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We love our dogs and cats, but our hardwood floors do not love them. Some of the deepest, longest, and most plentiful gouges in wood flooring come from dog claws and, to a lesser extent, cat claws.
Installing hardwood flooring that ranks high on the Janka hardness scale is one way to begin. Species like Brazilian Walnut (ipe), maple, and bamboo (not truly a wood but a type of grass) do an excellent job at standing up to frenzied claws. Lay out mats and rugs where animals tend to rest. Regular claw clipping, though, is the best way to reduce nail damage on flooring. If the dog loves to race for the mail coming the the door slot, consider installing an exterior mailbox.
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Memorable MLB All-Star Game moments
Traditionally, Major League Baseball's All-Star Game used to mark a symbolic midway point of the season. This season teams will have played about 95 games before Tuesday's 89th gala affair in Washington D.C., and for the first time since 1963, the American League can move ahead of the National League in the all-time series.
The AL used to own the game, winning 12 of the first 16 contests from 1933-49. The NL tied the series in 1964, then dominated for years, building a 37-20 advantage by 1987. Now the series stands 43-43-2.
Arch Ward, a Chicago Tribune sports editor, is credited with the idea of the All-Star Game, proposing that it be held in conjunction with the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. A coin flip awarded "the game of the century" to Comiskey Park over Wrigley Field.
According to baseball historian Jerome Holtzman, the rosters for the game (played July 6) featured 24 future Hall of Fame players. Babe Ruth hit the first home run in the AL's 4-2 win before a crowd of 47,595, and the game was so well-received that commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis made it an annual event.
Following are a number of memorable moments in All-Star Game history (not meant to be a ranking of the best moments):
In perhaps the best pitching performance in an All-Star Game, fans at the Polo Grounds saw Giants lefty Carl Hubbell strike out five future Hall of Famers — Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin — in succession! Hubbell, a nine-time All-Star, won 253 games, had a 2.98 ERA and entered Cooperstown in 1947.
Playing at Fenway Park, Ted Williams was 4-for-4 with two home runs as the AL romped, 12-0. Williams' second blast is long remembered because it came off Rip Sewell's famed blooper pitch — "the eephus."
Sewell developed the pitch as a result of a hunting accident in which he shot himself in the foot on Dec. 7, 1941 — Pearl Harbor Day. Because it was difficult for him to pivot on the foot and create power, he was inspired to develop a lob pitch with about a 25-foot arc. The slow speed (estimated at about 40 mph or so) of the eephus required the batter to supply the power.
Facing Sewell in the eighth inning with two outs and two on base, Williams took a couple of hops forward to generate power and drove the ball over the rightfield wall. A photo shows that Williams was out of the batter's box when he hit the ball and should have been called out.
Dodger teammates Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe joined Larry Doby of the Indians as the first African-American All-Stars. Robinson was 1-for-4, Campanella 0-for-2 and Doby 0-for-1. Newcombe was the losing pitcher in the AL's 11-7 victory at Ebbets Field.
Robinson had broken baseball's color barrier in 1947. Doby became the first black player in the American League when he joined the Indians later that year.
"Doby gets very little publicity for being the first black in the American League,'' said 97-year-old Eddie Robinson, who was Doby's teammate in 1947. "Doby went through all the things that Robinson went through. He couldn't stay at the same hotels, eat at restaurants.''
Former Negro Leagues and future Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige was on the AL roster in 1953. At 47, he was the oldest player to appear in an All-Star Game.
Former Dodgers righthand-er Carl Erskine, 91, has perfect recall of his brief appearance in the game in Cleveland.
Speaking from his home in Anderson, Indiana, Erskine said, "They brought me in to pitch in the eighth inning after Gene Conley had loaded the bases with one out and the score tied 9-9. I faced Mickey Vernon, struck him out on a 3-2 pitch. That was the big out. Nellie Fox was the next hitter. He had a thick-handled bat. He just punched the ball here and there. He hit the weakest little pop-up between short and second base. It hit the dirt and two runs score and the game ends up 11-9. After all the big hits in that game, Nellie Fox gets this little squeaker. This slugfest ended up with the weakest base hit you can imagine.''
1970: STARS COLLIDEPete Rose's collision with Indians catcher Ray Fosse at home plate at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium remains the most notorious play in All-Star history. Rose scored the winning run after crashing into Fosse's left (non-throwing) shoulder. Initial X-rays were negative and it wasn't until 1971 that Fosse was diagnosed with a fractured and separated shoulder.
With the score tied at 4 in the 12th inning, Rose singled with two outs and went to second on a single by Billy Grabarkewitz. Jim Hickman then singled to center, and Rose raced around third and toward the plate.
"I didn't bowl him over," Rose said in 2015. "I actually went over and tagged the plate with this hand right here and my knee hit his shoulder. I missed the next three games. He went on to play nine more years. So I did not ruin Ray Fosse's career."
Asked if he had any regrets about how that play unfolded, Rose said: "Hell, no. I won the game. We're safe, man. That's why we're playing the game."
Fosse, an A's broadcaster, declined comment through the team. In a 2013 interview, Fosse said, "The whole thing, [Rose] says I tried to block the plate, very simply . . . as a catcher, I positioned myself where the ball was being thrown by Amos Otis. I was up the line. Because if I'd stayed on home plate, I miss the ball by three feet and we wouldn't be talking today.''
Fosse made the All-Star team in 1971, but his career was never quite the same. Fosse and Rose spoke briefly in 1971. "He said, 'Hey, you're off to a slow start,' '' Fosse said. "Those were the only words I heard from him from the All-Star Game until I retired 10 years later. That was it. We never had interleague play. 'Hey, you're off to a slow start.'
"Sure I was. Because I had a fractured and separated shoulder, and the pain was there and is still there 43 years later."
1979: MOST VALUABLE ARM Pirates rightfielder Dave Parker was the MVP of the game at Seattle's Kingdome by virtue of his two powerful throws to cut down baserunners. In the seventh inning, Jim Rice tried stretching a double into a triple and was thrown out at third by Parker. With the score tied at 6 in the eighth and Brian Downing on second base, Graig Nettles singled to right and Parker fired home to catcher Gary Carter, who blocked the plate and tagged out Downing. The Yankees' Ron Guidry walked in the winning run in the ninth as the NL won, 7-6. Parker, 67, announced in 2012 that he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
The game at Chicago's Comiskey Park was the ninth straight All-Star appearance for Red Sox outfielder Fred Lynn, this time in the city of his birth. "We hadn't won one since I've been on the team,'' Lynn, 66, said from Carlsbad, California. The AL was on an 11-game losing streak. "It was pretty much getting tiresome, those guys beating us,'' Lynn said.
Lynn became furious when NL manager Whitey Herzog told Giants lefthander Atlee Hammaker to walk Robin Yount, loading the bases for Lynn in the third inning. "I get the strategy, but those things never sat well with me,'' Lynn said. "You're an easy out, we're going to pitch to you. What am I, chopped liver?''
On a 2-and-2 count, Lynn hit a curveball for the first — and only — grand slam in an All-Star Game. "I pumped my fist rounding first not because I hit the home run. Because I knew we were going to win this game. It put us up 7-1. The monkey was off our back,'' Lynn said.
Lynn turned down an offer of $5,000 for the bat. Instead, he gave it to the Hall of Fame.
In 1990, Lynn became Hammaker's teammate with the Padres. "All the other pitchers are hooting on Atlee, 'Hey, look who's coming in,' ' Lynn said. Lynn said he said to Hammaker, " 'We're going to be OK, right?' He was just laughing.''
Bo Jackson, a two-sport star in football and baseball, was named the MVP in his only All-Star appearance. In the top of the first inning in Anaheim, Jackson's running catch in leftfield robbed Pedro Guerrero of a run-scoring hit. Leading off the bottom of the first, he hit a 450-foot home run to centerfield off Rick Reuschel. "Luckily," Jackson said, "I got a piece of it." Jackson had two hits and stole a base.
In the final summer of the 20th century, baseball honored the fans' vote of the greatest living players over the last 100 years at the game at Fenway Park. In a pregame ceremony, Red Sox legend Ted Williams was honored along with other greats, including Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Stan Musial, Bob Feller, Ernie Banks and Carl Yastrzemski. Williams, slowed by a stroke in 1994, was brought onto the field in a motorized cart.
In an emotional moment, with fans cheering, the game's greatest living players approached Williams and greeted him. Minutes later, he stood up from his cart and threw out the game's ceremonial first pitch.
A surprise was in store for Cal Ripken Jr. in his final All-Star Game. The Rangers' Alex Rodriguez, the starting shortstop, told AL manager Joe Torre he'd like the 40-year-old Ripken — who redefined the position before moving to third base in 1997 for the Orioles — to start at short at Seattle's Safeco Field.
"I said what can I do to make this event better and really honor him for the great shortstop that he's been,'' Rod riguez said in a TV interview.
It all happened in real time as the AL stars took the field and Rodriguez literally had to force Ripken to move from third to short.
"At that time, fear ran through my veins because I didn't think that on the world stage that it was the time to go back to shortstop and see if I could play there," Ripken was quoted afterward. "But when I thought it out more, it was a really neat tribute."
Ripken played an inning at short (with no balls hit to him), and in the third inning, he hit a first-pitch home run off Chan Ho Park in the AL's 4-1 victory. He was named All-Star MVP for the second time.
Kirk Gibson was one of the best players never to make an All-Star roster. But it was his own choice.
Gibson received managerial invitations to the game in 1985 with the Tigers and '88 with the Dodgers but declined both times. "There are people who like being stars, so let them shine," he was quoted in '88. Observers thought he was annoyed at not being voted on to the team. "Not at all. It was a personal decision,'' Gibson said from Detroit.
"I was really tired. I wanted to go home and see my family and be ready to go when the season started back up. I was gassed both those times. Screwed up as it sounds, I felt it was not being team-oriented to do it. It just wasn't me, I was about my team. I think the most disappointed person was my dad. He wanted me to do it. Like I said, I just wanted to go home, rest and go all out the second half.''
Gibson was the NL MVP for the '88 world champion Dodgers. He was a coach for the NL in the 2011 game. In 2015, Gibson announced he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He continues to broadcast Tigers games for Fox Sports Detroit.

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Bring it on, Monday! I'm ready for ya!
Corey and I woke up and got ready for church, with just enough time to have a quick breakfast. I chose a 1/2 cup of Kashi 7-Grain Puff Cereal with unsweetened almond milk, and half of a toasted whole wheat bagel thin topped with peanut butter.
Corey made a pot of coffee, and I took a cup to-go. He pointed out that my outfit and my thermos were color-coordinated:
After the service, we stopped by Barnes and Noble and read some magazines for an hour or so, because we had time to kill before the Orlando Magic game started. We made plans the day before to go to Graffiti Junktion to watch the game and have lunch, and that's what we did!
Graffiti Junktion is a really unique, "artsy" bar/restaurant, located in downtown Orlando. The decor is, as you would probably expect, graffiti-centered, bright and busy.
The fun decor is secondary to the star of the show- their burgers! They have been voted "Best Burgers" several times, and for good reason. We decided to start with our favorite appetizer, the Zucchini Fries.
The waitress mentioned that the Soup of the Day was Beer & Cheese Soup, and both of us agreed that it sounded like a must-try. We shared a bowl, and it was so delicious!
For the main event, we decided to split the Chi-Town Burger, which was stuffed with bleu cheese and mushrooms.
By the time the burger came, I was already getting pretty full, so I ended up just having a few bites of my half and surrendering it over to Corey. So, basically my lunch consisted of fried, cheese, and more fried. Oops.
After the game was over, we stopped by the store and picked up a Sunday paper. After watching TLC's "Extreme Couponing" last week, we were both inspired to try this whole coupon-clipping thing for ourselves! I channeled my mother and got to work snipping away.
I felt the need to stash the "1/2 Off a Milkshake" from Steak 'N' Shake for a rainy day, OK? So, sue me!
After I made a shopping list including some of our coupon items, we went to the grocery store and got to work. Here's what I learned.
- There are no coupons for health foods.
- Coupons make you think you need things that you do not, in fact, need.
- We could buy 100 items, or 12 items…it doesn't matter. We are always going to spend 90-FREAKING-5 dollars every week.
So, after realizing that half of my coupons were for items that our Publix doesn't even carry, we ended up using one for Nestle Tollhouse Cookie Dough, and one for Truvia Natural Sweetener. Our grand total of savings? $1.75. Cost of the Sunday paper? $1.60. That would be a savings of $0.15. I don't think I'm in the running to be featured on the next episode of "Extreme Couponing".
After shopping, we decided to head out for a run. I was really mad because my iPod was dead, and I absolutely despise running without music. Corey agreed to run "at my pace" so I wouldn't be bored, and this lead to an argument that lasted for most of our run about how "my pace" isn't really that much slower than "his pace"…so that kept me occupied for most of the time! I was able to run the whole 2.5 without stopping, and at a slightly faster pace than usual. Yay for improvement!
We decided that good ol' "breakfast for dinner" sounded perfect after our run. I made a batch of Fiber One pancakes:
I was excited to use my favorite happy-face spatula:
And I also whipped up 2 professional-looking spinach omelets!
I started with 2 egg whites and 1 egg, mixed with 1 tablespoon almond milk and 1 cup chopped fresh spinach:
I poured it into a skillet and let it cook until the bottom was firm, and then I added 2 tablespoons fat free shredded cheddar, plus 1 tablespoon reduced-fat feta cheese down the middle, and flipped one side over:
I let it continue to cook until the middle was no longer runny.
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On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 launched with the mission of landing on the moon. The three men onboard Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred W. Haise, had trained their whole careers for this. Everything was running according to plan when an oxygen tank ruptured. Not knowing the full extent of the damage, but realizing how much oxygen had been lost, the mission to the moon was aborted. For the next four days, the world watched as NASA worked around the clock to bring their men back to Earth.
The film does not deviate much from the history. Not every little hiccup NASA encountered with Apollo 13 is in the film (it would've been way too long), but the major issues are present. To fictionalize the story and make it more Hollywood, there is some focus on the men's families left on Earth. It's all perfectly believable and shows the viewer what 1970 looked like. Lovell's teenage daughter being upset about The Beatles breaking up always made me smile. It also reminds us that as NASA was frantically trying to help their men, all their loved ones could do was wait by a radio or television.
The dangers of space travel are a burden for the entire family. One of the most heartfelt scenes is where Lovell (Hanks) is explaining to his young son how his mission is going work. The boy asks about what happened with a previous mission, where two astronauts where killed. With Mrs. Lovell listening at the door, Jim explains to his son that the door wouldn't open and concludes with, but they fixed those problems. When the boy is first informed that "something broke on his daddy's ship" he immediately asks, "Was it the door?"
The family aspect may be what the average viewer is most interested in, but the real meat of the story is exactly what is happening on Apollo 13. The danger is onboard 13 but the drama happens in mission control. When Lovell and his men radio with a problem, it is their job to solve it and time is a matter of life and death.
This is the most intense case of "engineering to the rescue" I've ever seen, and I know way too many engineers from my time at Purdue. The astronauts double check their calculations with mission control, men on Earth need to invent something that the men in space can build before their air becomes poisonous and every second counts. The first few big problems solved and averted are intense and leave all viewers taking a deep breath of relief, but as more situations are piled on and on and the engineering is cranked up it becomes muddled. Viewers without a scientific degree may find some things going right over their head, or even worse: be bored.
The big climax boarders on cliché. The music rises and falls, we see all the family members faces, mission control is standing and the world holds their breath for way too long. The viewer may check their watch at this point and as soon as they roll their eyes and stand up to go make a sandwich the climax is released.
That being said, I still enjoy Apollo 13. It is my favorite film by Ron Howard. There's no excessive slow motion (anti-gravity is cool though), nothing is over-the-top and everything is firmly rooted in reality. It's a prestigious honor to direct the first film made with the cooperation of NASA and the story of Apollo 13 is not one to just throw together. Howard treats it with the same meticulous care shown by every step in mission control.
Looking back, I'm not sure how Apollo 13 lost the visual effects award to Babe. Yes, those talking animals are done perfectly, but did they miss the whole launch sequence? It was done so well that NASA actually asked to use it for their own videos. Just check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf5yLuyCTag
Apollo 13 is a film that everyone should see. It may be a little too much science for some, but the story is enough to keep everyone involved. The best part is the spirit of courage and heart for exploration that must be in every astronaut is present. So many people dream of space travel and look to pioneers like Neil Armstrong, why not Jim Lovell?
"So long, Earth. Catch you on the flip side."


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SEMPORNA: The younger generation need to be educated on the importance of maintaining the sea turtle population in the waters around Sipadan and Mabul islands off the Sabah coast.
Dr Pushpa Palaniappan, a senior lecturer of Borneo Marine Research Institute, University Malaysia Sabah, who expressed this opinion, said while the communities along the coastal regions were beginning to understand the need to preserve the sea turtle numbers, it took time to change the general misperception people had on conservation.
In fact, the sea turtles were on the verge of extinction because of apathy towards saving them from dying out, she added.
The main factor is the selling and eating of turtle eggs. For instance, some poor families sell turtle eggs to earn a better income.
Apart from this, callous fishing methods trap the turtles in nets, causing them to drown.
The turtles would also become sickly and thinner through "food poisoning" if they ate too much plastic thrown into the sea by the irresponsible people.
The turtles usually mistook plastic bags or sheets floating on the surface for jelly fish which form part of their natural diet.
Generally, sea turtles are on their eve of destruction due to habitat and nesting site loss, pollution, predation, overhunting and a lack of understanding of their important role in maintaining the equilibrium of the ecosystem.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Malaysia) plays a vital role in providing awareness education programmes on preserving sea turtle population for the younger generation.
In this regard, Dr Pushpa thanked the government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and society in general for their co-operation and help.
She was in Semporna recently to attend a prelude event of World Turtle Day 2013 held at Uncle Chang's Resort on Mabul island.
Programmes for catching, measuring and tagging turtles were organised for the guests.
World Turtle Day 2013 will be held on May 23 to bring attention to, increase knowledge of and respect for turtles and tortoises as well as encourage human actions to help these marine reptiles survive and thrive.
The Borneo Marine Research Institute (BMRI), Universiti Malaysia Sabah – in collaboration with Uncle Chang's Resort, 1Borneo Ballroom Sdn Bhd and The Borneo Connections Sdn Bhd – plans to commemorate World Turtle Day 2013 by conducting an underwater census of the resident sea turtle population in the waters of Mabul.
The turtles will be caught, photographed, measured, tagged and returned to the sea.
The objective is to create public awareness and enhance education, research and conservation of the sea turtle population in the area.
The organisers will open the event to Resort guests to give them hands-on experience on sea turtle research. Primary schools in Mabul will also be invited to observe World Turtle Day activities there.
Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun will officiate at the event.
World Turtle Day in Mabul will be an annual event to be included in Sabah tourism calendar to encourage participation from domestic and international tourists.
This long-term project will enable BMRI to collect annual growth rate data on the sea turtle population in Mabul for conservation purposes.
Sea turtles are highly migratory sea-going reptiles, believed to have existed since the Triassic period, about 200 million years ago.
Continue reading (Incl. Pics) at: Saving sea turtles from extinction in Sabah.


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It's all change again as marketing thinking moves up onto another plane….. Or is this one a rocket ship.
Relationship Management, One-to-One Marketing, Knowledge or Wisdom Driven Communication and a host of other new age philosophies, have created a lexicon of terminology and cast it upon the world with a zeal and passion not seen since the early days of quality and excellence management. The very energy and passion of the zealots make it easy to believe that this really may be the last bus and if we miss it we'll be left penniless in the wilderness watching the tumbleweed blow by.
The fact that "technology" appears to have a serious involvement as well raises further confusion and the spectre of other corporate nightmare, dealing daily with the IT department.
So what's going on? Is this really the end of customer communication as we know it, can we say farewell to the ad agency for ever and do we really have to change our whole corporate behaviour by Friday next, or could the dream be a vision of a great new business opportunity.
Perhaps a good place to start might be to look at a few basics like….
It may also be useful to think about:
This is beginning to get tricky. Is there a way of organising the thinking?
The model below seeks to provide a template on which to base such a discussion and may assist in the first and most important part of any navigation exercise - finding out where we are now.
For the purposes of the model a "customer" is thought of as "an entity with spending potential". A "company" as a collection of "People, Money and Resources"
The basic premise of the model is that the size and shape of the market in any industry or sector is driven by a range of forces such as (legal, economic, social, political, technological etc.) as described by Michael Porter's Competitor Advantage Model. Without going through the intervening steps, suffice it to say that emerging from these forces are identifiable customer wants and needs which drive their behaviour.
While customer wants and needs are not easily summarised, company wants and needs can generally be described as Productivity and Profitability which in turn drives their Behaviour.
The model takes Customer and Company through a process which is always controlled by the customer but over which the company has the opportunity to exert greater influence in the distribution channels through the application of greater knowledge of the customer.
What is true to a greater or lesser degree is that at the start of the process both customer and company may exist in blissful ignorance of each other. Here lies the first clue about what one dimension of the relationship revolution is about. "Ignorance" is an opposite of "knowledge" so the process is a voyage of discovery.
The first stage of customer action is to engage in a buying process. It is not important at this stage to explore what stimulates the inception of the process or describe the steps contained in various buying processes but it is important to contrast the roles of customer and company. The customer is the one who "buys" and however companies like to pride themselves on their ability to "sell" it is always the customer who decides. Companies do what they call "Sales and Marketing" to manage the customer buying process..
Sooner or later the customer will select a supplier and wide range of attributes usually influence that decision.
The final decision will be a trade off between the customer's wants (emotional factors) and needs (rational factors). Not that all such factors are carefully processed and analysed by customers. In such a complex equation customers may not always be analytical they be impulsive and just do it.
Buying is not a difficult behaviour to learn. If customers have the means they can easily exchange it for the product or service ("whatever") they perceive most satisfies their wants or needs. Having selected the supplier for their "whatever" they will then be satisfied to a greater or lesser degree with "Delivery and Performance" of their purchase. The degree to which the company is able to or wishes to become involved is through the function they call Customer Satisfaction Management. Some companies are good at this, some appear not to have heard of it, but it is a widely accepted management and operational practice. It is still relatively new.
Ten years ago, the situations vacant carried no advertisements for "Service Quality" or "Customer Satisfaction" directors, managers or staff. Now they do.
This is another important milestone in the journey. As the importance of customer satisfaction as a competitive issue grew so the infrastructure of companies wishing to be successful had to address it. People skills, money and resources were refocused. Some took radical re- engineering steps, other simply renamed things they already did. Some of course did nothing but this sector, the "soon dead" are further excluded from the debate as there is not a single known example of commercial success emerging from the group who ignored service quality. The only think to learn from them is don't be like them.
One activity that has grown out of the quality age (whether product or service) is measurement. It is both necessary and productive but it has in many organisations become an art form in itself, which no longer continues to drive beneficial improvement actions to the degree that it should. The old soar
is truly revolutionary thinking to some service quality measurement processes which have become institutionalised within the remit of a new breed of corporate bean counter whose sole aim in life is to produce the score and whose actions have about as much influence on the performance of the business as the cricket scorer has on the performance of teams on the pitch. If measurement ain't driving improvement action, it ain't worth doing. Customer satisfaction measurement is not about measuring customer satisfaction, it's about improving business performance by applying the knowledge gained to the next buying experience. As Alvin Toffler said 'The customer pays twice, once with money and secondly with information that is worth money.
So, back with the customer. Now delighted or otherwise by the experience of their "whatever" they will sooner or later be ready to re-enter the buying process for another "whatever" or a different "whatever". The degree to which their satisfaction has been managed will be a new influence in their buying equation.
It may be negative or positive but it will become one of the most important factors, for it embodies trust. An important emotional bond. But here lies another myth. The belief that 100% customer satisfaction = 100% customer loyalty. Trust is important but it is not everything. There is the little matter of the competition to be considered. Even though the customer may have never bought a "whatever" before buying the one they bought from you, the very act of buying creates two important new factors. Firstly the buying process sensitises customers to competitive products or suppliers, and secondly the act of "coming out" immediately announces their presence as a customer with "whatever" tendencies. Whether competitors know the specific identity or the general fact they know the customer exists. The bad thing about competitors is they never sleep, they are all market insomniacs whose sleepless quest is not simply to steal your customers but to steal your best customers, and guess what? They will to a greater or lesser degree succeed.
How? Simply through one or two reasons. Either you screwed up to the degree that your customers are now allergic to your company or that your competition has been better at understanding and interpreting the customers' needs. They may have done this by luck but trusting to luck is a risky growth strategy. More likely they have achieved the conquest on the basis of better awareness of, ability to use and appreciation of information – they have used their knowledge better.
So loyalty is the next level competition, another activity that needs to be managed. It is not an automatic right. So far the company has been through some Sales and Marketing, Customer Satisfaction Management and now its Customer Loyalty Management.
In the customer's mind doing business with a supplier mans just that – a supplier is a supplier. Initially the customer only wants to get what they want. How the suppliers business is structured, organised, etc is a matter of supreme indifference to customers. The responsibility to make it easy for the customer to buy rests absolutely with the company. Customers are entirely free to choose and to react to what they receive in any way they wish. And so it should be. So the more effectively the company is organised and managed to facilitate this the better.
The chances are, however, in most companies Sales, Marketing, Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty are all seen as separate functions and may often operate in different parts of the business, report to different divisional heads. Having spent twenty years breaking down the old silo mentalities that were such a straightjacket in the bad old days of organisational pre-death rigormortis a new silo mentality appears to be avoiding emerging technology like the plague and promoting the construction of new impenetrable specialisation silos.
There may be an element of corporate lunacy at work here. In reality Sales have much to gain from Loyalty. The business has much to gain from a better mutual understanding of the two, but it appears not to happen that often.
Consider loyalty in the corporate, rather than the canine sense. Given that it has to be managed, given that it is not a right, given that competitors can screw it up is still a measurable factor in every business. Whether its 0% or 100%, it's there. All companies, except start ups and undertakers has a loyalty factor. What's important about this is that loyalty is a sales driver.
There are two kinds of factors that influence loyalty performance. Those a company cannot control, and those they can control. Most of the uncontrollable elements will affect the company and their competition equally. (E.g. 10% of the market dies each year). Of the loyalty factors a company can control they will be succeed to a greater or lesser degree. So if an example is considered in which a company currently sells 1000 "whatevers" in a given period and has an uncontrollable erosion rate of 10%, then their best volume forecast for the next period will be 90%. Assuming that they are 80% successful within the factors they can control them the next period volume reduces to 720. If the company decides it wants growth of 10% period on period than its target is 1100. So a gap between the loyalty driven base of 720 and the target of 1100 means that sales have to achieve 280 to stand still and 380 to hit the growth target. If the controllable loyalty factor can increase from 80% to 90% the sales effort to achieve the same target will be reduced from 380 to 290 over 25% reduction. (See diagram below). This may also means that sales are more able to concentrate on reaching more profitable customers rather than taking every customer they can get to replace lost volume. Therefore the effective management of loyalty in a way which optimises its potential is more than good for customer relations it is also commercially astute.
When customers place value on the relationship they have with the company they begin to exhibit preference for a supplier. They define the relationship in their own terms and for their own reasons. The customer places value on dealing with a supplier that usually goes beyond financial advantage. Obvious in some sectors, "My hairdresser, my solicitor" it is the same emotion that drives it in all areas. An important milestone. It is easier to ask the question "What is the value of the customer to the company?" but it is more important to know "What value the customer places on their relationship with the company".
Loyalty is defined as "An investment in a relationship". If the investment is to produce the best return then companies should take action to invest to get the best return. Two important attributes flow from the customer placing value on the relationship. As with all things of value they are protected.
The first customer action is to reject competitor approach. "Do you want a whatever" – "No, I'm fine thanks".
Thus competitors have to work harder to get their foot in the door and they may be prepared so to do. The second is to become either a passive (at worst) or an active (at best) advocate of the "whatever" and thereby either not impede further sales or promote further sales in their area of influence. The interesting observation from the model (fig.1) is that promoting the "whatever" is the first thing the company does but the last thing the customer does. Therefore investment in relationship management is for the long term.
The key points are that customers initially resolve a very complex equation when buying from a new supplier. Things can be done to help them resolve the equation but really only in a general way.
The delivery performance of the product/service is fundamental to customer satisfaction but more importantly it has the potential to generate information about buyer behaviour.
That information is invaluable in the design of subsequent propositions to the customer as it should reduce the complexity of the buying equation, help the company reduce competitive impact and reduce the sales effort required to achieve growth objectives. The ability to apply relevant knowledge is vital in this arena – not so much what you need to do to satisfy customers but what you need to know to satisfy customers. Companies are most vulnerable when they don't know what they don't know
When customers make a commitment to a supplier, the competition have greater difficulty capturing the customer and so the commercial security of the company is enhanced.
Because of the very fundamental nature of relationship management its introduction needs to be designed and approved with those who lead the company. It is not simply a new marketing idea. It is a fundamentally different way of running a business that in the perfect world in which we will never live it could call for a total organisational overhaul. In the imperfect real world in which we do live it will require careful strategic planning, investment in resource and technology and the development of new thinking and skills by people at every level. It is also likely to require a shake up in the performance of suppliers, and everyone in the distribution chain.
Relationship management will be different in every industry dependent upon the nature of the "whatever" it is they supply and the "however" it is distributed. What is common across all industries is that "information" is easier to acquire and cheaper to store, translating it into "knowledge" about the customer is technically practical. What is more difficult is the Awareness of its value, the Ability to understand its power, the Application of that power to the mutual long term benefit of the customer and the company, and its Alignment to a set of operating values which are harmonic with the customers wants and needs.
The new game is not to see how many customers you can get but to obtain and maintain the number and type of customers you need to meet the company's growth needs.
The hard thing to understand for most businesses hypnotised by the quarterly results straight jacket of the city, is that success will come not from getting a return on investment in a business, but a return on investment in the knowledge of the customers of that business. That means that in the consumer centred future, successful companies will be paying better attention to the sole source of revenue of every company, the customers wallet, by using technology, research and most importantly people to ensure that customers feel they are dealing with a supplier who recognises who they are, understands what they want and knows how to deliver it.
It can be argued that the "knowledge" – the "intellectual capital" resides in a business, represents the difference between its market value and the cost of starting the business again. The closer these two figures the easier it is for competitors to enter the market.
Relationship Management is a revolution, it ain't rocket science but it is a rocket ship.
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The Battle of Britain: A Canadian Timeline (RCAF Journal - SPRING 2015 - Volume 4, Issue 2)
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By Major William March, CD, MA
As with many historical events, there is often a "lively" debate on when the event began or ended, who participated and what actually transpired. For the Battle of Britain, there is also the question of who was actually a "Canadian" in the days before Newfoundland joined Confederation and Canada had yet to issue its own passport. The timeline and information below have been gleaned from a number of different areas and individuals; it reflects, but does not entirely agree with, many of the contemporary sources.
The "phases" of the Battle of Britain noted below reflect the dates used by the Imperial War Museum in London and may not reflect the dates/breakdown of the battle offered by other sources.[1]
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- 21 September 1937
- No. 1 Squadron formed at Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Station Trenton, Ontario, as a fighter unit. It was equipped with Armstrong Whitworth Siskin aircraft.
- August 1938
- No. 1 Squadron moved to Calgary, Alberta, as part of Western Air Command.
- 17 February
- A detachment from No. 1 Squadron proceeded to Sea Island, British Columbia, to take delivery of the first new Hawker Siddley Hurricane fighters. They replaced the obsolescent Siskins.
- 31 August
- No. 1 Squadron began to move to its "war station" at St. Hubert, Quebec.
- 1 September
- Germany invaded Poland.
- 3 September
- Great Britain declared war on Germany.
- 4 September
- Pilot Officer Selby R. Henderson of Winnipeg, Manitoba, was the lead navigator with No. 110 Squadron and in the nose of the first aircraft to attack the German battleship Admiral Sheer at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Sergeant Arthur Stanley Prince, age 27, from Montreal, Quebec, was in the second wave and died after his No. 107 Squadron Blenheim aircraft was shot down over the harbour. The first Canadian airman killed in action during World War II, he is buried at the Becklingen War Cemetery, Soltau, Germany.
- 10 September
- Canada declared war on Germany.
- 29–30 September
- Squadron Leader W. I. Clements, attached to No. 53 Squadron, Royal Air Force (RAF), made a long-distance, night-reconnaissance flight from Metz, France, to the area of Hamm–Hanover, Germany. He was the first member of the RCAF to fly over enemy territory.
- 30 October
- The Canadian government, anxious to get "Canadians" into the air war as soon as possible, reached an agreement with British authorities to man a RAF squadron with Canadians serving in the RAF. No. 242 (Canadian) Squadron was formed at Church Fenton, United Kingdom, under the command of Squadron Leader F. M. Gobeil, a native of Ottawa, currently on exchange with the RAF.
- 5 November
- No. 1 Squadron moved to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
- 16 February
- No. 110 (Army Cooperation [AC]) "City of Toronto" Squadron, augmented by personnel from No. 2 (AC) Squadron, sailed from Halifax.
- 25 February
- No. 110 (AC) Squadron arrived at Liverpool, England. It was the first RCAF unit overseas.
- 8 April
- German forces invaded Denmark.
- 9 April
- German forces invaded Norway.
- 10 May
- German forces attacked Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and France.
- 13–21 May
- No. 242 (Canadian) Squadron was committed piecemeal to operations in France.
- 22 May
- An advance party of No. 112 (AC) "City of Winnipeg" Squadron departed Halifax.
- 23 May
- Squadron Leader F. M. Gobeil, an RCAF exchange officer with the RAF, commanding No. 242 (Canadian) Squadron, engaged a Messerschmitt (Me) 109 near Berck, France—the RCAF's first aerial combat of the war.
- 25 May
- Squadron Leader F. M. Gobeil, an RCAF exchange officer with the RAF, commanding No. 242 (Canadian) Squadron, shot down a Me‑110 near Menin, Belgium, the first RCAF victory of the war.
- 30 May
- The advance party of No. 112 (AC) Squadron arrived at Liverpool, England.
- 8 June
- No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron, augmented primarily by personnel from No. 115 (Fighter) "City of Montreal" Squadron, and the rear party of No. 112 (AC) Squadron departed Halifax for England.
- 18 Jun
- No. 242 (Canadian) Squadron returned to England and rebuilt at Coltishall.
- 20–21 June
- No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron arrived in the United Kingdom and was stationed at Middle Wallop, Hampshire. Canadian Hurricane aircraft were deemed not up to current standards, resulting in the squadron being re-equipped with RAF Hurricane Mk I aircraft—assigned "YO" as a unit code.
- 9 July
- No. 242 (Canadian) Squadron declared operational.
Phase 1:
- 10 July–11 August
- Although this is the "official" start date of the Battle of Britain, it is difficult to point to a specific day and say "this is when it all began." Young men on both sides were flying and dying on 9 July, and the carnage only grew worse in the coming weeks. For the first portion of the battle, the Luftwaffe concentrated on attacking shipping in the English channel, port cities and coastal facilities as well as defences that might be used to turn back the planned invasion. This period is sometimes referred to as the Kanalkampf—Channel Battles. With varying degrees of effort, these attacks would continue throughout the battle.
- 12 July
- Pilot Officer D. A. Hewitt, from Saint John, New Brunswick, 20 years old and serving with No. 501 Squadron, was shot down while engaging a Dornier 17 that was attacking the Royal Naval Dockyard at Portland Harbour, near Dorset in Southern England. This was the first Canadian fatality of the battle. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial.
- ?? July
- No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron transferred to Croydon, south of London, for intensive training.
- 19 July
- Pilot Officer R. A. Howley, age 20, from Victoria, British Columbia, was killed while serving with No. 141 Squadron when his Bolton Paul Defiant aircraft (along with five others) was shot down by German fighters off Dover. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial.
- 8 August
- The Luftwaffe began its large-scale assault against England.
Phase 2
- 12–23 August
- This period of the Battle of Britain is characterized by large air battles more inland from the coasts as the Luftwaffe attempted to defeat the RAF through a combination of attrition and direct attacks on its airfields. RAF Fighter Command's command and control network, including radar sites, also came under attack. The Germans named this portion of the Battle, Adlerangriff—Eagle Attack.
- 11 August
- Pilot Officer R. R. Wilson, age 20, from Moncton, New Brunswick, was killed in action when his Hurricane aircraft was shot down over Thames Estuary, United Kingdom. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial.
- 12 August
- Pilot Officer R. W. G. Beley, age 20, from Rossland, British Columbia, was killed while serving with No. 151 Squadron. He is buried in the Margate Cemetery, Kent, United Kingdom.
- 13 August
- Adlertag—Eagle Day—attacks on British radar sites signaled a shift in focus by the Luftwaffe as they attempted to destroy the RAF in the sky or on the ground.
- 15 August
- In response to heavy losses, the Luftwaffe shifted the focus of its attacks to RAF aerodromes. This day saw the largest number of enemy attacks and a correspondingly high number of casualties on both sides, with 90 German bombers and fighters either destroyed or damaged as compared to 42 RAF fighters either lost or damaged.
- Pilot Officer J. T. Johnston, age 26, from Brandon, Manitoba, was shot down in a Hurricane fighter over the North Sea. He is buried in the Hawkinge Cemetery, Kent, England.
- Squadron Leader E. A. McNab, while flying with No. 111 Squadron, RAF, to gain operational experience, was credited with one of the three enemy aircraft destroyed by the unit that day.
- Fifteen enemy aircraft attacked the field at Croydon, causing considerable damage and destroying No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron's armament and orderly room. Two squadron personnel suffered minor wounds.
- 16 August
- Pilot Officer J. E. P. Larichelière, age 20, from Montreal, Quebec, was killed while serving with No. 213 Squadron. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial. He was credited with six enemy aircraft destroyed in the previous three days.
- 17 August
- No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron was transferred to an airfield at Northolt, northwest of London, and declared "operational."
- 18 August
- Bitter air combat results in the largest number of casualties to both sides during the battle: Luftwaffe, 96 aircraft destroyed or damaged; RAF, 50 aircraft destroyed or damaged.
Phase 3
- 24 August–6 September
- The Luftwaffe again shifted the main focus of its attention, this time to the airfields and objectives in the south-east of England. The RAF began to feel the growing strain of losses in pilots and aircraft.
- 24 August
- Although No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron aircraft had been launched to intercept German aircraft prior to this date, this was the first time that the squadron fired its weapons. Tragically, they mistook a flight of RAF Blenheim bombers for enemy aircraft. Two Blenheims were shot down, with one crash-landing at Thorney Island and the other plunging into the sea. The crew of the latter was killed.
- 25 August
- The RAF carried out its first bombing raid on Berlin, an action that enraged Germany and resulted in the diversion of attacking forces from British airfields to London. Two Canadians were among the crews of the 95 aircraft that struck the German capital: Flight Lieutenant D. L. England, from Kingston, Ontario, with No. 61 Squadron and Flying Officer M. M. Fleming from Ottawa, Ontario, with No. 58 Squadron.
- 26 August
- No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron ordered to the airfield at North Weald to relieve a hard-pressed RAF unit.
- On its second sortie of the day, No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron met an enemy bomber force over southern England, claiming three destroyed and four damaged for the loss of three Canadian Hurricanes. Flight Lieutenant R. L. Edwards from Cobourg, Ontario, age 28, became the first fatal casualty of the squadron; the other two pilots survive with minor injuries. Edwards is buried at the Brookwood Military Cemetery, Woking, Surrey, England.
- 29 August
- Flight Lieutenant H. R. Hamilton, age 23, from Oak Point, New Brunswick, was killed while flying with No. 85 Squadron. He is buried in Hawkinge Cemetery, Kent, England.
- 30 August
- No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron received six replacement pilots from the two Canadian Army Cooperation squadrons that were already in England. Flying Officers Millar, Pattison and Trevena reported from No. 110 (AC) Squadron and Flying Officers Brown, Lochnan and Norris reported from No. 112 (AC) Squadron.
- 31 August
- First sortie of the day, No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron aircraft were "bounced" by German fighters, and three Hurricanes were shot down. All three pilots bailed out; Flying Officer W. P. Sprenger was uninjured, but Flight Lieutenant Corbett and Flying Officer G. G. Hyde suffered burns to their faces, hands and legs.
- During the second sortie of the day, No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron engaged German fighters and bombers, destroying three, claiming one probably destroyed and damaging a further two. Flying Officer J. P. J. Desloges was shot down but survived, albeit with severe burns.
- 1 September
- As part of the RAF response to a large German formation, nine Canadians from No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron led by Flight Lieutenant G. R. McGregor destroyed one aircraft and damaged a further five. Flying Officer A. Yuile was shot down but bailed out safely. Flying Officer J. W. Kerwin was also forced to bail out, landing near Maidstone with burns to his hands and face. Flying Officer E. Beardmore's Hurricane was badly damaged, but he managed to nurse it back to base.
- 2 September
- Flight Lieutenant Corbett and Flying Officers Desloges, Kerwin and Hyde were transferred to No. 112 (AC) Squadron to recover from wounds they had received in combat.
- 3 September
- Pilot Officer C. R. Bonseigneur, age 22, from Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, was killed in action while serving with No. 257 Squadron when his Hurricane aircraft was shot down near Chelmsford, United Kingdom. He is buried in the Saffron Walden Cemetery, England.
- 4 September
- Flying Officer A. A. G. Trueman, age 26, from Sackville, Nova Scotia, was killed in action while flying a Hurricane with No. 253 Squadron. He is buried in the Whyteleafe Cemetery, Surrey, England.
- First sortie of the day, and while a group of Canadian journalists were visiting, No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron was in the thick of things again, claiming two enemy aircraft destroyed, one probably destroyed and six damaged at no loss to themselves.
Phase 4
- 7 September–31 October
- Main attacks shifted to London, but airfields, cities and ships within range of German aircraft were sporadically engaged. Losses incurred in large air battles during the mid-September attacks caused the Germans to rethink their plans. Although at times the fighting was heavy, by the end of October, the Battle of Britain was over.
- 7 September
- Focus of Luftwaffe main effort shifted to London.
- Pilot Officer J. Benzie, age 25, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, was killed while serving with No. 242 (Canadian) Squadron. A body found in 1981 is believed to be his. He is commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey, England.
- Squadron Leader McNab claimed one Me-109 as probably destroyed.
- 8 September
- Sub-Lieutenant (Pilot) J. C. Carpenter, age 21, from Toronto, Ontario, was a member of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, serving on His Majesty's Ship Daedalus, a naval air station. He was attached to No. 54 Squadron as a flying officer and was killed in action when his Spitfire went missing. He is commemorated on the Fleet Air Arm Lee-on-Solent Memorial, Hampshire, United Kingdom.
- 9 September
- Pilot Officer K. M. Sclanders, age 24, from Saint John, New Brunswick, was killed when his Hurricane aircraft was lost while serving with No. 242 (Canadian) Squadron. He is buried in Whyteleafe Cemetery, Surrey, England.
- The RAF scrambles 26 squadrons to intercept a force of between 300 and 350 enemy aircraft attacking London. No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron claimed one Me-109 destroyed and three damaged. Flying Officer O. J. Peterson claimed the sole victory of the day, but his aircraft was damaged and his windscreen shattered by debris from the Me‑109. With his face cut and blood obscuring his vision, he managed to regain control of his Hurricane and returned to base. Flying Officer W. B. M. Millar was wounded in the leg and forced to bail out of his stricken aircraft, suffering additional burns in the process.
- 11 September
- Pilot Officer H. D. Edwards, age 24, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, was shot down over Kent while flying with No. 92 Squadron. He is buried at Hawkinge Cemetery, Kent, England.
- No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron was in action as part of a 19-squadron RAF response to another large German formation attacking London. At approximately 1615 hours, under the leadership of Squadron Leader McNab, they attacked a formation of Heinkel (He) 111s at 14,000 feet [4,267 metres]. Three of the bombers were destroyed and a further two damaged. Flying Officer T. B. Little, though wounded in the leg, successfully bailed out of his damaged Hurricane. Flying Officer P. W. Lochnan was shot down and crash-landed his aircraft near Romney, walking away without a scratch.
- 15 September
- Two large air assaults against England were met and defeated by Fighter Command. Luftwaffe losses totaled 80 aircraft destroyed or damaged to the RAF's 35. The German High Command was shocked and re-evaluated the planned invasion of England. Henceforth, German bombers would mainly attack at night. This day is officially celebrated as "Battle of Britain Day."
- No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron was "bounced" by Me-109s over Biggin Hill on their first sortie of the day. One enemy aircraft was shot down by Flying Officer A. D. Nesbitt who was, in turn, shot down. He bailed out of his aircraft, suffering head injuries. In the same engagement, Flying Officer R. Smither from London, Ontario, age 30, was shot down and killed. He is the second fatal casualty from the unit and is buried in the Brookwood Military Cemetery, England.
- Approximately two and a half hours later, on their second sortie, No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron intercepted a formation of 15 to 20 He 111 bombers. Two enemy aircraft were shot down, three were probably destroyed and a further two damaged. Although the Canadians suffered no losses, Flying Officer A. Yuile was wounded in the shoulder but made it safely back to base.
- 17 September
- Hitler officially canceled the planned invasion of England.
- 18 September
- Despite several scrambles during the day, there was little combat as the majority of enemy aircraft remained above 20,000 feet [6,096 metres] where the performance of the Hurricane was degraded. Despite this limitation, Pilot Officer O. J. Peterson engaged Me-109s at 27,000 feet [8,230 metres] and claimed one destroyed and one probably destroyed. During one of these events, Flying Officer E. W. B. Beardmore became separated from the unit and found himself flying with No. 229 Squadron. His aircraft was damaged, and he was forced to bail out, suffering minor injuries upon landing.
- 24 September
- Pilot Officer J. Bryson, age 27, from Westmount, Quebec, was killed while flying with No. 92 Squadron. He is buried in North Weald, Basset Churchyard, England.
- 25 September
- Air Marshal William "Billy" Bishop, Victoria Cross, Distinguished Service Order and Bar, Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross, visited No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron at Northolt.
- 26 September
- His Majesty King George VI visited No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron at Northolt.
- 27 September
- The Germans made multiple assaults throughout the day, and No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron was in almost constant combat, with 12 aircraft sent aloft for the first scramble of the day, 8 for the second and only 6 for the third. By the end of the day, the Canadians claimed four enemy aircraft destroyed, with the destruction of a further seven shared with other RAF squadrons, one probably destroyed and four damaged.
- Flying Officer O. J. Peterson from Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, age 24, was shot down and killed. He is the third and final fatal casualty during the Battle of Britain from No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron. He is buried in the Brookwood Military Cemetery, England.
- 28 September
- Flying Officer J. G. Boyle, age 26, from Ottawa, Ontario, was killed while flying with No. 41 Squadron. He is buried in Lynsted Cemetery, Kent, United Kingdom.
- 7 October
- Pilot Officer H. D. Edwards, age 24, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, was killed in action while flying a Spitfire with No. 92 Squadron. He was credited with 3½ enemy aircraft destroyed and 4 probably destroyed. He is buried at Hawkinge Cemetery, Kent, United Kingdom.
- 8 October
- Pilot Officer G. H. Corbett, age 20, from Victoria, British Columbia, was killed while serving with No. 242 Squadron. Forced to bail out of his damaged aircraft, he did not survive the descent. He is buried in the St. Mary Churchyard Extension, Upchurch, Kent, England.
- 9 October
- No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron, having been in continuous combat for almost two months, was transferred to Prestwick, Scotland, to rest and rebuild.
- 17 October
- Pilot Officer N. N. Campbell, age 21, from St. Thomas, Ontario, was killed while serving with No. 242 (Canadian) Squadron. He is buried in Scottow Cemetery, Norfolk, England.
- Pilot Officer H. W. Reilley, age 22, from London, Ontario, was killed while serving with No. 66 Squadron. His Spitfire was shot down by Luftwaffe Kommodore (Squadron Commander) Major W. Molder near Westerham, United Kingdom. He is buried in Gravesend Cemetery, England.
- 19 October
- Flying Officer G. F. McAvity, age 29, from Little River, New Brunswick, was killed in action while flying a Hurricane aircraft with No. 3 Squadron.
- 22 October
- Squadron Leader McNab was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for services as Commanding Officer, No. 1 (RCAF) Squadron during the Battle of Britain.
- Flight Lieutenant G. R. McGregor and Flying Officer B. D. Russel were each awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for their services during the Battle of Britain.
- 26 October
- No. 242 (Canadian) Squadron transferred to Duxford to rest and rebuild.
Major Bill March, a maritime air combat systems officer, has spent over 38 years in uniform. He is currently a member of the Air Reserve, serving as the RCAF Historian within the Directorate of RCAF History and Heritage.
AC―Army Cooperation
RAF―Royal Air Force
RCAF―Royal Canadian Air Force
Sqn ―squadron
[1]. "The Battle of Britain: Phases," Imperial War Museum, accessed February 24, 2015, http://archive.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/27/battleofbritain/phase0.htm. (return)
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This Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Cake is a show-stopping strawberry dessert! Made with crushed shortbread cookies, strawberry shortcake ice cream, and homemade strawberry sauce, it's a no bake dessert everyone will love!
Recipe adapted from : @ https://www.thereciperebel.com
Course : Dessert
Cuisine : American
Keyword : ice cream cake, strawberry dessert
Author : Ashley Fehr
Yіeld : 10 servings
Prep Tіme : 20 mіns
Cook Tіme : 10 mіns
Totаl Tіme : 30 mіns
- Strawberry Sauce
- 4 cups frozen strawberries (about 520g)
- 1 cup granulated sugar (200g)
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons corn starch
- Ice Cream Cake
- 2 litres Chapman's Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream
- 3 cups crushed vanilla cookies
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- Strawberry Sauce:
- In a medium pan, add the strawberries, sugar and water. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, stirring often, and cook until berries are softened.
- Puree in the pan with an immersion blender (or mash with a potato mashed for a chunkier texture).
- Whisk together cream and corn starch. Stir into strawberry sauce to thicken slightly.
- Pour into a medium bowl and set aside to cool to room temperature (this can be done the day before, or use the fridge or freezer to speed up the process).
- Ice Cream Cake
- Remove ice cream from the freezer to soften for 30-45 minutes before assembly.
- In a large bowl, combine crushed cookies and melted butter.
- Place a piece of parchment paper in the bottom of a 9 or 10" Springform pan (I used a 9") by opening the sides and clamping the paper in the bottom. This is optional but allows for easy removal.
- Place half of the cookie mixture in the bottom of the pan and press into place.
- Top with half of the ice cream, and cover with a thin layer of strawberry sauce.
- Repeat layers one more time to fill the pan: crumbs (press down gently), ice cream (use the remaining), and drizzle strawberry sauce on top. The pan will be full, that is fine.
- Place on a flat shelf in the freezer for 6-8 hours or overnight, until completely frozen.
- Remove from freezer 10-15 minutes before serving, garnishing with whipped cream and fresh strawberries if desired.