(SpeedHunters.com)
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
You Never Know Where You May End Up
How Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine went from Mighty Ducks star to chef
It wasn’t the noise or the mess or the workmen tramping through the house that got to Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine when the New York City brownstone she’d just bought was being renovated last year. It was the month and a half without kitchen access.
For many people, takeout dinners and nights at friends’ houses would be a welcome departure. For Jacobsen-Derstine, 39, who has been a chef for much of the two decades since she starred as goalie Julie (the Cat) Gaffney in the Mighty Ducks franchise and as Becky Fraker in Rookie of the Year, it was more than that.
As she was getting started, a friend suggested she marry cooking and acting by auditioning for The Next Food Network Star. (“I didn’t know what reality shows were,” she says with a laugh. “If I had known, I probably wouldn’t have submitted a tape!”) She won the first challenge before being eliminated midway through Season 3. The behind-the-scenes experience was jarring—“In a movie you’re there to make each other look good,” she says. “On a reality show you’re with a bunch of people whose success depends on your failure”—but the show taught her to be flexible with recipes.
These days Jacobsen-Derstine puts her theories about food into practice for her husband, Jeffrey Lefleur, and their five-year-old son and three-year-old daughter. She teaches in elementary schools in Harlem, gardening with the children and educating them about a different ingredient each week, which the schools’ chefs then use in the kids’ lunches. She’s also in the process of launching a series of short Web videos. There’s not much hockey in her life at the moment, although after six weeks of private tutoring from Blackhawks right wing Grant Mulvey for Ducks, she can still skate well. She played the role of Hailey in 2002’s Men in Black II, and still does voice-overs for Oxygen Network.
(SI.com)
It wasn’t the noise or the mess or the workmen tramping through the house that got to Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine when the New York City brownstone she’d just bought was being renovated last year. It was the month and a half without kitchen access.
For many people, takeout dinners and nights at friends’ houses would be a welcome departure. For Jacobsen-Derstine, 39, who has been a chef for much of the two decades since she starred as goalie Julie (the Cat) Gaffney in the Mighty Ducks franchise and as Becky Fraker in Rookie of the Year, it was more than that.
As she was getting started, a friend suggested she marry cooking and acting by auditioning for The Next Food Network Star. (“I didn’t know what reality shows were,” she says with a laugh. “If I had known, I probably wouldn’t have submitted a tape!”) She won the first challenge before being eliminated midway through Season 3. The behind-the-scenes experience was jarring—“In a movie you’re there to make each other look good,” she says. “On a reality show you’re with a bunch of people whose success depends on your failure”—but the show taught her to be flexible with recipes.
These days Jacobsen-Derstine puts her theories about food into practice for her husband, Jeffrey Lefleur, and their five-year-old son and three-year-old daughter. She teaches in elementary schools in Harlem, gardening with the children and educating them about a different ingredient each week, which the schools’ chefs then use in the kids’ lunches. She’s also in the process of launching a series of short Web videos. There’s not much hockey in her life at the moment, although after six weeks of private tutoring from Blackhawks right wing Grant Mulvey for Ducks, she can still skate well. She played the role of Hailey in 2002’s Men in Black II, and still does voice-overs for Oxygen Network.
(SI.com)
I Want To Be Surprised By This, But I'm Not
AAA auto club claims not all gasoline is the same
Putting the cheapest gas in your car may be helping your wallet, but, according to the AAA auto club, it's not helping your vehicle. Ever since 1996, all gasoline must have some engine-cleaning additives, but a lot of major companies put extra detergents. And it's paid off. In a recent independent study, AAA found that gasolines with fewer detergents left 19 times more deposits on engine intake valves than top-tier fuels after 4,000 miles of driving.
(AutoBlog.com)
Putting the cheapest gas in your car may be helping your wallet, but, according to the AAA auto club, it's not helping your vehicle. Ever since 1996, all gasoline must have some engine-cleaning additives, but a lot of major companies put extra detergents. And it's paid off. In a recent independent study, AAA found that gasolines with fewer detergents left 19 times more deposits on engine intake valves than top-tier fuels after 4,000 miles of driving.
(AutoBlog.com)
What I Learned Today Is
Here's Why Teslas Don't Have Red Seat Belt Buttons
Red seatbelt buckles are a requirement, but not in America. European seatbelt regulation, in particular ECE R16, states: “The buckle release area shall be coloured red. No other part of the buckle shall be of this colour.”
The corresponding U.S. regulation, FMVSS 209, does not specify a required buckle button color, hence why Tesla is able to use interior color-matched buttons, but only on U.S. spec models.
Why don’t you see other cars with the elegant black plastic buttons instead of the chintzy red ones? That likely has to do with cost savings, as manufacturers try to commonize restraints across all markets. Not to mention, even if it’s not required in the U.S., many automakers probably see it as a common-sense safety item.
Can't Argue Againts These 2 Reasons
10 Reasons the Open is the Best Major of Them All
1. The Open Championship is golf’s greatest event because it’s the oldest and has the game’s greatest pedigree.
Hell, it’s the granddaddy of all modern sporting events. It began more than a century before the first Super Bowl.
1. The Open Championship is golf’s greatest event because it’s the oldest and has the game’s greatest pedigree.
Hell, it’s the granddaddy of all modern sporting events. It began more than a century before the first Super Bowl.
The Open was first contested by eight hardy Scots playing three 12-hole rounds in a single grueling day in 1860. How old is this event? Some perspective: the U.S. flag had only 33 stars. The Civil War hadn’t happened and World War I was more than 50 years away. The Pony Express started the same year as the Open but the tournament pre-dates automobiles, the Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison’s electric light bulb, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Harry Potter and Nike.
That’s old.
5. When you’re the biggest, baddest and best championship in the world, you make your own rules.
Golf was invented in Scotland, so even after Americans took up the game a century or two later and used a slightly larger golf ball, Great Britain and the Open Championship continued to use its original model, which became known in America as “the small ball.”
That forced U.S. players like Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus who came over to play in the Open to make adjustments. The United States Golf Association decreed in 1932 that a golf ball must be 1.68 inches in diameter but the R&A, Britain’s ruling body, retained its standard, 1.62. The smaller ball was the preferred model to use in the Open because it bored through the winds better and, Jack Nicklaus noted years later, “went 50 yards farther.”
The British small ball was finally disallowed from Open Championship play in 1974 and dropped from all usage in 1990.
Check, Check, & Check
10 Ways to Finally Become an Adult
Grocery shop like a real human
Grocery shop like a real human
- You could rely on services like Blue Apron or Hello Fresh to bring you food, or you can get your own food like a grown up? “Plan your meals before heading to the store and research recipes that use overlapping ingredients to reduce food waste,” says consumer savings expert Andrea Woroch. “Don’t forget to factor in your social schedule so you don’t buy too much food. Anything that ends up in the trash is just a total waste of money.”
- You need some suits. Not a ton, though: In fact, Dawnn Karen, founder of the Fashion Psychology Institute, says that you only need a few because too many options can be overwhelming. And don't just buy a suit and think you're done -- tailoring is not expensive and will make any off-the-rack job look sartorially superior (you should also know the word "sartorial" because it's fancy).
- Budgets are boring, but important, like neighborhood zoning meetings. The good news is that you don’t have to spend hours pouring over a spreadsheet. You just need to follow a simple equation, says Woroch: “Half of your income should go toward living expenses including rent, utilities, transportation and groceries,” she says. Then 20 percent goes into savings or paying down debt. And 30 percent goes toward your lifestyle.
- Experts disagree about how long your resume should be (one versus two pages) or if it’s okay to include (the super impressive) experience from high school on it (hell yeah, anime club!), but they all say that you should have a professional email address. “No beerlover89@gmail.com or sexytimes69@hotmail.com,” says Joni Holderman, a professional resume writer. “And don’t use your .edu email address from college, unless you went to a very prestigious school like Harvard or Yale.”
- That Swagway scooter you bought on a whim? Yeah, that was probably a waste of $500. Stop doing that! “I always suggest someone sleep on it for at least 24 hours before making a major purchase,” says Danny Kofke, a personal finance advisor with Arista Financial Group. “Many times we get caught up in the moment and purchase something we later regret buying. By giving yourself some time to really think about it, you will determine if you really want and/or need that item.” Sigh, guess that complete Huey Lewis and the News discography will have to wait.
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