Phil

Hey there,

So I'm thinking about getting a hoverboard right now.. one of those 2 wheel segway things, and in doing some research to buy i came across several on ebay for astonishingly low prices.. the going rate seems to be about $250-$450 however there are several listings on ebay for the product for only $80-$110. Now these are coming from china and some of the listings note that the buyer will be responsible for any import duties etc. depending on the country you are in. So I was wondering, has anybody from the United States, perhaps even more specifically California, purchased one of these cheaper boards? If so was there any hassle with the import, duty, any type of crazy charge, and most importantly was the product still of good quality?

Any info much appreciated,

Thanks!

Hello There,

So, this isn't really a question, I'd just like to get the point of view of some other people. I've been an athlete my entire life, and I was always very strong and fast and coordinated so sports have always been a huge part of my life. I've also always been a very big eater. Up until about 14 years my physical activity balanced out my diet and I maintained probably about a 17 percent body fat. Around then things took a turn for the worse, I started middle school, my parents got divorced and I turned to food which had always comforted me. Along with the food to carry the load of the sadness, I lifted weights, hard and heavy to aid my adolescent anger. Long story short, over 2 years I ballooned from about 145 lbs up to the highest I weighed myself on the scale at 242 lbs. At 16 years old, I was a still athletic and very strong 242 lbs but I put on about 60 pounds of fat. I made incredible muscle gains because I was just beginning lifting and still ate relatively clean and a ton of protein, but I went to the doctor at 16 years old and things were not good. I had a poorly functioning and fatty liver, cholesterol in the 300s and a blood pressure of like 173/145. I knew I needed to quit wanting to be the biggest baddest strongest dude on earth and get fit. So I dieted, and from December of 2011 to October of 2012 I had successfully purged 60 pounds down to 182 lbs. I was ecstatic with my new self and went back to the doctor in perfect health, blood pressure 120/79 and cholesterol and liver in check. I let myself go a little but never really got back up past 195, even though I have put on a great amount of muscle since then, probably another 8 pounds over the past year due to my natural body type of mesomorph and intense training. But I have recently decided that I am unsatisfied with my body and would like to be even more fit. I'm weighing in right around 180 right now. 179-182 really, and based on my body fat percentage i think i could get down to a really healthy 170 with a few more pounds of muscle. I'm doing great and I'm down from that 195 to the 180 where I am so I'm looking good. My goal is not to get skinny, I want to get bigger in the process, and the problem is that people around me keep giving me hassles about how I'm getting too skinny. I don't have a six pack, all my max lifts are going up consistently, my arms and all other body parts are getting bigger and stronger, and people are telling me I'm anorexic!? I eat very healthy during the week, and then kick up the caloric intake usually one of the days on the weekend to ensure a good metabolic rate for the week. I'm always getting about 150-200g protein a day, so I don't think I'm losing an incredible amount of muscle especially since I'm increasing size measurements along with strength increases and a lower bf% with more muscle definition. So I don't know why people are flipping such a ****?! My bodyfat is still definitely over 10. I'd say about 14-16. Just barely beginning to see some abdominal definition. I do dedicate a lot of time and energy and planning to my diet and workout routine but it's only whats necessary for proper results without crash dieting and muscle loss. Am I really the crazy one? I think I'm just working out and bettering myself. Everybody else is saying that I'm getting too skinny... I'm 5'11-180lb with 15% bodyfat and a thick muscular mesomorphic build. Do you think I'm nuts here? Or is everybody else just to the old me?

Okay, this is freakin absurd. I'm a pretty healthy person overall, I'm 5'11 and I'm hovering around 180-184 pounds right now with about 15% body fat. My max lifts are bench 225, squat 275 and dead 315. I'm 18 right now, ive always been an athlete and ive always been strong. At around 14 years old a time when my parents were going through a divorce and with the stress of school i let my eating go out of control and just lifted super heavy for a few years doing what could be perceived as a huge dirty bulk. At 16 i went to the doctor and my blood pressure was like 160/130 i had dangerously high cholesterol, poor functioning fatty liver, and i was weighing about 240 pounds at 5'10 with around 22% body fat. I've come a long way from there dropping about 55 pounds of fat and retaining the muscle i accrued over that depressing stretch of my life. I have been at my current status for a bit now and am looking to cut. I was weighing about 195 not too long ago and have cut about 10-15 pounds. My goal right now is a lean muscular 170 at about 10% body fat. I've been great, lifting and doing cardio and really watching my diet, and ive been loving my results, but today just got to me, and i dont know if im looking for advice or just venting but, the deal is, i woke up weighed myself at the usual time after morning urination, and i was 181. A great weight, i was very happy. I ate very clean all day, some muscle milk, eggs, nuts, banana, apple, chicken, beef jerky. it all probably totaled to about 1700 calories. My workout for the day burnt me 2000 calories. HOWEVER, even though i ate below maintenance, and should be on track to lose or maintain weight at the very least without burning 2000 EXTRA CALORIES, lifting and doing HIIT, i gain 3 pounds. not only was the food clean, but it was below maintenance AND i burned 2000 ****** calories. I know that yall are bout to call me crazy preaching water weight n all, and i know it, ive done this enough and been around fitness long enough that i know if i just stick to my diet and workouts it'll all come off in due time, im just frustrated! Really god damn crazy how my body does this to me. I hold on to weight so easy. I bulked in the summer going from 9th to 10th grade, and went from 185 to 245 in those 2.5 months. my total weight gain from 8th to 10th was from 144, when i decided i wanna be the strongest man on earth, to 245. 100 pounds in two years. So cutting is definitely a challenge for me since i put on muscle and fat so easily. i feel like if i eat 2000 calories which should be well below maintenance for me and i dont work out, that i'll put on 2 lbs a day. F*** man...

I am afraid that i dont feel sad enough when loved ones die...

Hi there,

I have always loved to act and make music and I just can't even imagine how beautiful life would be if I could wake up every day and know that my job was to do one of those things. I want nothing more out of life. However I am just graduating high school and I am very good and math and science and am probably going to end up studying computer science, or engineering or business at college because I'm good at those things. My only other dream job would be to work high up in a baseball team... like as a general manager. But i so desperately want to be an actor or musician, but im afraid i will fail and i will be disappointed with myself that i threw all of the promise that i had in a secure career. what do i do?? be disappointed that i never gave myself a chance to be happy, or be sad that i threw away success?

Hi,

I was wondering if there is any type of Strat-O-Matic baseball card generator out there that anybody knows about. Something that can just create card like the many sites and applications that do the same for APBA. Something where you could either pick a player and it will create the card or input stats and info and it will create the card.

Thanks

Hi,

I used to play full tilt poker with play chips a while ago, but now I am over 18 and am looking to play again for real money. I played full tilt and poker stars with play money 5-6 years ago, but it seems that i cant play with real money on those sites now as a US citizen. Does anybody know of a good TRUSTED site that i can use? or know a way to play on pokerstars from the US? playing pokerstars would be the best case scenario, so if anybody knows how to play pokerstars from the USA that'd very much appreciated. Thanks.

My macbook's screen seems to be going very far back. It seems as though it has always been that my screen would reach about a 110 degree angle and then I couldn't push it back any farther, but now it goes down to like 155 degrees. It feels quite loose after where it used to go, and there is occasionally a cracking sound when pushing it past that point. When I first noticed this i freaked out and checked to make sure everything worked, so i checked everything, restarted, put to sleep, shut down, everything i could think of, and it seems to be working fine, the color of the monitor looks the same except it goes back really far. Should i do anything other that be gentle?

Hello,

I have a non static variable in one class, that i would like to call to another class. how can i do this in java?

I have a class called SampleClass. I want to call a variable from this class. The variable I want is called VariableOne. I can simply type:

SampleClass.VariableOne;

But i really need to access the specific class by using a variable. Is there any way I make a variable like... Class TempClass = SampleClass;

In order to go,

TempClass.VariableOne;

I want set an array value equal to a variable int in another class. This seems dumb but this is just one small part of what i want to do, but i can't figure this out.

I want to take,

anArray[1] in class 'A'

and set it equal to variable 'int x' in class 'B'

I don't want to do this by going

anArray[1] = B.x;

because the class i want to grab the variable from will change. So i want to create a variable "className" and set it equal to class.B

then i could go

anArray[1] = className.x;

and when i want to grab x from a different class, i just change className from equal to class.B to equals class.C for example, which would also hold a public static int x.

How can something like this be done?

Hi there,

I am creating a java program.

I would like to call a variable from a class ex. "Class1"

Let's say the variable is called "Variable1"

And set an array value equal to it

So the way I would do this is:

anArray[1] = Class1.Variable1

This works well, but I am going to need to get Variable from multiple different classes depending on which class the user desires. So for instance there will be a Variable1 in Class2 and Class3 and Class4 etc. to be called if the user wants that class.

Is there any way I can set a variable like x and say

x = Class1

and then call

x.Variable1

You may be asking yourself why in the world would i want to do this, but it is because there are 33 different variable i need to call. Variable1, 2, 3 all the way to 33. So if i could just type in the class i want for that particular run that would be desirable. I'm thinking it should look something like this...

anArray[1] = x.Variable1

anArray[2] = x.Variable2

anArray[3] = x.Variable3

...

anArray[33] = x.Variable33

When i try to do this i receive an error. Does anybody know how i can accomplish such a thing?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks.

Hi,

So I have some strings stored in arrays in my java program that i'd like to be put in a template in word.

How can i make the program find a bookmark string in the word document where i want the string stored in "anArray[1]" to go and then replace it with the string in "anArray[1]"?

Thanks

Hello Friends,

I have a java program that generates text in 6 columns. I have a word document that is basically a template with a 6 column table. I was wondering if there is any way to take the text generated in my eclipse program and have it be printed in the 6 columns in word. If anybody knows how to do this, I would really appreciate your help.

Thanks so much.

Hey, so I am running some code for a project and it goes on the internet and grabs data from a site. My question is, about half the time i get a 403 forbidden error, but the URL does not change. I input the URL and it will go and fetch data, but sometimes the program works and others it returns a 403. So how can it be that sometimes I am forbidden and other times I have permission to access the page. Why is it not all or none? and if you think you know what my problem could be then help would aso be great.

Thanks so much.

Hi there,

I was wondering if somebody could show me how to get the values from this webpage...

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1930/Jwilsh1020...

for HR vs RHP

into my java program

so how can i get just the number 29 and get it into my java program so that i can declare a variable as it. I've been trying to figure this out for days and have got nothing. Any help is appreciated.

Hello,

I am currently making a program using java in Eclipse. The program takes a players baseball stats a runs some algorithms and then formats them into a special card. I don't really need help with that part, but what I do need help with is that as of right now, I need to look up and type in all of the stats into my program. I would like to be able to just give a web address of the page containing the stats, and then have the program find all of the values and insert them in the variables i have for, homeruns, strikeouts etc..

I don't know how to locate what I need. The site I need to do this from is called retro sheet. Here is an example of a players page.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1930/Jwilsh1020...

I need to get for instance AB vs RHP, which would be 329, and have my variable in my program for AB now equal 329.

Does anybody have any idea of how to do this?

I would really appreciate any help.

Thank you so much for reading.

I have 3 arrays with 11 slots each. I will eventually be placing Strings into each array slot for the final product of this project. As of right now to locate and identify particular slots i have assigned each of the 33 slots a number, 1-33. I would like to be able to run a for loop to identify the slot by the number but the problem is that they are strings and need to stay that way. Any Ideas?