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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

- Put up shownotes for the first show! Click here

- 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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A review of green belts is needed to help make way for 70,000 new homes in Beds, Bucks and Northants according to a government report. The extra housing, to be built by 2021, comes on top of the 100,000 homes already earmarked to be completed over the next 20 years.

Rules that govern green-belt areas around Scotland's towns and cities are to be overhauled, ministers announced yesterday. The Scottish Executive said a review of current policy was needed because of increasing pressure from building developers.

Mr Prescott is pushing through his plans to see 1,400,000 new homes built in the next 20 years...

Another controversial green belt housing development is under the spotlight this week after the recent explosion of objection to the plan for Top Wighay Farm in Hucknall...

The government's plans to build 120,000 new homes in the Thames Gateway by 2016 will not work without a series of new and improved transport facilities, an official report warned today...

A row broke out today after councillors in Glasgow signed a deal to build upmarket houses on greenbelt land...

The spread of land ownership is a great good cause, much neglected in England. It's time to revive it...

Residents campaigning to protect a green belt site on the outskirts of Edinburgh have been dealt a major blow after the land was earmarked for housing development by the Scottish Executive.

A decision is due on whether 56 hectares of greenbelt land in Sutton Coldfield will be retained as a site for major investment...

Old town residents regret threat to green belt as Prescott's housing redevelopment plans take shape...

A controversial plan to build nearly 500,000 homes across east England has been given initial backing...

478,000 new homes will be built in the region - which covers the six counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk - up to 2021...

When lan and Nina Graham spotted the 'Woods for Sale' sign on the side of the A40 earlier this year the same idea occurred to them both instantly...

SEERA is today considering proposals to increase the new homes target and the prospect of 720,000 new homes over the next 20 years...

The price of farmland has risen by nearly a third in the past year as a new breed of non-farming buyers look to fields as an alternative to bricks and mortar or the stock market...

Thousands of homes could 'overwhelm' Stourport under new plans to change the status of green belt land, Wyre Forest councillors fear...

20-year proposal to build 640,000 homes will be launched by the Southeast Regional Assembly...

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Regeneration specialists St Modwen Properties bought 1,600 acres of development land last year yet still produced its twelfth successive year of record results...

Developers behind one of Coventrysbiggest ever building projects face D-Day when the official application goes before the council's planning committee....

There's a lot of speculation in the media at the moment about the possibilities of mass development on the greenbelt...

Hundreds of Government owned sites are set to be released to provide affordable housing for first-time buyers.

Speculators are selling plots within green belt land, holding out to buyers the prospect that a government which is already nibbling hungrily at the green belt in several areas will soon allow planning consents to be given in others.

Developers are putting the government under pressure to release 1,200 acres of greenbelt land for 14,000 new homes in the heart of the Thames Gateway growth area.

The Green Belt is officially 50 years old today yet there's little to celebrate - green belt land is under threat from development as never before.

John Prescott has today announced nine organisations that have taken up the challenge to build 'affordable housing' for GBP 60,000.

Developer given the green light to build 35 dwellings on green belt after being turned down twice.

All greenbelt land will be examined to see if it should be developed or protected.

A wave of house building across the UK will do little to help those in greatest housing need.

Edinburgh's green belt is, as with most green belt land, a controversial subject.

Wales has gained a reputation for urban regeneration thanks to areas of redevelopment that have taken place where the Welsh coal industry once stood.

John Prescott has given his backing to one of the biggest building schemes approved on green belt land.

Kate Barker, who is also a Housing Corporation board member, has been asked to rethink how planning policy should be overhauled, following the Treasury's review of housing supply to pinpoint more blockages in the planning system.

Figures obtained by the Telegraph have revealed a 60% rise in development on green belt land.

Environmentalists and neighbours oppose a development bid for planning permission to build 90 homes on Surrey Green Belt.

Proposals to build at least 10,000 new homes on Green Belt land in Hertfordshire.

Conservative leader David Cameron, accuses the Labour Party of a failure to build an "adequate" number of new homes.

35 acres of land in Bath are to be removed from the green belt with the potential to be built on.