Inside Worthing, Issue 26, November 2022

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Liana Naylor PUBLISHER | EDITOR

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And all of a sudden it’s almost the festive season! How did that happen?

The SDG this month is Goal 3. Health and Wellbeing, which, although it’s not the lightest of subjects, it’s a tad lighter than the last two months. As before, the contributors have stuck to the theme, and the themes are all listed on p26 in the #LetsSusitOut section. It’s a real treat to read the latest update from The Wellderness in the same section.

Inside Sports is growing, with great updates from Worthing Table Tennis Club and we continue to be proud sponsors of Worthing RFC (see front cover image)..

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Stay Well This Winter

Flu vaccinations first became widely available around the year 2000, and since then the public health campaign against the flu virus has become one of the most important and effective public health measures. Prior to 2000, a “normal” flu season could kill perhaps 20,000 people in the UK, while a particularly bad virus may account for 50,000 deaths in a winter.

The pharmacy flu vaccination service is fully integrated into the NHS, and you can get a free NHS flu vaccine if;

• You are 65 years old or over (including being 65 by 31st March 2023).

• You have certain medical conditions

• You are pregnant

• You are a front line adult social care worker, who cannot get a vaccination from your employer

This year’s flu vaccination campaign began in late September, and is now ramping up as we move inexorably towards the peak virus season. The campaign has extra poignancy, given our experiences from the last two winters. While working in pharmacies across the county, I have been struck by how many people have been making enquiries about how, when and where they will be able to get a vaccine. Whilst the bulk of vaccines will be administered in campaigns mounted by GP practices, many pharmacies are now providing a significant number of vaccinations. Indeed, in the winter of 2020/21 pharmacies administered 4.3 million doses. That was an increase of over 70% from the previous year and has helped to relieve the significant pressure that GP practices are experiencing.

Practice “Hands, Face, Space” Stay well this winter”

The NHS flu vaccine is available from pharmacies for the over 50s. Pharmacies do not vaccinate children (up to the age of 17). Vaccinations for 2 to 17 year olds are either done at the GP surgery or at school using a nasal spray. Children can catch and spread flu easily. It can be a very nasty illness in children, and can lead to bronchitis and pneumonia. Protecting children through vaccination also protects those at risk. Very young children (6 months to 2 years) can be vaccinated by injection at the surgery if appropriate.

During the Covid-19 winters, we were regularly reminded to wash our hands, avoid touching our faces, and to maintain a social distance of 2 meters. This is also great advice to stop a flu virus from spreading, even if lots of us are vaccinated.

Please follow Public Health advice and continue to practice “Hands, Face, Space” and take your opportunity to get a flu vaccination. Stay well this winter.

Active Worthing Wellbeing Centre

CIC was created by specialist instructors Marie, Bella and Enzo, after the closure of The Rowans Gym in 2020. We support anyone who feels their health would benefit from increasing their activity levels, especially those with long term health conditions, disabilities and injuries. Our specialist level 4 instructors have helped countless people stay active for health and manage their health conditions through physical activity.

Active Worthing run exercise classes and gym services across three different sites in Worthing: Palatine Park Clubhouse, The Sidney Walter Centre and Worthing High School. Our Active Worthing gym sessions are always supervised so you will always have a knowledgeable member of staff on

hand if you need support. This month we are excited to be adding extra evening gym sessions at Worthing High School. We support our clients with improving their cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength, balance, mobility, and help people maintain independence. Our instructors have years of experience adapting and tailoring exercise to ensure everyone can take part in safe and effective exercise.

To join Active Worthing, you will need a referral which can easily be obtained by contacting your GP or by asking any medical professional.

Have a look at our website www.activeworthing.co.uk or contact us at info@activeworthing.co.uk or 07706626158 to take that first step towards a healthier life.

Join Active Worthing Wellbeing Centre CIC

Level 4 specialist instructors running classes and gym sessions for people with long term health conditions, disabilities and injuries.

We can assist with:

Cardiovascular tness and lung capacity

Balance

Muscle strength and bone density

Mobility and exibility

Mental health wellbeing

Pain management

Maintaining independence

any medical professional and ask for a referral to Active Worthing

Men’s Health: Movember, It’s good to talk.

If you’re a guy who waits until something is seriously wrong before going to the doctor, you’re not alone. Local Urological Surgeons, Simon Woodhams and Dan Magrill open up about Men’s Health.

It’s a common problem among men…a reluctance to talk about our health and more specifically, the prostate, penis or bladder. It’s understandable really, problems ‘down there’ don’t exactly make us feel our most masculine and talking about any type of health issue is never easy. But we need to face up to the problems.

Mr Woodhams explains ‘Women are way ahead of us in terms of raising awareness for their own cancers such as breast or ovarian cancer. Men are lagging behind simply because of a reluctance to talk about these problems. It’s an issue that is getting better. Now, for example, we have ‘Movember’ when men are encouraged to grow a moustache for a month to help highlight male cancers. Movember, not only creates a fun way to raise money and awareness for men’s health issues, it also starts conversations about these issues. But there’s still a fair way to go. The biggest challenge is not only to get men to spot symptoms, or to see their GP, but to talk about it openly. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.’

Mr Magrill continues, ‘It's not the easiest thing to talk to your doctor about but early detection of conditions along with raising awareness in Men’s Health is important. It’s understandable why men shy away from issues with their urinary tract, lumps on the testes, erectile dysfunction or prostate but, like most illness or disease, we need to know more about these problems, and although the more we search for them, the more cases we find, it does help us get closer to helping people live longer and improve their quality of life. The earlier we

spot symptoms, the greater the chance of finding curative solutions for them.’

‘Symptoms don’t always mean bad news and if men visit their doctor early on, they might save themselves a whole lot of worry. Many of the signs that people associate with the prostate can be harmless. For example, problems urinating can be caused by enlargement of the prostate gland, but that does not necessarily mean cancer. Also, erectile dysfunction can actually have more to do with the heart and can precede heart conditions that may present themselves in a few years time. So, it’s definitely worthwhile being examined to manage, prevent or treat that.’

If you have any concerns, contact your local GP and start talking now!

Simon Woodhams Urology Surgeon “Movember starts conversations”

Dan Magrill Urology Surgeon

“The earlier we spot symptoms, the greater the chance of finding curative solutions for them”

30-a-Week

Are we eating vegetable soup again?

“Yup. Remember Nonna - she makes minestra all the time. 3 or 4 times a week. And we all eat it”.

Yeah, but, that’s in Italy. And that’s really old-school. We’ve got more food choices here.

“Mmmm, we do - but are they good ones?”

It’s hard sometimes to get those veggies down; I’ve come to think of soup as a bit of magic. Soups are forgiving and let you chuck in all sorts of bits; grains, veggies, beans or lentils, herbs, simmer away together to make something lovely and comforting. Leftover lettuce? Drop it in the pot! 2 tomatoes? In they go! Green eggs and ham? Let’s have a drop of soup first!

Bad events often have an upside - we’ve certainly seen that with the Covid pandemic. The NHS struggled to cope with hospital admissions and research scientists raced to understand why some people fell desperately ill with Covid, while others experienced it as a mild flu; and yet others had multiple exposures without continual infections. That desperation opened up funding and lots of new research initiatives into immunity. You may have heard of Prof Tim Spector, an epidemiologist (researcher into diseases at the level of whole populations) at King’s College London. For many of us, the Covid-logging app Prof Spector’s team set up - ZOE - was our most reputable source of science-based information during those days.

The ZOE team discovered something already being talked about for a while in research circles around

cancer prevention and treatment: diet. The Covid research into immunity uncovered the fundamental role of gut health. Diets that are rich in fresh unprocessed plant-based foods and contain fermented foods furnish people with stronger immune systems and overall health. We’re modern people but we have stone-age bodies and we weren't built to eat food produced in factories and with longlife sell-by-dates on it.

When scientists get going, they really do get going. All the Covid and diet work that’s been going on has found that the same diet that's recommended for prevention of 3 out of the 4 major lifestyle diseases (cardiovascular disease, 30% of cancers, type 2 diabetes) also has effects on immunity.

What’s the diet? Basically - loads of fruit and vegetables. A variety of them. Guidelines from the US-based World Cancer Research fund have come to the same recommendation as the Zoe team: 30 different fruits and veggies a week. It’s sad to know that eating broccoli twice a week, or sticking to that apple a day, isn't going to offer the magic we once hoped it would. But soup - we’ll always have soup. And herbs count as half a unit, so we can scatter that mint and rosemary everywhere!

Worthing is blessed with several veg box delivery schemes and also with small independent stores that can sell us interesting varieties, to extend our range beyond the old basics. We can get drumsticks, bitter gourd, plantain, okra and many more items that will help us climb that hill of 30. A winter of soup experiments beckons.

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WORTHING WIRE

This month we have correspondence from several readers, both from direct emails and via social media. You can read the letter from last month again using the QR code on p13 above.

Via email

Dear Liana,

I was deeply saddened to read John Vaughan’s letter in your last edition. If I may I would like to address John directly.

John doesn’t realise that cutting our overseas aid budget and closing down the Department for International Aid will in the long run have negative consequences for us all, as well as for the people of developing nations such as Pakistan and Somalia.

John also can’t see the link between climate disasters and the damage caused to the climate by developed nations such as ours. Pointing at China and shrugging our shoulders is simplistic and lazy.

John doesn’t realise that you have to be referred to a food bank by a front line professional such as a doctor or social worker. John is too lazy to find this out for himself, perhaps it is easier to be fed your opinions by The Daily Mail.

John doesn’t know that 1 in 4 hospitals in the UK have opened food banks for their staff. Is John suggesting that nurses and hospital cleaners are spongers and free loaders?

John doesn’t want to hear that poverty is on the increase in this country. 17% of working families are in Poverty. That is to say that even though people are ‘applying themselves ‘ (John’s words) they are still

The Readers’ Debate

not able to afford a basic standard of living.

John doesn’t realise that 42% of people receiving Universal Credit are in work. 8.5 million pensioners receive some sort of help. Over half million disabled people got a below inflation rise meaning a cut in benefits this year.

With this in mind John doesn’t see why the wealthy should pay a higher percentage of tax to help the less well off and to pay for the public services that we all benefit from.

Despite not believing in progressive tax systems, John will simultaneously complain when he struggles to get a doctors appointment.

Even though John has probably never met a refugee and isn’t affected in the slightest by poor desperate people in small boats, he is scared of them. Perhaps if John took the time to understand who these people are and why they are coming he would be less worried.

I’m sure that I don’t need to explain to John the difference between a refugee and an immigrant. Perhaps John can’t see that growth is dependent on immigration at this present time.

Sadly I meet a lot of Johns. Happily the younger generation have a more empathetic, progressive and outward looking attitude to the world and our planet, it’s just a shame that people like John are in charge at the moment and seem determined to drag us back to the past.

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Dear Liana,

Unlike some, I’m sure, I quite like free local magazines popping through my letterbox! However, at a time when fiscal policies are being questioned by the BofE and IMF, the country is facing unprecedented energy costs and spiralling inflation, what a depressing little magazine it was!

There can be few people unaware of environmental issues facing the world and most will no doubt have formed their own views on the matter and how it should be tackled. I would suggest that the few who don’t are happy to live in ignorant bliss! I really don’t think we need Inside Magazines joining the campaign trail and depressing us further!

Please can we have more local news and perhaps some celebration of what’s good out there and leave the campaigning for happier times in the future.

Yours sincerely, Diana Via Facebook I completely agree with him!

Sean Langridge

Oh, g’grief!

Just ignore anyone who - within their first few lines - equates world population control policies with UNESCO, a division of the UN concerned with world heritage sites. You know, like Stonehenge? Then continues along the familiar tropes of “we all lived ten to a bed, and made do with a teacup of tripe ... cold tripe when Mother hadn’t pawned the youngest to put a

shilling in the meter” and onto the - and there it is, as sure as eggs is Nazis popping up in any debate on any contentious issue - “spongers and free-loaders”; before the hysterical claim of tens of millions of refugees in UK. For the record - in 2021 Britain granted leave to remain to 14,734 people - of which 81% were asylum seekers. You do the maths? Source: https://www.gov.uk/.../how-manypeople-do-we-grant-asylum...

And China. Yes, it’s the largest emitter of carbon dioxide emissions, but report those emissions figures in terms of per capita, i.e., the amount of emissions divided by per person of a country’s population, and the biggest emitters are numerous states from the Caribbean and the Persian Gulf top the list. In 14th place is the US, with just over 16 tons of CO2 per capita. China emits less than half of that per capita, tallying 7.1 tons, putting the country in 48th place. Source: https://www.dw.com/.../fact-check-ischina-the.../a-57777113

However - buying less plastic c**p thus not supporting China with its terrible manufacturing safety records and its state record of human rights abuses, viz not least Tibet and the Uighur is something we should all surely agree with.

HC

(former Member of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), #1 in the QS World University Rankings for development studies)

If you have something to say...get in touch! Further contact details can be found on p4.

Yoga is the Perfect Partner for Sports Enthusiasts

When Yoga is practiced by sports persons, improved flexibility, endurance, core strength and balance is gained. Breathing techniques are used to aid relaxation, focus, mental and spiritual clarity. Practicing Yoga helps to slow down the creeping stiffness of age by protecting joints. Yoga can also reduce and prevent back pain issues. Tightness through muscles around the hamstrings, groin, glutes, quads or hip flexors, can cause compression in the lower spine which can result in back problems.

Some athletes can find this is amplified by running, sprinting, jumping, kicking and throwing.

Rugby is a demanding sport. Collision impact, tackling and high intensity acceleration can take its toll, resulting in the body becoming tighter and stiffer. Agility can be lost and injury more frequent. Passing, while running needs good spine, shoulder and neck mobility whilst maintaining a strong propulsion to run from the hips down through to the legs. Stretching chest, back and shoulder muscles improves a player’s throwing

technique and ability to stay strong and upright whilst running.

Footballers can be classified as being one leg dominant. This means the hip flexor and quads are frequently engaged with the kicking leg, but not with the planting leg. This causes an imbalance in both the hip and spine. Players will stay supple in their muscle length if they practice Yoga and therefore they can continue to train and play effectively.

Yoga is a preventative measure against injury. With a combination of strength, power and flexibility, athletes are able to remain in top physical and mental condition if they practice Yoga. They will move better on the pitch, injure less and recover faster. Sports players, as well as professional athletes, are now appreciating that yoga can help improve their sporting performance.

Reasons those who enjoy sport should practice Yoga

1. improves flexibility and strength

helps with poise and balance

encourages endurance

assists with mental clarity and focus

aids relaxation

Iyengar Yoga conditions the human system in its entirety, promoting health in mind and body. It can be a demanding test of physical endurance when holding challenging or balancing postures (asanas) for long periods of time. Yoga with Bev runs a weekly Iyengar Yoga class each Friday 10:15-11:15am at Worthing Football Club. This class is open to everyone. There is a great community spirit at the club and everyone is most welcome.

Athlete or not… everyone can experience the benefits that a Yoga practice brings. For more info: call Bev on 07917271401 www.yogawithbev. com

Table Tennis is back in session!

Worthing

Table Tennis Club is back to defend their title after winning the Worthing League Premier division last season. Matches started in September and saw the A team continue their undefeated run into the new season.

This year the club fielded 6 teams into the league with a 50% increase on last year and wishes them all the best of luck in their divisions as they take on rivals from Rustington, Lancing, Steyning and across Worthing.

Worthing TTC will host the Worthing Championships in April 2023 bringing together over 100 players to compete for the top individual titles. We look forward to sharing more about how this goes later in the season.

As the club expands there are 3 new sessions to get excited about:

Girl Power! Saturday 8th October saw the launch of all girls table tennis, as part of a national initiative from Table Tennis England. Running for 8 weeks, every Saturday at Worthing High School from 10am to 11:30am. The session are led by a female coach and involve fun, engaging and innovative challenges to the participants. Girls from 7-11 years old will be given a bag with their own bat, t-shirt,

balls and activity cards!

AccessibleTT sessions launch this month, welcoming anyone with a disability to try the sport in a friendly and welcoming environment, led by two disabled coaches. Starting Saturday 5th November from 1pm2pm at Worthing High School.

Finally, in partnership with Active Sussex, Worthing TTC started a social session for people over 65 years old at the Lancing British Royal Legion, every Monday from 10am-11am. Aiming to bring people together by taking part in the sport as well as enjoying tea, coffee and biscuits! The session is drop-in and any questions can be directed to the club's officials on info@ worthingttc.com

Hope to see you soon!

INDEPENDENT WORTHING

Hi, we are Sophie and Graeme and we run Independent Worthing.

Since our humble beginnings as a Facebook group back in March 2020, Independent Worthing has grown to become a unique and valued supporter of everything independent in and around Worthing.

The very fabric of Worthing is woven of small independent businesses who, on a daily basis, work incredibly hard to provide our 111k local people with the opportunity to buy beautiful and unique products and services, all supported by superb and personal customer service that you often don’t get with big businesses.

From florists to bakers; from wellbeing to motorcycle and car servicing; from printers to restaurants; from groceries to clothing; from pubs to interior design; from

cocktails to yoga - we have them all on our doorstep, and let’s keep it that way!

Independent Worthing works hard to showcase and support our local independent businessessomething we are incredibly passionate about.

We all know that we need to think ‘global’ but we can have a positive impact by keeping it local. Eco-mindfulness can be as simple as thinking about less distance travelled for products that are being produced locally or tapping into local services instead of travelling to get them elsewhere. It has never been

Independent Worthing adds to this list of incentives by working with local businesses (currently around 100 and growing every day) to bring you exclusive discounts, making it even easier and cheaper to support local.

Our subscription membership, which starts from just £2.49 a month, gives you access to a huge number of businesses offering exclusive discounts to our members to encourage you to stay local.

Need to buy some groceries, fancy 10% off at HISBE? Want a nice meal out, how about 10% off at Oregano or Efes? Drinks after work, 10% off at The Corner House or The Beach House tickle your fancy? Motorcycle need servicing, 10% off at LTN sound good to you? Tyres for your car, Discount Tyres Direct will look after you. Need a haircut? 10% off at Rock n Razor for men or 20% at L&G Hair Company for ladies. Need gifts? Check out Inspired or Heavy Gretel and get 10% off. The list really does go on and on, but you can check all the offers at www. independentworthing. or scan the QR code

Expert advice on paying for care

Expert advice on paying for care

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The Carewise care fees specialists are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and members of the Society of Later Life Advisers, so you can have peace of mind when discussing your finances.

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Carewise could also help to protect your finances for the future. Contact Carewise to find out how you could benefit.

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Looking for extra support with your day to day living?

Looking for extra support with your day to day living?

The Connect to Support website is for anyone in West Sussex who is looking for additional help or support to maintain their independence.

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Visit our website to:

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• discover tips on improving your health and wellbeing

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Mark Laflin In Concert

Sunday November 20th at 2:30pm at the Wurlitzer Organ in the Worthing Assembly Hall

Come and enjoy an afternoon of spectacular sounds played on Worthing’s hidden gem – the Wurlitzer Theatre Organ in the Assembly Hall in Stoke Abbott Road. Mark Laflin will be at the keyboard as the organ rises from the pit. After classical organ studies as a teenager, Mark was educated at the Royal College of Music and is currently Director of Music at Kingston Grammar School.

Mark will be playing a mix of show tunes, standards, light classics and melodies –all old favourites composed mostly in the 20th Century.

Tickets may be purchased on the door or from our ticket agent Worthing Theatres & Museum through their box office (01903 206206) and online at wtm.uk.

WTM acts as the commercial agent on behalf of the promoter and producer of this event.

HOLIDAY FUN FOR CRAFTERS

Winter/Christmas Fair Sunday 27th November. Open from 10.30 to

Glass

Jewellery

Cards

Cross Stitch

Will Todd and his Ensemble join the Angmering Chorale at Arundel Cathedral for a special performance of his acclaimed Passion Music

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Will Todd’s name is now synonymous with a delicate choral beauty” CLASSIC FM.

On Saturday, 19th November, Will Todd and his Ensemble will accompany the Angmering Chorale in an inspirational performance of his extraordinary Passion Music, a jazz choral exploration of the passion narrative.

Enter the soulful world of internationally renowned composer, conductor, and presenter, Will Todd, inas he leads the Angmering Chorale and acclaimed gospel soloist Shaneeka Simon. Hymn texts, gospel quotations, and Will’s original texts are accompanied by the authentic and often improvised jazz performance of the Will Todd Ensemble. Passion Music fuses jazz and choral music, blending the evocative with dramatic and expressive. Reflective, energy and expressive freedom is provided

by Shaneeka Simon who sings in a jazz-soul style both with the choir and in splendid isolation. The audience will enjoy a magical experience with the beauty and energy of choral sound coupled with sounds of modern and traditional jazz patterns.

British composer and pianist Will Todd is best known for his choral works, among them The Call of Wisdom, commissioned for HRH Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, and Mass in Blue. He has worked with awardwinning choirs. The Will Todd Ensemble has performed and broadcast extensively including live broadcasts on BBC Radio and television, appearances in London, festivals throughout the UK and concerts in many of the UK’s most beautiful cathedrals.

More information about Will Todd and the Will Todd Ensemble can be found at willtodd. co.uk. Tickets include a souvenir programme and are £15 for adults with students at £7.50 (under 11’s free). Purchase online at wegottickets.com/event/551233 or via the Box Office on 01903 783918.

E ither you’ll get in. Or you won’t ~

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You’ll never catch me doing an ice bath”.

That’s the first thing almost everyone says when you mention Wim Hof to them.

I’ve said it myself. Several times.

And I meant it.

Then, recently, I was talking to Matt Dumbleton, co-founder of The Wellderness, and I said that I might consider maybe trying an ice bath at our Wim Hof Experience event in November.

Given everything I’ve heard about the many benefits - stress reduction, better mental focus, muchneeded relief for my achy old muscles - why wouldn’t I think about it, at least?

Matt, now a veteran of two ice baths, paused briefly, then said, “I’ll tell you what Will told me before my first one. He said, ‘either you’ll get in or you won’t’.”

For Matt, that made things easier. Stood beside the ice bath, adrenaline still coursing from the fire show he’d just finished, he knew that he would get in. Not because of any external pressure. Not because he felt he had anything to prove. But because, it suddenly seemed so

simple. “If I wasn’t going to get in, I wouldn’t have stripped off to my shorts,” he said. “The fact I was there, meant I was already in the ice bath.”

It makes perfect sense. Much like Will’s journey to becoming a Wim Hof instructor makes sense. In a strange, non-sensical kind of a way.

A lifetime of challenges

Will, in this case, is Will van Zyl. A qualified yoga teacher, breathwork practitioner and one of the UK’s foremost Wim Hof instructors. Will has been a convert since his first ice bath experience at the Roundhouse in Camden.

Having suffered a “lifetime of challenges” with his back, he reached the stage where heavy-duty painkillers formed part of his daily routine, to the point that they barely dulled the pain.

Eventually, a busy schedule and too much self-neglect conspired to bring Will to a grinding halt.

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My back shouted at me, ‘you’ve got to do something different’,” Will told me earlier this year. “And the way it shouted at me was that two discs in the middle of my spine popped out.”

He knew something had to change. And that change eventually led him to the Roundhouse, where he sunk into a lengthy breathwork session, followed by the ice bath, which he described as “like coming home.”

“When I left that event, I had no pain in my body,” he said.

He also had a new purpose. One that he’s been exploring, practising and teaching ever since.

In the Wellderness

When Mark Cropley, Matt’s fellow co-founder, first got in touch with Will about a potential Wim Hof session in the Wellderness, Will was immediately sold.

“Wilderness, wellness, nature, 1,000-year legacy. The ability to take multiple generations out of their normal life and into nature,” Will beamed. “I just said to Mark, ‘I want to be involved’. I didn’t know exactly what it would be –events, whatever. I wanted to be involved.”

And it didn’t take long until he was involved. Firstly, in October 2021 where Will felt a “profound connection” as we practised breathwork and plunged into ice baths beneath the autumnal canopy of Furzefield

Campsite in Angmering.

Then, in early March this year we came together again. Gathering on Wild Heart Hill, the ground still stiff with wintery frost, it felt distinctly chillier than the previous event. Yet our guests gave themselves to breathwork, then shed layers to plunge into icefilled water long after dusk had taken what meagre warmth the sun offered earlier in the day.

Still adamant that you’d never catch me doing an ice bath, I hovered around the outskirts, taking photos and offering support to our intrepid guests. But as the day wore on and the temperature dropped, my icy resolve began to thaw.

Something about the location and the practice

seemed to invigorate the group. Wrapped as I was like an overzealous pass the parcel prize, the cold still crept into my bones in a way that the others seemed not to notice. And then, as they plunged one by one into freezing tubs, a wellness settled on their faces as though they were luxuriating at a hot spa.

I almost felt jealous.

I’ve since stopped saying that I’ll never do it

In fact, since my chat with Matt, I’ve stopped even thinking about it.

I’m going to wait until November.

Until I’ve done the breathing workshop.

Until I’ve clutched ice and felt its coldness settle into my skin.

Until I’ve practiced the ‘horse stance’, which rewarms bodies chilled by the water.

Until I’m stood by an ice bath that gently glistens in the flickering light of a tiki torch.

Until it’s my turn to take the plunge.

Then, either I’ll get in.

Or I won’t.

Improving people’s lives through nature, improving nature through people.

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Health, Wellbeing and Climate Change

Good mental health and wellbeing is essential to think, feel, act and determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. From personal experience, I know how the climate crisis can cause distress. You could call it eco-anxiety. When I fully understood the complexities and seriousness of climate change I experienced extreme anxiety. Reading any reports only served to confirm my worst fears. I later found solace and grounding through focusing on deep love for my family which naturally manifested into taking action. I found true love to mean selflessness and truth. Being unable to deny the truth and having to act in the face of it. I grounded myself with woodland walks, forest bathing and immersing myself in nature. When I have time I also like to indulge in arty activities.

I often wonder how those in the global south are coping, suffering the very real and worst effects of the climate crisis already. For them Armageddon is already here in the form of heatwaves, fires and flooding. We in the global north are left with the impending doom of the knock on consequences (food shortages, mass migration and extreme weather) and the knowledge that there is no escape from climate change.

Friends I know find comfort in religion, meditation, mindfulness, visualisation therapy, active hope, gardening, art and nature. Part of CREW’s ethos is to address these feelings and the centre will offer wellbeing sessions through Art and other mediums. We also hope to be able to offer a vital space for Youth work and an eco-forum for young people.

Physical threats to global health from climate change result from increasing temperatures and expanding areas where diseases such as malaria and dengue thrive. Vector-borne disease outbreaks like chikungunya, dengue, and West Nile fever have contributed to a geographical expansion of ticks that transmit Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis. Exposure to extreme heat can result in a range of health consequences, including heat stress, heat stroke, worsening heart disease and acute kidney injury.

Extreme rainfall events have caused waterborne outbreaks and longer summer seasons have contributed to increases in foodborne diseases such as Salmonella, Campylobacter and Staphylococcus. More flooding and drought increases disease risk. Hygiene requires access to clean water. Further urbanisation and migration related to climate change will also complicate prevention and control.

The covid-19 pandemic shows how great a threat to global health remainsparticularly as the climate crisis continues to affect disease spread and facilitate zoonotic spillovers.

Many health professionals and British Medical Journal articles report that climate change, and the accompanying ecosystem damage and loss of biodiversity, are by far the greatest public health threats of the century, not just to the rest of the world, but to the UK also.

17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by United Nations (UN) Member States in 2015 and serve as a template for global partnerships to work towards a sustainable future for people and the planet by 2030. The goals recognize that ending poverty and deprivation must go hand-in-hand with strategies to improve health and education, reduce inequality, while tackling climate change and preserving our oceans and forests. The SDGs are intended to be used from grassroots to nationwide levels. The goals do not work in isolation, they are about partnerships for a sustainable future, and work in partnership with each other too.

Read more about it on https://sdgs.un.org/goals (09/08/22) and you can follow the latest updates on www.facebook.com/sustdev @SustDev

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All important reasons to tackle climate change by putting pressure on the government and corporations to stop the use of fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) and protect biodiversity.

Our Community wellbeing is vital. One of the ways CREW is supporting people locally now is by training volunteers to offer energy advice, draught proofing and grants information in collaboration with Worthing Homes. Sessions are available at the Resource Centre in Worthing every Wednesday between 10 and 5pm Call 0 01903 703100 to book.

CREW will be a central point for our community to find out about climate change, how to help individually and collectively, through events, workshops, talks, art and wellbeing sessions. We are looking for help with HR, H&S, fundraising, sponsorship and social media. Please get in touch if you can support us on i info@worthingcrew co uk

Useful links:

Latest IPCC Report www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessmentreport-working-group-ii

Latest Chatham House Report www.chathamhouse.org/2021/09/ climate-change-risk-assessment-2021 British Medical Journal www.bmj.com/communicable-diseases The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/ article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00216-7/fulltext

Mental Health www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/ policy-and-advocacy/climate-change Active Hope www.activehope.info

Managing Climate Anxiety www.emmacameron.com/living/ climate-anxiety Horsham Youth Eco Forum www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/ cafes-forums/youth-eco-forum

www.worthingcrew.co.uk @CrewWorthing A community hub for people and the planet. Amberlouise Everitt, Co-Founder & Chair

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Charms and Cures

So many people are asking: “will the health service be able to cope this winter?” We worry that our hospitals are underfunded and staff undervalued; and what happens if we have a combined Covid and a Flu epidemic with a harsh winter? Whatever happens, we are very unlikely to face the precarious practices of past generations, who had no health service and precious few effective medicines.

Two hundred years ago, a Worthing governess and Sunday School teacher, Charlotte Latham, noted down the various folk-cures and remedies that parents of her charges used to treat illnesses and ailments. Forty years later, as the recently widowed wife of the Rector of Fittleworth, she decided to write down all the folklore and superstitions that she

had collected over a lifetime. These were published in 1878 as the very first paper of the newly formed Folklore Society.

To begin her quest, Charlotte really needed to find a wise woman who would speak to her, but that was not going to be easy given the secrecy surrounding the rituals and the social divide that separated Charlotte from her poorer neighbours. But one of these women, “held in high repute in the village,” agreed to talk to the wife of Rev. Latham, and that woman was Mrs Cooper:-

I accordingly paid a visit to an ancient dame who kept a small day-school, and was a celebrated compounder of ointments, a collector of simples, and said to be a charmer of wounds caused by thorns. She assured me that many people came to her with bad wounds, and got her “to say her blessing over them and a power of people she had cured with it in the course of her life.” It was only four lines, and, as I seemed curious about them, she did not mind repeating them to me. And then holding up one of her fingers, and looking as earnestly at it as she could have done had there been a thorn to be charmed out of it, she said in a grave and mysterious tone,-

Our Saviour Christ was of a pure virgin born,

And he was crowned with a thorn

I hope it may not rage and swell;

I trust in God it may do well.

Once induced to confess that she was a dealer in charms, the old dame became quite communicative on the subject….

Charms seem to have been very specific and could only be used for the ailment named in the charm. For example, a charm for earache would not cure toothache. It would also seem that the ritual, and even the way in which the charm was spoken, were as necessary as the words themselves. Mrs Cooper told Mrs Latham that she had lost two of her charms when moving from one cottage in the village to another. One had been for giddiness in cattle and the other for “the bite of a viper,” by which we can assume she meant an Adder bite. The alternative to the charms were often very strange and weird cures. Mrs Latham recorded far too many for them all to be repeated here, but let a few examples suffice -

vThe rider of piebald horse can always give the cure for whopping cough. No matter what the rider recommends, it will work!

vFor an ‘ague’ fever, keep a live caterpillar in a small box in your pocket, as the caterpillar withers and dies so will the fever subside.

vAlternatively for the above, eat two sage leaves fasting for nine days.

vThe hand of a dead man stroked nine times east to west and then nine times west to east will cure anyone afflicted with a goitre (in earlier times this would have been the hand of a hanged

man when executions were still held in public).

vNine roasted mice, powdered and mixed with water should be drunk with ale after fasting. This cured several ‘cases of debility.’

vFor particularly bad cases of jaundice swallow a live spider rolled up in butter.

Charlotte Latham had a good instinct for folk beliefs that were really old and also effective. She realised much of what she was being told was of comparatively recent invention and many of the remedies her informants swore by were unlikely to have any real efficacy. With regards to cures, she recorded that the country people put great trust in the herb vervain: “its dried leaves, worn in a black silk bag, are recommended as a cure for weekly children.”

Those picking the herb in the past were said to recite the following verse:

Hallowed be thou Vervain, as thou growest on the ground;

For in the mount of Calvary there thou was first found,

Thou healest our Saviour Jesus Christ and staunchest his bleeding wound;

In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I take thee from the ground.

Sage, another herb mentioned by Mrs Latham, is known for its antiseptic properties.

In 2015 I led a survey

team in recording modern superstitions and folklore, including remedies and cures, our research found the following -

vSucking the flowers of dead nettles is a curative for general bad health

vShould you cut yourself on the beach, wrap the wound in seaweed

vIf you are stung by a bee you will never get arthritis in that part of your body

vSit on a newspaper while travelling as this will prevent travel sickness

vTo avoid insomnia sleep in the direction of the magnetic field – head to the north

vDress a wound with honey

Jonathan Mott told us that his father, Andrew, a retired Arundel GP, had witnessed these irregular cures among his patients: “He remembered that a lot of families had their own recipe for a poultice for scalds and burns, and that one man he visited had coated the whole burn with honey. It didn’t work.”

An elderly lady in my adult education class at Worthing over 25 years ago told me that if you were suffering with a bad back you should find a twin who had been “born feet first” and ask them to “walk on the bad back” as this was sure to bring relief!

A correspondent writing in the Sussex County

Magazine in 1935 relayed “an old Sussex remedy” passed down to his father eighty years earlier for the cure of a whitlow (a fingernail infection). Again, the source was “an old woman,” who explained that it was first necessary to select a large black slug, place it on “a piece of clean rag”, and then to “stab it all over with a needle.” Then both slug and rag should be wrapped around the finger. Dr Andrew Mott found a vestige of this belief still surviving at Arundel well within living memory. One patient told him that the best cure for a wart was to pierce a snail’s shell with a needle and then pierce the wart. Dr Mott felt that there was “some medical truth in the efficacy of piercing the wart,” as it could “divide the infection,” but he was not sure “the snail bit was wholly necessary.”

Jacqueline Hope had a curious experience when she took her daughter to the chiropodist at Worthing Central Clinic in the 1970s. Having treated her daughter’s verruca, the chiropodist told Jacqueline that if it returned she should rub it with a cut potato and then bury the potato in the garden – not the advice she had been expecting!

You can find out about more examples of charms and cures and old Sussex folklore in Chris Hare’s book, The Secret Shore, Tales of Folklore and Smuggling from Sussex and Hampshire, available from Worthing Library, Worthing Museum, and Steyning Bookshop, £10.

Local charity, Home-Start Provides Lifeline to Growing Number of Families Facing Tough Times.

When Dawn was referred to Home-Start Arun, Worthing & Adur (AWA) by social services, neither she or her two-year-old daughter Betsy spoke. So traumatised by previous abuse, Dawn was self-harming, and finding it hard to interact with Betsy, who was consequently referred to a speech therapist.

Parenting can be lonely, frustrating, and overwhelming – many struggle with the daily tasks, made more difficult by poor mental and physical health, unsuitable accommodation, multiple births, poverty, and domestic abuse.

For 21 years, Home-Start AWA has supported local parents like Dawn through their most challenging times. A child’s early years are critically important, and we know that children do best when parents get the help they need.

Our volunteers have parenting experience and are fully trained to provide families (with children under 5 years)with free, practical, emotional, non-judgemental, weekly 1-2-1 support in their home, or on the phone. Some prefer Family Groups, meeting other families in a low-pressure environment. Volunteers help build parents’ confidence, encouraging them to access other services.

Dawn attended one of our groups and with our support she eventually stopped self-harming, learned to interact with Betsy and no longer needs specialist input from health services.

Dawn, “Due to Home-Start, I now have a wonderful bond with my daughter. I’m completely aware of the impact my mental health has on her.”

Group Volunteer, “From being a quiet and introverted child, Betsy is now cheerful and talks constantly! Dawn has grown in confidence as a mum. It’s wonderful!”

With the pandemic and cost of living crisis, life has become tougher for many more local families. At the beginning of 2022, we saw a 25% increase in referrals.

Many children are living in poverty. Last year, 30% of our families lived in the top 10% of most deprived areas in the UK. 25% lived in unsuitable accommodation. Over half reported facing financial difficulties. Our volunteers often help families with benefit and housing applications, the household budget, foodbank vouchers, and to provide the basics like milk, nappies and clothes.

Last year, over 75% of parents experienced mental health difficulties. Our volunteers support a family’s mental health and wellbeing, allowing them to feel less consumed with adult issues and refocus on their children’s wellbeing. This helps them to provide a safe, nurturing home, giving their children the best possible start in life.

If you know a family who might need our support or are interested in volunteering, call 01903 889707 or visit our website below. Each year we must fundraise to continue our services and we can’t do this without support from our community. Families often call their volunteers a ‘lifeline’ – each visit costs just £25 to provide this vital support. To donate today, scan the barcode or go to www. home-startawa.org.uk.

“Make a difference - create a brighter tomorrow for a local child.”

Conquer Arundel Castle and abseil for local hospice care!

Whether you’re an adventure-seeker or on the hunt for your next adrenaline challenge, now is the time to test your nerve as St Barnabas House and Chestnut Tree House are thrilled to be offering an exclusive opportunity to abseil 180ft down the iconic Bake House Tower at Arundel Castle in March 2023.

Arundel Castle Abseil

Climb 200 steps up the winding stone staircase. Soak in breath-taking panoramic views. Then descend the side of the 180-foot tower to be knighted with your medal. And all to raise vital funds for local adults and children in need of hospice care.

This very special fundraising event will be held on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March 2023 and places are limited.

Fiona James at St Barnabas Hospices said: “People taking on this challenge will not only be abseiling at an amazing location, but they will be doing so knowing that the money raised will make a difference to adults and children who need hospice care. Arundel Castle is one of the most iconic landmarks in West Sussex, but it is also only a few miles from both hospices, so is the ideal venue for a special charity fundraiser. Especially as we get ready to celebrate St Barnabas House’s 50th anniversary in 2023.”

Participants can choose from three different registration options, starting from just £20 (minimum sponsorship applies).

To find out more about the Arundel Castle Abseil and sign up for either St Barnabas or Chestnut Tree House, visit arundelabseil.org

castle and take

the epic 180ft abseil

Arundel Castle’s tallest

Gift a Future

The best present you could give this Christmas is the gift of a hopeful future to someone experiencing homelessness.

With food and energy prices rising rapidly, more people are being pushed into poverty and homelessness as we face the harsh winter months ahead. Turning Tides are calling on the community to gift people their future back this Christmas.

Turning Tides offer a wide range of services, ensuring long-term solutions out of homelessness. They work with people for as long as it takes to help them find a real path to greater strength and independent living. With 36 different projects run by experienced staff and volunteers, the charity ensures each person has a tailored plan that works for them. If someone has suffered a lifetime of trauma it can take years to find a new way to live. Many of their staff and volunteers have lived experience of homelessness and know how hard it can be to build a future that is better than anything you’ve known in your past. But Turning Tides always believe change is possible and never give up on anyone.

Andy has been supported by the charity and credits them with helping to turn his life around; “Turning Tides offer so much – shelter, warmth, fellowship. They have been so helpful and understanding and through the charity I feel I have grown. I have such a better life now than I had before. It is the ongoing support that makes all the difference. It is fundamental and helps people to keep moving forwards.”

This Christmas your donation could turn someone’s future around, setting them on a course for a positive and bright future as a proactive member of society.

£30 could provide counselling sessions and advice helping to change the course of someone’s future

£50 could provide half a day of support at one of the charity’s community hubs, enabling people to access food, showers and support services to begin their first steps out of homelessness

£100 could help with digital equipment and training, enabling people to develop skills and knowledge needed for community integration and employment

Please donate whatever you can afford and help transform a life this Christmas.

What Story is Your Business Telling?

Irecently

had the pleasure of attending an event with a number of other marketing and business professionals, where we each had a five minute slot to talk to an audience about our area of expertise. To my amazement, I watched as one by one each of my fellow professionals stood up and spent the entire five minutes talking about their business, their origins, and why the good people in the audience should want to work with them.

To be perfectly honest with you it was a snore fest, so when it came my turn to take the mic I was surprised to see that everyone was still in their seats and not taking an early lunch! Instead of talking about my business, what we offer our clients, and how we came to be, I spent my five minutes talking about story telling.

There is, in my opinion, a very large section of people who believe that marketing is the same as selling. This could not be further from the truth. I know many great sales people who are terrible marketers, and likewise many great marketing guru’s who couldn’t sell plastic surgery to Joan Rivers!

Marketing is story telling. It could be the story of your product, or the story of your business, but even better it should be the story of what you’re offering your customer. The story of how your product or service will make them feel. Pay close attention the next time you watch an advert for Coca-Cola. You

will see that their adverts are full of smiling, dancing, people who pop open a Coke and subsequently have the time of their life - they are telling the story that great moments happen with Coca-Cola. Now whether or not you like to consume the highly addictive sugar water, you cannot argue that they don’t tell a great story inside a 30 second commercial. This is what you should be considering the next time you talk about how to market your business.

What stories are you telling your potential customers? Is it clear how your product or service will make them feel? Are you telling great stories or are you just trying to sell?

The best salespeople on Earth know that great stories sell, and as such they have become master story tellers themselves. They also know that the fastest way to lose a sale is to make the customer feel that they’re being sold too. It is a difficult skill to master but one that will be made considerably easier if the next time you talk about advertising or marketing you ask yourself “what story is this telling?”

It may have just been my imagination, but when my five minute talk was up the audience looked a lot more awake and the ripple of applause seemed to be slightly louder than previously. Perhaps I had just told a great story.

Dylan & Adrienne Shields: Shaped

November 2022

Exhibitions & Events at Colonnade House

Murmurations / Conversations

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2022

We’re taking part in Worthing Artists Open Houses. Old friends Frankie Cluney and Amanda Beck come together to celebrate creativity through collaboration and conversation.

1 - 5 November 2022

Brian Tew & Deborah Michelson: Capturing Nature in Surface and Form

November - 4 December

Starling murmurations inspires the artists’ paintings, accessories and jewellery.Exhibiting together, Adrienne and Dylan Shields, are mother and son. Shaped. Dylan focuses on sculpture. Adrienne focuses on ceramics and painting, using pattern and texture she invents a world of birds, fish and people.

Liz English: Chinoiserie Chaos

1 - 5 November 2022

Liz English is exhibiting her collection of work ‘Chinoiserie Chaos’. Expect, willow pattern vases overflowing with flowers, painted in acrylic, embellished with collage and embroidery.

Ruth Mulvie x Claire Knill

8 - 20 November 2022

Bringing together the work of two female British artists, Ruth Mulvie and Claire Knill who a preoccupation with colour and light. Claire is hosting a Mindful Mobile Making workshop on the 16th November.

Brian Tew and Deborah Michelson joint exhibition is a natural progression of the shared creative space they have used for the last ten years. Their work compliments and contrasts one another with Deborah’s landscapesinspired by her trip to the Arctic Circle and Brian’s ceramics and sculptures that are mainly unplanned, intuitive and eclectic.

Elizabeth Mienert: Musing and Meandering

November - 4 December

Elizabeth Mienert’s upcoming exhibition brings together a rich body of work, focusing on her watercolour sketches taken directly from her travel sketchbooks. Be transported through the diverse landscapes of Europe and America, this autumn at Colonnade House.

Colonnade House, 47 Warwick Street, Worthing, BN11 3DH. Tuesday - Saturday (+ some Sundays) // 10:00am - 5:00pm, colonnadehouse.co.uk

Broadwater’s Big Day Out Presentation Evening

Big Day Out in July was a resounding success following a break for 2 years with Covid rrstrictions. A huge annual event, attracting 12,000 people, Broadwater’s Big Day Out is a collaboration between Broadwater Carnival Society and Worthing Fire Station. The volunteers work tirelessley through the year, putting on numerous events and raffles, to raise as much money as they can for the chosen charities for each year.

Broadwater’s

On Tuesday 11th October, the proceeds from this year’s event were presented to the charities of 2022. This year, the organisers were surprised and grateful to have raised

over £11,000 for the 2022 charities, despite the long break! The recipients were;

Service Charity £3,000

Gang £1,350

(Worthing Soup Kitchen) £1,350

£1,350

Community Chest £1,350

Arts £1,350

Mothers’ Union £1,350

You can find out more about the fantastic charities and their project on broadwatercarnival.co.uk

Broadwater Green is already booked for 22nd July 2023, so save the date!

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November 2022 by Simien

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Plummet (4)

Family connection (8)

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Wrongdoer; culprit (8)

Have goose bumps (6)

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Hard fat used to make candles, soap etc. (6)

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Food made from roasted ground cacao beans (9)

Make longer (8)

Fritter away; waste (8)

Small oval citrus fruit (7)

To take one’s clothes off (7)

Remaining (4)

Reserved; timid (6)

East Indian plant of the ginger family, commonly used as a spice (8)

Idolise (6)

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Sadly, despite being the UK’s third most popular pet, rabbits are regularly at the top of the list for the most neglected companion animals. Wadars animal rescue in Ferring cares for and rehomes a range of pets, including rabbits and guinea pigs and is appealing for people to think carefully before taking them on.

Wadars Animal Welfare Manager, Shanice Beard said; “Rabbits have long been a pet that parents purchase for young children as a nice introduction in caring for an animal, but in far too many cases, as the children grow up, they lose interest in them, so they become confined to a small hutch with very little human interaction. Last month alone we were asked to take in 19 rabbits.”

Shanice continued; “Rabbits are active and intelligent animals and will suffer if bored, so creating interesting environments to encourage physical and mental stimulation will not only prevent boredom, but also maximise the animal’s ability to cope with the challenges of captivity. Freedom to explore, exercise, forage and interact with

other rabbits is vital to a rabbit’s health and wellbeing.”

Wadars is developing a number of rabbit and guinea pig housing units at its Ferring Centre and is appealing for people to donate items that will give bunnies some positive stimulation and fun! Items such as babies plastic teething rings, plastic stacking cups, plant pots, and tunnels made of plastic or material are all currently needed.

One rabbit currently in the care of Wadars is a six-year-old boy called Flop who was handed over to the Charity. Whilst he is a lone rabbit, he has lived with other bunnies in the past. Wadars is looking for a home for Flop where he can continue being an outdoor rabbit and can live happily with a female rabbit.

Charity urges people to think carefully before buying rabbits for their children.

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