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Vlogging With Cold Urticaria: Another Magazine Article ft. Kittens [CC]
January 26, 2020
Got it! How about we go meet some kittens? [Upbeat intro music] Good morning, it’s your boy! I’m gonna go get a magazine, and also
pet some tiny kittens. So let’s head outside. [door clicks shut] Got it! How about we go
meet some kittens? Hello! I’ve made it back, this is Maggie! Isn’t she so sweet? Yes, yes
she is! And then we have down here, we have Cinnamon! Hello baby! Hi, oh and she’s so
soft. She is sooo soft. And I need to take this off, because in answer to your question
“hey, you have glasses and a vogmask, how do you stop the vog fog?” I don’t. [laughs]
but I will at some point I’m sure. Oh and hearing aid’s out, good, good, good. Great,
we’ll just pop that back in, wonderful, sorry about my fingers. Look at this little face!
Oh she’s so cute. Yes, yes hi, hi the little feet. Aw she’s got a warm face too, I love
it. [meows] Aw! Hi, this is Cinnamon, she’s going to pretend she doesn’t want anything
to do with me because there is a camera on, hello! hi. Can you see yourself? Is that you?
Yeah, yeah? Yeah? And there’s little Maggie. Boom. We have a tiny kitten incoming! Are
you helping? Thank- thank you darling. Look, I’m in it. It me! I’m kind of bored of these
photos by now. This one is Chat magazine, I think you can get it anywhere, I’m not really
sure. The reason I didn’t document the journey of this one- I hate “the journey”, is because
it was just a simple reprint so I don’t get any payment for it, I don’t have to do anything,
they just take the story that they’ve seen and rewrite it for their magazine. And they
take the same pictures apparently, although they did have permission to use any from my
Instagram if they wanted to, they chose not to. OK awesome, my camera died so we’ll just-
it’ll just be a little shakier. But I can move you about. [laughter from behind the
camera] Look at them! I apologise, trying to do anything with cats that are that cute
oh my god, I can’t. They are adorable. That’s me, in the magazine again with some tea. Uh,
this version I have to say is a little better because it’s not- it’s not as dramatically
written, let’s say. Um, and they’ve taken some words out that I really hated in the first
one. It still does kind of dramatise it a little bit, but I suppose you have to, and
then not always entirely accurate because I think something might have changed from
the read through but, it’s interesting I guess. I always- yeah, as I said in one of my other
videos talking about getting the awareness- oi. Get- She likes my selfie stick. Maggie… I apologise if you didn’t come here for kittens, but that’s what you’re getting. I said in
previous videos about getting my story out there, I always find it interesting to see
other people’s interpretations of what I’ve said. Um… UM? Thank you… OK, this is what
we’re doing now. Sorry, video over. Maggie… Maggie… Must you? Must you? [laughter] OK,
off, let me have- I’ve taken the bit off because it always annoyed me anyway. Now we have another
one, hello! Can I help you? Oh she’s so beautiful. They both are, I love them both. Anyway! Yeah,
interesting to see other people’s interpretation of my story and how they choose to write it
because I am very aware that a bit of an itch wouldn’t make for much of an interesting story,
uh, and while people do have these reactions, they’re not necessarily mine, but they’re
not actually too far off this time, and they haven’t marketed it as cold will kill me,
even though it technically probably could, I think they only time it’s ever come close
is when doctors have chosen not to listen to me, let me slurp some tea for that. A sentence
from this that I will read is “But while dad was worried, I was just confused” I think
we were both equal parts confused and worried because I think I was more worried than confused,
and he was more confused than worried but I haven’t checked. “I wasn’t exactly going
to spend my life in front of a fire” and that’s exactly it, that’s what I’m getting at. That’s
the most important sentence in this whole article because I always get- well I don’t
*always* get but I get some criticism about like “stay inside then” “why don’t you have
a jumper on?” like I can’t just stay wrapped up because I can get too hot and I do want
to go outside, and if all I need to do is put on a mask which is a couple of layers
of cotton, pretty patterned cotton, uh then that’s what I’m gonna do. Like I don’t- I
shouldn’t need to take copious amounts of medication and stay inside to make other people
comfortable. It’s just some cotton. and that’s the thing that I always get hung up on because
I don’t understand why it’s such a huge deal because it’s been life changing for me and
yet everybody seems to have the opinion that it should be like a last resort so I don’t
really get it. “In spite of it all” I kinda hate that phrase but whatever. “Now at 23,
my allergy is still very much a part of my life” well of course it is because if I have
to put a mask on pretty much every time I go outside for at least 3 or 4 months of the year,
and then it’s hit or miss for the other however many months, I haven’t had enough caffeine
yet if you couldn’t tell. Um, but yeah it’s always gonna be a part of my life, because
it kind of dictates everything I do. It just makes everything- I don’t let my allergy stop
me from doing anything, but it does dictate how I do the thing. “It’s taken time, but
I’ve learnt to accept my allergy, I’ll just never be an ice queen” It has taken time but
I’m not sure it’s time to accept my allergy, it’s just time to learn about it and start
advocating for myself and spreading awareness so everyone else understands and learning
to wear a mask and try all these different things to see how I can manage it better,
rather than just take my antihistamine and if I still react anyway then so be it. Well
if you want the best um, information on Cold Urticaria and how it’s affecting my life,
the best way to do that is to subscribe to my channel if you haven’t already, because
I’m telling it my way rather than having somebody else do it for me, and I’m going to play with
these kittens a little bit more. Also, if you have some sort of condition that you’re
raising awareness of and you want to get in the magazines too, honestly just write to
them because that’s kind of what they’re for. Uh, I haven’t been doing that, they have been
reaching out to me based on about a year ago when I made a Facebook post in a group, journalist
saw it, put me in the BBC, then other people saw it, agency saw it and was like “we want
that story” and they’ve just been pitching it to people ever since, but you can reach
out to people, um, all of these magazines have a note saying “Hey, do you have a story
that you want” or like “Do you have an interesting story?” and they will at least hear you out
so that is a good shout, but also online awareness is good, and Facebook groups are awesome um,
and reaching out to your local community because you never know who is a part of that community.
Don’t forget to like this video if you haven’t already, uh drop a comment down below if you
have any thoughts on me being in yet another magazine article to spread awareness. It’s
the only reason I’m doing this. Uh, subscribe to my channel if you haven’t already and ring
that notification bell so you get notified every single time I post a new video. Videos
go up every Saturday at 6pm UK time with at least one bonus video every single month.
Now onto kittens. Oh nooo! If you’re thinking “Max, help her” she has probably got it covered
way more than I do because she has tiny paws. I, in the grand scheme of things, do not.
>>Meg: The first question is, how cold is
too cold for my dog to be outside? Okay. There’s no stock, standard, really good
answer for this question. There’s just a huge difference between dogs. Big dogs do much better than little dogs. Long, thick haircoats obviously do better
than dogs with really short little haircoats. There’s
just a lot of variation. The rule of thumb is: If you’re cold, your
dog is probably freezing. That’s it. What else you got?>>Meg: “Why didn’t you become a real doctor.” [Music]
NEFFEX – Cold in the Water [Lyrics] | JulyNice Music 2019
I’m William D. Phillips, Bill Phillips. I won the Nobel Prize in 1997 – Nobel Prize in Physics – and I make gases of atoms really, really cold. Time is one of the most important things we measure in modern life, not to find our way to appointments but to navigate through the Global Positioning System, for high-speed synchronised communication, we need really precise timing. And the best kinds of clocks for doing that timing are atomic clocks. So, every clock has some sort of a ticker: a grandfather clock has a pendulum that swings back and forth; a quartz watch has a vibrating quartz crystal. The best tickers are atoms and the reason they’re the best tickers are that the ticking frequency is very little affected by outside influences and the other key thing is that all atoms of the same kind tick at exactly the same rate. Whereas every pendulum is a little different, every quartz crystal is a little different, every atom is absolutely identical. Now, the trouble with atomic clocks is the atoms are moving really fast. So what we did was learn how to use laser light to push on the atoms in such a way as to make them slow down. And when they’re really slow, then you can measure their ticking frequencies better. And we got down to temperatures, using laser cooling, below one millionth of a degree above absolute zero. At room temperature we’re at about three hundred degrees above absolute zero and the coldest natural temperature in the universe – the black body radiation left over from The Big Bang – is about three degrees above absolute zero. We’re going to less than a millionth of a degree above absolute zero and the atoms are moving at less than a centimetre per second. With that, you can make incredibly good atomic clocks. So, by using laser cooling we’ve been able to revolutionise time keeping. We all want to make sure that our food is safe but doing that can be really hard. Looking for contaminants in raw materials is tough. The statistics are stacked against us. Today, we can only test for pathogens individually: one sample at a time. And that means hundreds if not thousands of tests, most of which deliver a simple negative result. We needed to think about this differently. That’s why Mars and IBM joined forces: to sequence the genomes of all the organisms in the food supply chain. That’s millions of organisms. But big data is what IBM is good at. The DNA and RNA sequences show you all the harmless bacteria that are found in normal, safe food. If we do the test and the microorganisms are suddenly different, something’s up. The organisms have changed because the environment has changed. It could be contaminated. And not only that, this tells us things that we never could have seen before, like where the food was grown, how it was transported and maybe even what happened en route. Our approach to food safety just got a lot smarter.
– Hey, Natural Method YouTube. Is your cough scaring away your friends? Does it feel like you
have a medieval plague? If you have a chesty cough, you’re not alone our
friend, Leigh has asked for a natural method for this. Imagine how relaxed you
will feel once it’s gone. Let’s get started, both
palms on your chest and massage it downward
one, two, three, four. Massage as strong as you can don’t worry. Three, four, five with your fingers and tap onto your chest
in the clockwise position. One, two, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five. Both hand in the fist
position and pat on your chest in a clockwise position one, two, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five. With your fingers and thumb,
massage your throat downward. One, two, three, four. If you’re doing correctly, you will feel the tension in your throat. Four five, right fingers and thumb. One, two, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five. Left fingers onto your throat
and push it in and out. One, two, three, four,
push your fingers in enough and follow the same pace. Right finger, one, two, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five. Left figure push it in and
cough out one, (coughing loudly) two, (coughing loudly)
three, (coughing loudly) four, (coughing loudly). Cough as loud as you can. Two, (coughing loudly)
three, (coughing loudly) four, (coughing loudly)
five, (coughing loudly). Right finger, into your
throat one, (coughing loudly) two, (coughing loudly)
three, (coughing loudly) four, (coughing loudly)
five, (coughing loudly). One, (coughing loudly)
two, (coughing loudly) three, (coughing loudly)
four, (coughing loudly) five, (coughing loudly). Both palm on your chest and massage up and down, one, two, three. You will feel the heat from the friction if you are massaging with
the correct strength. Stop, hold it for five seconds
one, two, three, four, five and drop your hands down. I have now a bucket, I want you
to cough out all your phlegm and mucus in your lungs ready? One, (coughing loudly)
two, (coughing loudly) three, (coughing loudly)
four, (coughing loudly) five, (coughing loudly)
one, (coughing loudly) two, (coughing loudly)
three, (coughing loudly) four, (coughing loudly) five,
(coughing loudly) (spitting) That was good, place
your hand on your palm, breathe into your nose,
(breathing loudly) and breathe out through your mouth (breathing loudly) two, (breathing loudly). Focus only on your breathing
(breathing loudly). Five, (breathing loudly) hold it for five second
one, two, three, four, five drop your hands down. I have now a hot water
bottle and I’ll place on top of my chest for 20 minutes.
– Here in New England, where we call home, we get a lot of snow and ice
and very cold temperatures. So we have to become
creative, over the years, about how do we go outside
and ride our bikes. There’s fat bikes, there’s
cross-country skiing, there’s all kinds of
things to stay in shape, but we love riding our regular bikes. So we’re at our gravel
bikes with big tires. We get out there in the
snow and in the ice. So today’s video, going
to tell you guys some tips on what I do in case we
get into some trouble, and what I do just to stay warm
while I’m out training here in this nasty cold weather. (logo slams)
(logo whooshing) (gentle upbeat music) The only thing that I like
to change on my gravel setup from when I’m out riding regularly to when I’m out riding in the winter is I’d usually take the
tire pressure way down. We see a lot of snow, pack down snow, ice, sometimes ice gravel mixtures, and basically the only thing
that I can really recommend is either studded tires or
really, really low pressure. I typically ride really low pressure. It also slows you down. You don’t want to be going super fast like you where riding a road bike, that’s not the thing that you
want to do in the winter time because it’s so cold. You want to to bring that speed down, you want to to bring that core
temperature, nice regulated. I’m going to show you guys some ways that I like to do that out on the road. One of the things that we
encounter a lot about here is ice. It’s slippery and it will
send you all over the place. That’s what I was saying I always bring my tire pressure super low to get that big contact
patch on the ground. When I’m climbing on ice it’s
not as much of a fear of mine of falling over because
I’ve got my weight far back, I’ve got that low tire pressure and I’m able to get
traction and get up stuff. It’s when I’m going down hill on ice that I’m mostly sketched out. I want to to be really careful. This would be a time if you’re going to do a lot of riding in the ice that I would recommend
having studded tires because that’s going to give you
the most amount of confidence in tread when you’re out on
nasty slippery conditions. The only thing I can recommend is if you’re going to be
going downhill, go slow. If you do fall it will definitely minimize any injury that you get and then get your weight really far back and get a nice low center of gravity with your hands on the controls. You don’t want to be
grabbing a lot of brake because that will slide you out. Just stay nice, in control, constant modulation on the brakes, keep your weight nice and
far back and your head up. (gentle upbeat music) So two things that I like to do when I’m out riding in the cold weather, you’ve got your big tires
on, got your studs, whatever, you’re going nice and slow. On the climbs though it’s real convenient to regulate your body temperature by just unzipping your jacket, that last layer, as big as you can and then I like pulling off my gloves. You don’t even really
have to take your hands completely off the bars,
you just want to make sure that you’re able to
regulate that body temp. You don’t want to get
everything all clammy and nasty, over sweating them. It’s all about body temperature regulation in the cold stuff. So I usually just tuck my gloves right under my jersey
there, under that thermal, leave those there. (gentle upbeat music) (sighs) And at the top of the big climb, if your skilled you can do
bit while you’re riding. But if you’re just getting
into cycling, just stop, zip your jacket up,
put your gloves back on and continue on. So even though you’re not going
super hard when you’re out on these cold gravel rides, and you’re definitely not going very fast, just like hydration you
want to to make sure that you’re eating something because got to eat the
same way that you would any other time. Even though you’re cold and things aren’t going as
fast as they normally do having a bar, some gels,
banana, peanut butter and jelly, all that stuff applies
even when it’s cold out. (gentle upbeat music) One of the things that
happens a lot of times when you’re riding out
in the cold weather, you forget to drink water. And one of other really
bad things that happens when you’re out in the cold, is that your water bottles freeze. So there’s two ways to mitigate that. One, you can take this, you can stick it underneath your jacket, put it on your back to
stay nice and warm there so that it doesn’t freeze. And, two, you can get up
set of insulated bottles, put some warm water in them
with some tea or some honey, something like that, so
you’ve got some warm fluids, so you constantly drinking. I’d say keep it a little sweet,
maybe some pineapple juice, or some honey and tea. That way you’re constantly
wanting to drink. The biggest thing about
riding in the winter is that you still sweat a
lot, you’re just mitigating it through doing these different techniques. So you don’t get super cold from the evaporation of
the water on your skin, getting cold with the cold air. So definitely think about
hydration and nutrition when you’re out riding in the cold, even though you’re going slower it doesn’t mean that you’re not sweating. (gentle upbeat music) And I’ve got a couple of things
that I always bring with me in case of an emergency. The first thing is what I
like to call this little pack. This packs got pretty much
everything you could want in it. It’s got a neck gaiter, so
that I can put that over, keep all this nice and
warm and my vocal cords. I’ve got my pump that I tuck in there and I kind of wrap in there nice and neat. So that stays in there. Then when I open this up,
this is a thermal vest that I throw right over on the top. I’ve got these charcoal hand warmers, they’re activated by air. And I put these in my gloves and I’ll put these in the front of my toes and I’ll show you guys that
in a second, how I do that. That adds a lot of warmth
right back into the system. So always keep those in emergency. Then I have what I like to
call, the bank robber mask. This really, if it starts to sleet or snow or I get some precip,
that is really essential. Keeps your face super
warm and adds a lot of warmth back into your body. And then a second pair of gloves. If I sweat too much and I’ve
not been able to mitigate it then at that point I’ve just say, okay, I’m going to use my second pair of gloves and that’s going to allow me
to keep my hands nice and warm because sometimes once the
gloves get sweat in them, it’s over you got to put
them in your back pocket, dry ’em and use them another day. (gentle upbeat music) One of the tips that I really like to do is I like to wear to shoe covers. One, one of these cotton
under, kind of right over, just a nice cover that
you typically would wear in the spring or in the summer when it starts to get a little cooler. Then I take one of these
charcoal packets that we got, I put it on top, I lay it over my toes. Sometimes I’ll even put it
right in the shoe there, but then I just put
this right over the top and that gives me a lot of
warmth right in the toes because getting that blood
flow down to those little areas is not easy and especially
when it’s cold out. But I wear two for a couple of reasons. One, I feel like that layer sucks up a little bit of the sweat
that goes on in your foot and down in that area, and,
two, it breaks off the wind. So when the winds coming and
hitting the front of your feet having just that extra layer
there adds a bit of relief, I would say, from the wind and also it gives you a
little bit more protection. You put the cold pack in there. Primo. (sighs) (gentle upbeat music) So those are my favorite tips
on how to get out in the cold, in New England, and
look like a bank robber. All jokes aside though, I have to say, my bank robber mask doesn’t
come out very often, but when it does it is a
beautiful day of riding and it’s super cold
and I’m always so happy that I was able to get out there. It’s a nice time to ride when the roads are all covered in snow and you’re out there
with your low pressure and going nice and slow. You’re not even that
far away from the house, but getting in nice hours
out there on the bike. Most people are skiing
and doing their thing, but you’re out there
enjoying some gravel riding and staying warm at the same time. If you guys enjoyed this video definitely give it a thumbs up. Leave us a comment below,
let me know what you wear. What’s your go-to items when
you’re out there in the cold and nasty stuff if you’re
from a cold climate? I’d love to know what your coldest ride is and what your go-tos are. If you guys want to see
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