The Fairfield County Business Journal 8/20/2012 Issue

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August 20, 2012 | VOL. 48, No. 34

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After an intermission, Kuchma Corp. previews the next installment at Bijou Square … 2 Gold coastal property: new foreclosures in Connecticut register biggest increase in nation … 2 Community banks cut smallbusiness loans in Q2 … 3

New major data center for Norwalk New hotel in Greenwich could become test kitchen for franchise … 5 Fast-casual health food restaurant eyes Greenwich … 8 In the field: Harman adds 1,300, GM starter deal … 9 Fairfield company clearing the air in China … 13 Special report: disaster recovery, a year after the storm … 15 SEC wins appeal on accounting fraud case against former CFO … 17

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“They have tried to sell us this trickle-down, tax-cut fairy dust before. And guess what – it does not work. It didn’t work then; it won’t work now.” 4

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Cervalis deal biggest build-to-suit in 11 years

BY JENNIFER BISSELL

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arlier this month power outages in Greenwich and Stamford set many businesses back a day, with no access to com-

puter systems, email or phones.

A year from now, that may not be the case if the electricity goes out.

Cervalis L.L.C., an information-technology infrastructure provider, is building a data- and disaster-recovery center in Norwalk.

The first floor of the 168,000-square-foot facility will house servers to run clients’ day-today IT operations and the second floor will be reserved for businesses to use as an office in case there is ever a power outage or disaster.

Major data center, page 6

Capital gains

Back to class

Incubators help startups gain more attention from investors

With turnover low, grads look to leverage thin résumés

BY PATRICK GALLAGHER

BY ALEXANDER SOULE

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After Fairfield County’s long-term unemployed got a second dose of national publicity, a local company is casting the spotlight on those at the other end of the spectrum – the newly unemployed with ink still drying on their diplomas.

In its new offices in Norwalk, a few floors below University of Phoenix classrooms, OperationsInc is launching “Job Search 101” for graduates whose thin resumes are finding their way to the reject pile.

Earlier this year, OperationsInc acquired AllCountyJobs.com, and since has begun publishing monthly assessments of the Fairfield County job market based on activ-

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ity on its FairfieldCountyJobs.com website.

The businesses are now part of a holding company called HRnucleus.

FairfieldCountyJobs.com will be running two job fairs in September in Norwalk, each featuring up to 20 area employers and agencies with a combined 200 jobs to fill, with the fairs to continue monthly.

July’s job-posting volume was up 2 percent over June, with July typically among the weakest months of the year. What’s more, this past July was the strongest for any Back to class, page 6

enovations to the Stamford Innovation Center are nearing completion, as iCenter officials partnering with the Business Council of Fairfield County work to finalize an agreement with Connecticut Innovations Inc. to sponsor one of two initial hubs for startups.

Separately, The Business Council of Westchester, based in White Plains, announced a partnership Aug. 6 with Boston-based Initiative for a Competitive Inner City to help provide access to capital for small businesses in urban areas.

The Westchester County Association, also in White Plains, began accepting applications to its newly formed business accelerator July 19.

Capital gains, page 6

Déjà vu on Bijou Square

Bridgeport gives Kuchma development a big boost

BY JENNIFER BISSELL

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hil Kuchma’s vision for restoring downtown Bridgeport to its former vibrant self got a boost recently when the City Council approved extending his Bijou Square development onto Golden Hill Street.

The city has agreed to give three properties to Kuchma Corp., which will build a new senior center, two apartment buildings and renovate the Eisenhower Center building to include a fitness center, restaurant and apartments. The cabaret theater will also remain in the building.

“The city of Bridgeport and downtown is starting to attract more and more people who are desiring an urban downtown,” said Kuchma, company president. “We need to continue to deliver to keep that growth happening.”

Currently the city’s senior center is in the Eisenhower building. But Kuchma said he thought it would be more efficient to use the space as a fitness center and move the senior center down the block. A YWCA originally occupied the Eisenhower building when it was built in 1941. It remained there until the 1970s when the YWCA merged with the YMCA.

Properties already developed in Bijou Square.

“That’s at the top of the vast majority of tenants’ desires, when they ask about living or working downtown: ‘Where is a fitness center?’” Kuchma said. “So we want to provide that.”

The Eisenhower building is in the historic center of the city, near city hall, the courthouse and church.

Being an old building on a slope, it requires a lot of maintenance, making the exchange beneficial for the city, said

David Kooris, director of the city’s Office of Planning and Economic Development.

“We get a brand new senior center, more residents, a great new destination restaurant, keep our cabaret and get, obviously, all the tax revenue for those new projects,” Kooris said. “But we also don’t have the burden of maintaining the building the senior center is currently in.”

A pool is on the first floor of the building and will be preserved for the new fitness

center. Seniors will still have the same access to it under the new ownership.

Kuchma will begin environmental cleanup on the new senior center site in two weeks and construction upon permit approval.

The construction is scheduled to finish in March 2013. Afterward, construction on the Eisenhower building and other projects will begin.

With the property exchange, there will be adjustments to property lines, improved utilities and better access to the buildings for loading zones and trash containment.

On the Eisenhower building’s top floor, Kuchma will build four one-bedroom apartments. At 285 Golden Hill St., the company will build 50 one-bedroom and studio apartments. And at 1208 Broad St., it will build 12 studios.

The apartments will be rented at market rate, similar to the company’s other 84 apartment units in Bijou Square. In the last six months they’ve had a 100 percent occupancy rate and a long waiting list, Kuchma said.

“We’ve demonstrated to other property owners and investors in downtown Bridgeport that there’s a very strong demand to be filled. In the next two to three years, I’m hoping the number of apartments will increase 600 to 800 units.”

Gold coastal property Three move to 1 Atlantic St.

Three new tenants will be moving into 1 Atlantic St. in downtown Stamford.

The property is a vintage 1929 city landmark at Atlantic and Broad streets.

The tenants are: Stride Capital Group L.P., a seed investor, which relocated from New York City; Hong-Kong based Pacific Basin Shipping Ltd., a dry bulk ship owner and operator, which opened a permanent office out of its short-term lease; and Lumesis Inc., a software-as-a-service financial technology company, which moved from Stamford’s South End. Seaboard Properties Inc. owns and manages the property. Cushman & Wakefield and CBRE Group Inc. represented the companies.

Office vacancies to rise, study finds

Commercial real estate brokers expect an increase in office vacancy rates in southwest New England in the coming months, but with little impact on lease rates.

The Connecticut/Western Massachusetts chapter of the Society of

Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) polls its membership on a semiannual basis.

Sixty percent of SIOR members expect no change in overall commercial real estate market conditions for the remainder of this year, with 36 percent expecting an improvement and just 4 percent a decline.

Despite more than four in 10 surveyed expecting an increase in office vacancy rates, lease rates will remain unchanged according to 70 percent of members, though fully a quarter of those surveyed expect a decline in rates.

Industrial lease rates will remain unchanged according to 80 percent of members, with a slim 15 percent expecting lower rents in the near future.

Q2 home sales up

In the second quarter, single-family home sales in Connecticut rose 11 percent from the same period in 2011, according to The Warren Group, though June sales were up just 0.4 percent from a year earlier.

In all, more than 6,700 homes were sold in the second quarter. In the first half, Connecticut sales were up 9 percent from a

year earlier to nearly 10,900 houses.

“It looks like the market lost some momentum in June,” Warren Group CEO Timothy Warren Jr., said in a statement.

“Connecticut home sales are not as strong as in other parts of New England. Hopefully the local consumer confidence combined with low mortgage rates will help the market a great deal.”

In the first half, the median home sale price was $233,000, down 5.5 percent from the same period in 2011.

Connecticut condominium sales dropped 6 percent in June, but sales were up 4 percent in the second quarter and 3 percent in the first half. The year-to-date median price of condos in Connecticut is $160,000, down 8.5 percent from a year ago.

State’s foreclosure rise leads the nation

In July, new foreclosure actions in Connecticut tripled from a year earlier, according to a new study, the biggest increase in the nation.

New Jersey had the second biggest spike in foreclosures at more than 160 percent

from July 2011, RealtyTrac found, with the Irvine, Calif.-based company tracking default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions. Nationally, foreclosure filings dropped 6 percent from June, but were still up by 6 percent from July 2011.

In Fairfield County, RealtyTrac lists some 450 homes undergoing pre-foreclosure proceedings, about 80 at auction and more than 850 in the hands of banks as a result of foreclosure. In the past three months, 1,200 foreclosed homes in Fairfield County have been bought, RealtyTrac figures show.

“Recent foreclosure activity patterns vary significantly from state to state, often hinging on the level of dysfunction that exists in each state’s foreclosure process,” Daren Blomquist, vice president of RealtyTrac, said in a statement. “In states like Florida, Illinois and New Jersey, where processing and procedural issues slowed foreclosure activity to a crawl last year, foreclosure numbers continue to rebound off those artificially low levels.”

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Small business loans decline, FDIC finds

BY ALEXANDER SOULE

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n the aggregate, Fairfield County’s community banks had 180 fewer small business loans outstanding as of the second quarter, according to new Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data.

As tracked by dollars, overall lending was down by a negligible $6 million, or 0.6 percent of a small business lending market approaching $1 billion among community banks.

The new FDIC data arrived even as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a new survey suggesting banks throughout the region are turning down loan applications from sizable percentages of small business owners, or otherwise discouraging them. Banks have maintained lower lending totals are more a function of decreased demand in a down economy. In a National Federation of Independent Business index published last week, confidence dropped a third straight month on small business expectations of lower sales and earnings.

Ridgefield-based Fairfield County Bank reported pumping an additional $30 million into the small business market over the course of the quarter, maintaining its status as the largest small business lender among local community banks.

After leading Fairfield County lenders for increased small business lending for the past few years, Bank of New Canaan had less money on the street in the second quarter, though its sister Bank of Fairfield maintained small business lending levels. Both banks are subsidiaries of BNC Financial Group Inc., which rolls results from its newest subsidiary Stamford First Bank into those of Bank of New Canaan.

Stamford-based Patriot National Bank continues slashing its loan portfolio, reporting $45 million in small business loans (including those generated at a few branches in New York) to FDIC, versus $61 million in the first quarter of 2012.

People’s United Financial Inc., the dominant local bank holding 18 percent of all Fairfield County deposits, saw small business loans drop $75 million in the second quarter to below $1.9 billion across its Northeast territories, a 4 percent decline from the first quarter. Banks do not break out small business lending by state or county to the FDIC. In a separate Federal Reserve Bank of New York report, more than half of small businesses surveyed said cutting costs remains their most important strategic consideration, slightly ahead of attentiveness to clients.

Products and services were a distant third, with 37 percent of businesses citing that as their most critical area of focus, followed by productivity at 28 percent and reducing debt at 24 percent.

Access to capital was the biggest barrier to growth for 36 percent of small businesses surveyed by the Fed, followed by talent at 17 percent and governmental regulations at 14 percent.

More than 40 percent of business owners said banks are “not lending to their type of business,” in the words of the Fed survey, with 28 percent blaming troubles securing credit to insufficient collateral, 25 percent to a low credit score and 23 percent to weak sales during the past few years.

For those discouraged from seeking loans, most were making ends meet either through earnings or by tapping their personal assets.

The poll reflects responses in April and May from nearly 550 small businesses, half of them in New York City, but also including about 15 in Fairfield County, which is the lone New England territory not under the jurisdiction of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Businesses most typically have 10 or fewer employees and nearly half had revenue under $250,000 last year.

– Staff writer Patrick Gallagher contributed to this report.

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PERSPECTIVES

‘Trickle-down, tax-cut fairy dust’ Excerpts from remarks by President Barack Obama at an Aug. 6 campaign fundraiser in Stamford.

and been able to provide millions of more young people access to higher education. We made sure that in a country as remarkable as ours that nobody is going to go bankrupt

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ore than any election in recent memory, it is a choice about two fundamentally different paths for our country. …Four years ago, we came together – and it wasn’t just Democrats, we had independents and Republicans coming together to restore that basic bargain that made America an economic superpower, made us the most prosperous economy in the world. And it’s a bargain that says if you work hard in this country, then your work should be rewarded. It’s an idea that says if you put in enough effort, if you act responsibly, then you can find a job that pays the bills, and you can afford a home that you can call our own, and you can count on health care if you get sick, and put away a little bit for retirement and most importantly, give your kids the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger and do even better than you did.

That’s at the core of what America is about. That’s the American promise. And we understood that restoring it wouldn’t be easy. We had gone through a decade in which jobs were being shipped overseas and job growth was sluggish and incomes were falling even as the costs of health care and college and gas and groceries were going up.

So we understood that it was going to take more than one year, or one term, or even one president to meet these challenges.

And that was before the middle class was hammered by the worst economic crisis in most of our lifetimes – a crisis that robbed many of our friends and neighbors of the security of a job or their homes or their savings. That crisis pushed the American dream even further out of reach for too many working people.

But one of the great privileges of being president is you get to see Americans from every walk of life; and one consistent theme is we don’t buckle, we don’t break, we’re tougher than tough times. And so over the last three and a half years we have devoted ourselves to bringing this country back to where it needs to be.

And we’re not there yet, but we created 4.5 million new jobs and 500,000 in manufacturing. An auto industry that was on its knees has come roaring back. We’ve said that we’ve got to make college more accessible

when they get sick.

And through all these battles, through all these struggles, understanding that we’re not where we need to be, what we’ve constantly been able to affirm is that this economic crisis didn’t change our character. It didn’t change who we are. It didn’t change what made us great. It didn’t change our determination and our resilience.

And what also hasn’t changed is what we came together for in 2008. It’s just made our mission that much more urgent. We are here to build an economy where work pays off so that no matter what you look like or where you come from, you can make it here if you try. That’s what this campaign is about. That’s what this campaign is about, Connecticut, and that’s why I’m running for a second term as president of the United States.

And we understand there are no quick fixes or easy solutions to these challenges, but we know that we have the capacity to meet them. We’ve got the best workers in the world. We’ve got the best entrepreneurs in the world. We have the best scientists and the best researchers in the world. We have the best universities and the best colleges in the world. We are a young nation and we’ve got the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity from every corner of the globe. So, no matter what the naysayers may say, no matter how dark the picture they try to paint, there’s not another country on Earth that wouldn’t gladly trade places with the United States of America.

So what’s standing in our way right now is not the lack of technical solutions to the deficit or to education or to energy. What’s standing in our way is our politics – the uncompromising view that says we should be going back to the old, top-down econom-

ics that got us into this mess in the first place.

And I don’t exaggerate when it comes to how my opponent and his allies in Congress view this economy. They believe – and this is the sum total of their economic package – that if we give more tax breaks to some of the wealthiest Americans, and we get rid of regulations that keep our air clean and our water clean and make sure consumers aren’t getting cheated and make sure insurance companies aren’t taking advantage of you, that somehow prosperity will rain down on everybody. That’s their theory.

That’s the path they’re proposing. That’s where they will take us if (they) win. It is on Mr. Romney’s website. It is in the form of a bill that passed through the House of Representatives by this Republican Congress.

In fact, the entire centerpiece of Mitt Romney’s economic plan is a new $5 trillion tax cut. And we’ve known for a while that a lot of this tax cut would go to the wealthiest 1 percent of all households. But just last week, an independent, nonpartisan organization crunched the numbers. They went through what would it mean to add a $5 trillion tax cut. Just to give you a sense of perspective here – our entire defense budget is about – it’s over $500 billion a year, but it’s less than $600 billion.

So you’re talking about each year, a tax cut that’s equivalent of our defense budget for the next 10 years. And what this policy center did was – it just ran the numbers – if you wanted to actually pay for that, what would that mean. And they determined that Governor Romney’s plan would effectively raise taxes on middle-class families with children by an average of $2,000 – to pay for this tax cut. Not to reduce the deficit. Not to invest in things that grow our economy, like education or roads or basic research. He’d ask the middle class to pay more in taxes so that he could give another $250,000 tax cut to people making more than $3 million a year. It’s like Robin Hood in reverse. It’s Romney Hood.

And if this sounds like an idea that’s difficult to explain or sell to the American people, you’d be right. So there were all kinds of different gymnastics being performed by the Romney campaign last week. They have tried to sell us this trickle-down, tax-cut fairy dust before. And guess what – it does not work. It didn’t work then; it won’t work now.

It’s not a plan to create jobs. It’s not a plan to reduce our deficit. And it is not a plan to move our economy forward.”

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J House Greenwich eyes franchise model

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new contemporary hotel opening in Greenwich could become the basis for an international franchise.

Formally opening in September, The J House Greenwich will include 86 rooms, 3,400 square feet of meeting space, a pool with cabanas, a workout facility, the eleven14 Kitchen and café, and The Chocolate Lab. The hotel and restaurant have had several soft openings, which general manager John Sheedy said have been well received both locally and from out-of-town visitors.

“We’ve been exceeding our expectation,” Sheedy said. “I think we’re in the perfect location. There’s a sophisticated customer base here and they don’t have another project like this in the area.”

Originally from Ireland, Sheedy started his 30-year career in hospitality blending his Irish hospitality studies with the efficiencies of his German work experiences. In New York City, he has worked at St. Regis Hotels, the Four Seasons and W Hotels. Before coming to Greenwich to head The J House project, he worked at Westchester’s Hilton Hotel and developed additional Hilton properties in Boston and New Jersey.

“This is just an extremely exciting proj-

ect,” Sheedy said. “When you dream of having and running a hotel, this has been my dream. It was very easy for me to come here.”

Brenwood Hospitality Group, which owns the hotel, plans to possibly franchise the brand both nationally and globally once it has finished and established its Greenwich location.

Sheedy said the hotel differs from others in that it will not be as corporate-minded. If a change needs to be made in a customer’s favor, employees won’t have to climb any ladders to get approval.

“If it favors customers, we can make the decision here and now and not wait for corporate feedback,” he said.

Each hotel room will be equipped with

iPad controls, 52-inch TVs that double as mirrors and “the super bowl” of heated toilets, Sheedy said. The rooms will cost between $200 and $300 a night, and offer “all the comforts of home.” The rooms and lounge furniture were designed by Martin Albert Interiors and Lee Industries in New York City.

Outside, the poolside cabanas, for a “resort-style oasis,” will be available for $200 to $1,500 with food and bottle service. The open-air dining areas will be used for the majority of the year, using a system of heating units and trellises for protection.

Chef Francois Kwaku-Dongo of Cote d’Ivoire will lead the hotel’s restaurant, eleven14 Kitchen. Previously he worked at

Wolfgang Puck’s Spago in West Hollywood and Chicago.

Incorporating his global background, Kwaku-Dongo says he’ll be using locally sourced ingredients whenever possible. The menu will include salads, pastas and artisan foods. Guest will also be able to watch the cooking process with an open fire in full view as well, watching the chefs roast seasonal flatbreads, fish and free-range meat products.

At The Chocolate Lab, Kwaku-Dongo will be importing cocoa and coffee from a fair trade importer and chocolate manufacturer from Cote d’Ivoire, to make filled chocolates, truffles pastries, gelato and coffee drinks.

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MAJOR DATA CENTER — From page 1

“It enables companies to continue as if nothing happened under a dire circumstance,” said Zack Margolis, vice president of Cervalis.

Construction is set to begin shortly on the site at 10 Norden Place. Servers will be up and ready to use by approximately the third quarter of 2013.

The Shelton-based company has raised $75 million in funding for the new data center and to refinance its existing debt. The lease is the largest build-to-suit agreement in Fairfield County in more than 10 years and the largest transaction this year.

In a down real estate market, the project is big news, said Howard Greenberg, president of Howard Properties Ltd. of White Plains, N.Y. Greenberg has represented Cervalis in each of its leases. In this lease, Greenberg partnered with John Stoddard, vice president of Jones Lang LaSalle of Stamford.

Jodie Dostal, senior director of Cushman & Wakefield of CT Inc., represented the landlord FPG Norden DC. The last build-to-suit project in Fairfield

BACK TO CLASS — From page 1

July since 2008, up 26 percent over the same period last year.

Still etched in the memory of OperationsInc CEO David Lewis is the period encompassing the autumn of 2008 into the first half of 2009.

“From the OperationsInc perspective, we went from the company that had 20 to 25 percent of our business in the area of helping our clients hire people; to 20 to 25 percent of our business (in) how to fire people and help train them to find new jobs,” Lewis said. “To have to send these people into a market that was in a complete freefall … There are people that we know that are still looking.”

That topic was the subject of a “60 Minutes” episode from April that was rerun in August, chronicling the efforts of the Bridgeport-based WorkPlace Inc. and its CEO Joe Carbone to land jobs for those who have exhausted their two years of federal unemployment benefits.

The program sparked renewed attention on the issue of tacit job discrimination against older workers or those that have been without work for extended periods. CBS is promising a follow-up on The WorkPlace’s Platform 2 Employment program in September.

Through five cohorts that took on 100 people, as of July the WorkPlace had helped 69 of them secure jobs through Platform 2 Employment, with a small

County of this size was in 2001 for the global management consultant firm Hewitt Associates in Norwalk. The building at 45 Glover Ave. measures 250,000 square feet and cost roughly $24 million, according to Emporis building information. Xerox Corp. made the building its current headquarters in 2007.

For Norwalk, the new building will bring construction jobs, a new business and additional tax revenue. And for businesses, it will bring a state-of-the-art facility into the neighborhood that they can actually use, Greenberg said.

With businesses dependent on technology for everything they do, Cervalis is one of the fastest growing companies in Connecticut. It provides infrastructure for rapid recovery, hosting, cloud computing, security measures, storage and telecommunications. Its clients range from small emerging companies to large Fortune 500 corporations from retail and insurance to education.

“This saves businesses the need to spend their own money buying this type of infrastructure,” Margolis said. “They can use that money to grow their business and our serv-

number dropping out of the program or otherwise turning down interviews or job offers. AARP took note of the program, awarding a sizable grant to further the cause for helping older people find new jobs.

“Turnover is at an all-time low in companies.You’ve got to find some grease to inject into this job market.”

­— David Lewis

The central premise of Platform 2 Employment remains its feature of corporate donations to support paid “internships” lasting a few months – and the assumption that employers will like what they see enough to offer participants a full-time job.

Over in Norwalk, Lewis is now helping those with little more than internships on their resume – and who have yet to experience the hard knocks that will inevitably unfold as their careers and lives progress.

Of course, nothing curbs boundless enthusiasm quite like checking the email inbox in vain for a response to a cover letter and resume.

“Turnover is at an all-time low in companies,” Lewis said. “You’ve got to find some grease to inject into this job market.”

ers to run their IT.” The new center will have back-up power generators, redundant wiring, 50,000 square feet of raised floors, 16 megawatts of utility power and 3,500 tons of cooling capacity.

The building will be staffed by an additional 25 employees for the company, allowing technicians and engineers to be available for

CAPITAL GAINS — From page 1

Business advocates and investors say there is a renewed interest across the greater New York region in funding startups that, by and large, struggled to generate interest and secure capital in the wake of the recession.

Christopher Bruhl, president and CEO of the Business Council of Fairfield County, said the movement comes in response to a “realization that this was an area of the economy that we have to do a lot more about.”

“There’s been a growing awareness that you need to have strategies around encouraging the conversion of an idea into a venture, a venture into a business (and) a business into a growing enterprise that employs capital and people and that produces products, services and wealth,” Bruhl said.

Connecticut Innovations, a state-backed vehicle designed to promote entrepreneurship, launched its Innovation Ecosystem initiative with hopes of creating a statewide network of business accelerators.

On June 25, the organization’s board of directors unanimously voted to approve two allocations of up to $1.12 million each for the development of a Stamford hub by the Stamford iCenter and the Business Council, and the development of a New Haven hub by the Economic Development Corp. of New Haven.

The board noted at its July meeting that Connecticut Innovations approved $26.6 million of investments during its 2012 fiscal year, which concluded June 30, more than doubling the $13.1 million Connecticut Innovations invested in new and existing companies in its 2011 fiscal year.

As of the board’s July 23 meeting, contracts had not yet been finalized for the two hubs.

Bruhl said the agreements could be finalized as soon as next month.

As partners, the Stamford iCenter will lease office space to startups, providing them with access to mentoring and educational opportunities and to service providers, while the Business Council will focus primarily on matching established companies with potential investors.

Since its launch in February, the Stamford iCenter has been actively working to generate awareness through a series

customer support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

This is the 12-year-old company’s fourth expansion and the new building will bring its total real estate footprint up to 470,000 square feet. Outside of Norwalk, it has leased space in Stamford, Shelton, Dutchess County, N.Y., and Totowa, N.J.

of events and partnerships with the likes of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and Pitney Bowes Inc., as renovations progress at its 16,000-square-foot facility in downtown Stamford.

Peter Propp, vice president of marketing for the iCenter, said renovations are expected to be completed by September, at which point the iCenter will ramp up efforts to recruit startups.

Barry Schwimmer, a co-founder and managing partner of the iCenter, said the organization is not seeking “to reinvent the wheel.”

“We have all the assets here, all the components here for a dynamic startup and entrepreneurial environment,” Schwimmer said. “What we really see ourselves as is a catalyst, a provider of services. We really believe that once we establish this, by establishing a nexus around entrepreneurial development ... we’re going to breed some really fantastic businesses here.”

Both the Business Council and the iCenter expect to contribute capital of their own to the Stamford hub, in addition to seeking to identify other sources of private capital.

Bruhl and Schwimmer said their respective organizations’ plans would move forward regardless of funding from Connecticut Innovations; however, Bruhl said state backing has been “essential” to boosting interest and funding for startups.

“While things would have happened, can you accelerate the positive parts of cycles, can you mitigate the negative parts of cycles? I think that’s what’s happening with the public sector’s engagement here,” Bruhl said. “It’s an effort to accelerate something into a pace that will bring more growth, more jobs now rather than it gradually growing over time.”

Pitney Bowes Inc. will host a discussion Aug. 22 at the Stamford Innovation Center for startups and other interested businesses on how they can leverage its technology in digital and physical customer communications management to create new products or add value to existing products.

The event is free, with dinner provided by Pitney Bowes. Those looking to attend are asked to register in advance at stamfordicenter.com.

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Rye and Rye Brook in Westchester. A Westport outlet would likely be on Post Road and on Elm Street in New Canaan.

In Westchester, the restaurants will probably be in shopping centers, Blob said. In Rye and Rye Brook, he said “he has seen nothing I’d jump at yet.”

Fransmart is Freshii’s franchise development partner. It has launched franchise programs for Five Guys Burgers and Fries and zpizza.

“Fast casual sales will continue to outpace the restaurant industry, primarily full-service dining,” Blob said.

“Additionally, there (is) a lack of healthy eating options in Westchester and Fairfield counties, I just haven’t seen a lot of them.”

He said Freshii will serve what he called “superfoods,” such as kale- and quinoabased salads. The menu includes not only salads, but burritos, wraps, rice bowls, yogurts and soups in a “build your own” setting. Freshii refers to the atmosphere in its restaurants as “fast, fun, hip and environmentally sustainable.”

Freshii will be opening more outlets in other countries as well – four in Canada and five in Sweden. It already has stores in the United Arab Emirates, Canada and Austria.

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reshii, a fast casual health food restaurant headquartered in Chicago, will open five outlets in Westchester and Fairfield counties, the first one by the end of the year, likely in Greenwich.

The restaurant, which started in Toronto and now has 50 locations in four countries, has signed a deal with EJB Ventures, owned by Jonathan Blob, a former hedge fund portfolio manager who specialized in restaurant investments.

“During my 10 years in the financial industry I met with the management teams and analyzed the vast majority of publicly traded restaurant companies as well as several private concepts,” he said. “It gave me great insight into how the leading management teams run their businesses and interact with their consumers.”

Cushman & Wakefield is evaluating sites for the restaurants. Blob said the first will probably be on Greenwich Avenue, with The Westchester mall in White Plains a possible second location because the food court there is being redone, he said.

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Sky’s the limit after that, the Sikorsky Innovations head suggested.

In a stealth operation worthy of its newest secret helicopters, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. swooped in to embed a high-tech incubator at the new Stamford Innovation Center, with the Stamford iCenter itself launching with a half-dozen startups in house, while hosting a Stamford Startup Weekend March 30 and April 1.

At the same time, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy confirmed he met in late

January with IBM Corp. managers, without specifying the purpose of that meeting to include whether any deal is in the works to get the Armonk, N.Y.-based company to expand in Connecticut.

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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.

The region that includes Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties ranked among the lowest of the state’s metropolitan areas in the proportion of jobs recovered since the recession.

After losing 28,800 jobs between July 2008 and December 2009, the lower Hudson

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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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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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In the field Bessemer to open office

Bessemer Trust Co. N.A. plans to establish a limited branch in Greenwich, its first in Connecticut.

The company plans to take space at 600 Steamboat Road, the first lease deal revealed for the former RBS Greenwich Capital headquarters building since undergoing an extensive overhaul in the past year.

Bessemer Trust is based in New York City and oversees more than $65 billion in assets.

Harman lands GM

Harman International Industries Inc. signed its first-ever contract with General Motors Corp., valued at $900 million, with the Stamford-based company providing infotainment systems for GM vehicles.

Harman added nearly 1,300 employees in the past year, including some 900 in North America.

In its fiscal fourth quarter ending June 30, Harman earned $49 million with sales up 6 percent from a year ago to $1.1 billion.

For the 2012 fiscal year, Harman had a $330 million profit on sales of $4.4 billion.

In August, Harman announced the acquisition of Interchain Solution, a Bangalore, India company that develops telematics, fleet management, Android based in-vehicle infotainment and location-based solutions.

Sikorsky gets Milestone order

In a major boost for Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.’s commercial sales division, Milestone Aviation Group Ltd. ordered 19 big helicopters in a contract reportedly worth as much as $682 million.

For the past several years, Sikorsky has been dependent on U.S. military and foreign government sales. The Stratford-based manufacturer is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. in Hartford.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Dublin, Ireland-based Milestone plans to lease the Sikorsky S-92 helicopters now on order to energy companies shuttling workers and equipment to offshore oil rigs operating in the Gulf of Mexico and other waters.

Marcum Tech names Top 40

A dozen Fairfield County companies were named to the 2012 Marcum Tech Top 40 list of the fastest-growth technology companies across six sectors, with the list produced by the Connecticut Technology Council and Marcum L.L.P. CTC and Marcum will host the winning companies Sept. 27 at a Wallingford reception.

Fairfield County winners include: FuelCell Energy Inc. of Danbury for green technology; Cervalis L.L.C. of Shelton, Datto

Inc. of Norwalk and PCNet Inc. of Trumbull for information technology services; HealthPlanOne L.L.C. of Shelton, M2 Media Group of Stamford, and Priceline.com and WebMediaBrands Inc., both of Norwalk, for Internet and new media; and Adeptra Inc. of Norwalk, FitLinxx Inc. of Shelton, PASSUR Aerospace Inc. of Stamford and Triple Point Technology of Westport for software.

Hartford County led with 13 winners, with New Haven County landing 10 companies on the list.

Firm raises new equity

Norwalk-based etouches raised $2.5 million in new equity and could raise an additional $5.3 million.

The company produces software used to manage events, online registration, ongoing communication and post-event evaluation.

In May, etouches unveiled a new software module dubbed eSelect, designed to automate the laborious collection and selection processes associated with events such as calls for papers, contests and award nominations.

The company’s directors include managers from Connecticut Innovations, Cava Capital in Wilton and Xerox Corp.

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By that I mean their marketing is about simply adding more business when it should be about adding more profitable business.

An effective marketing program needs to be a carefully calculated effort that assesses whether prospective customers and product and service offerings will indeed produce maximum profits – not just revenue.

For example, a landscaping company client of ours offers a variety of services. They didn’t have an accurate measurement of the relative profitability of their various services and they marketed them indiscriminately.

We worked with them to determine the profit in each of their services and then developed a program to market most profitable ones to both new and existing customers. As a result, this company’s bottom line is up 941 percent year over year.

Evaluating targets While looking for new marketing opportunities, you need to assess each as an investment. Determine what your net profit will be after subtracting your cost to provide the product or service.

More desirable customers will purchase sizable volume with enough frequency to provide a steady income stream over time rather than serve as just a one-time or infrequent purchase event. If possible, they should be prospects for cross selling other products and services to generate additional revenue.

Be wary of becoming too dependent

on a few large customers. They can use this knowledge as leverage to lowball you. Or, if they decide to pull the plug, it could be financially devastating.

Another key factor to consider in developing your marketing strategy is how much you’ll charge. It’s a tricky balance: Setting your price low certainly may help attract customers, but it can also bankrupt you.

In addition, think about what kind of payment terms you’re prepared to offer.

Sitting on large accounts receivable can strain your cash flow. Establishing a timely payment schedule with customers is, therefore, critical to sustaining your operations.

If you must make a major cash outlay for setting up a new client, such as for new equipment, consider arranging with the customer for the initial pricing to include a surcharge for a specified period of time and whether a contract deposit is appropriate.

Getting the word out Once you’ve identified a target customer, you can begin marketing in earnest. In addition to the traditional marketing methods – advertising, direct mail, publicity – there is a relatively new twist on one of the most effective ones, word of mouth, using the incredible reach of the Internet.

You’ve probably heard plenty about blogs – the now-common, simple, regularly updated, diary-like websites. A blog offers you a means to “advertise” a product or service while also getting feedback from customers. For instance, Dell used a blog to successfully address customer concerns about faulty laptop computer batteries.

Marketing can be risky business. A misguided campaign can waste time and money – and worse. But the cost of doing nothing these days may be even greater.

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FAIR ARGUMENT “Over the course of the next three months, the other side is going to spend more money than we have ever seen on ads that basically say the same thing you’ve been hearing for months. They know their economics theory won’t sell, so their ads are going to say the same thing over and over again, which is ‘The economy is not where it needs to be’ and ‘It’s Obama’s fault.’ I mean, there will be variations on the theme, but … that’s basically their message.”

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Fairfield business takes aim at China’s invisible killer

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hina’s air pollution has been named the deadliest in the world. The landscape is filled with fossil fuelburning factories. And with a growing population, the demand for more cars and more electricity is burgeoning.

To combat air pollution in China, AtmosAir Solutions has licensed its technology to a Chinese manufacturer to purify the air in Shanghai buses, subways, trains and eventually cars.

Diseases triggered by indoor and outdoor air pollution kills 656,000 Chinese citizens every year, according to a report by the World Health Organization. Roughly 2 million people die prematurely worldwide from air pollution annually.

“When I landed I was shocked to see the city hung in the fog, like here in the morning, but it’s a fog that never lifts,” said Anthony Abate, AtmosAir vice president.

“You can see the soot on the cars.”

Based in Fairfield, AtmosAir’s purification process works by forming bipolar – positive and negative – air ions that seek out and break down air contaminants naturally. The process can eliminate mold, control bacteria and the spread of viruses,

Diseases triggered by indoor and outdoor air pollution kills 656,000 Chinese citizens every year, according to a report by the World Health Organization.

Roughly 2 million people die prematurely worldwide from air pollution annually.

and reduce airborne particles and germs.

When commuting, there are many contaminants in the air. There are car emissions, dust from brakes, gases from chemicals used to make cars and gases from humans that make the air stale like ammonia, Abate said.

The company’s technology has worked to remove mysterious odors in Carnegie Hall in New York City and help save energy at Staples Center in Los Angeles. There are

AtmosAir Vice President Anthony Abate

many other air purifiers, but Abate said others often don’t filter any or all gases in the air.

The technology of bipolar ionization goes back to Albert Einstein when he came up with the air purifier with a partner in Switzerland. Europe has used the technology for many years and in 2004, AtmosAir bought the technology, brought it to the United States and patented a more productive redesign. AtmosAir is also work-

ing with The Boeing Co. to develop air purifiers on commercial airplanes and its processors will be used on the new fleet of Norwegian Cruise Line ships in 2013.

Individuals have different sensitivities to air containments, but often they can cause allergic reactions or irritation, causing people to develop a dry throat, cough or itchy, red eyes. In other extreme situations a person may become hypoallergenic from continued exposure to air pollution or develop respiratory and cardiovascular damage.

With air quality becoming a growing concern in China, Abate said he was glad the company could break into the Chinese market, where there are a lot of opportunities to expand in a vigorous economy.

This is the company’s first deal in China and with a ground transportation company. Shanghai Hang Sheng Industry Co. Ltd., which bought the license, is a leading automotive electronics company and its products comprise 30 percent of the domestic auto electronics market. Hang Sheng will be making its own air purifier using AtmosAir processes, but Abate said they plan to help design the purifier to ensure it’s working as effectively as possible.

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Name Address A+ Perfect Computers L.L.C. 2465 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield 06825 Advanced Computer Technologies Inc. 108 Main St., Norwalk 06851 Advanced Data Solutions 2490 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield 06825 The Allen Group Inc. 50 Washington St., Fifth floor, Norwalk 06854 AMSYS Inc. 900 Ethan Allen Highway, Ridgefield 06877 Anchor Solutions 1 Stamford Landing, 62 Southfield Ave., Stamford 06902 Ash Creek Enterprises Inc. 1110 Broadbridge Ave., Stratford 06615 Beyond IT Support 64 Wall St., Suite 301, Norwalk 06850 Business Technology L.L.C. 2000 Post Road, Suite 304, Fairfield 06824 Carlstone Consulting 31 Jennie Lane, Westport 06880 CMIT Solutions Central Fairfield County CMIT Solutions Danbury 06811 CMIT Solutions Stamford 06905 The Computer Company Inc. 15 Commerce Drive, Cromwell 06416 Computer Programming & Systems Inc. 45 Church St., Suite 201, Stamford 06906 Computer Resolutions Inc. 4 Research Drive, Second floor, Shelton 06484 Computer Systems Support & Design L.L.C. 172 Georgetown Road, Weston 06883 Computer Troubleshooters of Norwalk 4 Douglas Drive, Norwalk 06850 Computer Works 483C Monroe Turnpike St., Monroe 06468 Creative Computer Solutions of Connecticut L.L.C. 85 Padanaram Road, Danbury 06811 Crestview IT Solutions 4 Daniels Farm Road, Suite 322, Trumbull 06611 Dave's Computer Corner L.L.C. 335 Post Road West, Westport 06880 Denna Computer Services 774 Federal Road, Brookfield 06804 Diversified Network Systems L.L.C. 57 North St., Suite 321, Danbury 06810 Easyway Systems L.L.C. 125 Field Point Road, Greenwich 06830 Everything IT L.L.C. 304 Main St., Suite 350, Norwalk 06851 Fast-teks of CT 29 Possum Lane, Norwalk 06854 Flagship Networks Inc. 80 Ferry Blvd., Suite 220, Stratford 06615 Glenville Technologies 47 Glenville St., Greenwich 06831 Go2Nerds 1335 Brooklawn Ave., Fairfield 06825

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Name Address Hi-Link Technology Group 76 Progress Drive, Stamford 06902 Impact Business Technology 10 Turnberry Lane, Sandy Hook 06482 Info Plexus Inc. 4 Main St., New Milford 06776 JD Technology Group L.L.C. 46 Saint Charles Ave., Stamford 06907 Lentner Technology Integrators 239 Westport Road, Suite 88, Wilton 06897 LG Software Consulting L.L.C. 58 Chalk Hill Road, Monroe 06468 Monroe Business Associates L.L.C. 35 Corporate Drive, Suite 1035, Trumbull 06611 Netology L.L.C. 1200 Summer St., Suite 301, Stamford 06905 Network Nerds L.L.C. 21 Hamilton Drive, Suite 1, Danbury 06811 The Network Support Company 7 Kenosia Ave., Danbury 06810 Network Synergy Corp.

126 Monroe Turnpike, Trumbull 06611 The New England Computer Group Inc. 47 Miry Brook Road, Danbury 06810 Number Crunchers Unlimited 27 Marigold Lane, Trumbull 06611 Nutmeg Resources Ltd. 16 Nutmeg Lane, Wilton 06897 Outsourced Internet Solutions 523 E. Putnam Ave., Greenwich 06830 PC Specialists 150 Main St., Monroe 06468 PCLinkZ.com 236 Cedar Lane, New Canaan 06840 Pragmatix Inc. 1266 E. Main St., Suite 700R, Stamford 06902 Pylon Technology 333 Ludlow St., Stamford 06902 RHFtech 50 September Lane, Weston 06883 SL Powers 16 River St., Norwalk 06850 SoftLink Resources 7365 Main St., Stratford 06615 Southridge Technology Group L.L.C. 90 Grove St., Ridgefield 06877 Transcend Business Solutions L.L.C. 30 Grassy Plain St., Unit 5A, Bethel 06801 Ultra Golden Software 35 Narrows Rocks Road, Westport 06880 Venture Technologies P.O. Box 103, Mohegan Lake, NY 10547 Virtua Inc. 73 Highland Road, Stamford 06902 Virtual Density L.L.C. 52 Federal Road, Suite 2G, Danbury 06810 Webs for Good L.L.C. 199 Elm St., New Canaan 06840 Workstation and Server Support Team L.L.C. 123 North St., Stamford 06901

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SPECIAL REPORT Accounting

From the garage to the cloud

Most companies lack a formal disaster recovery plan for data

BY ALEXANDER SOULE

casoule@westfairinc.com

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n Aug. 20 one year ago, the National Hurricane Center assigned the name Irene to the storm that would barrel up the Eastern Seaboard before making landfall eight days later as one of the most destructive in Connecticut history.

If the events precipitated many businesses to give more consideration to cloud computing platforms as a way to access key applications and data from location and device, some businesses remain leery after a major storm in Washington, D.C., knocked out power to some cloud computing services, including one run by Amazon whose customers include Instagram, Netflix and Pinterest.

In a July newsletter, BlumShapiro partner James Clarkson Jr. stated that although cloud computing can offer small businesses significant cost savings, businesses must query cloud computing providers on several fronts, to include security as data travels on the Internet to storage computers, how it is encrypted and backed on those machines, and who has access to the data.

“Although you should address these security issues with the cloud provider before you entrust your data to its servers and applications, they shouldn’t be a deal breaker,” Clarkson said. “Cloud computing offers small businesses too many benefits to dismiss out of hand.

After all, you already met many of these security challenges the first time you connected your network to the Internet.”

This summer, Connecticut Innovations Inc. lured a serial entrepreneur back to Wallingford where he made his fortune with a company sold at the height of the telecom boom a decade ago. Jonathan Reeves’ newest company is NextCloud, which in July announced the availability of its NextStore service providing high-speed, cloud backup for small businesses or corporations facing the operational and financial challenges of offsite backup, disaster recovery and business continuity. The company established a new datacenter in Wallingford even as Shelton-based Cervalis L.L.C. registered $75 million in funding for its own data center in Norwalk (see story on pg. 1).

“One of the most fascinating things for us when we interview prospective clients is what they say when the subject of security comes up,” said Chris Tella, executive vice president of IT services company UFlexData of Greenwich. We ask where they store (data tapes) and get, ‘Right there, next to the server’ or, ‘Oh, I bring a copy home every night and keep them safe in my garage.’”

In a survey of some 500 U.S. small businesses published in June, software maker Sage North America said most back up their critical financial data, but the majority perform those backups on site. Atlanta-based Sage added six in 10 of those companies lack a formal emer-

gency or disaster recovery plan.

Answers were split between small businesses that hadn’t had issues in the past that would require one, those that had not thought about it or those that just did not find a disaster plan important.

The survey did not cover cloud computing.

“Backing up on-site may not be sufficient to protect small businesses from natural disasters … or more common crises, such as theft or hardware malfunction,” said Connie Certusi, executive vice president and general manager of Sage Small Business Solutions, in a prepared statement. “Data loss could have a serious impact on operations and crisis recovery. The development of a preparedness plan that includes solutions for protecting

critical information, such us backing up off-site, could be the difference between getting a business on its way to recovery and worrying about its survival.”

Other findings by Sage included: • of those small business owners who back up their financial data, 16 percent are using both on-site and offsite methods to do so; • 48 percent of those who back up their financial data do so daily, and 17 percent do so a few times a week; and • 62 percent of small businesses with a formal emergency or disaster preparedness plan put it in place as a “precautionary measure,” while 24 percent said the nature of their business requires a level of preparedness at all times.

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Accounting

National report strategizes accounting’s future

BY JENNIFER BISSELL

jbissell@westfairinc.com

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embers of the American Accounting Association and the American Institute of CPAs are looking to improve their profession, primarily through educational efforts at the university level.

“The Pathways Commission, Charting a National Strategy for the Next Generation of Accountants,” is a compilation of key recommendations by more than 50 accounting professionals and academics from over two years of discussions.

Released last month and sponsored by the two national accounting groups, the report’s seven recommendations include: • integrating accounting academics, research and practice, similar to the medical profession; • solving the shortage of professors by creating multiple career paths; • rewarding high-quality teaching; • adapting curricula to be flexible to changes in technology and practice; • attracting high-quality students; • creating an entity to track information about the field; and

• creating a process to easily make future changes to education.

Initial implementations will take place over the next three years.

“There needs to be a stronger sense of the profession for everyone involved,” said William Ezzell, a co-commissioner and former Deloitte L.L.P. partner.

Nearly all information about money is

dependent on accounting, which should hold the profession to a high standard of ethics and obligation to the market, Ezzell said. In light of the many recent financial scandals, accountants could benefit from having a stronger connection to the profession that has a set code of ethics and culture.

A key takeaway is that there needs to be a closer link to universities and professionals, Ezzell said. In medical school, students are taught by practicing doctors and medical research actually works with, for example, surgeons to improve technical procedures. In accounting, the real world isn’t necessarily brought into the classroom and research isn’t impacting how companies apply accounting.

“Communities are changing more today than they have ever have before,” Ezzell said. “The education has to move more quickly to meet those challenges.”

Many of the recommendations are directed at education, but companies can also give feedback about whether graduates need better critical thinking or communication skills and assist in forging relationships with universities. One idea the commission suggested was tak-

ing employees out of firms and swapping them with professors. For a semester, the employee could teach and the professor could work in corporate America to strengthen ties, viewpoints and connectivity.

At the University of Connecticut, many of the commission’s recommendations are already followed, said Mohamed Hussein, head of the college’s accounting department.

The department has followed the commission’s work from the start and plans to discuss the report further at its fall advisory council meeting. The council includes employees from public accounting firms and companies that review the school’s curricula.

The school’s introductory accounting course is one of the most popular in the university and has persuaded many students to change their major to accounting.

“I (would) hope accounting education would continue to be adaptive to changes in what society needs from accountants,” Hussein said. “That it provides students with the skills that help them be successful in careers that might span up to five decades.”

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Accounting ledger Accounting firm takes Wilton lease

Dempsey Partners L.L.C. signed a lease for more than 3,000 square feet of space at 372 Danbury Road in Wilton.

Jones Lang LaSalle represented both Dempsey Partners and building owner Luzern Associates L.L.C. Dempsey Partners provides forensic accounting services.

SEC wins appeal in Terex CFO case

A federal appeals court reinstated a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit against the former CFO of Westportbased Terex Corp., overturning a previous decision by a district judge in New Haven.

Legal experts say the ruling could expand the SEC’s ability to pursue cases involving allegations of accounting fraud

against executives who claim they did not play an active role in any deceptive practices.

Joseph Apuzzo faced SEC accusations in 2007 that he aided a pair of sale-leaseback transactions with United Rentals Inc., allowing the Greenwich-based company to improperly inflate profits in 2000 and 2001. URI uses Terex construction vehicles and equipment in its fleet.

“To satisfy the ‘substantial assistance’

component of aiding and abetting, the SEC must show that the defendant in some sort associated himself with the venture, that he participated in it as in something that he wished to bring about, and that he sought by his action to make it succeed,” the appeals court wrote in its decision.

“Applying that test, we hold that the complaint plausibly alleged that Apuzzo aided and abetted the primary violation.”

– Alexander Soule

Ex-CEO pleads guilty

Readying to defend himself against insider trading charges at trial in New Jersey, the former CEO of Home Diagnostics Corp. reportedly cut a plea deal and pleaded guilty.

George Holley, a 72-year-old resident of Norwalk, had also been charged with obstructing justice. Holley, who had been free on $3 million bail since February 2011, faces sentencing in December.

Holley admitted to disclosing material information to five people regarding Nipro Corp.’s acquisition of the diabetes management company Home Diagnostics Inc., which he founded and led, with the company based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. After the $215 million Nipro deal was announced, Home Diagnostics shares spiked nearly 90 percent, with individuals reaping $290,000 in gains.

Lots of advisors suit up, show up and keep up.

But how many know when to speak up?

State pension down

The $24 billion Connecticut Retirement Plans & Trust Funds had a negative 0.9 percent return for the 2012 fiscal year ending in June, with its $2.2 billion emerging markets fund suffering a 14.2 percent decline.

The state pension is overseen by Treasurer Denise Nappier and Lee Ann Palladino, chief investment officer.

The Connecticut pension is finalizing a $100 million commitment to Cornerstone Patriot Fund L.P., a real estate investment fund, and $25 million to a vehicle managed by Hartford-based Smith Whiley & Co. Both it and Cornerstone are based in Hartford.

Insurance firms head to state ‘colleges’

Following enactment of a new law, Connecticut has set up supervisory “colleges” with several insurance giants, allowing the state to assess the financial risks posed by their international operations.

The Insurance Department has since convened supervisory colleges for Aetna Inc., The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Travelers Cos. Inc., Cigna Corp., and UnitedHealth Group.

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Crystal Theatre celebrates 25 years In September 1987, Mike Mocciae from the Norwalk Recreation and Parks Department approached the singing Kemeny Sisters (Cheryl and Alex) about starting a children’s theater program. Twenty-five years later, Crystal Theatre Inc. is Fairfield County’s foremost musical theater program with its own theater, rehearsal studios, office and workshop spaces at the former Ben Franklin School on Bayview Avenue in South Norwalk.

As part of its anniversary season, Crystal Theatre will present special performances of “Whistleville,” set in 1907 South Norwalk, during two weekends in November.

Since its founding, Crystal Theatre has trained 23,000 students ages 6 to 21 in musical performance techniques and has produced hundreds of shows for performers at all levels, from students to pros. A number of Crystal alumni have gone on to professional theatrical careers.

Cheryl Kemeny says, “Because we need large cast ensemble musicals with lots of parts and songs in appropriate voice ranges for youngsters of varying talents, original musicals became our central focus. We adapt each show to fit the ability levels of the students in the class and allow them to explore different roles and try on new personalities.”

Crystal Theater has produced more than 54 world premieres of original works by its staff and students. Through its subsidiary, Crystal Theatre Publishing, these musicals have been made available to other theater groups.

Crystal shows now are being performed from Harare in Zimbabwe to Hong Kong to Calgary in Canada.

Cheryl Kemeny Crystal Theater Member, Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County

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FCBUZZ

Arts & Culture of Fairfield County

Faculty works on exhibit The annual School of Art Faculty Exhibition will be on display at the Silvermine Arts Center Sara Victoria Hall in New Canaan from Aug. 23 through Sept. 16. The public is invited to the opening reception Aug. 23, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Each year, the Silvermine School of Art showcases current works of the distinguished artist/teachers. The exhibition represents every style and media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry and silversmithing. New works will be featured by faculty members Tom Brenner and Susan Newbold from Fairfield; Martha Bloom, Jak Kovatch, Jane Lubin, Barbara Rothenberg and Karen Siegal from Westport; David Dunlop, Viola Galetta, Nash Hyon, Nancy McTague-Stock, and Peter Rubino from

Family Fun ahead

Westport Country Playhouse announces its 2012-13 Family Festivities Series, featuring song-filled presentations based on popular children’s books, on selected Sundays from November through April, at 1 and 4 p.m. Tickets are $18.

Opening the 2012-13 series will be “The Berenstain Bears LIVE in Family Matters, The Musical,” Nov. 11, at 1 and 4 p.m. It’s a new musical adaptation of three of The Berenstain Bears’ most beloved books, “The Berenstain Bears Learn about Strangers,” “The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food,” and “The Berenstain Bears’ Trouble at School.”

Using the iconic stories and imagery of the original books, the musical stresses the importance of honesty,

Wilton; Janice Mauro and Elyse Shapiro from Redding; Suzanne Benton and Claire Watson Garcia from Ridgefield; Erin Jenkins, Megan Collins and Patrick Vingo from Norwalk; Dean Fisher, Marta Kot and Josephine Robinson from Milford; and Laura Toffler Corrie and Alex McFarlane from South Salem, N.Y. All art work in the exhibit is available for sale.

In addition to being faculty members of Silvermine, many of these artists have achieved success in other areas. Jeannie Thomma from Larchmont, N.Y., will be publishing her first book, “Brave Artist: Getting the Work Done,” which is available as an e-book and will be in print shortly.

For more information about the exhibit, call the School of Art at 966-6668, ext. 2, or visit silvermineart.org.

health, safety and family. Adapted from the popular works

by Stan and Jan Berenstain, and produced by Matt Murphy Productions, the presentation is recommended for ages 4 and up.

“Angelina Ballerina, The Musical,” Dec. 9, at 1 and 4 p.m., features a feisty little mouse with big dreams of becoming a prima ballerina. When a special guest is about to visit the Camembert Academy, Angelina works hard on her dance skills to reach her goals, and along the way learns from her mistakes.

Everyone in the audience requires a ticket. For more information or tickets, call the box office at 227-4177, or visit westportplayhouse.org.

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FAIRFIELD COUNTY

on the BUSINESS record JOURNAL Bankruptcies

Building Permits

The following petition was filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Bridgeport.

Chapter 11 indicates the filer intends to submit a plan of reorganization to the court. Chapter 7 indicates a liqui- 272-280 Main Avenue L.L.C. dation of assets.

Perform renovations at an existing commercial building, 272 Main Sezac Management L.L.C., 524 Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: Winchester Road, Norfolk. Chapter $60,000. Filed June 25.

11, filed Aug. 9, case no. 12-51484.

Assets: $100,000 to $500,000. Li- A. Pappajohn Co., Norwalk, conabilities: $100,000 to $500,000. tractor for Gateway Park AssociCreditors: Westlake Capital L.L.C., ates. Fit out an existing commercial $100,000 and Hartford Casu- space for tenant Marc Fisher L.L.C. alty Insurance Co., $5,000. Type of at 777 W. Putnam Ave., Greenwich. business: limited liability company. Estimated cost: $775,000. Filed Debtor’s attorney: Richard R. Lav- June 5. ieri, Law Offices of Richard R. Lavieri, Winsted.

A. Pappajohn Co., Norwalk, contractor for Property OBJLW CT #1 Corp. Fit out an existing commercial space for tenant Cardinal Capital at 2 Greenwich Office Park, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $300,000. Filed June 8.

Commercial

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Malkin Construction Corp., Stamford, contractor for One Station Place L.P. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, 429 Washington Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: $275,000. Filed July 9.

Signature Construction, Stamford, contractor for One Stamford Plaza Owner L.L.C. Perform interior alterations at an existing commercial building, 281 Tresser Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: $275,000.

Filed July 10.

Broadway Kitchen and Bath, Stamford, contractor for Joan and James Montello. Perform interior renovations at an existing singlefamily residence, 43 Harbor Drive, No. 211, Stamford. Estimated cost: $71,000. Filed July 9.

Nations Roof East L.L.C., Yonkers, N.Y., contractor for Property OBJLW CT #1 Corp. Re-roof an existing commercial building at 4 Greenwich Office Park, Greenwich.

Estimated cost: $139,625. Filed June 15.

Southport Construction, Southport, contractor for Pilgrim Towers Inc. Perform interior alterations at multifamily housing at 25 Washington Court, Stamford. Estimated cost: $202,000. Filed July 2.

Burr Roofing & Siding, Stratford, contractor for Cathy and Mark Stevens. Perform exterior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 42 Princes Pine Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $79,000.

Filed June 28.

Tarzia, Nicola, Stamford, contracPAC Group L.L.C., Harwin- tor for P. Silberman Inc. Fit out an ton, contractor for GFC Fawcett existing commercial space for tenL.L.C. Fit out an existing com- ant Stamford Veterinary Center at mercial space for tenant Morgan 633 Hope St., Stamford. Estimated Stanley Smith Barney at 1 Fawcett cost: $479,000. Filed July 5.

Place, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $51,000. Filed June 15.

United Cleaning & Restoration, Middlefield, contractor for Silver Pavarini North East Construc- Ridge Condominium Association. tion, Stamford, contractor for Con- Perform interior alterations and vent of the Sacred Heart. Perform renovations at multifamily housinterior renovations at an existing ing at 8 Oakwood Ave., Norwalk. commercial building, 1177 King Estimated cost: $1.1 million. Filed St., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $1.7 July 3. million. Filed June 4.

A1 L.L.C. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, 559 Steamboat Road, Greenwich. Estimated cost: Permit Me Please, New Mil$775,000. Filed June 6. ford, contractor for SLG 500 West Putnam L.L.C. Perform interior Den-Al Electrical Co., Stamford, alterations at an existing commercontractor for Waterfront Office cial building, 500 W. Putnam Building L.P. Construct additions Ave., Greenwich. Estimated cost: and perform alterations at an exist- $136,000. Filed June 1. ing commercial building, 78 Southfield Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: Quality Improvements L.L.C., $187,000. Filed July 5.

Middlefield, contractor for The Greenwich Academy Inc. Re-roof Fareri, John, Greenwich, contrac- an existing commercial building at tor for 93 Mason Street Tract I 200 N. Maple Ave., Greenwich. EsL.L.C. Fit out an existing commer- timated cost: $128,900. Filed June 5. cial space for a bank tenant at 93 Mason St., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $581,000. Filed June 14.

Residential 35 Bramble Lane L.L.C. Construct a new single-family residence at 35 Bramble Lane, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $800,000. Filed June 14.

Alpha Building & Construction L.L.C., Greenwich, contractor for Brookside Properties L.L.C. Construct a new single-family residence at 59 Hillside Drive, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $720,000. Filed June 11.

Brennan and Theefeld. Construct an addition at an existing singlefamily residence, 55 Grumman Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $67,000. Filed June 27.

Glen Gate Co., Wilton, contractor for Amy Minella. Construct an addition at an existing singlefamily residence, 84 Doubling Road, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $100,000. Filed June 8.

Gray, Margaret and Stuart Gray.

Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 743 Rock Rimmon Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $54,000. Filed July 5.

Helupka, Michael. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 282 Davis Ave., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $110,000. Filed June 6.

Cornerstone Contracting, Cos Cob, contractor for Amanda and David Russekoff. Perform interior renovations at an existing singlefamily residence, 37 Burying Hill Road, Greenwich. Estimated cost: Hess, John, Norwalk, contractor for Terrence Meehan. Construct $495,000. Filed June 1. additions and perform renovations at an existing single-family resiD’Andrea, Joanne and Mark dence, 21 Craw Ave., Norwalk. EsD’Andrea. Construct an addition at timated cost: $150,000. Filed July 5. an existing single-family residence, 10 Sunlit Drive, Norwalk. Estimated Kates, Allyson and Kenneth cost: $131,000. Filed July 3.

Kates. Perform interior alterations at an existing single-family Davenport Contracting Inc., residence, 7 Sparrow Lane, GreenStamford, contractor for Leah and wich. Estimated cost: $60,000.

Thomas Spiro. Construct a new Filed June 12. single-family residence at 14 Miltiades Ave., Greenwich. Estimated Matthews, Andrea and Stephen cost: $1 million. Filed June 7.

Matthews. Construct additions and perform renovations at an DeFilippo, Enrico. Construct a existing single-family residence, 9 new modular single-family resi- Crest Road, Norwalk. Estimated dence at 38 Hartford Ave., Green- cost: $76,000. Filed July 3. wich. Estimated cost: $325,000.

Filed June 11.

Plonowski, Mark, Stamford, contractor for Eugene Russo. Perform Dibico Construction of Connect- alterations at an existing singleicut Inc., Greenwich, contractor for family residence, 45 Indian Mill Regina Imbres. Construct a new Road, Cos Cob. Estimated cost: single-family residence at 47 Bow- $121,000. Filed June 1. man Drive, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $1 million. Filed June 12.

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on the record R. W. Haggerty Pool Service, Stamford, contractor for Nadine and Ken Perrino. Install an inground pool and enclosure at an existing single-family residence, 310 Silvermine Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $65,000. Filed June 27.

Remodeling Consultants, Mamaroneck, N.Y., contractor for Viola Geer. Perform interior alterations at an existing single-family residence, 85 Silo Circle, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $100,000. Filed June 6.

Robinson, Lori and Philip Robinson. Perform renovations and alterations at an existing singlefamily residence, 76 Orchard Drive, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $220,000. Filed June 4.

Russell, Stephen, Trumbull, contractor for John Genovese. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 159 Putnam Park, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $100,000. Filed June 13.

Tallman Building Company Inc., Southport, contractor for Teri and Chris Walker. Construct a foundation for new single-family residence at 25 Rowayton Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $50,000. Filed July 3.

Tomasko, Stephen, Milford, contractor for Penelope Kassaris.

Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 49 Londonderry Drive, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $85,000.

Filed June 13.

Trinity Builders L.L.C., Durham, contractor for Matthew Alpert. Perform alterations and renovations at an existing single-family residence, 165 Wolfpit Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $85,000. Filed July 6.

Xhema Construction Inc., Greenwich, contractor for John Street L.L.C. Perform renovations at an existing single-family residence, 30 John St., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $3.2 million. Filed June 7.

Famous Pizza House Inc., Bridgeport. Filed by Mauricio Biez, Waterbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Dodd Law Firm L.L.C. and Morrison Mahoney L.L.P., Cheshire and Hartford, respectively. Action: The plaintiff alleges that he fell while visiting the defendant’s premises Associates Internal Medicine as the result of an unsafe condition L.L.C., et al., Bridgeport, et al. arising from negligence on the part Filed by U.S. Bancorp Equipment of the defendant, its agents and emFinance Inc., Marshall, Minn. ployees, which caused him to sufPlaintiff’s attorney: Cohn Dussi fer serious, painful injuries and to & Bilodeau L.L.C., Warwick, R.I. incur substantial medical expenses.

Action: The plaintiff alleges that The plaintiff seeks damages in exthe defendant Associates Internal cess of $15,000 plus applicable costs Medicine failed to observe payment and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed terms of a November 2009 lease June 19. Case no. CV126028287. agreement among the parties, for which payment was guaranteed by The Home Depot, Hartford. Filed a co-defendant and that $38,566 by Theresa Palmerini, Stratford. relating to that agreement remains Plaintiff’s attorney: Emmett & outstanding and past due from Glander, Stamford. Action: The the defendants despite repeated plaintiff alleges that she was illegally requests for payment by the plain- terminated from her employment tiff. The plaintiff seeks repayment with the defendant as the result of of all outstanding amounts plus a physical disability, which caused interest, costs and reasonable at- her to incur a substantial financial torneys’ fees. Filed June 15. Case no. loss and to suffer emotional stress.

CV126028189.

The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs Audiodesign Inc., Fairfield. Filed and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed

by Turnpike Shopping Center June 15. Case no. CV126028191.

L.L.C., Fairfield. Plaintiff’s attorney: Stephan B. Grozinger, Weston. Jo Ann Stores Inc., Hartford. Filed Action: The plaintiff alleges that the by Audrey Darling, Stratford. Plaindefendant failed to observe pay- tiff’s attorney: Rodie & Connolly ment terms of an August 1993 lease P.C., Stratford. Action: The plaintiff agreement between the parties and alleges that she was struck by an that $39,036 relating to that agree- out-of-place store fixture while a ment remains outstanding and past business invitee on the defendant’s due from the defendant despite re- premises as the result of an unsafe peated requests for payment by the condition arising from negligence plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repay- on the part of the defendant, its ment of all outstanding amounts agents and employees, which plus interest, costs and reason- caused her to suffer serious, painable attorneys’ fees. Filed June 18. ful injuries and to incur substanCase no. CV126028200. tial medical expenses. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 Elm Associates L.L.C., et al., New plus applicable costs and reasonCanaan. Filed by Joseph Dever- able attorneys’ fees. Filed June 15. mann, Weston. Plaintiff’s attorney: Case no. CV126028179.

The Berkowitz Law Firm L.L.C., Stamford. Action: The plaintiff Lincoln Construction Inc., et al., alleges that he fell while visiting Hartford. Filed by Joseph Dorso, premises owned or otherwise un- Stratford. Plaintiff’s attorney: der control of the defendants as the Miller Rosnick D’Amico August & result of an unsafe condition arising Butler P.C., Bridgeport. Action: The from negligence on the part of the plaintiff alleges that he was struck defendants, their agents and em- by construction equipment while ployees, which caused him to suf- employed on premises owned or fer serious, painful injuries and to otherwise under control of the deincur substantial medical expenses. fendants as the result of an unsafe The plaintiff seeks damages in ex- condition arising from negligence cess of $15,000 plus applicable costs on the part of the defendants, and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed their agents and employees, which June 18. Case no. CV126028203. 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 June 19.

Case no. CV126028290.

Court Cases

Bridgeport Superior Court

Stratton Construction L.L.C., et al., Waterford. Filed by People’s United Bank, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Benanti & Associates, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff alleges that the defendant failed to observe payment terms of a March 1999 business credit note in the plaintiff’s favor and that $6,564 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 June 19. Case no.

CV126028245.

Three Thirty Three State Street Development L.L.C., Bridgeport.

Filed by IPFS Corp., Jersey City, N.J. Plaintiff’s attorney: Jacobs & Rozich L.L.C., New Haven. Action: The plaintiff alleges that prior to the date of this action it delivered goods and/or services to the defendant and that $4,974 relating to those deliveries remains outstanding and past due from the defendant despite repeated requests for payment by the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repayment of all outstanding amounts plus interest, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed June 19. Case no. CV126028293.

Wakefern Food Corp., et al., Hartford. Filed by Ethel Sistrunk, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Pickel Law Firm L.L.C., Stamford. Action: The plaintiff alleges that she fell while a business invitee on premises owned or otherwise under control of the defendants as the result of an unsafe condition arising from negligence on the part of the defendants, their agents and employees, which caused 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 June 15. Case no. CV126028165.

Danbury Superior Court Barrett Inc., et al., Danbury. Filed

by Luis Garcia, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Price Green L.L.C., New Haven. Action: The plaintiff alleges that, after payment for a work-related injury, the defendant assigned him to excessively strenuous tasks and illegally terminated his employment, which caused him to incur a substantial financial loss.

The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed July 6. Case no. CV126009913.

Ecruises.com, Danbury. Filed by The Miami Herald, Miami, Fla. Plaintiff’s attorney: Myra L. Graubard, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff alleges that prior to the date of this action it delivered goods and/ or services to the defendant and that $7,490 relating to those deliveries remains outstanding and past due from the defendant despite repeated requests for payment by the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repayment of all outstanding amounts plus interest, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed July 10.

Case no. CV126009935.

Hollandia Nurseries L.L.C., Bethel. Filed by Anna Figliola, Sandy Hook. Plaintiff’s attorney: Norman J. Voog, Ridgefield. Action: The plaintiff alleges that she fell while a business invitee on the defendant’s property as the result of an unsafe condition arising from negligence on the part of the defendant, its agents and employees, which caused her to suffer serious, painful injuries and to incur substantial medical expenses. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $15,000 plus applicable costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed July 6. Case no.

CV126009914.

Village Square Condominium Association Inc., Danbury. Filed

by Perfection in the Making Inc., Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Jowdy & Jowdy P.C., Danbury. Action: The plaintiff alleges that prior to the date of this action it delivered goods and/or services to the defendant and that $7,997 relating to those deliveries remains outstanding and past due from the defendant despite repeated requests for payment by the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repayment of all outstanding amounts plus interest, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed July 2. Case no. CV126009875.

Stamford Superior Court

AJI Inc. and Great River Brands, Darien. Filed by Card Service International, Walnut Creek, Calif.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Weinstein Weiner Ignal Vogel & Shapiro P.C., Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff alleges that prior to the date of this action it delivered goods and/or services to the defendants and that $12,024 relating to those deliveries remains outstanding and past due from the defendants despite repeated requests for payment by the Merson’s Pond Inc., Danbury. plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repayFiled by Renata Adler, trustee, ment of all outstanding amounts Newtown. Plaintiff’s attorney: Bai plus interest, costs and reasonPollock Blueweiss & Mulcahey able attorneys’ fees. Filed June 25.

P.C., Shelton. Action: The plaintiff Case no. CV126014535. alleges that she is the owner of the defendant’s July 2003 mortgage note in the amount of $150,000 Camp Services Ltd., Stamford. and that amounts relating to this Filed by Connecticut Light and note remain outstanding and past Power Co., Berlin. Plaintiff’s attordue from the defendant despite re- ney: Law Offices of Alexander G. peated requests for payment by the Snyder L.L.C., Waterbury. Action: plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repay- The plaintiff alleges that prior to ment of all outstanding amounts the date of this action it delivered plus interest, costs and reasonable electrical utility services to the deattorneys’ fees, including without fendant and that $8,954 relating to limitation by means of foreclosure those deliveries remains outstandof the mortgage subject to interests ing and past due from the defenof senior secured creditors. Filed dant despite repeated requests for payment by the plaintiff. The plainJuly 9. Case no. CV126009918. tiff seeks repayment of all outstanding amounts plus interest, costs and Solid State Engineering Prod- reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed ucts Co., Ridgefield. Filed by Satco June 26. Case no. CV126014564.

Products Inc., Brentwood, N.Y. Plaintiff’s attorney: Drapp & Jaumann L.L.C., Bridgeport. Action: IK Builders L.L.C., Hamden. Filed The plaintiff alleges that prior to the by CBIA Service Corp., Hartford. date of this action it delivered goods Plaintiff’s attorney: Weinstein and/or services to the defendant Weiner Ignal Vogel & Shapiro P.C., and that $4,221 relating to those Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff deliveries remains outstanding alleges that prior to the date of this and past due from the defendant action it delivered goods and/or despite repeated requests for pay- services to the defendant and that ment by the plaintiff. The plaintiff $9,403 relating to those deliverseeks repayment of all outstanding ies remains outstanding and past amounts plus interest, costs and due from the defendant despite rereasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed peated requests for payment by the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repayJuly 9. Case no. CV126009924. ment of all outstanding amounts plus interest, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed June 25.

Case no. CV126014536.

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on the record Credits, Clients and Awards Stamford Corporate Housing has announced its inclusion on the 2012 EMMA Awards shortlist for excellence in the category “Corporate Housing Provider of the Year.” The results will be announced at the EMMA Awards and Gala Dinner at the JW Marriott, Las Vegas Sept. 13. Stamford Corporate Housing was nominated by its clients and was shortlisted for the prize by the Forum for Expatriate Management.

Matthew F. Keefe, president of H.K. Group in Westport, was the sole broker of a recently sold brick, two-story class A office building, at 191 Post Road West. The building was sold for an undisclosed amount by an affiliate of Paragon Realty Group L.L.C. of Westport, to an affiliate of Investment Capital Partners of Southport. The building is fully tenanted.

On the Go: Business, Etc. Tuesday August 21 “Managing Your Business by the Numbers,” a SCORE workshop, 8 to 10 a.m., St. Luke’s Church, 1864 Post Road, Darien. To register, call 831-0065 or visit scorenorwalk.org.

Sunday August 26 6 Annual Temple Israel Barbecue, 4 to 7 p.m., Temple Israel, 14 Coleytown Road, Westport. For information, call 227-1293. th

Newsmakers Dianne J. Auger of Stratford has been named senior vice president of St. Vincent’s Medical Center/St.Vincent’s Health Services and president/ CEO of St.Vincent’s Medical Center Foundation. Most recently, Auger served as regional chief executive officer with the American Red Cross, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and interim regional chief executive officer for the Greater New York Region. She holds an MBA from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield.

Stamford Hospital’s Center for Surgical Weight Loss recently enhanced its interdisciplinary team of weight-management specialists with the addition of the following individuals.

Karen Heck joined as a patient navigator and medical assistant.

Christine Megan joined as a bariatric psychologist.

Steven J. Malawer has been appointed vice president, senior counsel for W.R. Berkley Corp., an insurance holding company in Greenwich. Malawer joined the company in 1995, serving most recently as attorney and as vice president, associate general counsel and assistant secretary of Berkley International L.L.C. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctorate from Hofstra University School of Law.

Paul Bernetsky has been named chief development officer The Westport Weston Family Y. Bernetsky will oversee the Family Y’s “Building What Matters” capital campaign to fund and construct a new Y facility at its 32-acre Mahackeno campus, as well as the Strong Kids Campaign, the nonprofit charitable organization’s annual fundraising effort.

Leslie Neal-Boylan of Hamden has been appointed associate dean of the Quinnipiac University School of Nursing. Most recently, Neal-Boylan served as a graduate program coordinator at Southern Connecticut State University.

John Bonora recently joined First County Bank in Stamford as first vice president, director of operational risk and compliance. Most recently, Bonora was vice president regulatory risk and compliance assurance manager at the Royal Bank of Scotland, based in Stamford. He holds a master’s degree in financial risk management from the University of Connecticut and a bachelor’s degree in economicsfinance from Bentley University.

Seaboard Properties in Stamford has announced three new tenants at its flagship commercial property at 1 Atlantic St., Stamford. New tenants include Stride Capital, Pacific Basin Shipping and Lumesis Inc.

WSHU Public Radio Group in Fairfield has announced the following appointments.

Kaomi Goetz has joined the group as a journalist covering Fairfield County.

Daniel Katz of Stamford has been hired as a morning producer.

Michelle Turner has joined the group as a journalist covering Fairfield County.

Shelby L. Wilson was promoted to partner at the law firm of Berchem, Moses & Devlin P.C. Wilson maintains offices in both the firm’s Westport and Milford locations. She graduated from Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., and received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford.

Greg Woods has joined Webster Bank as senior vice president, chief procurement officer, based out of the Farmington office. Previously, Woods served as director of Tenzing Consulting L.L.C. and president and founder of Sea Change Enterprises Inc. for the past eight years. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the University of San Diego.

Monday August 27 “Honorine St. Jude Golf Classic,” 11 a.m., Silvermine Golf Club, 95 N. Seir Hill Road, Norwalk. For information, visit honorinestjude.com.

Tuesday August 28 “TING” (Temple Israel Networking Group for individuals in their job search), 2 p.m., Temple Israel, 14 Coleytown Road, Westport.

For information, call 227-1293.

Snapshot Aquarion Water Co. in Bridgeport recently donated $12,500 to the Housatonic Valley Association (HVA), the chief environmental steward for the Housatonic River watershed. The donation was a matching grant to five participating companies that each donated $2,500 in support of HVA’s mission to conserve the natural character and environmental health of the Housatonic River watershed.

From left, John Herlihy, director of water quality and environmental management, Aquarion Water Co.; David Brennan, secretary-treasurer, J.J. Brennan Construction; Peter Galant, vice president, Tighe & Bond Engineers; Charles V. Firlotte, president and CEO, Aquarion Water Co.; Jay Callahan, vice president, sales, Burns Construction; Robert Houlihan, president, Housatonic Valley Association; Ellen Rosenberg, vice president, Housatonic Valley Association; Greg Cap, project manager, C.H. Nickerson & Co.; and Lynn Werner, executive director, Housatonic Valley Association.

Information for these features has been provided by the subjects or their delegates.

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on the record Mike Grbic Painting Corp., Greenwich. Filed by Farmington Casualty Co., Hartford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Weinstein Weiner Ignal Vogel & Shapiro P.C., Bridgeport.

Action: The plaintiff alleges that it provided the defendant with business insurance during the period from January 2010 to January 2011 and that related premiums of $41,374 remain outstanding and past due from the defendant despite repeated requests for payment by the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks repayment of all outstanding amounts plus interest, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Filed June 25. Case no. CV126014534.

Shining Star Lodge No. 303 IBPOEW Inc., Stamford. Filed by Everard Boothe, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Thomas A. Virgulto, Madison. Action: The plaintiff alleges that he was assaulted 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 June 26. Case no. CV126014565.

Szeto M.D., Marjorie, et al., Weston, et al. Filed by Kazimiera Kokot, Weston. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Pickel Law Firm L.L.C., Stamford. 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 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 June 26. Case no. CV126014556.

U.S. District Court

CIGNA Long Term Disability Plan, et al. Filed by Margaret Sanchez. Plaintiff’s attorney: Ivan A. Ramos. Action: claim filed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Filed July 19. Case no.

12CV01061.

Bergh, Annette and Gary Lico, Greenwich. Seller: Cheryl and Peter Manzo, Stamford. Property: 1115 Westover Road, Stamford. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed June 29.

Giansanti, Caralisa and Joseph Daula, Darien. Seller: Elizabeth Wells, Darien. Property: 12 Dellwood Road, Darien. Amount: $979,000. Filed July 5.

Burn, Lindsay and Spencer Grimes, Norwalk. Seller: Alan Engleson, New Canaan. Property: 131 Brookwood Lane, New Canaan.

Amount: $1.5 million. Filed June 1.

Guinn, Jeffrey, New Canaan. Seller: Christine and Brent Haney, New Canaan. Property: 92 Sturbridge Hill Road, New Canaan. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed May 29.

Pfizer Inc., et al. Filed by Travelers Indemnity Co., et al. Plaintiff’s attorney: Robert D. Laurie. Action: claim filed in connection with a claim of fraud. Filed July 18.

Chapman, Elizabeth, Stamford.

Case no. 12CV01059.

Seller: Roger Katen, Norwalk.

Property: 186 New Canaan Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $585,000. Filed Deeds July 10.

Commercial

Cugno, Giovanna, Wilton. Seller: Janet and Ward Evarts, Norwalk.

18 Cornelia Drive L.L.C., Green- Property: Unit 1B, Cannon Brook wich. Seller: Iris and Robert Dries- Condominium, Norwalk. Amount: en, Greenwich. Property: 18 Corne- $541,000. Filed July 9. lia Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed July 10.

Dawkins, Marvia, Stamford.

Seller: Sonia Duquene, Stamford.

93 Rockwood L.L.C., Greenwich. Property: 43 Anderson St., StamSeller: Barbara and James Edwards ford. Amount: $340,000. Filed Jr., East Hampton, N.Y. Property: July 2.

93 Rockwood Lane, Greenwich.

Amount: $3.3 million. Filed July 10.

Dunn, Adam, New Canaan. Seller: Patti Hassler, Washington, D.C. AAA Hua Enterprises L.L.C., Property: New Canaan town map Stamford. Seller: Citimortgage 2335, New Canaan. Amount: $1.8 Inc., O’Fallon, Mo. Property: 24 million. Filed May 29.

Crescent St., Stamford. Amount: $390,000. Filed June 29.

Evangelista, Domunick, Stamford. Seller: Palmer Hill Partners BCMW L.L.C., Stamford. Seller: L.L.C., Stamford. Property: 77 Diane Shockley and Gerald Cara- Havemeyer Ave., Unit 401, Stamvan, Westport. Property: 20 Taff ford. Amount: $521,940. Filed Ave., Stamford. Amount: $462,000. July 2.

Filed June 29.

Kaeser Development L.L.C., Weston. Seller: Annamarie Delahunt, New Canaan. Property: 136 Dougals Road, New Canaan.

Amount: $800,000. Filed June 5.

Leap-Leap Real Estate Holdings L.L.C., New Canaan. Seller: Dabney Dupont, New Canaan. Property: 191 Main St., Unit 5, New Canaan.

Amount: $1 million. Filed May 31.

35 Hamden Hills Drive Hamden L.L.C. Filed by Leslie Semack.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Michael W. Cahill. Action: claim filed in connection with personal injury. Filed Albank, George, Norwalk. Seller: July 18. Case no. 12CV01057.

Dennis Tully, Norwalk. Property: 3 Jarvis St., Norwalk. Amount: Airportparkinglots.com, et al. $341,500. Filed July 3.

Filed by LAX Park Place Inc. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gordon M. Daniell Balaji, Subbalakshmi and RamJr. Action: claim filed in connec- anathan Balaji, Stamford. Seller: tion with breach of contract. Filed William Acker, Stamford. Property: July 19. Case no. 12CV01060.

65 Blackberry Drive, Stamford.

Amount: $730,000. Filed June 28.

Residential

Lau, Loretta and Mark Whyman, New York City. Seller: Deborah Perkins, trustee, New Canaan. Property: 90 Parade Hill Lane, New Canaan. Amount: $2.6 million. Filed June 6.

McLaughlin, Sandra and Steven McLaughlin, Stamford. Seller: Martha and Daniel Sullivan, Stamford. Property: 303 Rocky Rapids Road, Stamford. Amount: $655,000. Filed July 2.

Laurence, Jennifer and Scott Laurence, New Canaan. Seller: Anne and Karl Schimmeck, New Canaan. Property: 144 Summer St., New Canaan. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed May 31.

Mengel, Birgit and Thomas Mengel, Old Greenwich. Seller: Madalene and Jean Benoist-D’etivaud, Greenwich. Property: Lot C, Greenwich town map 1259, Greenwich.

Amount: $2.6 million. Filed July 16.

Hollis, Sarah, Norwalk. Seller: Veronica and Dante Perreca, Norwalk. Property: 701 Foxboro Drive, Lee, Lucy, Oakton, Va. Seller: KirstNorwalk. Amount: $420,000. Filed en and Angelo Ziotas, New Canaan.

July 10.

Property: 6 Kimberly Place, New Canaan. Amount: $1.1 million.

Filed May 29.

Ivester, Kathryn and James Ivester, Greenwich. Seller: 66 Indian Field Road L.L.C., Greenwich. Logie, Elizabeth and Robert LoProperty: 66 Indian Field Road, gie, New Canaan. Seller: Victoria Greenwich. Amount: $4.5 million. and Jonathan Legge, New Canaan.

Filed July 10.

Property: 890 Silvermine Road, New Canaan. Amount: $1.9 million. Filed May 16.

Jarvis, Jennifer and William Jarvis, Stamford. Seller: DH Realty Holdings L.L.C., Stamford. Prop- MacAllister, Jennifer and Ian erty: 21 Ocean Drive West, Stam- MacAllister, New Canaan. Seller: ford. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Katherine Brown, trustee, New CaJune 28. naan. Property: 297 Smith Ridge Road, New Canaan. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed May 24.

Johnson, Scott, trustee, Greenwich. Seller: Rebecca Moore, Greenwich. Property: vicinity of Malde, Mala and Bhagesh Malde, Bush Avenue, Greenwich. Amount: Boston, Mass. Seller: Janet and As$5.5 million. Filed July 13. cott Muller, Riverside. Property: 28 Loading Rock Road, Riverside.

Amount: $2.1 million. Filed July 10.

Kenin, Christa and Michael Kenin, New Canaan. Seller: Gretchen and Richard Fedeli Jr., Mann, Ilysa and Robert Mann, New Canaan. Property: 43 Bartling Cos Cob. Seller: Chantal von Saher, Drive, New Canaan. Amount: $1.7 Greenwich. Property: 30 Robertson million. Filed May 31.

Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $1 million. Filed July 16.

Fahey, Robert, Norwalk. Seller: the estate of Matilda Bitter, Norwalk.

Property: 66 Center Avenue Exten- Kennedy, Doreen and William sion, Norwalk. Amount: $305,000. Ayers Jr., Westport. Seller: Michael Filed July 3.

Campbell, Stamford. Property: 181 Turn of River Road, Unit 5, Stamford. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Fennelly, Kathleen, Stamford. June 29.

Seller: Sandra and Steve McLaughlin, Stamford. Property: 43 Rachelle Road, Stamford. Amount: Kim, Eun and Tri U, Cos Cob. $515,000. Filed July 2.

Seller: Frederique-Marie and JeanPhilippe Ducasse, Stamford. Property: 6 Fieldstone Lane, Stamford.

Fisher, Amy and David Fisher, Amount: $631,000. Filed June 29.

New Canaan. Seller: Gina and Sean Lytle, New Canaan. Property: 174 Old Stamford Road, New Ca- Klein, Nancy and David Mannis, naan. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Stamford. Seller: Diane and Joseph June 14.

Brocato, trustees, Stamford. Property: 34 Greenbrier Lane, Stamford.

Amount: $885,000. Filed June 29.

Garrity, Paula and Patrick Garrity, New Canaan. Seller: Elizabeth and Scott Logie, New Canaan. Kurtzman, Julie and Kenneth Property: 107 Dunning Road, New Kurtzman, New Canaan. Seller: Canaan. Amount: $3.9 million. Ann Gehnrich, New Canaan. PropFiled June 1. erty: 970 Ponus Ridge Road, New Canaan. Amount: $1.8 million.

Filed June 4.

Norton, Kelly and Christopher Norton, Stamford. Seller: Anita and Thomas Quinn, Orange.

Property: 249 Hickok Road, New Canaan. Amount: $900,000. Filed June 14.

Patel, Hina and Truptesh Patel, Stamford. Seller: Dorothy Corbo, Stamford. Property: 15 Courtland Hill St., Stamford. Amount: $386,500. Filed June 29.

Patten, Jaime and David Patten, Riverside. Seller: Joann Tinnelly and Timothy O’Connor, Riverside.

Property: 23 Griffith Road, Riverside. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed July 16.

Riley, Michelle and Richard Riley, Switzerland. Seller: 74 Mather Farm Road L.L.C., Wilton. Property: 74 Mather Farm Road, New Canaan. Amount: $4.8 million.

Filed May 22.

Schiavi, Marie and Andres Recoder, Greenwich. Seller: Nancy and Robert Selander, Greenwich.

Property: 38 Cedarwood Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $6.4 million.

Filed July 13.

Marschalk, Bradley, New Canaan.

Seller: 122 Kimberly Place L.L.C., New Canaan. Property: 122 Kim- Singleton Jr., Edward, Norwalk. berly Place, New Canaan. Amount: Seller: Lockwood Terrace L.L.C., Stamford. Property: 130 Main $1.2 million. Filed June 11.

St., Unit E5, Norwalk. Amount: $270,000. Filed July 5.

Mathew, Reena and Jacob Mathew, Norwalk. Seller: Princess and Thomas Way, Norwalk. Stabile, Trinity and Nicholas Property: 12 Hillandale Manor, Stabile, New York City. Seller: Norwalk. Amount: $500,000. Filed Edward and Philip Bunnell, Stamford. Property: 276 E. Middle PatJuly 5. ent Road, Stamford. Amount: $701,000. Filed June 28.

McAuliffe, Virginia and Patrick McAuliffe, Norwalk. Seller: Patricia Genuario, Norwalk. Property: 42 Strukov, Alexander, Stamford.

Neptune Ave., Norwalk. Amount: Seller: Claire and Daniel Mocarski, Stamford. Property: 53 Sylvan $635,000. Filed July 3.

Knoll Road, Stamford. Amount: $308,000. Filed July 2.

McCarthy, Monique and John McCarthy, Old Greenwich. Seller: Theresa Joseph, Litchfield. Proper- Thomas, Kristin and Peter Whitty: 17 Ledge Road, Old Greenwich. eford, Norwalk. Seller: Alexandra Amount: $3.4 million. Filed July 13. and Richard Baudouin, Norwalk.

Property: 5 Wallace Ave., Norwalk.

Amount: $552,500. Filed July 5.

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on the record Vetere, Rhonda and John Hill, Greenwich. Seller: 40 Soundview L.L.C., 44 Sound View L.L.C. and 56 Soundview L.L.C., Greenwich.

Property: 44 Sound View Drive, Unit B, Greenwich. Amount: $1.9 million. Filed July 11.

Lukachik, Lucie, Bridgeport. $14,736 in favor of U.S. Equities Corp., South Salem, N.Y., by Linda Strumpf. Property: 123 Overland Ave., No. 125, Bridgeport. Filed July 12.

Mallozzi, Joseph, New Canaan.

Voellmickel, Katherine and Mi- $10,002 in favor of Air Perfect Inc., chael Voellmickel, New York City. Milford, by Alan R. Spirer. ProperSeller: Margaret and Marc Robust- ty: 171 Adams Lane, New Canaan. elli, Stamford. Property: 13 Ledge Filed May 17.

Lane, Stamford. Amount: $423,250.

Filed July 2.

Martin, Myrtle, Bridgeport. $1,489 in favor of Bridgeport RaWu, Lin, Stamford. Seller: Mary diological Associates, Bridgeport, Ellen Troy, Orange. Property: 173 by JoAnn C. Silvia. Property: 495 Slice Drive, Stamford. Amount: Platt St., Bridgeport. Filed July 17. $571,500. Filed June 29.

Yechielt, Hadas and Menachem Yechielt, Greenwich. Seller: the estate of Jean Yudain, Greenwich.

Property: 10 Martin Dale, Greenwich. Amount: $2.1 million. Filed July 10.

Moro, Luis, Bridgeport. $696 in favor of Bridgeport Radiological Associates, Bridgeport, by JoAnn C. Silvia. Property: 59 Pleasant St., Bridgeport. Filed July 17.

Norrholm, Robert, Norwalk. $8,053 in favor of Hartford Underwriters Insurance Co., Hartford, by Foreclosures Edward D. Jacobs. Property: Norwalk town map 3566, Norwalk.

Giordano, Lisa, et al. Creditor: Filed July 6.

Citimortgage Inc. Property: 56 Hickory Way, Stamford. Mortgage Recupero, Jennifer, Bridgeport. default. Filed June 29. $4,600 in favor of Midland Funding L.L.C., San Diego, Calif., by Humphrys-Bajaj, Holly, et al. Stephen A. Wiener. Property: 98 Creditor: The Bank of New York Leighton Road, Bridgeport. Filed Mellon. Property: 3250 Fairfield July 16.

Ave., Unit 308, Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed July 12.

Rivera, Jessie, Bridgeport. $523 in favor of Associated Neurologists of Southern Connecticut, Fairfield, by Judgments JoAnn C. Silvia. Property: 385 Taft Ave., Bridgeport. Filed July 17.

Fedeli, Vincent, Bridgeport. $10,003 in favor of U.S. Equities Corp., South Salem, N.Y., by Linda Rodriguez, Elba, Bridgeport.

Strumpf. Property: 83 Lance Circle, $11,480 in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio, by Joseph F. Bridgeport. Filed July 12.

Agnelli III. Property: 141 Union Ave., Unit 22, Bridgeport. Filed Fernandez, Ana, Norwalk. $4,230 July 16. in favor of Midland Funding L.L.C., San Diego, Calif., by Stephen A. Wiener. Property: 41 Gregory Blvd., Serrano, Yolanda, Bridgeport. $3,169 in favor of Midland FundApt. 1, Norwalk. Filed July 9. ing L.L.C., San Diego, Calif., by Stephen A. Wiener. Property: 61 BalJimenez, Virginia, Bridgeport. sam Ave., Bridgeport. Filed July 16. $1,331 in favor of Midland Funding L.L.C., San Diego, Calif., by Stephen A. Wiener. Property: 119 Lee Singletary, Lillian and Joseph Singletary, Bridgeport. $2,191 in Ave., Bridgeport. Filed July 16. favor of Bridgeport Anesthesia, Bridgeport, by Joseph P. Latino.

Property: 143 Eagle St., Bridgeport.

Filed July 17.

Thomas, Freddie, Bridgeport. $500 in favor of Bridgeport Radiological Associates, Bridgeport,

by JoAnn C. Silvia. Property: 338 Bond St., Bridgeport. Filed July 17.

Zullo, Christina, Norwalk. $1,430 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Robert L. Peat. Property: 15 Grand St., Norwalk. Filed June 29.

Liens

Federal Tax Liens – filed Invernat L.L.C., 1944 Boston Ave., Bridgeport. $182,905, Federal unemployment tax, FICA and employee withholding tax. Filed July 12.

Nutritional Excellence L.L.C., 76 Nubel Lane, New Canaan. $25,448, FICA and employee withholding tax, partnership tax return. Filed June 4.

Rivera, Anthony, 3839 Main St., Bridgeport. $61,954, Federal unemployment tax, FICA and employee withholding tax. Filed July 12.

Taste and See Outreach Ministries Inc., P.O. Box 3144, Bridgeport. $5,280, tax-exempt organization returns. Filed July 12.

TNT Entertainment L.L.C., 61 Woods End Road, New Canaan. $10,289, FICA and employee withholding tax, partnership tax return.

Filed June 4.

Mechanic’s Liens-filed Antonacci, Amy and Dominic Antonacci, Norwalk. Filed by TriTech Mechanical L.L.C., Stamford,

by Scott Chila. Property: 18 Leann Drive, Norwalk. Amount: $4,500.

Filed June 29.

Birchenough, Anne and Don Birchenough, Greenwich. Filed Lis Pendens

by Persico Construction L.L.C., Greenwich, by Joseph Melendez.

Property: 59 Burning Tree Road, The following filings indicate a legal Greenwich. Amount: $118,191. action has been initiated, the outcome of which may affect the title to Filed July 11. the property listed.

Grallo Family Properties Ltd., New Canaan. Filed by Cunning- Alberto, Joel, et al., Bridgeport, ham Supply Inc., West Hartford, by et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh Glenn M. York. Property: 14 Urban P.C., Farmington, for The Bank of St., New Canaan. Amount: $11,058. New York Mellon, New York City.

Property: 607 Huntington Road, Filed June 6.

Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the origiStone, Amy and Gregg Stone, nal principal amount of $307,000 Greenwich. Filed by Mark Mariani Dated March 2006. Filed July 12.

Inc., Armonk, N.Y., by Rebekah Glacy. Property: 21 Wyckham Hill Lane, Greenwich. Amount: Andre, Yvio, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh $339,612. Filed July 11.

P.C., Farmington, for The Bank of New York Mellon, New York City.

Property: 26 Greenwood Hill St., Stamford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $452,500 dated June 2006. Filed June 28.

Norwalk ALF Property L.L.C., Norwalk. Filed by Contractor’s Supply L.L.C., Stamford, by Wil- Arokianathan, Thomas, et al., liam Martin. Property: 73 Straw- Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Hunt berry Hill Ave., Norwalk. Amount: Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for $61,321. Filed June 29.

Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 177 Princeton St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose a Vance, Eleanor and Charles Hub- delinquent mortgage in the origibard, trustees, Greenwich. Filed by nal principal amount of $260,000 ADJ of Stamford Inc., Stamford, Dated March 2007. Filed July 12.

by Joseph D. Truglia. Property: 255 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich.

Amount: $37,723. Filed July 12.

Arteaga, Wilder, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Steven A. Certilman, Stamford, for Highview East ConWatson Enterprises Inc., Green- dominiums Inc., Norwalk. Propwich. Filed by the estate of Rob- erty: Unit 10, Building 1, High View ert Lister III, Greenwich, by East Condominiums, Norwalk. AcSarah A. Lister. Property: 261 W. tion: to foreclose on the unit to rePutnam Ave., Greenwich. Amount: cover delinquent common charges $108,855. Filed July 12. due the association. Filed July 9.

Mechanic’s Liens—released

Weed and Duryea, New Canaan.

Filed by Lunati Paving & Construction L.L.C., Bay Shore, N.Y., by Ralph Lunati. Property: 21 Grove St., New Canaan. Amount: $31,020.

Filed May 23.

Carney, Dettaree, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 34 Herald Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $294,806 Dated July 2008. Filed July 12.

Clark, Wendy, et al., Norwalk, et al.

Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 5 Yew St., Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $708,750 dated April 2004. Filed July 9.

DiRubio, Jeffrey, et al., New Canaan, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for The Bank of New York Mellon, New York City. Property: 18 Main St., New Canaan. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $800,000 dated October 2006. Filed June 13.

Grbic, Mike, et al., Greenwich, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Citibank N.A., trustee, New York City. Property: 59 Old Mill Road, Greenwich. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $1.5 million dated June 2007. Filed July 13.

Hall, Godfrey, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Minneapolis, Minn. Property: 99 Sanford Place, Bridgeport.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $378,026 Dated August Blas, Segundo, et al., Norwalk, 2010. Filed July 16. et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for Nationstar Hammer, Maureen, et al., BridgeMortgage L.L.C., Lewisville, Texas. port, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Property: 39 Ledgewood Drive, Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for PHH Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a Mortgage Corp., Mount Laurel, delinquent mortgage in the origi- N.J. Property: Ameridge Connal principal amount of $415,000 dominium, Unit 57, Bridgeport. dated February 2008. Filed June 28. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal Brown, Barbara, et al., Norwalk, amount of 154,660 Dated Novemet al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh ber 2009. Filed July 16.

P.C., Farmington, for Ameriprise Bank F.S.B., New York City. Property: 97 W. Norwalk Road, Norwalk.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $70,000 dated July 2006.

Filed July 6.

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on the record Hanks, Shante, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by David Carlson, Pawtucket, R.I., for Provident Funding Associates L.P., Santa Rosa, Calif.

Property: 145 Clover Hill Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $212,000 Dated January 2007. Filed July 16.

Livramento, Joyce, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 805 Park Place, Unit 841, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $179,792 Dated May 2009. Filed July 12.

Hinton, Christopher, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 75 Camp Place, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $203,801 Dated August 2005. Filed July 16.

Martinez, Gonzalo, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Karen MacArthur, Armonk, N.Y., for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., trustee, Bloomington, Minn. Property: 41 Visconti St., Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $351,000 dated January 2006. Filed July 6.

Jimenez, Petita, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 13 Keith St., Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $260,000 dated July 2005. Filed June 29.

Mora, Alexander, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Steven A. Certilman, Stamford, for Sylvan Knoll Section II Inc., Stamford. Property: Unit 245, Sylvan Knoll Section II, Stamford. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association.

Filed June 29.

Johnston, Ruby, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Alan P. Rosenberg, West Hartford, for Woodfield Common Association Inc., Norwalk. Property: Unit 28, Woodfield Common, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association.

Filed July 5.

Morales, Alixandro, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 1 Southfield Ave., Unit 209, Stamford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $89,000 dated March 2004. Filed July 2.

Keeney, Wayne, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Alan P. Rosenberg, West Hartford, for Woodfield Common Association Inc., Norwalk. Property: Unit 11, Woodfield Common, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association.

Filed July 5.

Narwani, Priya, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by David Carlson, Pawtucket, R.I., for Retained Realty Inc., New York City. Property: 125 Prospect St., Unit 5E, Stamford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $154,000 dated September 2003.

Filed June 28.

Lauture, Hyanique, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 7 Maplewood Ave., Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $438,921 dated May 2009. Filed July 9.

Nguyen, Thuan, et al., New Canaan, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for U.S. Bank N.A., trustee, Minneapolis, Minn. Property: 55 Anthony Lane, New Canaan. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $720,000 dated September 2006. Filed June 5.

Lindsay, Rowena, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 239 harbor Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $274,050 Dated July 2008. Filed July 17.

Ochoa, Maria, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Alan P. Rosenberg, West Hartford, for Woodfield Common Association Inc., Norwalk. Property: Unit 45, Woodfield Common, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association.

Filed July 5.

Olszewski, Janet, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 5 Peveril Road, Unit 1, Stamford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $232,000 dated May 2007. Filed June 29.

Pascal, Dganit, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for HSBC Bank USA N.A., Buffalo, N.Y. Property: 143 Hoyt St., Unit 1G, Stamford.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $260,000 dated July 2007. Filed June 29.

PMJ Property Investment L.L.C., et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Paul A. DeGenaro, Stamford, for First County Bank, Stamford. Property: 180 Main St., Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $980,000 dated July 2005. Filed June 29.

Quijada, Abel, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 117 Stillwater Ave., Stamford.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $438,400 dated October 2007. Filed July 2.

Schwartz III, Charles, et al., New Canaan, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 474 Ponus Ridge Road, New Canaan. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $2.4 million dated March 2004. Filed June 12.

St. John’s Episcopal Church, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Wayne R. Sharnick, Bridgeport, for Alliance Heating & Air Conditioning Inc., Bridgeport. Property: 628 E. Main St., Stamford. Action: to foreclose a mechanic’s lien in the amount of $54,105 dated August 2011. Filed June 29.

Water Pollution Control Authority of the City of Bridgeport, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Robert N. Sensale, New Haven, for Plymouth Park Tax Services, Bridgeport. Property: 1247 Pembroke St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on the property to recover delinquent municipal tax liens assigned to the plaintiff for collection. Filed July 17.

RMS-Hotel I L.L.C. and Washington Hospitality Group L.L.C., Stamford, by Randall Salvatore and Charles Mallory. Lender: People’s United Bank, Bridgeport. Property: 909 Washington Blvd., Stamford.

Amount: $9 million. Filed June 29.

Sprite Island Yacht Club Inc., Norwalk, by Charles Yengel.

Lender: Shelton Business BankWatt, Gerard, et al., Norwalk, et ing L.P.O., Shelton. Property: 28 al. Filed by Alan P. Rosenberg, West Canfield Ave., Norwalk. Amount: Hartford, for Woodfield Common $135,000. Filed June 28.

Association Inc., Norwalk. Property: Unit 40, Woodfield Common, New Businesses Norwalk. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. The Business Journal is not responsiFiled July 5. ble for typographical errors contained in the original filings.

Stack Jr., Rev. Sulton, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Green Tree Servicing L.L.C., Tempe, Ariz. Property: 40 Trelane Drive, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $238,000 Dated February 2007. Filed July 12.

Zemelman, Susan, et al., Stamford, et al. Filed by Gerald S. Knopf, Stamford, for The Buckingham Condominium Inc., Stamford.

Property: Unit H7, The Buckingham Condominium, Stamford. Action: to foreclose on the unit to recover delinquent common charges due the association. Filed July 2.

Stuart, Deborah, et al., Norwalk, et al. Filed by Matthew C. Mason, Wilton, for Fairfield County Bank and Ridgefield Bank Mortgage Corp., Ridgefield. Property: 19 Shorehaven Road, Norwalk.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $2 million dated October 2006. Filed July 5.

Mortgages

2BLikeU.com, 72 Gerdes Road, New Canaan 06840, c/o Vincent Moulterie. Filed June 27.

A&L Junk Removal, 112 Quince St., Bridgeport 06606, c/o Lindsey Rivera. Filed July 17.

All Dogs on Deck, 4 Beacon Hill Lane, New Canaan 06840, c/o Bar25 Old Stamford Road L.L.C., ney Kelley. Filed July 17.

Ridgefield, by Joseph Tarqueno.

Lender: Fairfield County Bank, Architectural Inflorescence, 7 Ridgefield. Property: 27 Old Stam- Weaver St., Greenwich 06831, c/o ford Road, Unit 3, New Canaan. Derek D’Andrea. Filed June 25.

Amount: $375,000. Filed June 7.

Ashley Kate Associates, 280 RailBCMW L.L.C., Stamford, by Brad road Ave., Greenwich 06830, c/o Cooper. Lender: Stanford First Ashley Allen. Filed July 13.

Tabacco, Vincent, et al., Norwalk, Bank, Stamford. Property: 20 Taff et al. Filed by Bendett & McHugh Ave., Stamford. Amount: $300,300.

P.C., Farmington, for The Bank of Filed June 29.

Balfour Air Freight TransNew York Mellon, New York City. portation, 160 Mill Road, New Property: 290 Sunrise Hill Lane, No. Canaan 06840, c/o Olf Veldhuis.

73, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a ECP East Avenue L.L.C., South- Filed July 23. delinquent mortgage in the origi- port, by Thomas McDevitt. Lender: nal principal amount of $190,000 First Niagara Bank N.A., Buffalo, N.Y. Property: 65 East Ave., Nor- Bateman Construction, 4 Hines dated May 2006. Filed July 6.

Robalino, Jose, et al., Stamford, et walk. Amount: $2.3 million. Filed Lane, Riverside 06878, c/o Hunter al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson Bateman. Filed June 25.

July 3.

P.C., Hartford, for Onewest Bank Triglia, Anthony, et al., Stamford, F.S.B., Pasadena, Calif. Property: et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacob54 Swampscott Road, Stamford. son P.C., Hartford, for The Bank of Hotel Zero Degrees (Norwalk) Cabimotors C.A., 69 Spring Hill Action: to foreclose a delinquent New York Mellon, New York City. L.L.C., Stamford, by Randall Salva- Ave., Norwalk 06850, c/o Luis Flomortgage in the original principal Property: 43 Ayres Drive, Stamford. tore. Lender: People’s United Bank, rez. Filed July 9. amount of $392,000 dated Novem- Action: to foreclose a delinquent Bridgeport. Property: 353 Main ber 2003. Filed July 2. mortgage in the original principal Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $9 million. Carsin Taxes, 920 Maplewood amount of $512,000 dated July Filed June 29.

Ave., Bridgeport 06605, c/o Nadiha 2005. Filed July 2.

Lindsay. Filed July 16.

Roberts. Edith, et al., Stamford, Kaeser Development L.L.C., et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for New York Utschig, Christopher, et al., New Weston, by John Kaeser. Lender: Coverall Cleaning Concepts, 33 Community Bank, Cleveland, Canaan, et al. Filed by Bendett & Savings Bank of Danbury, Dan- Hanover St., Stamford 06902, c/o Ohio. Property: 16 Rose Park Ave., McHugh P.C., Farmington, for bury. Property: 136 Dougals Road, Vanessa Fabre. Filed July 11.

Stamford. Action: to foreclose a Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, New Canaan. Amount: $1.3 mildelinquent mortgage in the origi- N.C. Property: 729 Cheese Spring lion. Filed June 5. nal principal amount of $316,000 Road, New Canaan. Action: to Crimson Hair Salon L.L.C., 109 dated November 2005. Filed July 2. foreclose a delinquent mortgage in Greenwich Ave., Second floor, the original principal amount of Maz L.L.C., Greenwich, by Michael Greenwich 06830, c/o Teresa FlemZelenz Jr. Lender: The Greenwich $750,000 dated September 2006. ing. Filed June 29.

Bank & Trust Co., Greenwich.

Filed May 18.

Property: 37 Sherwood Place, Greenwich. Amount: $500,000.

Filed July 16.

Rapoza, Barbara, et al., Bridgeport, et al. Filed by Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C., Hartford, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 338 Willow St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $114,000 Dated October 2007. Filed July 16.

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on the record Dino-Mites Soccer Adventure, JF Treecares Services L.L.C., 78 Rebirth Thrift Store, 1891 E. 58 Hawks Hill Road, New Canaan Main St., Apt. 01, Norwalk 06851, Main St., Bridgeport 06610, c/o 06840, c/o David Johnson. Filed c/o Salvador Figueroa. Filed July 3. Marjorie McAllister. Filed July 12.

July 20.

Don Forge Landscaping, 11 Silent Grove Court, Norwalk 06854, c/o Jorge Pineda. Filed July 3.

Jorge Diaz Transportation, Resurxtion M.C., 208 Fairview 719 Washington Ave., Bridgeport Ave., Bridgeport 06606, c/o John 06604, c/o Jorge Diaz. Filed July 18. Ruggiero. Filed July 12.

Just 4U Catering, 25 Wood Tere1-merchant-intl.com, 59 Green- race, Bridgeport 06604, c/o Arlene wich Hills Drive, Greenwich 06830, Ducran. Filed July 17. c/o Evelyne Bushani. Filed July 13.

Elias Properties, 94 New Norwalk Road, New Canaan 06840, c/o Hadas Murphy. Filed June 27.

Sal’s Landscaping & Masonry L.L.C., 76 Soundview Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Salvador Lopez.

Filed July 3.

Kage Design, 268 Jelliff Mill Road, New Canaan 06840, c/o Jay Servi- Second Family Care, 21 Gilbert dio. Filed June 22.

Hill Road, Norwalk 06853, c/o Ginette Civil. Filed July 9.

Kyna Shine, 1228 King St., No. 8, Everyday Pharma, 20 Brookside Greenwich 06831, c/o Kyna Shine. Silk Tree Gardens, 65 Harlem Drive, No. 4G, Greenwich 06830, Filed June 28.

Ave., Bridgeport 06606, c/o Elaine c/o Angela Caban. Filed July 12.

George. Filed July 12.

Lela Philip Design, 97 Maher Ave., Exit Partners Realty, 14 Mead Greenwich 06830, c/o Lela Philip. Small Time Painters, 11 Academy Ave., Cos Cob 06807, c/o Frank Filed June 29.

St., Norwalk 06850, c/o Charles Farricker. Filed July 13.

Murchison. Filed July 9.

Fuegy Entertainment, 42 Lincoln Ave., Apt. 1, Norwalk 06854, c/o Mikenley St. Victor. Filed July 3.

L-Ski Photography, 87 Old Stamford Road, New Canaan 06840, c/o Lawrence Skibitcky. Filed July 18.

Smiley’s Courier Service, 66 Taft Ave., Bridgeport 06606, c/o Islington Ellis. Filed July 16.

Lucy Loves…, 8 Putnam Road, G and G Developers, 267 W. Ce- New Canaan 06840, c/o Lucy Lef- Sweet Milly’s, 52 Toilsom Ave., dar St., Apt. 5F, Norwalk 06854, c/o ferts. Filed July 13.

Norwalk 06851, c/o Melissa StapleFrancesco Pensiero. Filed July 3. ton. Filed July 6.

G Productions, 215 River Road Extension, Cos Cob 06807, c/o Gennaro Scarpelli. Filed July 3.

Gimbrere Associates, 121 Lockwood Road, Riverside 06878, c/o Michael Gimbrere. Filed July 16.

Moving Harmony, 67 Weed Ave., Norwalk 06850, c/o Willian Wrenn. Trinity Cleaning Service, 89 Pitt Filed July 9.

St., Bridgeport 06606, c/o Bryant Johnson. Filed July 16.

Nathalie Fajardo, 75-5 Vinci Drive, Greenwich 06830, c/o Lesly Fajardo. Filed June 28.

Orquesta Afinke, 750 Platt St., Grandparents Second Time Bridgeport 06606, c/o Herminio Around Inc., 727 Laurel Ave., Planas. Filed July 12.

Bridgeport 06604, c/o Diane Hardison. Filed July 16.

Pallmer Floors Design, 41 Alanson Road, Second floor, BridgeGreencleaning L.L.C., 63 River- port 06607, c/o Ademir Silva. Filed dale Ave., Apt. 2, Greenwich 06831, July 18. c/o Sindy Quintero. Filed July 17.

Wall Street Multiservices and Boutique, 16 Wall St., Norwalk 06850, c/o Carolina Lopez. Filed July 6.

White Dove Multiservices Inc., 2852 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport 06605, c/o Carline Alexandre. Filed July 12.

Xtreme Limousine, 1 Horizon Drive, Norwalk 06854, c/o Mario Benitez. Filed July 3.

Plum Tree Japanese Restaurant, 70 Main St., New Canaan 06840, c/o Veronica Haynes. Filed July 6.

Yanery’s Cleaning, 141 Turkey Roost Road, Monroe 06468, c/o Nohelio Martinez. Filed July 9.

Post Road Technology, 22 LakevGreg Peck Real Estate Services, iew Drive, Riverside 06878, c/o Sean 161 East Ave., New Canaan 06840, Keegan. Filed July 16.

Zambrano’s Contracting L.L.C., c/o Gregory Peck. Filed June 25.

23 Cos Cob Ave., Second floor, Cos Cob 06807, c/o Luis Zambrano.

Professional Cleaning Systems Filed July 13.

Inca Builders Inc., 62 Ivy St., L.L.C., 95 Wilson St., Bridgeport Greenwich 06830, c/o Joseph Mau- 06605, c/o Juan Cruz-Alonso. Filed cailla. Filed July 2.

July 12.

Greenwich Creative Group, 27 Shady Lane, Greenwich 06831, c/o Gayle Piersol. Filed July 3.

Bottle. Patent no. D664,857 issued to: Patrick J. Finlay, New Fairfield; Jennifer Antczak, Darien; Jacinthe Brillet, France; Goldenberg; MiAdaptive equalizer for high- chael, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Lindberg; speed serial data. Patent no. Brent, Saint Charles, Ill. Assigned to 8,238,413 issued to Wolfgang Ro- PepsiCo Inc., Purchase, N.Y. ethig, San Jose, Calif. and Genady Veytsman, Israel. Assigned to TranCaching for color management Switch Corp., Shelton. systems performing a gamut mapping function. Patent no.

Apparatus and method of user 8,237,735 issued to Meng Yao, interface with alternate tool West Linn, Ore. and James W. Reid, mode for robotic surgical tools. Brockport, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Patent no. 8,231,638 issued to Nit- Corp., Norwalk. ish Swarup, Sunnyvale, Calif. and Scott Manzo, Shelton. Assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Computer-implemented methods, systems and computer proInc., Sunnyvale, Calif. gram products for autonomic recovery of messages. Patent no.

Apparatus and methods for 8,239,519 issued to: Soobaek Jang, interfacing reprographic and Hamden; Hung Q. Pham, Waterimaging systems with multiple- bury; and Nianjun Zhou, Danbury. set finishing devices. Patent no. Assigned to International Busi8,233,175 issued to: Paul N. Rich- ness Machines Corp., Armonk, ards, Fairport, N.Y.; Wilbert D. N.Y. Douglas, Pittsford, N.Y.; Richard Fischer, Lakeville, N.Y.; Donald Ryan, Webster, N.Y.; Carol-Lynn Continuous feed duplex printer.

Goldstein, Rochester, N.Y.; Jeff Patent no. 8,231,196 issued to JoGramowski, North Chili, N.Y.; seph Herman Lang, Webster, N.Y. Mehmet Gungor, Webster, N.Y.; Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Douglas F. Sundquist, Webster, N.Y.; Diego Pereda, Fairport, N.Y.; and Jose Soler, Fairport, N.Y. As- Curable solid-ink compositions.

Patent no. 8,236,870 issued to: signed to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Marcel P. Breton, Canada; Michelle N. Chretien, Canada; Jeffrey H. Apparatus and methods to Banning, Hillsboro, Ore.; Stephan analyze down-hole fluids us- V. Drappel, Canada; Ian R. Duffy, ing ionized fluid samples. Patent Canada; and Christopher A. Wagno. 8,230,916 issued to: Ernest N. ner, Canada. Assigned to Xerox Sumrall, Houston, Texas; Antho- Corp., Norwalk. ny Goodwin, Sugar Land, Texas; Erik Quam, Missouri City, Texas; Chengli Dong, Sugar Land, Texas; Curing-light instrument. Patent and Oliver C. Mullins, Ridgefield. no. 8,231,383 issued to: Owen Gill, Assigned to Schlumberger Tech- Southbury; John Klinger, Sandy Hook; and Alex Lippay, Kent. Asnology Corp., Sugar Land, Texas. signed to Kerr Corp., Orange, Calif.

Apparatus, systems and methods for facilitating a negative-credit balance of a gaming device. Pat- Electrostatic disturbance used ent no. 8,231,459 issued to: Jay S. in a timing routine for HVPS Walker, Ridgefield; James A. Jo- switching in a pressure transfer rasch, New York City; Robert C. system involving BTB or BTR. Tedesco, Fairfield; and Magdalena Patent no. 8,238,769 issued to MiM. Fincham, Ridgefield. Assigned chael N. Soures, Webster, N.Y. Asto International Game Technol- signed to Xerox Corp., Norwalk. ogy, Reno, Nev.

Patents

Automatic trim system for fly-bywire aircraft with unique-trim controllers. Patent no. 8,231,085 issued to Igor Cherepinsky, Sandy Hook. Assigned to Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford.

Fast method to model photoresist images using focus blur and resist blur. Patent no. 8,238,644 issued to: Timothy A. Brunner, Ridgefield; Gregg M. Gallatin, Newtown; Ronald L. Gordon, North Borough, Mass.; Kafai Lai, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Alan E. Rosenbluth, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.; and Nakgeuon Seong, Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. Ferromagnetic nanoparticles with high magnetocrystalline anisotropy for MICR ink applications. Patent no. 8,236,192 issued to: Marcel P. Breton, Canada; Richard P. N. Veregin, Canada; Karen A. Moffat, Canada; Peter M. Kazmaier, Canada; Patricia A. Burns, Canada; and Paul F. Smith, Canada.

Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

FET structures with trench implantation to improve backchannel leakage and body resistance. Patent no. 8,236,632 issued to: David M. Fried, Brewster, N.Y.; Jeffrey B. Johnson, Essex Junction, Vt.; Kevin McStay, Hopewell Junction, N.Y.; Paul C. Parries, Wappingers Falls, N.Y.; Chengwen Pei, Danbury; Gan Wang, Fishkill, N.Y.; Geng Wang, Stormville, N.Y.; and Yanli Zhang, San Jose, Calif. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. Flexible system for feeding and processing multipage documents. Patent no. 8,237,998 issued to: Boris Rozenfeld, New Milford; Douglas B. Quine, Bethel; Richard W. Heiden, Shelton; and Arthur H. DePoi, Brookfield. Assigned to Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford.

Fluorescent nanoscale particles.

Patent no. 8,236,198 issued to: Maria M. Birau, Canada; Gabriel Iftime, Canada; Sandra J. Gardner, Canada; Paul F. Smith, Canada; Peter M. Kazmaier, Canada; and Peter G. Odell, Canada. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Forming semiconductor chip connections. Patent no. 8,236,610 issued to: Louis Lu-Chen Hsu, Fishkill, N.Y.; Kangguo Cheng, Guidlerland, N.Y.; Timothy J. Dalton, Ridgefield; Mukta G. Farooq, Hopewell Junction, N.Y.; and John A. Fitzsimmons, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

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on the record High-efficiency dual-stack molten carbonate fuel-cell system.

Patent no. 8,236,458 issued to: Fred C. Jahnke, Rye, N.Y.; Mohammad Farooque, Danbury; and Hossein Ghezel-Ayagh, New Milford. Assigned to FuelCell Energy Inc., Danbury.

Intelligent document filtering.

Patent no. 8,239,756 issued to Stephane Herman Maes, Danbury and Thiruvilwamalai V. Raman, San Jose, Calif. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

Method and apparatus for providing a bonus to a player. Patent no. 8,231,455 issued to: Jay S. Walker, Ridgefield; Russell P. Sammon, San Francisco, Calif.; Robert C. Tedesco, Fairfield;; Stephen C. Tulley, Monroe; and Daniel E. Tedesco, Shelton. Assigned to International Game Technology, Reno, Nev.

Method to improve ATSCVSB transceiver performance employing a time-frequency wave-form processor. Patent no.

8,238,404 issued to Krishnamurthy Vaidyanathan, Ossining, N.Y. and Geoffrey F. Burns, Ridgefield.

Assigned to Koninklijke Philps Electronics N.V., the Netherlands.

Method and system for authenticating a user based on a physical object. Patent no. 8,239,924 issued to Bradley W. Ficko, Canada and Frederick W. Ryan Jr., Oxford.

Assigned to Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford.

Methods and system for analysis and management of parametric yield. Patent no. 8,239,790 issued to: James A. Culp, Newburgh, N.Y.; Paul Chang, Mahopac, N.Y.; Dureseti Chidambarrao, Weston; Praveen Elakkumanan, White Plains, N.Y.; Jason Hibbeler, Williston, Vt.; and Anda C. Mocuta, LaGrangeville, N.Y. Assigned to International Business Machines Passivation layer-surface toCorp., Armonk, N.Y. pography modifications for improved integrity in packaged assemblies. Patent no. 8,236,615 Modification of images from a issued to: Alexandre Blander, Canuser’s album for spot-the-differ- ada; Jon A Casey, Poughkeepsie, ences. Patent no. 8,237,743 issued N.Y.; Timothy H. Daubenspeck, to Gabriela Csurka, France and Colchester, Vt.; Ian D. Melville, Guillaume M. Bouchard, France. Highland, N.Y.; Jennifer V. Muncy, Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk. Ridgefield; and Marie-Claude Paquet, Canada. Assigned to InternaMonolayer dopant embedded tional Business Machines Corp., stressor for advanced CMOS. Armonk, N.Y. Patent no. 8,236,660 issued to: Kevin K. Chan, Staten Island, N.Y.; Patch codes using a proximity Abhishek Dube, Fishkill, N.Y.; Jud- array. Patent no. 8,238,001 issued son R. Holt, Wappingers Falls, N.Y.; to R. Victor Klassen, Webster, N.Y. Jinghong Li, Poughquag, N.Y.; Jo- and Stephen C. Morgana, Rochesseph S. Newbury, Irvington, N.Y.; ter, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Viorel Ontalus, Danbury; Dae-Gyu Norwalk.

Park, Poughquag, N.Y.; and Zhengmao Zhu, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Assigned to International Business Photochromic materials incorMachines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. porated in polymer backbone.

Patent no. 8,236,466 issued to: Kentaro Morimitsu, Canada; Gabriel Nanowire devices for enhanc- Iftime, Canada; and Peter M. Kaing mobility through stress en- zmaier, Canada. Assigned to Xerox gineering. Patent no. 8,237,150 Corp., Norwalk. issued to: Dureseti Chidambarrao, Weston; Xiao H. Liu, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.; and Lidija Sekaric, Photoresist removal. Patent no.

Mount Kisco, N.Y. Assigned to In- 8,236,485 issued to: David W. Minternational Business Machines sek, Pleasantville, N.Y.; Melissa K. Corp., Armonk, N.Y. Murphy, Danbury; David Daniel Bernhard, Newtown; and Thomas H. Baum, New Fairfield. Assigned One-piece belt installation/re- to Advanced Technology Materimoval guide. Patent no. 8,231,489 als Inc., Danbury. issued to Steven J. Fiore, Hilton, N.Y. and Brian J. Perry, Bloomfield, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk. Platform for fixing surgical instruments during surgery. Patent no. 8,230,863. Issued to: Sundaram Ravikumar, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.; H. Allan Alward, Shelton; Steven J. Wysocki, Stratford; and Guy L. Osborne, Trumbull. Assigned to Mini-Lap Technologies Inc., Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

Lubricating oil. Patent no.

8,236,167 issued to D. Matthew Method and system for creation Lacerenza, Stamford. Assigned to of voice training profiles with Liquifix, Stamford. multiple methods with uniform server mechanism using heterogeneous devices. Patent Mail-piece container for stack- no. 8,239,198 issued to: Nianjun ing mixed mail and method for Zhou, Somers, N.Y.; Amarjit S. stacking mail therein. Patent no. Bahl, Brookfield; and Michael Van 8,231,002 issued to Denis J. Stem- Der Meulen, Redding. Assigned to mle, Stratford. Assigned to Lock- Nuance Communications Inc., heed Martin Corp., Bethesda, Md. Burlington, Mass.

Match-off of order flow in electronic market system. Patent no.

8,239,303 issued to: Peter Martyn, Ridgewood, N.J.; Stuart Serkin, Fairfield; and John Malitzis, Washington, D.C. Assigned to The NASDAQ OMX Group Inc., New York City.

Method and system for universal translating information. Patent no. 8,239,183 issued to Neil Sembower, Webster, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Method of generating multiple recommendations for multiobjective available-to-sell (ATS) Method and apparatus for end- optimization problem. Patent no. to-end retail store site optimiza- 8,239,294 issued to: Vikas Agrawal, tion. Patent no. 8,239,245 issued Danbury; Thomas R. Ervolina, to: Xin Xin Bai, China; Dong; Jin, Poughquag, N.Y.; and Yunhee Jang, China; Ta-Hsin Li, Danbury; Wen Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Assigned to InJun Yin, China; Bin Zhang, China; ternational Business Machines and Cindy Q. Zhang, China. As- Corp., Armonk, N.Y. signed to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. Method of passivating chemical mechanical polishing comMethod and apparatus for en- positions for copper-film plahanced lifetime and perfor- narization processes. Patent no. mance of ion source in an ion- 8,236,695 issued to: Jun Liu, Brookimplantation system. Patent no. field; Mackenzie King, Southbury; 8,237,134 issued to: Robert Kaim, Michael S. Darsillo, Landenberg, Brookline, Mass.; Joseph D. Swee- Pa.; Karl E. Boggs, Hopewell Juncney, Winsted; Anthony M. Avila, tion, N.Y.; Jeffrey F. Roeder, BrookAustin, Texas; and Richard S. Ray, field; Peter Wrschka, Phoenix, Ariz.; New Milford. Assigned to Ad- and Thomas H. Baum, New Fairvanced Technology Materials field. Assignee: Advanced TechInc., Danbury. nology Materials Inc., Danbury.

Method and apparatus for fixing a radiation-curable gel-ink image on a substrate. Patent no.

8,231,214 issued to: Bryan J. Roof, Newark, N.Y.; Steven E. Ready, Los Altos, Calif.; and Jurgen H. Daniel, San Francisco, Calif. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Method and apparatus for producing kinetic imagery. Patent no. 8,230,625 issued to Joseph Pentland, Bridgeport.

Method of postal payment for set of customized postage. Patent no. 8,239,322 issued to Darryl T. Rathbun, Stratford and Frederick W. Ryan Jr., Oxford. Assigned to Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford.

On-line waiting room system, method and computer program product. Patent no. 8,234,135 issued to: Patrick Herde, Hollywood, Fla.; Bill Binenstock, Hollywood, Fla.; Antonio Fernandez, Pompano Beach, Fla.; John R. Hopwood, Denver, Colo.; Terrence Lee, Norwalk; Steve Snyder, Coral Springs, Fla.; Kar Loong Wong, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Natalle Adams, Davie, Fla.; Ronnie Paskin, Plantation, Fla.; Louis Thomas, Coral Springs, Fla.; Brijesh Sutaria, Tamarac, Fla.; Daniel L. Smith, Pompano Beach, Fla.; Fausto Albamonte, Greensboro, N.C.; and Christopher M. Kerlin, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Assigned to CBS Interactive Inc., New York City.

Polyaxial screwdriver for a pedicle screw system. Patent no.

8,231,635 issued to: Amir Ali Sharifi-Mehr, Bloomingdale, N.J.; Ernie Corrao, Bethel; and Andy Wonyong Choi, Wayne, N.J. Assigned to Stryker Spine, France.

Print-job scheduling for processing print jobs based on user setdelay criteria. Patent no. 8,237,964 issued to: Zhigang Fan, Webster, N.Y.; R. Victor Klassen, Webster, N.Y.; David Mantell, Rochester, N.Y.; Warren Kleiman, Fairport, N.Y.; Gregory W. Zack, Pittsford, N.Y.; and Christopher Jon Regruit, Rochester, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Semi-supervised visual clustering. Patent no. 8,239,379 issued to Boris Chidlovskii, France and Loic Lecerf, France. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

System and method of utilizing tab attributes as job ticket attributes for printing. Patent no.

8,237,979 issued to Elton Tarik Ray, Lakeville, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

System with user-directed enrichment. Patent no. 8,239,413 issued to Laurence Hubert, France.

Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Systems and methods for simulating a change to a prescription drug plan. Patent no. 8,239,213 issued to: Les Paul, Greenville, Del.; Amy Foley, Pompton Plains, N.J.; Single-layer photoreceptor com- Brian F. Ezrow, Quakertown, Pa.; prising high-mobility transport David B. Snow Jr., Darien; Ella mixtures. Patent no. 8,236,469 issued Berger, Fair Lawn, N.J.; Robert S. to: Nancy L. Belknap, Rochester, N.Y.; Epstein, Upper Grandview, N.Y.; Katlyn Mallory, Rochester, N.Y.; Helen Beth Bird, Chicago, Ill.; Marianne Cherniack, Rochester, N.Y.; and Ed- Jacks, Mountain Lakes, N.J.; Tej ward F. Grabowski, Webster, N.Y. As- Anand, Chappaqua, N.Y.; and Visigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk. cente L. Caride, New York City. Assigned to Medco Health Solutions Inc., Franklin Lakes, N.J. Slow-speed spindle for micropunch grinding. Patent no.

8,231,429 issued to: Greg A. Hil- Tamper-resistant oral opioid debrand, Keizer, Ore.; John Wollsei- agonist formulations. Patent no. ffen, Canby, Ore.; and Russell 8,236,351 issued to: Benjamin OshMuhlestein, Keizer, Ore. Assigned lack, New York City; Curtis Wright, to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Norwalk; and J. David Haddox, Upper Stepney. Assigned to Purdue Pharma L.P., Stamford.

Softproofing via modeling printengine rendering characteristics.

Patent no. 8,237,985 issued to: Wil- Throughput estimate based liam S. Jacobs, Los Angeles, Calif.; upon document complexity David C. Robinson, Penfield, N.Y.; analysis. Patent no. 8,237,962 isand Michael E. Farrell, Webster, sued to Richard T. Horn, ClareN.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., mont, Calif. and Lynn Kirby-Mello, Norwalk.

Pasadena, Calif. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Surgical stapler. Patent no.

8,231,042 issued to Thomas R. Hessler, Bethel and Keith L. Milliman, Bethel. Assigned to Tyco Healthcare Group L.P., Mansfield, Mass.

Uses of synthetic peptide amides. Patent no. 8,236,766 issued to: Claudio D. Schteingart, San Diego, Calif.; Frederique Menzaghi, Rye, N.Y.; Guangcheng Jiang, San Diego, Calif.; Roberta Vezza Alexander, Surgical-stapling apparatus. Pat- San Diego, Calif.; Javier Sueirasent no. 8,231,043 issued to: Danyel Diaz, La Jolla, Calif.; Robert H. Tarinelli, Middletown; Ernie Spencer, New Hope, Pa.; Derek T. Aranyi, Easton; Richard Simpson, Chalmers, Riverside; and Zhiyong Hamden; and Sachin Shah, Mil- Luo, New City, N.Y. Assigned to ford. Assigned to Tyco Healthcare Cara Therapeutics Inc., Shelton.

Group L.P., Mansfield, Mass.

System and method for facet fixation. Patent no. 8,231,660 issued to: Kingsley R. Chin, Riviera Beach, Fla.; Christopher Chang, Beverly, Mass.; and Ernie Corrao, Bethel. Assigned to Spinefrontier Inc., Beverly, Mass.

System and method of predicting problematic areas for lithography in a circuit design. Patent no. 8,239,789 issued to: Timothy A. Brunner, Ridgefield; Stephen E. Greco, Lagrangeville, N.Y.; Bernhard R. Liegl, Beacon, N.Y.; and Hua Xiang, Ossining, N.Y. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

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Variable compression surgicalfastener cartridge. Patent no.

8,231,041 issued to Stanislaw Marczyk, Stratford and John W. Beardsley, Hamden. Assigned to Tyco Healthcare Group L.P., Mansfield, Mass.

Variable compression surgicalfastener cartridge. Patent no.

8,231,040 issued to Michael A. Zemlok, Prospect and Frank J. Viola, Sandy Hook. Assigned to Tyco Healthcare Group L.P., Mansfield, Mass.

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om works third shift on your manufacturing floor. He works hard but has a difficult time sleeping between shifts and relies on copious amounts of coffee to make it through his work night. He never complains, since company culture accepts fatigue and weariness as part of the job.

But is it safe to let Tom continue to work in his sleep-deprived state, even though he’s a model employee with a clean safety record?

According to Steven Lockley, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, neuroscientist at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and speaker at CBIA’s Annual Health and Safety Conference, the answer is no. As an employer, it’s your responsibility to understand the dangers associated with sleep deprivation and its impact on employees’ safety and productivity.

“Sleepiness is a real danger in the workplace, at home, and on the roads—and it’s avoidable,” says Lockley. “We know it’s going to happen. We know why people get sleepy. This is something we can prevent and reduce the risk of serious problems.“

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arlier this year, the United States Patent and Trademark Office and National Institute of Standards and Technology unveiled a new web-based Intellectual Property Awareness Assessment Tool designed to help manufacturers, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and independent inventors easily assess their knowledge of intellectual property (IP).

Sleep is vital to human health and well-being.

When employees are sleep-deprived, they can put themselves and others at risk, especially if they get behind the wheel or operate heavy machinery.

The tool enables users to measure and increase their awareness of IP issues related to their creative projects and business goals and provides personalized training resources.

Participants in a study who drove after having been awake for 17–19 hours were as impaired as if they had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.05%, says Lockley. Those who had been awake for 24 hours were as impaired as if they had a blood alcohol concentration of roughly 0.10%. (Connecticut law prohibits driving with a blood alcohol level of .08%.)

The full assessment includes questions in five IP protection categories (utility patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and design patents) plus five general IP categories (IP strategies and best practices, using technology of others, licensing technology to others, international IP rights, and IP asset tracking. The questions in each category have been designed to discover participants’ overall IP awareness related to their IP asset protection needs.

“It’s not the damage you do to yourself, which is serious enough,” he said. “It’s the damage you do to other people that’s unacceptable. Really take this seriously and educate your employees, because it’s other people who are harmed, and it’s unacceptable to behave in a way that harms others.” ➤ Read more at cbia.com/hr

After completing the assessment, the results, along with links for suggested training materials, will be displayed and can be printed or converted to a PDF format for future use. ➤ Read more at cbia.com

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Bright Prospects for Fuel Cell, Other Manufacturing

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lthough FuelCell Energy’s Frank Wolak recognizes that Connecticut has seen a decline in manufacturing in recent decades, he prefers to look forward rather than backward.

When he does, he likes what he sees—for his industry and Connecticut’s manufacturing sector overall.

“Among manufacturers in Connecticut that we interface with, there is renewed enthusiasm about the prospects for manufacturing in the state, provided that regulation and state policies don’t [drive up] the cost of doing business here,” says Wolak, who serves as vice president,

government business, at FuelCell Energy.

With its world headquarters in Danbury and manufacturing facility in Torrington, the firm employs more than 500 people.

“I think the Malloy administration is working hard to relieve some of [the burdens on business], as are members of the legislature,” adds Wolak.

“I really think there’s a sense that Connecticut has an important place in the manufacturing spectrum and that we’ve got good, solid fundamentals here.”

Wolak told Mfg4 participants that the outlook for

clean energy manufacturing is positive, based on three factors: f Electricity demand is expected to increase dramatically (by 80%, according to an ExxonMobil report) by 2040 f The price of petroleum is expected to continue rising f Demand for clean energy, whether driven by government regulations or societal preference, will increase ➤ Read more at cbia.com

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