Out of Work - Looking for a Job!
The economy has taken it's toll and I've lost my full-time job as a software developer in the financial sector...
so if anyone out there is looking for a freelance software developer, please drop me a line!
With over 12-years experience in the industry, I am versed in .NET (VB and C#) Windows applications and of course
web sites
Get Off Your Butt and Do Something!
Hope that got your attention!
Now that I'm unemployed, I have a bit of time on my hands to devote to LitterButt again and get it moving forward.
Cleaning up some code to make it more manageable is my first goal. Increasing content and hopefully getting some type
of advertising/sponsorship is next ... without a job, the $20+ per month it costs to run this site will eventually take
it's toll.
Many folks have sent emails with offers to help and so I'm calling everyone on that -- we need writers, photographers,
graphic designers and marketing people to propel this to the next level. New, visually-pleasing buttons for people to put
on their site and link to us... flyers people can download and post at work... press releases and marketing ideas! If
you can help out, CONTACT ME!
Web Forums Available
Yes, it's taken over a year and many emails from users to get the forums back up... actually I was laid off mid-November
so I found myself with plenty of time to actually research and implement a low-cost forum.
Register for the forums and help get the topics going... share your stories, ideas and more!
Mike Takes Up Cigarette Litter Cause
I am currently in a contest hosted by Timberland with there EarthKeepers site, to be a Change Agent, to help finance a great environmental cause...anyone that is environmentally conscious, please check out my site:
http://www.changents.com/ResponsibleSmokersAct
then register and "back" my "cause". If i get enough attention i might be able to make this life long dream of mine, come true. I was born on Earth Day of '78 and from about 13 years i have tried to gain interest in someone else to help for this non profit.
My organization hopes to educate on the environmental impact of cigarette litter. But what makes this idea unique, is that i want to collect cigarettes to make cigarette collection facilities out of them. which in turn print educational material on them....in a way a self-sustaining perpetual infrastructure.
Anyone that smokes or just hates cigarette litter or environmental hearted please join me and help make Responsible Smokers Act a reality
I am asking for obvious partners of sponsors, lawyers, accountants,web designers, graphic artist, photographers, environmental and civil servants, please if you think you can offer anything that would solve the problem of cancerous materials being littered by the trillions into everyday surroundings.
I will give anyone a chance to do there part for the Earth
If you have seen the movie Erin Brocovich. the environmental moral of that story is... Sometimes small doses, administered over a long time, makes our bodies absorb the same chemicals as if you where to smoke the original cigarette itself.
* Cigarette pollution cost millions to our public utilities in each state.
* Animals can very easily dies from the ingestion of small amounts of Butts.
* Cigarettes are made from cellulose Acetate, which is a host for the Bioaccumulotoxins, which delivers those thousand of cancerous chemicals to everywhere humans exists, our environment!
This seems to be the decade of GREEN living, i hope this gives me my chance to form a group to make a great impact on the world!!
Please re-post this to any Green person or smoker
Responsible Smokers Act
www.changents.com/ResponsibleSmokersAct
www.myspace.com/Earthday78
Thanks everyone!
Mike Davis
So What If I Throw My Butts on the Ground? They're Biodegradable, Right?
WRONG!! If you throw your cigarette butts on the ground, they eventually find their way to the ocean and other water sheds and YOU are contributing to the most commonly found man-made waste that originates from land! "The Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental organization based in Washington, D.C., compiled the results of a shoreline cleanup day conducted by volunteers last year in 68 countries. It covered a combined 34,000 miles of shoreline and collected 7 million pounds of litter, 80 percent of which had been washed from land into the water. Of the 7.7 million items of debris collected worldwide in 2006, cigarettes and cigarette butts accounted for roughly 1.9 million, the sixth consecutive year they have topped the list.
"People think they are biodegradable," said Kathryn Novak, coordinator for the Florida branch of the Ocean Conservancy. They're not, so think before flicking that cigarette butt out the car window."
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Celino said that under red flag conditions, people need to take extra precautions. "It's very easy to get ignitions in grasses and leaf litter from a match or a cigarette butt," he said. Celino also said that those who are doing controlled burns need to be particularly vigilant and take
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Moultrie police initially reacted to the fire as a possible arson, but the Moultrie Fire Department offered a different possibility Friday afternoon. While the cause of the fire remained under investigation, a fire department official said, indications were it was caused accidentally. A gas can with gasoline inside was found
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