Elijah

GUTSY MOVE Give Nationals GM Jim Bowden and club president Stan Kasten credit for not being scared. They added Dmitri Young last year after his battle with addiction and traded for talented outfielder Lastings Milledge last week despite attitude questions. But yesterday's decision to deal minor league left-hander Glenn Gibson to the Tampa Bay Rays for troubled outfielder Elijah Dukes is much riskier. Dukes has had myriad legal run-ins and has demonstrated serious anger issues. If there's a change of heart in Dukes, it might be because of the Nationals' impressive manager, Manny Acta, who has shown a deft hand in handling all types of personalities.

Here is how members of Maryland's delegation on Capitol Hill were recorded on important roll-call votes last week: Y: Yes N: No X: Not votingHouse: SteelVoting 289 for and 141 against, the House passed a bill (HR 975) that would limit steel imports into the United States so they account for no more than 25 percent of the U.S. market. Imports from a specific country would be capped at their average monthly volume for a three-year period ending July 1997. The administration could use tariffs, quotas or negotiations to enforce the limits.

OUTSTANDING YOUNG musicians from across the country auditioned in the spring for the eighth annual Disney's Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra.One was Elijah Smith of Sykesville.Elijah was one of 85 youngsters ages 8 to 13 selected for the orchestra, which was led by Lucas Richman.Richman is assistant conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony and principal conductor for the Pasadena Pops Orchestra in California.Prospective members were required to submit a written application outlining performance experience and award history.

Elijah L. Cummings: a fine representative, a strong role modelThe Sun tends to publish only negative information about African-American public figures. The article about Rep. Elijah L. Cummings' financial situation is a case in point ("As Cummings rose, financial problems grew," Oct. 17).Did The Sun really believe that the general public had a right to know about Mr. Cummings' financial situation? If so, why?Mr. Cummings financial problems do not appear to have affected his ability to represent his constituents.

Here is how members of Maryland's delegation on Capitol Hill were recorded on important roll-call votes last week: Y: Yes N: No X: Not votingHouse: FALN clemencyVoting 311 for and 41 against, the House approved on Sept. 9 a nonbinding measure (H Con Res 180) criticizing President Clinton for offering clemency to 16 imprisoned members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, which advocates independence for Puerto Rico. A yes vote was to condemn President Clinton for offering pardons to FALN members.

Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Positions open in all sections for paid and volunteer singers. Coming season includes Mendelssohn's "Elijah," Bach's "Jesu, meine Freude" and "Cantata 131," Scribner's "Nativity" and Brubeck's "Mass." Be prepared to sing scales to determine voice range and to perform brief songs or arias of choice. Vocalists also need to perform interval identification and rhythmic and melodic sight-reading. By appointment only. Call 410-523-7070.Carroll Community Chorus. New members needed for 1999-2000 season.

WASHINGTON -- A former clerk at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Baltimore who was fired shortly after telling his bosses that he had tested positive for HIV should receive his job back and roughly $260,000 in penalties and back pay, an administrative judge for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled.Judge Marlin D. Schreffler concluded that the hospital had discriminated against the former clerk, Carl L. Mack, who became unable to pay rent on his Baltimore apartment and lost custody of his young daughter after he was fired in May 1995.

Recalling FBI harassment, harrowing missionary trips and the spellbinding teaching of Elijah Muhammad, five "pioneers" yesterday recounted their role in the founding more than 50 years ago of the Black Muslim movement in Baltimore.The pioneers, now in their 70s, held forth for nearly three hours before several dozen rapt members who sat listening on the dark green carpet of the Walter Omar Muslim Cultural Center in West Baltimore, a mosque of the American Muslim Society."In the beginning, I was known as Wali 2X," said Wali Abdul Hamid Aquil, 78, who converted to Islam in 1948, two years after the temple was founded in Baltimore.

Here is how members of Maryland's delegation on Capitol Hill were recorded on important roll-call votes last week:Y: Yes N: No X: Not votingHouse: ImpeachmentThe House voted, 258-176, to begin a formal, open-ended investigation into whether President Clinton committed impeachable crimes in attempting to conceal his extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky. Thirty-one of the 206 Democrats supported the measure.A yes vote was to begin the third presidential impeachment proceeding in U.S. history.

WASHINGTON -- A bus museum in Minnesota, a rail history showcase in West Virginia and a faux-Parthenon in Nashville may not seem like crucial elements in the nation's transportation system.But they and many other such projects have found their way into the largest transportation legislation in the country's history, a bill whose passage by summer appears unstoppable.The debate over the bill authorizing highway, bridge and mass transit projects nationwide for the next six years was once framed as a battle of wills, a showdown between the imperative of a balanced budget and the primal demands for pork by Congress in an election year.

Howard County Executive Ken Ulman sat in a rocking chair in Maureen Holmquist's first-grade class at Thunder Hill Elementary while a room of close to 20 wide-eyed children hung on his every word. Ulman asked several students to join him in the front of the room to read parts of Eric Carle's children's classic "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." Ulman's appearance at the school was part of Jumpstart's Read for the Record, an international effort organized to break the world record for the number of adults and children reading the same book on the same day. Last year, nearly 700,000 readers around the world broke the record when they read the classic children's tale "Corduroy."

On September 20, 2009 ELIJAH BYRD. On Thursday friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Balto. Nat'l Pike from 4:00-8:00 p.m. On Friday, Deacon Byrd will lie in state at New Shiloh Baptist Church, 2100 N. Monroe Street, where the family will receive friends from 10:00-11:00 a.m. with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-233-2400.

On March 29, 2009, ELIJAH R., devoted friend of Lizzie Shields. Friends may visit the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Sunday after 10 A.M., where the family will receive friends on Monday at 11:30 A.M. Funeral services will follow at 12 P.M.

On December 23, 2008, Phillip Steven Hom, Jr., of Belcamp, MD. Devoted father of Christopher G. Eddy, Amanda L. Hom-Sidik and husband, Mo Sidik. Loving son of Mabel Charlotte Wendler Hom and the late Phillip Steven Hom Sr. Also survived by siblings, Lisa Rose Hom, Steven W. Hom, Kathy Marie Hom Moran, and Henry J. Hom Sr.; daughter-in-law, Andrea N. Norris; nephews, Henry J. Hom Jr. and Seth N. Moran; and grandchildren, Kevin E. Hom, Shane T. Eddy, M....

Washington - Everyone's got a wish list at holiday time. With Washington about to go on a spending spree of massive proportions, it's a good time to survey members of Maryland's congressional delegation and find out what's on their list for 2009. Sen. Barbara Mikulski's goal to "get our economy rolling again" is no doubt shared by all. And who could argue with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's desire to help President Barack Obama succeed in saving millions of jobs next year? Making health care more efficient, cleaning up the environment, getting U.S. troops out of Iraq and keeping Americans from losing their homes are among the Marylanders' broad goals.

On December 4, 2008, ELIJAH THOMAS, beloved brother of Helen Jones. He is also survived by devoted caregivers Ernest and Alice Evans, seven nephews, two nieces, and other relatives. Friends may visit JAMES A. MORTON & SONS FUNERAL HOMES, INC., 311 Main St., Turner Station, Md., Tuesday 3-7pm. Funeral Services Wednesday. The family will receive friends 10:30-11AM. Funeral service immediately following.

Cheryl Miller, 55, and her husband, Michael, coordinate the Volunteers for Obama office in Anne Arundel County. She is an Annapolis resident and mother of two who runs a home-based event planning business. Despite studying political science at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania, Miller was not particularly involved in politics until this year. She was invited to a fundraiser last fall, and soon found herself immersed in the Obama campaign, working phone banks and traveling to Ohio and Pennsylvania to knock on doors.

I wonder what somebody would give me for pictures of my kids. Not $14 million, that's for sure. That's what People magazine and some British mag called Hello! ponied up for pictures of Brad and Angelina's twins, although the word on the street is that's an inflated figure. And that somebody probably wouldn't be People, although the magazine is totally into the whole baby thing. It's had 29 celebrity baby covers since Cher, Gregg Allman and Elijah Blue posed in 1977 - 18 of them since 2006.

Viera, Fla. -- Since the Washington Nationals settled in the nation's capital in 2005, their outfield has been caught somewhere between experiment and wasteland. They've searched waiver wires. They've repositioned an All-Star infielder. They've handed a starting job to a guy named Nook. None of it stuck. In their three years of existence, the Nationals have used 24 left fielders, 15 center fielders and 22 right fielders. Only four Nationals have played at least 100 games at the same outfield position in a season.

Steven Davis saw the smoke billowing from a house in his Northwest Baltimore neighborhood. He heard the cries for help coming from the children inside, but when he raced over to help them, he found the front and side doors locked. "I heard the older boy yelling, `Help me, help me,'" Davis said. Later, he watched as firefighters carried a boy's body from the house and removed the boy's younger brother and sister, who later died in the hospital. "It was terrible," said Davis, who said he called 911 on Friday afternoon after seeing smoke coming from the roof of the house in the 3500 block of Springdale Ave. Baltimore fire officials yesterday identified the victims of that blaze as Elijah Fields, 13, his 8-year-old brother, Sadik Fields, and his 5-year-old sister, Siedah Fields.