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This article is about the Myers-Briggs personality type. For the Socionics ENTj, see Logical Intuitive Extrovert.

ENTJ (extraversion, intuition, thinking, judgment) is an abbreviation used in the publications of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to refer to one of sixteen personality types.^[1] The MBTI assessment was developed from the work of prominent psychiatrist Carl G. Jung in his book Psychological Types, which proposed a psychological typology based on his theories of cognitive functions.

From Jung's work, others developed psychological typologies. Jungian personality assessments include the MBTI assessment, developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs, and the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, developed by David Keirsey. Keirsey referred to ENTJs as Fieldmarshals, one of the four types belonging to the temperament he called the Rationals.

ENTJs are among the rarest of types, accounting for about 2–5% of those who are formally tested.^[2][3] They tend to be self-driven, motivating, energetic, assertive, confident, and competitive. They generally take a big-picture view and build a long-term strategy.

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State Reps: Too many animals euthanized

Solar Windows by Pythagoras Solar Seek to Achieve Net Zero Buildings | Green Talk™

Solar Windows by Pythagoras Solar Seek to Achieve Net Zero Buildings | Green Talk™

About the KHSfoster's Blog

I am posting this to tell everyone about the KSHfoster's Blog. (Not affiliated with us or this blog) but a very helpful site for homeless pets in Kansas. The KHSfoster's Blog is about all of the animals who are at the Kansas Humane Society in need of a loving forever home, and awaiting adoption at the shelter or in foster care. Shelters need more people to be a foster home for animals...time and space are precious. All about the fosters who care for animals from the KHS - all animals are in need of loving forever home.

Please adopt an animal from your local animal shelter. Don't shop from a breeder.

Below is a posting from the KHSfoster's Blog

HelpingAnimals.com // Help An Animal // Factsheets // The AKC and Dog Breeders: Partners in Crime

If you’ve decided to welcome a dog into your family, you may be considering buying a puppy from a breeder. While many potential canine guardians have heard about the horrors of puppy mills and “backyard breeders,” they mistakenly think that buying a puppy from a so-called responsible breeder is acceptable. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Why Breeding Dogs Is Killing Dogs
Approximately 6 to 8 million animals are handled by animal shelters in the United States each year. Some are reclaimed or adopted, but nearly 4 million unwanted dogs and cats are left with nowhere to go.(1) Animal shelters cannot humanely house and support all these animals until they die of natural causes—the animals would be forced to live for years, lonely and stressed, in cramped cages or kennels. And other animals would have to be turned away because there would be no room for them.

The births and deaths of millions of homeless animals could be reduced and prevented through spaying and neutering. Yet countless numbers of puppies are born every day, thanks to breeders who often breed closely related dogs in order to retain certain breed characteristics. Not only does this contribute to the overpopulation crisis, it has also led to genetic diseases in virtually every breed. Because the gene pool is so limited, there are now more hereditary canine diseases (about 370) than there are dog breeds

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HelpingAnimals.com // Help An Animal // Factsheets // The AKC and Dog Breeders: Partners in Crime

Ohio Dairy Farm Investigation | Mercy For Animals

Ohio Dairy Farm Investigation | Mercy For Animals


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Chilling undercover footage recorded during a new Mercy For Animals investigation exposes dairy farm workers sadistically abusing cows and young calves.
Captured on hidden camera, the shocking scenes of abuse reveal a culture of cruelty at Conklin Dairy Farms in Plain City, Ohio.
During a four-week investigation between April and May, MFA's investigator documented farm workers:

• Violently punching young calves in the face, body slamming them to the ground, and pulling and throwing them by their ears
• Routinely using pitchforks to stab cows in the face, legs and stomach
• Kicking "downed" cows (those too injured to stand) in the face and neck – abuse carried out and encouraged by the farm's owner
• Maliciously beating restrained cows in the face with crowbars – some attacks involving over 40 blows to the head
• Twisting cows' tails until the bones snapped
• Punching cows' udders
• Bragging about stabbing, dragging, shooting, breaking bones, and beating cows and calves to death

After viewing the footage, Dr. Bernard Rollin, distinguished professor of animal science at Colorado State University, stated: "This is probably the most gratuitous, sustained, sadistic animal abuse I have ever seen. The video depicts calculated, deliberate cruelty, based not on momentary rage but on taking pleasure through causing pain to cows and calves who are defenseless."
Immediately upon completion of the investigation, Mercy For Animals contacted the City Prosecutor's Office of Marysville regarding the ongoing pattern of abuse at Conklin Dairy Farms. MFA is pushing for employees of the facility to be criminally prosecuted for violating Ohio's animal cruelty laws.
The deplorable conditions uncovered at Conklin Dairy Farms highlight the reality that animal agriculture is incapable of self-regulation and that meaningful federal and state laws must be implemented and strengthened to prevent egregious cruelty to farmed animals.
Although many of the abuses documented at Conklin Dairy Farms are sadistic in nature, numerous MFA undercover investigations at dairy farms, pig farms, egg farms, hatcheries and slaughterhouses have revealed that violence and abuse to farmed animals – whether malicious or institutionalized – runs rampant nationwide.
Compassionate consumers can end their direct financial support of farmed animal abuse by rejecting dairy, and other animal products, and adopting a vegan diet.

Source: Mercy For Animals

Anti-whaling Bethune to plead guilty in Tokyo court - Environment Sci - Video - 3 News

Pete Bethune will appear in a Tokyo District Court tomorrow facing five charges and up to 15 years in prison.

Save Our Shores Targets Plastic Pollution - Santa Cruz News

A leatherback sea turtle feasts on a jellyfish. Photo courtesy of http://www.seaturtles.org

Although we don’t have to worry about a massive oil leak erupting in our immediate backyards, local waters do not go unharmed by the consequences of petroleum production. Save Our Shores—formed in 1978 to voice community opposition to offshore drilling—continues to fight against one of the unfortunate impacts of global oil dependence: plastic pollution.

Save Our Shores reports that 151,699 plastic pieces and 18,296 plastic bags have been collected from the local shores since 2007. Fortunately, says SOS executive director Laura Kasa, Santa Cruz is at the forefront of coastal communities enacting change. A ban (...)

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YouTube - New Underwater footage of BP oil leak at the source

Starving Artists to Help Starving Animals! | KansasCity.com Press Release Central

Picassos for Pets
Starving local artists to help starving animals!

On Sunday June 6th, from 2 to 5pm, HELP Humane Society is hosting their inaugural Picassos for Pets; an art auction and margarita fundraiser at the Ritz Charles in Overland Park. The afternoon promises to provide entertainment for art and animal lovers of all ages. There will be a silent auction featuring works in all media, from paintings to fiber, as well as information booths related to animal products and services. The works of art have been donated solely by local artists and volunteers of the no-kill shelter. Proceeds will go towards building a new, larger building to allow for the rescue of more cats and dogs.

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Fabien Cousteau and Dr. Wallace J Nichols Launch "Billion Baby Turtles" Project; The Two Will Visit El Salvador for Start of 2010 Sea Turtle Protect..

Hair soaks up oil spills

matteroftrust — April 02, 2010 — You shampoo because hair collects oil. That means it can collect petroleum oil spills too. Over 300,000 pounds of hair are cut each day in the US and not to mention all the clippings from pet groomers.
We hope you'll enjoy this little film about our charity's "Oil Spill Hair Mats Program"
http://www.MatterOfTrust.org
Our thanks to Phil McCrory, hair mat inventor
http://www.smartgrow.us
The music is "Via Con Me" by Paolo Conte
Seal photo courtesy of http://www.deusexmalcontent.com/

E.U. Push on Animal Welfare May Open New Trade Front With U.S. - NYTimes.com

BRUSSELS — One of the first things the European Union’s new health and consumer affairs commissioner did after taking office was to approve the planting of a genetically modified potato in Europe — riling environmentalists but giving hope to U.S. officials that an end to a long trade dispute over biotech crops might be in sight.
But John Dalli, who began his first official visit to Washington on Monday, may open a new, potentially disruptive front: animal welfare.
In an interview ahead of the trip, Mr. Dalli said he planned to tell his American counterparts that he intended to propose a new law on animal welfare.


(by James Kanter - NY Times - Published April 26, 2010)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/business/global/27dalli.html?pagewanted=1&src=busln

Photographer of endangered wildlife in race against time, apathy - CNN.com

Washington (CNN) -- Joel Sartore's photograph of gentle Bryn is a permanent record, but she has been lost forever.

The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit died in 2008 shortly after the picture was taken. She was the last of her kind.

(See more portraits and read the full article at cnn.com)

Sartore, who has worked for the National Geographic Society for two decades, called the brief shooting session with the doomed rabbit a "solemn occasion," knowing she would not be around much longer.

Bryn is one of dozens of animals profiled in a new book, "Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species," by the award-winning photographer.

Sartore, a Nebraska native, traveled the country to get glimpses of 69 species -- red wolves, Hawaiian orchids, hellbenders (a prehistoric-looking salamander), and sea turtles -- all now or once hanging on the verge of extinction.

As the United States celebrated Earth Day on Thursday, Sartore talked with CNN recently about his passion for raising awareness about preserving the variety of animal and plant life before it is too late.

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Photographer of endangered wildlife in race against time, apathy - CNN.com

Early Animal Rights Poem Discovered: A Mouse's Plea : NPR

He was just an ordinary mouse, nothing special. He lived, very briefly, 237 years ago, in the laboratory of a great chemist, Joseph Priestley. Here he sits, in his cage.
A painting of a forlorn mouse in jail
Benjamin Arthur

There were lots of mice in Priestley's lab. He had made his reputation as one of the first scientists to identify oxygen. He studied mice to figure out what happens inside animals as they breathe. This meant he regularly opened them to examine lungs, veins, arteries, to see that blood changed color when it moved through lungs. And since tuberculosis -- or "consumption" -- was the scourge of that era, lung research seemed like a valuable thing to do.

But animals didn't last long in Priestley's lab, especially mice. So many died that his lab assistant, a young woman named Anna Barbauld, decided that Priestley should give his lab animals a little more respect. It was, after all, 1773, just a few years before Lexington, Concord and the Declaration of Independence. On both sides of the Atlantic, "inalienable rights" were a rallying cry, and Anna, a young wife and poet, decided to write a protest poem. She called it "The Mouse's Petition to Dr. Priestley, Found in the Trap where he had been Confined all Night."
Early Animal Rights Poem Discovered: A Mouse's Plea : NPR

Sea Shepherd Whale Defense Campaign Saves 528 Whales - Sea Shepherd

 Sea Shepherd News 

Operation Waltzing Matilda is a Spectacular Success
The Japanese whaling fleet set out for the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary with a permit issued by the Japanese government to kill 935 protected Minke whales, 50 endangered fin whales and 50 endangered humpback whales. Their objective was to kill 1035 whales in total.
Intervention by the three ships of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society prevented them from taking that number. Sea Shepherd crewmembers were successful in cutting that kill quota by more than half. Their success at saving the humpbacks was 100%, and their success at saving fin whales was 98%.
Of the fifty humpback whales that were targeted, they did not take a single one.
Of the fifty fin whales that were targeted, they managed to kill only one.
Of the 935 targeted Minke whales, they killed 506.
In total, the illegal Japanese whalers murdered 507 whales.
Sea Shepherd successfully saved 528 whales- our biggest impact on the whale quota to date.

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http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-100412-1.html

MIT researchers create super efficient 'origami' solar panels | MNN - Mother Nature Network

"This was a fully 'bio-inspired' idea," said researcher Jeffrey Grossman, a theoretical physicist at MIT. "I was hiking up at Lake Tahoe in California and noticing the shapes of trees, and wondering, 'Why do they have a given shape over another?'"

EcoATM Aims to Decrease E-Waste | Recycling for Charities

The green movement is here and there are efforts on all fronts to make sure it not only stays around but continues to grow. The ideas and creativity behind the Green movement have showed that everyone has the capabilities to recycle. Although, it may be on different levels some more intense than others, the opportunity to recycle now may find you instead of you having to look for it. That is exactly the case in Omaha, Nebraska where the new EcoATM has made its way on to the scene.
The Nebraska Furniture Mart is the first location to install the EcoAtm, and is serving as a test study for a possible advance in a future release. EcoATM is a San Diego start up company that used to be known as Remobile. The have developed a self-service kiosk, also known as EcoATM which is focused on decreasing the amount of e-waste in the environment along with promoting an easy and convenient way to recycle old cell phones. The e-cycling stations inspects all cell phones and assigns them an up to date secondary market value and then provides an in store payment. If the phone has no monetary value the consumer can assign it to the recycling bin and off it goes.

EcoATM has declared the Nebrasksa machine an instant success, since its September 21st start up date. The success comes on two fronts both with the number of cell phones recycled and the amount of trade up purchases. On the very first day the station received 23 phones to be recycled and on the second day paid out over $100 for recycled phones it received.
EcoATM has big plans ahead of them, planning on installing kiosks across the nation. By setting up stations in San Diego, Texas, Washington State, and Vermont in this quarter alone. EcoATM also has plans for a massive roll out of the machines to happen in the second quarter of next year. Eventually the machines will be able to recognize other devices such as MP3 players, digital cameras, notebooks, printers, and storage devices.
The machines use a camera based system to assess the condition of the cell phones. The cameras are able to detect signs of wear and tear from a cracked screen to missing keys and to determine the value of the device. The question that may arise here, is can a machine inspect the device with the same accuracy as a human? This question is still up in the air but nonetheless with the success of the EcoATM in Nebraska there will be many more stations to test that question.
With technology becoming a friend of the Green movement, there will be more innovating approaches to protect the planet. The EcoATM is just one of many new ideas that have arisen to attack the overwhelming amount of e-waste that is being released into the environment.
http://www.recyclingforcharities.com/blog/?p=60

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Grieving Kettleman City mothers tackle a toxic waste dump - Los Angeles Times

Each had miscarried or given birth to a child with birth defects. Their pain gave them strength to fight for justice.
March 30, 2010|By Louis Sahagun

Reporting from Kettleman City, Calif. — On a rainy afternoon in a cramped trailer, the five homemakers listened as state officials with clipboards asked personal questions: Did they or their husbands smoke, drink or take illicit drugs? Had they been exposed to pesticides or other toxic substances in the United States or Mexico? Do their families have histories of birth defects?