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Police consider death by elk in murder case - The Local

Police consider death by elk in murder case

Published: 28 Nov 09 11:03 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23536/20091128/

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A former murder investigation has been reviewed by police who now suspect a 63-year-old woman found dead in Småland, southern Sweden, last year was killed by an elk.

• Fright night for elks in west Sweden (31 Oct 09)
• Gothenburg woman injured in surprise elk attack (14 Oct 09)
• Wild boar hunter in strife for elk kill (1 Sep 09)

The woman’s body was found by a lake close to the village of Loftahammar in September 2008.

She was last seen taking her family dog out for a walk in the forest. When she did not return home her husband ventured out to look for her and found her dead body.

The 68-year-old was immediately arrested and detained on suspicion of murder. He was held in police custody for five months.

via www.thelocal.se

Patrice Leroux: PR Book of the Year

I am writing this post in english as an hommage to what I believe is the Public Relations Book of the year: Online Public Relations: A practical guide to developing an online strategy in the world of social media  (Second Edition) by David Phillips and Philip Young.

via patriceleroux.blogspot.com

Wow! Apologies for own-trumpet-blowing but...

Maj Sjöwall: The queen of crime

Maj Sjöwall photographed near her home in Stockholm last month. Photograph: Per A Jorgensen

It might count as one of the most remarkable writing collaborations in the history of publishing. A man and a woman, a couple, sit down every evening to write. Dinner is over, their children are in bed. She's never written a book before. He's a published author, but not with anything like this. They write in long hand, through the night if necessary. One chapter each. The following evening they swap chapters and type them up, editing each other as they go along. They don't argue, at least not about the words. These seem to flow naturally.

Ten years, 10 books. Each book 30 chapters, 300 chapters in all

via www.guardian.co.uk

I looked at this and didn't see what Maj was carrying. If you don't know who Maj Sjöwall is, or haven't read Martin Beck, investigate!

The Accidental Time Traveller...

 

via www.sharon-griffiths.com

I used to work with Sharon on The Northern Echo... not quite in the 1950s, but this is taking me back in time

mediations: The Saint Who Loved Me: PR in Fiction

The Saint Who Loved Me: PR in Fiction

To succeed in PR you have to be flexible, versatile and creative, qualities needed in abundance by Maggie White in Mimi Thebo's excellent 2002 novel, The Saint Who Loved Me.

Maggie needs some to employ some fairly sophisticated PR skills for her day job, working on a £1.4m tampon launch, but that's a doddle compared with the brief outlined by a freelance client, Saint Peter, who wants her to come up with a repositioning campaign for his boss, Jesus.

via publicsphere.typepad.com

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To succeed in PR you have to be flexible, versatile and creative, qualities needed in abundance by Maggie White in Mimi Thebo's excellent 2002 novel, The Saint Who Loved Me.

Maggie needs some to employ some fairly sophisticated PR skills for her day job, working on a £1.4m tampon launch, but that's a doddle compared with the brief outlined by a freelance client, Saint Peter, who wants her to come up with a repositioning campaign for his boss, Jesus.

Dad spoke to son in Klingon

A DAD spoke only KLINGON to his son for the first three years of his life to see if he could pick up the alien language.

Linguist Dr d'Armond Speers came up with the idea after watching an episode of Star Trek. He spent days translating phrases into Klingon - hoping his toddler's first word would be "vav" rather than "dad".

via www.thesun.co.uk

The kindness of witches « Prospect Magazine

The kindness of witches

Andrew Brown

  18th November 2009  —  Issue 165

Stieg Larsson’s fiction replaces Sweden’s socialist dream with an individualist nightmare. Is this what has made him the country’s biggest literary phenomenon?

via www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Excellent piece.

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