‘Madden NFL 11′ scores touchdown; misses extra point
August 13, 2010
It’s time to hit the gridiron again for EA Sports’ marquee video game franchise, and the NFL game once again fails to disappoint. The popular annual video game franchise features all 32 NFL teams and plays brilliantly.
The new additions to the game include a revolutionary new play call system called GameFlow, designed to cut average game times in half. GameFlow works by having your coordinator pick the best play for each situation designed from real NFL playbooks. Choosing your play the traditional way from previous Maddens is still available, pleasing casual and hardcore gamers alike. This new feature works like a charm and rarely gives you a bad play. GameFlow will revolutionize the way you play football video games for years to come. Read more
Interview with Reid Watson
May 6, 2010
I see senior Reid Watson every other morning, and I can honestly say that I’ve seen him wear ties more often than a lot of the adults I regularly encounter. I don’t know how he has the effort to get so dressed-up every morning, but I wish somebody would bottle it up and sell it to me.
1. Why do you get so dressed-up every morning?
It actually started last year because I started working at a Web development company that required me to dress nicely. I just felt more professional and productive in nice clothes, and it was just easier wearing nice clothes everyday than changing when I got out of school.
2. Why do nice clothes make you feel more productive?
One of the side effects of dressing nicely is that people treat you differently. Adults are nicer to you when you dress up; I think it’s a matter of respect, and I think they respect you when you’re in a nice shirt and pants more than (when you’re in) cargo shorts.
3. Where do you draw style inspiration?
I don’t really have a style inspiration in the complete sense of the (phrase), but I do wear a lot of sweater vests and ties. I guess all that matters is for me to like what I’m wearing. I also wear a lot of vintage items (from my dad).
4. How can I get the Reid Watson look?
My closet is a mixture of new and vintage. I’ll go out to the mall and buy brands like G by Guess and Tommy Hilfiger (from stores like Macy’s), H&M and Gap. I also have a lot of my dad’s old clothes from when he lived in Australia, and I do thrifting at Goodwill and other resale shops.
5. Any last words of advice?
Always remember who you are. (Style) and clothes aren’t things that should dictate who you are. They should rather be a reflection of how you perceive yourself. Basically, I guess it’s important to never let the clothes wear you.
Underclassmen on men’s basketball team gain valuable experience
March 24, 2010
More than two weeks after the Greyhounds’ season ended at the hands of Westfield, the dust has final settled around one of the most chaotic seasons in Carmel men’s basketball history.
The Hounds ended their season with a record of 15-7, not a great indicator of the team that beat number-two North Central and took number-one Bloomington South into overtime. Nor is it a glimpse at a team that got beaten badly by Center Grove and stumbled through the end of the season amid controversy. No, 15-7 is purely a number that will go down in line with a string of unsatisfying seasons from this decade.
However, 15-7 refers to the team from the 2009-2010 season that had five seniors on the roster. By the end of the season, the team basically played with one-half of a senior, an injured Alex Payne.
And that fact alone makes this 15-7 season different from previous seasons. Mainly because it allowed fans to see an early glimpse not of next year’s team, but of the promise of success two years down the road. Minus Payne and juniors Josh Baldridge and Alec Peterson, the team on the floor at the end of the season was composed almost entirely of sophomores.
It’s amazing to think about that pool of talent with another season of playing together under its belt. Hammons had a breakout year, averaging around eight points per game, eight rebounds per game, and more than five blocks per game. With two more years of playing against the best teams in Indiana, we could be looking at one of the most dominant centers in recent memory.
So while the incident involving the men’s basketball team was, for lack of a better word, unfortunate, fans of the game and of Carmel can still find that elusive silver lining. The fact that key seniors didn’t get to play in big games at the end of the season allowed underclassmen to get incredibly valuable experience.
Look at Gardner, who developed into the de facto point guard for Carmel’s squad. A typical season wouldn’t yield that type of experience, and Gardner showed that he is more than ready to lead the Hounds. And other players took advantage of the playing time when the team needed them most. Curts certainly did when he came into the huge Sectional game against Fishers, icing the game with two crucial three-pointers in the clutch.
I would hope that as a school we can choose to focus not on the conflict from the year, but instead on how the team handled that conflict despite massive pressure from the media and students. Carmel emerged from the season as a better team, not only gaining valuable experience for younger players, but also learning how to respond to discord with class and dignity.
When you think of 15-7, give that a thought.
The Thrift Shopper’s Dictionary
March 24, 2010
When venturing into the wonderful world of resale shopping, it is important to understand the differences between the different types of stores that fall under this category.
By Tim Chai and Rosemary Boeglin
tchai@hilite.org and rboeglin@hilite.org
First, there are thrift shops, which are shops that sell used articles, especially clothing to benefit a charitable organization. Examples of this would be Goodwill, Thrifty Threads or Salvation Army.
The next type of resale shop is a secondhand, or sometimes derogatively called “junk” shop. These shops sell miscellaneous secondhand goods or antiques. Examples of this would be antique malls or pawnshops. They are often smart to avoid, as their clientele and aura can often be smarmy at best, while the owners/ employees of these stores do well to overprice and exaggerate the quality of their goods. This is not true of all secondhand shops, though. For example Plato’s Closet, Rag-O-Rama, Broad Ripple Vintage and Value World all have strikingly different merchandise and attract different clientele, but remain respectable shops. Secondhand shops have the unique feature of illustrating all different types of business models. For instance, Rag-O-Rama and Plato’s Closet get their clothing by buying from people, but are not consignment because they pay outright for the clothing. Broad Ripple Vintage finds the clothes by going out and looking for items and then resells them at the store for a profit, while Value Village gets its merchandise from donations. They are all considered secondhand shops because they are for-profit, non-consignment resale shops.
Finally, consignment shops are resale shops with the provision that payment is expected (to the provider of the goods) only on completed sales and that unsold items may be returned to the one “consigning.” Basically, it means that people bring in their goods, often clothing or accessories, to a consignment shop. This shop then agrees to sell some, all or none of the items the consigner has brought in. Once an item sells, the consignment shop receives part of the profits from this sale, while the consigner receives the remaining portion of the profits. These shops are typically more expensive than the previous two types of resale shops, but the items are generally newer and of higher quality than those found at the other two types of stores. These shops are also often better organized and give the shopper a more retail-like shopping experience. Consignment stores around Carmel include In Vogue, Carmel Consignment, Designer Outlet and Out of the Closet.
Goodwill
1122 Keystone Way, Carmel – (317) 587-0281
1617 E 151st St, Carmel – (317) 844-1021
10491 Walnut Creek Dr, Carmel – (317) 876-0096
Thrifty Threads
1501 W 86th St
Indianapolis, IN 46260
(317) 802-9612
Salvation Army
234 E Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN
Plato’s Closet
8238 Rockville Road, Indianapolis, in 46214- (317) 271-1234
8966 E 96th St Fishers, IN 46037- (317) 585-0868
Rag-O-Rama
1067 Broad Ripple Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46220
(317) 475-0870
Broad Ripple Vintage
824 E 64th St.
Indianapolis, IN
(317) 255-4135
Value Village
1201 Prospect St
Indianapolis, IN 46203
(317) 322-1867
In Vogue
11546 Westfield Blvd,
Carmel, IN 46032
(317) 580-0058
Carmel Consignment
13686 North Meridian Street
Carmel, IN 46032
(317) 573-4400
Designer Outlet
1349 W 86th St Indianapolis
IN 46260-2101
(317) 255-3228
Out of the Closet
8517 Westfield Blvd
Indianapolis, IN 46240-2369
(317) 202-0319
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HOW TO: Be an Economically Conscious Thrift Shopper
February 24, 2010
I recycle my wardrobe on a pretty regular basis. Clothes flow in, I wear them five or six times, and clothes flow right back out. Of course there are staple items that I’ve kept for years, but my closet is more or less in a perpetual state of transition.
This sounds expensive. But on the contrary, I feed my insatiable hunger for new and different clothes by letting the habit pay for itself. This leads us into the first step to thrift shopping: don’t hoard your clothes.
Shopping in (relatively) cheap stores, such as thrift or consignment shops, makes people buy more than they would at retail stores, where higher prices prevent such behavior. Therefore, the discount diva often finds herself with more clothing and accessories than she needs or has space for. The solution: let your habit pay for itself. Sell your clothes once you’re done with them to resale shops, such as Rag-o-Rama, Plato’s Closet or The Toggery. And as for what isn’t bought or consigned by these stores: DONATE! In doing this, you can recover some of your earnings (and with some experience and strategy, you can even make money doing this), gain space back in your closet and allow someone else the opportunity to stumble across your ex-belongings and make them their own.
The important thing to remember while thrifting is that your closet doesn’t expand proportionately to the number of new clothes you buy. Don’t fall into the trap of hoarding your clothes or folding them in drawers in your room to make it all fit. If you do, you’ll never be able to see what you have to wear in the first place. So rule number 1: if you’re thinking “in with the new” you first have to be “out with the old.”
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