000. Filed Signature Construction, StamMarch 13. ford, contractor for Two Harbor March 14.

Point Square L.L.C. Perform interior alterations at an existing comItems appearing in the Fairfield Malkin Construction Corp., mercial building, 100 Washington County Business Journal’s On The Stamford, contractor for VTR Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: $2 Record section are compiled from Stamford L.L.C. Perform inte- million. Filed March 6. various sources, including public rior renovations at an existing records made available to the media commercial building, 77 Third by federal, state and municipal St., Stamford. Estimated cost: Tomasio, Miguel. Construct an agencies and the court system. addition at an existing commercial While every effort is made to ensure $930,000. Filed March 13. building, 3170 Huntington Turnthe accuracy of this information, no liability is assumed for errors pike, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: or omissions. In the case of legal Port 5 Naval Veterans Associa- $60,000. Filed March 12. action, the records cited are open tion. Perform exterior renovations to public scrutiny and should be at an existing commercial buildinspected before any action is taken. ing, 69 Brewster St., Bridgeport.

Questions and comments regarding Estimated cost: $120,000. Filed this section should be directed to: March 7.

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Commercial

Vista Towers Association Inc. Perform exterior renovations at an existing commercial building, 65 Glenbrook Road, Stamford.

Estimated cost: $528,000. Filed March 13.

Residential Aho Custom Works L.L.C., Danbury, contractor for Rhonda and Jeffrey Maron. Perform interior renovations at an existing singlefamily residence, 169 East Lane, Stamford. Estimated cost: $60,000.

Filed March 2.

Alban, Milton. Construct a new single-family residence at 348 Lenox St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $65,000. Filed March 8.

Habitat for Humanity. Construct a new single-family residence at 65 Whittier St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $90,000. Filed March 9.

Holland, Kathleen and Jeffrey Holland. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 120 Woodland Road, New Canaan. Estimated cost: $95,000. Filed March 9.

Orgera, Kristen and Michael Orgera. Construct additions and perform renovations at an existing single-family residence, 21 Berrian Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $235,495. Filed March 15.

Court Cases

Bridgeport Superior Court Advanced Surgical Associates, et al., Trumbull, et al. Filed by Benjamin Cundare, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder P.C., 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, 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 Feb. 1.

Case no. CV126024981.

Palladino, Dario, Stamford, contractor for Clair and David Stack.

Construct an addition at an existing single-family residence, 44 Angeloszek, Bruce, Beacon Falls, Alton Road, Stamford. Estimated contractor for Lauren Wales and cost: $198,348. Filed March 2.

D&G Restaurants L.L.C., MadiClifford Chanler. Install solar panson. Filed by Theresa Ward, Monels at an existing single-family resiroe. Plaintiff’s attorney: Law Office Signature Construction, Stamdence, 72 Huckleberry Hill Road, of Kevin C. Ferry L.L.C. and Billford, contractor for Diane Rooney New Canaan. Estimated cost: ings & Barrett L.L.C., New Britain and Karl Livigni.

Install an in$332,000. Filed March 2. ground pool and enclosure at an and New Haven, respectively. Acexisting single-family residence, tion: The plaintiff alleges that she Brown, Keith, Sandy Hook, con- 46 Shagbark Road, Stamford. fell while visiting the defendant’s tractor for Dominique and Carol Estimated cost: $84,405. Filed premises as the result of an unsafe condition arising from negligence Bastien. Perform interior renova- March 14. on the part of the defendant, its tions at an existing single-family agents and employees, which residence, 61 Sherwood Lane, New Canaan. Estimated cost: $74,000. Smith, Bruce, Fairfield, contractor caused her to suffer serious, painfor Deborah and David Prutting. ful injuries and to incur substanFiled March 9.

Perform alterations at an existing tial medical expenses. The plaintiff single-family residence, 359 West seeks damages in excess of $15,000 Davis, Julia. Perform alterations Road, New Canaan. Estimated plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Feb. 1. at an existing single-family resi- cost: $50,000. Filed March 9.

Case no. CV126024928. dence, 289 Weed St., New Canaan.

Estimated cost: $195,000. Filed Stone Harbour Construction, March 12.

Stamford, contractor for Thomas David Otto & Affiliates, et al., Zissis. Construct additions and Las Vegas, Nev. Filed by The LawFaria Lee L.L.C., Stamford, con- perform alterations at an existing yers’ Group Advertising, Darien. tractor for the estate of William single-family residence, 56 Mather Plaintiff’s attorney: Law Office of McFadden. Construct additions Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: Lori M. Dion L.L.C., Fairfield. Action: The plaintiff alleges that it and perform interior alterations at $263,960. Filed March 15. is the payee of a December 2010 an existing single-family residence, services agreement, executed by 901 Stillwater Road, Stamford.

Estimated cost: $356,975. Filed Westchester Modular Homes of the defendant David Otto & AfFairfield County, Bethel, contracfiliates and guaranteed as to payMarch 5. tor for The Community Baptist ment by a co-defendant, and that Church. Construct a new single- $18,627 related to that agreement G&S Renovations L.L.C., Stam- family residence, 65 East Ave., New remains outstanding and past due ford, contractor for Alissa Wool Canaan. Estimated cost: $375,000. from the defendants despite reand Peter Weiser. Perform interior Filed March 7. peated requests for payment by the renovations at an existing singleplaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repayfamily residence, 267 Dogwood ment of all outstanding amounts Wood Builders Inc., Wilton, conLane, Stamford. Estimated cost: plus interest, costs and reasontractor for Beth Miles and Timo$80,000. Filed March 15. thy Barry. Construct an addition at able attorneys’ fees. Filed Feb. 1. an existing single-family residence, Case no. CV126024979.

1702 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan.

Estimated cost: $300,000. Filed March 9.

Bob Rozycki c/o Westfair Communications Inc. 3 Gannett Drive, Suite G7 White Plains, N.Y. 10604-3407 Phone: (914)694-3600 Fax: (914)694-3680

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on the record Edens & Avant, et al., Hartford, et al. Filed by Simone Cameron, Monroe. Plaintiff’s attorney: Matthew S. Hirsch, Trumbull. Action: The plaintiff alleges that she fell while visiting premises owner 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 her to suffer serious, painful injuries and to incur substantial medical expenses. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Feb. 1.

Case no. CV126024926.

Kaster Moving Company Inc., et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Donald Nichols, New Milford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Ventura Ribeiro & Smith, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff alleges that he fell while visiting 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 to incur substantial medical expenses. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Jan. 31. Case no. CV126024902.

Katherine’s Kitchen L.L.C., et al., Sandy Hook. Filed by Newtown Savings Bank, Trumbull. Plaintiff’s attorney: Evans Feldman & Ainsworth L.L.C., New Haven. Action: The plaintiff alleges that it is the owner of a January 2007 business promissory note, issued by the defendant Katherine’s Kitchen and guaranteed by co-defendants and that $17,539 relating to that 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. Filed Feb. 1.

Case no. CV126024978.

Nasi Promotions Inc., et al., Weston. Filed by Professional Marketing Services Inc., Stratford.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Quatrella and Rizio L.L.C., Fairfield. Action: The plaintiff alleges that the defendants violated terms of an August 2011 employment agreement by engaging in direct competition with the plaintiff while employed by it, which has caused the plaintiff to incur a substantial financial loss. The plaintiff seeks appropriate damages for this violation plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Feb. 1.

Case no. CV126024923.

Soulmates L.L.C., et al., Georgetown, et al. Filed by Jonathan Longcoy, et al., Sandy Hook. Plaintiff’s attorney: Bach and DiScala, Norwalk. Action: The plaintiff alleges that he was assaulted 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 defendant, its agents and employees, which caused him to suffer serious, painful injuries and to incur substantial medical expenses. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Jan. 31. Case no. CV126024907.

Danbury Superior Court

Bicycle Goodie Shop Inc., et al., Bethel, et al. Filed by Webster Bank N.A., Cheshire. Plaintiff’s attorney: Dombroski Hillis L.L.C., New Haven. Action: The plaintiff alleges that it intends to initiate a civil action against the defendants in the amount of at least $17,000 and that it anticipates a favorable decision by the court with regard to the suit. The plaintiff therefore seeks a court order attaching the defendants’ assets in an amount sufficient to ensure payment of the anticipated favorable judgment plus applicable costs and reasonSt. Vincent’s Medical Center, able attorneys’ fees. Filed March 8.

Bridgeport. Filed by the estate of Case no. CV126008931.

Stokeley Hill, Miramar, Fla. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Berkowitz Law Firm L.L.C., Stamford. Action: The Kray Asset Recovery L.L.C., et plaintiff alleges that the defendant al., Redding, et al. Filed by Sovhas been guilty of professional ereign Bank, Hartford. Plaintiff’s malpractice in connection with attorney: Updike Kelly & Spellacy, its negligent diagnosis and treat- Hartford. Action: The plaintiff ment of the decedent Stokeley Hill, alleges that it is the owner of a which caused him to suffer seri- March 2010 mortgage note in the ous, painful injuries and an even- amount of $1.2 million, issued by tual, untimely death. The plaintiffs the defendant Kray Asset Recovery seek damages in excess of $15,000 and guaranteed as to payment by plus applicable costs and reason- a co-defendant, and that $1.1 milable attorneys’ fees. Filed Jan. 31. lion relating to that note remains outstanding and past due from Case no. CV126024900. the defendants despite repeated requests for payment by the plainStonebridge Estates Unit Own- tiff. The plaintiff seeks repayment ers Association Inc., et al., Ham- of all outstanding amounts plus den, et al. Filed by Christina Sem- interest, costs and reasonable atpey, Trumbull. Plaintiff’s attorney: torneys’ fees, including without Balzano and Tropiano P.C., New limitation, by means of foreclosure Haven. Action: The plaintiff alleges against the property securing the that she ran off a road on prem- note subject to interests of senior ises owned or otherwise under secured creditors. Filed March 8. control of the defendants as the Case no. CV126008936. result of icy conditions, constituting an unsafe condition arising from negligence on the part of Oliveira Builders L.L.C., Danthe defendants, their agents and bury. Filed by Marisol and Moreemployees, which caused her to ton Binn, Ridgefield. Plaintiff’s suffer serious, painful injuries and attorney: Ury & Moskow L.L.C., extensive damage to her vehicle Fairfield. Action: The plaintiff alas well as incurring substantial leges that the defendant wrongfully medical expenses. The plaintiff filed a mechanic’s lien against their seeks damages in excess of $15,000 property during December 2011 plus applicable costs and reason- and that there was no probable able attorneys’ fees. Filed Feb. 1. cause or such a filing. The plaintiff therefore seeks a court order Case no. CV126024922. discharging the lien plus appropriate damages, applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed March 7. Case no. CV126008923.

Roche Diagnostics Corp., Hartford. Filed by Michael Kahn, New Fairfield. Plaintiff’s attorney: Nina T. Pirrotti, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff alleges that he was routinely subject to harassment and age discrimination during his employment with the defendant and that he was subsequently wrongfully terminated, as a result of which he incurred a substantial financial loss and suffered emotional stress. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed March 7.

Case no. CV126008919.

Western Connecticut Medical Group P.C., et al., Danbury, et al.

Filed by the estate of Rocco Lalla, et al., New Fairfield. Plaintiff’s attorney: Coyne Von Kuhn Brady & Fries L.L.C., Stratford. Action: The plaintiff alleges that the defendants have been guilty of professional malpractice in connection with their negligent diagnosis and treatment of the decedent Rocco Lalla, which caused him to suffer serious, painful injuries and a subsequent untimely death. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Feb. 1.

Case no. CV126008930.

Stamford Superior Court

JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Hartford. Filed by Robert Robertson, et al.,Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Carl Ferraro, Attorneyat-Law, Norwalk. Action: The plaintiffs alleges that the defendant double-charged for flood insurance on their mortgaged property as a result of the defendant’s negligent operating procedures, which has caused the plaintiffs to incur a financial loss. The plaintiff therefore seeks damages of less than $2,500 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Feb. 14. Case no. CV126012903.

U.S. District Court 1-800-Flowers.com Inc., et al.

Filed by Debra Miller, et al. Plaintiff’s attorney: Andrew W. Skolnick and David A. Slossberg. Action: claim filed under the RacketeerInfluenced and Corrupy Organizations (RICO) Act. Filed March 15.

Case no. 12CV00396.

Alstom Power Inc. Filed by Mariangelica Vera. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gregg D. Adler and Nicole Linden Terrace Condominium M. Rothgeb. Action: claim filed Association II Inc., et al., Stam- in connection with employment ford. Filed by Aiber Mendez, Stam- discrimination. Filed March 14. ford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Philip D. Case no. 12CV00382.

Russell, Greenwich. Action: The plaintiff alleges that he fell while AT&T, et al. Filed by Erik Brown. visiting premises owned or oth- Plaintiff’s attorney: Erik Brown erwise under control of the de- pro se. Action: claim filed unfendants as the result of an unsafe der the Americans with Discondition arising from negligence abilities Act. Filed March 12. on the part of the defendants, Case no. 12CV00367. their agents and employees, which caused him to suffer serious, painful injuries and to incur substan- Demand Shoes L.L.C. Filed by tial medical expenses. The plaintiff Richard Tremalio. Plaintiff’s atseeks damages in excess of $15,000 torney: Thomas W. Bucci. Acplus applicable costs and reason- tion: claim filed in connection able attorneys’ fees. Filed Feb. 14. with age-related employment discrimination. Filed March 9.

Case no. CV126012911.

Case no. 12CV00357.

Old Post Road Saloon L.L.C., Greenwich. Filed by Yankee Linen Supply Company Inc., Norwalk.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Law Offices of Steven G. Berg, Norwalk. Action: The plaintiff alleges that the defendant’s unilateral premature cancellation of a services contract between the parties entitles the plaintiff to collect $58,500 in liquidated damages. The plaintiff seeks repayment of all amounts due plus interest, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed Feb. 15.

Case no. CV126012922.

Classic Carts Inc., et al., Greenwich. Filed by W. R. Berkley Corp., Greenwich. Plaintiff’s attorney: Nuzzo & Roberts L.L.C., Cheshire.

Action: The plaintiff alleges that the defendants failed to deliver merchandise for which it had contracted despite a $61,204 payment by the plaintiff, which has caused the plaintiff to incur a substantial financial loss. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reason- Smartrevenue.com Inc., Stamable attorneys’ fees. Filed Feb. 14. ford. Filed by Red Dot Square Case no. CV126012918.

Solutions Ltd., Oshkosh, Wis. Plaintiff’s attorney: Neubert Pepe & Monteith P.C., New Haven. AcCos Cob Grill L.L.C., Cos Cob. tion: The plaintiff alleges that the Filed by Yankee Linen Supply defendant failed to observe terms Company Inc., Norwalk. Plain- and conditions of a September tiff’s attorney: Law Offices of 2010 service agreement between Steven G. Berg, Norwalk. Action: the parties and that $105,468 reThe plaintiff alleges that the de- lating to that agreement remains fendant’s unilateral premature outstanding and past due from cancellation of a services contract the defendant despite repeated between the parties entitles the requests for payment by the plainplaintiff to collect $44,850 in liq- tiff. The plaintiff seeks repayuidated damages. The plaintiff ment of all outstanding amounts seeks repayment of all amounts plus interest, costs and reasondue plus interest, costs and reason- able attorneys’ fees. Filed Feb. 14. able attorneys’ fees. Filed Feb. 15. Case no. CV126012904.

Case no. CV126012923.

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Financial Recovery Services Inc. Filed by Elizabeth and Rudolph Archer. Plaintiff’s attorney: Angela K. Troccoli. Action: claim filed under the Fair Debt Collection Act. Filed March 14.

Case no. 12CV00380.

General Electric Co., et al. Filed

by John Moran. Plaintiff’s attorney: Amity L. Arscott and Melissa M. Riley. Action: claim filed in connection with notice of removal of an existing action to an alternative venue. Filed March 14.

Case no. 12CV00384.

Grupo Iberostar, et al. Filed by Louise Bradley. Plaintiff’s attorney: James P. Brennan. Action: claim filed in connection with personal injury. Filed March 9. Case no.

12CV00360.

Mascon Global Consulting Inc. Filed by Media Services Group Ltd. Plaintiff’s attorney: Steven M. Frederick. Action: claim filed in connection with breach of contract. Filed March 12.

Case no. 12CV00366.

on the record Credits, Clients and Awards Peter Chieco of Bedford Corners, N.Y., senior vice president, private wealth advisor in the Greenwich office of Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management, has b een named to Barron’s magazine’s annual “Top 1,000 Advisors” list. Candidates are selected based upon qualitative and quantitative criteria, on factors such as assets under management, revenue produced for the firm and quality of service provided to clients.

Mercedes-Benz of Fairfield has won top honors from Mercedes-Benz USA for the third consecutive year.

From left, front row, Eric Ferits, Lilly Rodriguez, Gonzalo Ugarte, John DiStefano, Don Spillane, Mike Pragano, Al Aliyev and Dimitry Shurba; back row, David Columb, Jason Cogoni, Jennifer Justo, Moya Singh, Marion O’Halloran, George Boccuzzi, John Valentino, Jacinth SamuelsDixon, Ray Latka, Sam Al-Hajjaj and Giles Browett

Newsmakers Michael A. Ceccorulli has joined the law firm of Collins, Hannafin, Garamella, Jaber & Tuozzolo in Danbury as an attorney in its transactional department. Ceccorulli will be handling real estate, land use and corporate and commercial transactions. He is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Connecticut, and earned his Juris Doctorate from American University, Washington College of Law. Lynne Ciliento has joined OperationsInc, a Stamford-based company specializing in h uman resource solutions for small to mid-sized businesses, as senior human resources generalist consultant. Ciliento is a certified senior professional in human resources and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware.

Patricia McCormack Donahue has rejoined Weichert, Realtors as sales manager of the Stamford office. Donahue previously worked for Weichert as a sales agent, sales manager and regional director of education for New York state and Connecticut.

Robin Gallagher, senior vice president commercial real estate lending for Webster Bank, has been elected board chairperson of the Housing Development Fund (HDF). Gallagher has been affiliated with HDF for 14 years, 10 of which serving on the board.

HDF has offices in Stamford, Bridgeport and Danbury, Conn., and Harrison, N.Y. Armando F. Goncalves has b een named to the b oard of directors of FSW Inc., a no nprofit human-service agency in Bridgeport. Goncalves serves as market president at People’s United Bank where he oversees the strategic direction for branches in both retail and business banking in southern Connecticut and Westchester County, N.Y.

Ed Yuchowitz of Stamford has joined the Stamford office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage as a sales asso ciate. He has 11 years of experience in the residential real estate industry. A graduate of Valpraiso University in Indiana, Yuchowitz is a member of the Stamford Board of Realtors and Connecticut Association of Realtors.

Lisa Parrelli Gray has b een named executive director for the Westport-Weston Chamber of Commerce. Most recently, Gray was with Child Advocates of Connecticut, a nonprofit organization representing children in the foster care system. She served as the court appointed guardian ad litem advocate on behalf of children in the care of the Department of Children and Families.

Finn Dixon & Herling L.L.P., a law firm with offices in Stamford and New Haven, has announced the following individuals have joined the firm as partners.

Michael Q. English joins the firm from the U .S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he has served as an assistant U.S. attorney.

Jeffrey Plotkin joins the firm from Day Pitney L.L.P., where he c haired the broker-dealers, investment advisers and commodities firms practice, as well as the white-collar defense and internal investigations group.

Garrett Ingoglia has b een appointed director of emergency response for AmeriCares, headquartered in S tamford.

More recently, he se rved as v ice president for emergency management at H agerty Consulting in Washington, D.C., overseeing multimillion-dollar FEMA c ontracts. He holds a master’s degree in public administration from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and a ba chelor’s degree in English and history from Williams College.

Sean K. McElligott, a M ilford resident and par tner at the la w firm Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder – w ith offices in Bridgeport, Danbury, New Haven and Stamford – has been named to Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Commission for a two-year term. The c ommission was estab lished in 1975 to administer and e nforce the p rovisions of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act.

On the Go: Business, Etc. Wednesday, April 4 Fairfield County Public Relations Association breakfast with a presentation on effective use of storytelling in marketing, 7:30 a.m. networking; 8 to 9 a.m. breakfast program, Bank Street Events, 65 Bank S t., Stamford. $45 no nmember pre-registrants; $35 member pre-registrants. To register, visit fcpra.org.

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.

Thursday, April 5 “Selling Skills That Will Grow Your Business,” a two-hour interactive SCORE workshop, 7:30 p.m. check-in; 8 a.m. program, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 1864 Post Road, Darien. To register, call 831-0065 or visit scorenorwalk.org.

Urban League of Southern Connecticut’s “2012 Equal Opportunity Day Gala,” 6 p.m., Hyatt Regency Greenwich, 1800 E. Putnam Ave., Greenwich. $175. For information, call 327-5810.

Snapshot Cushman & Wakefield, a longtime supporter of the United Way of Western Connecticut, has d onated $10,000 t o support the United Way Community Fund. Cushman & Wakefield represented United Way of Western Connecticut its relocation from 62 Palmer’s Hill Road to its new Stamford headquarters at 1150 Summer St.

Jude Ryan has jo ined Marketing Management Analytics of Wilton as v ice president of analytic innovation. Most recently, Ryan served as director of analytical insights for MarketShare.

From left, Jim Fagan, Cushman & Wakefield; Kim Morgan, United Way of Western Connecticut; Brooke Feder, Cushman & Wakefield; and Adam Klimek, Cushman & Wakefield.

Marc Ryan has b een promoted to executive vice president, chief research officer for InsightExpress, a S tamford-based marketing research and data analytics provider specializing in the measurement of brand communications. He joined InsightExpress in January 2010 as senior vice president, chief research officer.

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on the record Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. Filed by Dennis Michael. Plaintiff’s attorney: Christopher G. Winans. Action: claim filed in connection with an insurance contract. Filed March 14.

Case no. 12CV00385.

Huthmaker Homes L.L.C., Trumbull. Seller: Anne Finach, Norwalk.

Property: 38 Fifth St., Norwalk.

Amount: $189,900. Filed March 2.

Gifford, Virginia and Emmanuel Sanchez, New Canaan. Seller: Melissa Smith, New Canaan. Property: Parcel 152, New Canaan town map 6089, New Canaan. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Jan. 23.

Nordic Builders Inc., Ridgefield.

Seller: Marian Brown, New Canaan. Property: 40 Country Club Gilbert, Noel and Scott Gilbert, Pacific Indemnity Co. Filed by Road, New Canaan. Amount: New Canaan. Seller: Country Club David Myjak. Plaintiff’s attor- $947,500. Filed Dec. 29.

Homes Inc., Wilton. Property: 322 ney: Frank J. Raio. Action: claim Main St., New Canaan. Amount: filed in connection with a peti$2.1 million. Filed Jan. 26. tion for removal of an existing insurance contract case to an alGrzelecki, Jean and Frank ternative venue. Filed March 9.

Chen, William, New Canaan. Sell- Grzelecki, New Canaan. Seller: Case no. 12CV00358. er: Orris Stark, Ridgefield. Proper- Fimmano and Thomas Scheuer, ty: Unit 137c, Oenoke Apartments trustees, New Canaan. PropPT Berlian Laju Tanker TBK, Condominium, New Canaan. erty: 217 Park St., Unit 3, New et al. Filed by Lantern Mari- Amount: $250,000. Filed Dec. 30. Canaan. Amount: $1.7 million. time Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Filed Jan. 30.

Gregory J. Ligelis. Action: claim filed in connection with breach Comizio, Jhuma and Richard of contract. Filed March 15. Comizio, Harrison, N.J. Seller: Higginbotham. Caroline and Lake Mountain L.L.C., New York Edmund Higginbotham, RivCase no. 12CV00398.

City. Property: 12 Mountain Wood erside. Seller: estate of Mary Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $5.9 Nunan, Greenwich. Property: 16 QSC Payroll L.L.C. Filed by Yes- million. Filed March 12.

Pierce Road, Riverside. Amount: senia Domingues. Plaintiff’s at$924,000. Filed March 7. torney: Emanuel R. Cicchiello and Michael J. Reilly. Action: claim filed Culbertson, Margaret and June in connection with employment Culbertson, New Canaan. Seller: Hopper, Patricia and Forbes discrimination. Filed March 13. Bonnie King, trustee, Laramie, Hopper, Riverside. Seller: Lauren Wyo. Property: 205 Main St., Gudonis, trustee, Manchester-byCase no. 12CV00379.

Unit 5 (50 percent), New Canaan. the-Sea, Mass. Property: 35 Leeward Lane, Riverside. Amount: Amount: $318,750. Filed Jan. 12.

Rite Aid of Connecticut Inc. Filed $2.5 million. Filed March 12.

by Waleska Bossie. Plaintiff’s attorney: Christopher N. Parlato. Culbertson, Margaret and June Action: claim filed in connection Culbertson, New Canaan. Seller: Lambrach, Kaitlin and Kristin with personal injury. Filed March 9. June Camerer, Santa Fe, N.M. Lambrach, Lovemand, Ohio and Property: 205 Main St., Unit 5 (50 Alpharetta, Ga., respectively. Seller: Case no. 12CV00361. percent), New Canaan. Amount: Woodbury L.L.C., Stamford. Property: 33 Glenwood Ave., Unit 5, $318,750. Filed Jan. 12.

Simpson Strong-Tie Company Norwalk. Amount: $415,000. Filed Inc. Filed by Sylvan R. Shemitz March 5.

Designs Inc. Plaintiff’s attorney: Cunconan, Pamela, Stamford.

Chad Dever, Thomas J. Mango and Seller: Joan Kadlec, trustee, GreenMichael J. Rye. Action: claim filed wich. Property: 45 Highview Lisiewski, Layla and Gary in connection with trademark Ave., Old Greenwich. Amount: Lisiewski, Stamford. Seller: May Evers, trustee, Greenwich. infringement. Filed March 12. $925,000. Filed March 6.

Property: 820 North St., GreenCase no. 12CV00368. wich. Amount: $2 million. Filed Duncan, Elizabeth, Old Green- March 8.

Trinity College. Filed by Ter- wich. Seller: Claire and Joel rence McNamara. Plaintiff’s at- Schwab, Old Greenwich. Proptorney: Kera L. Paoff. Action: erty: 8 Arnold St., Old Green- Merrill, Melissa and Benjamin claim filed under the Family and wich. Amount: $910,000. Filed Merrill, New Canaan. Seller: Candice and Kenneth Gammill, HartMedical Leave Act. Filed March 9. March 12. land, Vt. Property: 50 Wellesley Case no. 12CV00363.

Drive, New Canaan. Amount: $1.4 Fagan, Brett and Quentin Ball, million. Filed Jan. 23.

West Publishing Corp. Filed by New York City. Seller: estate of David Henlein. Plaintiff’s attorney: Mary Zalman, Greenwich. PropJonatahn M. Starble. Action: claim erty: 12 Berrian Place, Greenwich. Milhaupt, Peter, New Canaan. filed in connection with copyright Amount: $450,000. Filed March 8. Seller: Virginia and Robert Fisher, New Canaan. Property: infringement. Filed March 14.

74 Turtleback Lane West, New Case no. 12CV00386.

Fazliu, Florie and Adil Fazliu, Canaan. Amount: $1.6 million.

Darien. Seller: Philip DelMazio, Filed Jan. 17.

Stamford. Property: 148 SumDeeds mer St., New Canaan. Amount: Nobay, Frances and Rommel $665,000. Filed Jan. 3.

Nobay, Greenwich. Seller: Howard Woodham, Greenwich. PropGammill, Corey, New Canaan. erty: vicinity of Dartmouth Road, 309 Park Street L.L.C., New Ca- Seller: Stephen Christoffers, Greenwich. Amount: $985,000. naan. Seller: Joan and James Mur- trustee, New Canaan. Property: Filed March 9. phy, Melbourne, Fla. Property: 309 113 Millport Ave., New Canaan.

Park St., New Canaan. Amount: Amount: $365,000. Filed Jan. 12. $540,000. Filed Jan. 19.

Residential

Commercial

Riccardelli, Paola, Gerardo Riccardelli and Frank Palladino, New Canaan. Seller: Elsie Cyr, Norwalk. Property: vicinity of Hillside Street, New Canaan. Amount: $300,000. Filed Jan. 5.

Sampson, Kindra and Scott Sampson, New Canaan. Seller: Susan and Steven Price, trustees, New Canaan. Property: Parcel 230, New Canaan town map 6695, New Canaan. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed Jan. 18.

Malling, Christopher, et al. Creditor: The Bank of New Canaan.

Property: 60 Deep Valley Road, New Canaan. Mortgage default.

Filed Jan. 26.

Foreclosures 36 Montgomery L.L.C., et al.

Creditor: ES Ventures One L.L.C. Property: 36 Montgomery Lane, Greenwich. Mortgage default.

Filed March 12.

Allen, Joan, et al. Creditor: Georgetown Arms Condominium Association Inc. Property: 45 Stevens St., Unit 3-11F, Bridgeport.

Delinquent common charges.

Filed March 14.

Asmar, Marshall, et al. Creditor: U.S. Bank N.A., trustee. Property: 1361 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport.

Mortgage default. Filed March 12.

Casas, Tina, et al. Creditor: NY Mortgage Trust Inc. Property: 56 Locust Road, Greenwich. Mortgage default. Filed March 5.

Federal Tax Liens – filed

Nduka, Simon, et al. Creditor: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 114 Denver Avenue Extension, Cozy Nail & Spa Inc., 103 GreenBridgeport. Mortgage default. wich Avenue Rear, Greenwich. $20,416, FICA and employee withFiled March 12. holding tax. Filed March 12.

Wakeman, Lawrence, et al. Creditor: Wachovia Bank N.A. Property: 377 Cognewaugh Road, GreenVerdaasonk, Anna and Patrick wich. Mortgage default. Filed van der Loo, New Canaan. Seller: March 7.

Michael O’Brien, trustee, New Canaan. Property: 70 Braeburn Drive (50 percent), New Canaan.

Judgments Amount: $537,500. Filed Jan. 13.

Cherrington, Sydney, Bridgeport.

Verdaasonk, Anna and Patrick $922 in favor of Atlantic Credit van der Loo, New Canaan. Seller: & Finance Inc., Roanoke, Va., by Michael O’Brien, New Canaan. Adam J. Olshan. Property: 448 Property: 70 Braeburn Drive (50 Chopsey Hill Road, Bridgeport. percent), New Canaan. Amount: Filed March 13. $537,500. Filed Jan. 13.

Dallape, Gregory, Old GreenVitale, Karen, New Canaan. Sell- wich. $13,686 in favor of U.S. Eqer: Ruth and William Pickering, uities Corp., South Salem, N.Y., by Raleigh, N.C. Property: 15 Hill- Linda Strumpf. Property: 75 Ladside Ave., New Canaan. Amount: dins Rock Road, Old Greenwich.

Filed March 5. $500,000. Filed Jan. 31.

Wappler, Jane and Reinhold Wappler, New Canaan. Seller: Irving and William Fellner, trustees, New Canaan. Property: Parcel 5, New Canaan town map 2509, New Canaan. Amount: $890,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Liens

S. E. Minor and Company Inc., P.O. Box 92, Greenwich. $45,210, FICA and employee withholding tax. Filed March 5.

Mechanic’s Liens-filed Brewster Street Partners L.L.C., Bridgeport. Filed by Environmental Consulting & Contracting L.L.C., Waterbury, by Edmond Robichaud. Property: 344 Brewster St., Bridgeport. Amount: $4,696.

Filed March 12.

Burnham Sterling & Co., Cos Cob. Filed by MAS General Contracting and Woodwork Inc., Greenwich, by Mario Barbuto.

Francoeur, Bonni, Bridgeport. Property: 33 River Road, Cos Cob. $394 in favor of Bridgeport Ra- Amount: $12,410. Filed March 12. diological Associates, Bridgeport,

by Melissa L. Simonik. Property: 246 Prince St., Bridgeport. Filed DeNike, Huldah and Harry DeNike, New Canaan. Filed by March 14.

AMEC Carting L.L.C., Norwalk,

by Guy R. Mazzola. Property: Jones, Robert, Bridgeport. 41 Millport Ave., New Canaan. $10,541 in favor of Plymouth Park Amount: $285,876. Filed Jan. 23.

Tax Services L.L.C., Bridgeport, by Michael J. Aiello. Property: 1310 Reservoir Ave., Bridgeport. Filed DiRienzo, Mario, New Haven.

Filed by L&D Mechanical InsuMarch 13. lation Inc., Ledyard, by Damien Norton. Property: Norwalk Leblond, Edward, New Canaan. Community College, Norwalk. $15,492 in favor of CACH L.L.C., Amount: $42,631. Filed March 2.

Denver, Colo., by Joseph M. Tobin.

Property: 64 Wakeman Road, New Douglas Enterprises L.L.C., New Canaan. Filed Jan. 27.

Canaan. Filed by Hungwell Gutter Systems, Newtown, by ChrisShivers, Georgette, Bridgeport. topher Mocarski. Property: 1000 $1,085 in favor of Michael Doyle Ponus Ridge Road, New Canaan.

M.D., Bridgeport, by Joseph P. Amount: $400. Filed Jan. 10.

Latino. Property: 15 Wood Ave., Bridgeport. Filed March 13.

Vance, Eleanor and Charles Hubbard, trustees, Greenwich. Filed Thirty-Seven Davenport Av- by ADJ of Stamford Inc., Stamenue L.P., et al., Greenwich, et al, ford, by Joseph D. Truglia. Prop$919,458 in favor of Paul Varszegi, erty: 8 Stanwich Road, Greenwich.

Stamford, by Geoffrey S. Brand- Amount: $37,723. Filed March 9. ner. Property: 37 Davenport Ave., Greenwich. Filed March 7.

Vance, Eleanor and Charles Hubbard, trustees, Greenwich. Filed

by Horizon Glass Company Inc., Wilton, by James Hagan. Property: 255 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich.

Amount: $9,420. Filed March 5.

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on the record Mechanic’s Liens—released

Atkinson, Patrick, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 1494 Brooks Properties Greenwich Iranistan Ave., Bridgeport. Action: L.L.C., Greenwich. Filed by Wil- to foreclose on the property to reson Electric L.L.C., Stamford, by cover delinquent fees for municiJonathan I. Rapoport. Property: pal water and sewer services. Filed 252 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich. March 14.

Amount: $18,393. Filed March 9.

Cruz, Vilma, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Lawrence M. Garfinkel, West Warwick, R.I., for Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., trustee, Los Angeles, Calif. Property: 281 Vincellette St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount o $209,250 dated December 2004.

Filed March 14.

Fedeli, Kathleen, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for Georgetown Arms Condominium Association Inc., Bridgeport. Property: Unit 1L, Georgetown Arms Condominium, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. Filed March 14.

Goncalves, Jose, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of, Bridgeport. Property: 104 Linen Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

Behn, Jean, et al., Bridgeport, et TINAA L.L.C., Riverside. Filed by al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, BridgeMonforte Electric Corp., New Ro- port, for Pleasant Bay Association chelle, N.Y., by Matthew T. Worner. Inc., Bridgeport. Property: Unit Property: 131 Meadow Road, Riv- 150-288, Pleasant Bay Condoerside. Amount: $83,726. Filed minium, Bridgeport. Action: to March 9. foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. Filed March 14.

Daniel Real Estate Holdings L.L.C., et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed

by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for Water Pollution Control Authority of the City of Bridgeport, Bridgeport. Property: 300 French St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

Ferreira, Maria, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Walter M. Spader Jr., North Branford, for Tower Lien L.L.C., Brooklyn, N.Y. Property: 59 Platt Place, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent municipal taxes assigned to the plaintiff for collection. Filed March 13.

Ho, Dong, et al., Bridgeport, et al.

Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 136 Austin St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

Ferris, Edmond, et al., BridgeDiego, Luisa, et al., Bridgeport, et port, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridge- Bridgeport, for the Water Polport, for Water Pollution Control lution Control Authority of the Authority of the City of Bridge- city of Bridgeport. Property: 180 port, Bridgeport. Property: 120 Wheeler Ave., Bridgeport. Action: Lorraine St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to reto foreclose on the property to re- cover delinquent fees for municicover delinquent fees for munici- pal water and sewer services. Filed pal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

March 14.

Jean, Marie, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for Georgetown Arms Condominium Association Inc., Bridgeport. Property: 45 Stevens St., Unit 1D, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. Filed March 14.

Lis Pendens

The following filings indicate a legal action has been initiated, the outcome of which may affect the title to the property listed.

1794 Barnum Avenue Inc., et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 1794 Barnum Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 12.

Bham, Abdulhai, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for Foxridge Manor Condominium Association Inc., Bridgeport. Property: Unit 2, Fox Ridge Manor Condominium, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. Filed March 14.

Blow, Mildred, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for Plymouth Park Tax Services L.L.C., Bridgeport. Property: 170 Edna St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property Acosta, Omar, et al., Bridgeport, to recover delinquent municipal et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, taxes assigned to the plaintiff for Bridgeport, for Georgetown Arms collection. Filed March 12.

Condominium Association Inc., Bridgeport. Property: 45 Stevens St., Unit 1E, Bridgeport. Action: to Cafora, Louise, et al., Bridgeforeclose on the unit to recover de- port, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, linquent common charges due the Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of association. Filed March 14.

Bridgeport. Property: 42 Charron St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose Allen, Jasmin, et al., Bridgeport, et on the property to recover delinal. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridge- quent fees for municipal water and port, for the Water Pollution Con- sewer services. Filed March 12. trol Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 805 Capitol Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on Coyt, Monica, et al., Norwalk, et the property to recover delinquent al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh fees for municipal water and sewer P.C., Farmington, for Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., trustee, services. Filed March 14.

Los Angeles, Calif. Property: 6 Fireside Court, Norwalk. Action: Arriaga, Milton, et al., Bridge- to foreclose a delinquent mortgage port, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, in the original principal amount Bridgeport, for the Water Pollu- of $650,000 dated February 2007. tion Control Authority of the city Filed March 2. of Bridgeport. Property: 64 Livingston Place, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

Ebanks, Colleen, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for Water Pollution Control Authority of the City of Bridgeport, Bridgeport. Property: 117 Lorraine St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services.

Filed March 14.

Lewis, Jeff, et al., Bridgeport, et G&R Stone L.L.C., et al., Bridge- al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, port, for the Water Pollution Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the City of Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 996 State St., Bridgeport. Property: 2336 Main Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose the property to recover delinquent on the property to recover delin- fees for municipal water and sewer quent fees for municipal water and services. Filed March 14. sewer services. Filed March 14.

Menendez, Ricardo, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 144 Orland St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

Morillo, Ana, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 108 Westfield Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

Moyer, Michael, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 36 Broadway Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

Lyon, Bethany, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Paul L. Otzel, Milford, for Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C., Oklahoma City, Okla. Property: 80 Cartright St., Unit 5F, Bridgeport.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $150,000 dated October 2006. Filed March 14.

Palomo, Gerardo, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 9 Worth St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

Marrow, Courtney, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Georges, Reynold, et al., Bridge- Bridgeport, for Colonial Gardens port, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Condominium Association Inc., Bridgeport, for the Water Pol- Bridgeport. Property: Unit 232, lution Control Authority of the Colonial Gardens Condominium, city of Bridgeport. Property: 32 Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose Waldorf Ave., Bridgeport. Action: on the unit to recover delinquent to foreclose on the property to re- common charges due the associacover delinquent fees for munici- tion. Filed March 12. pal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

Mathis, Kenneth, et al., New Canaan, et al. Filed by Ronald M. Bender, Hamden, for Park View Condominium Association Inc., New Canaan. Property: 63 Park Place, Apt. 4, New Canaan. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. Filed Feb. 3.

Pappas, Michael, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for Onewest Bank F.S.B., Pasadena, Calif.

Property: 12 Avenue B, Norwalk.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $310,000 dated April 2007. Filed March 5.

Garcia, Ruben, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Lawrence M. Enang, Joseph, et al., Bridgeport, Garfinkel, West Warwick, R.I., for et al. Filed by O’Connell Flaherty Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., & Attmore L.L.C., Hartford, for trustee, Los Angeles, Calif. ProperWilmington Trust Co., Wilming- ty: 216 Woodside Ave., Bridgeport. ton, Del. Property: 32 Atwater St., Action: to foreclose a delinquent Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose a mortgage in the original principal delinquent mortgage in the origi- amount of $192,000 dated Decemnal principal amount o $196,000 ber 2004. Filed March 14. dated April 2005. Filed March 14.

Falcon Holdings L.L.C., et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for Plymouth Park Tax Services L.L.C., Bridgeport. Property: 45 Garfield Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent municipal taxes assigned to the plaintiff for collection. Filed March 12.

Mejia, Nelson, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 79 Center St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

Pearce, Donald, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 113 Washington Terrace, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

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on the record Reyes, Rafael, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 120 Milne St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

U.S. Bank N.A., trustee, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 104 Livingston Place, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services.

Filed March 14.

Alliance Energy L.L.C., Waltham, Mass., by Edward Faneuil. Lender: Bank of America N.A., Boston, Mass. Property: 205 Sound Beach Ave., Old Greenwich. Amount: $200 million. Filed March 5.

Rzadkowski, Rafal, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Simon Sumberg, Norwalk, for Sutton Place Condominium Association Inc., Norwalk. Property: Unit 29, Sutton Place, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. Filed March 5.

Alliance Energy L.L.C., Waltham, Mass., by Edward Faneuil. Lender: Bank of America N.A., Boston, Mass. Property: 780 W. Putnam Vanghele, Constantine, et al., Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $200 Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Ron- million. Filed March 5. ald M. Bender, Hamden, for The Bridgeport Garden Apartments Inc., Bridgeport. Property: 75 Demilo, Frank, Norwalk, by Haddon St., Unit 3, Bridgeport. Frank Demilo. Lender: The Wilton Action: to foreclose on the unit Bank, Wilton. Property: 1 Morgan to recover delinquent common Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $225,000. charges due the association. Filed Filed March 2.

March 14.

Demilo, Frank, Norwalk, by Vanleeuwen, Peter, et al., Brook- Frank Demilo. Lender: The Wilton lyn, N.Y., et al. Filed by Deborah R. Bank, Wilton. Property: 1 Morgan Hill, Farmington, for Washington Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $100,000.

Row Preservation Society II Inc., Filed March 2.

Norwalk. Property: 118 Washington St., Unit U201, Norwalk. Ac- Huthmaker Homes L.L.C., tion: to foreclose on the unit to re- Trumbull, by Charles Huthmaker. cover delinquent common charges Lender: Jacqueline Huthmaker, due the association. Filed March 2. Trumbull. Property: 38 Fifth St., Norwalk. Amount: $175,000. Filed Wallace, Eric, et al., Bridgeport, et March 2. al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Con- Huthmaker Homes L.L.C., trol Authority of the city of Bridge- Trumbull, by Charles Huthmaker. port. Property: 440 Center St., Lender: Jacqueline Huthmaker, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on Trumbull. Property: 38 Fifth St., the property to recover delinquent Norwalk. Amount: $100,000. Filed fees for municipal water and sewer March 2. services. Filed March 14.

Santos, Dagoberto, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 98 Scofield Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

Wilson, Mitchell, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for Foxridge Manor Condominium Association Inc., Bridgeport. Property: Unit 4, Fox Ridge Manor Condominium, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. Filed March 14.

Suvernay, Jean, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 168 Linwood Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 14.

Mortgages

Riley Jr., Melville, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for Park Royal of Bridgeport Condominium Association Inc., Bridgeport. Property: Unit 8T, Park Royal Condominium, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. Filed March 12.

Roman III, John, et al., Greenwich, et al. Filed by Brynne E. Nichols, Stamford, for Greenwich Green Condominium I Inc., Greenwich. Property: Unit 1205, Building B1, Greenwich Green, Greenwich. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. Filed March 9.

Tolster, Matthew, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport, for the Water Pollution Control Authority of the city of Bridgeport. Property: 459 Wayne St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent fees for municipal water and sewer services. Filed March 12.

25 Harrison Avenue L.L.C., New Canaan, by Lindsay Warren.

Lender: Peter Wade, New Canaan.

Property: 25 Harrison Ave., New Canaan. Amount: $875,000. Filed Jan. 25.

ACD Properties L.L.C., Norfolk,

by Andrew Luciano. Lender: Webster Bank N.A., Waterbury. Property: 444 Berkshire Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $250,000. Filed March 14.

Ricciardi, Patricia and Anthony Ricciardi, New Canaan by Patricia and Anthony Ricciardi. Lender: Fairfield County Bank, Ridgefield.

Property: 73 Lake Wind Road, New Canaan. Amount: $400,000.

Filed Feb. 2.

RMS Valley L.L.C., Greenwich, by Randall Salvatore. Lender: First County Bank, Stamford. Property: Parcels K1, K2 and P, Greenwich town map 8194, Greenwich.

Amount: $1.6 million. Filed March 6.

C&C Consultants, 17 Briar Ridge Gio’s Handyman Services, 37 Drive, Bethel 06801, c/o Curtis Lawn St., Bridgeport 06606, c/o Daniel Serrano. Filed March 5.

Elston. Filed March 6.

Center for Creative Music, 29 Glamor Linen, 50 Van Zant St., Forest Ave., Old Greenwich 06870, Norwalk 06855, c/o Carmita c/o Karen Polimeni. Filed March 6. Sellan. Filed March 6.

Charter Oak Beer Co., 1211 Smith Ridge Road, New Canaan 06840, c/o P. Scott Vallely. Filed Feb. 24.

God’s Blessings Garage L.L.C., 313 Center St., Bridgeport 06606, c/o Migdalia Burgos.

Filed March 13.

Compound Exceloration Success Principles, 773 Clark St., Bridgeport 06606, c/o Timothy Winston.

Filed March 1.

Greenwich Automotive, 269 Delavan Ave., Greenwich 06830, c/o Katherine Canavan. Filed Feb. 17.

Yeung’s Reaty L.L.C., Shelton, by Ming Hua Pan. Lender: The Bank of Fairfield, Fairfield. Property: 105 Asylum St., Bridgeport. Amount: Cricket Hill Interiors, 209 Tacon$350,000. Filed March 12. ic Road, Greenwich 06831, c/o Cosby George. Filed Feb. 28.

New Businesses CT Auto, 7 Wayne St., Bridgeport The Business Journal is not respon- 06606, c/o Moises Prieto. Filed sible for typographical errors con- March 12. tained in the original filings.

A&L Mini-Market, 1015 Madison Ave., Bridgeport 06604, c/o Mario Alas. Filed March 7.

Amanda Smith Caterers, 50 Laddins Rock Road, Old Greenwich 06870, c/o Amanda Smith. Filed Feb. 10.

Greenwich Wellness Center L.L.C., 254B Mill St., Greenwich 06830, c/o Aura Ardon M.D. Filed March 7.

Guya the Center for Healing, 255 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich 06830, c/o Janet Lee. Filed Feb. 28.

D&B Realty, 1151 King St., Greenwich 06831, c/o Paul Antonik. H2 Oasis, 56 Gold St., Greenwich 06830, c/o Erik Nordholm. Filed Filed March 9.

Feb. 29.

Danbury Grassroots Tennis and Enrichment Program, 196 Main Hiramic Cyclimetrics, 1222 OeSt., Danbury 06810, c/o Carl Bai- noke Ridge, New Canaan 06840, c/o John Amarilios. Filed Feb. 29. ley. Filed March 5.

Danielle Link Design, 52 HawArchstone Capital Management, thorne Road, New Canaan 06840, 94 New Norwalk Road, New Ca- c/o Danielle Link. Filed March 12. naan 06840, c/o R. Graham MurImian Meadows L.L.C., New phy. Filed Feb. 22.

De Lage Landen, 700 Noble Canaan, by Theodore KakoyianAve., Bridgeport 06608, c/o Lewis nis. Lender: The Bank of New Canaan, New Canaan. Property: Auto Experts L.L.C., 1141 State Mitchell. Filed March 13.

439 Brookside Road, New Canaan. St., Bridgeport 06605, c/o Ahmad Amount: $740,000. Filed Jan. 30.

Mariri. Filed March 12.

Dorman’s Power Washing and Gutter Service, 358 W. Putnam NNM L.L.C., Bridgeport, by Teh- Avila Cleaning L.L.C., 105 James Ave., Greenwich 06830, c/o Chris seen Naqvi. Lender: Preferred St., Bridgeport 06604, c/o Raul Eli. Filed March 7.

Group of Manhattan Inc., East Avila. Filed March 14.

Elmhurst, N.Y. Property: 810 AtDough Girls, 8 Lucy St., Greenlantic St., Bridgeport. Amount: Black Rock Boat Work, 3078 Fair- wich 06831, c/o Louise Joseph. $950,000. Filed March 14. field Ave., Bridgeport 06605, c/o Filed March 2.

Michael Andre. Filed March 14.

Nordic Builders Inc., Ridgefield, DRE Trucking L.L.C., 133 Gorby Geir Hjorth. Lender: Marian Brown, New Canaan. Property: 40 Block by Block, 10 Middle St., don St., Bridgeport 06606, c/o AnCountry Club Road, New Canaan. 14th floor, Bridgeport 06604, c/o dre Spence. Filed March 13.

Amount: $473,750. Filed Dec. 29. T. Scott Emerson. Filed March 8.

El Original Rinconcito Peruano Palladino, Maria and Dario Pal- Broma’s Cleaning, 66 Washing- L.L.C., 982 Madison Ave., Bridgeladino, South Salem, N.Y., by Ma- ton Terrace, Bridgeport 06604, c/o port 06606, c/o Victor Tello. Filed ria and Dario Palladino. Lender: Lenora Bromfield. Filed March 7. March 14.

First County Bank, Stamford.

Property: 81 Elm Place, New Ca- Byram Ink Tattoo, 16 N. Water GHS Field Hockey, 8 Berge St., naan. Amount: $900,000. Filed St., Greenwich 06830, c/o Rubens Cos Cob 06807, c/o Kathleen BaJan. 27. con. Filed March 2.

Faria. Filed Feb. 24.

Iris Cleaning Service, 827 North Ave., Suite 78, Bridgeport 06606, c/o Elveza Cardoso. Filed March 8.

JCA Asphalt and Paving, 56 Tom Thumb St., Bridgeport 06606, c/o Juan Alcate. Filed March 1.

Jean Benjamin Camille, 10 Rita Ave., Bridgeport 06606, c/o Jean Camille. Filed March 14.

JP Home Improvement, 881 Lafayette Blvd., Unit 1F, Bridgeport 06604, c/o John Payson IV. Filed March 1.

Jus Whisso Catering Services, 81 Erika Circle, Bridgeport 06606, c/o Veronica Burton. Filed March 14.

JVM Consulting, 101 Ferris Hill Road, New Canaan 06840, c/o Jennifer MacLean. Filed March 7.

Kamazine People, 17C Merritt Place, Norwalk 06854, c/o Devon Moore. Filed March 5.

Kate Scarlett Spa, 86 Elm St., New Gill Motors L.L.C., 425 Boston Canaan 06840, c/o Kathryn ScarAve., Bridgeport 06610, c/o Har- lett. Filed March 1. jinder Gill. Filed March 13.

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on the record Keep Greenwich Local and Safe, Paul’s Auto Cars, 495 Hawley 48 Spring St., No. 7, Greenwich Ave., Bridgeport 06606, c/o Fatima 06830, c/o M. Michael Warner. Kassab. Filed March 6.

Filed March 5.

Tripletas Pinchos 787, 260 Horace St., Bridgeport 06610, c/o Landdy Rodriguez. Filed March 14.

Bottle. Patent no. D656,030 issued to: Jonathan Lee, Milford; James E., Fairfield McCay; Anne E. Nixon, Bridgeport; James T. Starkey, North Haven; Michael Luyckx, Perfect Painting, 1200 Clark Grand Rapids, Mich.; and DougLord Bless My Laundromate, St., Bridgeport 06606, c/o Fatmir Welding on Wheels Services, 922 las J. Medema, Belding, Mich. As674 Noble Ave., Bridgeport 06608, Mustafa. Filed March 7.

Hancock Ave., First floor, Bridge- signed to Bissell Homecare Inc., c/o Alexandre Hoassaint. Filed port 06605, c/o Josue Gotay. Filed Grand Rapids, Mich.

March 14.

March 1.

The Perfectionist, 255 Dixon St., Bridgeport 06604, c/o Henley GerCarrier delivery sequence sysLyra Medical Wheels, 45C But- main. Filed March 13.

Patents tem and process adapted for upler St., Norwalk 06850, c/o Lydia stream insertion of exceptional Tucker. Filed March 2.

Phoenix Energy, 238 Weaver St., Accelerated virtual environ- mail pieces. Patent no. 8,138,438 Greenwich 06830, c/o John Leidy. ments deployment trouble- issued to Denis J. Stemmle, Stratshooting based on two-level ford. Assigned to Lockheed MarMargot Greenwich L.L.C., 229 Filed March 9. file system signature. Patent no. tin Corp., Bethesda, Md. Greenwich Ave., Apt. 6, Green8,140,907 issued to: Kirk A. Beaty, wich 06830, c/o Eric Vencer. Filed Precision Fitness, 198 Sixth St., Goldens Bridge, N.Y.; Michael Feb. 24.

Bridgeport 06607, c/o Louis Davis. R. Head, Tarrytown, N.Y.; Anca Collapsing cover for a customer Filed March 6.

Sailer, Scarsdale, N.Y.; Charles O. replaceable unit used in a printMarselena Personal Assistant, 50 Schulz, Ridgefield; and Hidayatul- er. Patent no. 8,136,939 issued to Evans St., Bridgeport 06606, c/o lah H. Shaikh, Shrub Oak, N.Y. As- Brian Noel Reid, Great Britain. AsQuality Upholstery L.L.C., 20 Marcilena Perez. Filed March 14. signed to International Business signed to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Great Plain Road, Danbury 06811, Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. c/o Flavia Azevedo. Filed March 5.

Colored toners. Patent no.

Moss Associates, 18 Middlesex Road, Darien 06820, c/o Judith Additive composition for EP 8,137,880 issued to: Jordan H. Ragan Behavioral Services, 2996 Moss. Filed March 2. greases with excellent anti-wear Wosnick, Canada; Richard P. N. Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport 06605, and corrosion properties. Pat- Veregin, Canada; and Eric Rotberg, c/o Rene Ragan. Filed March 5. ent no. 8,138,132 issued to Gaston Toronto, Canada. Assigned to XeMountain Movers, 820 BeachA. Aguilar, Milford and Ronald J. rox Corp., Norwalk. wood Ave., Bridgeport 06605, c/o Anthony Granam. Filed March 1. Reasonable Thrift Store, 1002 Hiza, Monroe. Assigned to R.T. Madison Ave., Bridgeport 06606, Vanderbilt Company Inc., Nor- Concurrent data transfer involvwalk. c/o Jean Lorime. Filed March 7. ing two or more transport layer Music by Two, 221 Silvermine protocols over a single one-way Ave., Norwalk 06850, c/o Ricard data link. Patent no. 8,139,581 isScripps Music, 465 Field Point Apparatuses useful for printing sued to Ronald Mraz, South Salem, Andrews. Filed March 5. and methods of treating markRoad, Greenwich 06830, c/o John ing material on media. Patent N.Y. and James Hope, Greenwich.

Sweeney. Filed Feb. 16. no. 8,139,992 issued to Robert G. Assigned to Owl Computing Mystic Lounge Café, 1469 StratPirwitz, Rochester, N.Y. Assigned Technologies Inc., Ridgefield. ford Ave., Bridgeport 06607, c/o Sexy Nail, 1055 Huntington Turnto Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Wugene Dawson. Filed March 8. pike, Bridgeport 06610, c/o Tien Controlling an order slicer for Nguyen. Filed March 12.

Apparatuses useful in printing, trading a financial instrument.

Nationwide Auto Exchange and printing apparatuses and meth- Patent no. 8,140,423 issued to: PeMarketing, 77 Robin St., BridgeSK Snack, 856 Fairfield Ave., ods of fixing marking material ter Hansen, Stamford; Lars Kragh, port 06606, c/o Curtis Smith Jr. Bridgeport 06604, c/o Furqan on media. Patent no. 8,139,969 is- Stamford; and Nicolay Landmark, Filed March 7.

Sheikh. Filed March 14. sued to Mark Steven Amico, Pitts- Stamford. Assigned to NYFIX ford, N.Y. and Martin Franklin Inc., New York City.

Nuance Artistic Solutions, 113 Zess, Churchville, N.Y. Assigned to Clearview Lane, New Canaan Sonny’s Produce, 28 Henry St., Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Diagnostic method and system 06840, c/o Nancy Serkes. Filed Greenwich 06830, c/o Chung Si for modular printing systems.

Lee. Filed March 8.

Feb. 24.

Battery cathodes. Patent no. Patent no. 8,139,961 issued to Bar8,137,842 issued to: Todd E. ry Paul Mandel, Fairport, N.Y. and O&R Construction, 2625 Park Specialist Mufflers and Brakes Bofinger, Nashua, N.H.; William Steven Robert Moore, Pittsford, Ave., No. 16N, Bridgeport 06604, L.L.C., 777 State St., Bridgeport L. Bowden, Nashua, N.H.; George N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., c/o Oseias Reinheimer. Filed 06604, c/o Guillermo Trujillo. Cintra, Holliston, Mass.; Kirakodu Norwalk.

Filed March 13.

March 6.

S. Nanjundaswamy, Sharon, Mass.; Rimma A. Sirotina, Ashland, Disk sector allocation for highMass.; Dana Alexa Totir, Danbury; performance access to images.

St. Michael Delivery Service, 95 Odwalla Inc., 955 Connecticut Ave., Suite 5103, Bridgeport 06607, N. Water St., Apt. 2S, Greenwich and Fan Zhang, Needham, Mass. Patent no. 8,139,874 issued to Paul c/o Stephen Jones. Filed March 13. 06830, c/o Sindy Quintero. Filed Assigned to The Gillette Co., Bos- R. Austin, Webster, N.Y. and Robton, Mass.

March 5. ert R. Buckley, Rochester, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Our Crown and Glory L.L.C., Bicycle carrier rack.

Patent no.

Stateline Benefit Consultants, 22 1742 Barnum Ave., Bridgeport 06610, c/o Yvette Aldridge. Filed Lyon Ave., Greenwich 06830, c/o D656,080 issued to: David Budd, Dislocation engineering usRichard Niemynski. Filed March 9. Newtown; John Laverack, South- ing a scanned laser. Patent no.

March 12. bury; Frederick G. Murray, South- 8,138,066 issued to: Chung Who ington; and Greg Weaver, Water- Lai, Singapore; Xiao Hu Liu, BriTelecommunications bury. Assigned to Thule Sweden arcliff manor, N.Y.; Anita Madan, Parussolo Painting, 287 Benham TelVFX Ave., Bridgeport 06604, c/o Apare- Consult, 85 Chamberlain Ave., AB, Sweden.

Danbury; Klaus W. Schwarz, Bridgeport 06606, c/o Elisandro cido Parussolo. Filed March 12.

Somers, N.Y.; and J. Campbell Batalho. Filed March 5.

Scott, Los Gatos, Calif. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

Display means. Patent no.

8,136,282 issued to: Thomas Valeij, Sweden; Jari Kekkonen, Sweden; and Bjorn Sao, Fairfield. Assigned to Expand International AB, Sweden.

In-situ silicon cap for metal gate electrode. Patent no. 8,138,041 issued to: Michael P. Chudzik, Danbury; Troy Graves-Abe, Wappingers Falls, N.Y.; Rashmi Jha, Toledo, Ohio; Renee T. Mo, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.; and Keith Kwong Hon Wong, Wappingers Falls, N.Y. AsDissection tip and introducer signed to International Business for surgical instrument. Patent Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. no. 8,136,711 issued to: John W. Beardsley, Wallingford; Stanislaw Kostrzewski, Newtown; Frank C. Interconnection in multichip Maffei, Shelton; Lee Ann Olson, with interposers and bridges.

Wallingford; Sachin Shah, Milford; Patent no. 8,138,015 issued to and William R. Mayfield, Smyrna, Douglas James Joseph, Danbury Ga. Assigned to Tyco Healthcare and John Ulrich Knickerbocker, Group L.P., North Haven.

Monroe, N.Y. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. Electrophoretic display device.

Patent no. 8,137,900 issued to: Naveen Chopra, Canada; Jurgen Intermediate transfer member.

H. Daniel, San Francisco, Calif.; Patent no. 8,138,300 issued to: Yu Brent S. Krusor, Fremont, Calif.; Qi, Canada; Nan-Xing Hu, CanaSan-Ming Yang, Canada; Peter M. da; and Jin Wu, Pittsford, N.Y. AsKazmaier, Canada; and Gabriel signed to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Iftime, Canada. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Isotopically enriched boroncontaining compounds, and Event-driven plug-in architec- methods of making and using ture for importing scanned im- same. Patent no. 8,138,071 issued age data into a production work- to: Robert Kaim, Brookline, Mass.; flow. Patent no. 8,139,249 issued Joseph D. Sweeney, Winsted; Oleg to Dennis L. Venable, Marion, N.Y. Byl, Southbury; Sharad N. YeAssigned to Xerox Corp., Nor- dave, Danbury; Edward E. Jones, walk.

Woodbury; Peng Zou, Ridgefield; Ying Tang, Brookfield; Barry Lewis Chambers, Midlothian, Va.; and Ferromagnetic nanoparticles Richard S. Ray, New Milford. Aswith high magnetocrystalline signed to Advanced Technology anisotropy for Mich.CR toner Materials Inc., Danbury. applications. Patent no. 8,137,879 issued to: Richard P. N. Veregin, Canada; Karen A. Moffat, Canada; Liquid layer applicator assemMarcel P. Breton, Canada; Peter bly. Patent no. 8,136,476 issued to M. Kazmaier, Canada; Patricia A. Jason LeFevre, Penfield, N.Y. and Burns, Canada; and Paul F. Smith, Alexander J. Fioravanti, Penfield, Canada. Assigned to Xerox Corp., N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

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Hepatitis C virus inhibitors. Patent no. 8,138,215 issued to: Omar D. Lopez, Wallingford; Qi Chen, Norwalk; and Makonen Belema, North Haven. Assigned to BristolMyers Squibb Co., Princeton, N.J. HMG1 antibody for treating inflammatory conditions. Patent no. 8,138,141 issued to Kevin J. Tracey, Old Greenwich and Haichao Wang, Avenel, N.J. Assigned to The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, N.Y. Infant toys and novelties using a plurality of tags. Patent no.

8,137,150 issued to Paul Oestreicher, Westport.

Local regression methods and systems for image-processing systems. Patent no. 8,139,857 issued to Vishal Monga, Webster, N.Y. and Raja Bala, Webster, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Long ultrasonic cutting blade formed of laminated smaller blades. Patent no. 8,137,371 issued to Douglas J. Cuny, Bethel. Assigned to Tyco Healthcare Group L.P., Norwalk.

Metal high dielectric constant transistor with reverse-T gate.

Patent no. 8,138,052 issued to: Leland Chang, New York City; Isaac Lauer, White Plains, N.Y.; and Jeffrey W. Sleight, Ridgefield. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

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on the record Method and apparatus for network distribution and provisioning of applications across multiple domains. Patent no.

8,140,666 issued to: Daniel Manuel Dias, Mohegan Lake, N.Y.; Dilip Dinkar Kandlur, San Jose, Calif.; James Thomas Rayfield, Ridgefield; and Anees A. Shaikh, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

Methods for providing standin services for transactioncard customization. Patent no.

8,136,726 issued to: Tom Ferrara, Webster Groves, Mo.; Anna Whelan, Florissant, Mo.; and Peter Weinberger, New Fairfield.

Assigned to Mastercard International Inc., Purchase, N.Y.

Methods, systems and apparatus for monochromatic UV light sterilization. Patent No. Method and structure for gate 8,125,585 issued to Barry Ressler, height scaling with high-k/ Danbury and Bernard Anthony metal gate technology. Patent McNulty, Weston. Assigned to Trino. 8,138,037 issued to: Michael ton Thalassic Technologies Inc., P. Chudzik, Danbury; Ricardo A. Ridgefield.

Donaton, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.; William K. Henson, Beacon, N.Y.; Reducing effective dielectric and Yue Liang, Beacon, N.Y. As- constant in semiconductor designed to International Business vices. Patent no. 8,129,286 issued Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. to: Daniel C. Edelstein, White Plains, N.Y.; Matthew E. Colburn, Method to form nanopore ar- Hopewell Junction, N.Y.; Edward ray. Patent no. 8,138,068 issued to: C. Cooney III, Jericho, Vt.; TimoZhengwen Li, Danbury; Chengw- thy J. Dalton, Ridgefield; John A. en Pei, Danbury; and Frank Yang, Fitzsimmons, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Mahwah, N.J. Assigned to Inter- Jeffrey P. Gambino, Westford, national Business Machines Vt.; Elbert E. Huang, Tarrytown, Corp., Armonk, N.Y. and Global N.Y.; Michael W. Lane, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.; Vincent J. McGaFoundries, Cayman Islands. hay, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Lee M. Nicholson, Katonah, N.Y.; SatyMethod, apparatus and system anarayana V. Nitta, Poughquag, for resistance to side channel N.Y.; Sampath Purushothaman, attacks on random number Yorktown Heights, N.Y.; Sujatha generators. Patent no. 8,135,766 Sankaran, Wappingers Falls, N.Y.; issued to: Suresh Narayana Chari, Thomas M. Shaw, Peekskill, N.Y.; Scarsdale, N.Y.; Vincenzo Valen- Andrew H. Simon, Fishkill, N.Y.; tino Di Luoffo, Sandy Hook; Paul and Anthony K. Stamper, WillisAshley Karger, Chappaqua, N.Y.; ton, Vt. Assigned to International Elaine Rivette, Goldens Bridge, Business Machines Corp., ArN.Y.; Tal Rabin, Riverdale, N.Y.; Jo- monk, N.Y. syula Ramachandra Rao, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.; Pankaj Rohatgi, New Rochelle, N.Y.; Helmut Scherzer, Germany; Michael Steiner, New York City; and David Claude Toll, Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

Object-oriented-based methodology for modeling business functionality for enabling implementation in a web-based environment. Patent no. 8,141,033 issued to: Arun K. Gupta, Easton; Rajiv K. Uppal, Trumbull; and Devang I. Parikh, Bethel. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

Robust jitter-free remote clock offset measuring method. Patent no. 8,139,489 issued to: Steven Froehlich, Danbury; Michel H. T. Hack, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.; Xiaoqiao Meng, Mount Kisco, N.Y.; and Li Zhang, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

Optimal dithering of a digitally controlled oscillator with clock dithering for gain and bandwidth control. Patent no.

8,138,840 issued to: Herschel A. Ainspan, New Hempstead, N.Y.; John F. Bulzacchelli, Yonkers, N.Y.; Zeynep Toprak Deniz, Glen Oaks, N.Y.; Daniel J. Friedman, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; Alexander V. Rylyakov, Mount Kisco, N.Y.; and Jose A. Tierno, Stamford. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

Securing premises using surfaced-based computing technology. Patent no. 8,138,882 issued to: Lydia Mai Do, Research Triangle Park, N.C.; Travis M. Grigsby, Austin, Texas; Pamela Ann Nesbitt, Ridgefield; and Lisa Anne Seacat, San Francisco, Calif. Assigned to International Business MaSystem and method for comchines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. pensating for registration errors arising from heated rollers in Self-assembly monolayer a moving web printing system. modified printhead. Patent no. Patent no. 8,136,907 issued to: 8,136,922 issued to: Yiliang Wu, Yongsoon Eun, Webster, N.Y.; JefCanada; Ping Liu, Canada; and frey J. Folkins, Rochester, N.Y.; Jess Nan-Xing Hu, Canada. Assigned R. Gentner, Rochester, N.Y.; Todd to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

W. Thayer, Rochester, N.Y.; and R. Enrique Viturro, Rochester, N.Y. Simultaneous voice and data sys- Assigned to Xerox Corp., Nortems for secure catalog orders. walk.

Patent no. 8,139,733 issued to: Jeffrey D. Pierce, Sandy Hook; G. Jon- System and method for measurathan Wolfman, Southbury; Luu T. ing drop position in an image of Pham, Trumbull; Thomas J. Foth, a test pattern on an image subTrumbull; and George M. Mac- strate. Patent no. 8,136,913 issued donald, New Canaan. Assigned to to Andrew S. Yeh, Portland, Ore. Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford. and Cary Eric Sjolander, Tigard, Ore. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Solid-ink-melt tub with cor- Norwalk. rugated melt region and offset outlet. Patent no. 8,136,933 issued System and method for predictto Brent Rodney Jones, Sherwood, ing aircraft gate arrival times.

Ore. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Patent no. 8,140,199 issued to: Norwalk.

James Barry, Madison; James Cole, East Setauket, N.Y.; and Matthew Substituted 4-amino-pyrrolotri- Marcella, West Hempstead, N.Y. azine derivatives useful for treat- Assigned to PASSUR Aerospace ing hyper-proliferative disorders Inc., Stamford. and diseases associated with angiogenesis. Patent no. 8,133,995 System and method of overwritissued to: Julie Dixon, Bethany; ing image data with random patSteven Magnuson, Wallingford; terns. Patent no. 8,139,264 issued Barton Phillips, New Haven; Yamin to Fadi Rouhana, Fairport, N.Y. Wang, Sandy Hook; Tandy Li, West and Larry Kovnat, Rochester, N.Y. Haven; Kyle Parcella, Wallingford; Assigned to Xerox Corp., NorJason Newcom, Northford; Harold walk.

Kluender, Hartland, Wis.; Zhenqiu Hong, Milford; Brent Chandler, Princeton, N.J.; Zhonghua Zhang, System for fabricating a fuel cell Derby; Kristen Allegue, Rocky component for use with or as Hill; and Zheng Liu, Beacon Falls. part of a fuel cell in a fuel cell Assigned to Bayer HealthCare stack. Patent no. 8,137,741 issued to: Salvador E. Correa, Simsbury; L.L.C., Tarrytown, N.Y. Thomas M. Lucas, Pleasant Valley; and Lawrence J. Novacco, Brookfield. Assigned to FuelCell Energy Inc., Danbury.

Push filter with floating key lock.

Patent no. 8,137,551 issued to: Stephen P. Huda, Shelton; Steven J. Haehn, Oakdale, Minn.; and Michael J. Sherman, Woodbury, Minn. Assigned to KX Technologies L.L.C., West Haven.

Pyrrolotriazine derivatives useful for treating cancer through inhibition of aurora kinase.

Patent no. 8,138,336 issued to: Steven Magnuson, Wallingford; Philip Wickens, Canada; Zhonghua Zhang, Ridgefield; Ning Qi, Rahway, N.J.; and Xin Ma, China.

Assigned to Bayer HealthCare L.L.C., Tarrytown, N.Y. Retractable air deflection apparatus for reduction of vehicular air drag. Patent no. 8,136,868 issued to Howard G. Nusbaum, Stamford.

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Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy detection with ion separation pre-filter. Patent no.

8,129,676 issued to: Michael Vestel, San Francisco, Calif.; Caterina Netti, Great Britain; Erkinjon Nazarov, Lexington, Mass.; Gareth S. Dobson, Burlingame, Calif.; Stephen L. Coy, Wayland, Mass.; Richard Copeland, Palo Alto, Calif.; Michael Coggiola, Sunnyvale, Calif.; Lawrence Dubois, Danbury; Alexander Hallock, Redwood City, Calif.; and Joseph R. Stetter, Hayward, Calif.

Assigned to: SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif.; DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd., Singapore; and Renishaw Diagnostics Limited, Great Britain.

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Systems and methods for identifying user types using multimodal clustering and information scent. Patent no. 8,140,706 issued to: Ed Chi, Palo Alto, Calif.; Jeffrey Heer, Berkeley, Calif.; and Peter Pirolli, San Francisco, Calif.

Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Systems and methods for intelligent control of microphones for speech recognition applications.

Patent no. 8,140,325 issued to: Dimitri Kanevsky, Ossining, N.Y.; Mahesh Viswanathan, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.; David Nahamoo, Great Neck, N.Y.; and Roberto Sicconi, Ridgefield. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. Systems and methods for redeeming future value wagering chips. Patent no. 8,137,187 issued to Jay S. Walker, Ridgefield and James A. Jorasch, Stamford. Assigned to International Game Technology, Reno, Nev. Toner compositions and processes. Patent no. 8,137,884 issued to: Guerino G. Sacripante, Canada; Chieh-Min Cheng, Rochester, N.Y.; and Gwynne E. McAneneyLannen, Canada. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Travel cup. Patent no. D655,983 issued to Steven C. Cozzolino, New York City and James Andrew Sandor, Trumbull. Assigned to Conair Corp., Stamford.

Variable data periodic line patterns for composing a font system. Patent no. 8,139,270 issued to: Zhigang Fan, Webster, N.Y.; Reiner Eschbach, Webster, N.Y.; and Judith E. Stinehour, Rochester, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Waste phase change ink recycling. Patent no. 8,136,934 issued to Trevor James Snyder, Newberg, Ore. and James Matthew Cunnington, Tualatin, Ore. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Web-cleaning systems, including an electrostatic cleaning brush and methods of cleaning printed webs. Patent no. 8,139,993 issued to Bruce Earl Thayer, Spencerport, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Wheeled shovels. Patent no.

8,136,268 issued to Mark Noonan, New Canaan. Assigned to Snow Solutions L.L.C., New Canaan.

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ost Connecticut residents and employers were impacted by Hurricane Irene and the historic October snowstorm. Did you have staff or operation disruptions? What would you have done differently? What could you have done better?

Led by Sen. Joan Hartley (D-Waterbury) and Rep. Kim Fawcett (D-Fairfield), the coalition announced that it would propose redirecting $3.9 million currently dedicated to transportation efforts in the fiscal year 2012-13 state budget to a new transportation account that would be dedicated to mass transit investment, expansion, and planning.

These dollars are currently earmarked in the state budget as unspecified, transportation-related “other expenses.”

Joining Sen. Hartley and Rep. Fawcett in the announcement were Sen. Toni Boucher (R-Wilton), Rep. Gail Lavielle (R-Wilton), Rep. Brenda Kupchick (R-Fairfield), and Rep. Jonathan Steinberg (D-Westport).

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General Assembly Hits Halfway Point The Connecticut General Assembly’s 2012 session reached the halfway point with mixed results.

A number of committees are considering bills which will impact Connecticut businesses and the state’s economy positively and negatively.

The Labor Committee is one example.

“The Labor Committee has come up with a mixed bag this year,” said CBIA’s Bonnie Stewart. “And a mixed bag out of the Labor Committee is actually good news, because usually that committee just passes legislation that is detrimental to investment and job creation in Connecticut.

“But this year we have a couple of measures that would tighten up unemployment compensation and fix a few other areas. Nothing big, but the fact they’re sending out positive measures where job creation and business is concerned is much appreciated.

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“Unfortunately, they’re also sending out a couple of bad bills too, such as increasing the minimum wage and indexing that.

It’s not a great time be looking at those things.”

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CBIA’s Lou Bach says the business community was surprised by the Insurance Committee this session.

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