For the first time this season, the Hoos have lost back-to-back games.

Virginias second-leading scorer, sophomore Joe Harris, struggled with his shooting in his first full game playing with a broken hand, missing all four of his three-point attempts. He finished with just two points and two rebounds in 21 minutes off the bench in the loss.

Cavalier head coach Tony Bennett said after the game, Without Joe, were not much of a threat from three.

Junior point guard Jontel Evans led all scorers with an ACC career-high 17 points.

Senior Mike Scott had 13 points, four below his season average, and pulled down eight rebounds in the loss.

The game was tied at 24 at halftime, and Virginia led twice in the second half.

Trailing 44-41 with 8:03 left in the game, the Tigers scored eight straight points to take control.

Clemson pulled away behind 13 points each from Andre Young and Tanner Smith.

The Cavaliers had 18 turnovers (which led to 19 Clemson points), including ten turnovers in the first half.

Bennett said, Those missed shots and turnovers are really crucial in a game like this.

Virginia has now lost three of its last four games, falling to 6-5 in the ACC and 19-6 overall.

Bennett said, We still have some good basketball in us. I know that.

The Hoos shot 50% from the field (22-of-44) but made just 18.8% from three-point range (3-of-16) and shot just one free-throw in the entire game.

UVAs next game is Saturday afternoon at home against Maryland at 1:00. You can see the game on NBC 29.

Americans need a healthy dose of motivation, especially when it comes to saving for retirement.

If we evaluate the state of play in the Retirement Game, many Americans find themselves in a scary position at half time. The reality is if we continue on the current game plan, many Americans will not have enough money to retire.

We know this:

o In a recent Gallup poll, 66 percent of Americans ranked not having enough money for retirement as their top financial concern.
o Baby boomers will be the first generation since the 1930s that will be worse off in their older years than their parents.

Most alarming, are the statistics that show that despite this concern, people arent taking the necessary steps to save the amount needed for retirement:

o According to a survey conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement.
o 56 percent of American retirees still had outstanding debts when they retired, according to a survey by CESI Debt Solutions.

America needs an Al Pacino, Any Given Sunday-style pep talk to win the second half of the Retirement Game. Theres little room for error. There needs to be a focus on the inches — the little things we can do now, that, over time, will add up to make a difference.

Im no Al Pacino, but heres my approach to a half time pep talk:

1) Its a Long Road to the Super Bowl.
Early in the season, the Giants spent many weeks in the bottom half of ESPNs power rankings. Lucky for the Giants, the season is long, and there is plenty of time to recover. The same is true when thinking about retirement savings.

Imagine setting money aside every week for a complete stranger. Someone you dont know, recognize, or have much in common with. Doesnt sound too appealing, right? Saving money for a stranger is essentially what you are doing when saving for retirement.

Studies have shown that when humans are able to picture older versions of themselves, its easier to save for the future. Think of the activities that you enjoy doing now — traveling, dinning, spending time with friends — and think of retirement savings as a way to guarantee you can keep doing these things forever.

2) Keep Track of the Inches
Reaching small goals is a great way to stay on track toward a larger goal. In a football game, the quarterback isnt going for a touchdown with every play. Its five yards here, 15 yards there, the reward of a few first downs, and finally, the joy of a touchdown.

Saving a million dollars towards retirement might sound intimidating. Saving $150 per week to reach this goal? Probably more palatable, and, will likely yield the results you need over the long term. Track your progress, one yard — or dollar — at a time.

3) A Good Defense is the Best Offense
In the retirement game, defend against your worst enemy: yourself. We tend to think that were above average, on average. Its called over-confidence bias and its a behavioral bias that causes us to make poor investing decisions. Setting the right asset allocation, investing in a diverse portfolio, and auto-depositing from the outset requires less effort on your part — eliminating the potential for behavior-driven mistakes. Dont kid yourself that youll invest whatevers left at the end of each paycheck. Youll miss that goal every time.

Its halftime in the retirement game, America. Will you be making your come back?

Topics: Ice baths, Heart rate variation, Seat post slippage, Salt intake

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Using ice baths as part of recovery, a good idea?

Heart rate variations as an older cyclist

Seat post slippage resulting in hip and knee pain?

Salt intake for riding in warmer climates

Using ice baths as part of recovery, a good idea?

I am training for an upcoming century ride and yesterday I cranked (pardon the pun) out over 70 miles. The previous weekend I did a 50 mile ride and afterwards struggled with sore legs and in the following hours got extremely light-headed each time I got up.

Yesterday, I decided to try something that I have read about that some pro teams (Garmin, to name one) do after races. I filled our bath tub about half full of cold water and knelt in it for about 15 minutes. When done, took a shower. Yesterday watching the Super Bowl, I was tired but never got light headed or had sore legs and felt the same this morning. So I think the soaking my legs in the cold water really helped.

What I did also after the ride was to eat a small sandwich thinking that it would help alleviate the potential light-headed drama.

My question is, how long should I soak my legs and is there another way to accomplish this without wasting a large amount of water.

Thanks,

Mark Young

Scott Saifer says:

Hi Mark,

The fancy name for cooling your muscles as you are doing with the cold bath is cryotherapy (from cryo meaning cold, not what you do when you first lower your body into ice water). There are several methods and reasons for cryotherapy and there is some accumulating evidence for some and against others, so when your buddies tell you that they read that ice-baths dont work be sure to ask them specifically what they dont work for.

This is an evolving field with no one best protocol determined yet, but heres what we think we know: Cryotherapy doesnt help with routine recovery or mid-event. Cooling muscles makes them weak until they warm up again, so you wouldnt to cool working muscles between closely spaced events. Cooling does help when over-heating is an issue, so cooling other parts of the body as a way to reduce overall body temperature on hot days can support performance. Cryotherapy generally doesnt help with next-day performance unless the prior days workout was soreness generating, but does reduce next day soreness.

Back to your question: to be effective against soreness, your cooling period needs to be long enough for the cooling to reach the interiors of the muscles that would otherwise become sore. That means that if you are a big guy with massive muscles, youll need to cool for longer than a small, spindly guy with string-bean muscles.

Having said that, 5-15 minutes is probably long enough for any given muscle. One way to achieve the same end without wasting water is to give you an ice-cube massage. Rub your calves and thighs post-ride with an ice-cube at a time, replacing them as they melt. Keep the pressure moderate, enough to make a depression in the skin, but not hard enough to hurt. Ive had good results with 2 large ice-cubes per calf and 4 per quad plus hamstring.

Heart rate variations as an older cyclist

As a cyclist of many years I keep fit spinning but there appears to be a slight problem with my heart rate.

I am now 65 years young a little like 10 kg over weight but the legs are good and I spin up to 5 hours a week. However even when keeping up with the class my heart rate is between 142 172.

My average is 142bpm over some 3 hours but the top rate of 172 is a concern.

The recommended high rate for my age is 155bpm!

Do I need to be concerned or as one of my instructors says its because I am in such a good heart condition that I can maintain 160+ for 30 minutes plus?

Best regards,

Mike M

Scott Saifer says:

Hi Mike,

Ignore the charts. They are based on population averages and dont take into account people with large, slow-beating hearts or with smaller, fast-beating hearts. There is nothing wrong with a heart rate that rises easily and can be maintained during harder exercise, so long as the heart rate is consistent with the exercise intensity and comes down in a minute or two after you back off exercise intensity.

That is, if you are doing a pace that usually gives you one heart rate and you are suddenly seeing a much higher heart rate, thats a problem. If you exercise and then when you back off your heart rate doesnt drop in a few minutes, then that may well be a problem.

If the maximum heart rate you can hit drops by more than a few beats per year, thats a problem too, but a heart rate that is higher or lower than someone elses for a given effort is not anything to worry about.

Seat post slippage resulting in hip and knee pain?

Gday guys,

When I purchased and picked up my Cervelo S5 last September I also got an excellent bike fitting done that was very comprehensive.

This was my second fit; the first had been done years previous on my old bike, the shop when transitioning to their new system had lost my previous fit data, so this was all new and done using the Specialized BG Fit system.

About two weeks ago, I started to have this pain in the back of my right knee whenever Id do gluteal extensions (cuff around ankle attached to weights, leg bent and moving leg back). It was this exercise and not the leg curls I was doing that seemed to cause this sensation, although I will admit that towards the end of the last few reps of the leg curls there was some pain, whereas with the glutes it was there from the start, but only the right knee.

Id also noticed at least on one or two trainer sessions that my hips started to hurt a bit after awhile that alone should have been the proverbial red flag. Why, because last spring on my old bike, Id been riding with a seat post that had slipped a few millimeters and experienced the same sensation in my hips.

When I noticed it and raised the saddle back up (tape marked the proper height fyi) the pain subsided. So the other day I was able to free the S5 from its winter trainer prison and go for a 50 mile ride. It felt like my legs were almost slapping my chest, well not quite, but that feeling. I didnt have any hip pain, but it got me wondering about my saddle height, etc. I rang up the shop and got the measurement for the seat mast/ saddle height and lo and behold it had slipped something like 3 or 4 cm! I readjusted it and noticed a big improvement on the trainer this past weekend.

So my question is, now that the height issue has been readjusted how long before the knee pain subsides? Im going to avoid the glute extensions and leg curls for a week and then slowly reintroduce them next week (i.e 10 reps at weight, then 20 reps, then 30 over the course of three sessions Mon, Wed, Fri). Ive one leg longer than the other by just a bit and that is corrected for with the bike fit, which probably explains the knee thing Im guessing because of over compensation. So what mechanically happens to cause the pain or did I just answer it?

Thanks,

Chris Wright,

New Hampshire

Steve Hogg says:

Gday Christopher,

Heres a non medical answer from someone who has his own permanent knee issues. Firstly, I dont know how long it will take to pick up where you left off in the gym. In an effort to offer advice, it would help if you knew the exact nature of the injury. Pain behind the knee is a general description so I can only offer general advice.

Secondly, be very, very conservative in restarting your gluteal extensions and hamstring curls. Knees are mainly composed of fibrous tissue; ligaments and tendons. These tissues receive very little blood flow and can be quite hard to injure in many circumstances. But the limited blood flow also means that once injured, they can take a long time to recover from.

I would suggest taking the week off as you suggest and then starting your gym routine at half the load you were using. Add load in weekly increments of 10% until you reach the loads you were using pre injury. If you experience pain at any stage of this progression, stop the exercises and see a physiotherapist or sports doc and find out what is going on.

Additionally, use a correction pen to place a mark on your seat post as it emerges from the frame to ensure that if the post slips again, you have a visual indication.

Salt intake for riding in warmer climates

Hi,

Im 53 and typically ride about 10 – 12 hours per week in a hot climate (Thailand). During my rides I usually consume about 1 bottle of 750ml of fluid comprising a 325ml can of Sponsor mixed with water. The can of Sponsor says it contains 0.07% sodium and 0.02% potassium (plus sugar, etc). Am I consuming enough salt?

Thanks,

Eddie.

Scott Saifer says:

Hi Eddie,

The saltiness of sweat and the requirement for salt vary tremendously from athlete to athlete so I cant say if the diluted Sponsor is giving you adequate salt to replace what you seat away during the ride, but it is doubtful. The concentration of sodium in sweat is typically around 0.9grams per liter, or 0.09%. Your Sponsor drink is a little less concentrated than that when consumed full strength, and roughly half that the way you are diluting it. So, assuming you are just replacing the fluids lost during sweating, it is very likely than you are seating away more salt than you are consuming in that drink.

This doesnt mean you necessarily need to consume more salt than riding however. You need to keep the concentration of salt in your body in a narrow range to maintain normal function, but the range does have enough width that if you are eating enough salt over the course of a day, it doesnt matter so much how it is distributed unless you are doing very long rides. That is, if you get enough salt in your off-bike food to replace what you lose on the bike each day, you dont need to worry about replacing salt while you are riding.

The exception to the above rule is if you are riding long enough in hot enough weather to become salt depleted, youll need more salt during rides. Youd know if you were becoming salt depleted because youd have symptoms of low blood pressure, the most obvious of which is lightheadedness on standing up after rides. If you do find yourself getting light-headed on standing after rides, take more salt on your rides, either in the form of saltier drink, or adding some salty food to the mix.

While playing in Pittsburgh on Jan. 10, Despres suffered a fairly significant knee injury, cutting short what had been a promising 13-game, month-long stay in the NHL.

While on the shelf, he missed playing in the AHL all-star game, for which he had been voted a starter.

Once his knee was healed sufficiently, he was demoted to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on Monday.

It would be perfectly natural, then, for Despres to be sour after practicing Tuesday morning at the Mogehan Sun Arena.

He was quite the opposite.

Its a great life, Despres said. I play hockey for a living. Thats what I love to do.

Despres, who has been skating in Pittsburgh for about two weeks, reported no problems with his knee after Tuesdays practice. He wont play when the Penguins host the Norfolk Admirals tonight, but thats just because his conditioning level isnt yet where he needs it to be.

I still have to get into game shape, he said. Its hard to get that back. Im working on it.

In the meantime, the 20-year-old Despres seemed genuinely enthusiastic about catching up with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton teammates he hadnt seen much over the past two months.

It was fun to see the guys, he said. It had been a while since Ive seen them.

Despres even found a silver lining in the timing of his injury. Players working their way back into the lineup often skate in a separate group, before or after their healthy teammates practice. That left Despres in some pretty elite company over the last few weeks in Pittsburgh.

I was with Sidney Crosby for, like, two weeks, which was awesome, Despres said. I got to learn from him and Jordan Staal. I was around them a lot. It was a great experience.

Despres was an important member of Wilkes-Barre/Scrantons defense corps in the first two months of the season, posting seven points in 25 games. All three of his goals were game winners. He followed that with four points and a plus-4 rating in his first 14 NHL games.

While the original plan called for Despres, the Penguins first-round pick in the 2009 draft, to spend most if not all of his first pro season in the AHL, he is progressing well enough that another call-up this season is a real possibility.

After all, who knows what the parent clubs roster will look like after the Feb. 27 trade deadline?

From an organizational perspective, thats why its important for Despres to get back up to speed as quickly as possible.

Just expect a player to come down here and be coachable and work hard and to really improve his game, coach John Hynes said. Hes had some very good developmental experiences here. Hes played a big role on our team and had the opportunity to play in the National Hockey League, but the fact of the matter is hes got to get himself in good shape and back to game-playing shape and really get his game in order.

From a personal perspective, Despres has a simpler objective in mind.

I just want to help the team win, he said. Thats my main goal.

While in high school, he helped Muscle Shoals win the 2006 TimesDaily Classic at Flowers Hall. Mastin also won the Classic’s slam-dunk championship that year.

Two years later, Mastin began playing in the arena all the time after signing with North Alabama.

“I remember playing here for the first time and it felt like the court never ended it was so long,” Mastin said. “We won the tournament my junior year and I won the dunk contest, so it’s always been a special place for me.”

Mastin will play his final game at Flowers Hall tonight when the Lions (14-9, 6-5 GSC) host No. 13 Christian Brothers (18-4, 9-2). UNA will hold its annual Senior Night as Mastin, Beaumont Beasley, Nick Luttrell, Sam Buxton and Theron Jenkins play their final home game.

Mastin, who played one season at Northwest-Shoals has spent the past three seasons at UNA. He admits it’s difficult to think about playing at home for the final time.

“I’ve been trying to keep my mind off of it,” he said. “I know that it will really hit me before the game.

“Playing at home has been great, especially this year. Our home crowds have been more into the games this year. They have brought a lot more energy this year and we feed off the crowd.”

Senior Night has become a big event in recent years and the Lions have lost just twice in their final home game in Bobby Champagne’s nine years at UNA.

“The coaches that I played for and coached under made Senior Night a big deal, regardless of the implications of the game,” Champagne said. “We’ve got a great group of seniors, including a local guy in Warrick. We want this to be a big night for them.”

UNA faces a big challenge against Christian Brothers. The Buccaneers routed the Lions 79-51 in the first meeting in Memphis on Jan. 19. The Lions, have won five of seven since that game and are tied for third place in the GSC standings.

“We’ve been a more consistent team since that game,” Champagne said. “It’s a huge game because we need to win to keep pace with West Georgia and Christian Brothers is trying to win the league.”

The UNA women’s team will also honor five seniors in Dana Jackson, Lacy Lewis, Jessi Smith, Taylor Dodson and Jasmine Horne.

“It will be an emotional night for our seniors, especially the ones that have been here for four years,” coach Terry Fowler said. “We’ve never lost on a Senior Night since I’ve been here and we really need to win this one. We want to send the seniors out on a good note.”

UNA (12-11, 3-8) has lost three straight and six of its past seven conference games. The Lions must beat Christian Brothers (5-18, 2-9) to avoid falling into a tie for last place in the GSC.

“We told the kids that this is the biggest game of the year, bar none,” Fowler said. “A lot of things are still possible for us if we finish strong. It could be the difference between finishing eighth or fifth in the conference.”

Jeff McIntyre can be reached at 256-740-5737 or jeff.mcintyre@TimesDaily.com.

This coming Friday is also options expiration. There were many small retail investors that were buying call options near the recent highs in the market. Rarely if ever, will the institutional money ever allow the small retail options traders to collect a gain in the near term call options.

Mega Echelon Option

At 02:12 PM 1/20/2012 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:

gt;On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 01:52:01AM +1300, Peter Gutmann
wrote:
gt;
gt;gt; Kim Schmitz ([Kim Dotcom] or whatever hes calling himself this
week) is a survivor.
gt;gt; Hell be back, even if Megaupload isnt.
gt;
gt;If the charges stick hell be out of circulation for a while.

Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:21:11 -0500
To: Eugen Leitl lt;eugen[at]leitl.orggt;, Peter Gutmann
lt;pgut001[at]cs.auckland.ac.nzgt;, cypherpunks[at]al-qaeda.net
From: John Young lt;jya[at]pipeline.comgt;
Subject: Re: Megaupload.com seized

Harking back to the Echelon era, it is worth noting that those five countries
– US, UK, AU, CA, NZ – are in the forefront of mega-managing the security
of the Internet, no doubt refining and expanding the technological tools
and sneaky extra-legal practices to work their combined will on global
communications.

Gaining access to MegaUploads emails, business records and financial affairs
likely required several multi-jurisdictional actions not only by the Echelon
partners but also by allies such as those in NATO.

As often discussed here, the use of military capabilities developed for national
security for civilian criminal affairs matters is amply indicated in the
MegaUpload indictment.

Indicting MegUpload in the US, in particular in the Eastern District of Virginia,
the pre-eminent national security court, also indicates a bias toward national
security undergirding arguments for economic security threat. That too was
often debated here in the crypto wars of the 1990s.

Recent defense funding authorization of holding alleged terrorists indefinitely,
keeping Gitmo alive, SOPA, PIPA, MegaUpload, Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks,
huge funding increases for openly hiring hackers and paying those undecover
to rat on cohorts, also reminds of the extra-legalities and betrayals of
the early public crypto era.

From those crypto lessons — aspirations to use technology to beat government,
then gradual co-optation by legal threats, bribes, scholarships, contracts,
stigma, isolation, betrayals, call that the After Echelon Option — it should
be expected that the same means and methods will be used in cyber wars, offense
and defense mutually aggrandizing one another.

Backdoors and trojans in widely trusted comsec, crypto and browsing tools;
deep packet sniffing and co-optation of sysadmins; false flag attacks, virii,
bots and Stuxnets to boost protection funding; super-enhanced capture of
EM emanations from every electronic and digital means; unfettered black bag
jobs and KVM loggers; enlisting thousands of covert cyber agents as freedom
fighters; recruitment of educational institutions as cover for spying; promotion
of books, articles, news reports and lectures for indoctrination about external
threats to divert attention from the internal; these and more are the legacy
of Echelon and its new, social media counterparts adeptly mega-managed through
legal, extra-legal, illegal and secret access to private data of citizenry
worldwide. Once the Echelon enemy was a few other nations, then global
terrorists, now it is everyone who questions authoritatives.

Note that there have been a slew of seeming public interest comsec initiatives
— websites, mail lists, bloggers, conferences, research, public relations,
anonymouses, just about any that have gotten unusual attention — in recent
years to address cyber threats combined with threats to privacy, veritably
in lock step with cyber war open and secret funding. Observing the particpants
in these activities there are quite a few recognizable warriors from the
crypto-comsec-privacy wars.

Fine minds and good hearts still proposing technological solutions to the
issues, warning of legal if not military opposition, oiled with a bit of
venal self-advancement in the Jason Granier and Mudge mode. Op-eding and
ginning up more technical-legalistic fixes to comsec and privacy, reminding
of past errors and promises gone awry, sniping at one another, admitting
NDA withholdings, apologizing for aiding government and commerce, shading
arguments as exquisitely as highest-paid lobbyists and academics, parading
an impressive list of coms, edus and orgs after the nyms.

Optimistically, using the wind down of the Cold War as a precedent, when
crypto wizards came of out of classified realms due to decline of nat sec
jobs, the wind down of GWOT could lead to comsec wizards coming out of similarly
classified realms to aid civilians against those comsec wizards remaining
in the world of secrecy worldwide.

It would be a swell outcome of classified research to heed its inherent dual
use once again on the dual use Internet: between those who want to control
it with an iron hand of government and commerce and those who want to free
it from that hand. That will depend upon who gets paid to betray the public
and those who defend the public.

It is not easy to tell who is who since both copy one anothers language,
behavior and promises — most of the charges against MegaUpload, and allegations
against Anonymous, could be applied to official spies and globalist justice
cartels both backed by big-iron-fisted militaries. Call that duality the
Mega Echelon Option.

Wilbraham, MA (PRWEB) January 26, 2012

Intrepid blogger Lane Weinberg is at it again, announcing new milestones this week in his burgeoning blogging career.

Weinberg – the voice behind popular blogs on HubPages, Suite 101 and elsewhere – this week celebrated the second anniversary of his popular science fiction/fantasy-themed blog A Goblin, a Unicorn and a Dragon: A World of Fantasy by posting his 5,000th reader comment. The blog turned two years old on Jan. 20, and the plateau-busting 5,000th comment came on the post Grimurl, Part 1 – Weinbergs 250th on his World of Fantasy blog.

There are other blogs, obviously, that have more posts and more comments, Lane Weinberg noted. But as busy as I am in this medium, as a professional blogger, Im just getting started.

Grimurl, Part 1 is the beginning of a series of short stories Weinberg, an author and candidate for a Masters Degree in creative writing at Harvard University. Previous posts on the World of Fantasy blog have combined the writers personal work with comments on (and links to) subjects as diverse as astronomy, freelance writing, character development and his favorite works by other authors.

It is extremely gratifying to know that my blogs strike a chord with readers and other writers, Lane Weinberg said. For a writer, theres nothing more satisfying than producing something that connects with an audience, whether its a book, a magazine article or a blog post. The fact that so many people have not only taken the time to read the posts Ive shared but to comment … and continue these discussions is very inspiring, and at the same time truly humbling.

The 5,000th reader comment, posted by mitchray409, praised the opening Grimurl paragraphs and urged Weinberg to keep on posting: Im already hooked to find out what happens next! Plz write quickly.

In addition to the milestone post and response, Weinberg – a Reading, Pennsylvania native – also announced this week the release of his newest blog, a self-titled profile page on BrightHub.com. Weinbergs first post included tips on how amateur astronomers can help NASA and other scientists locate exoplanets outside of the Solar System.

Finding exoplanets has become the hot new craze amongst both amateur and professional astronomers, Lane Weinberg wrote in the post, which covers such topics as selecting the right telescope for your particular astronomical interests and the best techniques for employing the photometric transit method, which detects exoplanets based on light shifts caused when these distant worlds pass in front of their hosts stars.

Astronomy is a common theme on Weinbergs many blogs, including the BlogSpot titles Lane Weinberg Presents Space Exploration and Thoughts on Astronomy and other sites gracing the Suite 101, AbsoluteWrite and Triod hosting services. Under the name Lane W. Heymont, which combines his own name with his paternal grandfathers, Weinberg also maintains a well-followed Twitter account.

These subject matters are very near and dear to me, Lane Weinberg said. Not only is science fiction the ultimate writers canvas – a genre where you can literally do anything, and where the best works have always applied futuristic creativity to the most critical and relevant real-life social issues of the time – but actual science is such a breeding ground for great storytelling. The adventures of space shuttle pilots, astronomers involved in (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and those who are right now conducting the actual exploration of other worlds are just as exciting as anything see in the movies. And theyre inherently more human, because theyre real.

Just like theres no end of the possibilities when it comes to science and fantasy literature, I dont think theres any end to the number of blogs I might create, or the topics they might cover, the writer added. As long as the human mind is capable of imagining new frontiers and then finding ways to explore them, there will be interesting stories to tell.

About Lane Weinberg

Lane Weinberg, 27, is an author and blogger in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, he currently attends creative writing classes at Harvard University and has been writing for almost two decades. An avid fan of astronomy and philosophy, Lane Weinberg enjoys spending time with his two nephews, his niece and his four dogs.

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