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Normally on a team that wins 97 games, there is a solid contribution from every player on the roster.
Greg Dobbs is the exception to the rule. Once a fan favorite, the Phillies faithful turned on the left-handed "infielder" for good reason. It's tough to call Dobbs an infielder, simply because that would mean he had to field the ball, something that didn't really ever seem to happen.
In a season riddled by injuries for the Phillies, Dobbs managed just a .196/.251/.331 season with 39 strikeouts in 163 at bats.
Many fans rejoiced when Dobbs was sent down in late June. But like a cat, he landed on his feet as he was recalled just five days later when Chase Utley and Placido Polanco went on the disabled list.
Dobbs defense was pretty laughable though. In 36 games at third base, Dobbs managed to put together an UZR of -5.1. Among the 51 infielders with at least 200 innings at third base, Dobbs came in at 40th. To put in perspective, had Dobbs been called on to play 150 games at third, he would have been 29.5 runs worse than an average fielder.
It's easy to point out Dobbs's inadequacies in roles he was never supposed to fill. However, Dobbs's biggest downfall was in his main job, as a pinch-hitter. In 2008 as a cult hero, Dobbs led the majors in pinch-hitting at .355 (22-62) with 16 RBIs. This year, Dobbs managed to hit just .122 (6-49) with only four RBIs coming off the bench.
It is tough to go off a single season, especially as a pinch-hitter simply because you are going off such small sample sizes. However, when your job as a pinch-hitter is rewarded on mostly a year–to-year basis, those sample sizes can help you earn your next big paycheck, or they can be the reason that you are given your walking papers.
In this case, that is why Greg Dobbs will not be with the 2011 Phillies.
Tomorrow: Domonic Brown
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Does he even deserve THAT grade?? I'd put him at ZERO (or in the negative if that's possible)
Good riddance.
Can we all move on from the Greg Dobbs-hatred now? The guy had a terrible season, which happens to many players each year. He won't be back and the Phils will get someone who is more reliable.
Greg Dobbs. Greg Dobbs is hot. Greg Dobbs.
Spot on Nick. What a waste of space.
LOL I thought about going with the 0, but I figured that just being there to fill the roster when the injuries were that high got him a 0.5
Dobbs sucked, but for me he gets a half point or so for that 3-run bomb against the Reds, which made that comeback possible. (Ditto Cody Ransom and his subsequent 2-run, game-tying HR.)
Richard, I'll give you that one. That was an amazing game for sure!
Wish Dobbs well (except if he plays the Phils) he may rebound or may not. I think we treated him very fairl and gave plenty of chances. The guy just never rebounded back maybe he will with another club or another year.
Not much to say except poor Dobbs. Well at least he has stories about being in the 'Bigs'.
I know this is a Dobbs post place, but I live in VT and news about the phillies is hard to find, but did they not claim some one off waivers today, an outfielder from the Indians?
I never really liked Dobbs… he had that one good season and since he's been awful. He is a dead-pull middle-in fastball hitter… throw him anything else and there's nothing he can do with it. He's no good in the field and seems like a real donkey… what's the point? I mean, guys like Stairs and Sweeney have their flaws as hitters but at least they aren't jack-wagons.
From the Phillies site:
The Phillies claimed infielder Carlos Rivero off waivers from the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday.
Rivero spent the 2010 season with Double-A Akron. He hit .232 with six home runs, 43 RBIs, a .278 on-base percentage and a .325 slugging percentage in 110 games.
The Phillies have 34 players on their 40-man roster.
beta: He's an infielder, and he doesn't look as though he's settin' the world on fire to me. But hey, stranger things have happened.
Oh yeah, it seems Milt Thompson interviewed to be the Astros hitting coach.
So everyone hates dobbs.
He did hit a big homer in the Reds series before all star break. Rasmus also had a big homer in that game.
Sparky Anderson died today
The Phillies claimed infielder Carlos Rivero from the Indians… AAA guy. He's officially on their 40 man roster but he's more like an inventory guy… somewhere between Bocock and Jason Donald (prob not as much upside as Donald but better than Bocock).
Sparky was great manager and a Phillie his only season in the majors.
RIP Sparky. Not just a great baseball book, but a great book is Game 6. It takes a very good writer to keep you on the edge of your seat when you already know how the story ends. For better or worse, Anderson was the creator of modern bullpen utilization, lefty and righty specialists,…..
All I have to say about Dobbs is thanks for 2008.
We are better off without Dobbs. He made some decent money here and it really was beyond his time to go. RIP Sparky Anderson — Ex Phillie and HOF Manager. Only age 76. Because of his white hair, he looked that age for 30 years or more.
So Sweeney hits .231 and gets a 7, yet Dobbs hit .198 and gets a 0.5 ? Yes i know Sweeney is a good clubhouse presence, but I've never read anything about the players hating Dobbs ? Pretty harsh if you ask me. Guys not much as a ballplayer but he was awesome when we won it all in 08. Give him SOME respect.
I happened to be at an Iron Pigs game in August with Mr. Dobbs occupying space in right field. Top of the first, he and the center fielder COLLIDED on a routine fly, allowing two unearned runs to skip home. Then, down three runs in the 8th, with bases loaded and two out, Dobbsy pooted a weak grounder right to the second baseman to end the 'Pigs only scoring chance of the evening.
I got a giveaway hat, though, so it was cool in the end.
That's 2008. The grade is for what he did THIS year…
…and this year he didn't do sh*t.
How's that for respect?
There'll always be a place in my heart for Greg Dobbs, no matter how much I dogged him (and rightfully so) this year.
I hope he does better somewhere else. Just not against the Phillies.
Maybe Dobbs will be able to hook on again with Seattle where he originally came from.
Chuck, fair enough he was bad this year i said that myself. But explain why the 6.5 grade less than Sweeney who hit barely better ?
fred is right. Dobbs was woeful at bat and on the field this past season but in all fairness, have to give Dobbs at least a rating of 5 for effort and respect for what he has done for the Phils in the past. Sweeney's performance is a smaller sampling as he did not get to bat as often as Dobbs did this past season.
Sweeney was a positive influence on the clubhouse and was very well seen amping them up, etc. All Dobbs seems to have influenced is Brown's "Gottauppacutthatshit" swing.
Dobbs is an a$$. I saw it first-hand at Spring Training last year. Total jerk. …..
…..totally different cat than Sweeney.
And….we're not grading on "what he has done for the Phils in the past, MikeB."
Sweeney is the man, Dobbs has a funny swing but when he catches it he hits it.
In the 100 abs he had this year, the only one where he did ANYTHING, was the reds 9th inning comeback. what a game!
Sorry Chuck, I do and I did. Post what you want to post and just bypass and ignore other peoples' posts if you do not like them. You do not run Phillies Nation.
and Chuck…you are just duplicating yourself. You got that point across in your previous post.


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In 2013, there were eight deaths and an estimated 11,400 consumers who sustained injuries related to fireworks. This is an increase from 8,700 injuries in 2012. Sixty-five percent, or 7,400, of the injuries in 2013 occurred in the 30 days surrounding July 4, 2013. CPSC staff reviewed fireworks incident reports from hospital emergency rooms, death certificate files, news clippings and other sources to estimate deaths, injuries and incident scenarios. Injuries were frequently the result of the user playing with lit fireworks or igniting fireworks while holding the device. Consumers also reported injuries related to devices that malfunctioned or devices that did not work as expected, including injuries due to errant flight paths, devices that tipped over and blowouts.
"CPSC works year-round to help prevent deaths and injuries from legal and illegal fireworks," said Acting Chairman Bob Adler. "We engage the fireworks industry, monitor incoming fireworks shipments at the ports, and enforce federal safety rules, so that all Americans have a safe Fourth of July."
Last year, children younger than age 5 experienced a higher estimated per capita injury rate than any other age group. Past reports indicate that consumers sometimes feel comfortable handing off to children fireworks devices perceived to be less powerful, such as sparklers and bottle rockets. In 2013, sparklers and rockets accounted for more than 40 percent of all estimated injuries.
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Very pumped for Marcberg and the thoughts of a Roc Marciano/Madlib album is interesting and Im exicited for it.
Have you mapped out your next projects?
Yeah, Im still cookin up some shit. I was just in the studio with Q-Tip, he hit me with some shit it was crazy. Just Blaze hit me with some shit. Madlib hit me off with crazy shit Im about to do a whole album over his beats.
Madlib? I wouldnt have pictured that.
Yeah man, he gave me some crazy tracks. Imma sound good on these it aint gonna be weird when you hear it! Imma sound right at home. Chea. Hopefully I can get back up in there with Alchemist, man. Worked with Alchemist in the past, so Im about to get back up with brother Al. We did records with Alchemist that were unreleased also. Alchemist is crazy, man. Its crazy, we both rocked the same sample for our albums too the Hide My Tears shit. Al my dude and shit, but I put it out first though yall can go look and document it! I leaked mine out first! [laughs]
Roc Marciano - Madlib Collab Album?
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Posted 05 May 2010 - 10:18 AM
you should create it in the talk section
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Posted 05 May 2010 - 01:16 PM
This sounds good aswell.
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Posted 05 May 2010 - 11:55 PM
someone made a thread about that yesterday but it got deleted
you should create it in the talk section
yeah, i started that thread - not sure why it got deleted really. i thought the stones throw forum would be the place for news about a stones throw artist. i notice there's a thread about a guilty simpson and paul white collaboration that's still going strong in the ST forum. ah well, the things mods do...
hope this album comes about.
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Posted 06 May 2010 - 01:45 AM
His album Marcberg just leaked, pretty damn dope! Some real hood shit.
Would love to hear him over some Madlib beats!
Like all madlib projects though, won't believe it til I see it!
Posted 06 May 2010 - 03:18 PM
Would love to hear him over some Madlib beats!
Like all madlib projects though, won't believe it til I see it!
Posted 07 May 2010 - 07:24 PM
The U.N. - "Nothin' Lesser" {Madlib Remix}
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someone tell me who is this Roc Marchipano guy ? i have no idea and i havent heard about him before
Roc Marciano is an emcee/rap artist from Brooklyn, NY{Fort Greene, I believe?!?} and as far as I know/remember, he made his entry into the game being apart of Busta Rhyme's crew The FlipMode Squad, later branching out with his/a crew The U.N. under the wing of Pete Rock who did a major amount of production on The U.N.'s July '04 debut LP "U. N. Or U Out"{I believe is the exact LP title} ( http://www.amazon.co...rce-full-site=1 )along with other top hip-hop producers such as Large Professor{a.k.a. Xtra P}, Beatnuts{??}, {Premo too I think?!?} etc.....I had a U.N. sampler with like 5 or 6 full songs which were mostly P.R. beats and a couple other produced joints and/or a remix, but everything was tight tho', rhymes were nice too, I remember The U.N. LP getting high reviews from "hip-hop heads" and critics ( http://www.prefixmag...or-u-out/12963/ )....Before their debut LP The U.N. also spit a whole album worth of rhymes over Pete Rock's 2001 "Petestrumentals" LP too...Just Youtube' search for Roc Marciano/The U.N.....Since I've heard of the guy I've given him props, he's a note worthy underground hip-hop artist in my opinion.
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F^ck your thoughts and Manga scans! Itachi wins anytime!
Ofcourse Tobi/Obito wins!
Dont really know.. Hard to say..
Ehh dont really care. haha Nagato or minato defeats both! =P (Trolling btw)
I really don't think he could. It's taking a team of Naruto, Gai, Killer B, and Kakashi just to counter Obito's Kamui.
ya the only chance itachi has of winning is if he gets obito in a genjutsu or tsukuyomi, otherwise obito wins this
Originally Posted by Hokage Sharingan Kakashi
Lol Itachi fanboys feeling butt raped so they're flamming you. Oh tragic Uchiha fans, an Uchiha that cannot defeat another Uchiha stills makes them roar in anger.
Lmao I know bro there retarded to the highest level! Not a single one of them make any since what so ever!
They say Genjutsu would work on someone who is also a MS user
They say the sword could seal him when it cant touch him
they say Amateratsu would kill him when he stopped it already
They have no facts from the manga that would suggest itachi could win. So they spit bullshit making them selfs look even more retarded! Sad little fanBois.lol And they wonder why no one on this site takes them serious. haha
Originally Posted by TurrinB
I really don't think he could. It's taking a team of Naruto, Gai, Killer B, and Kakashi just to counter Obito's Kamui.
But they think itachi can solo them 4 at once. -___- they are retarded!
he survived that attack using izanagi and how many times in a fight can tobi use it -2!!!!!!!
number of times itachi can use ameterasu is more than tobis izanagi itachi can also use izanami to defeat tobi...
ITACHI>>>>>>>>>>>>>>sharingan tobi
Originally Posted by Draegod
**SIGH** Here we go again!
There seems to be a bit of confusion on if Itachi could defeat ToBI before he got the rinnegan... -__- really??? Itachi stood no chance at all! And im going to list facts on the situation since ppl dont read the manga!
Biggest misconception is: "Tobi was afraid of itachi, thats why he didnt attack the village".... Really? What Manga was anybody who believe this reading? Let me list the real FACTS FROM THE MANGA!
It was a pact/agreement/deal/understanding anything along those lines that they made! So STFU saying he was just scared of itachi and thats the reason why he didnt attack the Leaf.
And right here is where they made the deal from itachis own lips!!! But ppl still cant read i guess! smh
Then right here he says if he knew his secrets he would be dead. Thats the same for any ninja! If Chiyo them knew Sasoris secrets from the beginning they could of killed him. If Jman knew Pains secret he could of won. If Asuma Knew Hidan secret he could of been alive right now. We seen what happened when Sasuke figured out diedara uses Earth style, SHikamaru knew Hidans secret, Naruto knew Pains secret, Konan supposely knew Tobi's secret etc etc.
So STFU Little kids (i say Little kids because most kids under the age of 16 are the ones who seem to think this non-sense and cannot read the manga obviously). But im not down yet!
Now im going to go on the Battle aspect of the fight and how Tobi is just better! Im going to list how Tobi Counters everything Itachi has to offer!
This is the most easiest thing to counter! First off ima list what itachi himself STATED; http://www.narutobase.net/manga/Naruto/142/15 Right here is where he says some own with my blood (which obito is a full blooded Uchiha) so itachi would not even try to use a costful Jutsu on tobi (or Madara as he knows him to be). But more then that, Tobi would know what to expect and most likely know how to break it (disrupt your chakra like sasuke did). So in short Obito>>>>Genjutsu
Next we Have Taijutsu... Really? Tobi who can read movements from Might Guy Himself http://www.narutobase.net/manga/Naruto/596/11 whos is a better Taijutsu fighter then him btw. Not only that he was battling Naruto KM as well at the same damn time and winning! Plus the fact if Itachi gets to close and grabbed he is getting sucked up! GG Itachi! Obito FTW in this department!
This is where things gets fun!!! Im going to highlight itachi's known "advantages":
As you can see it was a body wide hit from the attack! And he survived it at point blank range!!! Why the **** do ppl still think that attack would work when its manga proof that it would not!!!!
And when it doesn't work, itachi would feel the side effects like him and sasuke always feel after using the black flames they leave themselfs WIDE OPEN!!! Grabbing there eyes because of the pain.
With his Kamui the jutsu is as good as useless!
Again with Kamui this is the most useless of itachis 3 techs! Itachi would never lay a hit on tobi! We all know susanoo has no defense from below:
And keep in mind Obito Knows everything about the sharinagn and any version it has to offer! He would know about everything Itachi is doing and how it works!
Totsuka Blade has to pierce to seal anything it wants.
And as we know with Kamui this will never in a million years happen!!!
So in short anything Itachi can do that would be major will be useless based off Manga facts!!!
If itachi gets in range Tobi unleashes giant projectiles from his Kamui Dimension:
But besides all the manga facts i provided Itachi was sick and TOBI KNEW IT!!! Itachi healthy looses, Itachi sick gets RAPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!
P.S. If shit gets real Izanagi instantly solves that problem! And dont say "he has izanami to counter that" when izanami takes forever to set up and preform and Tobi knows about it and would know how to counter it!
well said
i thought it was obvious :p
but still i liked it!!
keep up the good work!
konan managed to almos kill tobi = itachi kills tobi ,,,, and f*** all the fanboys
maximum itachi will cast koto amatsukami or izanami on obito then kill him
Problem 1) He didn't anticipate Guys movements he just became intangible for a moment than positioned his arms to catch his weapon once it was already going through him.
Problem 2) Anything you say with Sasuke in it vs. Itachi is invalid as Itachi held back with everything in that fight. Every genjutsu, ninjutsu, and anything else he did in that fight was held back to be just a step below Sasukes so it would seem Sasuke won the battle. So Sasuke would have his redemption. This is a known fact.
Problem 3) Do you think Itachi would let Tobi suck him up in that hole? Name one high class ninja (A or S rank) that got caught into that? Konan doesn't count because she did it to commit suicide and kill Tobi with her.
Problem 4) Tobis entire fighting is his sharingan, you could say Itachi's is too & etc, etc. But who uses reg ninjutsu & taijutsu more? Tobi runs out of chakra first considering his entire fighting style is kamui this & s/t that. Your "facts from the manga" is how VIZ media interpreted that chapter. different interpretations can be used on that same chapter to say that Tobi is/isn't scared of Itachi.
Problem 4A) Itachi has yata mirror so if tobi decides to use ninjutsu it will have no affect while susano is on.
Problem 5) Itachis genjutsu is legendary, as I already stated he let sasuke break it, or in another term, didn't use it anywhere near full strength. Itachi suspected Tobi wants to use his genjutsu on the moon to complete his plan. So that means his eye is capable of putting all of the world in genjutsu if cast upon the moon.
Problem 6) Itachi has Totsuka Blade, Konan already told that Tobi can only be intangible for 5 minutes maximum. All Itachi has to do is keep up relentless attacks for 5 minutes then Totsuka blade him while hes recharging and is tangible.
Funny Thing - All of these 5 problems is while Itachis in his weakened sick regular state. That has no relevance here but just saying, don't kick him in the dirt as to say Obito will demolish him even if thats your opinion, just show Itachi some respect. If not love then at least respect.
tobi cannot beat itachi, to attack him he has to become tangible, amateretsu is instant and totsuka as you stated seals anything, itachi wiins mid difficulty, he's also smarter and has never been touched in the series without wanting to ....
Damn in the Op's dreams itachi has been shitted on so many times that, zetsu shouldve followed itachi more since zetsu has a infatuation with poo . I take it itachi breaking free from edo tensei, trolling other characters including the one who summoned him, but also going out by his own terms instead of somebody having the feat of sealing itachi has really pissed some people off. If edo madara had gone due to itachi releasing the technique then the shit storm wouldve been over 9000, not that im complaining. Guess sitting at the top comes with its haters so its to be expected.
Damn oro/kabuto fans still cannot grasp that it was destiny for their character to lose to itachi. "The Totsuka Sword is the sword used by the god Susanoo to slay the eight-headed and eight-tailed snake, Yamata no Orochi, just like it was used by Itachi's Susanoo to defeat Orochimaru's Eight Branches Technique".
And izanami does exactly what it says on the tin. Look on the bright side, if kabuto gets out of izanami which i believe he would he would preach the idea's of itachi and might even convert to itachism :izuna:
"Though the snake dreams of soaring through the skies, its forever doomed to crawl on its belly".
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On a more serious note, you havent really done much in the op. Kamui is a very annoying technique however tobi has still been damaged in majority if not all of the duels he has been in, one way or another but also his opponent has grasped at least the basics of the technique. The basics of kamui is that in order for him to attack he has to solidify and this leaves him open for a brief moment. Minato, team kakashi, torune/fu all grasped the basics of kamui. I believe itachi has demonstrated enough intelligence both in and out of battle to warrant the idea that like these people he would figure out the basics at least. Some would say itachi clearly didnt figure this out (tobi's ability) and thats why his plan failed (sealing amaterasu in sasuke). However itachi isnt a fortune teller. In order to figure out an opponents ability he would either have to fight them or at least the opponent would have to demonstrate their ability to him. Tobi did none, there was never a fight. But also going by tobi's words when he said he hid alot from itachi what he is possible saying is that he had NEVER used kamui when itachi was in close proximity to him, unlike when he has done several times when konan was there and in the end konan nearly killed him so yes what tobi said is very much true about if itachi had info he could achieve on a similar scale what konan did or more.
Anyway if itachi grasps the basics he is favourite in my book. If he goes on to figure out that he has to solidify again to absorb himself, but also he takes longer to absorb others then, he becomes heavy favourite. However as konan said she wasnt sitting idle by tobi all this time, therefore whilst the basics of kamui is within reach the latter which she herself admitted that it was from info prior to the battle that led her to grasp this, itachi might not be able to grasp the latter, but im confident in the former.
Unlike others im more concerned about complete izanagi than kamui, because the basics of kamui is there for itachi to grasp. Whilst complete iznaagi would cause itachi trouble because it would take quiet alot of his chakra to do enough damage to tobi to use izanagai and tobi unforntunately doest sacrifice his kamui eye.
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Itachi wins easy... Even Konan was able to figure out his abilities, so Itachi would do too in a fight..
Obito hasn't got much to offer. Yeah he is strong and a very hard opponent as long as you don't understand his abilities, when you do it will all come down to who is smarter.
Agree with the OP 100%...
Tobi wasn't or will never be afraid to fight Itachi or any other member of Akatsuki. This has been shown as he was so confident to take on Kabuto even with the presence of the 5 strongest members of Akatsuki in front of him. This of course includes Edo-Itachi, Edo-Nagato, blah.. blah.. & so forth.. The fact that Tobi decided not to pursue on invading Konoha when Itachi was stil alive, doesn't necessarily mean or prove anything that he was intimidated by Itachi's power. There were reasons why he intends not to attack the village because:
1.) It was part of their arrangements, or as long as Itachi performs his tasks as an Akatsuki, their agreements were still honored.
2.) He wanted Itachi to die at Sasuke's hand so he could manipulate Sasuke on his own way.
3.) Itachi joined Akatsuki in order to keep an eye on the organization. Thus, it could deteriorate most of Tobi's plan because Itachi could provide ample intel's to the rest of the villages about the Akatsuki's doings, goals & purposes, strategy, member's strengths & weaknesses or their jutsu's & capabilities.
Furthermore, Tobi seemed to be one-step ahead against Itachi. He knew the truth about him, the reasons why he wanted to die at Sasuke's hand, his real purpose of joining Akatsuki, & fooled him by letting him believed he was Uchiha Madara. Also, Itachi's plan for Sasuke failed only because of Tobi's intervention.
Hitherto, it was never stated in the manga that Tobi wished to kill or fight Itachi. However, one of Itachi's main goals is to kill Tobi. He even planted amaterasu in to Sasuke's eyes hoping it will eventually kill him.
So my conclusion, pre-rinnegan Tobi > ms Itachi. Itachi even believed that Tobi (a.k.a. Uchiha Madara during that time) was invincible & immortal. If he could actually kill him, he must have accomplished that a long time ago.
OT: People underestimates Tobi's S/T often times. To every battle we've seen him fighting, he never had the intention to kill. His plan is to capture or warp them in to his dimension & perhaps gain control of them through genjutsu as we witnessed what happened to Fu & Torune. Even when he fought Konan, he could not kill him first because he wanted to know Nagato's whereabouts. Imagine what will happen if he goes for instant kill, he could aim for their heart. Thus, making his S/T a "one-shot jutsu"!
Edo-Itachi will shit on him since he will be granted with unlimited chakra & undying body, but alive-Itachi will be defeated 8 out of 10. But of course since Itachi is so much love in this site, many people will deny this matter over & over again!
I'll also add, there's literally nothing which can defend against Obito's Kamui considering it is simply a variation of the one possessed by Kakashi. You would need to actively do something just to halt the process; for example, use a paperbomb and force Obito to stop the jutsu. While one can avoid the effects of this jutsu (whether it be by their own skill or incompetence by the user, as seen here and here), it has become increasingly evident in this manga that such a jutsu can only be countered by ridiculous speed (Hiraishin), an unpractical amount of prep time & knowledge on Obito's abilities or a combination of S/T ninjutsu & power (since it took the combined efforts of Kakashi, Naruto and Killer B just to inflict damage to Obito) - none of which Itachi possesses. It can be generally accepted that a user who has mastered Kamui therefore possesses a lethal offensive technique - and in Obito's case, the saying 'attack is the best form of defence' holds especially true. I actually feel that it would be near suicidal for Itachi to use Susanoo if we factor in the derogatory effects it has on his body and the simple fact that it is within Obito's powers to move through the earth (with him being a pseudo-Zetsu shinobi) and simply appear from under a Susanoo which is lacking an underneath (unlike, say, Madara's Susanoo which has legs). Kidnapping Itachi then becomes relatively easy, with Obito only sustaining an injury because he touched Torune's toxic skin (note, Torune was unable to actively defend himself from such a swift attack).
Last edited by OnPoint; 09-29-2012 at 10:19 AM.
well obito can just kill itachi, but i wonder why he don't do that instead he make a pact with a 13 years old boy,
and yet obito know that itachi will only bring trouble for his plan, its better to kill him rather than make a pact with him,
above all else he agreed for itachi conditions that he will not attack konoha..........
we can assume that obito is being caution, but there is also some fear in it.
tobi had said sasuke that if itachi knew his secrets, he would have been dead. he was the 1 who prevented tobi frm coming to konoha nd after his death could only dare to send nagato to konoha. I dont know about rennigan tobi bt former tobi was no chance fr itachi.
i dont think ur theory is right
LOL so Itachi is a rock in tobi's shoes and wont try to kill him, if he could ofcouse but it happens that the guy coulndt. so he went for the easy part wait 10 years so that itachi will die in someone's else hand. because he cant do it himself. pity obito for a pro!
Minato found out about Tobi's technique
Konan did the same
Kakashi Did the same
Torune and Fu did the same.
And Itachi Cant??, i mean 2 fodders foundout about tobi's space time ninjutsu but itachi cant. oh my god people realy hate itachi in this forum that they are able to ignored what the autor wrote in other to underrate itachi..
Wow! Itachi>Tobi
itachi wins
lol the poll shat on itachi
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Readers paying attention to the Kalash thread will notice Catholicgauze has encountered pro-Albanians who among other things claim 1) Alexander the Great was Albanian 2) Greeks and others are just Albanian posers 3) Albanians are the descendants of Atlantis and 4) Kalash are Albanians (I think, they have not been very clear). There evidence you ask? Some Albanian and Kalash words are similar! When Catholicgauze read that I slapped my head. That's because both Kalash and Albanian are Indo-European languages.
Under the leading theory, around the 4th millennium BC, the Kurgan people began to spread from out of the Pontic-Caspian steppe. The language of the Kurgan is thought to be the first Indo-European language. The vast dispersal was made possible because of the Kurgans use of horses. The Kurgan reach (and probable proto-Catholicgauzes) ranged from Western Europe to India. Today languages probably based from the Kurgan include English, German, French, Latin, Greek, Slavic, Farsi, Hindi, and many more.
As time progressed words changed but simpler ones continue to share similarities. Some words continue to remain almost universal between Indo-European languages. Just think of possibly the most common conversation in the world: "Mom? No!" "Mama? Non!" "Madre? No!" "Mutter? Nein!" "Mama? Nyet!" and so on and so on.
The Age of Colonization and then Imperialism allowed Indo-European languages (in particular English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese) to spread throughout the world. Today Indo-European Languages are either the official or an official secondary language in most countries. Seven of the top ten languages spoken by native speakers today are Indo-European.
The main contender to Indo-European is the Semitic language family of Arabic (spread via Islamic conquest), Hebrew (contained to the Jewish race) and a few other small religious languages such as Syriac (mostly in Eastern Christianity). Semitic languages are deeply interwinded with the religion of the respected speakers.
Niger-Congo is another competitor and it comprises most of sub-Saharan Africa. Many places which have a Niger-Congo language also recognize an Indo-European language due to the influence of colonization.
Other language families like Sino-Tibetan (Chinese, et al) and Japonic (Japanese and a few regional languages in Japan) are limited to one or a few national groups. While there was major European interaction with these groups, East Asia for the most part was able to adopt cultural advancements while still retaining their own identity.


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Zayas y Sotomayor, María de
María de Zayas y Sotomayor 1590(?)-1661(?)
Spanish short story writer, novelist, and dramatist.
María de Zayas y Sotomayor was one of the most prominent writers of the Spanish Golden Age. While Zayas's works were widely read in her own time, critical and popular attention waned during the nineteenth century. Modern critics, however, have come to acknowledge Zayas as one of the foremost feminist writers of Spain. In fact, most recent critiques of Zayas focus heavily on this aspect of her writing, citing her works as prime examples of the use of textual stylization to address issues related to gender. Zayas is particularly noted for her examinations of the role of the woman writer in a patriarchal society, especially in the area of literary expression and authorship. Today, Zayas is seen as a ground-breaking figure, foreshadowing the feminist writers of later centuries.
Biographical Information
Not much is known about Zayas's personal life and the few contemporary accounts that have survived from her time focus almost exclusively on her literary activity. It is believed that she was born in 1590 in Madrid to Doña María de Barasa and Don Fernando de Zayas y Sotomayor. Her father was an infantry captain, and eventually earned a knighthood in the military order of Santiago. There is also evidence that he served under the seventh count of Lemos, so Zayas likely spent time in Italy. She began writing verse and introductory material for other prose writers sometime between 1621 and 1639, and was active in the literary circles of Madrid. Details about Zayas's life after 1639 are few, but some scholars contend that she may have moved to the city of Zaragoza in the late 1630s, based primarily on the fact that both of her short story collections were published there. After the publication of her second novella collection, Zayas seems to have disappeared from public life altogether. Many critics argue that this lack of information suggests that Zayas entered a convent, mimicking the actions of many of her own characters. Others speculate that Zayas, who would have been almost fifty-eight years of age, may have died around this time. Upon her death, contemporary authors eulogized her as the "Tenth Muse" or the "Sybil of Madrid."
Major Works
While there is no comprehensive list of Zayas's works available, it is known that she composed several verses during her time in Madrid, as well as one drama, La traicíon en la amistad (mid-1600s; The Betrayal of Friendship). The play was not performed during her lifetime, and only became available to readers in the early twentieth century. Zayas's literary reputation rests primarily on her two short story collections, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares (primera parte) (1637) and Desengaños amorosos. Parte Segunda del sarao y entretenimiento honesto (1647). Based partly on the courtly novel tradition of Spain, both works achieved enormous popularity during her lifetime. The novellas are collections of short stories organized by their inclusion in a greater narrative. In the Novelas amorosas, five men and five women meet during Christmas festivities at the home of a convalescent friend. While the frame narrative unfolds—wherein Don Juan courts the recovering Lisis but finds himself increasingly drawn to Lisarda—the friends tell stories about love. As the frame narrative ends, Lisis accepts Don Diego as her suitor, providing a segue into Zayas's second collection of short stories. Desengaños amorosos again features the group of friends gathering, this time to celebrate the impending wedding of Lisis and Diego. Lisis asks that only the women narrate stories, focusing on the "disenchantments" of love and the trickery of men. At the end of the tale, Lisis, based on the tales related by her female friends, decides to renounce marriage and instead retires to a convent. Throughout the collected stories in Novelas amorosas and Desengaños amorosos, Zayas speaks out on behalf of women, who she sees as being maligned. The tales focus on female powerlessness in a patriarchal society—a fact that has led many modern critics to study Zayas's works as primarily feminist in nature.
Critical Reception
Zayas's novellas were widely read in her own time, and retained their popularity well into the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, attention to Zayas declined sharply, and she was consistently disregarded in discussions of the Spanish canon. The twentieth century witnessed a critical reevaluation of Zayas's work, especially its feminist perspective. For example, Sandra M. Foa argues that, although the author's defense of women derives from a tradition that dates back to fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spanish literature, Zayas is extremely unconventional in her treatment of gender issues—she crafts a response to both the status of women during her time and to literary traditions that stemmed from that treatment. H. Patsy Boyer notes that Zayas often uses the commonly accepted literary forms of her time, but reworks "accepted plots and literary conventions to create a new work." Zayas's use of literary conventions to highlight socio-political themes is also a subject of interest to Lisa Vollendorf. In her study of the motif of vengeance in Zayas's works, Vollendorf maintains that Zayas focuses on the ways women are endangered by an honor code which sacrifices the feminine to preserve the masculine. She cites instances in Zayas's stories in which assaults on the female person expose the ways in which the system of honor is preserved. Twentieth century critics continue to reassess and reevaluate the power of Zayas's writings and the influence she has had on subsequent generations of Spanish women writers. An intense revival of interest in Zayas has occurred, focusing on her as an important feminist voice.
Principal Works
La traición en la amistad [The Betrayal of Friendship, 1903] (drama) mid-1600s
Novelas amorosas y ejemplares (primera parte) [The Enchantments of Love: Amorous and Exemplary Novels, edited and translated by H. Patsy Boyer, 1990] (short stories) 1637
Desengaños amorosos. Parte Segunda del sarao y entretenimiento honesto [The Disenchantments of Love, edited and translated by H. Patsy Boyer, 1997] (novellas) 1647
Parte segunda del sarao y entretenimiento amoroso (short stories) 1649
Novelas completas [edited by María Martínez del Portal] (novellas) 1973
Marcia L. Welles (essay date October 1978)
SOURCE: Welles, Marcia L. "María de Zayas y Sotomayor and Her novella cortesana: A Re-evaluation." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 55, no. 4 (October 1978): 301-10.
[In the following essay, Welles offers an evaluation of Zayas's short stories, contending that her writing was popular not just because of its content, but also because of its superb craftsmanship, including the use of formulaic elements in innovative ways.]
The short story, or novela cortesana,1 had a wide and rapid diffusion after the initial impetus of the publication of the Novelas ejemplares of Cervantes in 1613. Yet the splendour of the Golden-Age drama, the grandeur...
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Kenneth A. Stackhouse (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: Stackhouse, Kenneth A. "Verisimilitude, Magic, and the Supernatural in the Novelas of María de Zayas y Sotomayor." Hispanofila 62 (1978): 65-75.
[In this essay, Stackhouse argues that Zayas used magic and the supernatural in order to circumvent the difficulties she faced as a female writer whose ideals differed from those of her society.]
María de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590-1661?) was a popular seventeenth-century post-Cervantine novelist whom many remember principally for her violent opposition to the misogyny entailed by the Spanish literary convention of pundonor.1 The purpose of this paper is to illuminate Zayas' resolution of a...
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Lucía Fox-Lockert (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: Fox-Lockert, Lucía. "María de Zayas." In Women Novelists in Spain and Spanish America, pp. 25-35. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1979.
[In the following essay, Fox-Lockert presents an overview of Zayas's life and works from a sociological and feminist viewpoint.]
One of the most important figures among feminine writers, and the first woman novelist, is a Spanish woman of whom relatively little is known. Her identity remains somewhat a mystery, although the critics1 have chosen from several women one who best fits the chronology of her two novels. María de Zayas was born in Madrid in 1590, belonged to the upper class socially and participated...
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William H. Clamurro (essay date summer 1988)
SOURCE: Clamurro, William H. "Ideological Contradiction and Imperial Decline: Toward a Reading of Zayas's Desengaños amorosos." South Central Review 5, no. 2 (summer 1988): 43-50.
[In the essay below, Clamurro regards de Zayas's Desengaños as an example of a text that reflects the ideological crises of her times.]
The fiction of María de Zayas y Sotomayor has attracted increased critical attention in recent years, in no small part as a result of the general recuperation of certain writers previously relegated to obscurity by the essentially patriarchal discourse of literary criticism. In addition, although the vagaries of literary history and its...
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H. Patsy Boyer (essay date spring 1990)
SOURCE: Boyer, H. Patsy. "The 'Other' Woman in Cervantes's Persiles and Zayas's Novelas." Cervantes 10, no. 1 (spring 1990): 59-68.
[In the essay which follows, Boyer studies the frame narrative of Zayas's Disenchantments as a means of re-creating the notion of the "other" woman as represented in texts such as Cervantes's The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda.]
Struck by the impressive array of "other" women in The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda and in Zayas's double collection of framed novelas,1 I decided to study Zayas's frame narrative as a re-vision of the Sousa Coutinho episode in Persiles (I, 10) because...
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H. Patsy Boyer (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Boyer, H. Patsy. Introduction to The Enchantments of Love: Amorous and Exemplary Novels, translated by H. Patsy Boyer, pp. xi-xxxi. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1990.
[In the following essay, Boyer provides an overview of Zayas's life and works.]
The life of Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor remains largely a mystery. The only facts known about her are that she lived in Madrid during the first half of the seventeenth century and was a recognized literary figure. She wrote much occasional poetry, at least one play, The Betrayal of Friendship, and two best-selling collections of framed novellas, The Enchantments of Love: Amorous and...
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Patricia E. Grieve (essay date spring 1991)
SOURCE: Grieve, Patricia E. "Embroidering with Saintly Threads: María de Zayas Challenges Cervantes and the Church." Renaissance Quarterly 44, no. 1 (spring 1991): 86-106.
[In this essay, Grieve maintains that Zayas used her writing to challenge both the secular and religious authorities of her time.]
When the Spanish novella-writer, María de Zayas y Sotomayor, challenged seventeenth-century male authorities, her challenge embraced both sacred and profane canons. Zayas invests her novellas with the formal properties of hagiography while subverting the ideology of that Church-sanctioned genre. At the same time, Zayas shows herself to be a subtle reader and...
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Ruth El Saffar (essay date fall 1993)
SOURCE: El Saffar, Ruth. "Ana/Lysis/Zayas: Reflections on Courtship and Literary Women in Maria de Zayas's Enchantments of Love." Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures 2, no. 1 (fall 1993): 7-28.
[In the following essay, El Saffar offers a detailed explanation of Zayas's Enchantments, reflecting on how the narrative's multiple levels represent the problems faced by a female author living and working in a patriarchal society.]
Maria de Zayas's 1637 collection of Novelas amorosas y ejemplares, The Enchantments of Love,1 is, at the most obvious level, a multi-layered artifact in the tradition of Boccaccio. A group of well-born...
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Valerie Hegstrom (essay date summer 1994)
SOURCE: Hegstrom, Valerie. "The Fallacy of False Dichotomy in María de Zayas's La traction en la amistad." Bulletin of the Comediantes 46, no. 1 (summer 1994): 59-70.
[In the following essay, Oakey regards Zayas's drama as a subversion of Golden Age conventions, where the reimposition of male dominance signals the end of the play and a return to normality. This essay was originally published under the name Valerie Hegstrom Oakey.]
The works of María de Zayas have gained more importance recently in studies of Spanish Golden Age literature. While several books and articles have appeared on her narrative works, only a few scholars have studied her theater....
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Catherine Larson (essay date fall-spring 1994-95)
SOURCE: Larson, Catherine. "Gender, Reading, and Intertextuality: Don Juan's Legacy in Maria de Zaya's La Traición en la amistad." INTI: Revista de Literatura Hispanica, no. 40-41 (fall-spring 1994-95): 129-38.
[In the essay that follows, Larson compares the treatment of the relationship between men and women in Zayas's La tración with Tirso do Molina's El burlador de Sevilla.]
María de Zayas's comedy, La traición en la amistad, could not, in many ways, be more distant and removed from Tirso de Molina's eschatological, moralizing El burlador de Sevilla. The comedy, written by a woman, deals with the amorous problems of the idle,...
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Teresa S. Soufas (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: Soufas, Teresa S. "María de Zayas's (Un)Conventional Play, La traición en la amistad." In The Golden Age Comedia: Text, Theory, and Performance, edited by Charles Ganelin and Howard Mancing, pp. 148-64. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1994.
[In the following essay, Soufas appraises Zayas's La traición from a feminist viewpoint, arguing that literature itself is representative of the social institution from which it stems. She further argues that Zayas is aware of this interdependency, using her writing to critique both the literary and social models of her own society.]
… the plots of women's literature...
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Laura J. Gorfkle (essay date September 1995)
SOURCE: Gorfkle, Laura J. "Seduction and Hysteria in María de Zayas's Desengaños Amorosos." Hispanofila 115 (September 1995): 11-28.
[In the following essay, Gorfkle explores Zayas's attitude toward female sexuality and gender as it is expressed in her Desengaños amorosos.]
The woman novelist must be an hysteric. Hysteria … is simultaneously what a woman can do both to be feminine and to refuse femininity, within patriarchal discourse.
Juliet Mitchell, Women: The Longest Revolution.
María de Zayas's collection of short fiction, Desengaños amorosos, first published...
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Susan Paun de Garcia (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: de Garcia, Susan Paun. "Zayas as Writer: Hell Hath No Fury." In María de Zayas: The Dynamics of Discourse, edited by Amy R. Williamsen and Judith A. Whitenack, pp. 40-51. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995.
[In the essay below, de Garcia contends that the frame narratives of Zayas's two collections reflect her evolving relationship with the literary academies of her time.]
María de Zayas was an enormously popular writer. Though her comedia went unpublished and, as far as we know, unperformed, her poetry was very successful in her own time, and her prose works are still being edited and read today. In addition, we know that...
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Judith A. Whitenack (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Whitenack, Judith A. "'Lo que ha menester': Erotic Enchantment in 'La inocencia castigada.'" In María de Zayas: The Dynamics of Discourse, edited by Amy R. Williamsen and Judith A. Whitenack, pp. 170-91. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995.
[In the following essay, Whitenack offers an overview of "La inocencia castigada," one of the tales in Zayas's Desengaños, focusing on the use of enchantment in the story.]
The unspeakable horrors of Doña Inés's six-year "castigo" [punishment] have been the focus of most commentaries on María de Zayas's "La inocencia castigada" [Innocence punished]. This tale of a...
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Lisa Vollendorf (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Vollendorf, Lisa. "Our Bodies, Our Selves: Vengeance in the Novellas of María de Zayas." Cincinnati Romance Review XVI (1997): 93-100.
[In this essay, Vollendorf studies the two novellas by Zayas for their exploration of the dynamics of vengeance, especially as it relates to the sexuality and sexual powerlessness facing female characters.]
Is Justice … Governed by greed and lust? Just the strong doing what they can And the weak suffering what they must? .....And sex sells everything, And sex kills … Sex kills …
—Joni Mitchell
In the above quote from a song that hinges on the refrain "sex kills," Joni Mitchell...
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Marina S. Brownlee (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Brownlee, Marina S. "Baroque Subjects: Changing Perspectives in Zayas's Novelas." In The Cultural Labyrinth of María de Zayas, pp. 26-73. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
[In the essay that follows, Brownlee draws a parallel between the postmodern theories of cultural historians of the early twentieth century and the cultural climate in which Zayas produced her work, noting that there are several instances where the two share fundamental similarities.]
When the Novel becomes the dominant genre, epistemology becomes the dominant discipline.
—Mikhail Bakhtin,...
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Yolanda Gamboa (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Gamboa, Yolanda. "Gender Coding in the Narratives of Maria de Zayas." In Women, Society and Constraints: A Collection of Contemporary South African Gender Studies, edited by Jeanette Malherbe, Marc Kleijwegt, and Elize Koen, pp. 197-209. Pretoria, South Africa: Institute for Gender Studies, Unisa Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, Gamboa focuses on Zayas's works, recounting the strains and restrictions placed on women in the patriarchal system of early modern Spain.]
In this paper, I look at the constraints on women in the patriarchy of early modern Spain, as reflected in the novels of the popular woman writer of the...
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Yvonne Jehenson and Marcia L. Welles (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Jehenson, Yvonne, and Marcia L. Welles. "María de Zayas's Wounded Women: A Semiotics of Violence." In Gender, Identity, and Representation in Spain's Golden Age, edited by Anita K. Stoll and Dawn L. Smith, pp. 178-202. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2000.
[In this essay, Jehenson and Welles evaluate the Zayas's positioning of women as related to contemporary debates about women, pornography, and the sadomasochistic dynamic.]
The Desengaños amorosos (1647) [The Disenchantments of Love] are set in a period preceding "los alegres días de las carnestolendas" (118) ["the festive days of Mardi Gras" (37)].1 Situated...
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Yolanda Gamboa (essay date spring 2003)
SOURCE: Gamboa, Yolanda. "Architectural Cartography: Social and Gender Mapping in María de Zayas's Seventeenth-Century Spain." Hispanic Review 71, no. 2 (spring 2003): 189-203.
[In the following essay, Gamboa proposes that the image of the house in Zayas's works is representative of the merging space occupied by the modern family, and reflects, in a microcosm, the individual's placement within the larger social arena.]
María de Zayas's popular framed novels have been the object of significant attention in the last few decades. Critics have highlighted the crucial difference in tone between her two collections, namely, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares...
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Further Reading
Boyer, H. Patsy. Introduction to María de Zayas: The Disenchantments of Love, translated by H. Patsy Boyle, pp. 1-26. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.
Introduction to Boyle's translation of the Desengaños amorosos, with an overview of the work.
Brownlee, Marina Scordilis. "Genealogies in Crisis: María de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain." In Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe, edited by Valeria Finucci and Kevin Brownlee, pp. 189-208. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001.
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Every time I talk about seed composts over here in England I always talk about my basic mix as 1 part John Innes compost, 1 part sand and less than 1 part grit. Then compact that in the pot and add a layer of more sandy mix at the top, onto or into which I sow the seed. Then if the pot will go straight outside I tope off with grit.
But then I explain that I then adjust the mix by physical feel, does it scrunch up in the hand too much and so on. And then I talk about basic potting compost as using the same three parts but a full 1 part grit or even more. And I almost never use peat or peat-based composts - but then I don't really grow ericaceous plants so its not much of a problem.
But when I talk to North Americans I have to explain what John Innes compost is - basically a sterilised loam with additions of a standard recipe of additions. There are 4 standard recipes which have more additions of fertilisers from John Innes [JI] Seed, through JI 1 to JI 3.
I want to get an article on such basic things as sowing alpine/rock garden seed for the Quarterly (from someone or some two or three for that matter - feel free to volunteer) so I'm really interested in what you do - garden soil/dirt - sterilised or not - commercial or what.
And from the number of reports about early germination a whole lot of people must be keeping all their pots of seed in the kitchen or playroom or bedroom or wherever.
This year I've sown about 70 pots of seed {surplus seed just ordered} and they are all outside in a frame having been started outside to get covered initially by snow - the cover had ice on it again this morning and the average day temperature is now up to around 4oC and -1oC at night. Usually by now I would have germination but this year I'm so envious of all these great reports.