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'The Cuckoo's Calling' (book review)
"The Cuckoo's Calling," by Robert Galbraith. Mulholland Books.
Robert Galbraith, who is really J.K. Rowling, caps his debut mystery novel, which is really her ninth book, by channeling Alfred, Lord Tennyson. "I am become a name," thinks the private eye Cormoran Strike to himself when the case is solved, quoting Tennyson's "Ulysses." Strike's right -- he is likely to become a "name," especially now that the Sunday Times of London has unmasked his creator as the author of the stratospherically popular "Harry Potter" series. But what is Rowling up to, ending like that, with her main character musing about fame and "becoming" a name? Is it part of the act, a seemingly first-time writer anticipating his literary success with a metagesture? Or is Rowling teasing us with this name business, since the name on the book jacket is yet another disguise?
There's something curious and fluid about the (often avian) names that keep cropping up in "The Cuckoo's Calling." Cormoran sounds like cormorant, the English seabird -- appropriate given the "Ulysses" reference -- but our hero also has an impressive collection of nicknames, including Pubehead and Stick. His sidekick-secretary Robin, whom he initially calls Sandra, occasionally styles herself Annabelle. Together they are investigating the death of supermodel Lula Landry, or Cuckoo, or Looly, the adopted daughter of the wealthy Bristow family who seems to have flung herself from a balcony -- or was she pushed? You get the sense that, read correctly, all these names might unlock the book's web of family allegiances, betrayals and enigmas. But they're so slippery -- a dropped syllable here, a switched consonant there. Identities are constantly mistaken or obscured.
Is it important that Strike, the son of rock star Jonny Rokeby, goes by a different name? Maybe to Rowling, famously reclusive, unfathomably wealthy, hiding behind the nobody Galbraith. What's certainly important is that Strike is large, hirsute, usually battered and rumpled, with a face like "a young Beethoven who had taken to boxing." Like "Galbraith," he's ex-military, an army cop, and when he's not downing immense quantities of beer or sleeping on a cot in his office, he's wandering about lost in thought, arranging the novel's blur of testimony into a coherent timeline. (One of the great pleasures of "The Cuckoo's Calling," as with most detective stories, is observing the gumshoe's Aha! moments, without being told what they are.) Strike lost part of his leg serving in Afghanistan. His prosthetic isn't the only thing he shares with "Harry Potter's" Mad-Eye Moody, the gruff but kind inspector who signs on to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. (Strike's got some Hagrid in him too, especially when he walks around with his shirt misbuttoned, and perhaps Rowling especially loves these oafish figures, who traipse through the brittle world of the rich like bulls in china shops.)
Actually, putting together "Harry Potter" and "The Cuckoo's Calling," it's possible to infer a J.K. Rowling hierarchy of jobs. At the top sits police work: Remember how Harry became an Auror -- a kind of magical law enforcement officer, one of the most prestigious careers in wizardry -- after graduating? In this book, Robin, who stumbles into the field by accident, serves as the author's mouthpiece. "To prove, to solve, to catch, to protect: these were things worth doing; important and fascinating," she reflects. Next in the hierarchy come the lower-to-middle class people making an honest living: bartenders, temps, assistants. Then come the addicts and the homeless. Then come the rich. (Especially the women, who are vapid, nasty, scheming, and Botoxed -- "wealth-seeking missiles," in one memorable phrase.) Then come the journalists.
"The Cuckoo's Calling" opens with press swarming around Lula's apartment, poking their "long-snouted cameras" where they don't belong. Later, Cormoran compares the flash of photography to the flare of an Afghani grenade. Princess Diana's pursuit by the paps gets multiple references -- and her exploitation continues when a tabloid-baiting fashion designer sticks her face on a T-shirt, "as a garish Mexican Madonna." If a character expresses disdain for journalists, that's code for readers to like him. The only thing more soulless than the desire for lucre, Rowling implies, is the grist that feeds these vultures: the desire for fame.
Yet for all that, money and general fabulousness does for "The Cuckoo's Calling" what magic did for Harry Potter, creating an extravagant, alien, fascinating world for its characters to explore. Sometimes, the comparison is even explicit: At one point, Strike notes "how very little Rochelle had told him about Lula the person, as opposed to Lula the holder of the magic plastic cards that bought handbags, jackets and jewelry, and the necessary means by which Kieran appeared regularly, like a genie, to whisk Rochelle away from her hostel." But where Harry Potter had to approach the underside of enchantment from an angle -- its racist and classist dimension, as embodied by the "pureblooded" Malfoys -- "The Cuckoo's Calling" can be more direct. Relieved of the burden of allegory, it's a lighter and less portentous read than the later "Potter" books. Having gone somewhat sour and querulous in 2012's "The Casual Vacancy," Rowling seems to have rediscovered her sense of fun.
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Because "The Cuckoo's Calling" is fun. Strike, Robin and even Lula are immensely likeable (their likeability matched only by the unlikeability of the poor journalists, who must have made Rowling's life truly miserable). It sparkles with details only she could have invented: regular Monday death threats that arrive at Strike's office on pink, kitten-covered stationery (perhaps filched from Delores Umbridge's private stock?); a woman whose "sense of ill-usage wafted gently toward him like the smell of the bedridden." If language in "Harry Potter" was just the delivery system for that series' particular strain of drug, here it claims moments of occasional beauty (and takes occasional missteps -- a paean to the "deathless breath of the city" made me gag, perhaps owing to the garbage truck driving by at precisely that moment). In any case, I'm inclined to forgive an author who describes one pair of heiresses as "life-size dolls recently removed from their cellophane boxes; rich-girl thin, almost hipless in their tight jeans, with tanned faces that had a waxy sheen especially noticeable on their foreheads, their long, gleaming dark manes with center partings, the ends trimmed with spirit-level exactitude."
But where were we? "The Cuckoo's Calling" and "Harry Potter" both feature dead or absent parents, adoptees and family intrigue. They both imagine highly complex worlds that are nonetheless knowable -- if you study their laws closely -- and amusing, and beautiful and dangerous. If I'm honest, though, I liked Galbraith just a bit better than late Rowling. (The first four "Harry Potter" books still reign supreme.) While both writers are funny, suspenseful and sharp about race and class, he seems under less pressure to take himself and his story seriously. I wonder why.


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This is the task:
Task #1 An Internet service provider has three different subscription packages for its customers:
Package A For $9.95 per month 10 hours of access are provided. Additional hours are $2.00 per hour.
Package B For $13.95 per month 20 hours of access are provided. Additional hours are $1.00 per hour.
Package C For $19.95 per month unlimited access is provided.
Write a program that calculates a customers monthly bill. It should ask the user to enter the letter of the package the customer has purchased (A, B, or C) and the number of hours (integer) that were used. It should then display the total charges. If an invalid package (other than A, B, or C) or invalid number of hours (<0 or > 30*24) is input, the program should display an appropriate error message and stop.
So the input must be either 'A', 'B', or 'C' and anything else should send a message saying "invalid input" and not ask me for more info.
i should be getting:
Enter the customer's package (A, B, or C): a
Invalid package. Enter A, B, or C.
but i get:
Enter the customer's package (A, B, or C): a
Enter the number of hours used:
Invalid package. Enter A, B, or C.
if the input is invalid, i dont want it to ask me for hours.
heres the code:
import java.util.Scanner;
public class TestInternetPart1
public static void main(String[] args)
int hours=1;
double totalCharges;
int additionalHours;
// Create a Scanner object to read input
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
// Get the letter of the package
System.out.print("Enter the customer's package (A, B, or C): ");
String inputLetter = keyboard.nextLine();
char internetPackage = inputLetter.charAt(0);
// Get number of hours.
System.out.print("Enter number of hours: ");
hours = keyboard.nextInt();
if (internetPackage == 'A' && hours > 10)
additionalHours = hours - 10;
totalCharges = 9.95 + (additionalHours * 2.00);
System.out.println("Your monthly bill is $" + totalCharges + ".");
else if (internetPackage == 'A' && hours < 10)
System.out.println("Your monthly bill is $9.95.");
else if (internetPackage == 'B' && hours > 20)
additionalHours = hours - 20;
totalCharges = 13.95 + (additionalHours * 1.00);
System.out.println("Your monthly bill is $" + totalCharges + ".");
else if (internetPackage == 'B' && hours < 20)
System.out.println("Your monthly bill is $13.95.");
else if (internetPackage == 'C')
System.out.println("Your monthly bill is $19.95.");
System.out.println("Invalid input. Please enter either A, B, or C.");

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If your into the weird and wacky things and want to have the dining experience of you life, then this restaurant in Tokyo will be right up your street! Designed by Japanese design studio Fantastic Design Works, this Alice in wonderland themed eatery is one of four which have been opened by Diamond Dining.
The 2254 square foot restaurant is situated in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district and waitresses are dressed up in Alice uniforms which completes the psychedelic and crazy atmosphere of the design. The huge super sized books which make up the reception desk and cloakroom are my favourite part of the design, I know I'm small and that would just make me feel like a miniature Alice – how fantastic!
I would just get completely lost in this place with it's maze like booths, hedges, dozens of mirrors and random doors. I wonder if they've found people at the end of the night who've got totally lost on the way back from the toilets.
Full of wonder and magic, this place is now on my list of restaurants to visit, I just wonder what the menu would be like?


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Recipe from Evelyn Miller of TX
First coarsely chop up some fresh zucchini. Next add in some freshly chopped tomatoes, chopped jalapenos, and chopped onions as well as a little salt and pepper to taste. Now cook this mixture in a stick of margarine until it is tender. You may want to add about 1/2 cup water and use an iron skillet. Then take the mixture and wrap it in a warm flour tortilla. And for those carbohydrate watchers feel free to substitute the tortillas for low-carb ones. Enjoy!
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On January 19, Rockstars Glued conducted an interview with the BUTCHER BABIES before the band's concert at Bogart's in Cincinnati, Ohio as the support act for MARILYN MANSON. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below.
BUTCHER BABIES recently signed a deal with Century Media Records. The band's full-length debut is scheduled for a summer release.
Hailing from Los Angeles, the BUTCHER BABIES have emerged as one of the biggest draws on the Sunset Strip, their incendiary blend of heavy metal and horror-inspired theatrics inciting crowds worldwide.
Fronted by Carla Harvey and Heidi Shepherd — named two of the "Hottest Women In Rock" by Revolver magazine — the blood-splattered band left its mark on the United Kingdom in June 2012, appearing on the Download festival and supporting ANTHRAX in Cardiff. They returned to America last fall as direct support for OTEP.
When asked by Revolver magazine why the BUTCHER BABIES refer to themselves as "slut metal" and what the hell "slut metal" exactly is, Shepherd said, "We can't go balls out — so we go tits out! When girls are perceived as sexual or outspoken, they get labeled sluts, but we embrace those qualities and bring them to our music as well. BUTCHER BABIES is true slut metal: We're doing what we want, how we want."
On the topic of BUTCHER BABIES' goals, Harvey told Revolver, "To bring slut metal to the masses — duh! In all seriousness, we feel like we are just touching on what we are capable of, and we want to continue to grow, get our music out there, and get on the road! There are so many repressed people out there that need to see a show like ours. Hopefully they will take home with them the message that they are able to do everything they want to do regardless of who they are told they are supposed to be."
Interview (audio):


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In honor of Mozart's birthday (January 27, 1756), I offer the silliest version of the main theme of his Symphony No. 40 ever produced! Watch and be amazed:
You can read more about Mozart at http://www.mozartproject.org/.
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Web: www.sasymphony.org
Twitter @SASym
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Sunday 20th December 2020
First House
£15.00 - £20.00
"Their explosive live shows have become legendary" Montreux Jazz Festival
"Absolutely Brilliant! That really put me in a good mood." – Simon Cowell
"A Ray of Sunshine! I loved The Jive Aces." – Alesha Dixon
"Infectious, uplifting and marvelous!" – Len Goodman
"The acclaimed, energetic, swing music stage show." – The Guardian
The Jive Aces – Sunshine Tour
The Jive Aces are the UK's No.1 Jive & Swing band. They feature songs made famous by greats like Louis Prima, Bobby Darin, Big Joe Turner and Sammy Davis Jr as well as some superb originals. An incredibly in demand sextet, they have worked with John Travolta, Van Morrison, The Proclaimers, Keely Smith and have performed for HRH Prince Philip.
The Jive Aces headlined (and sold-out) the first ever swing dance at the Royal Albert Hall and have bought the house down with their high energy stage show at thousands of festivals, theatres, dancehalls and top events throughout Britain, Europe, USA and beyond, over 30 countries in all. They have also made hundreds of TV and radio appearances including, recently, a residency on BBC Radio London and TV appearances on "Louis Spence's Showbusiness", "Come Dine With Me" and "Good Morning Los Angeles".
In 2012 the band were semi-finalists on "Britain's Got Talent", performing show-stopping versions of Jungle Book favourites "I Wanna Be Like You" and "Bare Necessities" wowing BGT judges Simon Cowell, David Walliams and Alesha Dixon, who said "You are so joyful to watch, every single one of you. That was world class".
Their music video, "Bring Me Sunshine", has become a viral hit with nearly 2 million views on Youtube and has won a Telly Award as well as a number of film festival awards.
More kudos for the Jive Aces:
"100% Yes. I like you guys." Simon Cowell
"I loved The Jive Aces. They were fun and carefree… so joyful to watch. They really put us in a good mood. World class!" Alesha Dixon - BGT
"Their enthusiasm and their talent are obvious when you listen to their music; it's infectious, uplifting and a marvelous reminder of the era of jiving and swing."
Len Goodman – Strictly Come Dancing & Dancing With the Stars
"It was a lot of fun and I loved it. 101% yes." David Walliams - BGT
"The Jive Aces manage great freshness yet maintain an authentic accurate sound. Simply sensational!" The Stage
"You lifted everyone's spirits tonight" Amanda Holden - BGT
"Back by popular demand for an incredible fifth year, their explosive live shows have become legendary" Montreux Jazz Festival
"Musically brilliant, great to listen to, the arrangements of the covers are superb." BBC Radio 2
"Jive Aces rocked us, literally. If they were playing at any event they would raise the roof with their quirky banana suits and energetic moves" Dean "Midas" Maynard - Huffington Post
"Hugely charismatic performers and consummate showmen. *****" Edinburgh Spotlight
"These guys know how to entertain and make their music relevant and contemporary. This music is timeless because it makes you feel good and gets to your rhythm bone. This CD has stayed on my system since I received it. Quality jump, jive and boogie." Jazz Journal
The Jive Aces are:
Ian Clarkson - Lead Vocals & Trumpet
"Big" John Fordham - Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax, Clarinet
Alex Douglas - Trombone
Vince "Professor" Hurley - Piano
Ken Smith - Double Bass
Peter "Bilky" Howell - Drums
Tell us what you think of SUNDAY JAZZ LUNCH: Jive Aces below..


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In recognition of extraordinary dedication and contribution to mountain biking recreation and open space trails in Los Angeles and Eastern Ventura Counties, CORBA announces its recipients of the 2011 CORBA Award.
Wendy Engelberg
When it comes to social networking, we can always count on Wendy to reach out through the internet to generate excitement for CORBA's events and activities. She also has worked tirelessly coordinating and assisting with several CORBA events over the past few years, in addition to organizing and leading rides for the North Ranch Mountain Bikers, a CORBA-supporting club. She is also an outspoken advocate for responsible mountain biking. Her enthusiasm is infectious, and her dedication is relentless.
Matt Gunnell
Matt helped organize the SoCal High School Cycling League in 2008 and serves as the organization's Executive Director. The organization currently comprises nearly 30 high school teams and more than 300 riders. Under his guidance, the league has grown substantially over its four year history, bringing hundreds of new student athletes–and many of their parents and friends–into the sport of mountain biking. Matt and the League emphasize that a major component of participation in the league is stewardship of the trails, including an appreciation of–and volunteering for–trail work and maintenance. The league's impact on the sport in Southern California is already having far-reaching effects, with many student racers having moved on to careers in cycling and the industry.
Banner Moffat
Banner has had a long-time love of trails. He began mountain biking on El Prieto two decades ago, and soon realized that it needed upkeep. He has since spent many off his days off happily and tirelessly contributing to the trail's upkeep, sometimes with help, often without, and always just for the love of it. Over the past few years he has formalized his love of the trail and his relationship with the National Forest by adopting the trail under the moniker, "Friends of El Prieto." He has contributed to many Eagle Scout trail restoration projects as trail boss and advisor on this and other trails, and serves as coach and mentor to the Crescenta Valley high school mountain biking team. His long time involvement in the mountain biking community has inspired many to become active and responsible mountain bikers.
Woody Smeck
As Superintendent of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) for the past 10 years, Woody has elevated the SMMNRA's stature in the National Park system, and worked with politicians to help them understand the importance of National Parks near developed urban areas. He was also instrumental in improved inter-agency coordination and cooperation with the California Department of Parks and Recreation, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, and other agencies in the SMMNRA. For the mountain bike community, Woody was always accessible, fair, and honest in his dealings, making it clear to his peers that responsible mountain biking is manageable on public lands. On March 30 Woody will become Deputy Superintendent at Yosemite National Park.
The above recipients join a long list of past recipients of the CORBA award, all of whom have left an indelible mark on the sport of Mountain Biking in our area and beyond. It is the combined legacy of all the CORBA award recipients that has helped shape the sport in Southern California, and will continue to do so as the sport grows. It is thanks to them that the opportunities to enjoy mountain biking exist in its current form. These deserving 2011 recipients will be presented with their awards in the coming months as their busy schedules allow.
We congratulate them, and on behalf of the entire mountain biking community and especially CORBA's members and supporters, we thank them wholeheartedly for their contributions to our community.
Tags: banner moffat, CORBA, corba awards, matt gunnell, woody smeck


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Some 69 percent of Americans believe our values have deteriorated since the 1970s, and nearly half say values will further weaken over the next ten years, according to a 2012 Atlantic/Aspen Institute American Values Survey. Under the guise of tolerance and open-mindedness, Americans increasingly rate as morally acceptable the issues of homosexuality, human cloning, premarital sex, and having a child out of wedlock.
What was once immoral is now accepted as normal. Christians who determine to maintain a biblical standard are put on the defensive and labeled intolerant. With social and political correctness replacing God's standards of righteousness, the distinction between the church and the world is in matters of morality, entertainment and political choices is rapidly eroding.
To combat this erosion, Horace Allen, a professional marriage and family therapist and author has written The World to Love and Not to Love (Redemption Press). In this new release, Allen contrasts the world (cosmos) God created in perfect order and structure with the secular world system under satanic influence. He says, "If Judeo-Christian values would not disappear with time, it is necessary for Christians to be aware of how they are being affected by the moral decline."
Allen writes for older believers who may have lost the clarity of the dividing line between secular and spiritual worlds, young or new believers who have grown up in a world that replaces righteousness with political and social correctness, and for unbelievers who do not see any differences between the standards of many Christians and the world.
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It's been over a year since a vendor submitted a budget all-in-one, so I had to dig deep into the review archive to find comparisons for the Best Buy-exclusive HP Omni 120-1024. What I found is that this $499 PC offers almost as many raw features as a $699 unit this time last year, although its performance is not quite as fast as I had hoped. I can recommend the Omni 120 if you want a simple desktop as a basic home computing/storage hub, or if you intend to do a lot of stationary typing. For more entertainment-oriented family computing, your $500 might be better directed toward an iPad.
The Omni 120 is the most affordable model of the handful of new all-in-ones from HP released earlier this fall. Aimed at budget shoppers looking for a basic, non-touch all-in-one desktop, the Omni line, and the 120 model in particular, features an inoffensive design (some might say bland), and a value-oriented assortment of components. You won't play demanding games with this PC, and I wouldn't recommend you use it for regular content creation, but it's perfectly serviceable as a light-duty, day-to-day home computer.
|HP Omni 120-1024
|Lenovo C315
|HP Pavilion All-In-One MS225
|Display size/resolution
|20-inches, 1,600x900
|20-inches, 1,600x900
|18.4-inches, 1,366x768
|1.65GHz AMD Dual-Core 450E
|1.6GHz AMD Athlon II X2 250u
|1.6GHz AMD Athlon II X2 250
|4GB 1,333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
|4GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM
|4GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM
|384MB AMD Radeon HD 6320 integrated graphics chip
|512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530
|256MB ATI Radeon HD 3200 integrated graphics
|Hard drives
|500GB 7,200 rpm
|500GB 7,200 rpm
|320GB, 7,200rpm
|Optical drive
|dual-layer DVD burner
|dual-layer DVD burner
|dual-layer DVD burner
|Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n wireless
|Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n wireless
|Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g wireless
|Operating system
|Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
|Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
|Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
Compared with HP's January 2010 non-touch Pavilion All-in-One MS255 (its Omni precursor), the new Omni 120-1024 offers a much improved assortment of features for a lower cost. You get a larger monitor with a higher display resolution in the new model, as well as a larger hard drive and true high-bandwidth 802.11n wireless networking. The features in this new HP are almost identical to those of the Lenovo C315 budget all-in-one, which cost nearly $700 last summer. In any case, HP has hit all of the basic computing hardware notes with the Omni 120-1024, and for a reasonable price.
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Unfortunately, the Omni 120's performance does not offer the same degree of improvements compared with the older models. The AMD E-450 chip in the new model has the same core clock speed as the Athlon II X2 in the Lenovo and the older HP, but it's built around a new design that emphasizes graphics processing as much as performing standard computing tasks. That design, combined with the fact that the E450 is a budget-class mobile chip, means this system will not fare well next to other CPUs, even older ones, designed for raw application processing. It's not entirely unreasonable for a $499 desktop like the Omni 120 to lag behind an older system like the Lenovo C315 that sold for $699 a year ago. But it's clear that although the Omni offers better features for the dollar than you would find a year ago, you cannot say the same about its performance.
I suspect most of the likely purchasers of this PC won't mind the comparatively slow speed, since it handles basic tasks like Web surfing, running office applications, and playing media files with no obvious difficulty. I can also report that the Omni 120 was able to play Portal 2. I couldn't use most of the advanced graphics settings, but the Omni was at least able to play the game smoothly at the display's native 1,600x900-pixel resolution. I would not expect the same success with more-demanding titles like Battlefield 3, Rage, and the upcoming Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, but you may have success with older PC games.
The potential to run into applications that won't work on the Omni 120-1024 is one of the reason why I suggest that you might consider an iPad if you have $500 or so to spend. With an iPad and its Apple-curated App Store, you will essentially never run into software that you can't use. With the more open PC software universe, you can fairly easily find a game or a higher-end media-editing program that the Omni 120 can't run.


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Saturday is a special day, it's the day we get ready for Sunday;
We clean the house and we shop at the store,
so we won't have to work until Monday;
We brush our clothes and we shine our shoes,
and we call it our "get-the-work-done" day;
Then we trim our nails and we shampoo our hair,
so we can be ready for Sunday!
Text: Margaret Richards
Music: Carol Madsen
Artist: Hill/arr. Richards (simplified)
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: Friend
Composition Date: 1973-03-01
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A lost past...
The White Wolf returns
You are Geralt, from the city of Rivia. All around you the towns and settlements of the Northern Kingdoms are being razed to the ground, as an invading, otherworldly army known only as the Wild Hunt leaves a trail of blood-soaked destruction in its wake.
As you prepare for a thunderous confrontation with the Wild Hunt, you'll uncover a complex, gripping story and meet unforgettable characters. And as you explore the Northern Kingdoms, you'll discover that mysteries lurk within every village, tree and shadow.