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The Safety of Seafood Imports
Statement of
Steven M. Solomon, D.V.M., M.P.H.
Deputy Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs
Food and Drug Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
Before the
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
United States Senate
May 6, 2015
Good afternoon, Chairman Vitter, Ranking Member Shaheen, and Members of the Committee. I am Dr. Steven Solomon, Deputy Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency), which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the Agency's ongoing efforts to oversee the safety of the U.S. seafood supply.
In the interest of public health, it is vital that both domestically-processed and imported seafood are safe, wholesome, and properly labeled. FDA has had a strong regulatory program in place since the mid-1990s to ensure the safety of domestic and imported seafood. In fact, the hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls framework of FDA's seafood-safety program is a basis for the preventive controls requirements for other FDA-regulated foods called for in the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), enacted in 2011. For this reason, FSMA specifically exempts seafood from some of its requirements. However, FSMA also provides the Agency with a number of new authorities that will help improve the safety of domestic and imported FDA-regulated foods, including seafood.
The Agency has a variety of tools to ensure compliance with seafood safety requirements, including inspections of domestic and foreign processing facilities, examination and sampling of domestic seafood and seafood offered for import into the United States, domestic surveillance sampling of imported products, inspections of seafood importers, evaluations of filers of seafood products offered for import, and foreign country program assessments. FDA works closely with our foreign, Federal, state, local, and Tribal partners to share relevant information and ensure that products in U.S. commerce meet applicable FDA requirements.
Seafood is one of the most highly-traded commodities in the world. The Agency recognizes that success in protecting the American public depends increasingly on our ability to reach beyond U.S. borders and engage with its government regulatory counterparts in other nations, as well as with industry and regional and international organizations, to encourage the implementation of science-based standards to ensure the safety of products before they reach our country.
In my testimony today, I will discuss FDA's regulatory framework for overseeing the safety of the U.S. seafood supply, emphasizing the Agency's efforts with regard to imported seafood.
Because fish are cold-blooded and live in aquatic environments, fish and fishery products pose unique food safety challenges, which are quite different from those posed by land animals. FDA has developed extensive expertise in these areas over decades of regulating this commodity. Experts in FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) are responsible for evaluating the hazard to public health presented by chemical, including toxins, and microbiological contaminants in fish and fishery products. FDA operates the Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory in Alabama, which specializes in seafood microbiological, chemical, and toxins research. In addition, seafood research is conducted at CFSAN's research laboratory in College Park, Maryland. FDA, in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the Department of Commerce, also represents the United States at the Codex Alimentarius Commission's Committee on Fish and Fishery Products, the international food safety standard-setting body for this commodity.
FDA operates a mandatory safety program for processing of fish and fishery products. As a cornerstone of that program, FDA publishes the Fish and Fishery Products Hazards and Controls Guidance, an extensive compilation of the most up-to-date science and policy on the hazards that affect fish and fishery products and effective controls to prevent their occurrence. The document, currently in its fourth edition, has become the foundation of fish and fishery product regulatory programs around the world.
Seafood Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) Regulation and Inspections
Processors of fish and fishery products are subject to FDA's Procedures for the Safe and Sanitary Processing and Importing of Fish and Fishery Products, commonly known as the HACCP regulation. In short, this regulation requires both domestic and foreign processors of fish and fishery products to understand the food-safety hazards associated with their process and product and, through a system of preventive controls, to control for those hazards. Every processor is required to have and implement a written HACCP plan whenever a hazard analysis reveals one or more food-safety hazard(s) that is/are reasonably likely to occur. Foreign processors who export seafood products to the United States must operate in conformance with seafood HACCP regulations. In addition, HACCP regulations require importers to take positive steps to verify that they obtain shipments from foreign processors who comply with the regulation requirements. Congress, in FSMA, directed FDA to put in place a similar preventive controls system as the seafood HACCP program for other FDA-regulated foods as a way to prevent problems rather than reacting to them after they occur. The Agency is working to finalize rules to implement these preventive controls for FDA-regulated foods beyond seafood covered by the HACCP regulation.
The field staff in FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) is responsible for overseeing regulatory compliance for fish and fishery products produced in the United States and for those products imported from abroad. The field staff conducts inspections of fish and fishery product processing establishments, conducts follow-up investigations to track foodborne illnesses, and performs other activities designed to oversee the safety of these products. The HACCP inspection approach is used by FDA during domestic and foreign inspections of seafood processors to focus its attention on the parts of seafood production and processing that are most likely to affect the safety of the product. Specifically, the approach allows FDA to evaluate processors' overall implementation of their HACCP systems over a period of time by having access to the firms' HACCP plans, including monitoring, corrective action, and verification records. In this model, it is the seafood industry's responsibility to develop and implement HACCP controls and the regulatory Agency's to oversee that the industry complies.
FDA allocates its inspection resources based mostly on the risk of the product. Examples of high-priority products include ready-to-eat products, such as hot or cold smoked fish, scombrotoxin-forming fish, such as tuna or mahi-mahi, aquacultured seafood products, and fish packed in reduced oxygen packages. Even though inspectional coverage is based primarily on product risk, FDA district offices may adjust that coverage to inspect a particular establishment, such as one that may have been associated with a consumer complaint or illness or one with a poor compliance history. Domestic seafood processors are inspected at least once every three years. FDA also conducts inspections of foreign seafood processors, and in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 conducted 303 inspections under the foreign seafood program.
The regulatory sanctions that FDA has available to apply to domestic and foreign processors of fish and fishery products that are non-compliant include Warning Letters, seizure of products, injunction against further non-compliant practices, and/or prosecution of an individual or establishment. FSMA provided FDA with additional tools, such as the authority to issue a mandatory recall for certain foods (other than infant formula, for which FDA already has recall authority), when a company fails to voluntarily recall certain foods that meet certain criteria after being asked to do so by the Agency. In addition, FDA can now order administrative detention of any article of food, if there is reason to believe that it is adulterated or misbranded. These new enforcement tools, combined with FDA's new authority under FSMA to suspend the registration of a facility if the Agency determines that food manufactured, processed, packed, received, or held by such facility has a reasonable probability of causing serious adverse health consequences or death, enable the Agency to more effectively prevent unsafe food from entering commerce. I will describe the Agency's authorities specific to imports later in my testimony.
Working with Government and Industry Partners
FDA also works closely with the states and industry to ensure the safety of the U.S. seafood supply. In addition to the seafood HACCP inspections performed by FDA inspectors, FDA currently contracts with 24 state regulatory agencies to perform seafood HACCP inspections. These state partners operate under equivalent regulatory, operational, enforcement, and compliance protocols, and their inspectors are trained by FDA. There are 929 seafood HACCP inspections scheduled to be performed by our state partners in FY 2015.
The U.S. food safety program that controls molluscan shellfish (oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops) safety is called the "National Shellfish Sanitation Program" (NSSP). The NSSP is a Federal-state cooperative program with oversight provided by FDA in cooperation with state shellfish experts and other members of the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference (ISSC). The purpose of the NSSP is to promote and improve the sanitation of shellfish moving in interstate commerce through Federal/state cooperation and uniformity of state shellfish programs. Thirty-five states have certified shellfish shippers participating in the NSSP. FDA's Interstate Certified Shellfish Shippers List (ICSSL) is published monthly on FDA's website for use by food control officials, the seafood industry, and other interested persons. The shippers listed on the ICSSL have been certified by regulatory authorities in the United States, Canada, Korea, New Zealand, and Mexico under the uniform sanitation requirements of the NSSP. Canadian, Korean, New Zealand, and Mexican shippers are included under the terms of the shellfish sanitation agreements FDA has with the governments of these countries. State and local retail food codes modeled after the FDA Food Code contain requirements that make it unlawful for retailers and food service operators to obtain raw molluscan shellfish from sources not included on the ICSSL.
DNA Testing to Address Seafood Fraud
In recent years, there have been reports of seafood in the United States being labeled with an incorrect market name. FDA is aware that there may be economic incentives for some seafood producers and retailers to misrepresent the identity of the seafood species they sell to buyers and consumers. While seafood fraud is often an economic issue, species substitution can be a public health risk (e.g., substituting a scombrotoxin- or ciguatoxin-associated fish for a non-toxin-associated fish). For this reason, the Agency has invested in significant technical improvements to enhance its ability to identify seafood species using state-of-the-art DNA sequencing. DNA sequencing has greatly improved FDA's ability to identify misbranded finfish seafood products in interstate commerce or offered for import into the United States. The Agency has trained and equipped eight field laboratories across the country to perform DNA testing as a matter of course for suspected cases of misbranding and for illness outbreaks due to finfish seafood, where the product's identity needs to be confirmed. FDA also trained analysts from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the National Marine Fisheries Service in its new DNA-based species identification methodology. FDA has made its protocol for using DNA sequencing for the identification of finfish products as well as its DNA reference standards publicly available through the FDA website. As a follow up to its now established capacity to identify finfish products using DNA, FDA has recently developed a protocol and a DNA reference library to extend these identification capabilities to include commercial species of shrimp, crab, and lobster. The Agency has already posted some of its DNA reference sequences for shrimp, crab, and lobster on its website and anticipates releasing the protocol to the public this year after final peer review, which will enable the seafood industry to monitor and test their products to confirm the species.
With DNA testing capacity in place, FDA has conducted DNA testing on fish that have a history of being misidentified in an effort to determine the accuracy of the market names on their labels. These sampling efforts specifically targeted seafood reported to be at the highest risk for mislabeling and/or substitution, including cod, haddock, catfish, basa, swai, snapper, and grouper. As FDA announced in September 2014, the sampling and testing conducted as part of this project found that the fish species was correctly labeled 85 percent of the time. The Agency has the authority to take enforcement action against products in interstate commerce that are adulterated or misbranded and refuse admission of products imported or offered for import that appear to be adulterated or misbranded. FDA will use the results from this testing to help guide future sampling, enforcement, and education efforts designed to ensure that seafood offered for sale in the U.S. market is labeled with an acceptable market name for the species. For instance, the Agency is conducting sampling and testing, in cooperation with state and local authorities, to look for mislabeling at the retail level. We also have posted on the FDA website a three-part learning module on proper seafood labeling to help the seafood industry, retailers, and state regulators ensure the proper labeling of seafood products offered for sale in the U.S. marketplace.
FDA's authority under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) provides a broad statutory framework to ensure that imported foods are safe, wholesome, and accurately labeled. It is the importer's responsibility to offer for entry into the United States product that is fully compliant with all applicable U.S. laws. Under the seafood HACCP regulation, HACCP controls are required for both domestic and foreign processors of fish and fishery products. Additionally, the regulation requires that U.S. importers take certain steps to verify that their foreign suppliers meet the requirements of the regulation. As mentioned earlier, FDA uses a variety of measures to enforce processors' compliance with seafood HACCP, including inspections of foreign processing facilities, use of a screening system to sample imported products, domestic surveillance sampling of imported products, inspections of seafood importers, evaluations of filers of seafood products, foreign country program assessments, and relevant information from our foreign partners and FDA foreign office posts.
When an FDA-regulated product is offered for import into U.S. commerce, CBP procedures ensure that FDA is notified. If the product appears to be adulterated or misbranded, based on examination or other information, such as prior history of the product, manufacturer, or country, FDA will give notice advising the owner or consignee of the appearance of a violation under the FD&C Act and the right to provide testimony or evidence (such as a laboratory analysis by an independent laboratory) to rebut the appearance of the violation. In some circumstances, importers may request permission to recondition the product to bring it into compliance with applicable requirements and regulations. If the product is ultimately refused admission, it must be destroyed, unless it is exported by the owner or consignee within 90 days of the date of the notice of refusal.
In 2002, the Congress gave FDA new authorities to enhance protection of the food supply in the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act. One of the most important provisions is the requirement that FDA be provided prior notice of food (including animal feed) that is imported or offered for import into the United States. This advance information enables FDA, working closely with CBP, to more effectively target food that may be intentionally contaminated with a biological or chemical agent or which may pose a significant health risk to the American public. Suspect shipments then can be intercepted before they arrive in the United States and held for further evaluation. To enhance targeting efforts on commercial imports, FDA participates in the Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center, which consists of CBP and nine other participating Federal agencies.
FDA has numerous other tools and authorities that enable the Agency to take appropriate action regarding imported products. In recent years, the Agency has significantly increased the number of inspections of foreign food manufacturers. For example, FDA conducted 1,336 foreign food facility inspections in FY 2014, compared to 153 inspections in 2008. Looking specifically at seafood, the Agency conducted 303 foreign seafood facility inspections in FY 2014, compared to 95 inspections in 2008. Furthermore, FSMA gave FDA the authority to refuse admission into the United States of food from a foreign facility, if FDA is refused entry by the facility or the country in which the facility is located upon FDA's request to inspect such facility.
Besides physical inspections of domestic and foreign facilities, the Agency's field force also conducts surveillance of food offered for import at the border to check for compliance with U.S. requirements. As part of our surveillance work at the border, FDA utilizes a risk-based approach to allocate resources, with priority given to high-risk food safety issues. FDA screens all import entries electronically prior to the products' entering the country, and a subset of those are physically inspected at varying rates, depending on the potential risk associated with them. Based on the risk ranking, the Agency will direct resources to the more critical activities that have a greater impact on public health. In FY 2014, FDA processed approximately 938,000 entries of imported seafood, while our field staff performed nearly 26,000 physical examinations of seafood imports and collected over 5,600 samples of domestic and imported seafood for analysis at FDA field laboratories.
The Agency has implemented an automated screening tool, the Predictive Risk-based Evaluation for Dynamic Import Compliance Targeting (PREDICT) system, which significantly improves FDA's screening of imported food. PREDICT uses automated data mining and pattern discovery to identify data anomalies with regard to import and compliance history of a firm and/or a specific product, such as the facility inspection history; results of previous field exams, sample analyses, and facility inspections; and types of products that the firm offers for entry into U.S. commerce. For example, if a firm historically imports fresh seafood and suddenly imports canned seafood, this information is detected by PREDICT and may trigger a decision by the Agency to conduct an examination of the new type of imported product.
Another key tool for screening imported goods is the Import Alert. Import Alerts inform FDA field personnel that the Agency has sufficient evidence or other information about a particular product, producer, shipper, or importer to believe that future shipments of an imported product may be violative. On the basis of that evidence, FDA field personnel may detain the article that is being offered for import into the United States without physically examining the product. The Agency has over 45 active seafood-specific Import Alerts that prevent imports from certain firms and/or countries based upon past violations. When an Import Alert is issued and FDA detains a shipment, the importer has an opportunity to introduce evidence to demonstrate that the product is not violative. Most commonly the existence of an Import Alert shifts the burden to the importer to conduct testing to demonstrate that the product meets FDA regulatory requirements. FDA decisions to remove a product, manufacturer, packer, shipper, grower, country, or importer from detention without physical examination would be based on evidence establishing that the conditions that gave rise to the appearance of a violation have been resolved and the Agency has confidence that future entries will be in compliance with the FD&C Act.
FDA also performs laboratory analysis on a sampling of products offered for import into the United States and performs periodic filer evaluations to ensure that import data being provided to FDA is accurate. Certain violations relating to imported food may lead to civil or criminal charges.
Working with Foreign Counterparts
FDA is working globally to better accomplish its mission to promote and protect the public health of the United States. The Agency has strengthened and better coordinated its international engagements by establishing permanent FDA posts abroad in strategic locations, such as India and China. The posting of FDA staff in certain overseas regions is a key part of the Agency's strategy for expanding oversight of imported food. An expanded overseas presence allows for greater access for FDA inspections and for greater engagement with foreign industry and foreign counterpart agencies. This all helps to ensure that products shipped to the United States meet applicable FDA requirements.
FDA is working with foreign counterparts in many areas. For example, FDA has worked closely with the Chinese government on inspections, particularly for seafood. FDA imposed a country-wide Import Alert on all farm-raised catfish, basa, shrimp, dace, and eel from China in June 2007, due to the presence of unapproved animal drugs and/or unsafe food additives. Shipments of products covered by the Import Alert may be detained, without physical examination, at the time they are offered for import into U.S. commerce. The shipments can be released by FDA after evidence is provided to overcome the appearance that the products are violative. In October 2014, FDA and representatives from China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine visited various facilities along the aquaculture supply chain in two provinces, including shrimp farms, feed stores, feed mills, retail facilities that sell aquaculture drugs and chemicals, and processing facilities, to better understand China's food safety control systems.
The Agency has conducted foreign country assessments to evaluate the country's laws for, and implementation of, good aquaculture practices. Specifically, FDA evaluates the country's controls, including licensing and permitting, inspections, and training programs for aquaculture products. FDA uses the information from country assessments to better target surveillance sampling of imported aquaculture products, inform its planning of foreign seafood HACCP inspections, provide additional evidence for potential regulatory actions, such as an Import Alert, and improve collaboration with foreign government and industry contacts to achieve better compliance with FDA's regulatory requirements. For example, the country assessments for China in 2006, Chile in 2008, and India in 2010 resulted in increased sampling and testing for aquaculture products from these countries (e.g., eel from China, salmon from Chile, and shrimp from India).
As mentioned previously, FDA is aware that there may be economic incentives for some seafood producers and retailers to misrepresent the identity of the seafood species they sell to buyers and consumers, and we have conducted DNA testing on fish that have a history of being misidentified, in an effort to combat seafood fraud. In June 2014, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum, "Establishing a Comprehensive Framework to Combat Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing and Seafood Fraud." Among other actions, the memorandum establishes a Presidential Task Force on Combating Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing and Seafood Fraud (Task Force), to be co-chaired by the Secretaries of State and Commerce. FDA, as a part of HHS, serves on the Task Force. The Task Force released its action plan in March 2015. Among other things, the plan directs the Task Force to identify and develop within six months a list of the types of information and operational standards needed for an effective seafood traceability program to combat seafood fraud and IUU seafood in U.S. commerce. The plan also directs the Task Force to establish, within 18 months, the first phase of a risk-based traceability program to track seafood from point of harvest to entry into U.S. commerce. FDA is working with its government partners to implement these recommendations in order to ensure that imported seafood is properly labeled.
Oversight of the safety of the U.S. food supply continues to be a top priority for FDA. The Agency has a strong regulatory program in place for seafood products. FDA will continue to work with our domestic and international partners to ensure the safety of both domestic and imported seafood.
Thank you, again, for the opportunity to appear before you today. I would be happy to answer any questions.


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The truck driver who hit the Hershey I-80 overpass head-on Friday believes his dead father protected him from a fatal injury.
Peck remembers taking a drink of a Diet Coke as he rolled toward North Platte, where he intended to stop and rest. He said part of the drink went down his airway and he aspirated. He started coughing and felt lightheaded, and was looking to pull off the road safely.
That's all he remembers clearly, until after the collision.
"Subconciously, I think I heard the rumble strips and heard the impact," he said. "It was weird. It's hard to explain. I assume I blacked out because I didn't see the impact, but it's almost like I could hear it."
When his mind cleared, the cab was wrapped around the support of the overpass.
His right foot was pinned tight. He called the dispatcher on a cell phone and told him what happened.
Peck felt damn lucky.
"I was on the phone with the dispatcher before the first cop arrived," he said. "I told my dispatcher I just totalled my truck. I told him I was okay and I would call him later and tell him more when I got out."
He was talking to dispatch when officers outside the truck were asking if he was okay. 'Yeah yeah, I'm okay, I'm okay,' I told them."
Since he couldn't move his foot, he had to wait until he was cut loose.
Volunteer rescue crews arrived from Hershey and Sutherland and worked for three hours to get Peck out of the cab, using the jaws of life. A medical helicopter was summoned. It landed in the westbound lanes, then took him to Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.
The rescuers did a great job, he said.
"There are great people out here," he said. Peck is from Centerfield, Utah and he drives for Hinz Trucking of Odessa.
As promised, Peck called his dispatcher the next morning, who by then had seen a photo of the wreck. His dispatcher told him not to worry, just to get better.
Peck made a wistful request.
"I told him to call my dad, if he could, and tell him thanks," Peck said. "My dad was a truck driver and died from cancer in 2002. But I believe he was there to protect me. I really do."
Peck expects to be hospitalized for another week or so. His foot is fractured in three places and a bone was protruding through the skin. Preliminary surgeries have cleaned the wounds, before the major foot surgery this week, he said.
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Power Rankings: Welcome back
Monday, Oct. 28
Here's some secret insight into the world of power-rankers:
Between the Training Camp Edition of ESPN.com's weekly NBA Power Rankings and the annual installment that appears on the eve of the regular season, generally only injuries can cause a real shakeup at the top.
And that's what we have here as we await Bulls at Heat on Tuesday night to launch the 2013-14 season in earnest. Indiana has lost projected super sub Danny Granger for the first three weeks of the season to rehab a strained left calf. Deron Williams' nagging ankle woes kept him off the floor for much of Brooklyn's preseason preparations. And Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook isn't expected back before December after needing some follow-up surgery on his problematic right knee.
Those are the developments that had the greatest impact on our latest rankings batch, which naturally features the two-time reigning champs in their rightful spot at No. 1. The aforementioned health issues, meanwhile, have dropped Indy from No. 2 to No. 6, Brooklyn from No. 3 to No. 7 and OKC from No. 7 to a very uncharacteristic No. 10 since we last did this exercise in late September. Moving up behind Miami, by contrast, are the Los Angeles Clippers, San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls, who have climbed from No. 8 to No. 4 on the strength of Derrick Rose's very positive (so far) return from more than a year out after knee surgery.
Check back every Monday for the rest of the regular season for our 1-to-30 pulse take of the league, which as always is computed by your trusty committee (of one) by weighing what we're seeing in the present in equal measure with each team's big-picture outlook ... as well as dash of subjective whim.
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If you shoot well with your finger hooked around the trigger then that works for you, but you shouldn't be so adament in you condemnation of pressing the trigger since all 3 instructors I've trained with all taught finger pad press to prevent "hooking" your shots (we were using semiautos).
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Long fingers
There's no way I could use the pad of the finger, my fingers are too long. I tried pulling the trigger with the pad but it required adjusting my grip to "shorten my finger reach". Not only was it uncomfortable and awkward, but I found I was pushing my shots left of center. Now I don't worry about how much finger I put through the trigger guard, my pull is smooth and straight back, my my grip is good, and my shots are on target.
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Simplify this debate.
For right-handers...
Left-handers adjust accordingly...
If you "grab too much trigger", the barrel will tend to pull to the "right" and rise a little...
If you "press too little trigger", (Way out on the finger tip.) you will tend to push the barrel to the "left" and possibly a little down...
It has been said, earlier in this thread, that people have different length and sizes of hands and fingers...
it is precisely for this reason that the "teaching tool" of using the center of the first finger-pad is used in training!
If you cannot "reach" the trigger with your finger pad without keeping a pencil sized space between your gun and the base of the trigger finger... YOUR GUN DOESN'T FIT YOUR HAND!
The Bottom Line is;
IF you can "press" the trigger in any manner that will cause it to travel consistantly straight back, to the release point...
Then, it doesn't make a particle of difference how the hell you hold the trigger...
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Tried and true...
Will be more consistant,
In outshooting you..."
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These unconventional dishes may seem completely bizarre and perhaps stomach-churning to us now, but in the future they could help to solve a global food crisis. Over the next 35 years, the world's population is expected to exceed nine billion, meaning there will be an extra two billion hungry mouths to feed.
Traditionally in Mauritius we make this with corned mutton which has a much stronger flavour and Iove it but I love corned beef as well and in the UK this is readily available and easier to get hold of. To be honest with you I love most tinned things, sardines, mackerel, anchovies and I suppose it's mostly out of nostalgia
A key achievement of the Forum has been to reduce the live export of calves by 90%: now just 2% of dairy calves born in Britain are exported live abroad. Professor John Webster, Emeritus Professor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Bristol speaking at the Calf Forum event emphasised that despite the title of the Forum, it's not about exports but alternatives.
The recent laboratory development of an in-vitro beef burger created from stem cells is causing quite a buzz amongst consumers. Most people's first reaction is one of disgust and trepidation. And then the many questions: how can I eat meat that was grown in a lab made possible only by human engineering?
Once I'd brought the cow up to the kitchen I took it to the butchery room where three of us started the break down process, which means separating the primal cuts from the bone and utilising the secondary cuts for charcuterie. There's way more to it than I had thought - from the brining of the meats to the spice salt cures and the rest!


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BROOKSVILLE — Two new parcels of SunTrust Bank property near downtown Brooksville are getting a close look from Hernando County Administrator David Hamilton and several of the county's constitutional officers.
County officials recently took Property Appraiser Alvin Mazourek, Tax Collector Juanita Sikes and Supervisor of Elections Annie Williams on a tour of the parcels on S Broad Street, once the site of Register Chevrolet.
Hamilton is considering a new option for county government space needs — moving those officials and the county parks offices to that site, which is about two blocks from the downtown government center. SunTrust no longer occupies the property.
Previously, SunTrust Bank offered the county its existing bank at E Jefferson and Main streets, across from the government center, for $4 million. The commissioners didn't turn down that offer, but asked Hamilton and the county staff to continue looking at ways to move offices around in the government center to make room for more courtrooms.
Hamilton has declined to talk about details of the new option until he finishes a report that will go to the County Commission on Aug. 9.
Mazourek confirmed that he and the others have visited the site and that it seemed to offer the space they need. Mazourek has only been in his current spot on the fourth floor of the government center for two years.
He moved from the third floor of Brooksville City Hall to save the cost of renting space from the city.
"I feel like a gypsy,'' he said Thursday.
Williams alluded to the new site during Tuesday's County Commission meeting. She said that a new site she recently toured would provide sufficient accommodations for voting equipment now stored in a small building on the site of the old Department of Public Works compound in south Brooksville.
A warehouse on the Register Chevrolet site would be a perfect fit for the bulky voting equipment, she said. The other, larger building on that parcel, which had been used by SunTrust, is big and open, she said.
"It would help out all the way around for all of us on the same site,'' Williams said, noting that the three offices do work with one another.
"I think it's a good concept. It would be workable,'' Williams said.
The three officials have also toured the bank building, but Williams said the old Register site would work better. Space in the bank's lobby is limited, and with each of the three offices having a heavy component of public service, they need space to accommodate that.
The bank also has very defined spaces for offices. A more open building would allow a more flexible arrangement, Williams said.
Sikes was unavailable for comment Thursday, but Mazourek said the other plus to the site on Broad Street is that since Sikes must take over driver's licensing functions Oct. 1, there would be sufficient room on the old Register display lot to create a driving course.
The current course is at the Florida Highway Patrol office on U.S. 98 near the North Campus of the Pasco-Hernando Community College.
The two parcels on S Broad Street total just under 5 acres. The property appraiser's website lists the market value of the parcel with the old showroom and display lot at $267,882 and the market value of the parcel with the two other buildings at $1.5 million.
Hamilton's broader plan has been to renovate the courtroom in the historic portion of the courthouse as the new chambers for the County Commission. That would reopen the front of the historic building to the public.
Courtrooms could then be built in phases throughout the spaces vacated in the government center.
Circuit Judge Daniel Merritt Sr. has told the commission repeatedly that new courtrooms and related spaces are needed.
The last public discussion of that issue was in March, just days after the Hernando Times published a survey showing that the seven existing courtrooms in the building were empty nearly 60 percent of the time they were checked over a three-week period.
The published report also found that the judges' caseloads had dropped by 15 percent from 2006 to 2010.
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The CBI are investigating the murder of lawyer Gordon Hodge, who only had one client, the Sinner Saints. Lisbon, Rigsby and Jane question the wife and son but don't get much information about his clients.
They go to the lion's den and question the leader of the Sinner Saints, Von McBride, and figure out that Hodge was doing drugs. They think he could have been an informant for the Sinner Saints. McBride doesn't seem to care, even when a woman comes to the bar and calls him a murderer.
They track her down. Her name is Felicia Gutherie and she believes that McBride killed her brother. Hodge had gotten him out of the charges in court. She had been stalking Hodge and they move her to the number one suspect but she denies killing him.
Van Pelt also discovers that Hodge was having multiple cell phone conversations with McBride's girlfriend, Diamond. Turns out that Hodge was having an affair with Diamond. Diamonds flees Lisbon because she doesn't want McBride to find out. She says the only other person who knew was Mrs. Hodge.
Lisbon talks to his wife who admits that she knew but she didn't want their son Lucas to find out. Lisbon takes Lucas for a ride and finds that he had talked to Felicia one time when she stopped by but didn't have anything to say about the conversation.
Cho and Rigsby decide to stake out at Felicia's house just in case she disposes of any evidence. The Sinner Saints show up to try and get revenge on the supposed killer, but Cho and Rigsby threaten them to get them to leave.
Jane and Lisbon join Cho and Rigsby at Felicia's house to search for evidence. They find one of Hodge's missing cuff links in her trash can and arrest her. Mrs. Hodge and Lucas are down at the station. Mrs. Hodge urges Lucas to leave but he stays.
Lucas ends up confessing to killing his father after getting angry that his father was having another affair. His mother had helped him cover up the murder. Jane had planted the cuff link in the trash to make Felicia look guilty so that Lucas would fess up to the crime.
Jane meets with McBride outside the bar. Jane hands him an envelope with the identity of the informant inside. Jane disappears and the gang discovers that the envelope had money inside, making it seem that McBride is the informant. They take McBride out to exact his punishment and we see Felicia watching the whole scene from the dumpster nearby.


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The next frontier in basketball analytics has become public – finally.
SportVU cameras, which track the movement of every player on the court every night, have been installed in all 29 NBA arenas this season (both LA teams share the Staples Center). The data the SportVU software processes and spits out can be used to measure, among many other things, a player's defensive effectiveness at the rim, a player's average speed, the number of touches a given player receives per game.
The software is relatively new, and the technology was actually pioneered by the Mavericks during the 2009-10 season. But the NBA has committed to using the program in a forward-thinking move, and fortunately for the fans, the league has released much of this data publicly at stats.nba.com.
The sample size is small, as no team has played more than two games this season. But in case you're curious, here are some Mavs figures through the first game of the season that stand out:
- Dirk Nowitzki scored 18 of his 24 points on catch-and-shoot opportunities, which is the most in the league. He was 7-of-10 (70 percent) from the field in catch-and-shoot situations against Atlanta, and his eFG — a metric that weighs made 3-pointers as 1.5 times more valuable than a 2-point shot — was 90 percent. That's higher than all but two players who take at least six catch-and-shoot shots per game.
- Samuel Dalembert moves around the court at an average of 4.8 mph, faster than any other player who averages at least 20 minutes per game. The next qualifying player on that list? Jose Calderon, who moves at an average of 4.7 mph. Gal Mekel moves at the same average speed.
- Only three players in the league have averaged more distance covered per game than Monta Ellis, who traveled 2.8 miles in over 36 minutes against the Hawks. Ellis, in case you're curious, moves at an average of 4.5 mph.
- Calderon and Ellis are two of 12 players who average at least 70 touches in the frontcourt (in a team's offensive half of the court) per game. Of those 12, no players average less time of possession per game than the two Mavericks. Calderon controlled the ball for 5.4 minutes in the opener, while Ellis maintained possession for 4.8 minutes. By comparison, Portland's Damian Lillard averages 8.0 minutes of possession per game on just 10 more frontcourt touches than Calderon. That means the Mavericks guards are moving the ball around quickly in their pass-happy offense.
- Speaking of passing, Calderon passed it 71 times against Atlanta, ninth-most in the league. He finished the game with 11 assists, but also finished with three secondary assists, a new stat that's similar to a hockey assist. For example, if Calderon passes to Ellis, who then immediately passes to Dirk, who makes a jumper, Calderon gets a secondary assist. The Mavericks scored 26 points off of Calderon's 11 assists, which is the fifth-best total in the league.
Again, all of these stats are based off a tremendously small sample size, but all of them are worth tracking throughout the season. Does Dalembert really move that well throughout the entire game? Will Calderon and Ellis continue to move the ball as quickly as they have? Is Dirk as good at spotting up as his performance against Atlanta suggests? We'll find out more as the season progresses.
SportVU is the future of analytics in the NBA, and it's great that fans now have the opportunity to track their favorite players themselves.


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When you smoke, the carbon monoxide levels in your body will remain between 4 percent and 8 percent, while the normal amount of CO in a person's blood is around zero to parts per million.
The short-term effect of smoking is that your heart rate goes faster and you feel shortness of breath.
Carbon monoxide in the blood leads to the buildup of fat on the walls of your arteries, narrowing the arteries and decreasing the flow of blood. This is known as atherosclerosis, which is a leading cause of heart disease.


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Taylor Swift worked her moody florals to chic effect in a Bec & Bridge minidress from fall on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."
At a "Dr. Who" screening, Jenna Coleman wore a dark floral Christian Dior dress from the house's pre-fall collection.
In Los Angeles, Elizabeth Banks was spotted outside Justin Timberlake's concert at the Staples Center in Katharine Kidd's smoky floral jacket from spring.
Florals met graffiti on Alexa Chung's silk Burberry Prorsum dress from fall, a look she chose for a night out in London.
At Elle magazine's BeautyCon Summit in L.A., Kelly Osbourne punked up her floral Topshop skirt with a black Zara top and Céline shoes.
Jeannie Mai also went for florals at Elle magazine's BeautyCon Summit, hers a graphic crop top-capri pant combo from Sydney brand Three of Something.


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Gerald Green is talented....
the only thing he is really missing IS the basketball IQ
hope he puts it together.
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Gerald Green is talented....
the only thing he is really missing IS the basketball IQ
hope he puts it together.
"We've got to be very clear about this. We don't want our players hanging around with murderers," said Larry Bird, Pacers president.
Young was really hurt. What I heard from someone that would know last night was that his ankle was bad and that he was many weeks away from playing again. He was on crutches last night and had a boot on the ankle. With Jan 10 around the corner and the team in bad need of wing or PG help it made roster sense.
Sam was the 3rd best defender on the team (Paul, Roy) and was keeping his FGAs down after an inconsistent start on offense. IMO he had one of the highest awareness levels on the team and was the perfect glue/bench guy that kinda did whatever was needed while also ramping up the defense in general.
But on a 1 year deal and unable to play for a few more weeks at the very least and probably longer he became expendable. I'd love to see the Pacers pick him back up at a later date.
Also I feel really bad for him basically being "fired" due to his non-guaranteed contract. Tough to lose a paycheck due to injury. I wonder if he has insurance against this type of situation.
CDR just got cut today too. Hope we give him a 10 day on the 11th.
I don't want to derail this thread at all, but for those who are interested, CDR got waived by the Mavs per Mark Spear's twitter...
something up with this guy or what?
I want the Pacers to sign a veteran with extensive playoffs experience like Michael Redd, TMac, or at worst Michael Finley.
They have enough young players. They need guys that know how to play.
well ya he got wavied for the same reason Young did his contract becomes guaranteed on the 10th... You are going to see a lot of 12-15 men getting cut between now and the 10th just part of the business. Just a numbers game..
CDR might help due to his imbalance toward offensive skills since that's what the team needs right now. His defense is a joke compared to what Young was doing, but someone has to drop some jumpers off the bench.
To me the Young cut is clearly a roster spot move to grab someone else that is out there or they think will be out there.
BTW, if you don't see my Twitter I mentioned last night that Danny responded to a security guard's question (unknown) with "4 weeks". The question could have been anything, but come on, we all know what was probably asked (this was at halftime). And I heard better confirmation than that elsewhere (including that his cardio is up and going well). So as some have speculated this move is probably more of a "hold down the fort" just till about Feb 5-10 range when Danny returns.
Sam was on a 1 year/$885,120 deal. Anyone know exactly how this works? Like, there are 24ish weeks in the season, so does he get 8/9 weeks worth of pay? If so, he would have made approximately $350k, so he'll be fine.
The players are protected from this situation. While Young was cut and the Pacers now have the roster spot, Young will continue to get paid by the Pacers until he is deemed healthy enough to play again. That amount will count against the Pacers salary cap and luxury tax. So, for example, if the injury would have kept him out until the end of the month, he will continue to get paid until the end of the month.
An example of this happened to Mike Wilks and the Orlando Magic the season they made the Finals. Wilks went to camp with the Magic on a non-guaranteed contract, with very little chance to make the team. However, Wilks was injured during training camp and was ruled out for the season. That injury guaranteed his salary for the season. The Magic actually kept him on the roster, and he was eventually traded in the Rafer Alston trade. Here's a link.
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My money is that Blu is trying to earn his way into a "professional" trolling group, or is just doing his own "performance art" version for whatever reason. You can't take any of his discussion seriously and most of it seems intended to intentionally ruin the primary topic of discussion.
So bottom line is ROSTER SPOT, and that would be the only benefit the Pacers would have beyond saving the small amount of his guaranteed contract once he is healthy again. If they think he's injured for 5 more weeks (let's say) then there is almost no real financial benefit to this move that wouldn't be offset by the chance of him helping the team. But as a roster spot NOW this move makes a ton of sense.
Therefore it seems obvious that they have a plan in mind, either something they already want or something they want to be ready for just in case. They just have to be looking at bringing someone in.
Good move. He didn't fit well here
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And this is why I think we just need to be patient with Green. He is a streaky shooter. I think a fan of his here mentioned the same thing. He makes some mental lapses, sure. Even in the early part of the season, he makes annoying decisions with the ball many times. But the "too low BBall IQ" is exaggerated. In the last few games he's really taking good attemps that just don't get in. I think he's getting comfortable now with the offense. Just needs to work on his consistency in shooting.
As for Young, it's sad to know that he's released. He has been a dependable body for defense, and while his offense drives people nuts sometimes, he really has been a great bench player and even Vogel gives him a ton of confidence with his playing time and even playing at crunch time on the defensive end. But it's understandable as he'll be unable to play, and with a thin lineup on the wing without DG, we need to bring in somebody who can contribute right away. But if there's a chance that he'll recover sooner, I think he'll be back for the Pacers once again.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
So far Samardo Samuels, Kris Joeseph, CDR, Lazar Hayward, Sam Young, and Jarvis Varnado have been waived.
Several more players will probably be cut before the January 10th deadline for guaranteed contracts.
Lol I find it funny that people would rather cut Green than Young.....While it is obviously true that Gerald Green has gotten off to a bad start this season, he still can be a good bench player. He proved this last season with NJ where he played in 31 games averaged 13 points a game on 48 percent FG shooting and 39 percent 3pt shooting. Players that play Young's role are a dime a dozen in the NBA and can be found very easily a guy that is capable of producing like Green did last season off the bench are not. It is quite unfortunate that his shooting percentages are so down this season compared to last but it isn't time to hit the panic button on him yet. I mean he did sign a 3 year deal so be a little more patient with him, if for the only reason that we as Pacers fans may not have much of a choice. He also was amazing in the Developmental League last season before getting called up to NJ he averaged 19 a game on 48 percent FG shooting and 46 percent 3pt shooting. He seems to be one of those guys that's success is very dependent on his confidence level and right now it seems to be very low but I am still hopeful he can put together a good stretch and get his confidence to the point where he can be a meaningful role player for Indy by the end of the season.
I sure would like to pick up CDR.
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Wike's head got too big for his pillow; he should be concerned about crisis in education— OKOCHA
By Jimitota Onoyume
PORT HARCOURT—There was a war of words between the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike and the Chief of Staff to Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Tony Okocha, when the minister said the office of Chief of Staff died with his exit.
It will be recalled that Wike was the former Chief of Staff to Governor Rotimi Amaechi in the first tenure.
Wike, who spoke at his Port Harcourt residence, said when he was Chief of Staff to Governor Amaechi, he managed the office effectively, adding that it was why the governor neither had issues with the presidency nor dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
He said: "The office of the Chief of Staff, Government House, died when I left office in 2011. That office properly coordinated government activities when I was there.
"Government had a direction. Governor Amaechi would not have had all these problems if I was Chief of Staff.
"That is not to say that there were no problems. But I made sure we approached them pragmatically, taking into consideration the feelings of stakeholders.
"The office of the Chief of Staff is very crucial to the success of the governor. Governor Amaechi could not have made very costly political mistakes like decamping to All Progressives Congress, APC, when I was Chief of Staff."
Okocha's take
Chief of Staff, Government House, Chief Okocha, dismissed the statement, saying that the minister probably meant that indiscipline ended with his (Wike) exit as Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt.
He said: "Wike probably meant that corruption died when he left the office. I am sure he meant criminal acquisition died when he left the office.
"Indiscipline and insubordination to his boss, the governor, died when he left the office of the Chief of Staff. His head was bigger than his pillow because he was not loyal to the governor.
"Wike is not in a position to assess my performance as Chief of Staff. My principal is Governor Amaechi. I am responsible to the governor and not Wike.
"I am implicitly loyal to my principal, Governor Amaechi. I am not perturbed by Wike's outbursts. I expected Wike to be concerned with the falling standard of education. He should be perturbed about the worsening crisis in the polytechnics."


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LEWISTON, Maine -- The University of Southern Maine broke a scoreless tie in the 59th minute and added a second goal 20 minutes later for a 2-0 non-conference victory over the Bates men's soccer team on Tuesday at Russell Street Field. It is the Huskies' first win against the Bobcats since 1987 (a 3-0 USM home win), ending a 17-game winless streak (0-12-5) against their in-state rivals in that span.
The Bobcats will host Williams on Saturday at 11 a.m., as part of Parents & Family Weekend. Follow the action via live video webcast on Bates' First Team Broadcasting page.
After a very evenly-matched first half, USM (3-7-1) pulled ahead in the second half, creating better scoring opportunities and taking advantage of them. Bates fell to 3-4-1 overall.
Senior midfielder Chris Kain (Kennebunk, Maine) netted his first goal this season with 31:42 left in the second half. Unmarked at the top of the penalty area, Kain drilled a low ball beyond the reach of Bates junior goalkeeper Greg Watts (West Chester, Pa.) and into the left corner of the net for a 1-0 lead.
The Huskies got an insurance goal 20 minutes later, as senior forward Nick Johnson (South Portland, Maine) delivered a cross to open first-year midfielder Branden Lever (Auburn, Maine), who scored his first collegiate goal on a header at waist height inside the far right post.
USM senior goalie David Kreps (Agawam, Mass.) had seven saves, helping to make up for an 18-14 Bates advantage in shots taken. Watts had four saves for Bates. Senior Patrick Jackson (Durham, N.H.) and sophomore John Murphy (Yarmouth, Maine) attempted six and four shots, respectively, for Bates.


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A dozen women held a vigil in downtown Seattle at noon Wednesday, hoping to bring attention to the death of a homeless woman who had been in and out of emergency shelters.
At nearly the same time, federal officials in Washington, D.C., announced that the number of chronically homeless people in the country had fallen 11.5 percent from 2005 to 2006.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development said more than 1,500 communities reported a decrease among those living on the streets or in emergency shelters.
Among them was King County, where the number of chronically homeless people dropped 4 percent.
HUD said a chronically homeless person is an "unaccompanied" individual with a disability who has been continuously homeless for at least a year or who has four or more "episodes" of homelessness in the past three years.
Those living on the streets or in shelters are considered chronically homeless; those in transitional housing are not. Homeless couples or families also are not regarded as chronically homeless.
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Still, King County's results are encouraging when viewed over the past several years, in which the number of chronically homeless has fallen 20 percent, said Philip Mangano, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which coordinates federal efforts with the private sector.
In 2005 and 2006, King County added a total of 216 housing units targeted to the chronically homeless, said Kate Speltz, project manager with the county's homelessness and housing programs.
She said the reasons individuals remain homeless include unaffordable housing, mental health problems, drug and alcohol abuse, and lack of connection with treatment programs.
"I have a hard time believing that anyone wants to be homeless," Speltz said.
Nationally and locally, the chronically homeless account for about 20 percent of all homeless people.
HUD's analysis found 155,623 chronically homeless people in 2006, a decrease of more than 20,000 from the previous year. The chronically homeless in King County totaled 1,569 in 2006, down from 1,635 the previous year.
Bill Block, director of the Committee to End Homelessness in King County, said HUD's focus on chronic homelessness "leaves out a substantial number of people."
Mangano said the chronically homeless are a priority because "they are most vulnerable. These are the people who literally die on our streets."
HUD awarded $286 million to 1,100 local programs that exclusively serve the chronically homeless, and $9 billion overall since 2001 on housing and service programs for the homeless.
In another announcement, a report to be released Thursday says that veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population.
The Veterans Affairs Department has identified 1,500 homeless veterans from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and says 400 of them have participated in its programs specifically targeting homelessness.


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July 15, 2010, 03:13 PM
anyone ever heard of this company? Saw one listed like this at an auction but I could not find any info on the manufacturing company.
July 15, 2010, 04:34 PM
Like so?: http://www.littlegun.be/arme%20belge/artisans%20identifies%20p/a%20pieper%20h%20martini%20gb.htm
Pieper was a big maker of volley guns - a small caliber rifle that would fire six or seven rounds simultaneously. I think that the company was Belgian, though, rather than Austrian, but back in the day, both borders and the countries themselves were a little fluid.
July 15, 2010, 06:36 PM
here is a link with pictures of the rifle, not very good ones though. It is toward the bottom of the page.
Jim Watson
July 15, 2010, 07:39 PM
Well, in the first place, it is not a falling block.
It is an odd bolt action with hammer instead of striker.
No indication of caliber.
Peiper was a substantial Belgian manufacturer.
So the Austrian bit is about as accurate as the falling block part.
July 16, 2010, 09:18 AM
Sears sold a ton of single shot Pieper bolt action rifles in the 1920s and 1930s. I can't say for sure that this is one of them, but if it is, it's just a basic .22 shooter with no particular collector value. By the beginning of the 20th century, the Pieper family had no association with the company.
That's not to say that it isn't worth taking a look - but it definitely is not an Austrian falling block and I don't think that it's worth a premium, but I'm not an expert.
July 16, 2010, 01:17 PM
I am no expert and I didn't think it was a falling block either. Just mainly was curious about the name. I might bid on some of the shotguns if they are cheap, just because those are easy to resale and make money on around here. Everybody is going to be needing a bird gun pretty soon :D
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