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This is an assembled system designed and built using Tibbo Project System components. It contains an Ethernet port, two opto-isolated inputs, four open-collector outputs, two relays and a four-wire RS232 serial port so you can experiment. A 5V regulator module allows for 12V power input.
The programmable system will come completely assembled in an enclosure that has a 320 × 240 resolution 3.5-inch TFT LCD and four buttons on top, and a DIN rail mounting bracket on the bottom. The system will look similar to this (but with a DB9M interface and a nine-terminal block connector along the bottom, orange part):
High-level objects simplify your code and allow you to create a data-transport application with just a few lines of code:
View the TIDE, TiOS, Tibbo BASIC and Tibbo C Online Manual.
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View a video of the Serial-over-IP application showing WiFi support.
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(Not recommended) Vectorized quadrature
quadv is not recommended. Use
integral with the
'ArrayValued' option
Q = quadv(fun,a,b)
Q = quadv(fun,a,b,tol)
Q = quadv(fun,a,b,tol,trace)
[Q,fcnt] = quadv(...)
Q = quadv(fun,a,b) approximates the integral of the complex
array-valued function
fun from
a to
b to within an error of
1.e-6 using recursive
adaptive Simpson quadrature.
fun is a function handle. The function
Y = fun(x) should accept a scalar argument
x and return an array result
Y, whose
components are the integrands evaluated at
x. Limits
a and
b must be finite.
Parameterizing Functions explains how to
provide addition parameters to the function
fun, if necessary.
Q = quadv(fun,a,b,tol) uses the absolute error tolerance
tol for all the integrals instead of the default, which is
The same tolerance is used for all components, so the results obtained with
quadv are usually not the same as those obtained with
quad on the individual components.
Q = quadv(fun,a,b,tol,trace) with non-zero
trace shows the values of
[fcnt a b-a
Q(1)] during the recursion.
[Q,fcnt] = quadv(...) returns the number of function
The list below contains information to help you determine which quadrature function in MATLAB® to use:
quad function might be most efficient for low
accuracies with nonsmooth integrands.
quadl function might be more efficient than
quad at higher accuracies with smooth
quadgk function might be most efficient for high
accuracies and oscillatory integrands. It supports infinite intervals and can
handle moderate singularities at the endpoints. It also supports contour
integration along piecewise linear paths.
quadv function vectorizes
for an array-valued
If the interval is infinite, , then for the integral of
fun(x) to exist,
fun(x) must decay as
x approaches
infinity, and
quadgk requires it to decay rapidly. Special
methods should be used for oscillatory functions on infinite intervals, but
quadgk can be used if
fun(x) decays
fast enough.
quadgk function will integrate functions that are
singular at finite endpoints if the singularities are not too strong. For
example, it will integrate functions that behave at an endpoint
c like
log|x-c| or
|x-c|p for
>= -1/2. If the function is singular at points inside
(a,b), write the integral as a sum of integrals over
subintervals with the singular points as endpoints, compute them with
quadgk, and add the results.
For the parameterized array-valued function
myarrayfun, defined
function Y = myarrayfun(x,n) Y = 1./((1:n)+x);
the following command integrates
myarrayfun, for the parameter
value n = 10 between a = 0 and b = 1:
Qv = quadv(@(x)myarrayfun(x,10),0,1);
The resulting array
Qv has 10 elements estimating
Q(k) =
log((k+1)./(k)), for
k = 1:10.
The entries in
Qv are slightly different than if you compute the
integrals using
quad in a loop:
for k = 1:10 Qs(k) = quadv(@(x)myscalarfun(x,k),0,1); end
myscalarfun is:
function y = myscalarfun(x,k) y = 1./(k+x);
dblquad |
integral |
integral2 |
integral3 |
quad |
quad2d |
quadgk |
quadl |


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RTC Blogpoll – Summer 2009 EditionPosted by zhayes9 on July 28th, 2009
I'm proud to re-introduce a feature here at Rush the Court – the RTC Blogpoll.
From November through March during the college hoops season, check back here every Monday for the rankings of our four main scribes- myself, rtmsf, nvr1983 and jstevrtc- combined into one, fantastic Top 25 ranking. Take that, AP and coaches! The aggegrate of our own internal poll will constitute what we submit to the larger national Blogpoll each week.
To get our loyal readers into hoops mode even for a few minutes during the long offseason, here's a summer edition of the rankings with commentary provided by yours truly regarding each ranked team. Look for this feature on a weekly basis during the 2009-10 campaign (which, as I concluded while compiling this poll, cannot come soon enough).


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Dealing with Circular References in Excel 2010 Formulas
A circular reference occurs when a cell in an Excel 2010 worksheet refers to itself, whether directly or indirectly. For example, if =100+A2 is entered into cell A2, then a direct circular reference has been created. An indirect circular reference is when the formula in a given cell refers to one or more other cells that in return refer back to the original cell. For example a formula in A1 refers to cell A2, A2 refers to A3, and A3 refers back to A1.
When Excel encounters a circular reference in a worksheet, a Circular Reference Warning displays in a dialog box. You have two options in this dialog box:
Click OK to accept the formula as is.
Click Help to access the Help system Circular Reference topic.
If Automatic Calculation is turned off, then a circular reference is unnoticed until a manual recalculation is done (by pressing F9) or the setting is changed to Automatic calculation. You can change these settings via the Calculation Options button on the Formulas tab.
Additional calculation options can be set in the Formulas section of the Excel Options dialog box (click the File tab and select Options). Note that the Enable Iterative Calculation check box is here as well. When this is selected, circular references are allowed. How they calculate values in this case is dependent on the Maximum Iterations and Maximum Change settings.
Excel 2010 offers another approach to hunting down circular references. Click the arrow beside the Error Checking button in the Formula Auditing group on the Formulas tab and point to the Circular References option. The resulting menu displays the location of all circular references in the active worksheet. Clicking on one of the listed cells will take you to the cell with the circular reference. This allows you to get to them easily instead of having to review all your formulas.


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Tony Shaver wanted things to turn out differently.
With his William and Mary basketball team missing four seniors from the squad won 22 games, third-most in school history, last season, the Tribe coach still harbored hope that his program's recent success - two Colonial Athletic Association tournament championship game appearances in the past three years, just the school's second-ever postseason appearance in last year's NIT - would continue.
"I was really hopeful that we would stay in the top half of this league," Shaver said. "Obviously, we weren't able to do that, (but) we weren't that far from it."
A night after upsetting sixth-seeded James Madison in the first round of the CAA tournament, the 11th-seeded Tribe (10-22) fell 72-56 to No. 3 seed Hofstra on Saturday. Conference player of the year Charles Jenkins had 15 of his 20 points in the second half and the Pride broke its own tournament record with just two turnovers while forcing 15.
Hofstra (21-10) will play second-seeded Old Dominion in Sunday's 2:30 p.m. semifinal. No. 1 seed George Mason plays fourth-seeded VCU at noon.
"I thought we played a solid first 20 minutes, and the last 15 minutes really got away from us," said Shaver, whose team led 27-25 at halftime but suffered a disastrous scoreless stretch of almost five minutes starting at the 10:15 mark of the second half. "Their veteran leadership showed in the last 20 minutes, and maybe our youth did, as well."
William and Mary junior guard Quinn McDowell, coming off a career-high and CAA single-game scoring record 35 points, was held to just six and went 0-for-3 in the second half.
"We can't use tired as an excuse," Shaver said. "They really paid special attention to him. Everywhere he went, there was a shadow on him."
McDowell hit a 3-pointer to open the game, but would hit just one more - a high-arcing shot that bounced in - with 4:10 left in the first half.
"Going into the game, we were going to try to make somebody else beat us," Hofstra coach Mo Cassara said. "Great coach that I am, he made the first shot, (but) once the game got going, we kept the ball out of his hands."
The game was tied at 32 early in the second half before Jenkins' spinning bucket in the lane gave Hofstra a 34-32 lead it would not relinquish. The advantage steadily grew - to seven on Jenkins' layin with 13:25 to play, to nine on his free throws with 11:51 left, and to 11 on his 3-pointer with 10 minutes to go.
Jenkins, who led the CAA and ranked fourth nationally with 23.2 points per game and also averaged a league-best 4.8 assists, had just five points on 2-of-7 shooting in the first half and finished 5-of-15 from the floor. Nine of his points came from the free-throw line, where Hofstra was 19-of-22. William and Mary made the seven foul shots it attempted, including two by reserve guard Doug Howard with 28.4 seconds to play.
"He just puts his head down, and he's so strong," Shaver said. "He's got an NBA body, and when he gets every call as he did tonight, he's going to go to the foul line all night."
The Tribe didn't score from Marcus Kitts' double team-splitting bucket with 10:15 left until freshman guard Julian Boatner's 3-pointer with 5:40 to play.
Kitts, the Tribe's lone senior who was William and Mary's only player in double digits with 10 points, exited the game with 2:10 to play to a hug from Shaver.
"It's certainly not the way I wanted it to end, but I really enjoyed my time here," said Kitts, who hit two free throws with 2.7 seconds left in the first half to give the Tribe the lead at the break.
McDowell, a third-team all CAA selection after averaging 15.2 points per game despite battling a left knee injury the last month of the season, returns next season for the Tribe, as does all-rookie team guard Brandon Britt, who averaged 11 points.
"Great teams are consistent for 40 minutes, and we weren't consistent for 40 minutes, night in and night out," Shaver said. "Part of that's youth, but not all of it. We weren't as good defensively this year as we wanted to be. That's been a real staple of our program."


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You may have encountered a warning similar to the following when browsing web sites with IE7:
This website wants to run the following add-on: 'MSXML 5.0' from 'Microsoft Corporation'. If you trust this website and the add-on and want to allow it to run, click here…
The same warning may appear for some other common add-ons:
- This website wants to run the following add-on: 'QuickTime' from 'Apple Computer, Inc.'.
- This website wants to run the following add-on: 'Windows Media 6.4 Player Shim' from 'Microsoft Corporation'
- This website wants to run the following add-on: 'Windows Media Player Core' from 'Microsoft Corporation'
- This website wants to run the following add-on: 'Windows Media Player Extension' from 'Microsoft Corporation'
If you are seeing any of these warnings, you probably wonder if it is safe to allow the control to run. And if you are a web developer, you probably wonder why your web page is triggering this warning.
Why the Warning?
This warning occurs whenever a web page attempts to execute code on your machine that has not been used previously and is not on the local pre-approved list. This is usually caused by the website trying to use older code. Web Developers often copy-and-paste samples to do things like statistics tracking and media player detection. Some samples that are several years old were written to use old versions of the controls. If the web page is written to look for the most recent versions of QuickTime or Media Player, no warning is shown. You can see which controls are pre-approved on your machine by looking in Tools>Manage Add-ons>Enable or Disable Add-ons.
It's important to note that the "Run" approval in the Information Bar is different from "Install" approval. "Run" is for code already on your PC. "Install" is for new code that the website would like you to download and install. As has been our guidance for many years, you should only install code from websites and vendors that you trust. IE7 provides a series of dialogs with information to help make this trust decision.
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How would you react if you found a notice on your smartphone that an update to its software was available, and after you accepted it, the interface looked completely different? If you didn't know this was coming, would you be shocked, maybe even upset?
That's a very real possibility with the upcoming overhaul to Apple's mobile operating system. iOS 7 will have a different interface, along with a slew of new features and tweaked ways of doing things. While techies and Apple fans know this is coming, a huge number of folks who own iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches and who do not obsessively track geek news are going to be taken by surprise.
Even if Apple accompanies the on-phone iOS update notification with detailed warnings that iOS 7 is more than just a software tweak, the clueless are likely to be freaked out. As a result, Apple has started training its support staff to handle what I'll call iOSTSD (iOS Traumatic Stress Disorder).
Apple has started training its AppleCare technical support staff on the changes and feature-set of iOS 7, according to multiple AppleCare employees. These people say that training began today, and AppleCare employees are required to complete the iOS 7 training by the second week of September.
The second week of September is around the date that Apple will be holding its iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, and iOS 7 media event, so it would make sense that Apple would want its support staff to be ready for questions about the new software. We do not believe that because AppleCare will be ready to support iOS 7 around September 10th, iOS 7 will actually be released to the public on or in the few days surrounding the event date. More likely, Apple expects questions about iOS 7 since it will be fully announced and demonstrated on that date. Apple typically releases major iOS updates the week following its formal announcement.
Apple will be doubling up on support staff, according to this article, training OS X techs to handle calls related to iOS 7 and having part-timers work full-time during the transition. Apple Retail stores also will have programs devoted to explaining the changes to iOS users in hopes of easing iOSTSD.
It's also likely that many users who are aware of the changes will resist an upgrade initially. It doesn't take much for the I-don't-like-change crowd to put up a wall. I know people who still won't upgrade to iOS 6 because they'll lose the old Google-based Apple Maps (even though the much-improved Google Maps has long been available for free). iOS 7 will have these folks hunkering down, big-time.
If you're an iOS user, do you plan to jump on the upgrade? Or will you hold off and wait? Let us know in the comments.


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Standing in a courtyard by the state Capitol, Sen. Judith Zaffirini reached out to touch the Mental Health Bell, forged in the 1950s from chains once used to shackle asylum patients, brought to Texas this year on display as a 300-pound symbol of hope.
"It is happening," said the senator, a Laredo Democrat who worked for the state's mental health agency before her election in 1987. Reflecting on a career's worth of struggles, she added, "There are more people who are interested. There are more senators who understand."
Prompted by the attacks of deranged gunmen on a schoolhouse in Connecticut and a movie theater in Colorado, state lawmakers are rushing to plug holes in the system. As an unspoken subtext -- and sometimes a spoken one -- their proposals seek to prevent the next major tragedy. So far, the Senate's two-year budget proposal contains about $226 million in new funds for treatment, prevention and education. Billions more could eventually come from an experimental federal program.
The latest news from around North Texas.
But while advocates for the mentally ill roundly cheer their gains, it is becoming clear the money will go only so far. Lawmakers are scrambling to repair a patchwork system spread among community centers, state agencies and all levels of the criminal justice system.
According to the most recent figures available from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the state spent $38.99 per Texan in 2010, compared to a national average of $120.56. Texas ranked 49th, ahead of Idaho. Divided by a state population of 26 million, the new funding amounts to $4.34 per person per year. In back-of-the-envelope terms, that increase would move the state ahead of Florida and Arkansas, to rank 47th.
The biggest new provision, $57.2 million, would eliminate waiting lists at the state's 39 community health care centers. According to the Department of State Health Services, 6,242 adults and 286 children have been placed in line for treatment. In seven counties around Dallas, where services are apportioned without waiting lists by a program called NorthSTAR, the budget proposal includes $17 million for patients receiving only limited services.
Still, the waiting lists include only people who have actively sought help. And while the budget proposal also would provide $4 million for a publicity campaign, analysts say the expanded services would still leave out broad segments of the mentally troubled.
"What it doesn't include is folks outside the priority population of schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder," said Colleen Horton, a policy expert at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. "You can have people who suffer from significant anxiety, people who have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)."
The budget proposal would also provide $30 million for crisis services, $30 million for substance abuse treatment and $23 million in rental assistance for mentally ill people struggling to avoid homelessness.
"That's a good start," said Ana Yanez-Correa, executive director of the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, a civil rights advocacy group. "It's not just about waiting lists. It's about prevention. It's about early detection of individuals who could become a threat later on."
To that end, lawmakers are advancing modest policy changes. Sen. Charles Schwertner, a R-Georgetown, has secured a hearing for a bill that would train schoolteachers to recognize the signs of a developing mental illness. Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, has steered a bill through the committee process to help minors gain access to outpatient services.
By the estimate of the National Sheriffs' Association, Texans suffering from serious mental illness are nearly eight times more likely to end up in prison than in a hospital. But measures to address the state's most notorious mental health problem have met some resistance.
Last week, House Public Health Committee Chair Lois Kolkhurst, R-Brenham, opened a hearing on mental illness by warning, "Not every bill that is laid out before this committee will pass, obviously, or even be voted on."
The schedule included bills to address court-ordered therapy, the allocation of beds in psychiatric hospitals and mental health programs in the public schools. Ruth Jones McClendon, D-San Antonio, proposed a $176 million measure that would require the state to provide crisis services for patients in acute danger of severe mental illness.
"We cannot keep treating people with mental illness in our criminal justice system," McClendon said. "It's not just expensive and ineffective. It's wrong. It's just plain wrong."
After her presentation, Kolkhurst noted the price tag, saying, "OK, Ruthie, cardiac arrest on the fiscal note for me. Heart attack."
Treatment advocates spoke of the need for the proposal, citing population growth and historically low funding for crisis services. Then Limestone County Sheriff Dennis Wilson recounted the case of a mentally disturbed inmate incarcerated for 816 days at cost of more than $40,000, including medications.
"He is very dangerous," Wilson said. "This young man right here will kill somebody one day, I promise you."
Kolkhurst asked, ""What do you do for that individual but also trying to protect society?"
In jail, the sheriff said, mentally disturbed inmates have to be kept separate from the general population for safety reasons. "And," he added, "that's when we normally see them deteriorate more rapidly as far as what their mental health issues are."
The committee left the proposal as pending business.
Out in the courtyard later that day, Zaffirini tolled the bell once, then twice.
"Imagine how far we've come," she said.


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Must we have an opinion about EVERYTHING?
There are mild rumblings in the blogosphere about "the church's position" on Don't Ask, Don't Tell. One blogger at the Examiner quotes Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the archbishop for the U.S. military, favorably when Broglio questioned a federal judge's ruling striking down DADT. The blogger (Kevin Whiteman) then goes on to point out that, despite DC's Cardinal Donald Wuerl statement to the contrary, the church does have an official position on DADT, quoting a 1992 letter of Cardinal Ratzinger about situations in which sexual orientation may be taken into account that qualify as "just" discrimination, in which he included military recruitment.
Not sure that really qualifies as the "church's position." Why on earth would the church take a position on DADT anyway? Do we really have to have a position on everything? I'm with Wuerl on this one. And, seriously, if the hierarchy has to take an official position on everything related to homosexuality, people are going to start to think we have issues. (Wait, that horse may be out of the barn.) But I hardly think that any part of the deposit of faith bears any relevance to DADT. Then again, I guess there are a lot of soldiers in the gospel of Luke, Scripture is slient on whether or not they are gay, though. Leave that one to the scholars...
Of course, my question is why the military gets an archdiocese and an archbishop at all. Seems like overkill, that's all.


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If you are getting worse everytime you get a sting your heading down a road with a bad end. Me personally I carry a eppy pen unless I am at home.Get out while your ahead.
If you are getting worse everytime you get a sting your heading down a road with a bad end. Me personally I carry a eppy pen unless I am at home.Get out while your ahead.
Help - I need advice also. I was working with my hives about 2 months ago and was stung by bees 3 times on my thumb. I removed the stingers, but the area swelled quite a bit. Fro the joint to the tip became numb. I figured it would go away once the swelling went down. It has been 2 months since the incident and the tip of the thumb is still numb. I believe there may be nerve end damage but am quite surprised at this - has anyone else experienced this and does anyone know what can be done to bring back the feeling in my thumb?
if you show up in the ER with the beginnings of anaphylactic shock, they are required to treat you.
I notice I react differently to stings depending on what the major pollen source seems to be at the moment. But the doc says I'm crazy. I may be, but I might also be correct!
Be careful!
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Than within 3 days your feelings should be normal.
Good luck !
Let me know if helped.
Thanks - I'll try this and see what happens. I'm up for trying anything!
Tedw200 - I soaked the thumb as you said and sure enough found another stinger - one I didn't even know I had gotten. It has been out now for 2 days and thumb seems to be getting some feeling back. I think it may have worked! I'm heading out for vacation for a couple of weeks so will not have internet service but wanted to let you know I think your theory was right.
I'm going to second what bobber128 had to say. See an Allergist!!!!! I had been a beekeeper for a few years with no reaction to bees stings. Until one day when I got stung and ended up with slightly swollen tongue, throat, and lips. Allergist determined I had developed an allergy to honeybees, and told me that there was a good chance my next reaction would be even worse. I've been going through a series of "desensitizing" allergy shots, and it works! I got stung the other day with no ill effect. It's well worth it to be able to have my bees without worrying about it.
I have 5 hives, had 4 then got a fifth nuc. when I had just the 4 hives I'd get stung and no reaction, but after getting the fifth nuc I've had 'reactions' twice, from the new hive, so I think the bees particular genetics may make a difference in the potency of the venom.
My system may have been preloaded with venom already though since I'd been stung the week before...
All the symptoms you described but also with a short cough, like I was out of breath but not.
This is what I would do, I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice. I would find an allergist who really understands bee sting allergies (some do not). They will give you a treatment regimen to desensitize you to bee stings. I would do this regardless of what else you do. The world is full of bees (fortunately for all of us) The advice of a GP will most likely be simply for you to give up beekeeping, which will not deal with your allergy at all. Once you've been desensitized I would be sure to get stung regularly to keep that going.
It is possible your next reaction will be less. It is possible your next reaction will be worse. You should be prepared for both possibilities.
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I got stung today on the side of my head. I've ben stung before with no more of a reaction than a mosquito bite. Today was hives on my upper body especially my hands, neck, back, and armpits. My hands and feet itched as well. My wife gave me 20mg of her pred and a zertec but when she saw the hives under my arms she calmly said , "lets go get some real medicine", and took me to the ER. This is my second year beekeeping and there isn't any way I'm giving this hobby up. If I die from working with bees I'll die happy....I think...seriously though, I'm going to ask my doc about desensitizing therapy. I have no insurance but I heard it's cheaper than a funeral.
Honestly and seriously you should have gone to the ER. I got stung on my upper lip and the venom reached my sinus. I had a reaction with just about everything you mention but far faster and far more sever. I was almost blacking out at times. That was year ago. As it turns out it was caused by the sting location and the venom reaching my sinuses. In your case it could have been some gland the venom reached. Not necessarily and indication you have in fact developed an allergy. If it does happen again, please take yourself to the ER. the situation can get worse very quickly and there is some magic they can perform that lets you walk out of the hospital a couple hours alter without so much as swelling at the sight of the sting.
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I still don't take a chance though. I carry my sting kit everywhere I go.
I have had allergies all of my life, even back in the days when there was no allergy medicine available, unless you considered ALLEREST allergy medicine. I never got any reprieve from yard duty. i would mow the lawn and after i finished my eyes and throat would be swollen and I would be sneezing and coughing for hours. Just part of growing up. So far, i have never had any reaction to any kind of insect sting, including honeybees. However, on a related subject to the previous posters, I have long suspected that during peak allergy seasons, certain types of food would set me off, like watermelon, cantelope, bananas, and a few others. Other times of the year, those same foods would have no effect on my allergies. Coulkd this also apply to bee stings?
I'm curious about the location of the sting as well, and assuming that we are all different of course. I've been stung 5 times since I got my bees. Never thought myself to be allergic as I have been stung by all sorts of stinging critters growing up, from honeybees to yellow jackets. None every required any medical attention. Of my 5 stings as of late, 2 on the face, three on the hands/wrists. I'd think the face to be more sensitive and dangerous than the hands, but I appear to be opposite. Just to clarify, the first time I was not wearing a veil. I learned my lesson quickly as a bee attempted to crawl up my nose and stung my upper lip. No swelling, no itching. Just watery eyes and nose for a few minutes. Now I wear my veil, but it is a POS, and Sunday a bee managed to actually sting me on the nose, through my veil. Again, no swelling/itching, minor pain only when I messed with it. Also on Sunday I got stung on my wrist. Swelled to about half the underside of my forearm, although swelling can also be seen from above. Red and itchy. Sore until noon, but no constriction of movement. A week ago I took a sting to my knuckle and for 24 hours after my finger was so swollen I couldn't make a fist (without pain) and I had pain up into my hand.
So far pretty much all the symptoms are gone within 48 hours, so I don't think I am dangerously allergic. But a better suit, and an epi-pen are in store before any major hive work is done. But back to the point, has anyone else experience heightened reactions in unexpected areas?
After 20 months I'm over a 20 hives and growing. See my videos! http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8fVrmUsyYlRuASdX6UQk1g
Just as predicted, this morning essentially all the swelling in my wrist is gone, and only a very mild itch (only if I scratch at it) and a slight tenderness if a squeeze on my arm. So I guess being conservative I would say I have about a 48 hour full recovery from the time of the sting. Despite how nasty it gets in that 48 hours, I think 48 hours is pretty quick for a general sting recovery. Is it not? I'm still trying to gauge just how allergic I may be.
After 20 months I'm over a 20 hives and growing. See my videos! http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8fVrmUsyYlRuASdX6UQk1g
Tom it's quite normal to get pain and swelling with a beesting sometimes it will be more painful and swell more than other times.
if you get pain and swelling at the site of the sting thats not an allergic reaction, thats a normal reaction to venom being introduced to your body just as you get swelling and an itch to a mosquito bite at the site of the bite.
An allergic reaction is different it goes beyond the site of the sting/bite to a full or partial body reaction so if you got stung on the hand It's perfectly normal for your hand and fingers your wrist and the lower part of your arm to swell, get hot, sore and itchy it's not OK if you get hives on any other parts of your body like legs stomach face back probably even upper arm would be cause for some concern.
Any heart palpitations, nausea, dizzyness and especially breathing problems and loss of consciousness are a very serious symptom not to be ignored and if you get any of these you shouldn't muck around but get straight to a doctor/hospital.
From the allergic reactions to bee stings that I've witnessed it all tends to happen fairly soon after the sting,
so in short if the symptoms you get from a bee sting are localised to the site of the sting and include any or all of these pain, swelling, hotness, and itchiness then you are having a normal reaction.
If the symptoms involve the immediate sting site and other parts of your body thats when you are having an allergic reation and should seek help
An ALLERGIC reaction is defined as an acquired quick response of the immune system, in a hypersensitive model (I.E. an overreaction to a substance that's normally less harmful than the reaction) to a normally harmless, or less harmful, substance. As such, anyone who immediately swells more than slightly, is indeed allergic.
A HYPERSENSITIVE reaction to bee stings is generally considered to be any reaction more than moderate swelling/itching/burning in the immediate area of the sting. So someone whose whole arm, a large portion of their leg, their entire foot+ankle, etc swells, or who takes abnormally long to recover, is hypersensitive to bee venom and, depending on the speed of the reaction, may or may not be allergic.
An ANAPHYLACTIC reaction is a systemic allergic reaction to a substance (in this case bee venom), generally consisting of hives (often the defining characteristic of anaphylaxis) on multiple areas of the body, swelling in areas OTHER than the immediate vicinity of the sting, and often swelling of the mouth/nose/throat to the point of impairing (or even eliminating) breathing. Anyone experiencing an anaphylactic reaction will need to be administered epinephrine (epi-pen) and antihistamines, and is definitely best off taking the trip to a hospital for definitive care. Unfortunately, the difference between your body having a milder allergic reaction, or going into anaphylaxis, is purely one of degree, and the "line" can be crossed by your body with little or no warning, so if you are allergic, or have ever had an allergic reaction, to bee venom, then it is HIGHLY recommended that you talk to your doctor about making preparations (I.E. carrying a bee sting kit, normally consisting of 1 or more epi-pens, for immediate relief of life-threatening reactions, along with tweezers, for removing stingers, and antihistamines, for longer term reaction control), whether you intend to keep bees, or not.
Reference material: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy"]Wikipedia "Allergy" Article[/URL}


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Original Trinity Hymnal, #239
Psalm 50:1-6
The mighty God, the Lord,
Hath spoken unto all;
From rising to the setting sun,
He unto earth doth call.
From Zion, his own hill,
Where perfect beauty dwells,
Jehovah hath his glory shown,
In brightness that excels.
Our God shall surely come,
And silence shall not keep;
Before him fire shall waste, and storms
Tempestuous round him sweep.
He to the heav'ns above
Shall then send forth his call,
And likewise to the earth, that he
May judge his people all.
"Together let my saints
Unto me gathered be,
Those that by sacrifice have made
A covenant with me."
Then shall the heav'ns declare
His righteousness abroad;
Because the Lord himself is judge,
Yea, none is judge, but God.
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