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Mobile payments enabled by Near Field Communications (NFC) won't have as big an impact as vendors such as Google are hoping for, according to IEEE fellow Jack Winters.
Winters, who is also the founder of Jack Winters Communications LLC, said during a chat with Network World this week that he didn't yet see any reason to shift away from credit cards to mobile phone payments and said that NFC-based payments weren't likely to have a major impact until the technology could reach a critical mass where it was available everywhere.
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"It's something that can be useful, but not until the majority of phones have it," he said. "I use my credit card for $2 payments sometimes and until I'm blocked from using it I don't see NFC becoming widespread."
Instead, Winters sees that the most important new consumer wireless technology in the coming years would be connected home appliances that are both capable of talking with one another and of being monitored remotely though wireless broadband connections. He said that the advent of cloud-based services would mean that users could more easily and cheaply gain insight into how their home security cameras, lighting systems and heating systems were operating at a given time.
"You shouldn't have to call home to see if your lights are on at home," he said. "There should be something that's monitoring everything going on in my life and warning me if anything is out of whack or requires my attention ... the trend is between complete connectivity, and not just between users but between the wireless devices themselves."
NFC payments have become a hot feature on smartphones ever since Google first enabled NFC technology on its Android operating system when it released its Android 2.3 ("Gingerbread") update last year. NFC technology is designed to send very short-range signals to nearby NFC tags to complete payments, meaning that any store or smartphone user that wants to receive payments directly from PayPal or other NFC payment services will need to have NFC tags embedded into their credit card processors and smartphones.
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Easy Street Speed & Kustom Road Tour
Our week on the Easy Street Speed & Kustom Road Tour took us from the NSRA Nationals North Plus to the Charlotte Autofair held at Charlotte Motor Speedway. We headed out right after the award ceremonies on Sunday afternoon in Kalamazoo. It was a short drive to Fairmount, Indiana, where James Dean spent most of his youth. In Fairmount we visited the James Dean Gallery and Museum, which is less than 2 miles to his resting place in Park Cemetery.
Monday morning we visited Tim and Brenda Allred in Anderson, Indiana, and enjoyed seeing their car and automobilia collection along with plenty of friendly coffee and doughnuts.
From Anderson we traveled to Harrison, Ohio, near Cincinnati. The folks at SoffSeal had planned an open house for our lunch stop and a large crowd of local rodders welcomed us at SoffSeal. Also in Harrison we visited the shop of Wade Hughes. Wade has been a part of the Cincinnati hot rod scene for many years and is famous for his flamed paintwork. He has also painted flames on a past Road Tour Chevy street rod for us. While in Cincinnati we visited the Antique Boat Center where we all enjoyed seeing the many vintage wooden boats on display; it's also here where a great deal of repair and restoration work occurs on these early pieces of nautical art.
Next up was a stop at Zakira's Garage. We were greeted by good friend Joshua Shaw who gave us a tour of the facility where they specialize in restoration of early race cars. Many of the cars saw action at the Indianapolis Speedway in the early days of racing. Our amazing day in Cincinnati wrapped up at the facilities of Easy Street Speed and Kustom. They were ready for our arrival with plenty of food and another great turnout of Cincinnati rodders. Easy Street is a full service shop that was filled with projects ranging from restorations to engine modifications and paint- and bodywork. Shop manager Greg Nolan was on hand all evening to answer our questions and a DJ kept things lively until dark.
Tuesday we headed south from Cincinnati and enjoyed a beautiful drive through Southern Ohio and onto the mountains of West Virginia. We spent the evening in Wytheville, Virginia, and then headed out Wednesday morning. After a pretty drive through the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina we arrived at Jet-Hot headquarters just in time for lunch. We were greeted by owner Gordon McGlinton and Cheryl Herrick who handles advertising and promotion at Jet-Hot. We enjoyed lunch and then Gordon gave us a tour of the coating facilities and the processes they offer to treat metal for many different applications. We also enjoyed seeing the extensive automotive collection that Gordon has on display. It was a great lunch stop and visit with folks who are very passionate about their work and their love affair with special-interest vehicles.
Continuing south we stopped in Randleman, North Carolina, at the Richard Petty Museum. The museum houses the trophies, awards, and memorabilia that come from an amazing career. The Richard Petty story is truly an American success story that still continues today. By Thursday evening we arrived in Concord, North Carolina, and checked into the hotel that would be our headquarters for the rest of the week.
Thursday morning it was a short drive to the facilities of Dennis Carpenter Ford Restoration Parts. We were all surprised and pleased that Dennis Carpenter was waiting for us in the parking lot when we arrived. Dennis told us the story of how the company began and how, through hard work and quality products, it has grown to be the leading supplier of Ford restoration parts in the world. We were able to tour their manufacturing areas and we all enjoyed the collection of vehicles and memorabilia on display in the museum. It was a great start to our weekend in the Charlotte area.
We then headed to downtown Charlotte and the NASCAR Hall of Fame and Museum. This huge facility opened in 2010 and tells the story of how NASCAR went from dirt tracks and homebuilt race cars to the huge corporate entity that it is today. The history of the cars, the teams, and the men and women who were part of this growth is told with interactive displays that fill four floors. From the Hall of Fame and Museum we drove to the headquarters of Fatman Fabrications. Owner Brett Vandervort greeted us, gave us a personal tour of the shop, and then treated us to some of the best barbecue in Charlotte. It was a great evening at Fatman Fabrications.
Friday and Saturday were spent at the huge Charlotte Autofair. The Hornet's Nest is the host club for the event and club member Mel Carson and his team set us up with a perfect location in the infield. It was a great two days as we all enjoyed the swap meet and activities that go along with the Charlotte Autofair. It was another fun-filled week on an AMSOIL/STREET RODDER Road Tour.
Go to our website www.streetrodder.com for expanded coverage of the Easy Street Speed and Kustom Tour. The 2014 schedule is set. Check your calendar and make plans to join in the fun on a tour or two this summer.

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SAN FRANCISCO — The education fund of Catholics United, a Democrat-leaning group that has clashed with the U.S. bishops on several prominent issues, received a grant worth almost its entire 2011 budget to recruit Catholic clergy in key swing states to support the Environmental Protection Agency.
The San Francisco-based Energy Foundation gave a $116,000 grant to the Catholics United Education Fund in November 2011 "to recruit and engage Catholic clergy in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota" in support of the EPA's "regulatory authority."
The Catholics United Education Fund's 2011 tax forms show total revenue of $116,200 for the year.
James Salt, executive director of the group, told Catholic News Agency April 23 that the Energy Foundation supported the education fund's work to teach Catholics what Salt characterized as "Pope Benedict XVI's and Pope Francis' elevation of environmental stewardship as a key priority for Catholics."
He said the project reached about 200 clergy and that the Catholics United Education Fund has "a particularly strong footprint" in the selected states, which also suffer "major forms of pollution."
The states named in the Energy Foundation grant included several key swing states in the 2012 election.
Ahead of that election, many Catholic bishops named issues such as ending legalized abortion and defending traditional marriage as key priorities.
In 2008, Catholics United came under fire by then-Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput, who said the group and its allies have "done a disservice to the Church."
The organization, Archbishop Chaput charged, has "confused the natural priorities of Catholic social teaching, undermined the progress pro-lifers have made and provided an excuse for some Catholics to abandon the abortion issue instead of fighting within their parties and at the ballot box to protect the unborn."
The Catholics United Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) partner of Catholics United, a 501(c)(4) organization that often defends Democratic political causes, at times conflicting with Church teaching. The organizations' different tax statuses mean the education fund faces more restrictions on political expenditures.
Salt is the executive director of both groups, and the organizations share many of the same leaders.
The Catholics United Education Fund made news in November 2012 for a petition drive against the Knights of Columbus' support for non-partisan political efforts to defend marriage between a man and a woman. It also received news coverage in 2012 for criticizing the end of a Catholic Campaign for Human Development grant to a Colorado immigrant group that was a member of a coalition that supports same-sex unions.
Catholics United has drawn criticism for downplaying religious freedom concerns about the Obama administration's HHS mandate requiring Catholic employers, including some Catholic colleges, charities and health-care systems, to provide insurance coverage for sterilization, contraception and abortion-causing drugs.
It also defended the nomination of Catholic Kathleen Sebelius as Department of Health and Human Services secretary, despite concerns about her pro-abortion-rights views.
The Catholics United Education Fund has connections with other groups that have stirred controversy over their political initiatives.
The chair of the organization's board of directors, Jessica Barba Brown, is vice president for program development at Faith in Public Life, a communications strategy center that favors Democrat-leaning political causes. That organization helped run the "Nuns on the Bus" public-relations campaign promoting several vowed religious who object to budget-cutting proposals from Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
Faith in Public Life also ran a behind-the-scenes media effort in 2012 to undercut the U.S. bishops' efforts to defend religious freedom against the HHS mandate. The organization sent out a memo instructing journalists to corner the bishops with questions about their religious-freedom concerns, which it labeled as "fiction."


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Voxcom records improved EBITDA
EDMONTON, Alberta - Home and business security provider Voxcom in late October reported slightly higher EBITDA and monthly monitoring revenues for the quarter ending Aug. 31, 2003.
By increasing its monthly recurring revenue from monitoring by 3.7 percent in the quarter, a figure which was slightly higher than the quarterly growth in subscribers, the company was able to increase EBITDA by 2.6 percent to $3.34 million Canadian.
"The company has continued to improve on its key financial performance metrics of monthly recurring revenue, EBITDA and cash flow from operations,†said Brad Sparrow, president and chief executive officer. "Our EBIDTA margin for the quarter was 49.2 percent as compared with 48.1 percent in the first quarter of this year.â€Â
Voxcom's cash flow from operations also increased to $2.5 million for the quarter and $5.07 million year to date, due to interest savings that were realized from a recapitalization of the company in the second quarter of last year.


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Mayor's Office
Well-drilling began today at the City's Bluff Road landfill as part of a project to capture methane gas produced naturally by the decomposition of waste. The gas collected from the 54 wells will travel through a system of pipes to a facility where it will be burned off in a "flare" to prevent it from reaching the atmosphere. Eventually the City hopes the gas can be used for energy.
"Lincoln is joining the ranks of those cities that are proactively working to realize economic value from their landfill gas to dramatically lower our carbon emissions," said Mayor Chris Beutler. "I have long believed that you can have strong economic development and a cleaner environment, and this project is an excellent example of that reality. It's also an example of acting to clean up our environment without waiting for federal or state mandates."
The Environmental Protection Agency says methane is over 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. Landfill gas is about 40 to 60 percent methane, with the remainder being mostly carbon dioxide. Currently the gas at the Bluff Road landfill is released through a series of vents.
"Once we are able to collect the gas, we will be able to determine its quality and quantity," said Greg MacLean, Director of the City Public Works and Utilities Department. "We will have enough information by next spring to determine how the gas will best be utilized."
The Bluff Road landfill opened in 1988. About 40 of its 171 acres are now covered, and waste depths range from 60 to 130 feet. The wells will be drilled to depths of 40 to 100 feet on about 60 acres. It's estimated that the 6.1 million tons of buried garage have the potential to produce 1,520 standard cubic feet of methane per minute.
"Testing shows that enough methane could be collected from the landfill to meet the electrical energy needs of about 2,250 households," said Gary Brandt, Utilities Coordinator for the City Public Works and Utilities Department.
Beutler said the initial step to flare the gas will greatly reduce the City's greenhouse gas emissions. It has been estimated the reduction will be equivalent to taking the carbon emissions of 30,780 passenger vehicles out of Lincoln's atmosphere.
Because the City is acting voluntarily to remove greenhouse gas from the environment, the City also can earn carbon credits to market internationally. "The City of Lincoln is poised to join the fast-moving and profitable carbon and energy markets, providing a much-needed new revenue source for the taxpayer," Beutler said.
The City has been working on the project since April 2008 when it solicited bids for engineering services to evaluate its feasibility. The total cost of the project is $2.2 million, and most of the funding comes from fees paid by landfill users. About $53,000 is coming from federal stimulus funds through the City's Cleaner Greener Lincoln initiative, which is coordinating the use of $2.4 million in stimulus funds through the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program.
More information on the City's solid waste operations is available at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: landfill).


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"GILMORE GIRLS" - (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET)
"The Great Stink" (TV-PG) (HDTV)
WHAT'S THAT SMELL? - Emily (Kelly Bishop) and Richard (Edward Herrmann) are delighted when Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Christopher (David Sutcliffe) attend Friday night dinner together as a couple. Christopher reveals that Sherry has written him a letter saying she regrets leaving their daughter, G.G. (guest star Nicolette Collier), and asking him to send G.G. to visit her in Paris. Lorelai can't believe that Chris would consider this and they get into an argument over dinner. Logan (Matt Czuchry) returns to town on business to acquire an internet company and pays Rory (Alexis Bledel) a surprise visit. Rory is thrilled, but during a dinner with Logan's colleagues, she realizes that she has no connection to his new business world, and is especially threatened by one of his beautiful co-workers. Meanwhile, Stars Hollow is plagued by a terrible odor when a train with a full load of pickles derails, and Taylor (Michael Winters) refuses to pay for the cleanup. Scott Patterson, Melissa McCarthy, Yanic Truesdale, Liza Weil and Sean Gunn also star. Michael Schultz directed the episode written by Gina Fattore (#2T7755).


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MichelleRMiller necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 22 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
This is sports technology start-up that will be used by non-internet saavy people - so the icons need to be pretty clear, basic, but hopefully cool/modern looking!
coaches on their blackberry phones - will be very small. will also use the same icons on the web application.
Here are the 10 icons I'm looking for to start - whoever wins, I will work with them for about 5-10 more to come later.
2 sizes -
* web icons for website - 50 pixels x 50 pixels
* Blackberry icons (TBD - guessing around 25px x 25px)
( ) My watch list (similar to "my favorites")
( ) Player search (basketball players - maybe magnifying glass with bball player in background)
( ) Game Schedule (final four tournament bracket)
( ) Court Schedule (a basketball court)
( ) Game Grid (looks like an excel spreadsheet)
( ) Special Reports (maybe a star with a report/paper)
( ) General Information (circle w/ an "i")
( ) Sync New Data
( ) Coaches Pass (similar to a ticket to get into an event/game)
( ) Save + Exit
I can email samples of some ideas I have to anyone who's interested.
I also found the navigation icons at http://www.name.com (the very top of their homepage) to be very close to the style I like.
I'm open to colors - they can be all different colors - the software is private labeled - so actually I'd prefer the use of many different colors for the icons to help distinguish them. Maybe have a primary color (black) that shows up in all of them, and then each has a different color to associate with each icon.


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For the anti-creation lobby to still promote the US Supreme Court as being impartial and open-minded is either naive or very misleading.
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Answers in Genesis is an apologetics ministry, dedicated to helping Christians defend their faith and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.


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Firefighters Rally for Baby With Heart Defect
(LOS ANGELES) -- Four-month-old Paisley Mae Arnold looked perfect from the outside: chubby cheeks, giant eyes and a wisp of dark blond hair. She would occasionally wheeze, but doctors told her parents not to worry about that.
Then, last Thursday, doctors at Loma Linda University Medical Center Children's Hospital in Loma Linda, Calif., told the baby's parents, Rick and Charity Arnold, that Paisley Mae wasn't perfect.
She'd need a heart transplant to survive.
"She's just a very special little girl, and we're both looking forward to seeing her grow up, God willing," Rick Arnold, a paramedic at Fire Station 302 in Hesperia, Calif., told KABC, the ABC-owned station in Los Angeles.
Paisley Mae was born without a left coronary artery, which caused her to have an enlarged heart, according to KABC. There is no cure, and she will eventually need a transplant. The night of the Feb. 21 diagnosis, she had a major bandycardic event, meaning her heart rate dangerously slowed, prompting doctors to do chest compressions and put her on a machine called an ECMO, which bypasses the heart to oxygenate the blood.
The close-knit group of firefighters at Station 302 has helped Arnold with shifts so that he can spend time with his daughter in the hospital, firefighters told KABC. They also began raising money by selling T-shirts and holding a charity 5K run. An online fundraiser, A Change of Heart for Paisley Mae, has already raised $7,833, according to its page on gofundme.com — $3,833 more than the original goal.
"Having this burden on their shoulders is difficult enough without having to worry about everyday bills and medical bills, so our hope is to just lessen that for them," firefighter Blake Berg told KABC.
On Monday, doctors performed a six-hour surgery to give Paisley a Berlin Heart, which works outside the body to pump blood and maintain the other organs, hoping to buy Paisley some time until she can get a transplant. However, her lungs became inflamed and caused a hemorrhage after surgery, so doctors put her back on the ECMO machine, according to the Arnolds' Facebook page.
"Your continued love and support is a huge reason we are making it through this," the Arnolds wrote on their Facebook page, which now has nearly 3,000 likes. "Thank you."
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Three Tesla employees have died in a plane crash in East Palo Alto, VentureBeat reports.
Previously, Jalopnik said it was three executives.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, former co-founder of Paypal, was not on the plane, according to the company.
In a statement he said, "Three Tesla employees were on board a plane that crashed in East Palo Alto early this morning. We are withholding their identities as we work with the relevant authorities to notify the families. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. Tesla is a small, tightly-knit company, and this is a tragic day for us."
We've heard JB Straubel, Telsa's CTO, was not on the plane.
According to the SF Gate, the plane was owned by Doug Bourn, an electrical engineer for the electric car startup. It's unclear if he was flying the plane or on the plane at all.
Tesla makes the Roadster, an all-electric sports car, and recently filed for an IPO.
Update: VentureBeat says the employees that died were Doug Bourn, Andrew Ingram and senior manager Brian Finn.
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tyson007 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 220 diseños de 50 diseñadores freelance.
I need help with a business card! I need a catchy font and colors to look simple, yet creative. Typography is important here.
-I would like the "mr+mrs macuil" to be the MAIN DESIGN ELEMENT on the front of the card. The word "photographers" should be on the front also, but should NOT COMPETE FOR ATTENTION with the "mr+mrs macui".
-The other info should go on the back.
-I extended the contest two days. Thanks for all the input so far!
-I'd like for people to use some fonts from http://www.dafont.com. If your design wins, I'll buy the fonts from the designers.
-Please read entire brief. Thank you.
mr+mrs macuil
i have a photo business without a "brand". I want to start off with a cool logo or cool layout of "mr+mrs macuil" (us) that will look great on a business card. Although I want it to feel "fresh, young, hip", I want it to still feel kinda sophisticated and simple. I need a design with interesting typography. I have put together a rough sample of the direction I think I want to go, check it out at http://www.macpd.com/businesscard1.jpg
You can also visit my website and blog to see some of my work http://www.macpd.com. My soon-to-be new blog will have a much more "fun, fresh" feel than either of my current sites.
Here are some fonts I saw and liked:
- I would like the "mr+mrs macuil" to be the MAIN DESIGN ELEMENT on the front of the card. The word "photographers" should be on the front also, but should NOT COMPETE FOR ATTENTION with the "mr+mrs macui".
- The other info should go on the back.
- Item 1...Something simple, yet cool
- I like my fonts, but feel free to try your own.
- Typography is important
- I would love it if the "mr+mrs" created a more solid rectangle with the "macuil". (i hope that makes sense)
- I like the color scheme i have going, but feel free to try something else
- "macuil" must be strong, bold. yet, not too "tough"
- make the "mr+mrs macuil" a work of art! Not too crazy though :)
- I'd like some kind of "symbol" or logo, or initials to use somewhere on the card. DOES NOT have to relate to cameras, equipment, shooting, sun, etc. Make it fun.
- the back of the card where all the info will be looks really plane. Help me make it interesting!
- i might add a slogan on the front of the card...with a different font i think?
- Feel free to be creative with all the white negative space. Add something interesting to the background, without being distracting.
- i need illustrator and/or photoshop files.
- too many different fonts
- cheesy logos, like the typical, round aperture stuff for photographers.
- 3 colors max
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SMBexpert necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 110 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
A new book coming out needs a cover design. The challenge: Create a suitable design that stands out yet appears to be part of the series (for which it is the 3rd book of 5)
Take a look at http://www.AmbitionMission.com for the first two books in the series and what they look like. I want the third book, which will be to teach business owners how to hire, build, and train a sales team, to embody the look of the series while standing out on its own. See "what I want" below.
A Guide to BUILDING A SALES TEAM - faster, easier & for greater profit
- I am thinking Yellow with red lettering but am not married to it. (First book blue, second is green, fifth will be black)
- multi-layered PSD (Photoshop) format - design should be such that it will be easy to increase the "spine size" once final page count is known
- cover design is 6" x 9" front and back plus spine (assume 1/2" for now)
- THIS IS A SALES book so must be exciting, yet professional
- design must communicate professionalism and experience while remaining engaging (exciting)
- audience are business owners, not consumers
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Johann "Jack" Unterweger
With the help of future Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek and other prominent Austrian literati, Jack Unterweger wrote his way out of a lifetime sentence for murder. Paroled in 1990, and now a famous crime writer himself, he embarked on a wide-ranging killing spree, murdering women in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Los Angeles.
by Mark Pulham
Vienna. People sitting in cafés eating Sachertorte, listening to the music of Mozart and Strauss, walking through the Vienna Woods, and if you are a film buff, thinking about The Third Man. Vienna is synonymous with culture. It is not the first place anyone thinks of when you mention serial killers. Yet in the spring of 1991, particularly in the red-light district, the fear of a killer on the loose gripped the city.
It began on April 8, 1991, when a young prostitute named Silvia Zagler vanished. When last seen, she had been standing on her regular corner around 10:30 p.m. Sabine Moitzi worked in a bakery during the day. At night, unknown to her husband, she occasionally boosted her income by working as a "secret prostitute," which meant that she was not, as is required by the laws of Vienna, registered with the Office of Health. Eight days after Zagler's disappearance, Sabine's friend, Ilse, dropped the 25-year-old woman off near the rail yard of the West Train Station. A short while later, she disappeared.
Regina Prem was 33. As well as a street corner that she worked from, she also had a regular customer, a wine merchant, and on Sunday, April 28, she had an appointment with him. Regina's husband, Rudolf, dropped her off around 9:45 p.m. and then left. Regina usually finished work around 2 a.m., and then she would call Rudolf and he would pick her up. This time, there was no call. Worried, Rudolf went to look for her. A porter at the Hotel Rudolfshohe said he had seen her heading up the street to her corner, but that was around 11:30 p.m. A sausage vendor across from the hotel confirmed this. That was the last anyone saw of her. Not long after this, Rudolf Prem began receiving taunting phone calls about his wife and her profession.
A fourth prostitute, Karin Eroglu, disappeared from her corner on May 7. She was just a few blocks from where Sabine Moitzi vanished.
In Vienna, prostitution is legal, though it is highly regulated. The red-light districts are not dangerous, as in other cities, you can walk around them just as safely as you could in any other part of the city. Murder is rare in Vienna, as are sex crimes. The disappearance of four prostitutes in the space of a month was very disturbing.
The month of April had been miserable; heavy rains had kept people from walking through the woods right through until early May. But warmer weather had come and people were getting out again, hiking through the famous Vienna Woods. A 62-year-old hiker noticed a smell, and soon came upon the source. Sabine Moitzi was naked, except for a leotard pulled up to her shoulders. She was laying face down with her legs spread apart and her arms extended in front of her. There was a grey fungus on her body, and animals had chewed off the flesh on her right leg. Her killer had tied a stocking in an elaborate noose around her neck. It was May 20, and she had been missing for almost five weeks. Had this been a robbery? Her money was missing, but police found her clothing and her handbag a few yards away.
The front-page headline of the Vienna Kurier on May 22 read "Prostitute in Vienna Murder; Three Still Missing."
The day after the headline appeared, a woman found Karin Eroglu. Beaten ferociously and strangled with her leotard, her naked body was deeper in the woods, in a grove of Spruce trees. The ligature was the same as that found around the neck of Sabine Moitzi. Whoever had killed Karin had taken away her clothing. When her body was moved, investigators found the torn off tip of a rubber glove. It was apparent her killer had planned the murder. As Karin still wore her jewellery, it was obvious that this was no robbery.
On Monday, June 3, a reporter for the Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) interviewed Chief Max Edelbacher. The reporter, Jack Unterweger, was producing a story about the murders for "Journal Panorama," the highest quality current events program in Austria. At the same time, Unterweger was co-writing an article on the murders for Falter, a weekly newspaper. ORF did a radio broadcast of Unterweger's story, "The Fear in The Red-Light Milieu" on June 5. Among the listeners was a very interested Max Edelbacher. Only a couple of nights before, he had mentioned the interview to his wife, who surprisingly asked if he knew who Unterweger was. Edelbacher confessed that he did not. She told him. Jack Unterweger was the man sentenced to life in prison in 1975 for murdering a woman. He was released the year before.
Johann "Jack" Unterweger was born in Judenburg on August 16, 1950. His mother, Theresia, was a barmaid and waitress, who was not above theft and fraud when she was short of cash. When she discovered that American G.I.'s had far more money than the Austrian boys, she spent her time with them, and eventual became pregnant with Jack. When Jack was 2 years old, Theresia was arrested and so Jack was sent to live with his grandfather, whom Jack later described as a violent alcoholic who frequently brought prostitutes back to the small cabin they shared.
As Jack got older, he got into more and more trouble. Petty crimes, theft, and assaulting local prostitutes, resulted in him spending time in and out of prison. On December 11, 1974, Jack and his girlfriend, Barbara Scholz, drove from Frankfurt to Ewersbach. Their plan was simple: get into her parent's house and steal money. When they found the house locked, Jack suggested they rob someone instead. Barbara spotted her neighbour, 18-year-old Margret Schäfer, returning from a night of bowling with her friends. Barbara got out of the car and walked toward Margret and the two women chatted for a few minutes. Then Barbara suggested they all hang out together. They both got in the back seat, and Jack drove off.
They parked across the street from a bar, and without warning, Jack grabbed Margret by the shirt and dragged her into the front seat. He tied her hands behind her back and pushed her down to the floor between the front and back seats, then Jack went through her purse and found 30 Marks. Jack asked if she had more money, and she replied that she had 100 Marks at home, so they drove to her home, sneaked in, and took the money. For the next hour, they drove until they came to a country road and drove into the forest. Jack ordered her to take off her clothes, but the frightened Margret refused. Jack punched her in the face. Jack and Barbara pulled off all of Margret's clothes.
Jack pulled the naked woman from the car and dragged her deeper into the woods. He also took along a steel truncheon. Barbara stayed behind in the car and waited. Fifteen minutes passed before Jack returned, alone, the steel truncheon covered with blood and hair. Jack told Barbara, "There's no way she can betray us now." Three weeks passed before hunters discovered Margret's body. Her autopsy showed she had been repeatedly struck on the body, neck, and head with a blunt instrument, then strangled with her own bra.
Shortly after, Jack, Barbara, and a 16-year-old Austrian girl named Maria, robbed a jeweller and fled to Switzerland. In Basel, Jack came up with a scheme to ransom Maria. He gave instructions to her parents for wiring money to a local bank. When Jack showed up to collect the money, Swiss police arrested him.
|Jack Unterweger in 1976
Jack Unterweger was caught and at his trial, he confessed to the murder. He told the court that as he hit Margret, he had a vision of his mother who had abandoned him. His anger was fueled by this, resulting in his bludgeoning of his victim. If he expected sympathy, he was disappointed. Unterweger was sentenced to life in prison.
In prison, Jack began a correspondence course on narrative writing, urged on by author and journalist Sonja Eisenstein, who had met him while he was awaiting trial. Jack passed easily, and so began his literary career. Sonja came to know him, but she became troubled by his success. She felt her initial impression of Jack was not right, he showed a callous side to his character. When she researched the murder of Margret Schäfer, she was horrified.
Jack used his newly discovered talents, writing short stories, plays, poems, and his autobiography Fegefeuer (Purgatory), which was later made into a motion picture. Fegefeuer, which originally appeared in serial form in the esteemed literary magazine Manuskripte, was published to critical acclaim. The literati embraced this imprisoned poet, whose awful upbringing by his hated grandfather after his mother's abandonment was revealed in the autobiography. In the eyes of the intellectuals, Jack was transformed from the young criminal who was jailed for murder, to a thoughtful and gentle author, more sinned against than sinner. Among the many supporters were Elfriede Jelinek, who would later win the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Ernest Bornemann, the most renowned sexual researcher in Austria. Even within the Justice Ministry itself, Jack had supporters, including Dr. Wolfgang Doleisch, who at the time was director of the Justice Ministry Section for Penal Executions.
There had been a reform of the criminal justice system in Austria in the early 1970s, including the idea of resozialisierung or resocialization, where the prisoners were not in prison for punishment but for training and rehabilitation, such as a hospital treats sickness. To his supporters, Jack was the ideal example of resocialization, and they vowed to have Jack released as soon as possible. However, Austrian law states that a prisoner sentenced to life cannot be made eligible for parole until 15 years have been served. As soon as possible, he was up for a parole hearing. His supporters submitted a statement, the court appointed psychiatrist Dr. Gerhard Kaiser gave a favorable prognosis, and on May 23, 1990, Jack Unterweger walked free.
Jack was the darling of the literati, travelling across the country giving readings and talks, even going to Prague in Czechoslovakia.
|Jack Unterweger center
He appeared on talk shows, including "Club 2," a freethinking discussion show where he talked about penal reform. Jack, working for the ORF as a reporter, was particularly interested in the prostitute murders because, as he revealed in his book, his aunt was a prostitute and in 1967, her last customer had murdered her.
Someone else was taking a particular interest in the prostitute murders. August Schenner called police headquarters and suggested a possible suspect for the killings. Schenner was a retired police inspector who had investigated a murder 18 years before. The body of a young woman found in the Salzach Lake, north of Salzburg, naked from the waist down, her wrists bound with a red necktie with black and silver checked stripes. Her killer had beaten her severely, and then drowned her in the lake. The woman, Marica Horvath, was 25 years old. The case went unsolved, but two years after her murder, Schenner heard of a young man who had been arrested. The young man had assaulted a girl after tying her hands behind her back, and then used a steel rod to rape her. By luck, she had escaped, and she had identified her attacker – Jack Unterweger.
Schenner interrogated Jack at the prison. Jack could not prove that he was not in Salzburg at the time of Marica's murder. On the other hand, Schenner could not prove that he was either. Nevertheless, Schenner was convinced that Unterweger committed the killing. The killing was similar to those of the Vienna Strangler, enough to make Schenner believe that Unterweger was the murderer. On Friday, May 31, 1991, Schenner called Vienna Homicide and advised them to examine Jack Unterweger as a suspect in the murders. Edelbacher was not immediately told of Schenner's tip. It was considered doubtful. After all, Jack was a successful writer and journalist, drove a good car, had a big apartment, and was surrounded by women. Why would he risk all that. Moreover, younger officers considered Schenner himself eccentric. Was Schenner an overly zealous cop who was obsessed by a long unsolved cold case? When Edelbacher finally heard about the tip, he was not convinced. However, with a lack of suspects, he put a surveillance team of Unterweger, and what they observed seemed to confirm the general thought, that Jack Unterweger had been rehabilitated.
On June 10, Edelbacher had another visit from Jack. The journalist was heading for Los Angeles. He was going to write a story on crime and law enforcement there and hoped that Edelbacher had some contacts there. He did not. Edelbacher did not tell Jack about the tip from Schenner.
Jack arrived in Los Angeles on June 11, 1991 and stayed until mid July. While there, he interviewed the police, went on ride-alongs with the LAPD, and interviewed prostitutes for his story "The Dark Side of Los Angeles." He had met a group of Germans and Austrians who worked in the film industry, and met Frances Schoenberger, the Hollywood correspondent for Stern magazine. She tried to get him interviews with Cher and Charles Bukowski, but she told him it would be impossible. She was right. She tried to help him find his father, but was unsuccessful. While he was out of the country, the investigation into the prostitute murders had ground to a halt, the police were at a loss.
The village of Wolfsgraben is five miles from Vienna. On August 4, 1991, a couple strolling in the woods near there came across a body of a woman lying on her belly, badly decomposed and covered with a thin layer of dirt and some branches. There was no clothing, no handbag, but her dental work and her two small earrings identified her. It was Silvia Zagler, the first of the prostitutes to go missing.
Jack planned to celebrate his 41st birthday by giving a reading in the Wimitz Valley, where he had grown up. One of the locals who planned to attend was Charlotte Auer. She had read Purgatory, how his abusive, cruel alcoholic grandfather raised Jack. Incensed by what she read, Charlotte wanted to confront Jack because she knew that Jack's account of life with his grandfather was a lie. Jack's grandfather, Ferdinand Weiser, was Charlotte's stepfather. Charlotte's mother, Maria Springer, had lived with him for 20 years. Rather than the violent alcoholic that Jack portrayed him as, Ferdinand loved Jack and spoiled him. Jack's claim that he had to sleep in the same bed as his grandfather, and that his grandfather constantly brought prostitutes back to share the bed, were untrue; Maria Springer lived at the cottage at the time Jack was there, and Jack had his own room.
When Charlotte confronted Jack in a local restaurant, he denied that he even knew her, even though the day before he had driven to her home and sat in the car glaring at her. As Charlotte continued to confront him, Jack stood, and with his back to his guests at the table so they could not hear, said in a low voice, "Be quiet or something may happen to you." It was a clear threat, and Charlotte turned and left in fear.
Peter Grolig was a crime reporter, the best in Vienna. Shortly after Schenner's tip had come in to police headquarters, one of Grolig's contacts told him about it. Grolig began investigating the life of Jack Unterweger. He too became convinced of Unterweger's guilt. Knowing that some investigators felt the same, he wondered why the investigation of Unterweger was not more aggressive. He suspected it was due to Unterweger's status with the intellectuals of the city. He was not far wrong. All that they had against Jack was that the prostitute murders bore a similarity to the one murder that had led to his arrest and imprisonment, not enough to justify an aggressive investigation into a man who was now a famous and influential writer.
Grolig wrote an article for the September 1 edition of the Kurier in which he suggested the police already knew who the murderer was. In it, he calls the killer "Jack the Struggler," a play on Jack the Ripper. A few days after the article appeared, Unterweger visited Edelbacher. He told him of his trip to Los Angeles and showed photographs, all the while cheerful and relaxed. Edelbacher gave nothing away and played dumb. He put Jack under surveillance once more.
The ORF Youth program Zick Zack broadcast Unterweger's Los Angeles report, "The Dark Side of Los Angeles" on September 16. Three weeks later, on October 7, Jack appeared again at Police Headquarters. He told Edelbacher that he was writing a story on homelessness in Vienna and Los Angeles. At this point, Edelbacher decided to tell Jack of the investigation. Jack said that he wasn't surprised he was a suspect, and said that he knew the tip came from Schenner. Jack said it would be stupid of him to commit these crimes and lose his freedom. It would also embarrass and disappoint those supporters who had campaigned for his freedom. Edelbacher said he understood, but asked him to reconstruct his movements on the nights the women disappeared. Two weeks later, Jack presented his alibis. They did not prove anything.
A few days later, Police Headquarters received a teletype from Graz, less than 100 miles to the south. The police there were investigating a series of prostitute murders, could the Vienna police help.
Brunhilde Masser was 39 and had worked Graz's red-light district for over 10 years. A taxi driver who knew Brunhilde saw her at 12:15 a.m. on October 26, 1990. He stopped and asked why she was still working when everyone else had gone home. Shortly after this encounter, she disappeared. On January 5, 1991, just over two months after she vanished, children playing in the woods found Masser's remains. Her naked body was lying facedown in a brook, partially covered by branches from a tree. Her clothing and purse were missing, but she still had her jewellery. Forensics determined she had been strangled.
Back in Graz, another prostitute went missing. On the night of March 7, 1991, Elfriede Schrempf vanished from her spot near the Volksgarten, not far from where Brunhilde Masser was last seen. Listed as a missing person, the police believed that the same person who killed Masser had also killed her. A few days later, her family started to receive taunting telephone calls. The calls were reported to the police. The family's telephone number was unlisted, so the caller must have taken the number from Elfriede.
Almost seven months later, on October 5, the skeletal remains of Elfriede Schrempf were found, covered in leaves, in a woodland area 14 miles south of Graz. She was naked, except for her red socks and jewellery, similar to the others. As only the skeleton remained, the pathologist was unable to determine the cause of death. The skeleton showed no marks of bullet, knife, or blunt force trauma, which suggested strangulation as the cause of death.
Earlier, in May, Viennese Magazine had published an article about the murder of Masser, and the suspected murder of Schrempf, and linked them to two other murders that took place in January and October of 1989. Both earlier murders took place in their apartments. It was a natural assumption given that prostitute murders were so rare. However, Hans Breitegger disagreed. Breitegger was chief crime reporter for Kleine Zeitung and he believed that this was two different killers, one who killed in apartments, and one who preferred the woods. The last two bore close resemblance to the murders now being carried out in Vienna. After hearing about Unterweger, Breitegger began looking at him more closely and saw that the second pair of murders, the ones in the woods, started just after Jack was released. Breitegger shared his knowledge with the Graz police, who informed Vienna. The Vienna police were still reluctant to pursue Jack, there was no real evidence linking him to the murders.
On November 16, 1991, Jack was in the trendy nightclub Take Five. Bianca Mrak was also there. Bianca noticed the good looking man sitting a few stools down and soon they were sitting together. The 18-year-old had heard of Jack and thought he was fascinating. Soon, they were living together. Jack suggested that she do part-time work to help with the bills, and got her to apply for a job at an escort service. Bianca, who had an unclear idea of what an escort does, agreed. However, at her interview when it became clear that it was thinly disguised prostitution, she left angrily and confronted Jack. A few days later, Jack found her another job, as a barmaid.
A few days before Christmas, Bianca and Jack visited Munich, where Jack asked Bianca to marry him. Stunned, she said yes. On Christmas Eve, back in Vienna, they prepared for the party Bianca's mother was throwing that evening. It would be the perfect time to announce the engagement. Jack took off during the afternoon to visit his other girlfriend, Elisabeth, and made plans to go skiing with her on Christmas Day, when Bianca would be at work. He couldn't be with Elisabeth on Christmas Eve, he told her he would be working in the soup kitchen for a homeless shelter.
Breitegger and another reporter, Bernd Melicar, tried to get an interview with Jack, and left several messages. When Jack finally got back to them, he accused them of working with the police. They denied this and Jack agreed to the interview. But Jack knew he was right, and he called the police himself, and on the way to the interview, dropped into Graz police headquarters and spoke with Inspector Brandstätter, who informed Jack that his name had come up during the investigation. Asked about his movements on the night of the murders, Jack gave an account and said that he never had any contact with the prostitutes in the red-light district. Brandstätter pointed out that this was not true, a witness had come forward, a prostitute named Joanna whom he had picked up and had sex with, during which he handcuffed her behind her back. He changed his story to include Joanna.
The story Joanna told bore a very close resemblance to what had been done to the murder victims, except that she had lived. The area that Jack took her to seems to be completely isolated, a perfect place to murder someone. However, it is actually a thoroughfare for the people who live further up on the hill, and traffic passes through there frequently. Did Joanna live because a passing car spooked Jack enough to abandon his plan. Joanna, it seemed, was lucky to be alive.
Jack's alibi for March 7 was a girlfriend named Katarina. When the police questioned her, she had a clear recollection of March 7. She definitely was not with Jack, they had already broken up. The alibi was false.
The interview with Breitegger and Melicar was an exercise in PR for Jack. He knew that Brandstätter was building a case, and he wanted to make sure that the public believed him to be innocent. Breitegger held off on publishing the interview. He remembered something about a prostitute murder in Vorarlberg, Austria's westernmost state, close to the Swiss border. Breitegger called the New Vorarlberg Daily and spoke to a contact there. There was an unsolved murder, that of Heidemarie Hammerer.
On December 5, 1990, Hammerer vanished from her spot near the train station in Bregenz. She was not missing for long. In a wooded area just south of Bregenz, near the village of Lustenau, hikers found her body. It was New Year's Eve. She was not naked, but her legs were bare, and she had been strangled with her own pantyhose. Bruises found on her body suggested that she had been beaten, and bruises around her wrists indicated that she had been tied up. Forensics found red and black fibres on her clothes that matched nothing that she was wearing. The killer must have left them. Breitegger discovered that Jack was at the ORF studio in Dornbirn on the morning of December 6, recording a performance of his play Dungeon. Dornbirn is eight miles from Bregenz, and only three miles from Lustenau. Breitegger also discovered that Jack gave a reading in Köflach, 20 miles west of Graz, on March 7, 1991, the night Elfriede Schrempf vanished.
Police were also now convinced that Jack was the killer, but there was still not enough proof. Jack was aware of the police interest, and on February 2, 1992, he and Bianca left Vienna for Switzerland, where Bianca got a job as a waitress in a pub. Back in Vienna, Dr. Ernst Geiger submitted a report to the D.A. Geiger was the second in command in the Austrian police, and he had never been convinced of Jack's reformed character. He had also noticed that the murders stopped when Jack was in Los Angeles. The report to the D.A. pointed to the evidence that connected Unterweger to the killings, but the D.A. concluded that it wasn't enough for an arrest. A Special Commission was created by the Interior Ministry to investigate Unterweger further, with Geiger as its head. Their first meeting was on February 14, 1992.
The day before, the Graz Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Unterweger, based on the false alibi for March 7. Breitegger was informed, and he would get the scoop as long as the story didn't run until Saturday, February 15. By then, they would have arrested Jack and he would be in custody. Brandstätter arrived in Vienna only to be told that the team who were keeping Jack under surveillance had lost him in traffic. Unconcerned, they would pick up his trail later, but he never turned up anywhere. It soon became apparent why. On the front page of the Kleine Zeitlung was the headline "Murder Series: An Arrest Warrant for Jack Unterweger." As promised, Breitegger held off on publication until Saturday, but the newspaper was distributed on Friday evening. Clearly, Jack had seen the headline.
The next day, investigators searched Jack's apartment, finding three pairs of handcuffs, a can of mace, a switchblade, and a pump-action 12 gauge shotgun, which, as a convicted felon, he was not allowed to own. Jack had to document his expenses and had saved all his receipts. These could be used to construct his movements during the times the killings occurred. Also found were Jack's diaries. Meticulously kept, he recorded everything. What was most telling was that the diaries covering the period when the murders took place were missing. It seemed clear that Jack had gotten rid of these diaries because they contained incriminating evidence.
Jack fled to Switzerland, a habit from his youth whenever he was being investigated, arriving in Gossau where Bianca was working late that evening. The next day, he called Graz headquarters and asked why they were persecuting him? They tried to persuade him to come in. Jack also called Peter Grolig, claiming that the police had no evidence and he was being persecuted for his past. Asked what he intended to do, Jack told Grolig he would get a pump gun and do himself in. This was not the first time Jack had hinted that he would commit suicide.
Police had no idea where Jack was until Bianca's mother contacted them. She told them that Bianca was with Jack, and she was working in a pub in Switzerland. Swiss investigators rushed to the pub, but by that time it was too late. Bianca had been paid up and had left with her boyfriend.
Articles began to appear questioning the way Unterweger had got paroled. Breitegger reported on the murder of Marica Horvath and how Unterweger had not been charged with the killing. Jack's capture and conviction would create an enormous scandal. The thought that the most famous example of the resocialization program, the best model of rehabilitation, had been freed because of intellectual and political patronage, and had been going around the country murdering prostitutes, while all his expenses were being paid for by the State, was beyond an embarrassment. The case was becoming a political disaster.
Jack and Bianca left Switzerland and drove to France where they slept overnight in the car. The next day, they drove to Orly and got a flight to Miami, where Bianca got a job as a go-go dancer. Jack went on the counteroffensive. Just after 9 p.m. on Thursday February 20, 1992, he contacted ORF. He said he would call the following day at 5 p.m. for a live interview. During the interview, he restated that he was being persecuted because of his past and that the police having no suspects were trying to pin the murders on him. Asked why he fled when he was innocent, he said he will not go back to a jail cell. Sympathizers who heard the broadcast believed what he said. Jack talked for hours with his lawyer and informants in Vienna. Bianca became suspicious over one of his "confidents" and confronted him. She realized it was another woman. His face told him she was correct. It was Elisabeth. A fight broke out between them, which carried on to their apartment. She became more passive after he gave her some heavy slaps.
On February 26, he got some good news from Elisabeth. She worked for Success magazine, and her boss, Gert Schmidt, said he would pay Jack $10,000 for an exclusive interview. Jack was happy. He knew Schmidt, having written a couple of articles for the magazine. Schmidt would send him an advance, and Jack gave instructions for wiring the money to the money exchange at Miami Beach. That same day, Geiger and Inspector Windisch of the Lower Austrian police, met at the Café Landtmann with someone with information. It was Gert Schmidt. The previous autumn, Schmidt had met Jack, and took an instant dislike to him. He was worried about his assistant's devotion to Unterweger, and so had set up the fake interview story, the truth of which Elisabeth was unaware. He gave Geiger the wiring instructions, telling them the money would be available for pick up the next day. Geiger rushed back to his office and, with no time to go through Interpol, his office contacted Miami police directly. Inspector José Grenado explained that they couldn't pick him up, but the federal marshals could. The warrant was faxed to Miami and delivered to the federal marshals' office.
A team was set up to watch the money exchange, but the Austrian warrant wasn't enough to pick him up. A provisional U.S. warrant would have to be issued, and that took time. Their orders were to follow and see where he was staying. Jack and Bianca turned up, and he immediately saw the marshals. Bianca went in and got the money. As they walked away, Jack suddenly took off down an alley. The marshals radioed for assistance and soon, several Miami Beach squad cars arrived, blocking off a large area. Moments later, one of the marshals emerged holding Jack by the back of the neck. Although the Austrian warrant was not enough, the INS had informed the marshals that Jack had entered the country on a tourist visa, and had not disclosed his felony conviction. It was enough to detain him, but not for long. He could easily post bail, and disappear. However, the U.S. Attorney's Office issued a provisional warrant for the next day.
The Special Commission had 90 days to prepare their case to extradite Jack. Everyone who had been in contact with Jack since he was set free was interviewed, everything found in his apartment was examined, and every receipt and log he'd made was used to work out his movements.
The Viennese Der Standard headline "Jack Unterweger Wants to Return" ran on March 2, 1992. Jack felt that he had sympathy in Austria, and that the evidence against him was flimsy. On March 5, LAPD Detective Fred Miller got a message to call the Department of Justice. Interpol, Washington had informed them of Unterweger's arrest, and had given them details of what they suspected him of in Austria. They revealed that Unterweger had been in Los Angeles and part of his method was to get a ride-along. Miller and partner James Harper got the driving logs and confirmed that Jack was there. Credit card charges showed that Jack had hired a car on June 11, 1991, and returned it on June 20 with a broken windshield on the passenger side. Miller recognized this date.
Shannon Exley was 20 years old. A crack addict, she had become a prostitute to pay for her habit. Sometime after midnight on June 19, 1991, she was picked up and drove to the Girl Scout Center on Seventh and Fickett. She was discovered the next morning by girls picking up litter. Other than her blue socks and the T-shirt that had been pulled up over her breasts, she was naked and her clothes were missing. She had been strangled with her own bra.
On June 30, 1991, a homeless man looking for firewood found Irene Rodriguez, with a bra tied around her neck. Most of her clothes were missing. The 33-year-old had last been seen at 8 p.m. on Friday June 28 by her roommate. Three days after the discovery of Irene's body, Sherri Long went missing. Eight days later, a couple of men and their children climbed an old fire road to a steep hill just off Corral Canyon Road. They wanted to see the solar eclipse that began at 10:12 that morning. Instead, they found the bloated body of Sherri Long, her face covered with maggots. Her bra that the killer used to strangle her was still tightly knotted around her neck.
Dr. Lynne Herold at the crime lab examined the bras. They shared some distinct characteristics. Each one had been cut to make it a more effective murder weapon, and the cuts were in the same place. Each was left around the neck of the victim, and each had a complex knot. She confirmed that all were killed by the same man. It was clear that a serial killer was on the loose in Los Angeles, and the detectives waited for the next body to show up. But it never did.
Miller and Harper flew to Miami and interviewed Jack, and took hair and blood samples. They left convinced that he was their killer. On April 9, the Special Commission arrived in Los Angeles and along with the LAPD traced Unterweger's movements. Everything matched the murders in Austria.
The Special Commission was still in Los Angeles on April 19 when a retired policeman and his wife went for a walk in the Vienna Woods. On the highest hill in the woods, the Hermannskogel, the man kicked a dead branch. He noticed that there was some fabric on it, and he looked closer. It wasn't a branch, but a femur. Almost a year had passed, but finally, Regina Prem had been found.
Jack was returned to Austria on May 28, a U.S. marshal escorting him from the plane. Jack seemed happy and smiled for the cameras. Geiger wasn't there to greet Jack. He was in Prague attending a Central European Police Association conference. Although he looked forward to meeting his colleagues, he had another reason for attending. The search of Jack's apartment had uncovered an "auto book" that he'd used to record his road trips around the country. In it, Jack had written "Vienna – Prague – Vienna" covering September 14 - 16, 1990. A request for information on prostitute murders in Prague on those dates came back negative, but a few days before the conference, Vienna headquarters were contacted again. There was an unsolved murder. Because it had been investigated by the Central Czech Police, who handled crimes outside the city, it had not been included.
On September 15, 1990, walkers discovered the body of 30-year-old Blanka Bockova in the Brezany Brook, a tributary of the Vltava River just outside of the city of Prague. She was married and worked in a butcher's shop. Although she wasn't a prostitute, she did pick up men on occasion. The night before, she had been drinking in Wenceslaus Square with a friend named Martin. They had an argument, and she left. When Martin came out a few minutes later, she was nowhere to be seen. It was just before midnight. A reliable witness placed Jack in Wenceslaus Square at 11:45 p.m. that same night.
Examining magistrate Wolfgang Wladkowski visited Jack on Monday, June 29, 1992 and told him they didn't need a confession from him. He told him the results of the American DNA tests had come back that proved he was the killer. In actual fact, the results were inconclusive. The DNA test, using the polymer chain reaction method, could prove only who didn't do it. Although the DNA alpha marker HLA-DQ found on the Los Angeles victims proved to be the same as that found in Jack's blood, one in 10 men in Los Angeles also have the same marker.
That night, Jack cut his arm with a razor. But this was no suicide attempt. He didn't cut an artery in his wrist, but had opened up veins in his arm. The result was a lot of blood, but certainly not life threatening. It was an old trick that prisoners used, and Jack had even told friends about it. Open up a vein, and get transferred to hospital or a psychiatric ward. Once there, where security was less tight, you could make an escape attempt. It didn't work this time, but it did get him sympathy.
Jack's prized Mustang Mach 1 had been found. He had abandoned it at the end of March, 1991 for an unknown reason. When it was found, its condition was excellent, and there was no reason for getting rid of it, unless keeping the car posed a risk to him. But forensic examination of the car turned up nothing. However, Geiger believed there must be a reason why the car had been abandoned.
At the end of May, lack of evidence forced the Los Angeles D.A. not to prosecute. Austrian police feared the same would happen there. They were convinced of Jack's guilt, it could not be just coincidence that he was present where all the murders took place.
Dr. Andrea Berzlanovich worked at the Vienna Institute of Forensic Medicine. In the spring of 1991, she began a study on prostitute murder in postwar Vienna, wondering if the current murders were part of a growing trend of violence against women. Her study spanned the years 1960 – 1991. Her year long study was completed in May 1992. One murder was left out, that of Anna Unterweger in 1967. There was a reason for this. Anna Unterweger was 46 when she was murdered in a wooded area near Salzburg, but despite what Jack said in his autobiography, Purgatory, Anna was not a prostitute. And she was also not Jack's aunt. Jack had read an account of the murder in the newspapers when he was 16, and saw that she shared the same name. The rest was all Jack's imagination.
In August, 1992, the Austrian police called in Special Agent Gregg McCrary from the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. McCrary examined the files on all 11 murders. He was stunned at the distance travelled by the killer. This was extremely rare. McCrary saw a pattern in the killings and concluded that whoever had committed one of the murders, had committed them all. Jack's timeline and the method of killing Margret Schäfer confirmed it. Lynne Herold's analysis of the knots in the bras that the killer used on the three California prostitutes was identical to the knots used on the Austrian victims.
Jack's trial began on April 20, 1994, Hitler's birthday. His attorneys were Georg Zanger, an arts and entertainment lawyer, and Hans Lehofer, the best criminal defense attorney in Graz.
Jack presented himself as witty and charming, a man who could not possibly be the monster who committed these crimes. Jack, asked where he was and what he did on the night Blanka Bockova was murdered, gave a highly detailed answer covering the whole night, except for the actual time when she vanished. He conveniently skipped over that part. When he was questioned about the Masser killing, he again gave detailed descriptions of what he did before and after, but once again, skipped the crucial part. However, Jack had some last minute alibi witnesses that he called upon. His first witness confirmed that she was on the phone with Jack the night Silvia Zagler disappeared, and told the court that the call lasted until midnight. She testified to this despite having earlier told the police that although she "possibly" had a phone call with Jack, she could not be sure exactly when. She was asked about a letter she had written to Jack when he was in jail, a letter that was interpreted as asking Jack what he needed. She said that she did not believe he could have done the things he had been accused of.
It was deemed a successful alibi for Jack, but the others were not so successful. One who Jack claimed to have spent the night with on the night Sabine Moitzi vanished could not confirm this, and one who was his alibi for the night Sherri Long vanished could not be found.
Schenner took the stand on May 2, and told of the Horvath murder. Asked why Unterweger was never tried for the killing, Schenner said, "The district attorney told me it was senseless, because he could receive only one life sentence." Schenner was angry about his decision, even if he could only receive one life sentence, the fact that he had another conviction would have ensured that his parole would never have happened.
Two days later, Bianca appeared as a witness. She admitted that Jack had hit her, and that his sexual practices were of a sadomasochistic nature. She also admitted that Jack had tried to set her up as a prostitute. As a 40-year-old man attempting to exploit a troubled 18-year-old, Jack's charming persona was starting to crack.
The case was beginning to go against Jack. Gregg McCrary and Lynne Herold were witnesses and both made a great impression. Walter Brüschweiler of the Zurich Police scientific bureau gave evidence on the textile fibres found on Heidemarie Hammerer's body. A red scarf taken from Jack's apartment, and the red fibres on Hammerer's body were a perfect match. The black fibres were also a perfect match to a pair of wool trousers also taken from Jack's apartment. Forensics also examined Jack's BMW, hoping for a better result than the one they got when they examined the Mustang. This time, they had better luck, they found hairs on the back seat. DNA Extracted from the root of one of the hairs was identical to that of Blanka Bockova.
On June 21, another witness appeared, not in court, but on video. It was Theresia Unterweger. If she confirmed that her son was with her on the night Karin Eroglu died, it would throw doubt on all the other killings. She loved her son, but she was upset at her portrayal as a prostitute in his book Purgatory. "I was never a whore," she had said, "and I don't have a sister. I don't know why Hansi said that."
The court watched the video. Asked if she could confirm that Jack was with her on the night in question, she replied, "My son often visited me, but I don't remember any concrete dates. Around Mother's Day in 1991, he gave me his dog as a gift, but I can't remember exactly when." Once again, Jack had no alibi.
The jury went into deliberation on June 28, 1994, and they returned to the courtroom at 8:50 p.m. The judge asked, "Is the accused, Jack Unterweger, guilty of the murder of Blanka Bockova?" The jury foreman replied, "Six yes, two no." It was enough, Jack would go to prison for the rest of his life. However, there was another 10 verdicts to go. As they went down the list, the answer was the same for eight of the counts, "Six yes, two no." The only ones that were not guilty were those of Elfriede Schrempf and Regina Prem, whose bodies were so decomposed that a cause of death could not be established. Even though they knew he probably murdered them, he got a pass on them.
The next morning, at 6 o'clock, Austrian radio reported, "Jack Unterweger has committed suicide. At 3:40 this morning, he was found hanging in his cell in the Graz court. A few hours earlier the jury found him guilty of nine of 11 counts of murder and sentenced him to life in prison." Using the drawstring of his pants and some metal wire, Jack had fashioned a complex noose. Did he intend to kill himself? His lawyer believed he did, and many people expressed anger at such a slipshod suicide watch. However, one of Jack's friends believed, like the slashing of the vein in his arm, this was another fake suicide attempt to get sympathy, but had accidentally worked.
It was said that the knot used was identical to the one used to kill the prostitutes, but that is not confirmed. Lynne Herold never gave an opinion on the knot as she did not want to get involved in the investigation. In Vienna, the court has to review and confirm the judgment. In Jack's case, this had not yet been done and therefore, as his lawyer pointed out, Jack could not be referred to as guilty. Technically, when Jack Unterweger died, he was an innocent man.
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NIRI Data Primer
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This page describes NIRI data and its reduction:
Raw data and nprepare
Raw NIRI images are written as multi-extension FITS (MEF) files with a single unnamed extension [1] containing the image data. Most of the information is contained in the primary header unit (PHU, extension [0]). Additional important information is added to the PHU by the IRAF task NPREPARE, which is part of the current release of the Gemini IRAF package.
Raw files stored by the Data Handling System (DHS) are written with file names of the form N20080101S0001.fits. The date is the UT date at the beginning of the night. Because the DHS is writing data from multiple instruments, including the wavefront sensors, the NIRI file number sequence is frequently interrupted. Missing file numbers do not necessarily indicate missing NIRI data.
NIRI writes images taken as coadds as a summed, not averaged, image. This means that if one takes 10 coadds of 1 sec each, the final image will have a flux level in ADU equivalent to 10 sec. The task NPREPARE leaves the pixel values as written by NIRI but modifies the header keyword EXPTIME to be the total exposure (the original exposure time multiplied by the number of coadds). NPREPARE adds a keyword COADDEXP that contains the original exposure time for each individual frame. While this behavior may be confusing to some, it is consistent with one ADU in the output image representing a fixed number of detected electrons.
The NIRI array controller averages the data based on the number of digital averages or multiple non-destructive read pairs, so no modification is necessary for different LNRS or NDAVGS values. The flux value will correspond to the exposure time, and the noise will vary as a function of the number of reads.
NPREPARE can help you better understand the raw data by adding a few header keywords. These include GAIN, RDNOISE, SATURATI, NONLINEA, and BIAS which give estimates of the gain (e-/ADU), read noise (e-), saturation level (ADU), the level at which the data start to be non-linear (ADU), and the array bias voltage. These important header keywords are used by other scripts in the NIRI package. NPREPARE refers to a data file named nprepare.dat that contains vital information for adding these header keywords. The user must make sure that the version of NPREPARE and nprepare.dat is appropriate for the data being reduced. nprepare.dat is included with the current release of the NIRI package. nprepare.dat will be modified from time to time to reflect updates in the array parameters or instrument configuration.
Note that the slit centerings are slightly different than before, and we have distributed a modified version of nsappwave.dat to account for a small central wavelength shift.
NPREPARE can also add variance and data quality planes, as described in the help pages for NPREPARE.
Array characteristics
Raw NIRI images are dominated by the landscape of the pixel sensitivity variations. You will notice a number of common features:
- small-scale curved "stripes" running vertically. These result from the manufacture of the array and flatten very nicely.
- a circular pattern of ripples resembling a thumbprint in the upper left quadrant. This will also flatten out.
- three small regions of bad pixels, about 10 pixels across, two of which have a partially bad column below them. These are left over from the procedure that excised "photon-emitting defects" from the array, and are totally dead. Dither patterns should be large enough to guarantee that these pixels can be corrected.
- a few hundred hot pixels, mostly in the upper left corner and in a clump near the bottom center
- a prominent crack in the array substrate, seen as a line of bad pixels in the lower right-hand corner
- an overall large-scale bright region in the center of the array with darker regions top and bottom
- offsets in overall sensitivity at the quadrant boundaries
In addition, the array has a frame that can be seen along the top and right edges of the frame, with rounded corners.


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One of the bad sides of armory is that it updates when you log off. Which can be frustrating when other shadow priests want to review and critique you.
I'm not an expert, I appreciate this from some folk. I'm less fond when they start telling me I need to change gear. I'm especially not fond when it's not what I'm wearing now, but what my armory shows. Especially when my last logoff was in the middle of the Teron chain, waiting my time at the last quest. See, the ones preceding it need a group. And the group I was in consisted of a hunter, a mage, and two warriors. And me. hmmm, anybody see a healer? Nope, neither did I. So, quick wardrobe change to boost my healing. Bam, my spelldamage drops by almost half and my healing bonus climbs to almost 900. (Lost some when I couldn't wear primal mooncloth anymore, but since healing isn't number one for me anymore I'll live with it.) And then I get on today and get:
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It really is a week where you can pick up those classics that you never quite got around to reading. DC are putting out an oversized reprint of Frank Miller's pre-Dark Knight series Ronin (soon, like almost everything else Frank Miller has touched, to be a motion picture, as they say) as well as a regular sized new edition of apocalyptic superherofest Kingdom Come (You'll believe a man can fry!), while Image reissues Madman creator Mike Allred's secret origin of rock'n'roll odyssey Red Rocket 7 (in preparation for Neon Monster's Red Rocket 7 party a week on Saturday, of course), IDW collect some of the best Star Trek comics ever made in Star Trek Archives Volume 1: The Best of Peter David, and even Marvel gets in on the act with a new hardcover edition of Grant Morrison and JG Jones' very enjoyable Marvel Boy miniseries from the beginning of the century... all of which are easily recommended (especially Red Rocket 7).
Equally as recommended is Wonder Woman: The Circle, the hardcover collection of the start of Gail Simone's run on DC's favorite Amazon, which is just one of the non-contemporary collections also hitting shelves this week - In particular, you should pay attention to Star Wars: Clone Wars Vol. 1: Shipyards of Doom (for the title alone, I mean, come on), Marvel's time-traveling cyborg mutant book Cable Volume 1: Messiah War, and the weird-but-enjoyable Uncanny X-Men: Divided We Stand, which makes io9 hometown San Francisco seem even weirder that normal. In terms of all-new material this week, it's a tough one: do you go for Marvel's Skaar Son Of Hulk Presents The Savage World Of Sakaar, which spins a one-off special issue about the home world of the Hulk's son, or Dark Horse's one-off My Name is Bruce, where Bruce Campbell kicks ass in a way that the Hulk could never manage? Much easier to choose is the collection of the week - even with all of those classic books available above, there was no way that anything would seem more essential this week than Star Wars: Luke Skywalker, Last Hope for the Galaxy, an 800 page hardcover collection of comics from the last thirty years proving why George Lucas' favorite son isn't entirely overshadowed by Han Solo after all. In case you need some convincing, here's a preview of what to expect inside. Whether you're following the force or just out for your own personal gain, you can find a complete list of this week's new comic releases here, and the whereabouts of your closest comic store at the Comic Shop Locator Service. Now let's blow this thing so we can all go home.


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Linda Lavin is getting the hang of Twitter.
She's been practicing on Thursday nights when she tweets during both East and West coast airings of NBC's sitcom "Sean Saves the World." In the series Lavin plays Lorna, the loving, albeit pushy, mother of Sean Harrison (Sean Hayes of "Will & Grace"), a gay divorced father with a demanding job who is now full-time dad to his 14-year-old daughter (Samantha Isler).
"I'm getting a lot of response," said the vivacious, petite actress, an age-defying 76, about her tweets. "Someone just said to me the other day, you are doing so much for grandmothers!"
Long before the Internet, Lavin had developed close, personal relationships with fans. While starring in the popular 1976-85 CBS series "Alice," based on the 1974 Martin Scorsese film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," Lavin became a kind of spokesperson for blue- and pink-collar working women who identified with her character Alice Hyatt, a widow with a young son who worked at Mel's Diner, a roadside eatery just outside of Phoenix.
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"I was pulled into the women's movement," said Lavin, during a recent interview at her vintage West Hollywood home she shares with her husband, designer/painter/musician Steve Bakunas, and their Snoopyesque beagle/Jack Russell mix, Mickey.
"I was asked to speak at events," she recalled. "I had never been asked to speak in public before. I was a musical comedy actress. I was invited to labor rallies and ERA marches. I got educated. I was invited to join the National Commission on Working Women."
Her involvement in women's issues spilled into the TV series. "We did those issues on the show," said Lavin. "When Mel hired a waiter and paid him more than us, I organized [the waitresses] Flo and Vera and said we are on strike."
Though Lavin did two short-lived sitcoms in the 1990s — 1992's "Room for Two" and 1998's "Conrad Bloom" — Lavin primarily concentrated on theater. She had been a staple in New York theater before "Alice" — earning a Tony nomination for "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" — then went on to win the award for lead actress in a drama in 1987 for Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound."
She's since earned four more Tony nominations ("The Diary of Anne Frank," "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife," "Collected Stories" and "The Lyons"), and raves in 2011 for her performance in Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities." In fact, her "Desert" costar Stacy Keach recently guest-starred on "'Sean" as the smarmy father of Sean's boss (Tom Lennon) who sets his sights on Lorna.
(The actress is set to return to off-Broadway in May in a limited run of "Too Much Sun," a new play written with her in mind by "The Lyons" author Nicky Silver.)
Lavin and Bakunas also ran the intimate Red Barn Studio Theatre in Wilmington, N.C., where they lived for several years. "We did three plays a year," she said. "Last year, we decided it was time to leave. We loaned the theater to another company. We moved to New York and then I got this job."
She had also decided last year it was time to return to the small screen. "Television has the possibility of such a huge and endearing audience," said Lavin, adding with a smile that she doesn't mind the weekly series' paycheck.
Lavin quickly accepted "Sean Saves the World," which premiered in September to mixed reviews and modest ratings. The series recently got an order from the network for five more episodes, bringing its total to 18 for the season.
"The script was one of the best I had read in a long time," she said. "Clearly, I am going to be offered mother roles, but this was a woman who had a mind of her own, was full-blown and had a great energy and a positive energy."
A highlight of the show is the wonderful chemistry between Lavin and Hayes, who exchange repartee and quips with breezy ease. And the cast seems smitten with her.
"Linda is one of those rare gems that can get a laugh just by entering a room, giving a certain glance or simply saying one word," said Hayes in an email interview. "Every week, she gives the most real, honest performance of any mom I've ever seen on television."
"She's kind of everything I hope to be one day," added Megan Hilty ("Smash"), who plays Sean's best friend and co-worker, Liz, who has a bit of a contentious relationship with Lorna. "She wants to play and wants to make it right. There is one point in every day I say 'I get to work with Linda Lavin.'"
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Image of the feature "Loose Sculpture: Loose sculpture" at Campsall.
by John McElheran.
There are two places where loose sculpture is placed: upstairs in the Priest's Room, that is in the south west corner of the church, and on the floor in the north transept. Loose sculpture was photographed in 1995 and 2005.
Sculpture in Priest's Room:
When seen in 1995, this sculpture was piled up in a fireplace. In 2005 it was not possible to go to that part of the church because of repairs in progress to the tower, but some of the sculpture at least had been moved to the north transept.
The freshness of the surfaces was surprising, with little efflourescence, lots of tooling and setting-out lines visible. Several of the pieces could have been capitals from the east of the south crossing arch, see below, Comments, crossing arch.
1. A length of label with six stars or rosettes on the face and a chamfer with tooling. The profile is perhaps comparable to that used on the exterior of windows in the chancel. Maximum width 0.35m.
2. A beakhead voussoir, width at top 0.16m. One of four, numbers 3-5. A fifth, number 6, was present but in poor condition. Mortar remains – though this may not be original, of course.
3. This would have been very interesting if complete! Two small beakheads seem to grasp a roll, as usual, below which is a small figure – wrapped or with its hands over its body. Is this a corbel? Or a voussoir? Width 0.19m.
4. A scallop capital with the same design on two faces. A row of short upright leaves above a plain ring, short fat cones; shields with a hollowed out 'mushroom'. Comparable to the second order capital on the south crossing arch, south side. Width 0.19m, height including necking 0.26m, without necking 0.23m.
5. This capital had been re-used, but then presumably set aside and used as rubble. The two faces of the capital are united by a foliage strand having four fluted leaves. This stem is across, or coming from, the mouth of a small head on the angle. Other examples of this motif known to the author (Lythe, YN, and Castle Acre Priory) also at first glance seem to show the stem gagging the man, but there is just a little of a nick in the centre, meaning there are two stems coming out of the mouth. The capital also has short upright leaves above the plain ring. Not measured.
6. Part of a scallop capital. Necking with groove. The cones have upright leaves, the shields are outlined by a curving fillet which has a ball at the cusp. The shields on the best-preserved face are hollowed out and have a square fan round a dome. The shield to the left contains a ball as before.
7. Double capital with upright leaves, damaged. For numbers 8, 9 and 11, see below, Comments, Crossing arch. The right face is plain cushion form, the left has upright leaves. See below, North Transept number 7. Width of main face 0.31m; of left face 0.18m, of right face, 0.18m, height including necking 0.22m.
8. Capital with two faces carved, two scallops on each face. Cones with darts between and dart with tuck on corner. Tooling and setting-out lines visible. Width of main face 0.35m; of left face, 0.3m; height including necking 0.18m; without necking 0.155m.
Loose Sculpture in the North Transept:
Since the first visit in 1995, this area has been emptied of pews and the sculpture rearranged. It can be seen better than before, but conditions are not ideal. Four pieces listed were seen also in 1995 (numbers 1-4). One piece seen here in 1995 was not seen in 2005 (number 5). Two of the pieces listed below (numbers 6, 7) had been in the Priest's Room. The remaining pieces, three beakheads, probably had not been recorded earlier but are similar to those in the Priest's Room (numbers 8-10).
1. Corbel with big-eyed human head in cavetto. Mouth a small slit; probably meant to have a moustache.
2. Capital with cleanly-cut pattern of symmetrical fan-shaped leaves, three-stranded trails with beading straps binding them. Ring has bold cable. Height of capital and ring if in wall 0.195m. Maximum dimension 0.375m.
3. A beakhead of the usual kind seen in the Priest's Room and in numbers 8-10 here.
4. A capital with twisted cones making three scallops on each face. Block was maximum 0.41m by 0.3 high as seen; worked faces approximately 0.185m wide.
5. A beakhead corbel not seen in 2005. The head is lined with parallel grooves, not 'tiles' and the face also is grooved. There are feathers behind the head, as if it is a body and perhaps wings. The tip of the beak is broken away with the lower part of the corbel, which is a pity.
6. A damaged double capital from Priest's Room, number 10. As measured there, width of right face, 0.41m total; width left face, 0.165m; height including necking 0.245m.
7. A double capital from Priest's Room, number 11. Width of main face 0.31m, height of course 0.225m.
8-10. Beakheads. These measured approximately 0.25m radially, and were 0.14 to 0.16m maximum width, that is, outer edge of face. The first two listed here were formerly in the Priest's Room, numbers 2 and 5 above.


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Running Quantum GIS 1.8.0, on Windows 7 Pro
Running the software, the first action I would normally take on a new project is to set the project properties; however, as soon as I select the project properties option qgis stops working and I get a Windows error reporting notice and QGIS closes.
I have tried re-installing from both the windows installer and the OSGeo4W package and I get the same result every time.
Does Qgis keep an error log?
Any advice would be appreciated.