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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! :)]

Cleft Club Radio
August 4, 2005
Episode #3

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Apology for no show last week, was sick :(

ICEing your cell phone
- Some warm up to cell phone ICE
- Not directly cleft related but handy in case of emergency

Interview with my daughter Kristi. Talk about starting first grade and watching Charlie and the Chocalate Factory (a little scary but very funny)

Rhinoplasty - what is it?
- CLP Link Directory link
- Personal Experience Database link - add your story!

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossein
- About a friendship of two boys. Amir, son of wealthy father, other is Hassan, son of Amir’s servant, and was born with a cleft lip.
- Takes place from the 1970s to present day in Afganistan.
- Published in 2003, was #1 NYT’s Best Sellers List
- Can buy it here

News
“1 Hit of Meth Is Too Much in Pregnancy”
WebMD Medical News
Low doses of methamphetamine is found to increase chance of birth defects, as little as one use

“Ailing boy has determined friends in Tier”
TamilCanadian
11 yr old Pirabu from Sri Lanka, survivor of the tsunami, lost his father in the massive storm, and lives with his mother in a refugee camp. Health care workers are trying to get him to have surgery done on his cleft palate. Without it, he is a higher risk to infection and bad nutrition

No new pictures this time. Check out pictures already added and find out how you can add your own by clicking here!

By the way, if you use Odeo to subscribe to CCR, you can go to my Odeo Channel (odeo/72319f3138af4f27).

Until next time...

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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 :)

We've now completed a fresh re-install of the Krsna Blog, and have archived older Blog content elsewhere in the site. The following three threads had to be manually re-built into the new Blog database, so all the posting and comment dates are the same. All three posts are still open to new comments. The new Krsna Blog Archive is now housed in the Vada section of the site [link]. The Krsna Blog should now be restored to perfect running order, and we look forward to your continued participation here.

Haribol. With the Blog rebuild, you'll see that we've now got new comments appearing at the top of the comments list (ascending rather than descending order). Hopefully this will make long blog threads, in particular, easier to read. You'll also note the new XML / RSS icons at the bottom of the Main Index. The Krsna Blog has entered the 21st century, and is now a streaming RSS feed. We're a week or two away from the launch of a major new aspect of the HareKrsna.com site, which will incorporate various streaming aspects.[more]

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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.

Farmland values rose by nearly 10% during the first six months of 2004 as a result of limited supply and renewed demand from prospective buyers, according to the latest rural research...

A Sheffield community could change dramatically if plans to build 91 homes on an industrial site are granted planning permission...

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...

Planning authorities have upped their estimate of how many houses could be built on previously developed land in England despite the amount of brownfield land available for development remaining unchanged...

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 price of farmland is up to record highs as demand continues to outstrip supply. Increasing numbers of people are opting to quit the rat race and move out of cities across the country, boosting the cost of farmland...

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

More than 100 families have united to fight for their homes, due for demolition in a 6m GBP Kensington regeneration project...

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...

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...

The spectre of a Development Land Tax returning to haunt the whole process is a very real threat to development, especially if proposed works are financially marginal...

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...

Rural land prices are still rising strongly, but a report by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that the exodus of good-lifers from urban areas has slowed...

A new venture launches today, Land Initiatives Plc brings land investment to a new level - offering shares in prime development land...

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

Land scarcity becomes a real problem, and the hunt for useful Brownfield sites continues to increase...

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

WSP Environmental are heralding a new scheme - bespoke liability for contaminated land...

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

The European Court ruled that all such spilled contaminants were "legal waste", which is fair enough, but they went on to decide that the soils which they have contaminated are also "waste"...

A patch of sand in a popular Welsh seaside resort was sold for 63,000 GBP.

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

Statistics have revealed that building new homes being built on brownfield land is at an all time high.

The decontamination of land has moved on in leaps and bounds, particularly in helping brownfield development, however agriculture is causing damage to soil.

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.

Allotment owners offered 28,000 GBP per plot by a property developer.

Land is now at such a premium that local authorities in areas of high housing demand, could be forced to make land available, regardless of the environmental impact.

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.

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.