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"based on the math (a hard science), the odds of life and evolution happening by chance are simply not possible"
I would like to see that math. My math suggests that in a universe as large and diverse as ours and on a planet as large and diverse as ours and given the age of that universe and planet the existence of 'life by chance' is inevitable
Yes, maybe I do demand a little more. Most people who form opinions based on hard evidence do. However, just to be clear, I have no idea if my opinion is right. I have just based my own opinion on the hard evidence that I have seen (the math).
And, while the math may not be perfect and may not include all of the variables. Even with just the variables that we know of included, it still produces a result that is beyond the mathamatical definition of impossible (odds of 1 in 10 to the power of 50 or beyond). So, while additional variables may be appropriate, I don't think they would change the outcome in any meaningful way.
Just because life exists and has evolved does not mean that it absolutely happened by chance (even if very long odds exist for the possibility). So, just as my view may be biased via the math, other views must also be biased via other thought processes.
No absolute proof can be provided for either side. Learn as much as you can and come to your own conclusions. This is the essence of what I have tried to get across. That's all.
chasar: No real offence intended, but it's hard to take you seriously when you misspell "tailor." Furthermore, that's not evidence of anything. Plenty of refutation has been levied against the claim that the eye is too complex to have evolved, so I'm not going to dig into this one, other than to say that you are presenting the fallacy of assuming that the eye just one day popped into existence fully formed. That isn't how evolution by natural selection works. You are trying to do what Richard Dawkins calls "climbing mount improbable" in a single leap up a sheer cliff face, rather than ambling gradually up the way less steep back side. Also, the camera's design is based on our understanding of our own eyes, and yes I would think you were crazy if you suggested that cameras evolved by reproduction.
I covered the evolution of the eye in detail (along with its still existing intermediate forms) in a conversation with spacepreacher a few days ago...we also covered the old clock maker argument.
Please scoll back a half dozen pages or click on my name to pull my old posts.
In China the education we received from elementary school to high school is all about science. So naturally most of Chinese kids believe in theory of evolution.
@ Political LeaderMy apologies. I conflated your posts with CKyourEGO.
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Here is some real hard evidence: Your eye focuses on its' subject so quickly that you don't even know it is doing it, and incredibly more efficiently than the best auto-focus camera available today. Besides focusing, there are thin strips of muscles which move your eye in a stop and go sequence from the keyboard to the screen and over a million other stops instantly without even moving your head. No camera can do that. Now, if I told you that your digital camera formed by a series of accidents over billions of years I should hope you think I'm crazy. But saying that not only one eye, but two, did form that way is even crazier, because your eyes are infinately more complex than the camera. The garment testifies to the taylor.
Kioi's comments earlier today demonstrate the lack of understanding that prevents more people from seeing the truth in evolution and the tactics used to misinform the fence sitters.
Women are not 'more evolved' than men. They are the same species and are thus on the exact same path of evolution. Indeed, any species on Earth at this moment is equally evolved. They simply evolved differently, on different paths. Every creature on Earth is the current stage of millions of years of evolution. They have all succeeded in passing on their genes and are the latest generation on a continuous line of life and successful breeding that started with the first amino acid in the primordial pool, aka evolution.
Some have employed mutations or variation to succeed while other have not had to but they are all equally evolved. Evolution is a consequence of environmental pressures, biological mutation (not the 'radioactive monster' kind, the 'I'm taller than my dad' kind), and time. All living things have succeeded against these pressures and factors up to this point and have, by that measure, evolved equally.
And of course, as other commenter have noted, lorries cannot evolve in the biological sense. Only living things that can breed and mutate/vary can evolve. This argument and ones like it are common tools used to try to make evolution sound silly without a creator at the beginning. As one theory of the origins of life posits, lightening striking a primordial pool created amino acids that clumped together to make simple life. The same lightening strike does not create a motorcycle. The heat of a meteor collision can have the same effect and again, cannot create a car. Constructs have intelligent creators. Life, not necessarily so.
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There is no evidence that life forms exist in other places, but there is no evidence that it does not. We have little contact with the rest of the universe and can not make a determination one way or the other.
When you are speaking of probability PROVING that life could not have evolve this possibility must be taken into account.
Or, we can say the fact that we currently have no evidence of GOD, PROVES that GOD does not exist and then base all of our discussions on that assumption.
Either way, evolution remains the best option.
Firstly, Radagast claims that 10E-10123 is the possibility that our universe as we know it exists, not that life formed in it. As I said, I haven't gotten my hands on Penrose's book yet to verify. Radagast was kind enough to supply a specific page number, though, so I'll verify it over the weekend."There is no evidence of any other lifeforms out there, so why do you get hung up on the idea that other lifeforms could exist elsewhere. Where is your evidence?"That's rich, given your assertion that God must exist (which is implied in the assertion that he formed the universe).I never made the assertion that other life forms *do* exist, just that they *could*. That statement holds true until demonstrated otherwise -- you'd have to look everywhere and demonstrate that no other life forms were found. And if you want to argue that they couldn't exist given different laws of physics, your task is even harder: you have to somehow visit all universes with other laws of physics and search in every spot within them, too. And for good measure, you should probably only declare the search in each universe over once that universe has ended.Sounds impossible? Yeah. That's why it's generally accepted that you can't prove a negative.And lest you try to turn that argument against me to say that God could exist by the same rules: Yes, he could. I never said he couldn't.But just as I don't form any theories that require the existence of other life forms until I've found them, nor do I form theories that require the existence of God until I've found him.
waclin:I have never once, not here or anywhere else, claimed the existence of other universes besides our own. But there you go again deflecting away from the basic issue -- "demanding" (yes, I'm saying it again) oodles of evidence from science but refusing to acknowledge the utter dearth of evidence in favour of the god hypothesis and seemingly assuming that because science has not provided you with an air-tight position that therefore your position must be the correct alternative. Sloppy thinking, my friend.Glaucons. . . I think you're confusing me with a couple of the other posters who would seem to stand basically in the same position as me. I'm with you on your first paragraph (especially its final sentence: some common ground at last?), but not sure where you're going in the second. I do not assume mankind is basically decent, though I would wish it were so. I'm actually rather certain that each of us is essentially selfish, so much so that even self-sacrifice can be cast as self-promotion(in other words, there is no such thing as altruism).
waclin, You still don't seem to understand that it is not math that we have the problem with. Math is like a computer. It is only as useful as its inputs and its user.
It is clear to the readership that you have not critically examined the equation you reference and do not seem to have an understanding of what it it is actually able to tell you.
Here is an incomplete list of potential problems with the conclusions you have drawn:
That the universe has a minute chance of forming with the same laws of physics, does not preclude life under another set of constraints.
That the earth has only been around for a number of years does not make it the sole possiblity in the universe for the development of life.
Even narrowing to the evolution of life to the earth as we know it; the existence of life change the parameters of the system in which they occur. This was true for the original organisms which created the breathable atmosphere as a by-product of their respiration and it is true now with the hunam race exacerbating the greenhouse effect.
The number of factor involved in the evolution of life and of the universe are far beyond what can be included in an equation written by a single person.
That is the possibility that life could have formed in the universe, not the possibility of our universe existing.
@Political Leader Religion has an observable effect upon society apart from the truth or falsehood of its basic claims. The Christian belief in God is not founded upon anything that rises to the level of scientific evidence. If that is the threshold of your belief, I am not going to compromise both my faith and my reason to spend time arguing with you otherwise. My initial point in being in this thread was that Christian Churchs' continued fight against the concept of evolution was a pointless exercise and that the truth or falsehood of their basic core beliefs are not affected by acknowledging the theory of evolution. The continued focus on something so untenable and repulsive as creation science compromises our ability to affect education reform in other areas where religion ought to be included.As for your assumption about the basic decency of mankind, you fooled me by the outlandish expectation that we could possibly arrive at some universally agreed upon good and scientifically enact such a good in a society. Such an assertion requires at least in my mind some basic assumption about human decency that I find to be lacking. Furthermore, anyone that makes claims of about the potential for an immanetized eschaton should expect to get an ear full from those of us that like the location of our head firmly attached to our neck.
There is no evidence of any other lifeforms out there, so why do you get hung up on the idea that other lifeforms could exist elsewhere. Where is your evidence?
I try to work with only things that are known. If we someday find our that Mork really did come from another planet, my thoughs will change at that point.
And no, there is no need to rehash your lottery explaination. It is not helpful at all.
"For people to make claims of possible other Universes and to lecture others about comments with no backing is absurd."The statement "our universe as it exists has only a 10^-10123 chance of existing" only makes sense if you assume possible other universes. If you don't assume those other universes could exist, and define our universe as the only one that could exist, then our universe has a 100% chance of existing.You can't define 1 as both 1 and -1.
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Please enlighten me on the evidence for the existence of other Universes.
@waclin:"Tell me, what is the difference between the probability of life and the probability of the universe forming with the same laws of physics that we have?"I don't know, but I don't pretend to. You don't know either, but you pretend to.I'll concede that human life, on Earth, as we know it, could only exist given the laws of physics as we know them. But that isn't the same as saying that *all* life is only possible given those exact laws. This is the lottery explanation which you seem to have failed to grasp several times. Rehashing it is getting a bit tiresome, to be honest.
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Tom Waits: How The Skid Row Balladeer Found His Voice
This month, five new performers will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's an eclectic group of selections, ranging from pop diva Darlene Love to shock-rocker Alice Cooper. But in spite of their differences, each of these singers adopted a special identity or image to stand out from the rest of the pack. Morning Edition has been looking behind the personas of this year's inductees.
In the Los Angeles of the early 1970s, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor were all models for musical success. It seemed like being a sensitive singer-songwriter was the ticket to fame, so that's the way a 22-year-old Tom Waits pitched himself on a 1971 demo tape.
But Waits had little in common with the denim-clad denizens of the rolling hills west of L.A. In a 2006 NPR interview, Waits said it took him awhile to figure out who he was.
"I think most singers, when they start out, are doing really bad impersonations of other singers that they admire," Waits said. "You kind of evolve into your voice. Or maybe your voice is out there, waiting for you to grow up."
Waits found his own voice in L.A.'s Skid Row district, home to working-class stiffs on third shift, waitresses and drunks — not the usual subject matter of singer-songwriters. Waits wanted to tell the stories that never got told, and to do it in the improvisational cadence of his literary hero, Jack Kerouac.
The singer found a sympathetic ear in record producer Dayton "Bones" Howe, who'd had a hand in a 1960 album of Kerouac readings. Howe says Waits not only spun tales about the street; he also dressed the part and lived the life.
"He was staying in a motel on Santa Monica Boulevard," Howe says. "He was messy. He used to say" — and here he affects a Tom Waits impression — "I shave and get dressed and go to bed."
Working with Bones Howe over the course of seven albums, Waits painted a series of city scenes — everything from pulp-fiction melodramas to the ruminations of an inebriated lounge pianist. But Howe says that, over time, the singer started to identify a little too closely with his characters.
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The last time the two men worked together was on the soundtrack of Francis Ford Coppola's 1982 film One From the Heart. During that time, Waits met his future wife and current producing partner Kathleen Brennan, who helped him get sober. But that persona of the disheveled outsider persisted — it was Waits' sonic identity that changed.
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After a few years without a studio album, Waits recently returned to the recording studio — which means the target of his identity is likely to move again.
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Ralphige, himself a lifelong hip-hop fan, admits the calls are "like a power trip. Like all these rappers, they constantly get their asses kissed by everybody and here comes me, ruining their entire day. I guess if I'm remembered as that asshole who called him out on his shit, I'm satisfied."
Not surprisingly Ralphige says he was your typical neighborhood menace. He toilet-papered countless houses, and racked up the school suspensions. He says he's only been arrested once for his telephonic high jinks. "It was my first real prank call," he recalls, "I called this car wash in Coral Gables and pretended that I worked with Snoop [Dogg] and told the owner that the movie Car Wash with Snoop in it was based on his car wash and we were gonna fly him out to L.A. and give him a fat check."
He foolishly gave his victim his beeper number, which led to a visit from the cops. He was charged with misdemeanor harrassment and pleaded no contest to avoid jail. After that, he says, he made it a point to know "what would get me arrested. Like, for instance, threatening, constant calling after they said not to call, bomb threats, shit like that. However, threatening gangsta rappers is an exception! Can you imagine a 50 Cent calling the cops saying some dude is threatening to beat him up?"
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Odds are Scott Storch would like a crack at Ralphige. Storch, the hip-hop megaproducer, is Ralphige's favorite victim to date. The Storch-Ralphige contretemps, in fact, has already kicked up plenty of buzz in the Internet community. Ralphige poses as "the Gregster," a pothead surfer who claims to be the boyfriend of Brooke Hogan, the latter whom Storch produced and signed to his record label. The Gregster asks a credulous Storch if he's sleeping with Hogan. Storch replies, "Hell no!" and the call devolves from there, a masterpiece of mockery that features a cameo from Brooke's dad, Hulk Hogan.
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Hi to all,
I'm not (yet) a film maker nor work in the industry however I am taking evening courses with the intention of applying to a documentary film program here in Vancouver.
Welcome back, Monica. You've clearly been a busy (and productive) one. Nice to know you'll finally be jumping in and posting. Hope it becomes a nasty habit.
Good luck with your doc studies, Barry.
Hello all,
Just wanted to say a quick hello. I was looking up the previous projects of an editor and in googling I came upon the d-word. I can't believe I haven't been here before; this looks amazing!
I am a documentary editor myself having worked on two different socially conscious projects in the past few years. (When I Came Home & Skid Row.) I learned a lot from working on them and can't wait for the next feature length project. Check out the links below if you wish and hello again!
Hi Brendan, we're delighted to have you on board.
Having been busy for a couple of days, I've just been swept away by a flood of new members here. What's happening?
I have a feeling our new Co-Host Marj Safinia has been doing some networking and promotion...
Thanks Doug! I'll be working my way through all of the posts and jumping back in shortly!
Hey guys! i live in montreal canada and i am a new member to D-word, so whats up? im looking forward to sharing ideas with ppl on this site and hope i can gain more info in this field and grow.i am studying in film and would love to work with anybody who is interested in docs, features etc...
Thanks Ben. I'm just getting acclimated to the site. This is really a cool thing; I love talking to other documentary people. While I was in New York on a project I found myself surrounded by a ton of documentary professionals, but in Los Angeles I'm a little out of the loop. Do you have any advice or particular topics you think I should check out to interact with West Coast doc people?
Oh wow, I just noticed that one of your hosts Doug Block worked on Esther Robinson's film about her uncle Danny and the Warhol factory. Esther was sooooo helpful on a previous project and we worked closely with her and her editor Shannon. I guess it truly is a small world...
Welcome to all these new faces to D-Word. Look around and stay awhile. And a special shout out to Suree. I was the curator of the Council on Foundations Film Festival last year and your film was one of the selected films. I was very impressed by the degree of outreach you had already achieved with the film to non-traditional audiences and still talk about it with filmmakers who are just starting out. Hope you'll share some of your experiences maybe in the Distribution Topic.
Brendan, good to have you here. Esther is one of my best friends and we go way back – she helped produce my doc Home Page, for which I created a running blog back in 1996 called The D-Word. In late 1999, when the film's distribution life started to peter out, The D-Word took a different turn . Funny how it all works out and, yes, it is a pretty small world.
Brendan, D-Word Members in L.A. meet all the time. I just got to witness a secret get-together yesterday. The Face 2 Face topic is always a start.
Thanks for the welcome, all! And to Erica...that's great to hear. We wanted to go to the Council on Foundations, but it was a little difficult to make it, so thanks for the feedback. I'll check out the distribution topic boards and would be happy to share our experiences. We're still working on distribution (mostly university/foreign/small groups now), but I appreciate the thoughts you share (usually it feels like we're working in a little bubble, but your comments remind me of the unseen impact screenings have). Good luck to all, viva documentary!
Hey folks –
I've been lurking for a few months, but I figured it's time to make my membership official... My name is Nels Bangerter, I'm primarily a documentary film editor (freelance) and I just moved from D.C. to New York, so I'm looking to rebuild a little community.
I was the editor of "War Child," which won the Audience Award for features at Tribeca last year, and I just finished working on Joe Wilson & Dean Hamer's documentary "Out in the Silence", which I think might be familiar to D-Word members. And back when I was in Los Angeles (before D.C.) I edited "Cine Manifest," a feature doc about a memo-crazy 1970s San Francisco-based Marxist filmmaking collective that imploded because of overly contentious idealism and rampant "criticism/self-criticism." Hopefully no resemblance to the D-Word...
Thanks for having me.
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1972 to about 1978 (depends on what you call the end) So the D-Word has it beat. What a relief!
Good to have you aboard our overly idealistic collective of doc fanatics, Nels. Welcome.
I make documentaries and sad little comedies with a small team called Castparty Productions. I also did an experimental narrative feature last summer, for which I'm in the process of doing a director's cut.
We've begun periodic shoots of a local activist hero, for a doc that may or may not turn out to be feature-length, along with working on a feature-length musical. I guess you could say we're touching all the bases.
HI. Sailesh Dave from Bombay, India. Currently producing Prime Time TV shows and small spoof movies for clients like MTV, STAR TV network etc. Have always been passionate about documentaries and want to start by making some. Need advice on what are the latest market trends, sales agents, international format requirements, technical specs etc. Thanks.
Welcome, Sailesh. Best thing you can do is spend some time reading the various through the various topics here and use the search engine and tags to get at specific questions you might have. There's a handy Help function that will explain things, too, if need be.
Hi All – I've worked on a few documentaries before as editor and composer, but am making my first as a director/producer now and am looking for different resources and communities to help answer some of the questions and snags I'll encounter along the way.
I'm in the grant writing stage of the process now...
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Can't imagine running into snags, Matthew. Producing is so easy, especially in this economy. But we'll try to untangle what we can. Welcome aboard.
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- 2 tablespoon(s) vegetable oil
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 2 medium (1.75 pounds each) butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and cut into 3/4-inch pieces
- 3/4 pound(s) (2 medium) golden delicious apples, peeled, cored, and coarsely chopped
- 1 can(s) (14 1/2 ounces) vegetable broth
- 1.5 cup(s) water
- 1 teaspoon(s) freshly chopped thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) dried thyme can be substituted for fresh chopped
- 1 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1/8 teaspoon(s) coarsely ground black pepper
- 1 cup(s) half-and-half or light cream
- In 4-quart saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion and cook until tender and golden, about 10 minutes. Stir in squash, apples, broth, water, thyme,salt, and pepper; heat to boiling over high heat. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer, stirring often, until squash is very tender, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Spoon one-third of squash mixture into blender; cover, with center part of cover removed to let steam escape, and puree until smooth. Pour puree into bowl. Repeat with remaining mixture.
- Return puree to saucepan; stir in half-and-half. Heat through over medium heat, stirring occasionally
(do not boil). Makes about 9 cups or 8 first-course servings.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Chicago Blackhawks have plenty of offense.
With the regular season starting to wind down, they're providing a strong reminder that they can play pretty stingy defense, too.
Bryan Bickell scored in the first period, and Ray Emery made 20 saves and the Blackhawks beat the Nashville Predators 1-0 Saturday for their third win in four games.
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"That's a team that you've really got to play some boring hockey against," Emery said of Nashville. "You just try to be in good defensive position and take advantage when you get the opportunity. And I thought we played that strategy to a T tonight."
Chicago improved to 12-0-1 against the Central Division this season and moved closer to clinching the playoff berth.
The Blackhawks won their third against Nashville this season and second in six days. They'll have a chance at their third in a week Sunday night in Chicago as these teams wrap up a back-to-back.
Emery posted his second shutout and the 13th of his career, and Chicago improved to 16-3-4 in one-goal games this season. Chicago coach Joel Quenneville called Emery rock solid in doing what he had to do for the shutout.
"I thought he was in control around the net against that team," Quenneville said. "There are a lot of scrambles, a lot of loose stuff. They create traffic, and I thought he found pucks and froze them and looked very big."
Chicago came in needing just four points to clinch that playoff berth. Now the Blackhawks could clinch before taking the ice Sunday with losses by a couple other teams.
With the afternoon faceoff, enough of the Blackhawks' faithful got a flight to Nashville to make it feel like the United Center chanting, "Let's go Hawks" even before the puck dropped. The arena was packed with 17,256 fans in attendance in a building whose capacity is listed at 17,113.
The Predators are the Western Conference's only team to reach the semifinals each of the past two seasons but desperately needed a win with only nine games left.
Instead, Nashville lost its second straight and fourth in five games playing Saturday without center Paul Gaustad, whose upper-body injury will keep him out at least a couple more games along with left wing Gabriel Bourque and forward Colin Wilson, who's been out since March 9.
"A few deletions obviously at the trade deadline so we're a little thin," Nashville coach Barry Trotz said. "But guys gave it everything they had, and we almost got that thing tied up."
They had their chances in the third with a double minor when Daniel Carcillo high-sticked Nashville captain Shea Weber, nicking the defenseman's nose and drawing blood at 7:58 of the third.
But the Blackhawks improved to 16 of their past 16 penalty kills. Patric Hornqvist poked away a would-be empty netter by Chicago right wing Michael Frolik with 1:30 left as he slid into the goal post, knocking it off its moorings.
Nashville took its timeout only to see Emery stop several chances including a wraparound pass from Taylor Beck to Hornqvist. Brandon Yip was just wide of the net before the final horn.
Predators goalie Pekka Rinne called it a tough loss.
"Obviously you know the standings and everything, but you try not to look at it right now," Rinne said. "You try to focus on one game at a time. Now it's tomorrow night, and it is not going to get any easier. We have a pretty big task on our hands if we want to make it and we have to start winning some games."
The Blackhawks jumped out to a 1-0 lead when Michal Handzus found Bickell on a cross-ice pass that Bickell one-timed past Rinne catching the Nashville goalie out of position at 5:31 of the first period. Trotz wasn't happy with defenseman Jonathon Blum's play on the 2-on-1.
"Give our goalie a chance to make a save," Trotz said. "The way he played that he just left Peks out to dry."
Bickell credited Marcus Kruger with starting the play for Chicago, and the result gave him plenty of space to shoot.
"He set both the goalie and the defenseman over to give me the empty net," Bickell said.
Chicago outshot Nashville 10-2 with one of the Predators' rare chances broken up when Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook hooked Nick Spaling on a breakaway chance.
Nashville managed a late flurry, but Emery had a kick save on a Weber shot with 1:05 left in the first.
In the second, Emery stopped David Legwand from in front, got help when a Chicago forward tripped Matt Halischuk at the crease and then the goalie made a stop on Spaling as the Predators spent more time in the offensive zone.
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I ve tried others like the Ugly Coyote and Backwoods but they don t compare. On a rare occasion you might come across a hard draw/wrapped to tight, but mostly pretty consistent. I ve tried other small quick cigars but always come back to the Outlaws. Guess there is nothing out there. Looks like I m here to stay, no more looking.
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In about four months Thorns FC will kick off the 2015 NWSL campaign.
Between now and then the only scheduled date that has any potential to affect the team's roster is January 16, 2015, the date of the college draft. The chances of this actually making any significant changes to the roster look exceedingly small. As of today Thorns FC has only one pick in the first three rounds (25th overall, seventh in the third round), and another in the fourth (34th overall, seventh in the round). Add to this Coach Riley's well-known disinterest in college-level players and you get…well, very little.
In addition, Thorns FC has been very quiet during the NWSL offseason to date – certainly compared to clubs like Western New York, which has been more-or-less completely overhauled. Only Seattle and Kansas City have been as quiescent, not exactly surprising given their form last season.
So it might not be a bad time to take a look at how the current Thorns roster deck is stacked. What parts of the roster look like a sure winners? Which looks like they need strengthening? Are there any wild cards tucked away?
Let's start at the bottom of the deck.
Changes since 2014? None.
Nadine Angerer and Michelle Betos look solid to return in 2015.
Betos did nothing in 2014 to really increase or decrease her value as backup – of her three appearances the only loss was the June match with WNY where she had to replace a sent-off Angerer. She seems adequate in her role, if nothing more. She's not on any of the World Cup teams, which helps the team plan for Angerer's absences.
Nadine Angerer's 2014 continued what seems to me to be her the disconnect she's shown since the Teens between national team and club form; she continued to be the top keeper for the Fußballnationalmannschaft der Frauen, but her Thorns season has to be considered no better than average. Here's the final statistics for the primary NWSL keepers (more than 15 appearances) in 2014:
Team Keeper Games Played GAA SOG/SV/% SO
Boston Naeher 24 2.2 159/106/67% 3
Chicago LeBlanc 21 1.0 97/76/78% 6
FCKC Barnhart 22 1.31 100/71/71% 8
PTFC Angerer 22 1.36 104/74/71% 4
Seattle Solo 20 0.9 83/65/78% 5
SBFC Loyden 17 1.47 94/69/73% 4
Washington Harris 19 1.63 97/66/68% 4
WNY – Neither keeper (Williams/Wys) played more than 14 matches
Houston McLeod 20 1.75 120/53/69% 2
As you can see, our 'keeper ranked below Solo, LeBlanc, and Barnhart in goals-against average, below LeBlanc, Solo, and Loyden in save percentage, and below Barnhart, LeBlanc, and Solo in shutouts.
I know this will be ammunition for the LeBlanc partisans. In passing I would simply note that Chicago played a very tight defensive game – their 26 GA was second in the league behind Seattle – and that a lot of the goals-against and shutout issues Nadine had had as much to do with the porous nature of Portland's backline as her own play. Look at the shots on goal (SOG); Die Kaiserin faced more shots than anyone outside Naeher, who given Boston's defensive woes might as well have been playing behind one of those free-kick practice wall cutout gimmicks, and McLeod for the expansion team. Her defense put Angerer in worse positions than Chicago's typically put Karina. I love KK. But I'm not ready to say that she's the better 'keeper.
Still, Angerer had some very visible issues she needs to work on, including her distribution and her positioning when she comes off her line (last season she tended to go to ground quickly and was rounded more easily than she should have been). Overall, however, she's a solid 'keeper and should do better this season with an upgraded backline in front of her.
And while I'm on the subject, Angerer's blog is kind of a hoot.
Hit or Stay? Stay
Changes since 2014? In: Kat Williamson (from WNY) Out: Sarah Huffman (retirement)
The return of Kat Williamson (as part of the Brooks trade with WNY) will surely help shore up the central defense alongside Rachel Van Hollebeke and Emily Menges. Nikki Marshall and Steph Catley remain excellent options at LB. Becca Moros will probably continue to add service as a spot-starter and substitute, either in back or at DM.
Uncertainties remain, however.
The retirement of Huffman leaves the question of RB wide open. Coach Riley might choose to play Marshall there, but from what I've seen she's not as comfortable on the right side of the pitch. Moros isn't really a fullback (and should be needed to help out in the back of midfield, anyway…). Emily Menges wasn't really effective outside in 2014. Kat Tarr's recovery from her knee injury is difficult to assess; she doesn't seem to be out on loan, suggesting that her progress isn't that far along.
I suspect that we will be pleased with the rest of the Thorns defense in 2015. None of the starters is liable for international duty outside Catley (I'd be surprised if the VanHollebekedozer is picked for the USWNT in 2015) and Marshall should do well there as she did in 2013. Having a stable backline practicing together from mid-February should produce real improvement for the Thorns defense.
Hit or Stay? Hit. This team needs a starting quality RB. Period. I hope Merritt and Riley are looking as you're reading this.
Changes since 2014? In: McCall Zerboni (from WNY) Out: Amber Brooks (to WNY), Angie Kerr (retirement)
McCall Zerboni might be a genuine wild card next season. Here's what David Anderson over at Stumptown Footy says about her: "McCall Zerboni is a relentless, high-work-rate player with the versatility we're going to need with the roster weirdness that's going to be part of next year's season. Zerboni is faster and dribbles better (than Brooks), I'd say. I'd call it a wash on passing. Zerboni doesn't have Brooks' strength on the holding end, but has a bit of that Diego Chara "terrier" action when trying to dispossess someone. I think Thorns fans are going to like her."
The weakness that other teams (read: FCKC in particular) spotted in PTFC's midfield last season is that we had a maestra of an ACM in Vero and a hard-nosed DCM in Brooks…and that was about it. We lacked both a true outside mid of the Wallace breed or a true BTB midfielder. So if you marked Vero tightly you would eventually force her to pass backwards. And, from there, Portland didn't have anyone else who could dribble and distribute the ball. Shim might have been able to…but she never played. Farrelly got better as the season went on, but not to the point where she could stop that tactic from working.
Zerboni should really help with that. But…
At this moment it's still hard to say what sort of shape the Thorns midfield will look like in April. We hold three queens: Vero, Allie Long, and Tobin Heath. Four, with Zerboni. But that's what gets tricky. Three of those four will probably spend much of 2015 playing for their national teams. That leaves us with:
Zerboni, Mana Shim, Courtney Niemiec, and Sinead Farrelly…and the status on Farrelly's and Niemiec's injuries, as with Tarr's, is difficult to assess. Neither appears to be on loan, either, suggesting that they are still rehabbing.
So when the internationals are here, Portland looks fantastic; Vero at the point of the diamond with Heath and Zerboni, Moros (or Niemiec) at the back, and Shim and Farrelly on the bench ready to come for fresh legs late. But when they're gone…and Shim is still in Riley's doghouse…and Farrelly and Niemiec are still crocked..?
Hit or Stay? Stay. I think the team as it stands when complete is pretty well set up; Vero, Long, Zerboni, Heath, Shim…that's a damn good midfield. The "what ifs" kick in when the internationals are gone, but I can't see for the life of me how the Front Office addresses that without disrupting the roster.
Changes since 2014: In: Danesha Adams
Here's where I'm really going to hang myself out. I think that Thorns FC has real issues up front that need to be dealt with if the team is going to be successful in 2015. Bear with me while I try and lay out what I think the troubles are and will be.
Right now Thorns FC has six players listed at forward. All of them had problems in 2014 or played so little that their abilities cannot be assessed.
Alex Morgan is…well, Alex Morgan. I think we tend to take her for granted; "She's so awesome because…well, because she's Alex Morgan!" But Morgan has perhaps the most issues of any of the PTFC strikers. She has now been injured in two straight seasons. She has also never really found her form with PTFC in the way she has with the national team, possibly because she had a very indifferent midfield in 2013 and was injured or absent for much of 2014. She has not developed any real chemistry with Christine Sinclair or Jess McDonald. She will be missing for much of 2015 on international duty.
Christine Sinclair suffered a horrific loss of form in 2014 for both club and country. Her performances for Canada since the end of the NWSL season don't show that she's recovering her pre-2014 capabilities; her goal against Sweden on November 26th was her first since December 2013. Her goalscoring for Portland dropped from 8 (for 26 SOG) in 2013 to 7 (for 40) in 2014, a decline from 30.7% to 17.5% efficiency. It seems likely to me that her confidence has collapsed or she's hit some sort of physical wall.
Jessica McDonald was the goalscoring leader for PTFC last season with 11. She has flashes of great skill…combined with some appallingly poor passing and a repeated inability to find open teammates. She is also usually less effective off the dribble and relies on service from others. Until late last season I'd have called her more of a poacher than a truly creative striker.
Jackie Acevedo, Hanna Terry and Danesha Adams are unknown quantities. Acevedo has played a total of 15 minutes over 2 matches, Terry eight minutes. Acevedo's status is also uncertain because of the possiblity that the FMF may not allocate players to the NWSL next season. Adams' career has shown a progressive decline in productivity, from 3 goals in 20 appearances for Sky Blue in 2013 to 1 goal in 13 games for Washington last season.
For a team that was supposed to win 6-5 the striker position has been the most troubled of all the Thorns' roster. Simply stated, none of the Thorns forwards outside McDonald had a decent season in 2014, and both of the marquee players – Sinclair and Morgan – had perhaps the worst seasons of their careers between injury and loss of form. Morgan and Sinclair will now add to the difficulty in gaining minutes and form with the Thorns as their 2015 schedule is dominated by the World Cup. The three remaining forwards are just blanks at this time; they may be aces, they may be deusces, or jokers. Who knows?
Hit or Stay? Hit – though how, and how Riley solves this hot mess is difficult to assess. Is Sinclair done as a striker, or does she just need to get her groove back? How can PTFC make Morgan as effective for club as she is for country? Where does McDonald fit in – does she become a true poacher, a fox-in-the-box looking to take out the trash…or can she become half of a partnership with Morgan, or Sinclair, or Adams, or Terry? And where do the other three fit in; who starts alongside McDonald when the internationals are out?
Maybe not a pat hand…but close. A right back, and some sort of solution to the free-floating mess at forward; those seem to be the most pressing needs this team should address before April. No WNY-style housecleaning…just a draw or two to try and fill out the rest of the pack.
That and, of course, a thought-out plan to prevent the repetition of the disaster that was the cunning "let's throw together a bunch of walk-ons and replacement-level players and hope to keep things from exploding until the real team arrives in mid-season" gimmick of 2014.
That and look for the breaks that fell to Portland in 2013, and didn't in 2014, to fall our way again and it's onward, Rose City!
Or simply, as Lola Montez may (or may not) have said; Courage, and shuffle the cards!


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Wentzville MO
PointSavers offers up to 33% in point savings, depending on the hotel category and number of nights requested. This hotel is offering Seasonal Awards, so you can use fewer points when you book a stay during these dates.
130 Crossroads South Drive Wentzville, MO 63385
1.2 miles from Wentzville
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1800 Zumbehl Road St Charles, MO 63303
17.4 miles from Wentzville
801 Veterans Memorial Parkway St. Charles, MO 63303
19.4 miles from Wentzville
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3101 Rider Trail South St. Louis, MO 63044
22.2 miles from Wentzville
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11888 Westline Industrial Dr St. Louis, MO 63146
23.6 miles from Wentzville
1680 Fenton Business Park Court Fenton, MO 63026
28.7 miles from Wentzville
1662 Fenton Business Park Ct. Fenton, MO 63026
28.9 miles from Wentzville
5224 Commerce Parkway Pontoon Beach, IL 62040
42.9 miles from Wentzville
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4 Gateway Drive Collinsville, IL 62234
46.3 miles from Wentzville
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