After a weekend of fermenting and preserving, I found it necessary to blog tonight about this important part of the season, rather than about what will be packaged in your CSA share this week. For a few weeks now, our raspberries at Aspen Moon Farm have been coming in strong. Now, as the cooler temperatures are forecasted, I surrendered to the urgency of the matter and found time this past Sunday afternoon to make raspberry preserves.
There is a laundry list of items that I absolutely love to produce and marvel in their gastronomic delight at the farm. However, aside from the heirloom tomatoes, there is one thing that we produce at Aspen Moon that I utterly crave daily and would wish it to be a part of my last supper, the raspberry. Since my first days working at the farm four years ago, my love for this scrumptious little fruit has benignly developed. There is a small planting of raspberries on the original 2-acre home farm, but as of last year, our berry patch expanded greatly. Into "field five", at the back of our leased 19-acre property and to the north of our home farm, we have approximately one acre of raspberries planted. Now in their second year of growth, the plants are reveling in unprecedented growth and yielding a wildly tormenting amount of berries (that is to me)! At this time, we are harvesting over 300 pints twice a week of these enticing berries.
In our field "five" we have several types of berries planted, three of them fall bearing and of varying colors – red, purple, and gold. As it has worked out, each of the three types will climax at different points in the fall season, thereby making for an extended crop of raspberries. However, far earlier in the season, we do sell starter raspberry plants in the spring months, and I am often asked at farmer's market what the key to raising great raspberry plants is. Without doubt, the berries like a sandy, loamy soil, one that is slightly acidic (ie. supplement with pine needles if need be), and enjoy a moderate amount of water. For more information on raspberries for the home gardener, please visit http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/garden/07001.pdf.
All of this being said, there is nothing, I repeat, nothing, more wonderful than these succulent little fresh fruits. On Sunday, I used an Alice Waters recipe in her Fruits cookbook to preserve them into jam. As we begin another week, I will at the very least recommend that you try our berries, if you have not. As you will quickly see, they just may be the sweetest and most perfect specimens to ever touch your lips.
Stir together the berries and sugar in a medium-sized heavy-bottomed saucepan. Let sit for 15 minutes so that the berries their juice. Put a small plate in the freezer to use to test the consistency later.
Prepare two one-pint canning jars according to manufacturer's instructions.
Bring the saucepan of berries to a boil over high heat, stirring occasionally, making sure that the jam is not sticking (reduce the heat if it is). The mixture will bubble up dramatically, rising high up the sides of the pot. Skim off any light-colored foam as it collects on the edges. Soon the jam will boil down again, forming smaller, thicker bubbles. At this point, start testing the consistency by putting small spoonfuls of the jam on the cold plate. This will cool off the jam sample quickly so that you can tell what the finished texture will be like. When the jam has cooked to the thickness you want, stir in the lemon juice. Turn off the heat and carefully ladle the jam into the prepared canning jars, allowing at least ¼ inch of headroom. Clean the lip of the jars with a clean, damp towel, and seal with lids. The jam will keep for about 1 year.


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Character Change vs. Revelation
March 27, 2010 by Joe Forrest
Joe Forrest looks at an important difference between characters. On the one hand there are those who change over the course of a story and then those who don't change, but instead discover or reveal hidden traits deep within their personality.
CHARACTERS WHO CHANGE
Some films have characters who fundamentally change. They were bad, and the events of the story ask of them to change, to become good. In screenwriting terms, they have to change because of their flaw, to meet their true inner needs, to be reborn, etc.
In Groundhog Day, Bill Murray is a miserable, cynical man who sees the worst in everything. As he repeats the same day over and over again, he moves through greed, depression, helplessness and near insanity, eventually coming out at the other end a new man, able to appreciate life in all its beauty.
In The Godfather, Michael Corleone is a decorated war hero who finds himself drawn into the "family business" that he was never supposed to be a part of. The assassination attempt on his father, killing the man responsible and the accidental murder of his love turn his heart cold. By the final act he is ruthless man, capable of terrible actions.
I think of this kind of character moving along a timeline,
arcing as they go along.
When I'm studying or planning out a character journey, I think of this kind of character moving along a timeline, arcing as they go along. I mark out the key events that hit them and the key changes in personality that occur as a result.
CHARACTERS WHO REVEAL THEIR TRUE PERSONALITY
Other films have characters who don't necessarily change, but instead are revealed to be more complex than presented at the start of the film. The chain of events in the film reveal to us (and perhaps to themselves) that there is more to them than meets the eye. These characters can be harder to empathise with sometimes, but when it's done well the intrigue pulls you in. The secrets and lies that we keep from others lend themselves well to the voyeurism of cinema.
An extreme example would be A History of Violence. Tom Stall, a likeable family man, has his diner held up by two sadistic men. Tom springs into action and expertly kills both men. The ordeal brings more bad men Tom's way, who accuse him of being someone else. They provoke Tom, getting too close to his family and briefly kidnapping his son. The more pressure put on Tom, the more layers are peeled away, until the dark core of his personality is revealed.
The secrets and lies that we keep from others
lend themselves well to the voyeurism of cinema
In The King of Comedy, a nervous wanabee comedian does his best to get a break into show business. He pesters the studios and agencies, and doesn't have much luck. When things don't work out, he resorts to kidnapping his favourite comedian.
When studying characters who reveal themselves, I tend to draw a circle with smaller circles within it. The timeline moves from the outermost circle to the innermost circle. As more pressure is put on the character, more circles are stripped away to reveal deeper, maybe darker aspects of their personality.
When studying characters who reveal themselves, I tend to draw a circle with smaller circles within it
This technique of character revelation is used to great effect in many television series – see The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, Dexter, or pretty much any half decent American show.
The key difference between these two character types boils down to the question a writer should ask when working out their journey.
In the first type you might ask simply, "How does this character change?" You can then throw everything at the character that will incite that change. Betrayal, murder, love, etc.
In the second character type you could ask, "What is this character capable of?" Then you can work out what events are going to force the character to show their true character.
Both models are perfectly valid. But is it important for a screenwriter to know which of these two models their character fits into (if at all)? If a character murders someone at the midpoint of the story, is it important for the writer to know whether the character was always capable of such an act, or whether this is something new to them.
Do your characters change or reveal their true character? Or neither?
-Joe Forrest
Joe Forrest is a graduate of the Northern Film School in Leeds, England, where he specialised in documentary and screenwriting. Since graduating in 2008 he has worked as a researcher for both drama and documentary. Joe has made several short documentaries and written a number of short films, and is currently researching new projects.
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Hi Joe, this screenwriting business is damn hard, as you know only to well i was watching Bridge on Madison County last night and had the script on the other screen. It makes you realize just how long a film really is , at least if you are the writer. It seemed to take for ever. I have a question for you because i am new to this. If i have a young likable rogue a hoodie type who has an accident and because of that he becomes a different person a good kid later in the film is he a protagonist or an antagonist as he raises money at the end of the film for a charity. There is also another character who trys to mentor him and finally manages to do so. So are there two heros or two protagonists or one antagonist the boy and one protagonist the man… It may seem simple to you the answer but it is very confusing to me. I also wondered if you could mention any worthwhile boks
Best wishes for your future
Joe Forrest
From what you have said about your story, it sounds like your "young likeable rogue" is your protagonist. For one thing you have said he is likeable, and so I am assuming you want your audience on his side and routing for him.
Look for examples in films you like where the protagonist/hero is a bad guy who turns good.
The other character you mention, who mentors the rogue, is just that – a mentor. The obvious example is Yoda in Star Wars.
So to clarify, it sounds like you have a protagonist, and a mentor. Your antagonist is the character who stops the rogue getting what he wants. This might be one big bad guy, or several smaller characters. Just make sure you make it difficult for the rogue to get what he wants.


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Once upon a time, in a not so distant past, the phrase "Rise of the machines" used to be considered as a fictional concept from the 1984 classic Sci-Fi film The Terminator. The movie, which turned into a franchise and an unforgettable classic, expanded many minds to fear the possibility of robots taking over. Since then, films such as 2010's Inception, 1999's The Matrix, and 1985's Back to the Future, as well as other Science Fiction films, have generated several questions on what the future holds that could include Holograms, Virtual Reality, Flying Cars, and parallel universes.
Currently in 2016, one can theorize that the future is now, what was once considered fiction is turning into reality, and anything is possible. Now, how does one turn these perceptions, thoughts, and theories into Heavy Metal induced music? The ambitious Symphonic Metal act from the Netherlands, Epica, decided they were up for the challenge as they wrote and recorded their album, The Holographic Principle. Released on September 30th via Nuclear Blast, it marks the band's seventh studio album. Pushing their limits musically, stylistically they have evolved since debuting in 2003 with The Phantom Agony, all the way through 2014's The Quantum Enigma, shifting to include more brutal and heavier sounds while retaining their symphonic signature.
Twelve tracks in total, The Holographic Principle is an album which has been described as the big sister of The Quantum Enigma with the enhancement of using real brass, strings, woodwinds, and ethnic instruments to give an authentic arrangement. Presently, members Simone Simons (vocals), Mark Jansen (rhythm guitar/growls), Isaac Delahaye (guitar), Rob van der Loo (bass), Coen Janssen (keyboard), and Ariën van Weesenbeek (drums) work to morph Classical and Metal elements while questioning the differences between reality and virtual reality.
Cinematically opening with "Eidola," it as if one hears the fictional company Skynet from The Terminator (1984) taking over with the creation of Artificial Intelligence. As the opening progresses, eeriness crawls in with its bold death-like orchestrations. Society has moved towards a direction where many seek for perfection as they look down on themselves until they reach a certain weight, hair style, and skill as they tend to forget to accept the present for what it is. This is where the next song, "Edge of the Blade," takes over. A heavy and powerful tune, it moves with musical layers of excellence as the lyrics scream out, "Your wish for virtual perfection seems in vain. It's trying to evolve. And why can't you see with open eyes, all of us are incomplete?"
As the concept of multiple realities progresses, "A Phantasmic Parade" enters in. It has a heavier tune, much more than what was seen in The Quantum Enigma. This is evident as the band has perfected the their orchestral style along with incorporating abrasive Metal instrumental breaks. Next, "Universal Death Squad" comes in with a soft introduction using dramatic strings. It is soothing and cinematic as one can visualize the creation of Artificial Intelligence as this song is seemingly inspired by movies sch as Inception and The Terminator. After the introduction, the tune explodes with merciless adrenaline as Simons' vocals come in to warn all to "embrace the technological elegy." It is an ambitious track as the melodies continue to surprise the listener, along with guitar solos that brilliantly sneak their way to the spotlight.
The album drifts off course with "Divide and Conquer" as it begins with the sound of gunshots reminding us all of the turmoil that has been sadly happening worldwide. The music slowly unfolds as the beginning is filled with strings that escalate until it erupts with battle-esque lyrics such as "divide and conquer, show no mercy." The lyrics continue beautifully to generate a response to the cruelties that are happening with words such as "you fail to practice what you preach," "abomination," and "manipulation" mixed with "justify your acts." Well-written, the melody pounds its way with brutality and anger. The search for freedom while being trapped in one's own Matrix comes in next with "Beyond the Matrix." From the second it starts, the listener will be captivated as the chorus opens with "Shine through the sky, beyond the Matrix." Once the chorus completes its direction, the song shifts to a compelling melody as it remains mesmerizing.
The tempo then drops with "Once Upon a Nightmare," moving in the direction of a Horror film score. The strings move in as though souls of the innocent are being taken away one by one, as this song was inspired by the German tale about the Erlking who seeks out to steal the souls of young children. Simons' voice soars through this tune as she sings with optimism, "we are going to fly higher than high, we will take on the sky." Picking up the tempo, "The Cosmic Algorithm" has a bold introduction as it seeks for answers questioning humanity. It is the theory on the possibility that mathematics could have the answers to the questions everyone asks – "What is the meaning of life" and "Why are we here?" As the song continues to unfold, one would realize that anything is possible, that one must stop asking questions and carry on with life's endeavors.
As questions continue, "Ascension – Dream State Armageddon" moves in next with a mystical introduction. The melody is harsh and unravels in darker dynamics as the song expresses once you find the answers to life's mysteries, there will be nothing left to seek as the world is not about needing to know everything. The lyrics emphasize this with, "nothing appears to be what it really is as we believe in the illusions" and "Free yourself from walking in circles." The album then moves towards a more native vibe with "Dancing in a Hurricane." It emphasizes the realistic crisis that is happening in this world as "we are forced to live in silence." It is a tune expressing the wish to find a way to save the world and realizing the fact that we should stop taking things for granted such as affording food on the table.
Nearing the album's conclusion, Epica continues to expand and inspire with "Tear Down Your Walls." It symphonically begins on a morbid note as it blisters into a Metal eruption. It is one of the heaviest tracks on the album as it demonstrates how everyone must break their own walls to grow further as a person. The music enhances this as it brings in fortitude movements throughout. Finally,"The Holographic Principle – A Profound Understanding of Reality" comes in next for a beautiful summary of the album's theme at a lengthy, near twelve-minute piece.
The Holographic Principle is one of Epica's strongest, most well-constructed albums yet as it is filled with bombastic orchestral counterparts. Listeners can expand their own personal universe, as their minds are awakened to the scientific possibilities, along with headbanging to one of their most aggressive albums. Providing an innovative inspiration to audiences has been the one constant in Epica's music, and The Holographic Principle is no different. CrypticRock.com gives this outstanding effort 5 out of 5 stars.
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Album review, Artificial Intelligence, Epica, Inception, Nuclear Blast Records, Symphonic Metal, Terminator, The Holographic Principle, The Netherlands
Zenae Zukowski
Zenae has been working in the Entertainment industry since she graduated The School of Visual Arts in 2006 with a BFA in Film. Managing to keep herself busy and glued to the city that never sleeps in NYC with the multiple media facets such as Advertising, Film, Broadcast, and Music, the scene has led her to be a well-rounded content creator focusing in writing, photography, and post production. Taking the industry a step further as a travel enthusiast, she would one day love to afford to fly out to several Music and Film festivals. When she is not working or at a Metal show, she spends her free time with her fur-babies.
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ROBERT TALLEY - THE DOG IN THE PARK
Robert Talley lives in San Francisco, California. He is a freelance writer with a BA in history from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in English from San Francisco State University. In his free time, he enjoys traveling with his wife and reading science fiction.
THE DOG IN THE PARK
Five youths had on their fake faces, masks with twisted smirks and frowns, the types of white masks hackers glorified years later. They killed time the only way adolescents can when they have it to lose and to waste. At least, Kathy and Sally felt they could be doing something more productive but yet both were there with the other three hanging out, loitering in a public park.
Kathy passed the marijuana over to Sally, watched her inhale hesitantly. Sally didn't smoke that often, not like the rest of them, and she couldn't really feel getting high. She went through the motions anyway. The strong smell drifted in the park, four acres wide. It was a park that visitors could get lost in. The drift of the strong, pungent smell went further than the five could possibly know. The five were friends their whole lives. And they talked the evening away, loud and gregarious, in a park they had to themselves. None of them knew how far the park reached or where the ends of the park were. None of them cared either.
The sun began to settle in the city, illuminating beautiful folds of color in the sky, with light coming off the sun, bleeding the sky with any color imaginable. A sight even more outstanding for the five high youths as they were high. When they looked up at the sky, they saw the world's biggest Jackson Pollack. And they laughed in their oblivious highness.
"What a sunset," Carl said rather mechanically.
"That's smog up there doing the dirty work."
"Still, Jack."
"It's our smog that makes us even notice the refraction of the light." Kathy added glibly. Kathy was the nerd with a physics background, a little smug because she knew physics. "And only in SoCal." Sally finished. She was just hoping they didn't notice she wasn't actually high. Not high yet. Sally always reinforced anything Kathy said. The two were inseparable, relying on each other almost like twins.
On this soon-to-be strange evening they were not mindful of the fast-approaching darkness. Nobody else was in the park; others had already left. The five were alone, but alone together. For all their jovialness, they had a little anxiety, staying up late at 13th Street Park. Of the five, Carl seemed the least effected. He was clear-headed it seemed.
"What is that?" Moose asked quizzically, sitting on the highest level of the children's playground structure, made of three wooden platforms with a netted, climbing rope attached.
"A dog." Jack answered subdued. They noticed a snowy-white dog down below, gritting its teeth, sitting on its hind legs, and glaring up at them through the darkness. The dog was not making any noises though.
"It started watching us awhile back." Carl muttered.
"Awhile back? How come you didn't say anything?", Moose said annoyed. "You seem the most alert out of all of us."
Carl stayed silent, and the silence enveloping the vast park only lent to the uneasiness they experienced. "I couldn't really tell if I was high or if it was really a dog down there." Carl tried to deflect the fact that he was not really high.
"That's lame," Kathy chimed in.
At first, their inclination was to ignore the dog and continue their conversation, but the lean and malnourished dog started barking every time they started speaking, trying to jump in the conversation or interrupt it altogether.
"What the hell," Jack said, staring back as if the dog could understand. It was so dark in the spacious park, they couldn't even make out the type of dog, but they could see the dog was very big. Exchanging glances, Kathy and Sally tacitly acknowledged the seriousness of the problem. They had that connection whereas they could communicate without words.
"We are stuck up here," Kathy noticed. "The dog is attracting too much attention. People will show up to save us only to catch us with weed." Stuck on the structure children climb up in the playground with the mysterious dog down below, they did not know quite what to do. They were caught on their little island of a slide, rope, metal ladder, and wooden platforms.
"You see an owner anywhere?" Moose asked. They quickly scanned the park, searching for an owner, but did not see anyone. If the dog had an owner, then the situation would still be tricky. The owner would recognize the smell of weed. Just in case and hoping it would work, they put out the blunt, and threw the evidence in the sand.
"Nope," both Carl and Jack said, noticing their isolation in the darkening park. The whole place seemed empty, motionless. But the dog started to stir things up. And the cogs of the wheels started to move unknowingly to the five oblivious youths. "This park isn't known to accommodate late night visitors. Most know to stay clear once the sun moves over the Pacific."
"No shit, Sally," Moose responded.
The standoff continued for nearly thirty minutes with the five not quite sure how to get out of their tricky situation. Because he was high, Jack decided to do something. He whistled at the dog down below, "good boy, that's a good boy."
Some barks exploded out of the dog.
"That dog isn't having any of that, Jack. It's not that type of dog. You think you are going to train that dog to be in Westminster dog show or something?" Moose asked. The two girls giggled.
"It's nomadic, a drooling street-dog" Kathy explained. "That dog wants to maul us."
"A bum-dog, then," Jack quipped and quickly agreed. The dog barked at the notion.
"Okay, then. Maybe this dog contracted rabies or something, but it used to be a playful and friendly dog," Carl continued.
"How many times have you seen it here?", Kathy asked. Kathy was beginning to become suspicious of Carl. Carl was always a little off. His timing was always off as well. Sally noticed it too, but she was getting too high to make anything of it.
"Oh, I don't know," Carl replied slowly in a drawn-out voice, staring at the dog down below. "More than a few times. I have to come here for my little nephew's baseball games. I can't mistake the dog. It kinda looks like a thin polar bear."
"You have a nephew…"
The beast started barking loud at Carl as if responding, interrupting Kathy. Each bark echoed angrily in the park, bouncing off a faraway brick wall separating the sandbox from a stretch of identical suburban houses. They stood frozen, staying silent, and the dog slowly stopped barking as if showing self-awareness.
Jack faked jumping off the playground structure to observe the dog's reaction. And in doing so, he almost slipped and nearly fell off, losing his shoe. The dog flinched and showed the beginning movements of an attack, saw the shoe flip end-over-end and hit the ground. Within seconds, the dog pounced on the black shoe and ripped it up with its teeth and mouth.
"Damn, that shoe was expensive." Jack lamented.
"This dog has been neglected for a while." Moose observed.
"It's difficult to tell in the dark. And many dogs are just lean" Carl replied.
"Focus. Whatever the case, none of that provokes any sympathy from us. We are now stuck in a zero-sum game: us or the dog in a battle of will and attrition."
"Very dramatic, Kathy. As always," Jack said sarcastically.
"Is this dog, homeless?" Carl asked quizzically.
The dog barked loud again as if offended at the question.
"Bum-dog!" Jack yelled.
The dog barked even louder.
"Perhaps, this park is its home. I don't really see anybody else here except us", Carl somehow knew.
Sitting atop the playground structure near the entrance to the slide, looking oversized as if they could break and fall through the wooden beams holding their lanky bodies up, the distressed five plotted their next move. "Our first strategy is to out-wait the lean dog. Maybe the dog will become bored or even forget why its angry," Moose said.
"Forget why it's angry? I doubt that Moose. The dog isn't dumb. Dog's like that don't forget they are angry. They are just angry all the time"
"Just bide your time, Jack. Read something. You like to read all the time. We are surrounded by weeks-old newspaper."
Jack reluctantly picked up a recent newspaper with a few pages intact lying near them. The daytime kids used newspapers under their butts to slide down to prevent any metal burns. A large picture of a woman on the front page startled him at first. "Whoa. She has an enormous dome.," Jack commented. Sally and Moose laughed. Her domed head and puffed up hair and that face stared out at them. He tried to ignore the image and read his best in the dark but gave up after his eyes started to hurt. He threw the newspaper pages over the rail of the structure, and it fluttered down slowly to the sand where the wolf-dog waited. As it landed gently on the sand, the wolf-dog bit into it and tore the newspaper pages up into shreds with its baring fangs. It was almost as if the dog was trying to showcase its rabidity. As the dog made a case for its ferociousness, Kathy eyed Carl, watching his reactions to every move the dog made. Carl seemed unfazed by the dog and not afraid at all.
"I'm not impressed." Jack then walked with one shoe across the red playground structure. He looked like he was limping. He slid down the tall, chrome slide, stopping slowly halfway with his shoes. The sliding almost mocking, his shoe squeaked against the stainless steel each time he resisted his body's momentum down. "What the hell are you doing? That noise is piercing my ears," Moose complained.
The dog started barking again, running over excitedly to the other side of the playground structure. It jumped on the slide, trying to run up. And its body slid back down quickly, creating a running-up-the-escalator repetitive motion. Jack barked back at the dog. "How you like them apples?!" The dog, quickly confused, stopped running up the slide and sat still waiting for Jack to do something else. Moose held in a slight laugh.
"I suppose we are going to just out-wait this dog" Moose interrupted. The dog just sat there waiting for the next move. "This must have been what the soldiers felt like in trench warfare: boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror."
"Speak for yourself. I'm not scared," Carl said. They all looked at Carl and did not say anything.
More time elapsed as they waited, bored. As time passed, their optimism faded. "I'm about to be mauled to death in this park. Nobody will ever know what happened" Jack muttered slowly.
It barked again, breaking his thoughts. Jack barked back. This time with more aggression.
"Stop that. You look stupid," Moose said.
Jack stopped mock-barking the rabid dog while a cat climbed down the bark of a large tree thirty feet from where the five sat in the playground structure functioning as a castle. The stealthy white cat with yellow stripes paused to look at the dog, which turned its head, noticed the cat but did not give chase. The cat, recognizing its chance, was gone in an instant.
"Weird. It didn't even care," Moose observed.
"That cat was stuck in that tree like we are stuck here," Jack said.
Carl looked concerned that the dog ignored the cat completely. Kathy noticed his concern.
"I've never seen that before...I mean for a dog to be disinterested like that…"
Just then another seemingly random event happened on the heels of the cat sighting. A green car in the distance sped off, tires screeching, the driver recklessly speeding away from the park. All five waited to observe what will happen. The dog did not chase the green Honda Accord either. Two events in a row that the dog was not interested in. This made the situation even more strange for the five stuck in the park.
"Why are you so obsessed with us?!" Jack yelled at it.
Sally and Kathy were almost expecting an answer from the dog.
But it just kept staring at them.
"One of us has to run for it," Moose declared.
"I'll do it," Jack offered. "I think I can run for that ...I can climb to the top of it. While I go that way, you have to run for the next slide over there," he said while pointing to a web-looking rope net that was convex in shape and protruding from the ground.
Jack slowly climbed down the metal ladder and stopped halfway, hovering above the sand. The dog stayed outside the sandbox but waited anxiously for Jack's next move. He jumped off the ladder, landing hard on the sand, and ran as fast as he could for the web-designed rope net.
The dog duly took note, and started barking, running away from the playground. The rope looking like a net convex in shape was only forty yards from the slide, but the dog closed the gap quickly, and caught up with Jack. He couldn't hear the dog's claws hitting the sand, but he could make out a strange noise. He wasn't sure where it was. The dog gained space on Jack and pounced to bite Jack's calf. A loud bellowing noise emanated from Jack as some blood started to drip down his leg.
Within minutes, Jack was no more. The dog exploded in a madness and rabidity unseen ever by the other four. Jack was mauled to death, in pieces.
The four were shocked and in abject terror. Their friend had been violently and bloodily torn apart. As traumatizing as the event was, the four knew they had to make their way and run for it. Not mindful that they had watched the whole altercation and wasted precious time, Moose and Carl became a little anxious once the dog turned to look right at them. "Now!", Moose yelled. "Time to run!" They all jumped off the playground structure, landed on the sand, and started running in the direction of the next playground structure.
Carl looked back quickly to track the dog. The dog turned its head, caught the glance and started the chase in a swift, fluid motion. They sprinted to the next playground structure, climbed the little metal ladder with little metal rungs, and waited for the dog's next move. As they peered almost blindly into the night, they saw the dog running as if it was floating, fast and ferocious. It got excited and charged full speed with frightening speed. The dog picked up velocity. To the faraway eye, the dog seemed to increase its speed exponentially. The amount of ground it covered shocked and awed. Within minutes the barking wolf-like dog was back down below.
"Now what?! We only moved twenty feet." Kathy complained. "How fast do you think that dog runs, Moose?" Sally asked.
"It obviously gets faster as it runs. But it's difficult to tell. It's pitch dark out here. This park wasn't designed for visitors at night", Carl jumped in.
"No park is, Carl."
"What we can do now is throw things, make the dog chase them, and then we can run for the next playground structure and climb it before the dog comes back," Moose offered.
"No way. I'm not going to yield this position. The dog has the advantage once we jump off and start running." Carl quickly said. "It'll catch us sooner or later." Sally noticed Carl seemed scared now whereas earlier he was not.
"And do you have any better ideas then?" Moose asked, knowing Carl had no ideas of his own.
Before they could finish arguing, Moose threw a large stick that earlier fell off a nearby tree and it seemed to move in the air like a boomerang without it doubling back.
"Now!" Moose yelled.
They jumped off and started hauling ass as fast as they could once they saw the dog fall for the bait. The four ran funny given that they were high. Or maybe just three of them were high. The dog turned and ran quickly for the stick and thanks to Moose's arm, the stick must have traveled at least fifty feet. They found the next playground structure and climbed, waiting for what the dog would do. By the time they were standing on top of the structure, they could see the big, white dog staring intently as if it was aware it was duped. It jogged back then just sat on its hind legs, staring.
"It worked!" Moose declared triumphantly. "Sort of."
"Yeah but we are still stuck in the park with a blinding mad dog trying to maul us. We only moved a little bit from where we were." Kathy explained.
"We just need to keep doing this and then we could make it to the edge of the park and ask for help or run back home."
"And how many more projectiles do you have to throw and distract the dog?"
"Two. My shoes." Moose said hesitantly.
Kathy laughed. Carl did not. Sally noticed that Carl did not laugh, deciding to make a run at him this time with a barrage of questions.
"Where in L.A. were you born, Carl?"
"Westwood."
"When did you move out here?"
"When I was small. Been here ever since."
The rest took that for granted but Sally was not convinced. There was a con in Carl's voice that Sally felt only she heard. And she didn't know how it was related to the dog or Junction City.
"Anyway. I've got a better idea. Or maybe the only idea. The only idea left," Moose confessed. He pointed to a heap of trash down below with large, heavy wooden boards.
"Don't do it, Moose," Kathy said, knowing instantly what Moose was planning.
As Moose sacrificed himself by slowly moving down to the ground, the dog started to notice and began to dig in his claws. The wolf-dog's fangs began to bare, and a collision of some sort was about to happen. A collision of worlds. The dog looked ready to pounce. Moose stood near a pile of trash that was overfilling. He noticed some two-by-fours, and decided that if push came to shove, he would pick up the two-by-four and whack the dog in the head with it. As if sensing what Moose wanted to do, the dog stopped its slow approach and began to hesitate. "Get ready to start running. Once I engage it, jump off and haul ass to the next slide."
Carl stayed silent but ready to run. Sally and Kathy too. Though Sally and Kathy were still fixated on Carl, more than the dog, and wanted to run alongside him to observe how he ran.
The dog slowly walked up to Moose, who was about four times his size. The dog began growling and salivating. They were afraid of the worst: that this vicious uncaged dog had rabies. Moose started to get inpatient, so he took a page from Jack's book, and started mock-barking the dog. Right then, Moose peered directly into the eyes of the devil-dog and saw the irises expand, revealing large red spots from the back of the eyes. The dog mauled into Moose so fast, Moose did not know what hit him. He did not have a chance to grab a two-by-four. It was not a fight but a slaughter. The dog's violent mauling happened so quickly, the four could not even get on the ground to start running. As they looked on in horror, Moose became of many and no longer one. The terror of it all shocked the four as they stood isolated, alone, and helpless in their castle playground.
When the dog finished mauling Moose to death, it slowly walked closer to the ten-foot high slide structure and stared at the remaining four as if boasting to what it had done. A chill went down Kathy's spine, and she spontaneously burst into tears. The crying so loud and helpless as it went around the park. Sally hugged Kathy.
"It's going to be okay, Kathy. We'll find a way out of here."
"No, we won't," Carl piped in.
Kathy re-upped on her crying, crying harder and faster.
"Why the fuck did you say that?" Sally whispered to Carl.
As the two looked like they were beginning an argument, the dog barked loud, reminding them it controlled the pace of events and would be the center of all attention.
"Why don't we rest over here and take a minute to collect our thoughts," Kathy told Sally as she led her across the wooden path that led to the other side of the slide structure. Carl stood up to walk with them but was cut off.
"You stay here, Carl. Let us ladies have a breather," Kathy said.
Kathy and Sally huddled together to formulate a plan for themselves and conspire against Carl.
"What do you suggest we do?"
"I don't know. This dog is vicious and smart. It seems to learn quickly," Kathy replied.
"What about Carl? He ran rather rigidly. Do you think..."
"Ssshh. And yes. I do." Kathy had the voice of a conspirator with a wicked plan.
The two sat there together, huddled for hours as night became day. Dusk was beginning.
Carl stood on the ledge, overlooking the dog. The dog did not seem to look up at Carl but walked around. Carl looked down at it almost in a commandeering way.
"Hey Carl," Kathy said as she walked up to him. Sally stayed behind, sitting down and waiting for what would happen.
"Do you know what I see? I see a matching two." Kathy violently shoved Carl over the playground ledge. Carl hit the sand with his chest; his face in the ground.
Surprisingly, the dog did not pounce. The dog kept looking up at Kathy, then looking at Carl as if it was processing and deciding on the next decision.
Carl started laughing. He stood up to look at Kathy.
"The weed didn't make you high. As did the rigid, robotic way you run. And you always seem to be a tad behind in a conversation."
"No matter. You know the penalty for weed in this city. Death by trial…or death at arrest."
Carl unexpectedly and picked up a two-by-four. He picked it up and swung as fast as he could at the dog's head. It was a homerun. The wood slammed hard on the dog's skull, cracking open the head. The dog stammered backwards as if it was dizzy or even looking drunk, falling backwards onto the ground.
Kathy paused after that. She did not know what to do.
As it fell to the ground, the dog's head fell off its neck, showing chrome-colored wires and a staggering amount of light emitting diodes inside.
They stared intently as the inside of the dog was not made of blood and bones and what you would expect but wires, sensors, and light emitting diodes. No rotting or stinkiness. It smelled of overheated metal.
Silence permeated the park. No more barking.
"But it was salivating" Sally said, looking at Kathy. No response. All fears of rabies subsided and they puzzled more than feared. The dog's white coat contrasted oddly with the silver and chrome colored parts inside. The three witnessed clean, shiny circuits, resistors, switches, and transistors that worked seamlessly.
"This dog has a different type of virus," Carl said. "It's the same dog I've seen play friendly with kids at this very park."
"So, the robot-dog got a robot-virus to make it all crazy like that?" Sally asked.
"It must have."
"It's a computerized dog. A machine underneath." Carl said. "The city uses the dog for multiple purposes at this park."
"If the city uses this dog to secure the park, what does that say about us?" Sally asked.
"Well....we are drunk and loitering" Kathy said. "And what does it tell us about you, Carl, that you know all of this?"
"What does it say about you that you pushed me off the ledge?" Carl quickly responded.
Suddenly, the decapitated head lying next to its body a few feet away started barking. The barking sounding like a dying electrical toy running out of batteries. The barking started fast and then slowed down, getting quieter. Water shot out and went everywhere like water squirting on a car windshield. Knowing it was a computer-dog, they weren't grossed out with the water flying at them.
The two girls jumped back and watched in horror. There was still some life left in the dog. The barking got louder but stranger as the head still lie on the ground, flopping around like a fish out of water.
They watched in horror when the dog's body began to slowly stand up and straighten itself out, facing them. They could hear a winding-up noise like a mechanical toy ready to be released. "Uh-oh. It's in attack mode. You two made it mad." Carl sounded confident and sinister.
"But how can it attack if it has no head?" Sally said.
"Just fucking run!" Kathy yelled.
Both ran this time for the perimeter of the park where there were lights and the sidewalk that would lead them back to the reception. They looked back to see the dog's head still on the ground barking, but louder than before. The body of the dog looked like a toddler trying to learn how to crawl. This gave them enough time to run, creating great distance on the mechanical dog.
"Keep running!" Kathy yelled. "It'll correct itself and start chasing us."
Hauling ass down the street, Sally had the audacity to look back again. Sure enough, the headless dog was chasing them. "It's chasing us!" she yelled. They could hear the barking even further in the distance as the head flopped around on the ground. Even without its head, the robot-dog still possessed the ability to sense where they were and how fast they were running.
Without stopping, the two stared at the upcoming red light fixed high over the intersection. And since the dog's barking reminded why they were running, they ran the intersection, knowing the risks. They could hear the sounds of the metallic paws hitting the sidewalk as the mechanical dog sought its revenge without its snout and jaw as the dog's head kept barking back at the park. It was spooky action at a distance.
As the dog pushed into an intersection after them, a chrome 1998 Ford SUV came across, driving fast. The driver saw the three clear the street but accelerated through the intersection to avoid the red light. He did not notice a trailing, headless, mechanical dog running perpendicular. The driver barreled aggressively into the mechanical dog, the SUV rocketing down the street afterwards, leaving the intersection in its rearview mirror. They heard the sound of crashing and twisting metal. The SUV was gone. Silence. Sally looked back and saw nothing except Carl standing there laughing.
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Think about the amount of paper your company uses every day on applications. We live in a digital age and printing and storing paper forms vital to your business is no longer needed. We'd like to introduce you to the Reachlite File to App Converter. Our software allows you the ability to easily convert your existing paper and PDF forms into a digital format using an easy to use mobile and web application.
The process is simple and happens in just seconds. It's easy, scan your apps into your computer and Reachlite will do the rest with a couple of clicks. Convert all kinds of common app formats such as images, PDFs, Microsoft Office documents and many other paper forms your business relies on. It's really as easy as dragging the files you want to convert into our software and within a couple of seconds, Reachlite will convert your paper forms into digital apps.
Many small and medium-sized businesses have been faced with the same challenge you and your team currently face. You have a collection of paper forms that need to be filled out and you want to make them electronic. Many people have asked developers to solve this issue by having complex digital forms manually coded. This solution can work, but it's usually expensive and the forms do not mesh well in a digital world filled with various devices, screen sizes and browser preferences. Your clients must have the ability to quickly complete forms, any technical issue can have a negative impact on your business. Our goal at Reachlite was to create a better way, providing you and your clients with a user-friendly experience and for way less money.
Your document will look that same as the original. Forms will instantly have fillable field boxes added in relevant places. It gets even better. Our software is built to read your form and automatically determine the right text format for your form's empty boxes. Correct formatting for blank phone numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses, date fields with a pop-up calendar and various other common text formats are automatically added to your digital form. The software will know whether to use elements such as dropdowns, text boxes and check boxes. Everything is sized correctly and properly placed.
Have a form that requires a digital signature? This is another common challenge that our file to app converter now makes super easy. We will instantly add an electronic signature box, this allows the form's recipient the ability to easily sign your document with their mouse or finger. Once a digital form is completed it's easy to send to whoever you wish and your completed forms can be tracked and managed.
Remember, the Reachlite app shines on a mobile device. Download the Reachlite File to App Converter to your phone or tablet and a QR code will allow you the ability to access you newly created app. Everything Reachlite does on a computer happens on your mobile device with the app installed. We've designed our app to get the most out of your mobile experience, all elements of your digital form are scaled and designed to work smoothly on a screen of any size.
Thinking about disappearing off the grid for the weekend? We have you covered with our Reachlite File To App Converter. Manage your documents offline and have them automatically synced to the cloud when your back on your network.
Don't like where Reachlite put a checkbox, or you want to add more? No problem. With our powerful designer, you are in complete control of how your digitally converted form looks and functions after using the converter. Our easy to use interface makes modifying your forms easy with our drag and drop interface. You can even insert logic and business rules to your app to make it dynamic and perfect for your needs.
Our software is built to work together with other solutions your business uses every day. Our Reachlite app is built to communicate and integrate with any data source, this allows all digital elements of your business to work seamlessly with your company's apps. We do all of our conversions on the cloud, this limits the amount of resources needed by your computer or mobile device.
We've worked with a wide range of businesses to quickly make their apps digital. Our software can be found in the healthcare industry, insurance companies, financial businesses and various other small and medium sized businesses. With our software's flexible and adaptive design we give easily help any business in any industry.
Learn more about Reachlite File to App Converter and how we can easily convert your apps to an easy to use digital format and save you money. Contact us today to get started.


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