Daily Record (Baltimore, MD) articles from December 2006

Daily Record (Baltimore, MD) archives from December 2006

MD accounting firms announce staffing changes: December 1, 2006.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff ACCOUNTING Lee Ann Ahern, of Clifton Gunderson LLP, was promoted to senior associate. Ahern works at the firm's Bel Air office. Clifton Gunderson is the 12th-largest CPA and consulting firm in the United States....

Maryland architecture firms announce staffing changes: December 1, 2006.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff ARCHITECTURE Hord Coplan Macht Inc., an architecture firm based in Baltimore, has hired Bridget Parlato as a graphic designer. With 11 years of professional experience, Parlato is responsible for the creative...

Maryland boards announce staffing changes: December 1, 2006.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff BOARDS The Central Maryland Red Cross announced a newly elected executive committee. Fred Rigger Jr., of The Padonia Corp., was elected to serve as chair. Peter B. Rosenwald II, of Gordon, Feinblatt, was elected...

Maryland business development announce staffing changes:.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Sonja L.B. Hoover, fiscal/research specialist for the Hagerstown-Washington County Economic Development Commission, has been appointed to the Tri-County Council for Western...

Maryland education institutions announce staffing changes: December 1, 2006.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports EDUCATION The Maryland Institute College of Art announced five new staff members for the division of advancement: Robin Bisland, director of publications and editorial services; David R. Hart,...

Maryland engineering firms announce staffing changes: December 1, 2006.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff ENGINEERING Kibart Inc., a Towson-based mechanical/electrical engineering consulting firm, promoted Nadine Hawkins as an associate, Dean Harris as a project manager, John McClain as a project manager and Mohamad...

Maryland health care association announces staffing changes: December 1, 2006.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff HEALTH CARE Health Facilities Association of Maryland, the voice of the long-term care industry in Maryland, recently hired Kelley Ray as the group's vice president of government relations. In this position, Ray...

Maryland law firms announce staffing changes: December 1, 2006.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff LAW Hodes, Ulman, Pessin & Katz P.A. is honored to have 10 members from its corporate and litigation groups named to the Maryland Super Lawyers list. Super Lawyers identifies the top 5 percent of attorneys in...

MD marketing firms announce staffing changes: December 1, 2006.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff MARKETING The Maryland Business Council has hired Erica Barry as a marketing and communications specialist. In her new role, she will handle member relations, assist in driving membership growth, and plan...

Maryland nonprofits announce staffing changes: December 1, 2006.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff NONPROFIT The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore has named Michelle Gordon director of corporate relations. Previously the assistant director of marketing, she is now responsible for corporate...

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December 1, 2006... TECHNOLOGY Storewiz Inc., a provider of innovative online storage compression solutions, announced that it has recruited Jon Ash as vice president of sales for North America. Ash is responsible for the company's sales, support and operations in...

Maryland technology firms announce staffing changes: December 1, 2006.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff TECHNOLOGY Storewiz Inc., a provider of innovative online storage compression solutions, announced that it has recruited Jon Ash as vice president of sales for North America. Ash is responsible for the company's...

Commentary: Election in offers rare chance for all three branches to collaborate.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Steven I. Platt As the governor-elect and lieutenant governor-elect ramp up their transition, with a goal of having in place the top 40 executives of the incoming administration before they are sworn in, it would behoove them to...

Commentary: Tackling the status quo: the wisdom of Carly Fiorina.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Satish B. Parekh Recently I met Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, when she spoke at an event in Baltimore. She was the first female CEO of a Fortune 20 company and was named "The Most Powerful Woman in Business" by...

Commentary: Not all companies' compliance programs are created equal.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Aron U. Raskas In its revised Principles of Federal Prosecutions of Business Organizations, set forth in the Criminal Resource Manual, the Department of Justice outlined the factors that federal prosecutors will consider in...

One small step for mankind: the future of nanomedicine.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Karen Buckelew In the future, medicine could be in the palm of your hand -- quite literally, according to Peter Searson, director of the Institute for NanoBioTechnology at the Johns Hopkins University. Searson, speaking yesterday...

Defense lawyers challenge arrest of MD college student in murder case.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Caryn Tamber Lawyers for a former college student who could face the death penalty sought to show yesterday that their client was arrested without a warrant. John Christopher Gaumer, who is charged with the murder of Josie Phyllis...

Maryland Municipal League tells council members that the bickering must stop.
December 1, 2006... Byline: The Baltimore Daily Record Staff Squabbling among Chesapeake City elected officials could harm the town, a government advisory group warned. The Maryland Municipal League told council members and the mayor of the Cecil County town...

Virginia-based Washington Gas Energy Services announces new 50 percent wind electricity offer.
December 1, 2006... Byline: The Baltimore Daily Record Staff Washington Gas Energy Services, a Virginia-based supplier of electricity and natural gas, announced a new, 50 percent wind electricity offer for residential and commercial customers in Montgomery...

Bright green insect worries Maryland forestry officials.
December 1, 2006... Byline: The Baltimore Daily Record Staff A bright green insect that hasn't even been spotted in Cecil County is giving local forestry officials a great deal of worry. The emerald ash borer, which kills ash trees, has been seen in Prince...

Public access to the Potomac River's North Branch expands with opening of a boat launch.
December 1, 2006... Byline: The Baltimore Daily Record Staff Public access to the Potomac River's North Branch has expanded with the opening of a boat launch at the Allegany County Fairgrounds near Cumberland. The launching area, with parking for 18 vehicles...

Mitigation Specialist: Fighting for their lives.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Caryn Tamber The man wound his five-foot-long constrictor snake around Carla Boose's neck. Boose was a mitigation specialist who had come to ask about the man's nephew, a murder defendant facing the death penalty. Her job was to...

MD Court of Special Appeals affirms termination of stroke victim's parental rights.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Barbara Grzincic A woman who suffered a debilitating stroke at age 41 has a "mental disorder" that justifies termination of her parental rights, the Court of Special Appeals held yesterday. The decision affirms a lower court ruling...

Egypt's Jehan Sadat stresses role of women at event in Baltimore.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Dori Berman Middle Eastern countries should expand educational opportunities for women, who will have a crucial role to play in creating peace in the region, former Egyptian first lady Jehan Sadat told a group of nearly 1,100 in...

Commentary: War powers, war lies: A series Part XVIII: Proxies.
December 1, 2006... Byline: Jack L.B. Gohn The attorney general began his List of Subversive Organizations (known as AGLOSO) in 1947 with a list of 93 organizations. But, as historian Howard Zinn has noted: "By 1954, there were hundreds of groups on this...

A Baltimore glass blower tells all.
December 2, 2006... Byline: Mary Medlin Beware those Renaissance festivals. They look innocent enough, with the lords and ladies traipsing among the peasants, with hunky knights jousting and Henry VIII look-alikes hawking oversized turkey drumsticks. Reason...

News Summary.
December 2, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Boaters' benefit Public access to the Potomac River's North Branch has expanded with the opening of a boat launch at the Allegany County Fairgrounds near Cumberland. The launching area, with...

Commentary: Helpful advice for self-repair to golf clubs.
December 2, 2006... Byline: Joe Rahnis Most people are hesitant to do work themselves on their cars. They feel more comfortable having the work done by a trained and trusted mechanic. The same goes for golf clubs. Most of us would never dream of making even...

Johns Hopkins University trustee commits $20M to new cancer research building.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports David Koch, a trustee of the Johns Hopkins University, has committed $20 million to support a new cancer research building on the East Baltimore medical campus. The 267,000-square-foot building,...

Jim Greenwell named Ace*Comm's new president.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports Ace*Comm Corp., of Gaithersburg, a telecommunications and Internet service company, said Jim Greenwell has been named president. He succeeds John Bennett, president of the company since June 2005,...

Citizens Advisory Committee for future of Charles Hickey School property to meet.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports The Citizens Advisory Committee established to plan for the future of the Charles Hickey School property in Baltimore County has scheduled its next meeting on Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Cub Hill Bible...

Central Maryland AFL-CIO Council elects its first woman president.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports The Central Maryland AFL-CIO Council has elected its first woman president. Teresa Martin, 47, of Falling Waters, W.Va., an office services coordinator at Volvo Powertrain North America near...

Winner of National Park Services' 2006 National Historic Landmark Photo Contest named.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports Angie Hummer, park manager at Fort Frederick State Park, was selected as the winner of the National Park Services' 2006 National Historic Landmark Photo Contest for her stop action photo of...

MD Legal Briefs: December 4, 2006.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Wrongful birth suit Denying a Maryland couple the right to bring a "wrongful birth" action against a North Carolina-based laboratory would violate Maryland's public policy, the Court of Appeals...

Baltimore boy invents innovative security card.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Louis Llovio A Florida finance company has picked up the licensing rights to bring an innovative security card, the brainchild of a 9-year-old Baltimore boy, to market as a preloaded MasterCard. The card, which will come in...

University of Baltimore School of Law provides helpline to artists with legal questions.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Cynthia Di Pasquale The phones have started ringing at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Artists with legal questions about anything from tenant leases to trademark registration are taking advantage of a new helpline set...

State of MD encourages ethanol producers to use barley in alternative fuel production.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Andy Rosen The bulk of the ethanol made in the United States comes from corn, but with at least eight new production facilities proposed in Maryland, the state would like to get barley into the mix. Barley is grown as a winter...

Law has changed, but driver of stolen Hummer is still guilty, rules MD appellate court.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Barbara Grzincic Driving a stolen car is no longer enough to support a conviction for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Thanks to a 2002 change in law that the state erroneously argued was merely stylistic, prosecutors must also...

Commentary: Quick-peeks, claw backs and the preservation of privilege.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Aron U. Raskas Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series of columns addressing changes to the federal rules governing discovery of electronically stored information, which took effect Dec. 1. The volume of electronically...

News Summary.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports JHU trustee's $20M gift David Koch, a trustee of the Johns Hopkins University, has committed $20 million to support a new cancer research building on the East Baltimore medical campus. The...

Maryland Real Estate Commission begins collecting money from its licensing fees.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Jen Degregorio Life has been a little easier at the Maryland Real Estate Commission since July, when the agency finally began collecting money from its licensing fees. With the new revenue source, approved during last year's...

Columbia Internet marketing company can track online habits of users on social networking sites.
December 4, 2006... Byline: LOUIS LLOVIO A Columbia Internet marketing company has found a way for publishers to track the online habits of individual users on social networking sites such as MySpace.com and Facebook.com Using software developed by Lotame,...

Commentary: Holiday gifts meaningful to givers as well.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Betsy Nelson I am here to tell you that giving really is better than receiving. The most fun I had this Thanksgiving holiday was with my daughter looking for presents for the family we have adopted for the holidays. The Nelson clan...

Johns Hopkins research offers surgeons better dexterity for robot surgery.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Joe Bacchus Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University are looking to bring a little more of that human touch to robotic surgery. Allison Okamura, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, is developing a way for medical...

Funding for Columbia-based Cylex Inc.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Cylex Inc., of Columbia, a bioscience company that develops products to accurately measure immune function, said it closed the first phase of a third round of private financing that raised $18.4 million, in a...

Annapolis-based PRBC granted patent.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Pay Rent, Build Credit Inc., an Annapolis-based consumer reporting agency that collects, stores, scores and reports bill-payment data, said it has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office for...

Annapolis-based ARINC Inc. teams with Starling.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff ARINC Inc., of Annapolis, a provider of transportation communications and systems engineering, said it has teamed up with an Israeli company, Starling Advanced Communication, to jointly provide fully integrated...

New development in Wheaton.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Spaulding & Slye Investments and the Bozzuto Development Co., of Greenbelt, announced plans to build Metro Plaza at Wheaton Square, a mixed-use development in downtown Wheaton. Located on a three-acre site...

Glen Burnie-based L2M prepares to move.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Facing a space crunch, L2M Inc., of Glen Burnie, an architectural, planning and interior design firm, said it purchased land in Hanover for a new, $5 million office building. A summer groundbreaking is planned...

Johns Hopkins Univ. executive selected as president of George Washington Univ.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Steven Knapp, provost, or chief academic officer, of the Johns Hopkins University since 1996, has been selected as the 16th president of George Washington University in Washington, the GWU board of trustees...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices hear race cases.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Caryn Tamber The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday considered whether race can play a role in public school admissions, with some justices invoking the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and others citing schools' "compelling...

New supermarket opens in downtown Baltimore's city center.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Jen Degregorio The first supermarket in downtown Baltimore's city center is set to open this month in Charles Plaza after more than two years of negotiations. City development leaders hope the 11,000-square-foot Super Fresh at the...

Coming to a wallet near you: a security card invented by a Baltimore kid.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Louis Llovio A Florida finance company has picked up the licensing rights to bring an innovative security card, the brainchild of a 9-year-old Baltimore boy, to market as a preloaded MasterCard. The card, which will come in...

Commentary: Is conventional financial planning right for you?
December 5, 2006... Byline: Gary S. Williams Do online interactive financial planning models really help people in deciding how much to save, to insure, and to invest in stocks and other asset classes? These models vary in complexity and in level of detail,...

Virology unit will move to University of Maryland med school.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Karen Buckelew The Institute of Human Virology, the decade-old HIV and AIDS research outfit run by Dr. Robert C. Gallo at the University of Maryland, has found a home of its own at last. The University System of Maryland Board of...

Maryland Legal Briefs: December 5, 2006.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Convicted teacher sued A former Kent County High School English teacher convicted of having sexual contact with a student is now being sued by the student's family. In June, Kimberly Ann Cordrey-McKinney did not...

Top Maryland court takes on same-sex marriage issue.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Ann W. Parks Outside the Robert C. Murphy Courts of Appeal building in Annapolis, supporters of same-sex marriage waved signs reading "Equal Rights in the Free State" and "No second-class citizenship for my gay daughter." Inside,...

News Summary.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Natural gas to cost less Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. announced yesterday that homeowners who purchase natural gas from BGE will see a 10 percent decrease in the gas portion of their total bill...

Local ski resorts ready to open for the season.
December 5, 2006... Byline: LOUIS LLOVIO The ski season is kicking off later than usual in Garrett County this year as abnormally warm weather has delayed the opening of the slopes at the Wisp Resort by at least two weeks. The season, which usually opens at...

Natural gas to cost less from Baltimore Gas and Electric.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. announced yesterday that homeowners who purchase natural gas from BGE will see a 10 percent decrease in the gas portion of their total bill during the current winter heating season,...

CapitalSource acquires.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff CapitalSource Inc., of Chevy Chase, a specialized commercial finance company operating as a real estate investment trust, said it completed its acquisition of 77 long-term care facilities for about $462 million....

Greenbelt-based Bozzuto Group grows.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff The Bozzuto Group, of Greenbelt, a real estate development and management company, said it completed the purchase for $16.4 million of River Pointe, a 170-unit, garden-style apartment community on nine acres of...

Bethesda-based Marriott International Inc.'s Web bookings swell.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Marriott International Inc., of Bethesda, the biggest U.S. hotel operator, said it expects its Web site to generate almost $4 billion in hotel reservations this year. Revenue from Marriott.com is anticipated to...

Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp.'s outlook.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff A Lockheed Martin Corp. executive said he expects sales of military aircraft to double by 2015 as new fighter jets move from development into production. Military aircraft sales will rise to $20 billion annually,...

Baltimore City to grant loan to Stifel Nicolaus & Co.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Baltimore City is poised to grant Stifel Nicolaus & Co. a $750,000 loan to assist the company's move to the Alex. Brown building at 1 South St. downtown. The financial services firm, which last year acquired Legg...

Baltimore-based Vertis Communications Inc. names new chief executive officer.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Vertis Communications Inc., of Baltimore, a provider of targeted advertising, media and marketing services, said Michael DuBose is taking the posts of chairman and chief executive officer, effective immediately....

College classes for Baltimore City firefighters.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Baltimore City Community College said it signed a training agreement with the Baltimore City Fire Department to integrate the department's regular training for fire/paramedic service personnel into the college's...

Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp. offers opportunity to veterans.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Lockheed Martin Corp., of Bethesda, the world's largest defense company, said it received approval from the Maryland Apprenticeship and Training Council for a new apprenticeship program for honorably discharged...

Asthma drugs in short supply.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff A new study by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and elsewhere suggests that only one in five inner-city children with chronic asthma gets enough medicine to control dangerous flare-ups of the...

Chevy Chase-based Mills Corp. agrees on nominees to board.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record The Mills Corp., of Chevy Chase, an owner and operator of mega-malls, and Gazit-Globe Ltd., Israel's largest real estate investment company and one of Mills' largest stockholders, said they have agreed on a slate of...

Chemical cloud chamber opens at Edgewood Chemical Biological Center.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record A unique chemical and biological detector evaluation facility opened at Edgewood Chemical Biological Center. Called the "Vortex Chamber," the $2 million facility creates a cloud that safely simulates a chemical or...

Baltimore subsidiary gets fixed-price power contract.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Constellation NewEnergy, a subsidiary of Baltimore-based Constellation Energy Group, said it signed a 17-month, fixed-price, electricity supply contract with the Flowline division of Markovitz Enterprises Inc.,...

Bethesda-based Marriott International achieves milestone.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Marriott International Inc., of Bethesda, a hotel franchisor, said it added five minority-owned hotels to its portfolio, bringing it closer to its goal of having 500 minority- and women-owned hotels by 2010. Four...

Bethesda-based GetWellNetwork Inc. adds Christiana.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff GetWellNetwork Inc., of Bethesda, which has developed software that transforms in-room hospital monitors into interactive patient-care devices that inform, educate and entertain, said it has signed up Christiana...

News Summary.
December 6, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Hopkins provost moves up Steven Knapp, provost, or chief academic officer, of the Johns Hopkins University since 1996, has been selected as the 16th president of George Washington University in...

MD Legal Briefs: December 6, 2006.
December 6, 2006... Byline: Daily Record Staff Pittsburgh official sues Pittsburgh's acting city controller sued the mayor and city council, claiming the city's budget for next year does not provide him enough money to do his job. Tony Pokora wants a court...

MD Court of Appeals rules decision could ease process for some expungements.
December 6, 2006... Byline: Caryn Tamber Multiple offenses listed in the same indictment do not count as one crime for the purposes of expungement, the Court of Appeals has decided. The court held that Kevin Tremaine Stoddard can have several dropped charges...

MD CSA rules man convicted in 1979 rape to get new trial.
December 6, 2006... Byline: Ann W. Parks A man convicted of rape in 1979 was properly granted a new trial in post-conviction proceedings in 2005, the Court of Special Appeals held yesterday. At Raymond Leon Adams' initial trial 25 years ago, the judge...

Baltimore-based Eisner Communication faces more unpaid debt claims.
December 6, 2006... Byline: Louis Llovio The Maryland Lottery could face a demand for money owed by now-defunct Eisner Communication as the race intensifies to collect on hundreds of thousand of dollars in unpaid Eisner debts. Two more firms filed lawsuits...

Parking hike eyed.
December 6, 2006... Byline: JEN DEGREGORIO Baltimore City is poised to raise rates in many of its public parking garages to bring their fees in line with privately owned garages. The Board of Estimates, the city's spending panel, is expected to vote on the...

Baltimore City eyeing parking hike.
December 6, 2006... Byline: Jen Degregorio Baltimore City is poised to raise rates in many of its public parking garages to bring their fees in line with privately owned garages. The Board of Estimates, the city's spending panel, is expected to vote on the...

Baltimore County Savings Bank halts dividends.
December 6, 2006... Byline: Andy Rosen Baltimore County Savings Bank is attempting to boost earnings by stopping dividends on its stock after it lost more than $10 million in an alleged check-fraud scheme this year. The bank announced that it would suspend...

Gaithersburg-based Meso Scale gets piece of CDC avian flu contract.
December 6, 2006... Byline: Karen Buckelew A company with a history peppered with colorful lawsuits alleging mismanagement received some good news when it won part of an $11.4 million federal initiative to combat avian flu. The Centers for Disease Control and...

First supermarket to open in downtown Baltimore's city center.
December 6, 2006... Byline: Jen Degregorio The first supermarket in downtown Baltimore's city center is set to open this month in Charles Plaza after more than two years of negotiations. City development leaders hope the 11,000-square-foot Super Fresh at the...