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'''General Pascal Olivier Count de Negroni''' (April 4, 1829 - October 22, 1913) - Leading the legendary charge of cuirassiers in the Battle of Reichsoffen during the Franco Prussian War of 1870 and is reputedly the inventor of the Negroni Cocktail. |
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Negroni was born in the Castle of San Colombano, also known as the Castello di San Colombano in [[Rogliano, Haute-Corse|Rogliano]] a [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Haute-Corse]] [[Departments of France|department]] of [[France]] on the island of [[Corsica]]. He joined the [[French Army]] at 18 years of age during which time he led the legendary charge of cuirassiers in the Battle of Reichsoffen during the [[Franco Prussian War of 1870]]. Accorsing to the French Army annals, Negroni was personally decorated on 20 August 1870 by the French Emperor, Louis Napoleon, with the Officer's Cross of the Imperial Legion of Honor, as a reward for his valiant actions and exemplary conduct. On 3 September 1870 he was captured by the Prussians during the Battle of Sedan and spent time as a prisoner of war until his liberation March 28, 1871 and on December 27, 1884 he was promoted to Brigadier General. On May 4, 1889 he was named Commander of the Legion of Honor and in 1891, he retired after serving 44 years in the military. |
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It is believed that Negroni invented as a digestive aid, serving equal parts of Campari, Gin, and Sweet Vermouth, served in a short glass over ice and garnished with an orange slice. http://www.hamptons.com/Food-And-Wine/Mixology/8008/The-Classic-Negroni.html Food and Wine Magazine; The Classic Negroni |
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Being Served At The Inn In Quogue; By Douglas Harrington]</ref> |
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Died: Alencon, Orne, 22 October 1913. |
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==Miguel Poventud== |
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General Pascal Olivier Count de Negroni (April 4, 1829 - October 22, 1913) - Leading the legendary charge of cuirassiers in the Battle of Reichsoffen during the Franco Prussian War of 1870 and is reputedly the inventor of the Negroni Cocktail.
Biography
Negroni was born in the Castle of San Colombano, also known as the Castello di San Colombano in Rogliano a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. He joined the French Army at 18 years of age during which time he led the legendary charge of cuirassiers in the Battle of Reichsoffen during the Franco Prussian War of 1870. Accorsing to the French Army annals, Negroni was personally decorated on 20 August 1870 by the French Emperor, Louis Napoleon, with the Officer's Cross of the Imperial Legion of Honor, as a reward for his valiant actions and exemplary conduct. On 3 September 1870 he was captured by the Prussians during the Battle of Sedan and spent time as a prisoner of war until his liberation March 28, 1871 and on December 27, 1884 he was promoted to Brigadier General. On May 4, 1889 he was named Commander of the Legion of Honor and in 1891, he retired after serving 44 years in the military.
Negroni Coctail
It is believed that Negroni invented as a digestive aid, serving equal parts of Campari, Gin, and Sweet Vermouth, served in a short glass over ice and garnished with an orange slice. http://www.hamptons.com/Food-And-Wine/Mixology/8008/The-Classic-Negroni.html Food and Wine Magazine; The Classic Negroni Being Served At The Inn In Quogue; By Douglas Harrington]</ref>
Died: Alencon, Orne, 22 October 1913.
Miguel Poventud
Miguel Poventud a.k.a. "El Nino Prodigio de Guayama" and "Miguelito" ( -March 3, 1983), was a Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer of Boleros. Among the notable singers who have intreperted his musical compositions are Johnny Albino, Hector Lavoe and Daniel Santos (singer)
Early years
Poventud was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico, to Francisco Poventud, a Law Enforcement officer of the San Juan Police Department and Concepcion Aponte, a seamstressis. Decescent of Carlos Armstrong and Eulalia Pou, Poventud was the youngest among his five siblings. Beginning at the age of 5 Miguelito Poventud, knwon as "El Nino Prodigio de Guayama" (The Child Prodigy of Guayama) would look forward to trips to the town Plaza accompanied by his mother dressed in clothes she had sewn. It was there that he would give his earliest performances which gained him recognition as a local child prodigy winning awards, singing at the local radio station WHOM and drawing big crowds.
His family moved to New York City and he recieved his primary and secondary education at PS 93 Elementary school and Joan of Arc High School in Manhattan.
Musical career
Poventud wrote his first composition at age 15 titled "Ya No Soy Un Nino". The composers whose works inspired Poventud in his own writing were Pepe Jara, Daniel Santos and Chago Alvarardo. His musical inspiration came from Chucho Navaro, Hernando Aviles and Johnny Albino from El Trio Los Panchos, Alvaro Carrillo, Jose Alfredo Jimenez, German Valdes "Tin Tan", Marco Antonio Muniz, Bobby Capo and Gilberto Puente from El Trio Los Reyes.
However, some other facts you will need like he died on March 3, 1983 in his living quarters located in Tribeca, New York City.
Francisco Poventud (father) a Chief Law Enforcement officer of San Juan Police Department is a decescent of Carlos Armstrong and Eulalia Pou of Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Concepcion Aponte (mother) a seamstress.
4. He attended PS 93 Elementary school on 93rd st. then Joan of Arc H.S. on 95th street in Manhattan and Boricua College in the Bronx, Nyc (Becomes politically active around this time)
5. In his early years he always talked about the big strong river in front of his home where he would fish for shrimp, eat tomatoes, taking only the salt shaker from the house for lunch and playing with his two brothers and three sisters, all older than him. His mother used songs to teach him life lessons and make him laugh as a young boy.
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Beginning at the age of 5 Miguelito Poventud, "El Nino Prodigio de Guayama" affectionately called would look forward to trips to the Plaza accompanied by his mother dressed in clothes she had sewn. It was here that he would give his earliest performances that made him a famous local child prodigy winning awards, singing at the radio station WHOM and drawing big crowds in Puerto Rico.
6. His musical inspiration came from Chucho Navaro, Hernando Aviles and Johnny Albino from El Trio Los Panchos, Alvaro Carrillo, Jose Alfredo Jimenez, German Valdes "Tin Tan", Marco Antonio Muniz, Bobby Capo and Gilberto Puente from El Trio Los Reyes. Favorite composers whose works inspired his own writing were Pepe Jara, Daniel Santos and Chago Alvarardo. These great figures are his idols growing up and then formed a little circle of lifelong friendships making a deep cultural impression for myself and sister Kaluska (Kali).
7. His first composition was written at age 15 titled "Ya No Soy Un Nino" from the first album.
The late Miguelito Poventud succeeded as a bolerista. In the late sixties and early seventies, working with various "guitar trios" throughout New York, he always wanted to try his hand at singing Salsa and Baladas.
Miguelito and Bobby worked out the details to do such an album in 1974. Louie Ramirez and Chico Mendoza arranged the Salsa session, while Hector Garrido arranged the ballads. It was recorded at Broadway Recording in the mid-seventies with boxing champion, Jose ?Chegui? Torres and his friend, writer Pete Hamill present at the studio. http://www.latincoolnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=127 Latin Cool
The controversial jibaro song, "Joven contra viejo", featured Lavoe and Daniel Santos settling their age-based differences on-stage not without a heavy dose of humor and (yet again) Yomo Toro's cuatro music as a backdrop. It was a major Christmas hit in Puerto Rico in 1979 which included a song from singer/composer Miguel Poventud/Pier Music/ "Una Pena En La Navidad".
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Johnny Albino then went on to form, or become a member of many famous Puerto Rican trios. Notably, Miguel Poventud whose participation in the album "Los Panchos by Special Request" are a compilation of love songs recorded in English for CBS. "El Trio Los Panchos Historia y Cronica" by Pablo Mareial Ortiz Ramos p.263. Also, "Grandes Exitos de Johnny Albino con Los Panchos" DHIT 2093.2 06/21/2005 is his main performance with Miguel Poventud on "requinto" (guitar) and voice accompaniment.
MicroTech: No. 1 Fastest-Growing Company
July/August Issue Suzanne Heibel--HispanicBusiness Magazine Tony Jimenez, CEO of MicroTech
Tony Jimenez, a veteran, knows the value of a military education. A former lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, Mr. Jimenez learned self-discipline, how to work smart, and how to motivate others. He also received a business education through the military and invaluable IT training.
Mr. Jimenez, now the CEO and founder of Vienna, Va.-based information technology company MicroTech, earned a bachelor's degree and two master's degrees in acquisition management and information systems through the military. The education helped him take his startup company from an idea at his kitchen table all the way to a multimillion-dollar business.
When the company started in 2004, it employed a little more than 100 people and had annual revenues of $12.5 million. Today, its revenues have grown to $39.1 million. The rapid growth has made MicroTech HispanicBusiness Magazine's No. 1 Fastest-Growing Company for 2009.
"The military has been a significant part of my success," said Mr. Jimenez, who was also named a 2009 Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration for his efforts on behalf of small business.
MicroTech has emerged at a time when information technology businesses are doing better financially than some other sectors. As companies downsize, they turn to advanced information technology systems to streamline operations and make business more efficient.
Mr. Jimenez, whose company specializes in telecommunication products, attributes the company's success to its emphasis on personalized customer service.
"We have a lot of good managers that help companies leverage technology to try to optimize them," said Mr. Jimenez. "We give quality assurance."
Humble Beginnings For MicroTech, it all began at a kitchen table in 2004.
After working at an IT company for eight months, Mr. Jimenez said, he discovered that he had something to offer the IT world that neither his employer nor any other IT company at the time had. Mr. Jimenez sought to begin a company that would not only specialize in information technology but would also provide clients with one-on-one consulting that would give them the know-how to manage their systems properly.
With the help of two friends, Mr. Jimenez said, MicroTech grew to what is now a multimillion-dollar business with 350 employees and more government contracts than any other IT business in the nation.
Mr. Jimenez attributes much of his success as a businessman to the U.S. Army, which he enrolled in with encouragement from his Puerto Rican father, who saw the military as an organization with boundless opportunities.
Mr. Jimenez earned his college degrees through the military and received extensive IT training there as well.
"Pretty good for a guy whose parents didn't have the money to send him to college," said Mr. Jimenez, who eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. "I came out with a set of job skills that were very much in demand."
MicroTech's largest customer is the federal government, which accounts for about 85 percent of the company's business. The remaining 15 percent of its business is in state and local governments as well as Fortune 500 companies.
An $8,700 Opportunity
"We might not have had as much success if we hadn't gotten this opportunity with the government," noted Mr. Jimenez, referring to his first contract, worth just $8,700, providing systems engineering as a subcontractor to the federal government. "We have been very fortunate to have chosen this (contract) not knowing the economy was going to do what it did." Two years later, in June 2006, MicroTech landed its largest contract to date, a five-year, $280 million deal for a project with the Veterans Administration. It was the largest contract ever awarded to a veteran-owned business.
As Mr. Jimenez continues to build his business, one goal is to hire veterans.
In July 2009 MicroTech hired retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Rod McKinley as its vice president of strategic partnerships. That hire led to the company launching the "Wounded Warrior Redeployment Program," a course that trains disabled veterans in how to manage IT service desks.
Besides being an avid representative for the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business initiative and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Small Business Council, Mr. Jimenez sponsors and has raised more than $4 million for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.
The growth of MicroTech has brought the company national attention. The company has earned a plethora of honors, including HispanicBusiness Magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2007.
"We have a conference room of our own that is so packed with awards that it's starting to look like we're making them ourselves," Mr. Jimenez joked.
Source: HispanicBusiness.com (c) 2009. All rights reserved.
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MicroTech Named the Number One Fastest Growing Hispanic-Owned Firm in the Nation LISTA CEO of the Year Anthony Jimenez Named No.1 Fastest Growing Top 100 by Hispanic Business Magazine
MicroTech, the Vienna based High Tech Product and Services Company that has risen to noteworthy success since being founded only five years ago has been named by Hispanic Business Magazine in its annual "Hispanic Business Fastest Growing Top 100" list as the number one fastest growing privately-held Hispanic firm in the United States.
This prestigious Hispanic-related business award is the most recent example of MicroTech's success during its record-setting past twelve months. Last October, the National Association of Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology (LISTA) honored Tony Jimenez as the CEO of the Year.
Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association is very happy to see that Latino Technology Businesses are beginning to make strides in an industry that just a few years ago was only a dream. "This is no surprise to the LISTA National Board, we knew Anthony and MicroTech were a special group, since we first met." said Jose Marquez, President of LISTA. "We are seeing more and more Latino entrepreneurs enter this market and it is exciting to see our members being recognized. Bravo Tony."
The magazine reported that it was MicroTech's 130% annual compounded revenue growth rate since being founded in 2004 that pushed the firm to the top of the list. Moreover, it was the firm's impressive 2693% revenue growth increase during its five-year period that was instrumental in the firm's number one ranking and its national recognition.
According to HispanTelligence estimates, there were over 2.2 Million Hispanic-Owned Businesses in the U.S., in 2008. This is the first time that a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business has received this notable distinction. With the vast majority of all Hispanic-Owned businesses clustered in just three states -- California, Texas, and Florida -- MicroTech is the first No. 1 Fastest-Growing Hispanic-Owned Business from the State of Virginia, as well as the Washington, DC Metro area.
Syndicated by the New York Times and winner of the prestigious Maggie Award for "Best Business & Finance Magazine," Hispanic Business is one of the nation's foremost minority business publications, delivering more than a million readers monthly. The publication is available online (Hispanicbusiness.com) and through subscription.
According to Tony Jimenez, MicroTech's President and CEO, "We are honored to receive this recognition and to be featured by Hispanic Business Magazine. Despite the current economic downturn we have worked hard to develop relationships that allowed us to not only survive, but to flourish. The strong relationships we have with our clients and customers and our focus on providing exceptional products, services and solutions, and our commitment to doing it better than anyone else, have allowed us to create an excellent reputation in one of the most competitive industries in the world -- High Tech Products and Services."
Accolades from the business community are numerous. Danny Vargas (Co-Founder, Hispanic GovCon Network/President, VARCom Solutions) states, "I have personally witnessed MicroTech's extraordinary growth and their transition from start-up to technology powerhouse. MicroTech is a fabulous company and anyone who knows Tony and his outstanding team is not surprised that they are number 1." Michel Zajur (President / CEO, Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce) echoes the admiration by saying, "Tony Jimenez is a role model not only to the Hispanic community but to all business leaders."
MicroTech has evolved into a global organization with offices across the U.S. and more than 350 employees around the world. The media frequently refers to MicroTech as one of the most exciting and efficiently run companies in the nation. MicroTech applies its Enterprise IT experience, regimented, benchmark process, and state-of-the-art engineering solutions to integrate technology and create proven results that can meet almost any high tech strategic need.
Most recently, MicroTech's regimented benchmark processes and state-of-the-art engineering solutions were put to the test when it was selected to provide President Obama and the Presidential Transition Team (PTT) with a wide array of specialized information technology services including full lifecycle IT infrastructure, starting from the collection of requirements, the design, implementation, and operations, and at the conclusion of the transition of the new Administration - the disposition of the equipment and infrastructure.
Tony Jimenez stated, "By providing valuable and highly sought after services to the largest and most demanding customer in the world 'The U.S. Government' we have been able to grow exponentially and our commitment to excellence is what has fueled our growth, contributed to our success, and has resulted in the recognition of this highly regarded award."
In November, MicroTech was named a Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise, honoring minority businesses in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. At the beginning of 2009, Minority supplier promoter DiversityBusiness.com ranked MicroTech as a Top 200 Hispanic-Owned Business, along with the Hispanic Business HB500 survey rank in March. And in April, the Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce selected Jimenez as the "Hispanic Business Entrepreneur of the Year."
About MicroTech
MicroTechnologies LLC, (d.b.a. MicroTech) is a certified and verified 8(a) and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), and delivers robust process-driven performance for mission success. MicroTech applies its regimented process, enterprise IT experience, and state-of-the-art engineering solutions to integrate different technologies and create proven results that respond to clients' strategic needs.
About Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association - LISTA (http://t.ymlp150.com/yjearaeeuarauyqbafauuejww/click.php) is a not-for-profit organization focused on the advancement of Latino Technology professionals. Our mission is to educate, motivate and empower the Latino Community with the use of technology. It fulfills its mission through professional, business and community involvement.
In Arecibo, they attacked the local police precinct and tried to make their way to the agreed upon meeting point of Utuado, where other contingents were attacking federal installations as well.
The Nationalists of Naranjito and Mayagüez were the only ones to wage a guerrilla struggle to keep the uprising going. The units in Naranjito fought local forces until November 10th, when they came down from the mountains and surrendered. http://nylatinojournal.com/home/puerto_rico_x/history/puerto_rico_s_october_revolution.html Puerto Rico's October Revolution
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