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CARACAS, Venezuela. President Hugo Chavez today threatened the United States with an embargo on the export of shortstops until Venezuelan native David Concepcion, a five-time Gold Glove winner for the Cincinnati Reds’ “Big Red Machine” teams of the 1970’s, is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Venezuelan Dictator Threatens US With Shortstop Embargo – Con Chapman – Open Salon

The calypsonian of old combined the bawdy wit of a lovelorn English bard with the improvisatory praise instincts of an African griot. For me, the concept was driven home when my father took me to Trinidad as a 10-year-old, and I watched a roadside calypsonian whip up a rhyming verse comparing Dad to John F. Kennedy, whom he remotely resembled.

Calypso Fantasies: Beyond Island Shores : NPR Music

The rate increased in all regions from 2007 to 2008, except in the Midwest, in which the rate declined slightly to 0.23% from 0.25%. Among states, Georgia and New Mexico showed the hightest entrepreneurial rates at 0.59% and 0.58% respectively, while Pennsylvania and Missouri showed the lowest rates, 0.14% and 0.15%, respectively. The cities with the highest rates were Atlanta and Phoenix, while Philadelphia and Seattle scored at the bottom.

Entrepreneurial Spirit Still Alive And Well – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ