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Birger Emil "Pop" Johansson, a retired welder and carpenter and World War II veteran, died of kidney and heart failure Wednesday at Carroll County General Hospital. The Freeland resident was 89. Mr. Johansson was born and raised in Kirjala, Finland. During the 1930s, he served as an officer in the Finnish cavalry and later joined the Finnish merchant marine, serving aboard ships as a purser and chef. When a ship he was aboard was requisitioned in 1941 by U.S. authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands, he was transported to Baltimore with its officers and crew.

Wedding Date: October 6, 2012 Her story: Lacey Morley, 32, grew up Fork, Md., and currently lives in Federal Hill. She is a member of the leasing team for St. John Properties. Her parents, Paul Morley and Barbara Morley are accountants and partners in Morley & Morley, Inc. in Fork. His story: Christian Johansson, 40, grew up in Sweden and Omaha, Neb., and currently lives in Federal Hill. He is the Secretary of Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development.

Christian Johansson, who helped the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore shift to a more targeted approach in attracting business to the region, will step down as the organization's president and chief executive in July. The alliance, a private economic development marketing group, said yesterday that Johansson is leaving after five years at the helm to start a private equity firm focused on minority businesses. "He has been energetic and has gotten out into the community and helped expand our board and our reach tremendously," said Laura Gamble, chairwoman of the alliance's board and president of Bank of America-Maryland.

The BWI Business Partnership's breakfast will feature Christian Johansson, the Maryland Secretary of Business and Economic Development, Tuesday, March 20 from 7:45 to 9:15 a.m at the Hotel at Arundel Preserve, 7795 Arundel Mills Blvd., in Hanover. Johansson will speak about critical issues involving Maryland's competitive business climate, both regionally and in the international marketplace; and the work of his department's Office of Military and Federal Affairs and the state's tourism promotion efforts.

Scarlett Johansson is too good and too hot for Woody Allen's Match Point. She brings down this homicidal London-set romance like a match igniting a Covent Garden opera house of cards. There's a lot of opera in this movie. As if the prominent placement of Crime and Punishment weren't enough to foreshadow gloom and doom, the onslaught of arias indicates that nothing will be easy for Johansson's struggling American actress, Nola Rice, and her ambitious Irish lover, Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers)

The Washington Capitals and veteran defenseman Calle Johansson parted ways yesterday on friendly terms. Johansson and Caps general manager George McPhee agreed the 16-year veteran would not be part of the team's on-ice plans next season. "Calle is not sure if he will play next season, but if he does, he'll explore free agency," McPhee said. "If he decides not to play, we'd like to have him join our European scouting staff. He was one of our best defensemen for 15 years and is one of the classiest individuals in the game."

The newly renamed Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore announced yesterday that it has promoted its No. 2 executive, Christian S. Johansson, to managing director and head of the organization. Under a new leadership arrangement, David M. Gillece, president of the commercial real estate firm Colliers Pinkard and chairman of the Economic Alliance, will take on the added role of the business group's chief executive. "The reason it makes sense is the peculiarity of me coming in as chairman with 20 years of experience in economic development," Gillece said.

WASHINGTON -- It has been 36 years since a relatively unknown Swedish boxer named Ingemar Johansson stunned the boxing world by knocking down champion Floyd Patterson seven times on the way to winning the world heavyweight championship.That was the first of their three title encounters, with Patterson winning the last two fights. Now good friends, who see each other at least twice a year, Johansson and Patterson yesterday recounted the days they monopolized the heavyweight crown while sharing the dais with ring legends Archie Moore, Carmen Basilio, Gene Fullmer and Kid Gavilan at the annual "Fight For Children" charity boxing show.

The Washington Capitals, whose locker room resembles a MASH unit, sent defensemen Calle Johansson, Joe Reekie and Stewart Malgunas for more X-rays and exams yesterday.The good news is that the Caps learned that Johansson's right wrist, injured in the team's 4-2 loss at Pittsburgh on Thursday, is not broken. They also learned that Reekie, who suffered a bruised nerve in his left foot in the same game, is day-to-day.The bad news is that Johansson's wrist is so badly sprained that he still will be out two to four weeks.

LANDOVER -- The Washington Capitals, it seems, spent a lot of time playing the ghost of Mario Lemieux yesterday. Finally, after two periods and trailing 2-1, someone noticed that the legendary No. 66 wasn't among the Pittsburgh Penguins cast but was back home with the flu.The Caps came out of the locker room in overdrive. Just 31 seconds after the resumption of play, Calle Johansson had a goal, tying the score.Six minutes and 10 shots later, Stefan Ustorf tapped in a rebound to put Washington in front on its way to a 4-2 victory, its sixth straight at USAir Arena.

Maryland's unemployment rate is creeping higher, though still trailing the national average. The state's struggling with a budget deficit, and many agencies, including the Department of Business and Economic Development, face sharp funding cuts. Yet Christian S. Johansson, the agency's new secretary, is bullish about Maryland's position in the recession. The 36-year-old Harvard MBA was tapped by Gov. Martin O'Malley in January to lead the agency, He knows that past governors have typically chosen DBED leaders with more experience, but Johansson said he believes he'll be judged more on the results he can deliver to businesses and workers across Maryland.

At a time of financial crisis, Gov. Martin O'Malley has chosen as the state's new economic development chief a thirtysomething Baltimorean whose private-sector experience includes a failed dot-com, two companies based out of his mother's home and a year at a consulting firm. O'Malley's choice of Christian S. Johansson to lead the state Department of Business and Economic Development might seem risky for a Cabinet post recently held by men decades his senior with far more experience in business and government.

2 Gov. Martin O'Malley plans to announce today the appointment of Christian Johansson, a Harvard University-educated entrepreneur who has run a Baltimore-based business and government alliance, as the state secretary of business and economic development. Johansson, who must be confirmed by the Senate, would replace David W. Edgerley, who resigned in December to pursue a career in the private sector or education. O'Malley has sought to reorganize the Department of Business and Economic Development, a process that emphasized efforts for the biotechnology industry and international trade and consolidated some functions.

You kiss Penelope Cruz, exchange a few e-mails with Barack Obama, get engaged to heartthrob Ryan Reynolds, and what? People talk?! Well, if you're Scarlett Johansson, they do. But the 23-year-old New Yorker has a few things of her own to say about what people are saying. And, by the way, you'll be seeing a lot more of Johansson soon ... and we're not talking about the sex scene in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which now is in theaters. She's got two more highly anticipated films on the horizon - the comic-strip adaptation The Spirit and the star-studded take on the relationship advice best-seller He's Just Not That Into You. In VCB, Johansson's third Woody Allen film, she plays Cristina, one of two American girls who get romantically involved with a pair of wild Spaniards played by Javier Bardem and Cruz.

BEIJING - He is the ultimate Swiss timepiece now. Gold, no less. Roger Federer has been pursuing a spot on the top platform of an Olympic victory stand for eight years and three Olympics, and it didn't seem possible that he had not yet made the climb. He has been the best tennis player in the world for long enough to have your son or daughter start and finish college, but the Olympics have always been his banana peel. Last night, it finally came to pass that dreams do come true, even for icons who have realized almost all of theirs.

Christian Johansson, who helped the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore shift to a more targeted approach in attracting business to the region, will step down as the organization's president and chief executive in July. The alliance, a private economic development marketing group, said yesterday that Johansson is leaving after five years at the helm to start a private equity firm focused on minority businesses. "He has been energetic and has gotten out into the community and helped expand our board and our reach tremendously," said Laura Gamble, chairwoman of the alliance's board and president of Bank of America-Maryland.

WASHINGTON - The Washington Capitals got a jolt of adrenaline against an even more goal-starved team than them last night and shut out the Atlanta Thrashers, 3-0. It was Washington's and goalie Olie Kolzig's first shutout of the season. He made 34 saves as the Caps ended a six-game winless streak. But with the good news for the Capitals came bad news as well. Veteran defenseman Calle Johansson will undergo shoulder surgery tomorrow to repair a severely torn right rotator cuff and will be out for the rest of the season.

On March 28, 2003, WILLIAM, devoted father of Angie Johansson, loving grandfather of Mason and Austin Johansson, dear brother of John Upright Jr. Friends may call at the CONNELLY FUNERAL HOME OF DUNDALK, P.A., 7110 Sollers Point Road, at Delvale Avenue on Thursday 11 to 1 P.M. Service to immediately follow. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery.

Standing at one of the 16 floor-to-ceiling windows inside his 20th-floor luxury condo, Christian S. Johansson brings to mind a popular movie scene -- you know, the one about being king of the world. Indeed, Johansson's lofty perch at the Harbor Court in downtown Baltimore is certainly fit for a king. Or at the very least, a successful 35-year-old bachelor who enjoys living in a residential building attached to a four-star hotel, complete with restaurants, a concierge and doorman, gym and more.

Celebrity sightings continued this weekend as the cast of He's Just Not That Into You worked and dined around town. Filming, which started Friday in Little Italy, will tentatively continue through tomorrow. Based on a self-help humor book, the movie brought stars Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Connelly and Kevin Connolly to Baltimore for the past few days. In Mount Vernon, restaurants Thairish and the Helmand were temporarily redecorated Saturday with new lights, a new door and a new name: Red Seven.