Mullen: It's meltdown time as readers nuke name of arena
By Holly Mullen
Tribune Columnist
Salt Lake Tribune
We asked Tribune readers Tuesday to help nickname Larry H. Miller's newly re-christened arena, which, as you may have heard, is now named for a nuclear waste-disposal services company. After all, EnergySolutions Arena isn't the sort of name that knocks your Nikes off. (Well, on second thought . . . ). Wow! We're aglow at the explosive level of creative genius out there, as exhibited by the reader who suggested a certain Jazz broadcaster change his name to Fuel Rod Hundley. So we've sorted through nearly 100 reader calls and e-mails. The rest is up to you. Select your favorite from among these finalists and cast your vote.
The Nominees are…
“Glow in the Dark Park”
“The Tox box”
“Nuclear Winner Stadium”
“Nukeback Mountain”
“Meltdown Manor”
“The Fallout Shelter”
“Plutonium Palace”
“Radium Stadium”
“The Glow Dome”
Runners-up, in no particular order:
"The Dump" (suggested by many readers)
"The Nuke" (suggested by several readers)
"The Hot Box" (suggested by several readers)
"The Jump Dump"
"The Toxy" (short for "ToxiCenter" and a "postmodern tribute to another entertainment icon, The Roxy")
"Larry's Atomic Mutation Eco Center," or "LAME Center" for short
"Dump 'n' Dunk Dome"
"Fission Abandon Palace"
"Half-Life Arena" ("given the Jazz's tendency to fall apart midway through the season")
"The Disposal"
"The Garbage Heap"
"Ground Zero"
"The Geiger Counter"
"The Lair" (in honor of both the Jazz Bear and Larry Miller)
"The Downwinders Dome"
"The Melting Pot"
"The ESA," pronounced "essay" in honor of the gang slang term "ese," which means "dude" or "homie."
One TribTalk message-board reader submitted a "partial list of Larry H. Miller-proposed names that were rejected," including, "The Celestial Kingdom Center," "The Work And The Glory Center" and "The Stockton and Malone Who? Center." And finally, another TribTalk reader offered a half-hearted endorsement of the arena's new name: "Energy Solutions Center beats Jell-O Center any day!"
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Thursday, November 30, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Turkey Q&A
Today's Turkey - A Modern Miracle (Care of the University of Maryland)
Turkey will be the centerpiece for many Thanksgiving dinners later this month. But increasingly, turkey is not just for Thanksgiving anymore. 2005 statistics from the National Turkey Federation show that per-capita consumption was 16.7 pounds per person in the U.S. - up 106 percent since 1970. Turkey is available in a wide variety of products these days. But few Americans give any thought about where their turkey really comes from.
Q: Is the turkey we put on the table today at Thanksgiving considerably different than the one the Pilgrims found out in the wild?
Turkeys in the days of the Pilgrims were similar to the wild turkeys that are now abundant in most states of the nation. They have dark plumage and can fly. Modern turkeys have been bred to have large breast muscles, desired by consumers. Modern turkeys also have been bred to have white feathers, so that pigment from dark feathers does not blemish the skin. The selection process has been so successful that modern turkeys are too heavy to fly under most circumstances. That has also reduced their reproductive efficiency.
Q: Are wild turkeys smarter than today's farm-grown turkey?
Wild turkeys grow up in woodlands where only the alert survive. At any moment a fox or a hawk could threaten their life and they must constantly look for food. In comparison, modern turkeys are couch potatoes; food and water are always close and they are safe from predators.
Q: Is artificial insemination the only way farmers can really produce the "modern" turkey of today?
Not entirely. Modern large-breasted turkeys are able to mate in the traditional way. But this is a clumsy act for a large-breasted turkey, and insemination is hit or miss; mostly miss. This results in a high proportion of eggs not being fertile, thus fewer poults are hatched. Artificial insemination ensures that sperm are present to fertilize the hen's egg and increase the number of poults hatched.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
A word about living across the street from your mechanic.
So I got in my car this morning. and, for the record, my car is a 99’ Jeep Cherokee. It’s been a good car, and I like it, and will probably keep it until it stops moving or upon my purchase of a Jeep Wrangler. (But not the new ones with the 4 doors – I would like to know whose idea it was to put FOUR DOORS on a Jeep Wrangler?! I am a purist when it comes to the Jeep Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species…and so forth and what not. My buddy who is also a Jeep purist has seen one of these new “Jeeps” and says the wheel bed is 4” wider than the real Jeep and looks just like a Hummer 3 – now what’s the point of THAT?)
So back to my mechanic.
I turned on my trusty Jeep and it sort of hesitated a bit on the up tic. I figure the poor baby is cold. So my mechanic whose shop is directly across the street from my house, starts walking in my direction. So I just wait for him to cross the street, and I roll my window down. And then he says, “next week it would probably be good if I took a look at the battery”.
Is that not fabulous!? Perhaps I am making a big deal out of this warmth, affection and attention my mechanic feels for me and more importantly, my Jeep. I’m glad he loves my Jeep as much as I do.
I think the last time he was working on it, they must have bonded. You know how you can get after a little washer fluid, eh?
So back to my mechanic.
I turned on my trusty Jeep and it sort of hesitated a bit on the up tic. I figure the poor baby is cold. So my mechanic whose shop is directly across the street from my house, starts walking in my direction. So I just wait for him to cross the street, and I roll my window down. And then he says, “next week it would probably be good if I took a look at the battery”.
Is that not fabulous!? Perhaps I am making a big deal out of this warmth, affection and attention my mechanic feels for me and more importantly, my Jeep. I’m glad he loves my Jeep as much as I do.
I think the last time he was working on it, they must have bonded. You know how you can get after a little washer fluid, eh?
Know your cuts of meat...or something like that.
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