The Heart Health survey was conducted to uncover how Americans view heart disease, exercise, diet and the heart-health benefits of soy protein. The telephone survey was conducted among a random sample of 1,011 men and women. Survey findings are representative of the U.S. population and reflect a +/- 5 percent level of error.

* Personally Touched More than two-thirds of respondents (40 percent) said that an immediate family member or relative has suffered from heart disease. More than half (60 percent) knew someone who died as a result of the disease.

* Heart Disease Hits Women
When asked for the leading cause of death among women, half of respondents were unaware that heart disease is the leading cause of death among women, with 45 percent believing breast cancer to be the number-one killer.

* Taking Action
While virtually all respondents (99 percent) said that heart health is important, only 54 percent claimed they actually take steps each day to improve or maintain their own heart health.

* Do The Walk (or Run) of Life
A majority of Americans (52 percent) cited walking or running as their favorite way to get exercise. Working out at home (18 percent) and participating in sports activities (12 percent) were other exercise favorites. A trip to the mall (8 percent) was slightly more popular than an exercise class, such as aerobics, spinning, yoga or pilates (3 percent). More women (24 percent) than men (11 percent) work out at home while more men (20 percent) than women (3 percent) participate in sports activities.

* Time to Exercise?
Twenty-four hours in a day aren’t enough for many Americans to squeeze in exercise. Forty-two percent said the lack of time was the reason they usually skipped exercise. Other common excuses for skipping a workout included “too tired” (31 percent), “exercise is boring” (13 percent) and “I prefer to watch TV or see friends” (6 percent).

* Taste First, Health Second
While Americans claim to be health conscious, healthy foods still take a backseat to foods that taste good. Forty-seven percent said taste was most important when purchasing a new food product, while 22 percent pointed to health benefits as most important. Now it’s easier than ever to find delicious foods with the heart-healthy benefits of soy protein.
* Looking for Information
More than half of Americans regard nutritionists, registered dietitians and doctors as the most credible sources when it comes to finding out the health benefits of foods. However, when asked where they actually go for health information, respondents said they look first to a doctor (71 percent), the Internet (60 percent) and health and nutrition magazines (40 percent).

* Soy: Still a Secret?
Most Americans are unaware of the heart-healthy benefits of soy protein. Less than half of respondents (41 percent) know that soy protein is heart-healthy. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration approved the health claim that a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol that includes 25 grams of soy protein per day may reduce the risk of heart disease. Additionally, the American Heart Association Dietary Guidelines recognize soy protein used within a diet low in total and saturated fat may help to reduce the risk of heart disease in high risk people with hypercholesterolemia.

* Plenty to Choose From
Americans are purchasing a number of different types of soy products, including meat-replacement foods, such as soy burgers or hot dogs (36 percent), energy bars (33 percent), tofu (30 percent) and soy milk (31 percent). When asked for their most desired foods to contain soy protein, respondents provided a range of answers, including “beer,” “baby food,” “all candies,” “bacon,” “cake” and “cookies.” The great news is that many of these foods will soon be available with  soy protein. People will just need to look for the  logo to identify foods containing a significant amount of soy protein.

* Fooled by Health Claims
Twenty-two percent of respondents believed the false claim that drinking cranberry juice each day can help prevent against heart disease while another 19 percent said they believed the false claim that monounsaturated fats are bad for the heart. Although many were fooled by these claims, more than three-fourths (77 percent) of respondents were aware that the American Heart Association Dietary Guidelines recognize that soy protein used within a diet low in total and saturated fat may help to reduce the risk of heart disease for high risk people with hypercholesterolemia.

This is what a few prepaid phone cards claim.

It may be too late, once you realize that you purchased less than what your thought you were getting.

Look at Diamond phone cards.

The card claims that for a couple of dollars you can telephone Mexico for 400 minutes.

The FTC reports that in reality, you get about 106 minutes.

Purchasers only received 20 minutes, after buying the company’s 50 minute card for Honduras.

Diamond’s $2 and $5 cards subtract a $.79 maintenance fee from the face value.

The FTC has stated that it can be found in barely readable text at the bottom of the advertisement.

In 2010, the FTC cited deceptive practices and filed legal action against Alternatel, Voice Prepaid, Mystic Prepaid, and Clifton Telecard Alliance.

The FTC settled lawsuits with these businesses.

Diamond referred us to their erstwhile lawyer who indicated that the now-defunct company has sold their brands to another enterprise.

The FTC wishes for Diamond’s two principles to return the funds they received for false practices.

Look after your own interests. Look carefully for information about connection fees, monthly charges, minimum call rates and lengths, short-term expiration dates, setup/activation fees and large billing increments.

Regardless of the amount of minutes you used, a few companies will charge you in five minute increments of time.

Investigate the business’s reputation on the Internet.

Prior to purchasing, get all of your answers; after you prepay, it’s too late.

Adult circumcision is usually performed in response to very rare medical conditions, such as having too narrow a foreskin, or having recurrent infections or inflammations of the foreskin. Some men choose circumcision for social, religious or personal reasons.

Like any surgery, adult circumcision can lead to complications. Bleeding and infection are the most common problems; unfortunately, accurate statistics on the rate at which these problems occur in circumcision patients isn’t available. Other possible complications include the formation of a tumor containing stagnant blood, swelling, pain and side effects of receiving anesthetic drugs.
Sensations during sex change after the operation, sometimes in ways that the patient finds unpleasant or hard to adjust to. The foreskin is rich in nerve endings, so for some men sexual pleasure is lessened with its loss. Some men also find it extremely difficult to adjust to the sensation of being “uncovered” after the loss of the foreskin.

It’s the opinion of this writer that surgery is never something to be taken lightly and is best reserved for health difficulties that can’t be resolved any other way. In Europe, where circumcision is less common, the use of circumcision as a “cure” for infection and inflammation is also much less common. Explore your options. If your penis is inflamed or infected you clearly need to improve your immunity — and perhaps look at underlying emotional conflicts you may have about sex or your masculinity.

Chicken

The following brands of chicken nuggets contain either Monosodium Glutamate or Hydrolyzed Soy Protein or Yeast Extract.

* Butterball

* Weaver

* Purdue

* Redi-Food

* Banquet

* All fast food restaurant varieties

Meat

* Most pre-packaged hamburger patties

* Many beef hot dog products

* Canned Beef Stew

Pork

* Most hot dogs

* Some Bacon

* Kielbasa

* Most Sausage links and patties

Cold Cuts

* Most Bologna

* Some Ham (Thumann’s and World Class Kitchens are okay)

* Some Turkey (Thumann’s and World Class Kitchens are okay)

Pizza

* Most frozen pizza products

* Pizza bagels

* Most Pizza hut products (MSG is in sauces, cheese and meat toppings)

Pasta

* Pasta sauces

* Chef Boy R Dee (almost all products, especially those that contain meat)

Soups and Bouillon

* Most Beef and Chicken Broth/Bouillon products

* Most canned soups

Sauces and Dips

* Some Soy Sauce products (Teriyaki sauce)

* Most Sour Cream and Onion Dips

* Some guacamole dips

* Most ketchup

Pasta, Rice and Potato Products

* Most packaged rice, pasta and potato products that are pre-flavored (e.g. Lipton Rice, Rice a Roni, etc)

Most Ore Ida frozen potato products (tater tots, etc.)

Chips and Snack Foods

* Most Sour Cream and Onion chips

* All Doritos corn chips

* Cheetos, Jax, and other cheese puff products

* Ritz Peanut Butter Crackers

* Nabisco Cheese Tidbits

* Nabisco Chicken in a Bisket flavored crackers

* Keebler Cheeblers Spicy Nachos

* Keebler Tato Skins Baked Potato

* Keebler Toasteds Bacon

* Keebler Toto Skins Barbeque

* Keebler Cheeblers Zesty Cheddar

Frozen Foods

* Banquet Fried Chicken

* Fisher Boy Fish Sticks

* Gorton’s Potato Crisp

* Gorton’s Crunchy Fish Fillets

* Van De Kamps Breaded Fish Sticks

* Weaver’s Chicken Sticks (crispy)

* Morning Star Cholesterol Free Breakfast Patties

* Banquet Turkey Pot Pie

* Banquet Buffet Supper Gravy and Sliced Turkey

* Banquet Book in Bag Chicken a la King Entree

* Banquet International Favorites Veal Parmigiana

Green Giant Lasagna

* The Budget Gourmet Yankee Pot Roast

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I believe this breath of sanity will take hold of you as well. When it does, the whole world will be a better place. You might be asking yourself right now, “What are random kindnesses and senseless acts of beauty? How do we practice them? Can we really change anything?”

Random kindnesses are something you do almost by accident. It’s kind of a serendipitous event. Recently, I received just such a kindness. My friend, Gayle was reminiscing with her coworkers about a harbor tour she had taken here in Seattle. She mentioned that there was another cruise that went through Lake Union, the Ballard Locks (a fascinating experience going up or down as the water level is changed), and all around Elliot Bay. She longed to take that trip. A man overheard her conversation, opened his wallet, and wrote a pass for her and three of her closest friends to take the tour. He works for Grayline Tours, the operators of this cruise! He saw an opportunity to act out a random kindness. Gayle called me and a couple of other girlfriends. We had the most incredible day! It was a warm, sunny day, and out on the water the temperature was just right. The sky was so clear that we could see both Mt. Rainier to the south and Mt. Baker to the North. THAT WAS A RANDOM KINDNESS!

I used to work in downtown Seattle, and I prided myself on being able to look right past the panhandlers and bums. They slept right in the doorway of our building! They took baths in our restrooms. I felt righteous knowing that we donated to the homeless shelter and that if these people really needed help, it could be found. I’m not sure what changed my attitude. One old guy and his dog started sitting in front of our building. The guy had a cardboard sign asking for money. I started making an extra sack lunch in the mornings When I passed him on my way into the building, I quickly handed him the extra. I put stuff in his sack that would keep like granola bars and apples, along with tuna sandwiches and milk. The old man and his dog really seemed grateful. A couple of years later, the City of Seattle passed laws against “sitting” on the streets in order to clean up the “riff raff.” This old guy that I’d been feeding was interviewed. Turns out he was only 30 years old. Younger than I was. His life on the street had been so hard he looked ancient. This was a much too infrequent act of kindness.

A random kindness can cost a fortune or next to nothing. It can be for your best friend or a total stranger. It can be planned in advance or absolutely spontaneous.

So, what about “senseless acts of beauty?” Each year middle and high school students in the YMCA Earth Service Corps plant thousands of baby trees in the United States. Isn’t that beautiful? The employees of a local department store, Fred Meyer, participates in the “Christmas in April” program where they clean up the homes and yards of elderly residents who can no longer do their own work. The make repairs, paint, plant flowers, pull weeds and cut grass. There was an old guy that my son and I used to pass on our walk through the neighborhood. He dragged an old onion bag behind him as he filled it with trash from along the streets and sidewalks.

Leg exercises are secondary to upper body exercise for many weight trainees, for several reasons. First, leg work is hard and upper body exercises are more fun. Also, upper body size and shaping is considered to add more to appearance. However, for general fitness, and even for weight loss, leg exercises are important. Working large muscles does more to release growth hormones and raise metabolism, which contributes to weight loss and muscle gain. The lower body muscles are the largest in the body, so working your legs indirectly helps to develop your upper body. Devote at least one-third of your workout time to lower body. Walking, biking, and other cardio exercises don’t count here. Although they help with general conditioning of the lower body, they use the type I, endurance, muscle fibers but not the type II, strength, fibers. It’s the type II fibers that do the most for muscle growth and toning.

Because your legs are strong, you need to give them quite a bit of resistance in your training. Many home gym machines are better for upper body than lower body work. Typically, you will have a leg extension attachment that is adequate, but often a hamstring attachment that is either uncomfortable or nonexistent. The more expensive machines often have a leg press and sometimes a squat station. Squats may be adequate alone as they work the whole lower body, so if you really want to streamline your workout, you can do only squats. Leg presses can also be used alone, but adding hamstring exercises is preferable. Don’t do just leg extensions (quads) without doing something for the opposing muscles (the hamstrings). If you do just leg extensions and hamstring curls, you may be neglecting your gluteus muscles, which do get involved in squats and leg presses. You can combine machine and free weight exercises to work the whole lower body.

Barbell squats, with the bar on your shoulders, require a rack of some kind, as you take the bar on your shoulders by ducking under the bar, placing the bar on your shoulders, then standing up which lifts the bar off the supports, and taking a step back before doing your exercise. You need a spotter or something like a power rack that lets you set the bar on the pins and get out from under the bar if you can’t complete your repetition (rep) of the exercise. You can also do squats productively holding dumbbells, or even with body weight if you’re a beginner.

An excellent home exercise is the one-leg squat. This is the basic squat done on one leg at a time. You can hold on to a chair or slide your hand on a wall for balance. You can hold the non-supporting leg out diagonally in front of you or bend it so the foot is in back. You can put the toe behind you on a bench. Try it different ways. Don’t be surprised if you can get your thighs parallel with a two-leg squat but wobble too much to get that far on one leg. Body weight is enough to start with for most people, though you can hold dumbbells when you become more proficient.

The lunge is another good home exercise for the lower body. Although both feet are on the ground, one takes most of the weight, so you can use less weight than you do for the squat. Holding dumbbells at your sides, take a long step forward with your right foot, and sink down until your left knee is a few inches from the floor. Keep your right knee over, but not beyond your toes. Push back with your right leg and return to the start position with your feet together. Repeat with your left leg, alternating until you complete the desired number of reps with each leg. An alternative is the split squat, which is like the lunge except you straighten your forward leg without bringing your foot back, bend the knee again, and repeat for the desired number of reps. Then do all reps on the other leg. The lunge is especially good for working the muscles on the inside of the thigh (adductors).

Step-ups are another good exercise that is somewhat neglected. The step will be any sturdy bench or platform that is no higher than your knee. Step slowly so your thigh muscles have to work. The usual cadence is step up with your right foot, bring your left up, down right, down left. Change to lead with the left on the next set. You can do variations. Hold on to something for balance, if necessary. A lower step will be easier and one at knee height hardest. Make it harder yet by holding dumbbells, or a barbell on your shoulders if your balance is good and you have a spotter to steady you.

These exercises work quads (front of thigh), glutes (the buttocks), and hamstrings (back of thigh), but may emphasize quads. You can make sure the hamstrings and glutes get enough work by adding stiff-leg deadlifts. Stand with your feet comfortably apart, knees slightly bent. Hold a barbell or dumbbells hanging in front of you at arm’s length, with an overhand grip. Tighten your back muscles to maintain the lumbar curve, as in squats. Lean forward from the hips without bending your knees until the weight is at mid-calf, keeping the weight as close to your body as you can. Keep your head up and your shoulders back so your back doesn’t round. Stand back up by contracting the muscles of your glutes and hamstrings.

The best calf exercise is the standing raise. Put the ball of your foot on a step or small board. Rise up on your toes, then lower your heels down an inch or two below your toes and repeat. Start with both feet together, make it harder by using one foot at a time, and harder still by holding a dumbbell in your hand.

Put together a routine that has something for your quads and something for your hams and glutes, or just effective squats, lunges, or leg presses if you have limited workout time, and you’re on your way to great looking legs and a toned and muscular body.

HOW I APPROACHED ADDISON WESLEY

The first thing I did was to buy a copy of a book on SAP as published by Addison Wesley. I did this for two reasons.

First I wanted to look at the writing style of the book and secondly I wanted to look at the style of the page layout. This was my $40 investment on my project (that’s how much the book cost).

I then went to the two chapters I had written and formatted them to look like the same style. I also re-wrote sections to get closer to the writing style without compromising my own style.

Then I visited Addison Wesley’s website and discovered that they accepted book proposals from their site. So I submitted a brief outline of what the book would cover (using the contents list I had previously created), why I thought the book was necessary (I found a gap in the market), and an overview of my experience in computing, and as an author to date (of technical papers).

Amazing….I got a positive response!

The SAME DAY I received an email from Addison Wesley in the US stating that they had forwarded my idea to the UK office. After about two weeks I then received an email from the UK to ask me to fill in a full proposal so that they could consider it.

My full proposal contained the following sections:- 1. The authors vision of the market

This section contained a description of the target readership of the proposed book and the anticipated size of the market

2. The authors vision of the book

Why would someone be interested in this book, which other books in the market would closely compete, why is this book different?

3. The Nuts and Bolts

How long will the manuscript be (in pages and words), roughly how many illustrations, pictures, diagrams, when will the manuscript be completed?

4. Supplementing the book

What special offers would be appropriate for the book, is there any special tie-ins that could be made with other authors/companies?

5. About the author

This is the sell section selling YOU!

I detailed here my qualifications and experience relevant to the book. How I acquired my expertise. This section is not a full CV, rather it focuses on aspects of your career that are directly relevant to the book you are proposing.

6. Additions to the proposal

I included the proposed Table of Contents (a story outline would be relevant here for a fiction book). I also included two sample chapters and a summary of the rest of the book. This gives the publisher a chance to review your writing.

To cut a long story short, one month later I had a contract in my hands together with $4,000 in advance royalties!

I now had to write the rest of the book (or pay back the royalties!). Of course, I wrote the book.

SO WHAT DID I DO THAT WORKED?

Basically I did several things that virtually guaranteed my acceptance.

1. I researched the market in my area of expertise and identified a gap in the market.

2. I found a publisher already producing books for that market.

3. I came up with a contents list (after some research of the subject both on- and offline) and wrote two sample chapters.

4. I purchased a book published by my target publisher to look at the writing style and book layout they use.

5. I modified the chapters to suit the writing style and layout they prefer for the type of book I was writing.

6. I contacted the publisher via their website with my initial proposal and followed that up with a more detailed proposal.

7. The rest, as they say, is history!

Maybe I was just lucky, or maybe I hit the publisher at just the right time! Either way this logical approach helped my case enormously. If you are considering approaching a publisher, I suggest following a similar path. You never know, my experience may just work for you!

I am not guaranteeing that you will also achieve published status for your own book by following these steps, but you will certainly improve your chances!

MY FIRST FALTERING STEPS

Let me first give you some background. I am a specialist in computer engineering and I have worked in the computer industry for over 15 years, the last 6 years I have spent online with the Internet. I have worked in many different positions which have exposed me to all sorts of key business computer technologies and software. Most of my jobs have also involved writing technical papers and presentations to give to my peers at computer conferences around the world.

Until last year I had not had any of my papers published other than in the proceedings of the conferences I presented at. I was also not known as a published author and I had not written or published any books!

What I am trying to say is that I am very experienced in computer technology, with a few technical papers under my belt. This is my starting position in becoming a published author.

Last year I discovered a gap in the market for a book that covered a very specific software product called SAP R/3. For most, if not all of you, this will mean absolutely nothing to you (unless you also work in the computer industry). SAP R/3 happens to be a very expensive piece of business software that thousands of companies around the world are using in their businesses everyday.

What I discovered was that there are a large number of books about this software but they all talk about how to install it and set it up, but none of them talked in any detail about how to backup the data it handles in case of a failure! I also felt that with my many years of experience I should be able to research and write about this very topic.

So I found an opportunity I felt I could exploit.

The next question was how to go about marketing this opportunity to a publisher that could sell and distribute it to a sufficiently large market. I had not considered self-publishing as I felt that I could not dedicate the time to it as well as writing.

So what did I do?

Well….I did the following:-

1. I planned the contents of the book using my knowledge of the SAP software and by reading other publications covering similar subjects. At the end of this stage I had a contents list of what the book would cover.

2. I wrote two example chapters using Microsoft Word v6.0 on my home PC. This took me about two months, working on the book part-time. I also had a real job to do don’t forget!

3. I then looked for a potential publisher. I did this by looking at my bookshelf full of computer publications and made a note of the publishers of these books.

4. I then went to amazon.com and did a search on “SAP” to find books already in print on this subject and noted the publishers of those.

5. During this process I discovered that one publisher, Addison Wesley (who recently bought Simon and Schuster in the US), kept appearing as a publisher of computer books. They also appeared on Amazon to be a publisher who were producing a series of books specifically on SAP. I decided to target this publisher. Remember at this stage I am an unpublished, unknown author, with two chapters of a book.
to be continued…

One sailor reported that he passed by just as the missing fisherman held his catch up in the air, saluting his fellow fisherman. His remains were never found. Although the disappearance was investigated, it had never been solved. The incident was never ruled a murder or a suicide, because the police never found a body.

Some of the local residents thought that he was simply eaten by an alligator or some other swamp beast. Other local folks thought that he may have killed himself, since his pregnant wife was killed a year earlier by an alligator that came calling. A few townsfolk even thought that it was possible that he was murdered for the gold that he kept buried beneath the planks in his shanty in the heart the swamp.

The legend of the lone fisherman is notorious in this part of the bayou. Ever since the fisherman’s disappearance, there have been many sightings of him reported. None of these eyewitness accounts could ever be verified. The lone fisherman had become just another spooky story of the bayou.

All of this commotion was enough to dampen the spirit of any picnic. Soon things were being packed away. Various family members began hugging, bidding their loved ones farewell. It seemed that they couldn’t leave the picnic fast enough. They hopped on their boats, vanishing into the murky bog.

A few days later, I was going through the pictures from the picnic. I came across one in particular that interested me. It was the photograph of an older gentleman on the dock, near the grassy spot on which we had picnicked. The strange thing about the photograph was that no one else who was at the picnic seemed to be in the picture. Instead, there was a house or cabin behind him.

There were no tables covered with food. There were no people except the lone man holding his catch. My mind was whirling with questions. Who was this man? Where is everyone from the picnic? How could this happen? Why was there a cabin in the photo?

Suddenly it dawned on me. No, it simply couldn’t be. Could this be an actual photo of the infamous lone fisherman? Is it possible that somehow we captured his image on film? What else could explain this strange photo?

I held the photograph gingerly, as if it might actually bite me. I noticed the foggy quality near the fisherman’s feet. The image gave me such an eerie feeling. I tried to shake the spooky feeling, but it gnawed at me.

When my husband came home, I showed him the photo. He couldn’t explain it either. He told me that he would bring it to work the next day. There was an old-timer that he thought knew the fisherman before he had disappeared.

When my husband came home from work the next day, he looked as if he had seen a ghost. Reaching into his jacket pocket, he brought out a photocopy of a photo. When he handed it to me, and I noticed his hands shaking. His fingers were trembling so much that he nearly dropped it to the floor.

As the image came into focus, I realized that it was a picture of the same man in my photograph. He looked nearly the same age, but in this photo he was wearing dressy clothes. I noticed that he was standing next to a pretty young girl.

My husband told me that this was his wedding photo from the local paper’s archives. After talking to the old man that he worked with, his curiosity was piqued. He headed down to the local newspaper office on his lunch hour, and came across this photo.

How was it possible that I held in my hand a picture of the same man, nearly sixty years after he was reported missing? I felt my blood run cold. There could be only one explanation. The lonely fisherman paid our picnic a visit on that fateful July afternoon.

We would barbecue chicken and ribs. A bubbling pot of Granny’s jambalaya was always simmering, tempting us with its spicy smell. The zydeco music seemed to float on the waves lapping at the shore, but the laughter of the children playing could be heard above the rhythmic music.

The occasional flash from a camera and the CD player were the only reminders of civilization and modern conveniences. Otherwise, it would look like any number of days that our Cajun ancestors had spent here on this very bank, celebrating the magic of summer.

Perhaps that is why it happened on this particular day. Looking back on that summer day, I now realize that the love we felt for each other could be seen plainly on our faces. Could that explain why we were visited that afternoon?

All of a sudden, the breeze kicked up. Paper plates, tablecloths, and napkins lay strewn all over the grassy bank. The air grew cold almost immediately. The children stopped running and playing. Adults quieted down, and raised their heads in question.

I grew very still for a moment, wondering what had caused such a sudden gust of wind. A chill went up my spine, and soon I was covered from head to toe with goosebumps. Since there were no storms in the forecast, it was rather odd to have such a forceful gale-force wind. The sudden burst of cool air chilled the hot, muggy air almost instantly. It did seem strange that the sun suddenly sought protection beneath a cloud.

There was a peculiar odor that accompanied this strange wind also. It was the smell of fish. A few of us walked over to the shoreline yet couldn’t see a reason for the sudden pungent smell of fish. Some of us even leaned close to the water, sniffing the air. No, the smell was definitely much stronger near the grassy area directly behind the shore, where the picnic tables were sitting.

I could tell that many of us were getting worried. Everyone looked as if they had seen a ghost. Chatter could be heard of legends and folklore, many stories of creatures and goblins that were rumored to walk the banks of the bayou. A few people thought that perhaps the lone fisherman was visiting us.

The lone fisherman is rumored to be the ghost of a fisherman who disappeared near this very spot back in the forties. The grassy area was very close to the last place that he had been seen- the dock that jutted out from the grassy landscape.
to be continued…