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Yeah, I screwed that up. It is total championships, not unique three timers due to the way I had the data structured. Divide everything by three. Mea culpa.

With PSU less than two months away from losing two three time champs, I thought we could take a look at what the landscape currently looks like for guys who can make a three legged stool with their trophies. I think everyone is generally familiar with this: A while back I dabbled with the idea of eras in college wrestling. After spending a little time with the historical rules I came up with something that divided our history into four eras based on a combination of how many weights, All-Americans per weight, and the importance of individual first place in team scoring. That looks like this: Combining the two we get a breakdown of three time champs per era (I maintained the sort order based on all eras combined): Fourth Era (1979 - present, 10 weights, 8 AA's, first place < 30% of placement): It is Iowa's world, we all just live in it... For now (cough, PSU, cough). But PSU will fall farther back this year as two three timers become two four timers. OK State matters. Screw you Fresno State. Three three-timers in the modern era and you drop wrestling? For shame. Current three timers who WILL become four timers: Carter "StarRocky" Starocci, Aaron "Amen" Brooks Current two timers who WILL become three timers: Keegan "O'Funky" O'Toole

I agree that power plants should not, but the grid should store energy. Check out this book for a much more detailed examination of the grid. The Grid

Try deleting the app. I copied the link from the website. I do not have the app. Though when accessing the website from my phone it always asks me if I want to use the app instead. I always say no.

weird. I am not logged in but it takes me directly to the 29th rankings.

I see 29th

WKN don't joke about money. But great to hear.

https://www.flowrestling.org/rankings/10846490-2023-24-ncaa-di-rankings/48632-p4p-carter-starocci

He can still do both

Inflation, fed funds rate, unemployment are all in line with 2000 - 2007. When compared to 1980 inflation is one-third what it was, fed funds rate is 30% of what it was, unemployment is half of what it was.

Spicy

Jimmy makes an excellent point. It is absolutely worth the money to have a good financial advisor. As for me, I am comfortable with equity market risk and long term investment horizons. Therefore, I am heavily invested in the stock market. I am not a stock picker (mostly) so I use low cost index funds for my stock and bond exposure. I preached to my children that if you do this from a very early age with a very long investment horizon you will certainly be happy with the results. For example, if you start at 22 years old saving $100 per month, just $1,200 per year, and invest it in the S&P500 with dividends reinvested, assuming the future return equals the historic return (they won't), then in 40 years you will have deposited $48,000, but it will be worth ~$1,000,000. Why wouldn't you do this trade? Given that I know nothing about your personal circumstances, I would not tell you how to invest. But I will definitely tell you that you need to save, live below your means, and find that good financial advisor.

Amen, though tough to buy in your 401k

https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/money/average-401k-balance-by-age Fidelity estimates you should save from all sources: 1x your salary by age 30 3x by 40 6x by 50 8x by 60 10x by 67 But according to Vanguard median 401k savings (not all sources) is only: 25-34: $11,357 35-44: $28,318 45-54: $48,301 55-64: $71,168 65+: $70,620 Get saving and investing, people. The stock market is a tremendous engine for wealth creation. Do not miss out.

I am really liking Star Rocky, but maybe take out the space? StarRocky?

Oh yeah? How does your phone work? Do you plug it into the wall every time you post here? Or maybe you store electricity in its bottle somewhere then hope you can use it. That is exactly what ever one of us does every day.

The issue with wind, solar, hydro and any other renewable is not just a problem with the source, but it is the interaction of the source with our existing grid. Our power grid has no storage capacity. That means all power generation must perfectly match all power demand at all times. Since the availability of renewables is undependable, until the storage problem is solved, they must always be used in combination with fossil fuel based generation. Fossil fuel generation also has availability issues of its own. It is very time consuming and expensive to bring a cold fossil fuel power plant online. If demand spikes and the plant is not already on line it will be too late to satisfy the demand and brown outs and black outs ensue. The historic solution is to always have them online. This is as suboptimal as the wind stopping. Or for that matter, blowing when there is not enough demand to consume the energy created. Storage capacity forgives the sins of both types of energy source as it moves energy through time from periods of low demand/high generation to periods of high demand/low generation.

I laughed when you said you haven't done a super deep dive yet.

#teamcowcards

Kudos to you for doing the heavy lifting. And finding that for every AA is HEAVY lifting.

I thought this was going to be about how handsome you thought he was.

Yeah, this was a hard post to read from the title on down.

I would really like to see Indiana continue with their momentum. I am a fan of Angel Escobedo and want him to succeed.