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Spoiler Alert review: This game starts at the end and goes backward from there
MEGAFUZZ Spoiler Alert
Dante had it wrong. (Be warned: I'm about to spoil an 800-year-old piece of literature.) In The Divine Comedy Dante tells us there are seven circles of hell, increasing in severity of punishment as you delve deeper. Clearly he missed the special eighth circle of hell for people who spoil stories in any medium, be it books, film, television, or video games.
All that aside, I'm going to spoil the end of Spoiler Alert: You defeat the final boss and find the princess.
Wait, don't get mad! Come back! It's the first scene you'll see in the entire game.
Be kind. Rewind.
Spoiler Alert is a platformer played entirely in reverse. You start at the end, having already beaten the game, and then progress backwards to the first level. Take all your classic platformer tropes and they're most likely represented here, albeit with a twist.
For instance, you're probably accustomed to running from left-to-right across the screen in a Mario-style platformer. In Spoiler Alert you'll instead run right-to-left. Are you a pro at hopping on enemy heads to squash the life out of them? Spoiler Alert has you jumping on heads to bring enemies back to life. You'll also jump into spots where coins used to be in order to replace them,consume fireballs you shot out at enemies, and watch as spikes fly back towards the ceiling they once fell from.
Spoiler Alert is more like a rhythm game than a platformer, to be honest, as you're running at a constant reverse speed and trying to time your jumps to match. It's a trippy take on the genre, and a fantastic concept. In a world drowning in puzzle platformers, Spoiler Alert feels both fresh and creative.
Unfortunately the game doesn't really manage to live up to its promise. I never like to fault a game for being short, but Spoiler Alert is really damn short. To be fair the game only costs $3, but I managed to complete the entire main campaign plus the ten bonus levels in only forty minutes and I had at least a silver rating on each level. I can guarantee I could get all gold ratings and still come in under an hour of play.
It's not really the length that's at issue. There are other games (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter) I enjoy despite providing a relatively brief experience. The problem with Spoiler Alert is that because of the abbreviated length it feels like the game never gets to explore the intricacies of its concept.
While there are three different worlds for you to traverse, a la Mario, each feels largely the same outside of the theme applied (Forest, Ice, Alien Invasion). The game never gets hard by any means, and in fact the levels seemingly follow no progression at all—there are levels in the last world (first, going by Spoiler Alert's logic) that are as simple as some of the first levels you'll ever play, but then there are others that are leaps more complicated right afterward. I don't feel like the theme of "You've beaten the game and are progressing backwards" is in any way held up by the difficulty across each set of levels and, ultimately, the game.
The art style is also a bit of a turn-off. It has a sort-of roughness to it that smacks of low-budget gaming regardless of whether it was done on purpose. There's a crudeness—almost a GameMaker-esque quality—to it that I would expect from a free web game.
Spoiler Alert does have options for speedrunning and user content, which I expect might extend the lifespan of the game for certain people. However, I don't think it's enough to salvage the short length or turn this into a must-buy, despite the strength of the core concept.
I had brief moments where I enjoyed Spoiler Alert, but there's not enough of it and what is there isn't polished enough to really merit playing. It's a highly creative concept but, ultimately, a gimmick that doesn't quite work as a game.
This platformer's neither polished nor long enough to warrant your attention, despite the cute concept.
Solid soundtrack
Rough artwork
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YJB slams local media for demonisation
The Youth Justice Board will use a PR campaign to tackle what it sees as increasingly hostile local newspaper coverage of young offenders.
by Sarah Robertson / October 26, 2006
The YJB, which oversees youth justice in England and Wales, this week announced that the number of young people in custody has never been higher.
'The media feed the perception that the only way to deal with young offenders is to lock them up; local papers are increasingly demonising them,' head of comms Sean Larkins told PRWeek.
The YJB strives to prevent under-18s offending and re-offending, and to ensure that custody for them is safe, secure, and addresses the causes of bad behaviour.
The body is encouraging its 157 teams across England and Wales to 'engage with' papers locally and regionally. Larkins said he wanted the media to give more coverage to how bad behaviour can be prevented, and the
effectiveness of alternative punishments such as community sentences.
The YJB is to provide media packs and 'news templates' to its regional teams, while seeking to ensure it has more local and national spokespeople available.
Local campaigns in coming months will address issues such as accommodation, Asbos and young female offenders' health needs.
'More than 15 per cent of young women in the system have tried to commit suicide or self-harm,' Larkins added.
The YJB's central comms team is also lobbying the Government and magistrates to improve how young offenders are handled.
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The longest-running and most extensive data source on mass killings reveals that 2,646 people in the United States have died in 504 events over the past 17 years. The Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killings Database, maintained by James Alan Fox, a Northeastern professor, was made available to the public on Thursday.
It references every mass killing, by all weapons and means, in which four or more people (excluding the offender) were killed within a window of 24 hours. Fox's database provides a different perspective than other firearm-related sites, including the Gun Violence Archive, which includes shootings with four or more victims, most of whom survive their injuries. Less than 5% of mass shootings in the Gun Violence Archive are mass killings.
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In Celebration of Professor of Political Science Robert L. Cord: Remembering his Impact and Legacy at Northeastern
The Department of Homeland Security, 'not set up for success,' navigates rocky 20 years. How are things today?
There and back again. These Northeastern employees couldn't stay away.
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Nails Hide Metal has completed their sixth recording titled Breach. Eight new songs will be released in the fall of 2017. The album was recorded in Washington at South Sound Sound Recording Studio with Jason Suko.


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The bear hunt in New Jersey has come to an end and now state Department of Environmental Protection officials will put together a final number of bears that were killed as part of this year's six-day hunt.
The Star-Ledger reports as of Sunday, 439 bears were killed in the nearly week-long hunt. That number, however, was expected to rise as hunters were returning to stations after the close of the hunt.
According to The Star-Ledger, the bears killed in the hunt represents nearly 13 percent of the state-estimated population of 3,400 bears in areas north of Interstate 78 and west of Interstate 287.
According to the report, 592 bears were killed in last year's hunt.


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← The Tennis Hunger Games: Catching Fire in Melbourne
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New champions in Australia and the end of 'The Big 4': Winners and losers of 2014's first major
Stan is the man
Winner – Stanislas Wawrinka
It's often said about people who fail to make a breakthrough in the majors that causing an upset is one thing, putting together seven results quite another. Fortunately for the new Swiss number 1, he didn't have to put seven together. He was aided by a retirement in Round 1 and a walkover in Round 3. However, his achievements over the past six months in particular are not to be downplayed, and they reached their deserved denouement in Melbourne. He knocked out the defending champions in each of the last two majors and negotiated a wounded Rafael Nadal to lift his maiden Grand Slam title. Lesser men would have crumbled completely when faced with a warrior champion refusing to die but Stan held firm and played the better tennis in the first and fourth sets. He becomes the first man in 21 years to defeat both the Number 1 and 2 seeds in the same major, and with that he earns the #3 ranking for himself, but much more importantly he is able to add three words after his name that will live forever more. Stanislas Wawrinka: Grand Slam champion.
Winner – Na Li
As Wawrinka celebrates becoming a Grand Slam champion, Na Li has entered the pantheon of multi-slam winners, and she has done it on two very different surfaces. At the age of 31, she is still tweaking her game, looking for little improvements and goodness what a difference Carlos Rodriguez has made to her tennis. Justine Henin's former coach has given the Chinese the belief that she can impose her game on whichever match she plays in. Her saved match point in Round 3 served as her wake-up call and she was simply stunning from thereon. The Grand Slam of Asia and the Pacific has its first Asian champion and there is no reason why she can't add to her tally of majors in the rest of 2014.
Aussie Li
Loser – Patrick Mouratoglou
The coaching guru. His work with Serena Williams is held up as a shining example of world-class coaching but I simply don't buy it. Any coach worth their salt could help Serena to a couple of majors a year. His assertion before the tournament that his charge could win all four majors this year was hit into touch by Serena after her 4th round exit to Ana Ivanovic. According to Serena, she had stopped thinking about that particular objective a long time ago. It may be time to have a word with your coach about his very public spouting then.
Winner – Grigor Dimitrov
The next big thing. Sharapova's squeeze. And finally, potential being realised. A grand slam quarter-finalist and it was richly deserved. His show-time tendencies were largely held in check by his patience in his four-set victory over big hitting Milos Raonic and he gave enough worries to Rafael Nadal in his four-set defeat to suggest good things lay ahead for the former Wimbledon junior champion. Expect him to have a big say on events in the summer and early autumn.
Loser – Vika Azarenka
The two-time defending champion was never at her best in this year's event. Despite not dropping a set until the quarter-finals, it will be a great worry to her how easily she got lost in Agnieszka Radwanska's web of trickery. Somehow, she needs to hone her second serve into something that is less of a hindrance to her chances at the business end of tournaments. With Serena's second serve, she would dominate the game. With her current one, she may struggle to add a further major to her current haul. The rest of her game is explosive, but the second serve needs surgery.
Winner – Dominika Cibulkova
It would have been easy to pick Genie Bouchard as the surprise element from the women's tournament, but the young Canadian did pretty much what I expected from her, made more possible by Serena's early elimination. Cibulkova, on the other hand, was a wholly unexpected but very welcome surprise. She picked Maria Sharapova's game apart with ease before dispatching with last autumn's form girl Simona Halep within an hour. However, it was her semi-final demolition job on Radwanska that really announced Domi's arrival on the big stage. She's only 24 so has time to consolidate this run with more consistent results in the other slams. When her game is firing, there are few who can live with the power of the pocket rocket from Slovakia.
Loser – Agnieszka Radwanska
Always the bridesmaid?
Ah yes, Miss Radwanska. One fears that she may be the eternal bridesmaid. I have not seen many finer performances than her quarter-final victory over the defending champion. The variety, the speed, the pace, the power, the defence, the offense. It had everything. To follow that up 24 hours later with her horror show against Cibulkova suggested either a physical or mental frailty or possibly even both; things that could stop her from putting together the seven consecutive wins necessary to win a major.
Winner – Tennis
I wrote at length last week that it is the competitors not the organisers who make the sport what it is, and that was proved in the second week. A grand slam is defined by titanic performances. When was the last time that all of Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, Vika Azarenka, Novak Djokovic or Andy Murray failed to make it to the semi-final stage? 2010 French Open, that's when. The emergence of Genie Bouchard, Grigor Dimitrov's hard work beginning to pay dividends, Na Li peaking in her early 30s, 'The Big 4' of the men's game being a thing of the past as Stan Wawrinka, Tomas Berdych and others insist upon their names being in the reckoning, an Aussie woman making it to the second week, the triumvirate of Federer, Djokovic and Nadal all still looking like forces but ones which have been caught up with by the rest. Yes, as a tennis fan, I'm pretty stoked at how the Aussie Open went!
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The Peterborough School is an independent day school for boys and girls from Nursery to Sixth Form
The School and Nursery enjoy beautiful, extensive grounds on one leafy campus close to the heart of Peterborough, a fast-growing, historic city with excellent transport links
The Peterborough School is a member of the Woodard group of schools, which is the largest collection of Church of England schools in England and Wales and one of the principal educational charities in the UK.
The Peterborough School was founded in 1895. It is a day school educating young people in a caring community. The campus is situated in 11 acres of beautiful grounds close to the city centre and pupils, staff and parents enjoy its safe environment.
Since September 2010 boys have been admitted into Years 7 and 12, making us now fully co-educational. The Governors of the School announced this programme of expansion to build on many years of outstanding success.
Read more about our school
Have a look at the first of our videos and see what Your Story at The Peterborough School could be
Welcome to the Nursery & Preparatory School
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The aim of the School is to unlock the potential of each and every child. It will develop Academic Excellence, a Passion for Learning, Creativity, Confidence, Teamwork, Leadership Skills and Spiritual & Moral Values in a stimulating environment and will enable pupils to achieve success in an ever-changing world, from six weeks to Sixth Form and beyond.
There are many wonderful aspects to an education at The Peterborough School and students will enjoy numerous experiences and activities which cover many different areas, both within the School timetable and outside it, either at School or as a member of outside organisations.
The aims of the School are to develop, nurture and enable pupils to achieve across seven particular areas and we believe that experiencing and gaining recognition in all these areas will provide them with a truly all-round education.
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The Peterborough School Nursery is a 56-place day Nursery set in a superb house within the extensive grounds of The Peterborough School.
Small class sizes and a caring ethos means we get to know each child very well.
Pupils aged 11 to 16, embracing key stages 3 and 4.
The Peterborough School's Sixth Form continues to grow in size and popularity and now offers a fully co-educational experience.
Here is what's been happening and what's coming up at The Peterborough School.
Tuesday 14th December
Sixth Former Shivani celebrates University Scholarship offer
Shivani, who recently celebrated golfing success with a win in the Home Nations Cup, has been offered a place at a prestigious US College
Monday 11th October
Local Paralympian James Fox MBE delivers inspirational Speech Day address
James Fox, MBE, led congratulations to this year's prize winners in the first in-person Speech Day event since 2019.
Tuesday 7th September
TPS announces Open Day date for October 2021
Following two years of lockdowns, the School is looking forward to opening its doors to visitors once again this October
Thursday 12th August
GCSE students celebrate excellent results
Year 11 pupils celebrating an excellent set of GCSE results
Tuesday 10th August
Sixth Formers celebrate university offers following outstanding A Level Results
Recent leavers celebrate another year of outstanding results
Golfing success for Shivani
Sixth Former Shivani recently celebrated after taking part in the Home Nations Cup
Talented Student Writers to be Published
Senior students to have stories published following success in writing competitions
Looking back at the Duke of Edinburgh's Award at TPS
The Peterborough School looks back at several years of pupils completing their D of E awards (The Duke of Edinburgh is pictured with TPS Alumni, receiving their Gold Awards at St James Palace, March 2002).
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Boston GuitarFest is the dream of visionary guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk. While the main focus is always on the classical guitar, the festival also aims to set the instrument within a broader musical, cultural and social context. Every year, GuitarFest gives audiences and students the opportunity to hear world-class performers and teachers in a nurturing envrionment.
Your tax-deductible contribution to Boston GuitarFest will enable us to expand future festivals, provide scholarships and prize awards. If you share Eliot Fisk's vision, please contribute to Boston GuitarFest.
Donations may be made through either Northeastern University or New England Conservatory.
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The DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine is the national expert authority in the field of human factors relevant to aerospace. The expertise accumulated by the Institute is primarily used by national and international organizations (airlines and air traffic control) as well as public authorities (aviation authorities and space agencies).
The institute's Department of Aviation and Space Psychology is located in Hamburg and is largely responsible for personnel selection and certain areas of behavioural training for operation staff (helicopter and fixed wing pilots, air traffic controllers, astronauts). The department also provides customers like airforces, civil flight operations or airtraffic control organisations with psychometric methods if they want to create their own selection system (see Staff Selection). Scientific research goes along with the development of applications.
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Aeronautics Division (Aircrew and Air Traffic Control) Staff selection and training are particularly important in the field of aeronautics as some 70% of all flying accidents are caused by human error. The increasing computerization and automation in the fields of aviation and air traffic control has led to a change in the distribution of roles between humans and engineering systems. Although new technologies have brought about a change in the professional requirements of pilots and air traffic controllers, at their actual place of work their main task will, as ever, involve bearing the responsibility for the entire system and thus ensuring the reliability and safety of air traffic.
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Selection and training of operational personnel (scientific astronauts) is also of prime importance in this division. Since 1977 DLR has been carrying out the selection procedure and team training courses for space missions.
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The Department of Aviation and Space Psychology at DLR is involved in many areas of research. Current research is taking place in the areas Selection and training of aviation personnel, aptitude assessment: development and optimization of methods, personnel development: human factors training, Intercultural transfer
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Internal Documents Lead To Talcum Powder Ovarian Cancer Lawsuit Verdict Against Johnson and Johnson
A jury that handed down a large talcum powder ovarian cancer lawsuit verdict against Johnson & Johnson stated that internal J & J documents presented by the plaintiff's lawyers played a heavy role in their decision to levy more than $70 million in damages against the health care company.
Monday, February 22, 2016 - On of the leading pieces of evidence that led to a St. Louis jury handing down a debilitating talcum powder ovarian cancer lawsuit verdict to Johnson & Johnson (J&J) were internal documents from the health care company presented by attorneys representing the plaintiff in the case. The lawsuit, which was the first talcum powder case heard before the City of St. Louis Circuit Court, alleged that J&J was aware that there was scientific evidence that substantiate a causal link between talcum powder and an increased risk for contracting ovarian cancer and chose not to share that information with consumers. The jury that heard the case ruled heavily in favor of the plaintiff, ordering J&J to pay $10 million in compensatory damages and an additional $62 million to serve as a punishment for the defendant's actions surrounding the talcum powder allegations.
The talcum powder cancer lawsuit verdict was found in favor of the plaintiff in large part because of internal documents presented as evidence against J&J. The jury found that these documents proved that J&J was aware of the severity concerning the connections being made in the scientific community between their talcum powder products and an increased risk for women using the products regularly to develop ovarian cancer.
The jury foreman went as far to claim that the J&J internal documents were one of the main reasons that they found in favor of the plaintiff and at such a steep cost for the defendant. Their eventual talcum powder lawsuit verdict hinged on the fact that the documents represented J&J as intentionally concealing evidence of a link between talcum powder and ovarian cancer from consumers, and that no effort was made to even affix a warning label to their talcum powder products.
The verdict reached by the jury is a big win for the roughly 1,200 talcum powder ovarian cancer lawsuits currently pending nationwide. This case was seen as a bellwether for future talcum powder claims that contained similar claims concerning the product's link to ovarian cancer. The verdict increased the chance of a large, lump sum settlement from J&J in the future to settle claims given the huge damage awarded by the jury, and more talcum powder lawsuits are expected to be filed around the country following this trial. The talcum powder ovarian cancer lawsuit verdict from the City of St. Louis Circuit Court jury is great news for potential plaintiffs that are looking to file suit against J&J over their talcum powder products.


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Q: Rails: how to write a better association condition? In Rails 2.3.8 I have 2 models News and User.
In my app I'd like to be able to show to each registered user only the news he has not still read.  In the homepage each piece of news should be presented in a box and the user should be able to click on a "X" and hide that news forever (just for his profile).
One way to do this is to have a User_news model and, each time a piece of news is created generate a record in the User_news model for each user and update the linking record for each user with a "Read" field set to True.  Then create an association in the User model like:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :unread_news, :through => :user_news, :source => :news, :conditions => 'read IS NOT TRUE'

The problem with this approach is that if I have thousands of users in my app, each time I publish a piece of news I need to create thousands of records in my user_news table.
My question is: is it possible to write an association between the User and the News model that tells Rails something like:
"Unread news for each User are every existing News EXCEPT for the ones that appear in the User_news table"?
Anyway how would you approach my goal?
Thanks,
Augusto

A: seems you are talking about NoSQL solution. If you sure about it, try MongoDB

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Pupils of Weaver C.P. School dressed in green for their Green Day. Pictured with them are Doug Butterill (Company Secretary of Greenspaces South Cheshire CIC, left) and James Thompson (Executive Director).
NESTING boxes were put up on trees at Weaver County Primary School, Nantwich, on July 9, when the pupils dressed in green to mark a Green Day. The event was in support of Greenspaces South Cheshire CIC which had just become a company.
successor organisation to Nantwich Riverside Project.
Although each pupil is holding a box for the picture, two were put up in the copse at the school with the rest going to other schools and Nantwich Riverside later. The pupils will be watching closely to see which birds take up residence in the new boxes.
and chatted to the pupils about what birds they might expect to see.
James Thompson later called in at Malbank School in Nantwich where staff and pupils have also offered support for Greenspaces South Cheshire CIC, and Doug Butterill was due to visit Acton C.P. School.


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Philadelphia Phillies – Year 7: Dropping back down to fourth place.
The Phillies would begin their seventh year of existance trying to rebound from the previous season drop in the standings, as their manager, Harry Wright, would begin his sixth season as the Phillies' skipper.
As the Phillies continue to play their home games in their home ballpark, the Philadelphia Base Ball Grounds, change is in the air in the National League as the league would be in a constant state of flux that will last the next several years. Early in the 1888 off-season, the Detroit Wolverine franchise would fold, it place in the National League to be taken by the American Association Cleveland Blues, who would soon change their name to the Cleveland Spiders. The league would then adopt a five-tier salary structure which would help to determine how much each player is paid. This move by the owners would have repercussions within two years, as it would lead to the Players' revolt of 1890. Early in 1889, the National League would take control of the debt-ridden Indianapolis Hoosiers before an ownership group would finally take contol of the franchise. The Phillies' opponents for the new season, besides the new Spiders and the Hoosiers, under new management, would be the Beaneaters, the Giants, the Nationals, the Alleghenys, and the White Stockings.
The Phillies would begin the 1889 regular season on Wednesday, April 24, against the Nationals in Washington, which the Phillies would win, 8-4, putting them in a tie for first place with the Beaneaters, the Hoosiers and the Alleghenys. The Phillies would then go home for a twenty-eight games home stand against all of their rivals, where they would play four straight four-games series with the Beaneaters, the Giants, the Nationals, the White Stockings, a two-games series with the Hoosiers, two straight four-games series with the Spiders and the Alleghenys and finally a second two-games series with the Hoosiers, which would last through the entire month of May. The Phillies would end April by splitting the first two games of their four-games series with the Beaneaters, losing 8-3, and then winning 7-6, ending April with a 2-1 record, in third place, trailing both the Giants and the Alleghenys by half a game.
The Phillies would begin May the same way they had ended April, by splitting the last two games of their four-games series with Boston, ending the series with a 2-2 record, while staying in third place as they now trailed the first place Giants by a game and a half. In their four-game series with their rival, the Giants, the Phillies would take three of the four games, including 9-4 and 11-2 victories in the first two games of the series, before being clobbered 13-9 in the series' third game, putting them in a first place tie with the Beaneaters, half a game ahead of both the now third place Giants and the fourth place Alleghenys. The Phils would then proceed to split their series with the Nationals, which would keep them tied with Boston for first and still half a game ahead of the Giants. The Phils would then win their four-games series with their main western rival, the White Stockings, 3-1, as they fall into second place in the standings, a full game behind the first place Beaneaters. They would then sweep their two games with the Hoosiers, which keep them a game behind Boston in the standings. They would then win the first game of their four-games with the Spiders, giving them a five-games winning streak, before they would lose the next three games, thus losing the series to Cleveland, 1-3, as they fall three and a half games behind Boston, while staying in second place. The Phillies would then rebound, winning the first three games in their four-games series with the Alleghenys, including a doubleheader split on May 30, winning the opener by the score of 13-6, before losing the 'nightcap' by the score of 10-6. They would then sweep their second straight doubleheader, this one against the Hoosiers on May 31, by the scores of 11-8 and 11-4, thus ending the home stand with a record of 18-10 and the month with a 17-9 record. Their overall record of 19-10 would keep them in second place, now two and a half games behind the first place Beaneaters.
The Phillies would start off June by playing a four-games series with first place Beaneaters in Boston. The series would be a disaster, as they would lose the first three games in the series by scores of 7-2, 10-6 and 4-2, before leaving Boston with a 5-4 win, which would put the still second place Phils behind Boston by four and a half games. The Phillies would next play two straight three-games series with the Nationals, with the first three to be played in Philadelphia, and then the latter three in Washington, as part of a six-cities, twenty-two-games road trip to New York (2), Chicago (4), Cleveland (4), Pittsburgh (5) and Indianapolis (4), that would take the balance of June and the start of July to complete. The Phillies would win both of their series against the Nationals, going 2-1 both at home and in Washington, which would include a split of their third doubleheader of the season, losing the first game 6-3, and then winning the 'nightcap' 7-5. The Phillies would drop down to third place as they head for New York, a game behind the third place Spiders and three and a half games behind league leading Boston. The Phils would end up being swept in New York, which would drop them five and a half games behind the Beaneaters. The Phillies would then go to Chicago, where they would split their four-games series with the White Stockings, as they would now trail Boston by eight games, as the Beaneaters would appear to be running away from the rest of the league. The Phillies would next go to Cleveland, visiting the city for the first time since the collapse of the original Cleveland Blues franchise in 1884. The Phillies would end up losing the series to the Spiders, 1-3, which would dropped the Phils into fourth place, still trailing the Beaneaters by eight games, as the Giants would jump over them into third place. The Phils would then go to Pittsburgh, where their losing streak would increase to four games, including a doubleheader lost on June 29 by the score of 3-2 and 8-0. The Phillies would end June with an 8-15 losing record, and an overall record of 27-25, eight and a half games behind Boston in fourth place.
The Phillies would start July by losing the last two games of their series with Pittsburgh, losing the five-games series as their losing streak rises to six games, as they now trail Boston by nine and a half games. The Phillies would finally break their losing streak by winning the first game of their July 4th doubleheader with the Hoosiers, winning by the score of 5-4, before losing the 'nightcap' 6-0. They would then split the last two games in Indianapolis, splitting the series, as they would end the road trip with a losing record of 7-15, as they now trailed Boston by nine games, as they stayed a half game ahead of fifth place Chicago. The Phillies would then go back home to begin a seventeen-games home stand with the Hoosiers (3), White Stockings (2), the Spiders (3), the Alleghenys (3), the Giants (3) and the first place Beaneaters (3). The Phillies would start the home stand off with a seven-games winning streak as they would sweep first the Hoosiers, then the White Stockings, before the Spiders would finally end the winning streak by beating the Phils in the final game of their three-games series, 9-4. Their seven games winning streak would place the Phillies six games behind the Beaneaters, before their lost and Boston's doubleheader sweep of the Hoosiers the next day would push them back to seven and a half games behind. The Phillies would then sweep their series with Pittsburgh and New York, which would put them four and a half game behind Boston as the Beaneaters came to town. The Phillies would proceed to lose the first two games with Boston, thus losing the series, 1-2, as they now trail the first place Beaneaters by five and a half games, as they moved into third place, a half game ahead of the Spiders and two games behind New York, as they end the home stand with a record of 14-3. The Phillies would then go back onto the road for a six-cities, thirteen-games road trip to Boston (2), New York (2), Pittsburgh (2), Cleveland (2), Chicago (3) and Indianapolis (2). The Phillies would start their road trip in Boston, where they would be swept by the Beaneaters, ending the month with a 16-9 record and with an overall record of 43-34, seven and a half games behind Boston, and tied for third place with Cleveland (who have played one game more than the Phils, which ended up as a tie.).
The Phillies would begin August still on the road as they visit rival New York, where they would be swept by the Giants as their losing streak rises to four games, as they fall to eight games behind, technically in third place as they lead the Spiders by .001. The Phillies would then sweep their series with the Alleghenys, before splitting their series with the Spiders, as they now trailed the Beaneaters by six and a half games, while in third place by themselves. The Phillies would then go to Chicago, where they would win the series with their western rival, 2-1, before heading on to Indianapolis, where they would split the series with the Hoosiers, ending the road trip with a respectible 6-7 record, seven games behind the Beaneaters, who were now trying to fight off a challenge for first from the Giants. The Phillies then went home for a short three-games series with the Nationals, which the Phillies would win, 2-1, as they now trailed Boston by seven and a half games. The Phillies then went back onto the road for a five-games series in New York, which they would lose to the Giants, 1-4, as they played two straight doubleheaders with them, splitting the first one on August 23, losing the first game, 7-3, before winning the 'nightcap' 11-2. They would then be swept in the doubleheader played on the 24, by the scores of 10-8 and 8-3. The Phils would stay in third place, but now trailing Boston by nine and a half games. They would then go home to face the Beaneaters for three games, seeing their losing streak go up to four games, before finally winning the series' final game, as they lose the series, 1-2, as the Phillies now trailed the Beaneaters by ten and a half games. The Phillies then go back onto the road for three games with the Nationals, where they would lose the series, 0-1-1, tying the series' middle game by the score of 2-2, as they would end the month with a record of 10-14-1, while having an overall record of 53-48-1, eleven and a half game behind Boston, and a half-game ahead of fourth place Chicago.
In September, the Phils would play a ten-games home stand with the White Stockings (4), the Spiders (3), the Alleghenys (1) and the Hoosiers (2). The Phillies would lose the series with their western rival, the White Stockings, 1-3, which would include a doubleheader split on the 2, losing the first game, 2-1, before winning the 'nightcap' 3-2. The series would see the Phillies drop back into fourth place, now twelve and a half games behind both Boston and New York, who were in a mathematical tie for first place, and a game and a half behind now third place Chicago. The Phils would then go on a five-games winning streak, sweeping their series with the Spiders, and then winning their one-game series with the Alleghenys, before splitting their doubleheader with the Hoosiers on the 14, winning the opener, 11-3, then losing the second game, 10-7, thus ending their home stand with a 6-4 record, as they regained third place, now twelve games behind Boston and three and a half games ahead of the fourth place White Stockings. The Phillies would then go to Boston for a three games series, which they would lose to the Beaneaters, 1-2, leaving them still twelve games behind the Beaneaters and the Giants, with the Giants leading by .003. The Phillies then went back home for a five-games series with the Giants, which they would lose 0-4-1, which would include a doubleheader split on the 20, as they would lose the first game, 5-1, then would be tied in the 'nightcap', 4-4. The Phillies were now sixteen and a half games behind the Giants, who were now a game ahead of Boston in the pennant race. The Phillies would now go onto the road for the rest of the season, to play eleven games in four cities, with three games in Cleveland, three in Pittsburgh, two in Indianapolis and the final three games of the season in Chicago. The Phillies would win the series in Cleveland, going 2-1, as they now trailed the Giants by seventeen and a half games. The Phils would then go to Pittsburgh, where they would be swept by the Alleghenys, ending the month of September with an 8-14-1 record, while their overall record went to 61-62-2, placing them in a mathematical tie with the White Stockings for third place.
In October, the Phillies would start the month off with a sweep of the Hoosiers, placing them a half game ahead of Chicago as the two teams now fought over third place, while the Phils now trailed both New York and Boston by eighteen games, as those two teams fought for the league's crown. The Phillies would go to Chicago, and would end the first game in their three-games series in a 5-5 tie. They would then lose the final two games of the season to the White Stockings, ending the month with a record of 2-2-1, while their road trip would end with a record of 4-6-1, as they end the season in fourth place with a record of 63-64-3, a winning percentage of .496, a game and a half behind third place Chicago and twenty and a half games behind the league's winner, the New York Giants, who would win the pennant on the last day of the regualr season.
The Phillies would play 130 games, with a home-road record of 43-24-1 at home and 20-40-2 on the road. They would play in front of 281,869 fans at home. They would have winning records with only three teams, with their best record being 13-4 against the Hoosiers, while also having losing records against three teams, with their worst being against the Beaneaters at 6-13. They would also have a 9-9 record with the Alleghenys. The Phillies would be 4-10 in shut outs, 17-13 in one-run games, and 21-24 in blowouts.
Offensively, they would end up being around the middle of the pack, ending up second in 2Bs (215), third in stolen bases (269), fourth in at-bats (4695), home runs (44) and batting average (.266), fifth in runs scored (742), hits (1248), on-base percentage (.323) and slugging percentage (.362), seventh in triples (52) and walks (393) and eighth in strike outs (353), as well as knocking in 605 RBIs, while 35 batters were hit by the pitch. Among pitching staffs, the Phils would also be near the middle of the league, as they would lead the league in home runs given up with 33, be third in saves (2) and strikeouts (443), fourth in runs allowed (748), fifth in ERA (4.00), innings pitched (1153), hits allowed (1288) and walks (428), sixth in shut outs (4), and eighth in complete games (106), while finishing twenty-four other games, giving up 512 earned runs, forty-seven wild pitches, and hitting twenty-seven batters.
Among the batters, Sam Thompson would lead the team in batting average (.296), slugging percentage (.492), total plate appearances (575), hits (158), total bases (262), doubles (36), home runs (20), where he was the league leader and RBIs (111), while Jim Fogarty would lead in on-base percentage (.352), runs scored (107), triples (17), walks (65), strikeouts (60), stolen bases (99), also leading the league in that category and hit by the pitch (7), Sid Farrar in games played (130), and Joe Mulvey in at-bats (544) and singles (121). Among the pitchers, Charlie Buffington would lead the pitching staff in ERA (3.24), wins (28), winning percentage (.636), games pitched (47), games started (43), complete games (37), shutouts (2), innings pitched (280), home runs allowed (10), walks (121), wild pitches (15) and batters faced (1661), while Kid Gleason and Ben Sanders would be tied for first with one save each, Sanders would also lead in hits allowed (406), losses (18) and earned runs allowed (138), and Gleason would lead in hit batters (9) and games finished (7). The Phillies would have only one twenty-game winner in 1889, Charlie Buffington, who would go 28-16, as Ben Sanders would just miss it, as he would go 19-18.
With the 1889 season over, the Phillies would have their first losing season since 1884, although staying in the first division for the fifth straight season under Harry Wright's tenure. As the Phillies once again try to figure out what they would need to do to finally win a pennant, the Giants would face the Brooklyn Bridegrooms of the American Association in a post-season playoff, which the Giants would win 6-3, beginning what would become a long standing rivalry between the two clubs, as Brooklyn would join the National League for the following season, along with the Cincinnati Red Stockings (now the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds, respectively), as they would replace the just folded Nationals and Hoosiers franchises. Meanwhile, the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players, the players' union, still upset over the restructuring of the players' salary structure, would formally revolt against the owners with the formation of the Players' League on December 16. The players' revolt would within two years have an outcome not expected by any of the players who would join any of the teams in the new league or those who would remain in either the NL or AA, or among the teams' owners.
Sources: Wikipedia, Baseball Almanac.com, Retrosheet.org, Baseball-reference.com
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Philadelphia Phillies – Records: Hitting for the Cycle.
There are several things that are rear to do in Baseball. One is to pitch a no-hitter, whether its ends up being a perfect game or not. The other is hitting for the cycle. Of the two feats, hitting for the cycle is a very rare thing to do while being a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, as it has been accomplished only eight times by a Phil, with one player actually doing it twice.
For those of you who might not know what hitting for the cycle is, hitting for the cycle means that in one game, you have hit a single, a double, a triple and a home run, in at least four official at-bats. To date, hitting for the cycle has occurred only 248 times in Major League History. Players playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates have done it the most times with 23, while no players have so far done it for either the San Diego Padres, the Florida Marlins or the Tampa Bay Rays. The last major leaguer to have hit for the cycle has been Adrián Beltré of the Seattle Mariners, who had accomplished the feat on September 1, 2008, just hours after Stephen Drew of the Arizona Diamondbacks had done it.
Among the Phillies, the first one to hit for the cycle would be Lave Cross, who would perform the feat on April 24, 1894, in a 4-1 win over the Brooklyn Bridegrooms (now the Los Angeles Dodgers). Several months later, on August 17, Sam Thompson would become the second Phillie player to accomplish the feat, doing it during a 29-4 rout of the Louisville Colonels (Yes, Louisville, Kentucky, actually had a major league franchise before the start of the 20th Century.). It would be 33 years before the third Phillie to hit for the cycle, Cy Williams, who would win the National League home run title that same year, would do the deed, performing it on August 5, 1927, in a 9-7 victory over the Pirates. The fourth Phillie to hit for the cycle, Chuck Klein, would perform it on July 1, 1931, in a 11-6 win over the Chicago Cubs. Less than two years later, Klein would become the only Phillie player to perform the deed twice, as he would hit for the cycle again on May 26, 1933, during the year he would win the NL triple crown (batting average, home runs, RBIs), doing it in a 5-4 lost to the St. Louis Cardinals. The sixth Phil to join the club would be Johnny Callison, who would accomplish the deed on June 27, 1963, over 30 years after Klein's second performance, doing it in a 13-4 rout of the Pirates. It would be another 32 years before the next Phil, Greg Jefferies, would hit for the cycle, doing it on August 24, 1995, during a 7-6 win over the Dodgers. The most recent Phillie player to do it, David Bell, would did it on June 28, 2004, in a 14-6 victory over the Montreal Expos (now the Washington Senators).
In the eight times that a Phil has hit for the cycle, the Phillies have won all but one of those games. The team that the cycle has been done against the most has been the Dodgers and the Pirates, who have both been on the wrong end twice, while the Louisville Colonels, the Cubs, the Cardinals (the only team to win when a Phil hit for the cycle) and the Nationals (as the Expos), have been the other four. Two Hall of Famers, Sam Thompson and Chuck Klein (who did it twice) have both hit for the cycle while being a Phil.
When will another Phil hit for the cycle? Your guess is as good as mines.
Sources: Wikipedia, Baseball Almanac.com
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Philadelphia Phillies – The Players: Ed Delahanty – The Phillies' first major star.
Ed Delahanty, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, would probably be considered one of the first, if not the first, major star to put on a Phillies uniform.
'Big Ed', as he was nicknamed, was born on October 30, 1867, in Cleveland, Ohio, the oldest of seven brothers, five of whom, including himself, would eventually play professional baseball. He would go to high school at Central High School, in Cleveland, Ohio, and then go on to college and graduate from St. Joseph's, before he started playing professional baseball with Mansfield in the Ohio State League. He would then play ball in Wheeling, West Virginia, before having his contract bought early in 1888 by the Philadelphia Phillies as the replacement for the recently deceased Charlie Ferguson. Delahanty would make his major league debut on May 22, 1888 at the young age of 20. Appearing in 74 games, mostly at second base, he would hit a low, for his eventual 16-year career, .228 (66 for 290), with a slugging percentage of .293 and an on-base percentage of only .261, as he would hit just 12 2Bs, 2 3Bs and 1 HRs and steal only 38 bases, as he scored just 40 runs while he knocked in 31.
In his second season as a Phil, his batting average would rise to .293 (72 for 246), as he would play in only 56 games. His slugging percentage would also rise to .370, while his on-base percentage would increase to .333, as he would also hit 13 2Bs and 3 3Bs, while stealing 14 bases. 'Big Ed' would also score 37 runs while knocking in 27. In his third season as a major league ballplayer, he would be among the players who would jump from either the National League or the American Association to join the short-lived Players' League, which was formed in revolt against the reserve clause. Playing for his home town Cleveland Infants of the upstart league, 'Big Ed' would start to show his prowess, as he would play in 113 games, batting .296 (153 for 517), with a slugging percentage of .414 and an on-base percentage of .337. He would hit 26 2Bs, 13 3Bs and 3 HRs, while stealing 25 bases, and would score 107 runs while knocking in 64. After the PL's collapse, he would rejoin the Phillies for the 1891 season. In 128 games, his batting average would dip to .243 (132 for 543), as did his slugging percentage (.339) and his on-base percentage (.296). His power numbers would also drop, as he would only hit 19 2Bs, 9 3Bs and 5 HRs, while he would steal 25 bases, score 92 runs and knock in 86.
The 1892 season would see Delahanty start to become a hitting threat, as he would end the season with his first .300+ batting average as he would hit .306 (146 for 477) in 123 games, with a slugging percentage of .495, leading the league in that category, and an on-base percentage of .360, as he would hit 30 2Bs, 21 3Bs (league leader) and 6 HRs, with 29 stolen bases, while scoring 79 runs as he knocked in 91. In 1893, his batting average would rise to .368 (219 for 595) in 132 games, while his slugging percentage would increase to .583, once again the league leader, and his on-base percentage would rise to .423, as he would hit 35 2Bs, 18 3Bs and 19 HRs (league leader), with 37 steals, as he knocked in 146 runs (league leader) while scoring 145. The following season, his batting average would rise to .400 for the first time in his career as a member of the .400+ Phillies outfield of Billy Hamilton (.404), Sam Thompson (.407) (both hall of famers) and Tuck Turner (.416), as he would hit .407 (199 for 489) in 114 games, ending up in fourth place behind league leader Hugh Duffy (.440, the major league record), with a .585 slugging percentage and a .423 on-base percentage. That year, he would hit 39 2Bs, 18 3Bs and 4 HRs, and steal 21 bases, while also scoring 147 runs as he knocked in 131. In 1895, in 116 games, Delahanty's batting average would drop a little to .404 (194 for 480), while both his slugging (.617) and on-base (.500, league leader) percentage would rise, as he would hit 49 2Bs (league leader), 10 3Bs and 11 HRs, while stealing 46 bases, as he scored 149 times, while knocking in 126.
In 1896, his ninth season as a major leaguer, and his eighth as a Phil, Delahanty would perform several feats. On July 13, 1896, he would go five for five in one game, four of which would be home runs, all of them inside-the-park, thus in one day becoming, so far, the only man to hit four inside-the-park home runs, the second man in major league history to hit four home runs in one day, after Bobby Lowe of the Boston Beaneaters did it on May 30, 1894, and the first player to do so in a losing cause, as the Phillies would lose to the Chicago Colts (now Cubs), 9-8. Overall, in 116 games, his batting average would be .397 (198 for 499), with a slugging percentage of .631 and an on-base percentage of. 472. He would hit 44 2Bs, 17 3Bs and 13 HRs, while stealing 37 bases, as he scored 131 runs while knocking in 126, leading the league in slugging, doubles, home runs and RBIs. In 1897, his ninth year in the National League, his average would drop down to .377 (200 for 530), as he would play in 129 games that season, having a slugging percentage of .538 and an on-base mark of .444, as he would hit 40 2Bs, 15 3Bs and 5 HRs, while also swipping 26 bases, as he crossed the plate 109 times while knocking in only 96 runs. The following season, 1898, in 144 games, 'Big Ed"s batting average would fall to .334 (183 for 548), with similar drops in slugging (.454) and on-base percentage (.426). He would hit 38 2Bs, 9 3Bs and 4 HRs, while stealing 58 bases (league leader), as he scored 115 times while knocking in just 92 runs.
1899, his tenth season as a Phil, would be his best season as a major leaguer, as he would play in 146 games, winning his first batting title with a .410 average (238 for 581), with a .582 slugging mark and a .464 on-base percentage. Delahanty would hit 55 2Bs, 9 3Bs, and 9 HRs, as he scored 135 runs while knocking in 137. 'Big Ed' would lead the National League in slugging percentage, hits, doubles and RBIs, as well as total bases (338), while also being among the leaders in on-base percentage (2), runs scored (4), home runs (3), singles (165, 5). He would also that year hit safely in 31 straight games, while also hitting four doubles in one game, becoming the only man in major league history to hit both four home runs in one game and four doubles in another, as well as collecting 10 straight hits. After his career season, his numbers would dropped as a member of the turn of the century (1900) Phils. In 131 games, his batting average would drop to .323 (174 for 539), as would his slugging (.430) and on-base percentage (.378), as he would hit only 32 2Bs, 10 3Bs and 2 HRs, while stealing just 16 bases, as he would cross the plate just 82 times while knocking in 109. In 1901, in what would turn out to be his thirteenth and final season with the Phillies, Delahanty would play in 139 games, as his batting average rose to .354 (192 for 542), as would both his slugging (.528) and on-base (.427) percentage, as he would hit 38 2Bs (league leader), 16 3Bs and 8 HRs, crossing the plate 106 times while knocking in 108.
In 1902, he would jump to the American League, becoming a member of the Washington Senators, soon having his best season since his 1897 season, as he would win the AL batting title, the only man to so far do it in both major leagues in major league history as he would end a 123 games season with a .367 average (178 for 473), while slugging (.590) with an on-base percentage (.376), both being the league leader. 'Big Ed' would that season hit 43 2Bs (league leader), 14 3Bs and 10 HRs, while he would score 103 times while knocking in 93 RBIs, placing him among the league leaders in hits (4), triples, home runs, RBIs, runs scored (all 5) as well as total bases (279, 4). The following season, 1903, Delahanty would appear in only 42 games, going .333 (52 for 156), with a .436 slugging and a .388 on-base percentage, as he would hit 11 2Bs, 1 3Bs and 1 HRs, as he would cross the plate 22 times while knocking in 21.
Ed Delahanty, although a good ballplayer, would be plagued with a personal life marred by alcohol and gambling. His debts would get so big that at one point he would threathen to commit suicide so that his fellow teammates would have to bail him out. In fact, his mother would at one point travel with him to make sure that he wouldn't kill himself. On the night of July 2, 1903, Delahanty would be taking the train from Detroit to New York so that he could once again jump leagues, this time to join the National League's New York Giants of John J. McGraw. During the trip, as the train reached Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, he would get himself kicked off of train by the train's conductor, after making himself a general nusiance by getting drunk. Delahanty, according to eyewitness accounts, then attempted to cross the International Bridge in the dark. He would then get into a confrontation with Sam Kingston, the bridge's watchman, before running away. Kingston claimed that he then heard a splash. Delahanty would be missing for several days, before his nude, lifeless form would appear at the base of the falls on July 9, later identify by M.A. Green, a stockholder of the Senators.
'Big Ed"s body would be sent home to Cleveland to be buried, with his entire family attending the funeral, along with several friends whom he had made while in the majors, with McGraw acting as one of his pallbearers.
In a 16-year career, 'Big Ed' still has the fifth highest batting average in baseball history (.346) (2596 (75th) for 7505). He is also 13th in triples (185), 32nd in on-base percentage (.411), 36th in doubles (522), 44th in runs scored (1599), 47th in stolen bases (455), 54th in RBIs (1464), 81st in singles (1788) 85th in slugging percentage (.505), and 97th in total bases (3791), while also playing in 1835 games, mostly as an outfielder, and hitting 101 HRs. In his career, he would win two batting titles, lead the league in slugging percentage and doubles five times, in on-base percentage, total bases and home runs twice, in hits, triples and stolen bases one time each, and in rbis four times. As a Phil, in 13 full seasons, he is still the team leader in 2Bs (442) and 3Bs (157), is 2nd in batting average (.348), total bases (3230), runs scored (1367) and RBIs (1286), 3rd in hits (2213), 4th in at-bats (6359), 6th in games (1555), 8th in slugging percentage (.510), and 28th in HRs (87).
In 1945, he would be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee, to help clear up a log jam of players who mainly played in the 19th Century. Teammates Hamilton and Thompson would join him in the Hall in 1961 and 1974 respectively
Wikipedia Biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Delahanty
National Baseball Hall of Fame Bio: http://baseballhall.org/hof/delahanty-ed
Hall of Fame Vote, 1945: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame_balloting,_1945
Baseball.com Biography: http://www.thebaseballpage.com/players/delahed01.php
Baseball-reference.com stats: http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/delahed01.shtml
Ed Delahanty's Obits (NY Times): http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Obits_D/Delahanty.Ed.Obit.html
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Occasionally, I forget that I hate eggs and make these egg squares. There are just enough veggies in here to balance the eggs out. When it comes to eggs and me, it's all about a delicate ratio of cleverly disguised egg to other things like saluted vegetables, starch or meat.
This recipe makes a big pan off egg squares, feel free to use a smaller pan and cut the recipe in half.
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease or paper a 13 x 9 inch pan.
In a large skillet or wok over medium heat, warm oil. Add leeks, mushrooms and kale, cook until soft, about 10 minutes. Arrange evenly in prepared pan.
In a bowl, whisk eggs. Season with salt and pepper. Pour over cooked vegetables. Bake until egg set in the middle, about 25 minutes. Cut into squares.
The spanish tortilla. A staple on spanish tapas menus. It's great for breakfast or a little bite anytime of the day.
Heat an 8 inch skillet over medium low heat. Add olive oil. Heat. Add onions, potatoes and garlic. Season with salt, pepper and paprika. Stir/flip occasionally to encourage even cooking and avoid browning. Cook until potatoes and soft but not falling apart, about 10 minutes.
Drain oil from pan and reserve. Transfer cooked potato mixture to bowl and toss with beaten eggs. Wipe out pan, return to medium low heat. Add 2 tablespoons of reserved oil back to pan. Pour in potato egg mixture. Cook until just set in center, about 20 minutes. Carefully place a plate over skillet and invert tortilla on to the plate. Slide tortilla back into skillet to finish cooking remaining, uncooked side. Cook 5 minutes. Remove from skillet and let sit 20 minutes before serving. Serve warm, room temperature or cool.
The only way I'll eat eggs. (Besides those in baked goods.) This is almost a frittata except with more vegetables than eggs.
Heat oven 350 degrees. Saute mushrooms and leeks in olive oil until soft, about 5 minutes. Toss in collard greens. Pour veggies into greased casserole dish. Whisk eggs with salt an pepper. Pour over vegetables. Bake until set, about 25 minutes. Grate parmesan cheese over top. Cut into squares.


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