Soup Base Chicken

Minor’s Chicken Base - Original Formula - 16 oz. Detailed Description

Minors Chicken Base will probably become the most used product in your kitchen. That is why it is the widest used product in the Minors line. Minors Chicken Base makes an instant, fully seasoned stock or broth for soups, sauces and gravies - just add 1 level teaspoon to 8 oz. water and stir. Great as a rub. Also enhances scratch stocks and makes a terrific seasoning for all kinds of entrees and side dishes--sauté vegetables to bring out their sweetness or mix into mash potatoes for sinfully delicious flavor without the fat. Just omit salt and add Minors Chicken Base. Each pound of base will make 5 gallons of fully flavored stock. Recipes included. Nutrition Facts Serving Size 3/4 tsp in 8 oz. water Calories 15 Total Fat 1g Sat. Fat 0g Trans Fat 0g Cholesterol >5mg Sodium 780mg Total Carbs >1g Fiber 0g Sugars >1g Protein >1g  Ingredients: Chicken meat and natural chicken juices, salt, chicken fat, monosodium glutamate, sugar, dried whey, hydrolyzed (corn and wheat gluten, soy) protein, less than 2% of natural flavoring, hydrogenated cottonseed oil, corn oil, yeast extract, disodium inosinate/disodium guanylate, natural extractives of turmeric and annatto, lactic acid. Contains: Milk, soy, wheat ingredients

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Pentagon puts out another fake bin Laden story

RT, one of my favorite news sources, has fallen for a fake story put out by the Pentagon to support the fantasy story that a SEAL team killed Osama bin Laden, who died a second time in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a decade after his first death from illness and disease.

This fake story together with the fake movie and the fake book by an alleged SEAL team member is the way the fake story of bin Laden’s murder is perpetrated. Bin Laden’s alleged demise at the hands of a SEAL team was a propaganda orchestration, the purpose of which was to give Obama a hero’s laurels and deep six Democratic talk of challenging his nomination for a second term.

Osama bin Laden died in December 2001 of renal failure and other health problems, having denied in his last recorded video any responsibility for 9/11, instead directing Americans to look inside their own government. The FBI itself has stated that there is no evidence that Osama bin Laden is responsible for 9/11. Bin Laden’s obituary appeared in numerous foreign and Arabic press, and also on Fox News. No one can survive renal failure for a decade, and no dialysis machine was found in the alleged Abbottabad compound of bin Laden, who allegedly was murdered by SEALs a decade after his obituary notices.

Additionally, no one among the crew of the ship from which the White House reported bin Laden was buried at sea saw any such burial, and the sailors sent messages home to that effect. Somehow a burial was held onboard a ship on which there are constant watches and crew on alert at all hours, and no one witnessed it.

Additionally, the White House story of the alleged murder of bin Laden changed twice within the first 24 hours. The claim that Obama and his government watched the action transmitted live from cameras on the SEALs’ helmets was quickly abandoned, despite the release of a photo of the Obama regime intently focused on a TV set and alleged to be watching the live action. No video of the deed was ever released. To date there is no evidence whatsoever in behalf of the Obama regime’s claim. Not one tiny scrap. Just unsubstantiated self-serving claims.

Additionally, as I have made available on my website, witnesses interviewed by Pakistan TV reported that only one helicopter landed in Abbottabad and that when the occupants of the helicopter returned from the alleged bin Laden compound, the helicopter exploded on takeoff and there were no survivors. In other words, there was no bin Laden corpse to deliver to the ship that did not witness a burial and no SEAL hero to return who allegedly murdered an unarmed bin Laden. Moreover, the BBC interviewed residents in Abbottabad, including those next door to the alleged “bin Laden compound,” and all say that they knew the person who lived there and it was not bin Laden.

Any SEAL who was so totally stupid as to kill the unarmed “Terror Mastermind” would probably have been courtmartialed for incompetency. Look at the smiling face of the man Who Killed Bin Laden. He thinks that his claim that he murdered a man makes him a hero, a powerful comment on the moral degeneracy of Americans.

So what is this claim by Rob O’Neill about? He is presented as a “motivational speaker” in search of clients. What better ploy among gullible Americans than to claim “I am the one who shot bin Laden.” Reminds me of the western movie: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. What better way to give Rob O’Neill’s claim validity than for the Pentagon to denounce his revelation for breaking obligation to remain silent. The Pentagon claims that O’Neill by claiming credit has painted a big target sign on our door asking ISIS to come get us

What unbelievable nonsense. ISIS and anyone who believed Obama’s claim to have done in bin Laden already knew, if they believed the lie, that the Obama regime claimed responsibility for murdering an unarmed bin Laden. The reason the SEAL team was prevented from talking is that no member of the team was on the alleged mission.

Just as the ship from which bin Laden was allegedly buried has no witnesses to the deed, the SEAL unit, whose members formed the team that allegedly dispatched an unarmed Terrorist Mastermind rather than to take him into custody for questioning, mysteriously died in a helicopter crash when they were loaded in violation of procedures in an unprotected 1960s vintage helicopter and sent into a combat zone in Afghanistan shortly after the alleged raid on “bin Laden’s compound.”

For awhile there were news reports that the families of these dead SEALS do not believe one word of the government’s account. Moreover, the families reported receiving messages from the SEALs that suddenly they felt threatened and did not know why. The SEALs had been asking one another: “Were you on the bin Laden mission?” Apparently, none were. And to keep this a secret, the SEALs were sent to their deaths.

Anyone who believes anything the US government says is gullible beyond the meaning of the word.

Paul Craig Roberts is a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. His latest book is How America Was Lost.

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Export Procedure(MAQIS)

Relevant RegulationsCustoms (Prohibited Exports) Regulation 1998

Scope and Jurisdiction of FAMA

* Issuance of Agricultural Produce Export Permit
* Issuance of the Certificate of Origin
* Issuance of Agricultural Produce Export Permit

Types of Commodities Requiring Permit

* Vegetables
* Fruits (Star fruit and Eksotika Papaya)
* Onion/Garlic (Re-export)

Producing Office

* FAMA Headquarters
* State FAMA Offices / Federal Territory of Labuan FAMA Office

Export Permit Application Conditions and Methods

Vegetables

* Possessing a Vegetable Licence issued by FAMA if exports involve vegetables from certain areas (Vegetable Marketing Regulations, 1975), which are for the Districts of Johor Bahru and Kota Tinggi, in Johor
* Complete the Export Permit Application Form (Form PK2). This form may be purchased from the FAMA Headquarters or
* State FAMA Office at RM30.00 per pad (50 sets).
* Permit charge of RM5.00 per verified PK2 Form
* The validity of the permit is 2 weeks

Fruits

* Possessing Fruits Export Licence (Star Fruit and Eksotika Papaya) issued by FAMA.
* Possessing Grade Verification Certificate for fruits that require grading (Grading Regulations).
* Complete the Export Permit Application Form (Form PK2).
* The charges for PK2 Permit is RM5.00 per permit issued. The permit charges is exempted for fruits that require grading, subject to specific conditions
* The permit validity is 1 week.

Onions/Garlic (Re-export)

* The Re-export Permit is only issued for commodities imported within one month or less from the application date.
* The approved export limit is up to 50% from the total import quantity.
* Each Export Permit application (Form PK2) must not exceed 30 metric tonnes.
* Submit the K1Customs Form (Import Declaration as prove of import).
* For exporters who do not import themselves, they are required to submit the onion/garlic purchase invoice from the importer and a copy of Form K1.
* Obtain the Certificate of Origin issued by FAMA (only exports of garlic to European Union countries or other countries that require it).
* Complete Form PK2
* Include the permit charge of RM10.00 for re-export of 5 metric tonnes or less. The permit charge for exports of more than 5 to 30 metric tonnes is RM30.00 per permit issued.
* The permit validity period is 1 month.

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Dapat sijil kelahiran bukan jaminan diberi taraf warganegara: Jainab

KOTA KINABALU:  Pemberian sijil kelahiran kepada kanak-kanak tanpa kewarganegaraan di Sabah tidak bermakna seseorang itu secara automatik mendapat taraf warganegara dan menikmati keistimewaan sebagai rakyat Malaysia.

Justeru, Menteri Pembangunan Masyarakat dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna Sabah Datuk Jainab Ahmad Ayid berkata rakyat Sabah tidak harus bimbang dengan pemberian sijil kelahiran itu.

“Saya mengalu-alukan pandangan peguam dan menteri bagi kanak-kanak jalanan di Sabah diberi sijil kelahiran, namun ia memerlukan perhatian dan pemerhatian rapi Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara Sabah untuk mengeluarkan sijil kelahiran itu,” katanya kepada pemberita di sini, pada Isnin.

Jainab berkata situasi itu dapat mencegah sebarang masalah dan gejala sosial yang berlaku di kalangan mereka terutama apabila mendapat peluang belajar di sekolah bermula dari peringkat rendah.

Beliau mengulas laporan akhbar tempatan hari ini yang memetik Pengarah Eksekutif Lawyers for Liberty Eric Paulsen sebagai berkata Sabah perlu mengiktiraf kanak-kanak tanpa kewarganegaraan dan memberi mereka sijil kelahiran meskipun mendapat bantahan ahli politik.

Paulsen dipetik sebagai berkata pemberian sijil kelahiran adalah hak asasi semua kanak-kanak dan tiada kaitan dengan kewarganegaraan.

Dalam pada itu, Jainab mencadangkan Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara (JPN) mengadakan kursus berkaitan bagi memberi pemahaman jelas berhubung isu pemberian sijil kelahiran itu, taraf pemastautin tetap mahupun taraf kewarganegaraan.

Sebelum ini, Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi dilapor berkata Putrajaya akan bekerjasama dengan JPN dan Kementerian Pendidikan untuk memberi sijil kelahiran bagi tujuan persekolahan kepada kanak-kanak tanpa kewarganegaraan di Sabah atas dasar peri kemanusiaan.

Ahmad Zahid berkata permasalahan mengenai status kanak-kanak tanpa warganegara dapat ditangani dalam perbentangan laporan Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja mengenai isu Pendatang Asing Tanpa Izin di Sabah tidak lama lagi.

– BERNAMA

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PM,TPM, kerabat ada hak dapat nombor plat kenderaan percuma

KUALA LUMPUR: Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Kira-Kira Wang Negara (PAC) Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed menjelaskan bahawa Perdana Menteri, Timbalan Perdana Menteri mempunyai hak untuk mendapatkan nombor plat kenderaan yang mereka kehendaki.

Katanya, Perdana Menteri, Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Menteri-menteri, mempunyai hak untuk mendapatkan 2 nombor plat yang mereka kehendaki, manakala Yang Dipertuan Agung pula mempunyai hak mendapat sebanyak 7 nombor plat.

“Pemberian nombor plat kepada mereka ini diberikan secara percuma, kerana itu adalah hak dan kelebihan yang mereka miliki sebagai Perdana Menteri, Timbalan Perdana Menteri, dan Menteri serta kerabat diraja,” katanya dalam sidang media di Parlimen.

Jelas Ahli Parlimen Pulai itu, mereka diberikan hak untuk dapatkan nombor plat kenderaan pada setiap kementerian yang mereka terajui.

“Terpulang kepada mereka untuk gunakan nombor tersebut pada kenderaan rasmi atau kenderaan persendirian kerana itu adalah hak mereka,” ujarnya lagi.

Dalam pada masa yang sama, Jazlan turut menyatakan pada tahun hadapan sistem e-bidaan akan digunakan bagi membuat bidaan bagi membeli nombor plat kenderaan.

“Sistem e-bidaan ini digunakan bagi mengurangkan penggunaan tenaga kerja manusia dan bagi menjaga ketelusan,” katanya.

Dalam pada itu, PAC sendiri menanyakan kepada pihak JPJ berkenaan mengapakah nama-nama pemenang bidaan nombor plat itu dirahsiakan.

“JPJ cakap mereka hendak menjaga sensitiviti tetapi PAC cakap buat apa untuk jaga sensitiviti.

“PAC juga akan rekemenkan supaya nama pemenang nombor plat tersebut didedahkan,” katanya.

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Hapus dasar monopoli untuk elak internet Malaysia terlalu mahal

(Oleh Azuan Ab Rahman)
 KUALA LUMPUR 5 NOV: Kerajaan perlu menghapuskan amalan monopoli yang mengakibatkan harga internet dan jalur lebar di negara ini terlalu mahal berbanding kualiti perkhidmatan yang ditawarkan. Pengarah Komunikasi KEADILAN, Fahmi Fadzil berkata, mutu perkhidmatan internet hanya dapat dipertingkatkan jika kerajaan bersedia memecahkan monopoli perkhidmatan tersebut. Fahmi“Isu pokoknya adalah monopoli, kerajaan seharusnya membuka lebih ruang agar ada persaingan di kalangan penyedia perkhidmatan. “Ini bukan sahaja menjadikan harga perkhidmatan lebih rendah tetapi ia turut meningkatkan mutu perkhidmatan kerana wujudnya persaingan,” jelas Fahmi.
    Terdahulu, Pengerusi Persatuan Industri Komputer dan Multimedia Malaysia (Pikom), Cheah Kok Hong dipetik berkata, harga perkhidmatan internet di Malaysia terlalu mahal dan perlu diturunkan kerana ia menjadi keperluan masyarakat kini. Satu laporan kaji selidik atas talian oleh Ookla Net Index sebelum ini turut meletakkan Malaysia di tangga ke-126 daripada 196 negara dari segi kelajuan internet di dunia. Malah lebih teruk, mutu perkhidmatan internet di negara ini ketinggalan di belakang Kemboja dan Vietnam berdasarkan kajian yang dilakukan pada Mei 2013 hingga April 2014 itu. “Bagaimana kita mahu menjadi negara maju jika mutu perkhidmatan instrument penting ini berada di tahap terkebelakang. “Kerajaan perlu melakukan sesuatu kerana dengan memperbaiki mutu perkhidmatan dan kosnya, bakal memberi manfaat besar kepada rakyat,” kata Fahmi lagi.


Ada syarikat yang telah bertapak dan sudah kaut keuntungan sejak adanya handphone di Malaysia, pun masih mahal caj internetnya. 

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Ebola virus disease

Key facts

• Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans.
• The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission.
• The average EVD case fatality rate is around 50%. Case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks.
• The first EVD outbreaks occurred in remote villages in Central Africa, near tropical rainforests, but the most recent outbreak in west Africa has involved major urban as well as rural areas.
• Community engagement is key to successfully controlling outbreaks. Good outbreak control relies on applying a package of interventions, namely case management, surveillance and contact tracing, a good laboratory service, safe burials and social mobilisation.
• Early supportive care with rehydration, symptomatic treatment improves survival. There is as yet no licensed treatment proven to neutralise the virus but a range of blood, immunological and drug therapies are under development.
• There are currently no licensed Ebola vaccines but 2 potential candidates are undergoing evaluation.

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Background

The Ebola virus causes an acute, serious illness which is often fatal if untreated. Ebola virus disease (EVD) first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, one in Nzara, Sudan, and the other in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter occurred in a village near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name.

The current outbreak in west Africa, (first cases notified in March 2014), is the largest and most complex Ebola outbreak since the Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976. There have been more cases and deaths in this outbreak than all others combined. It has also spread between countries starting in Guinea then spreading across land borders to Sierra Leone and Liberia, by air (1 traveller only) to Nigeria, and by land (1 traveller) to Senegal.

The most severely affected countries, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have very weak health systems, lacking human and infrastructural resources, having only recently emerged from long periods of conflict and instability. On August 8, the WHO Director-General declared this outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

A separate, unrelated Ebola outbreak began in Boende, Equateur, an isolated part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The virus family Filoviridae includes 3 genera: Cuevavirus, Marburgvirus, and Ebolavirus. There are 5 species that have been identified: Zaire, Bundibugyo, Sudan, Reston and Taï Forest. The first 3, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Zaire ebolavirus, and Sudan ebolavirus have been associated with large outbreaks in Africa. The virus causing the 2014 west African outbreak belongs to the Zaire species.

Transmission

It is thought that fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are natural Ebola virus hosts. Ebola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals such as chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found ill or dead or in the rainforest.

Ebola then spreads through human-to-human transmission via direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and with surfaces and materials (e.g. bedding, clothing) contaminated with these fluids.

Health-care workers have frequently been infected while treating patients with suspected or confirmed EVD. This has occurred through close contact with patients when infection control precautions are not strictly practiced.

Burial ceremonies in which mourners have direct contact with the body of the deceased person can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola.

People remain infectious as long as their blood and body fluids, including semen and breast milk, contain the virus. Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery from illness.

Symptoms of Ebola virus disease

The incubation period, that is, the time interval from infection with the virus to onset of symptoms is 2 to 21 days. Humans are not infectious until they develop symptoms. First symptoms are the sudden onset of fever fatigue, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. This is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, symptoms of impaired kidney and liver function, and in some cases, both internal and external bleeding (e.g. oozing from the gums, blood in the stools). Laboratory findings include low white blood cell and platelet counts and elevated liver enzymes.

Diagnosis

It can be difficult to distinguish EVD from other infectious diseases such as malaria, typhoid fever and meningitis. Confirmation that symptoms are caused by Ebola virus infection are made using the following investigations:

• antibody-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
• antigen-capture detection tests
• serum neutralization test
• reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay
• electron microscopy
• virus isolation by cell culture.

Samples from patients are an extreme biohazard risk; laboratory testing on non-inactivated samples should be conducted under maximum biological containment conditions.

Treatment and vaccines

Supportive care-rehydration with oral or intravenous fluids- and treatment of specific symptoms, improves survival. There is as yet no proven treatment available for EVD. However, a range of potential treatments including blood products, immune therapies and drug therapies are currently being evaluated. No licensed vaccines are available yet, but 2 potential vaccines are undergoing human safety testing.

Prevention and control

Good outbreak control relies on applying a package of interventions, namely case management, surveillance and contact tracing, a good laboratory service, safe burials and social mobilisation. Community engagement is key to successfully controlling outbreaks. Raising awareness of risk factors for Ebola infection and protective measures that individuals can take is an effective way to reduce human transmission. Risk reduction messaging should focus on several factors:

• Reducing the risk of wildlife-to-human transmission from contact with infected fruit bats or monkeys/apes and the consumption of their raw meat. Animals should be handled with gloves and other appropriate protective clothing. Animal products (blood and meat) should be thoroughly cooked before consumption.
• Reducing the risk of human-to-human transmission from direct or close contact with people with Ebola symptoms, particularly with their bodily fluids. Gloves and appropriate personal protective equipment should be worn when taking care of ill patients at home. Regular hand washing is required after visiting patients in hospital, as well as after taking care of patients at home.
• Outbreak containment measures including prompt and safe burial of the dead, identifying people who may have been in contact with someone infected with Ebola, monitoring the health of contacts for 21 days, the importance of separating the healthy from the sick to prevent further spread, the importance of good hygiene and maintaining a clean environment.

Controlling infection in health-care settings:

Health-care workers should always take standard precautions when caring for patients, regardless of their presumed diagnosis. These include basic hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, use of personal protective equipment (to block splashes or other contact with infected materials), safe injection practices and safe burial practices.

Health-care workers caring for patients with suspected or confirmed Ebola virus should apply extra infection control measures to prevent contact with the patient’s blood and body fluids and contaminated surfaces or materials such as clothing and bedding. When in close contact (within 1 metre) of patients with EBV, health-care workers should wear face protection (a face shield or a medical mask and goggles), a clean, non-sterile long-sleeved gown, and gloves (sterile gloves for some procedures).

Laboratory workers are also at risk. Samples taken from humans and animals for investigation of Ebola infection should be handled by trained staff and processed in suitably equipped laboratories.

WHO response

WHO aims to prevent Ebola outbreaks by maintaining surveillance for Ebola virus disease and supporting at-risk countries to developed preparedness plans. The document provides overall guidance for control of Ebola and Marburg virus outbreaks:

• Ebola and Marburg virus disease epidemics: preparedness, alert, control, and evaluation

When an outbreak is detected WHO responds by supporting surveillance, community engagement, case management, laboratory services, contact tracing, infection control, logistical support and training and assistance with safe burial practices.

WHO has developed detailed advice on Ebola infection prevention and control:

• Infection prevention and control guidance for care of patients with suspected or confirmed Filovirus haemorrhagic fever in health-care settings, with focus on Ebola

Table: Chronology of previous Ebola virus disease outbreaks

Year	Country	Ebolavirus species	Cases	Deaths	Case fatality
2012	Democratic Republic of Congo	Bundibugyo	57	29	51%
2012	Uganda	Sudan	7	4	57%
2012	Uganda	Sudan	24	17	71%
2011	Uganda	Sudan	1	1	100%
2008	Democratic Republic of Congo	Zaire	32	14	44%
2007	Uganda	Bundibugyo	149	37	25%
2007	Democratic Republic of Congo	Zaire	264	187	71%
2005	Congo	Zaire	12	10	83%
2004	Sudan	Sudan	17	7	41%
2003 (Nov-Dec)	Congo	Zaire	35	29	83%
2003 (Jan-Apr)	Congo	Zaire	143	128	90%
2001-2002	Congo	Zaire	59	44	75%
2001-2002	Gabon	Zaire	65	53	82%
2000	Uganda	Sudan	425	224	53%
1996	South Africa (ex-Gabon)	Zaire	1	1	100%
1996 (Jul-Dec)	Gabon	Zaire	60	45	75%
1996 (Jan-Apr)	Gabon	Zaire	31	21	68%
1995	Democratic Republic of Congo	Zaire	315	254	81%
1994	Cote d'Ivoire	Taï Forest	1	0	0%
1994	Gabon	Zaire	52	31	60%
1979	Sudan	Sudan	34	22	65%
1977	Democratic Republic of Congo	Zaire	1	1	100%
1976	Sudan	Sudan	284	151	53%
1976	Democratic Republic of Congo	Zaire	318	280	88%

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WHO Media centre
Telephone: +41 22 791 2222
E-mail: mediainquiries@who.int

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