Gloucestershire Old Spots as there are fewer than 1000 registered breeding females. An application has been made to gain European Commission Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) status for Old Spots pig meat. This was granted on 29 July 2010. The TSG certification attests that a particular food product objectively possesses specific characteristics which differentiate it from all others in its category, and that its raw materials, composition or method of production have been consistent for a minimum of 30 years. The GOS is a large breed, white in colour with a minimum of one distinct black spot. It has lop ears which will almost
Carom billiards at least 1807. The game is sometimes referred to as "one-cushion" or "one-cushion billiards", which is the direct translation of its name into English from various other languages such as Spanish (""una banda"") and German (""einband""). The object of the game is to score cushion caroms, meaning a carom off of both object balls with at least one rail being struck before the hit on the second object ball. Cushions caroms was defunct for a number of years, but was revived in the late 1860s as another alternative to straight rail, for the same reasons that balkline developed, i.e., as