Still raining in Austin..but it’s not going to rain on my parade Let’s  see, recap, last wednesday I put my resume up on our company site for a position in DC. The same day I found out that I made a fancy impression on the big dogs over CitiBank Texas.  The head guy had mentioned several times to my boss, my bosses boss, and my bosses boss boss..that I was something and they are going to have to do something with me. In corporate lingo, that means …moven on up   Thur of last week I get a call from HR in DC informing me of a branch out there who is very interested in me.   Friday I interviewed with DC branch, monday an offer was extended and neigotioations began, and Today I accepted the offer. YEAH ME!!! How exciting.  

“you have these dreams of taken over corporate america and turning it on it’s ear…what the F’ you gone do but hussle..” ~intro , Jay -Z

My Babyworking out does a body good..

• If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.- Maya Angelou
• If someone tells you who they are, believe them. – Maya Angelou
• If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers. – Maya Angelou
• Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. – Maya Angelou
•  Courage is fear that has said its prayers. – Maya Angelou
• Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. – Maya Angelou
• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou
• I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. – Maya Angelou
• Nothing will work unless you do. – Maya Angelou
• Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou
• There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. – Maya Angelou
• When you learn, teach. When you get, give. – Maya Angelou
• You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou

This is a story about a  young woman trying to find her way. Her place in this world. Her purpose for being. A talented young woman they say, with an attention span of a beatle. Who could turn anything she put her mind to into gold with a simple touch {if she tried} Easy on the eyes, heart of gold and  a smile that could make {or break} someone’s day. This is a story of a young woman in search of her passion.

Based on a true story

To be cont……..

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

So, just figured out that I have access to Flickr at work…Yeah, something new to do to help pass the time. I’ll be posting all my new pics on there. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiffanybutler/

• The term ‘Genocide’ was coined by a jurist named Raphael Lemkin in 1944 by combining the Greek word ‘genos’ (race) with the Latin word ‘cide’ (killing). Genocide as defined by the United Nations in 1948 means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, including: (a) killing members of the group (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

The Artificial Famine/Genocide
(Holodomor) in Ukraine
1932-33

A Man-Made Famine raged through Ukraine, the ethnic-Ukrainian region of northern Caucasus (i.e. Kuban), and the lower Volga River region in 1932-33. This resulted in the death of between 7 to 10 million people, mainly Ukrainians. This was instigated by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his henchman Lazar Kaganovich. The main goal of this artificial famine was to break the spirit of the Ukrainian farmer/peasant and to force them into collectivization. The famine was also used as an effective tool to break the renaissance of Ukrainian culture that was occuring under approval of the communist government in Ukraine. Moscow perceived this as a threat to a Russo-Centric Soviet rule and therefore acted to crush this cultural renaissance in a most brutal manner. The famine/genocide also had the added “benefit” to ethnically cleanse Ukrainians from vast territories.

Cont. http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/

 Cambodian Genocide

The Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, in which approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country’s population), was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century. Cont. http://www.yale.edu/cgp/cgpintro.html

Leave None to Tell the Story:
Genocide in Rwanda

In the thirteen weeks after April 6, 1994, at least half a million people perished in the Rwandan genocide, perhaps as many as three quarters of the Tutsi population. At the same time, thousands of Hutu were slain because they opposed the killing campaign and the forces directing it.

Cont. http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/

Resources: The following website’s rock with info. 

Genocides 1901-2000 (before 12 Jan. 1951 when the Genocide Convention came in force) http://preventgenocide.org/edu/pastgenocides/#1901

genocide.org analyzes genocide, holocaust and democide studies http://www.genocide.org/

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