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RAF Halesworth (Also known as Holton) is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is 7 miles (11 km) west of Southwold in Suffolk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Halesworth

Cambridge International Airport (IATA: CBG, ICAO: EGSC) (previously Marshall Airport Cambridge UK) is a regional airport in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the eastern outskirts of Cambridge, south of Newmarket Road and west of the village of Teversham, 1.5 NM (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) from the centre of Cambridge and approximately 50 mi (80 km) from London.

Marshall of Cambridge Aerospace Limited has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P433) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction. The airport is available for corporate and private use, and is home to four flying schools. Passenger services operate to a small number of European destinations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Airport

RAF Horham is a World War II era airfield in England. The field is located next to the village of Horham, England, and 4 miles SE of Eye in Suffolk. The large site straddled the parishes of Denham, Horham, Redlingfield and Hoxne.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Horham

Ipswich Airport (IATA: IPW, ICAO: EGSE) is a former airfield on the outskirts of Ipswich, Suffolk England. It was known as RAF Nacton when No. 3619 Fighter Control Unit of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force were based there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipswich_Airport

Lords Bridge Air Ammunition Park opened on 16th November 1939 as a forward storage facility for between 750 - 1250 tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs for 2 & 3 Bomber Groups in East Anglia. It supplied 3 sub depots at Meldreth, Riseley and Bourn as well as bomb dumps at airfields within 2 and 3 Groups. The depot was administered by 95 Maintenance Unit RAF which came under the control of RAF Bassingbourn.

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/l/lords_bridge_air_ammunition_park/index.shtml

Royal Air Force Station Molesworth or more simply RAF Molesworth is a Royal Air Force station located near Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, England with a history dating back to 1917.

Its runway and flight line facilities were closed in 1973 and demolished. New facilities were constructed to support ground-launched cruise missile operations in the early 1980s. It is now a non-flying facility under the control of the United States Air Force (USAF), and is one of two Royal Air Force (RAF) stations in Cambridgeshire currently used by the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE). Molesworth, RAF Alconbury and RAF Upwood were considered the "Tri-Base Area" due to their close geographic proximity and interdependency until RAF Upwood closed in late 2012.

RAF Alconbury and RAF Molesworth are the last Second World War era Eighth Air Force airfields in the United Kingdom that are still actively in use and controlled by the United States Air Force. It was from Molesworth on 4 July 1942 that the first USAAF Eighth Air Force mission was flown over Nazi-occupied territory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Molesworth

North of RAF Honington there is a bombing range from 1945 with concrete arrow showing the direction to targets. As targets you see a target marking and an outlined ship.

You also see a lot of bomb craters around.

South Korean Asiana Airlines Cargo Boeing 747-48EF/SCD is at at carco gate being prepared for take off and also on the way to the runway at Seattle Tacoma International Airport.

The Pipistrel Taurus G4 is a one-off twin fuselage, four seated electro engined plane made in Slovenia.

Here it's at the Oshkosh Airshow in 2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipistrel_Taurus

http://www.technologicvehicles.com/en/green-transportation-news/1098/video-oshkosh-2011-first-flight-of-the-pipistrel-taurus-g4#.VCIvR5R_uSo

The Chicago Motor Speedway at Sportsman's Park located in Cicero, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, was built in 1999 by a group including Chip Ganassi, owner of Chip Ganassi Racing. In 2002 the 1.029-mile (1.656 km) oval shaped track suspended operations due to financial conditions in the motorsports industry. The track was also the site of horse races, when the track was called "Sportsman's Park". The track was one of two racetracks that hosted both auto and horse races (the other is Dover International Speedway).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Motor_Speedway

Air Force One is the official air traffic control call sign of a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States. In common parlance the term refers to those Air Force aircraft specifically designed, built, and used for the purpose of transporting the president.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_One

Air France, Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways

In October 2013, it was announced Forrestal would be scrapped by All Star Metals in Brownsville, Texas at a cost of 1 cent. She left the Philadelphia Naval Yard via a team of tugboats at 5:00AM on 4 February 2014.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Forrestal_(CV-59)

Sonderborg Ringridning is an annual fiest in July with a competition of horseback riders catching rings in galop. The winner is called King or Queen. There are two competition days. Friday and Sunday. In 2014 the fiest was in the days 11. to 15. of July.

There is a fair and both days starts with a parade with hundreds of horseback riders and marching bands from Denmark and other countries.

Ringridning is held only in Sonderjylland near the border to Germany and also in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.

http://www.ringriderfesten.dk/

Costa Concordia was a Concordia-class cruise ship built in 2004 by the Fincantieri '​s Sestri Ponente yards in Italy and operated from 2005 until 2012 by Costa Crociere (a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation). It was wrecked off the coast of Isola del Giglio in Italy on 13 January 2012. It was declared a total loss and later towed to the port of Genoa where it will be scrapped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia

The 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash occurred on 10 April 2010 when a Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the city of Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board. These included President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria, former president Ryszard Kaczorowski, the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers, the president of the National Bank of Poland, Poland's deputy foreign minister, Polish government officials, 18 members of the Polish parliament, senior members of the Polish clergy, and relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre. They were en route from Warsaw to attend an event marking the 70th anniversary of the massacre; the site is approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Smolensk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash

This is a collection of locations of former US Bases in the Panama canal zone, some of them were built at the beginning of the Panama canal construction in 1904, then expanded during WWI, WWII, and Cold War era.

Sun Cruise Resort & Yacht is a hotel resort in Jeongdongjin on the east coast of South Korea. Designed in the image of a cruise ship, the hotel is 165 metres (541 ft) long and 45 metres (148 ft) tall and overlooks the beach resort.
It is believed to be the first of its kind in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Cruise_Resort_%26_Yacht

WrestleMania 31 was the thirty-first annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on March 29, 2015, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

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Welcome to Cleft Club Radio
Today is July 21, 2005
I’m your host Kim Andrews

(theme song)

Welcome back to the second episode of CCR. Thanks for the positive comments about the first show!

- We now have a link you can use to subscribe with or listen to on the web. The address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/CleftClubRadio . Can still download shows there as well as the downloads section at cleftclub.com

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- Definition: Shownotes are an outline of what happens in each episode.

- 31 subscribers! Whoa! It was 16 when I started to get the show read on Wednesday and doubles in a few hours. Cool! Welcome to all the new subscribers!

- Wrote up a FAQ on CCR. Can be found in the FAQ section.

- Got a number of people wanting to subscribe to the mailing lists. Excellent! A few didn’t give reasons to why. Must give reason why you want to join, helps keep out spammers and email harvesting bots that collect emails for spammers.

News on the world

- From the New Straits Times
"99pc success rate in cleft lip, palate operations" story link
director of a cleft clinic Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia reports that they have been successful in treating patients at a young age and also have them go through rehabilitation and therapy.

- From Canada.com
Formerly conjoined twins headed home story link
conjoined twins who were also born with a cleft lip and palate from Zimbabwe Africa were flown in to Canada. Delivered at a salvation army hospital, operated on at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
sent home on Wed. Keep beating the odds kids! Best of luck to the family!

- Channel 13, WHAM in Rochester NY
"Operation Smile Has No Borders" story link
19 year old Mungamba Vunda from the African Congo has an operation done on his lip by Dr. Lawrence Kurtzman through Operation Smile (www.operationsmile.com) .
includes a video link

- Black Mountain News from Black Mountain, NC
“Shriners help local child overcome facial disfigurement” story link
story of the Reese family, Noah, 8 who was born with a cleft lip and palate and was operated on by both operation Smile and the Shriner Hospital in Boston
father David, also born with a cleft and shares his fears about passing it on.

Another interview with my daughter Kristi

Commentary - Being a parent who was born cleft and why that didn't bother me
Commentary #2 - Harry Potter controversy over the "H" word (harelip) in "Chamber of Secrets" (will link to my article later)

New additions to the Photo Gallery
- Nursey007's daughter Rachel

Ending

[Remember that I am not a medical professional so anything you hear on Cleft Club Radio is for informational purposes only! Thanks! :)]

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Hello everyone. This episode is really short, it's just a shout out to say that yes I'm still here :). Had some life complications but I think things have settled down enough where I can get back into the swing of things.

On this episode, I hint towards an interview I did and hope to put on a future episode. I also do a short interview with Kristi, and I mention me possibly doing a personal podcast where I would be talking about my other intertersts and where I'll be doing future interviews with my daughter.

Next one will be a full, regular show :)

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