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2008 Alpine White BMW M3
Date Purchased: 10/27/2012
Miles Driven: 49000
Modifications: 11
Transmission: Manual 6sp
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2004 Silver Gray BMW 325i ZSP
Date Purchased: 01/17/2004
Miles Driven: 190000
Modifications: 11
Car drives terrific with mostly highway miles (driving to and from UC Riverside and the San Fernando Valley every week during college)
- New OEM clutch that is less than 5k miles old
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I did this to improve my skills but have found that it has done so much more. It helped me find my real self that I had lost in the grief of losing many family members and friends who passed away in less than 6 years. That was not my intention but I am glad it is happening.

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the modernist changes made after Vatican II, a handful of
faithful from the Cleveland area sought to remain faithful to
traditional Roman Rite.
For years this remnant in Cleveland
celebrated Mass in a rented public school building with the
help of many local and regional traditional priests.
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to find a new home. Fr. Sullivan was able to locate a former
Protestant church and rectory in Westlake (a suburb west of
Cleveland), which remains the chapel building to this day.
On October 24, 1991, Fr. Roger Sullivan
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requested that the priests of the SSPX take over the chapel.
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SUNSET – Gary Wyman Webb, 68, devoted husband, wonderful father and grandfather, beloved son and brother, lost his long courageous battle with cancer Oct. 16, 2012. Never was there a kinder, gentler, more loved man. He was born March 30, 1944, son of Carlyle and Hattie (Haskell) Webb.
A lifelong island resident, Gary graduated from Stonington High School in 1962 where he helped win back to back state basketball championships. Always loving sports he continued his basketball career at Farmington State Teachers College, graduating in 1966. After graduation, Gary began his teaching and coaching career at Monson Academy guiding the Slaters basketball team to the 1968 Class S State Championship. After the Academy closed in 1970, he continued his teaching and coaching career at Stonington High School retiring in 1997. Gary touched the lives of many students in such a positive way. In 1973 he married the love of his life, Elaine. Together they made their home in Sunset, where they raised their daughter, Kimberly. Gary was so very proud of his little girl. Everywhere Gary went there was Kim. The two were inseparable. Gary devoted his life to caring for his family. Surrounded by his family the angels came and led him to a place free from pain and sickness. He must have stopped at the Rainbow Bridge on his way and gathered to him all of his past pets.
Gary leaves behind his devoted wife of 39 years, Elaine of Sunset; his much loved daughter and son-in-law, Kimberly Lafountain and her husband, Ken, of Coventry, R.I.; his adored beautiful granddaughter, Ava; dear mother, Hattie (Haskell) Webb of Deer Isle; brother and sister-in-law, Glenn C. and Linda (Thompson) Webb of Orland; two nieces and their husbands, Sandra and Tom Brouillette of Florida and Valerie and Ted Robinson of New York; plus many, many special relatives and friends.
Visiting hours are scheduled 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, at the Stonington chapel of Bragdon-Kelley Funeral Home. A funeral service will begin 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, at Community of Christ Church, Burnt Cove, with Pastor Gary Wilson officiating. Interment will be afterward at Greenwood Cemetery, Oceanville. Remembrance donations may be made to Hancock County Homecare and Hospice, P.O. Box 931, Bangor, ME 04402-0931 or The Ark Animal Shelter, P.O. Box 276, Cherryfield, ME 04622. Arrangements by Bragdon-Kelley Funeral Home, Stonington.


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White Sands Missile Range, N.M. - The Network Integration Evaluation may be the largest operational test in the history of the U.S. Army Operational Test Command, but it has also been a bit of a family reunion for an Operational Test Command Department of the Army civilian and his senior airman nephew.
Mark Sury, OTC operations chief, Test Management Division, is currently at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., working as the NIE officer in charge of the Tactical Action Center, while his nephew, Kyle J. Causey, is an air traffic controller assigned to the 49th Operations Support Squadron, U.S. Air Force at White Sands.
While Sury monitors test concerns at NIE and maintains reach-back capabilities with OTC headquarters at Fort Hood, Causey stays busy ensuring that only authorized aircraft and personnel are operating in the reserved airspace.
"I'm synchronizing NIE events that affect OTC operations at Fort Hood as well as OTC leadership who are deployed in support of NIE twelve point two," Sury explained. "I'm also responding to requests for information requiring guidance from the commanding general."
"In the event unauthorized aircraft enters this airspace," Causey said, "we will contact all the parties involved and proceed to have them 'knock it off' while we attempt to contact the aircraft that has violated the airspace. It is our job to ensure the safety of both the aircraft in the air and the personnel on the ground."
Although uncle and nephew talk almost daily and visit each other three or four times a year, NIE 12.2 is the first time the two of them have ever "worked" together professionally.
"Our duties don't really overlap each other," Sury said, "so we're not actually interfacing daily, but it's nice to know we're at the same place at the same time working on the same mission."
Sury, inspired by his brother's two tours in Vietnam while serving in the U.S. Navy, enlisted in the Army in 1987 as a combat engineer and deployed in support of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Provide Comfort and Stabilization/Implementation Force activities in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In 2001, he was assigned to the then-Engineer Combat Support Test Directorate at OTC, eventually deploying as part of a Forward Operational Assessment team before retiring from active duty in 2008. He immediately returned to OTC as an Army civilian.
An Army brat, Causey grew up wanting to be just like his father, enlisting in 2002 upon graduation from high school. Weeks away from starting basic training, he got the bad news that he was disqualified from enlisting.
"In 2000, a doctor found a cancerous tumor," he explained. "After complete removal of any cancer, I was considered a health risk, resulting in my disqualification.
"I pretty much thought my dreams of a military career were just that - dreams," he said, "so I decided to become the first person in my family to get a college degree."
As he was about to graduate from Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts, Causey learned that after being cancer-free for four years, he could apply for a waiver from the surgeon-general and try again to make his dream of a military career come true.
With a bachelor's degree in criminal justice, Causey started Air Force basic training in 2007, graduating in 2008. He then completed three months of technical training, receiving orders to White Sands, followed by an additional year of advanced training before becoming a certified air traffic controller in May 2009.
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there only should be a problem, when more than one pc behind nat tries to connect to the SAME
pptp-server in the internet. this is because the gre-protocol can't be devided to the different
clients without looking into the packets content and deciding where to redirect the traffic by the
included session ids. however, it should be able to connect to different server in the internet as
the decision can be made because of the source ip the packets return. this usually works. at my
office we do a lot of remoteadministration and unless not more than 1 client wants to connect to the
same server it works great.
which version are you running? latest version I tried was 1.2b3 though.
you can look here to undesrtand the problems with the greprotocol behind nat:
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Betreff: [m0n0wall] PPTP issue (again)
I have three computers in my LAN. Two are running Win2k and one is running WinXP.
Now, I can connect to a PPTP server in the internet from one of my three pcs in my LAN. As soon as I
established a connection, the other two pcs are not able to connect to ANY PPTP SERVER trough the
internet. But this pc, which I used to establish the first connection (since m0n0wall started) can
still connect to any other server.
After I reset the NAT state table, I can connect from another PC to the PPTP server. But after this
connect, the same problem occurs as before.
Anyone an idea how to solve this problem ? When I have a look to my sniffer running on the client
machine, it seems like the pptp server sends packets to the client, but these packets never reach
the client.
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Leading British chefs will this week step up their national campaign to restore cookery lessons to the school curriculum, each "adopting" a school for a series of workshops to encourage youngsters to appreciate food and understand nutrition.
Nearly 100 chefs from top hotels and restaurants will visit schools as part of a campaign by Adopt a School Trust to highlight their concerns about the demise of practical cookery in the classroom and the knock-on effects for health and well-being.
The number of overweight children, for example, has nearly doubled in the past 10 years. Many health experts attribute this to a lack of nutritional knowledge and cookery skills which, coupled with busier lives, has led to people eating more junk food.
The catering industry has also suffered, with kitchen vacancies estimated to be about 9000 this month alone. Celebrity chefs on TV have made the job appear glamorous, yet it is hard work and often badly paid.
The chefs blame the shake-up of the schools' national curriculum for the situation. Old-fashioned domestic science and home economics involved hands-on preparation and cookery. But since 1992 food education - compulsory at primary but not at secondary level - has been studied under design and technology.
Kitchens are expensive to install and maintain and are not a priority at schools. There is also a shortage of suitable teachers at secondary level.
"We've really got to educate young children about the taste and experience of handling and dealing with fresh food," said John Williams, head chef at Claridges hotel in London.
"We want to try to show them that you can cook fresh, nutritious food at home easily and cheaply - and it's fun. It's depressing that children come to us not knowing what spinach or asparagus is, or being able to identify different cuts of meat. Where they've done any cooking, it's been assembling rather than doing anything creative."
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Michael Jackson's Family and Friends Celebrate His Life at Tribute Concert
Last night, Oct. 8, the life and career of Michael Jackson was honored at the Michael Forever Tribute Concert. The concert was held in Wales, and 50,000 fans joined Jackson's family members and fellow recording artists to help memorialize the singer and the huge impact he made on music.
Michael Jackson's children were present, and the trio — Prince, Paris and Blanket — took to the stage to introduce a special telecast performance from Beyonce, who sang Jackson's 'I Wanna Be Where You Are' (via People). The elder Jackson kids wore leather jackets that looked like the costumes Jackson wore for his 'Bad' and 'Thriller' videos. 13-year-old Paris told the audience, "We're very happy to be here on this special night to honor our father."
Aside from Beyonce, stars like Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Ne-Yo and British singer Pixie Lott performed at the show. Michael's sister LaToya Jackson also performed at the show, as did some of Michael Jackson's brothers/former Jackson 5 band mates. Actor and sometimes singer Jamie Foxx hosted the event, and the celeb also sang a few MJ tunes.
Ne-Yo spoke to the press about the controversy surrounding the fact that these stars and family members wanted to hold the tribute concert during the same time that the manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray is taking place. "It's not about the trial. It's not about his death. It's about celebrating his life. It's about celebrating his music," Ne-Yo said.
Check out these pictures from the Michael Forever Tribute Concert and share your favorite memory or song from the late King of Pop's career.


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Imagine that you are a male citizen of the state of Virginia. A male citizen seeking help for a prostate problem. You are experiencing more and more difficulty arriving at, and maintaining, an erection....and so you go to see your family doctor in Virginia.
Your doctor tells you that he can prescribe Viagra for you. But before your doctor can prescribe Viagra, he tells you that you must undergo a rectal probe. There's no scientific or medical reason for the rectal probe, he tells you.....but elected officials in Virginia have made it a state law for all males requesting Viagra to first undergo a rectal probe and then wait a week before the doctor can legally prescribe Viagra for you. There are no exceptions.
The doctors of Virginia didn't call for the rectal probe mandate.....instead, it was legislators and a governor who mandated that doctors must perform a rectal probe before Viagra is prescribed in the state of Virginia. Doctors had explained to legislators that a rectal probe was medically unnecessary, an unwarranted invasive procedure.....just for the purpose of prescribing Viagra.
Anonymous sources say that, in passing the Virginia law mandating rectal probes prior to prescribing Viagra, legislators were really attempting to slow the number of prescriptions of Viagra being written in Virginia on "conscience" grounds. A majority of Virginia lawmakers believe that artificial methods of drawing wood makes Jehovah weep uncontrollably. Lawmakers in the state have often been heard saying that if the good Lord can't help a Virginia male get it up naturally, then it just may be god's will that that male must suffer erectile dysfunction for the rest of his life. God works, you know, in mysterious ways.
And so it was.
Some Virginia males complained that if Viagra can be prescribed safely without a rectal probe, and that since the rectal probe is entirely unnecessary for any sound medical reasons.....then what those males were being subjected to against their wishes was a form of anal rape.
No....none of what I've written thus far is factual. Instead, it is a hypothetical turn-about-is-fair-play scenario depicting exactly what Virginia females will soon be subjected to should those females seek to exercise their completely legal right to obtain an abortion in Virginia.
The great Dahlia Lithwick....
This week, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill that would require women to have an ultrasound before they may have an abortion. Because the great majority of abortions occur during the first 12 weeks, that means most women will be forced to have a transvaginal procedure, in which a probe is inserted into the vagina, and then moved around until an ultrasound image is produced.
Since a proposed amendment to the bill—a provision that would have had the patient consent to this bodily intrusion or allowed the physician to opt not to do the vaginal ultrasound—failed on 64-34 vote, the law provides that women seeking an abortion in Virginia will be forcibly penetrated for no medical reason. I am not the first person to note that under any other set of facts, that would constitute rape under state law.
Not only are the Virginia Republicans, who control the governor's seat as well as the state legislature, enacting a Big Intrusive Government program which discriminates against a woman's right of privacy entirely unnecessarily.....but those same Virginia Republicans also rejected an amendment which would have allowed a woman and/or her doctor to opt out of the unnecessary and invasive procedure. The new Big Intrusive Government program in Virginia is not simply Big and Intrusive.....it's thuggish as well.
The new Virginia..."the-state-can-order-the-penetration-of-your-vagina.....for no goddamn good reason other than they can"...law, passed by the same ideological brethren who have been screaming from rooftops over women having access to no-co-pay contraception, targets one specific group of state citizens, reproductive age women....and declares war upon them.
In case people haven't been paying attention....today's elected Republicans have been waging war more intensely against women in the last few years. In 2011 alone, 92 new abortion restrictions were passed in 24 states. In 2005, the previous record of new abortion restrictions was set.....34.
However, it looks like the war-on-women warriors, at least in Virginia, are not going to be satisfied with simply restricting access to abortion through the setting up of a maze of roadblocks which make getting a legal abortion much more frustrating and difficult.
No. Now it's necessary for women in Virginia to be vaginally penetrated, humiliatingly, against their wishes and for no medical purpose. In other words, the government of Virginia has decided to order the "rape" of women who are seeking a legal abortion in that state.
Conservative Republicans in 24 states have been waging political war against the legal rights of women all of 2011. Not to be outdone by their conservative colleagues, Virginia's conservative Republicans are now parading their peculiar version of small government, libertarian ideology around for all to see at the start of 2012. That ideology includes state government power to order the entirely unnecessary vaginal penetration of women wishing to exercise their legal rights.
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Australians are suffering from donor fatigue as economic conditions toughen, and charities are paying the price.
HIBA Kannouj knows firsthand the benefits of good deeds. At the start of the school year, about $700 arrives from a charitable scholarship to help her pay for the education of her two children.
And once a week, Daniel, 8, who is in grade 2, and Danya, 5, who is in prep, join some of their schoolmates in an after-hours learning club at Wyndham Park Primary School in Melbourne's western suburbs. The club is funded by The Smith Family, as are Kannouj's annual education payments.
And then there is the Smith Family's student2student reading program. Daniel has a telephone, donated by the charity, and once a week he settles down to read one of his books over the phone to an older student from another school.
''He really likes it because he gets encouraged to read more, so now he's always demanding 'more books, more books' from the library,'' Kannouj says.
That's not all. At the end of the year, when all the books are put away and summer holidays stretch out ahead of them, the Kannouj family is among the thousands of other families who receive little Christmas gifts from The Smith Family. ''To my kids, it's amazing,'' she says.
The Kannouj children are among some 7330 in Victoria, and more than 30,000 around Australia, who benefit from some form of education assistance from The Smith Family. For Kannouj, a single mother, it is a kind of security. She says she feels more comfortable knowing that from now until Daniel and Danya finish school, the extra help from the education sponsorship will still be there.
Yet right now there is a considerable degree of uncertainty inside charities such as The Smith Family. Like thousands of other not-for-profit organisations, there is huge pressure on budgets because just as consumers have curbed their spending on household goods, fashion and frivolities they have also clipped their do-good donations.
Charities that rely heavily on fund-raising campaigns have recorded a dip in donations this year, a trend that suggests 2012 may mark the fourth successive year of declines.
One of the biggest, Australian Red Cross, has revealed its donations this year are 20 per cent below what it had expected, leading to a ''shortfall'' of as much as $8 million for its day-in, day-out work.
At the Sacred Heart Mission in St Kilda, chief executive Cathy Humphrey is closely monitoring the winter appeal. This follows a surprising slump in the Mission's 2011 Christmas appeal when it raised just $70,000 -about 45 per cent below the target of $130,000. The winter appeal has a target of $150,000.
''At the moment it's hard to read,'' Humphrey says. ''What we are sensing is that both individuals and businesses are tightening their belts. We are hearing people are not spending and along with that they are not giving. Or rather, they are quite conservative in what they are giving to charities.''
The organisations that deliver millions of dollars daily to an extraordinary range of community services, arts, education, health, medical research or environmental projects are feeling the pinch as Australians fret about the country's economy.
And as world financial markets stagger through the fourth year of topsy-turvy trading, the philanthropy that flowed so easily in boom times has eased.
The sums invested by big foundations are not generating trading profits on the sharemarkets, so some of Australia's biggest not-for-profit organisations are said to be dipping into their core funds just to keep existing philanthropic programs running.
The concerns are heightened right now because June is traditionally a peak period for donations. It may be a cynical strategy, but many individuals and small businesses choose to make donations to charities in the last weeks of the financial year as a way of offsetting tax liabilities on financial gains.
That means many of the winter or mid-year appeals run by charities tend to have a surge of donations in the final week of the financial year. But what some charities are seeing this year is a significant slowdown in the pace of donations.
At The Smith Family, the Christmas 2011 appeal raised $3.7 million, or $500,000 short of the $4.2 million target. Chief executive Lisa O'Brien told The Age that the flow of donations for the winter appeal so far indicates it is about $200,000 down from the same point a year ago.
''It's a bit behind,'' Dr O'Brien says, hastening that these are still early days. ''I am a very optimistic person by nature but, yes, I am concerned. I am really concerned. The pattern we are seeing is really similar to Christmas time.''
She says while The Smith Family budgeted for some conservative income growth, it has been forced to cut administration expenses this year. Travel expenses have been frozen and close attention is being paid to staffing costs.
''And we are now having to think very clearly about having to cut services,'' O'Brien says. ''But that is a strategy of last resort.'' What she means by cutting services is curbing the availability of new scholarships; when students on existing sponsorships graduate, their positions in the program might not be left open for new candidates.
There is similar concern at the Sacred Heart Mission. Humphrey cautions that there are still two weeks to go before the end of the financial year, when many people try to offset their tax liabilities by donating to charities, so donations may yet pick up.
As for cutting any of the Mission's programs of finding accommodation for the homeless and food and other services for the needy, Humphrey says: ''We probably would not initially need to do that, but it might be [necessary] if we continue in a pattern of shortfalls in subsequent years. What it does do is stop the innovation, it stops any growth, so you are less likely to take risks.''
A ''TIGHTENING'' in donations does not mean Australia's philanthropic spirit has broken down, however, or that Australians are not generous. On the contrary, this is the third most generous country in the world after the United States and Ireland, according to UK-based Charities Aid Foundation's World Giving Index 2011 report. But Australia has fallen in the ranks; in 2010, the same survey placed Australia and New Zealand as equal number ones in the world in terms of donating cash, helping a stranger or volunteering their labour.
Tax Office figures show some 4.4 million Australians, or about 38 per cent of individual taxpayers, directed a portion of their income to charities in 2009-10 (the latest available figures). But the amount they are giving has shrunk following the global financial crisis.
In 2007-08, the value of donations claimed by 4.28 million individual Australian taxpayers totalled $2.4 billion, up a remarkable 25 per cent from a year earlier.
But in 2008-09, as global financial markets crashed, individuals' charitable donations dropped to $2.09 billion, and in the following year it fell again - by 6.3 per cent to $1.96 billion. The sums donated by companies and other organisations may be as much as four times this figure.
Philanthropy Australia's director of public policy and research, Vanessa Meachen, believes the actual amount donated by individuals is much more than what is claimed against tax returns, but she says the run of declines in recent years is the first setback since at least the early 1990s.
''It's hard to get a full figure [on what is happening] because there's no formal information about the whole sector,'' Meachen says. ''Having said that, I think there are some organisations that can do better than others … but the impact will be on things that people are going to think are relatively irrelevant, like you are going to get staff churn. There's already a high level of churn in this industry - people get burnt out and seek greener pastures - that is only going to get worse.''
Oxfam Australia's executive director, Andrew Hewett, who by coincidence announced this week he will leave the organisation in December, concedes fund-raising conditions are tighter and competition for the charitable dollar is tougher than ever.
''We have to always remember that donations are the ultimate form of discretionary spending, and people are obviously a lot more cautious about where they are spending their money,'' Hewett says.
''At the moment our June appeal is holding up. It's tough, but a lot is dependent on those last weeks before the end of the year,'' he says, adding that a few years ago Oxfam received a $1 million donation on the second-last day of the financial year.
''What we are experiencing is that we are holding on to the number of donors … but people are giving us a little bit less. They want to maintain their relationship with us, but they are giving less.''
As well, donors are directing their money to specific activities or campaigns by charities, curbing the capacity of charities to direct the funds as they need and compressing the amount allocated for administration or marketing expenditure.
Colin Baillie and Elizabeth Haines, consultants who advise not-for-profit organisations, say the downturn in donations is widespread and they are seeing it reflected in a distinct change in the behaviour of the boards of trustees.
''It's hit really hard, from what we can see. It has been gradual, and then in the last three to six months I have noticed a very tangible impact on the ground,'' Baillie says. ''Boards are becoming more hands-on, more operational and that's because they are obviously coming across a restructuring of their budgets.
''You see it in how these boards are cutting services. There's a losing of any 'luxury' functions within the organisations.''
Haines points to a more exacting attitude among the not-for-profits in terms of what they are prepared to fund: ''There's less money in the corpus [the core or foundation funds], so they are being less creative. For programs where three years of funding would be the norm, they are only doing it for one. We think they are giving less money to a greater number of organisations.''
But Anthony Starkins of First Samuel, which manages tens of millions of dollars on behalf of many not-for-profit organisations, suggests not-for-profits are ''narrowing the breadth, but deepening the focus'' of their philanthropy.
''They are being more targeted about what they give and where they give it,'' he says. ''At the height of the boom, or just before the boom, the [not-for-profits] made longer term funding commitments and they found their corpus fell shortly after with the GFC. They are now trying to find how to meet [those commitments] from their corpus.''
SUCH stresses in the philanthropic sector - that is, over and above the usual run of major crises - comes just as the governments are chopping into their aid budgets. Across the entire not-for-profit sector, government funding represents about 30 per cent of revenue. But the dependence on government funding is higher for those charities involved in direct community welfare, and at some charities as much as 55 per cent or more of their income comes from government grants.
Yet there are myriad charities in our society, not just welfare. There are the special purpose not-for-profits who assist the blind or deaf, or those who are psychologically damaged or ravaged by addictions. There are those that sponsor crucial medical research or buy specialist equipment for hospitals, or look after lost animals. And those that run art galleries or museums, theatres, museums or libraries, or fight for civil liberties. Others run programs for newly arrived migrants, for children with learning disabilities. And there are those who take it on themselves to run hot meals to people in our community who might struggle with the simple mechanics of daily life.
Baillie and Haines say that despite the gloomy conditions, not-for-profits tend to have an irrepressible optimism about what can be done with extremely limited budgets. ''Organisations are saying to us, 'We just have to do this, it's essential.' They are resilient, but still they are under pressure,'' Haines says.
''If you have a look at Europe right now, you see how the fortunes of one community, like Greece, are at risk and it impacts everything else. So we are trying to say to the not-for-profits that now is the moment when you need to be supporting your community. You need to respond, you need to give more.''
Top 10 'giving' countries
1. United States
2. Ireland
3. Australia
4. New Zealand
5. United Kingdom
6. Netherlands
7. Canada
8. Sri Lanka
9. Thailand
10. Laos
SOURCE: World Giving Index 2011, published by Charities Aid Foundation


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Fri Jan 28 2011
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In his exceptional and ongoing five-part Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church, Trajal Harrell continues his rigorous exploration of two forms: postmodern dance and voguing. He frames each dance within the project, ranging from Extra Small to Extra Large, around a question: "What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing-ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?" Two more pieces from the series—Medium (M), or (M)imosa, and Extra Small (XS)—will be unveiled at the Kitchen beginning Wednesday 9. In Medium, Harrell collaborates with Ccilia Bengolea, Franois Chaignaud and Marlene Monteiro Freitas to explore the voguing-ball scene; Extra Small is a lush solo for 25 viewers. He recently spoke about his ongoing Looks.
I want to get to Medium and Large, but first talk to me about Extra Small, which you performed at Abrons for the American Realness Festival. It also coincided with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) showcase.
The way the Extra Small works dramaturgically is so different than the Small in that it starts off very postmodern. Then, slowly, I go into this mythical thing. I was thinking much more about making an object. I think the performance you saw was much more internal; the piece moves between the external and the internal. I felt right away that there were heavy hitters in the room, and I think I was like, Okay, I have to get through this. So I protected myself in that performance. It wasn't bad, but I didn't allow myself to flow through it and it wasn't as touching. There were also too many people [in the audience]. I will work on it as a daily practice, just getting it into my body so that it flows. APAP does this weird shit on you. You make a bargain with the devil and you have to deal with it. Even though a festival is a "market," [compared to APAP] there is still some distance [between presenters and artists]. It's not in your face. The good thing that happened to me is that a lot of the American presenters came. It's very important to me. I don't want to be locked out of the U.S.
How would you describe Extra Small?
I call it a gem. It's an intimate piece for 25 people; they sit on the floor. It's a series of entrances and exits. Although it's Extra Small, it has more fluidity than the Small to reach a wider audience. Because of the technicalities of it, it can be shown in a gallery. It can be in a room. If there was space in a home and we could get the right light? The precarious thing is that the lighting is important. It can be performed on the floor of a theater. It can move around. I was thinking: How can I make something using just one suitcase? The Small has to be installed. The floor is gray Marley, and there has to be the right chairs and the right tape. It's specific. In Small, I knew I was starting a conversation. It's much more discursive, it's much more about a challenging kind of atmosphere; when it works well, in each look, we begin to create this kind of signification process together. Even though it's completely fictional, when that piece works, [the audience and I] create it together somehow. We don't know what this stuff means. I made it up!
You are referring to the names of the 20 "looks" you perform in Small.
[Laughs] "New School Hokey Pokey"—what the hell is that? We go with it, and we go to the next one and the one after that. The Extra Small is very different in that the layers are much more purely aesthetic, and it's much more about beauty. Beauty becomes this thing that gets negotiated. We never talk about that in terms of the contemporary Judson aesthetic, but it is, of course, antibeauty; voguing, of course, is completely obsessed with beauty. The piece starts in a very blas way, but then it has to go through layers to get to something really beautiful. It's completely made of things that are anti-Judson, but I think the way it's set up, you can go there with me. At first, I had to go there myself. It's nowhere as discursive as Small. In the Small, I was much more in touch with how I wanted to have this discussion with an audience. I was also working with a dramaturge. The Extra Small is really expression.
Do you think people understood what you were reacting against, meaning the Judson aesthetic and ideal, in Small?
It's interesting—now I deal so much with how this piece is perceived in different cultures. I think [audience members] in the U.S., because the references are much more readable, are less bothered by the tension in the piece. People laugh a lot. They see it right away. And this idea of a third thing is American: We're different, but we come from so many things to make something else; you don't have this so much in other countries. So in the American audience, even if we don't understand [the premise] intellectually, it's in our being. When you switch to a different culture, there's much more at stake. When I do this piece, for example, in Brussels, the first look is "West Coast Preppy Schoolboy." I'm standing, walking—clearly postmodern dance, but then there's this layer of dressing which is voguing. [In Brussels], they can't tear it apart. They can't separate and see that I've put those things together, so they don't know what they're looking at, and then they're not laughing at the image of me being the "West Coast Preppy Schoolboy" either. I've learned how to create that resonance. Of course, I was spoiled [by performing it first in New York]. The first couple of times I performed it in Europe, I was lost. I just thought, Okay, they're never going to get it. I had a [performance] date in France, and I was like, Why am I going to go there? Maybe it's just an American piece. Then I thought, Why are you doing this piece? Why do you perform? I realized that in every piece, on some level, I'm trying to create a resonance with the audience. Whether I'm sitting on someone's lap [as he did in Show Pony] or shaking their hands when they walk in the door or looking into their eyes or letting them see me shake, I'm trying to create a resonance individually and collectively. So I decided to focus on that and not to worry about what they understood or didn't. And it worked.
They got the connection?
Yes. They could feel it. They understood the emotional journey that I was on and that we were on together. So the core changes from place to place. When I was conceptualizing the series in my head, I knew I wanted the first one to be the hardest in terms of references. I wanted to get that out of the way, almost like a glossary. I wanted to start the discussion. And I knew in the end, I would have no control over what people saw first—at the Kitchen, some will see Medium before they see Small. But in terms of my discussion, it was very important to start there. I knew it would ignite misunderstandings. I wasn't as fully prepared for the fact that there would be such a cultural difference.


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The warning comes a week after Russia's nuclear weapons chief reportedly threatened to target the planned US missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic if Washington failed to listen to Moscow's concerns.
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Bar Boulud is located in the basement of the majestic Mandarin Oriental and attracts a diverse mix of families, hotel guests, business people and romancing couples. Overseen by renowned chef Daniel Boulud, the restaurant has an eye-catching view of the open-plan kitchen where chefs work in zen-like calm. Charcuterie from Gilles Verot is a big draw, as are the elegant French brasserie options and finger-licking American staples. We've had burgers here and loved every bite – perhaps a beef patty topped with pulled pork and green chilli mayonnaise or a French-US collaboration of beefy burger piled high with pork confit and morbier cheese. On our latest visit, we enjoyed such culinary gems as a robust french onion soup, resplendent with caramelised onions and topped with molten gruyère. A veritable mountain of steamed plump mussels cloaked in garlicky red chilli tomato sauce was another winner – every last saucy drop mopped up with chargrilled bread. The only downer was a lacklustre chocolate sponge layered with chilled coffee buttercream, although its accompanying scoop of coffee ice-cream saved the day. A class performance topped off by seamless service. The cheapest way in here is the 'Bouchon Menu' served daily from noon–7pm: 2 courses for £19 or 3 courses for £21 including coffee.
Venue says: "We have just launched our new menu at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, based around dishes from Provence."
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The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special, a full-length movie that will supposedly end 3D broadcasts on the BBC, will still air. Then it will be sold on Blu-ray.
A 2D standard version will also be released to DVD, so all the good doctor fans will have a shot at owning a copy of this landmark feature. In fact, according to the official Doctor Who blog, only 26 percent of the readers polled said they could actually benefit from the special being broadcast in 3D.
The DVD and the 3D Blu-ray are scheduled for a release in the U.K. on December 2. We don't have word yet if or when a U.S. version is scheduled to drop, but if you have a multi-regional DVD or Blu-ray player (and you love Doctor Who), then this may be one of those instances where your fancy player comes in handy.
Greg Fischer, @guru_apprentice
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Barry Sanders Will Be Lions Brand Ambassador X Games Sees Lowest TV Audience Yet ESPN To Run Special On O.J. Parole Hearing Texas Bowl Games Wary Of Potential Bathroom Bill Panthers Bring Back Hurney As Interim GM Commissioners Share Stage For First Time Jets Prepare For Life Without Without Woody Johnson Disney Can Reverse ESPN Damage Nike Spot Congratulates Roger Federer Gettleman Firing By Panthers Raising Questions
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ESPN examined athletes in trouble with the law on "Outside the Lines: Sports Under Arrest." In his introduction, ESPN's Bob Ley said, "You can point to all the money, all the media or simply society, but there has never been such a time when so much of the sports news is made right here in a court of law" (ESPN, 9/2). DAMAGE CONTROL: In a segment on managing a sports crisis, Ley examined how teams, leagues, agents and corporate sponsors plan for and respond to players getting arrested. After 76er Allen Iverson's recent arrest on weapons and marijuana charges, his sponsor Reebok's response "was quick and positive." Reebok Dir of PR Dave Fogelson: "Our first reaction is certainly going to be that we're going to support the athlete. And this is not a knee-jerk reaction. ... In the short term if there's some negativity, that's for the short term." Ley, who interviewed execs at Advantage Int'l, noted that "crisis management by a player's agent is perhaps most critical immediately after an incident." Advantage Int'l Senior VP Tom George: "They're looking for us to make things right. That's part of our job is to make those problems go away so that they can concentrate on what they do best." Ley reported that in the wake of Warren Moon's arrest two years ago for domestic violence -- he was later acquitted -- Moon and his agents "took the PR offensive" by holding two press conferences. At the same time, his marketing agent, ISI Exec VP Steve Rosner, "worked to save" Moon's deals with companies such as Northwest Airlines and Nike (ESPN, 9/2). THE LEAGUE WITH THE PLAN: Ley: "Perhaps no league is more organized than the National Football League in dealing with the media during a crisis. 'Outside the Lines' obtained a copy of the NFL's internal 10-point PR crisis plan, a check list, used since 1993, for addressing volatile situations." Excerpts from the crisis plan listed by ESPN: 1) "First response should be 'no comment,'" 3) "Convene immediate meeting of crisis team," 5) "Formulate statement that can be issued to the media," and 8) "Develop talking points, send to allies who will be speaking to media." Ley: "The National Football League says it uses that PR crisis plan as a common sense guide. None of the other three major sports has such a written plan" (ESPN, 9/2).


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So I recently accepted a new job in utah, and finally decided it was time to get started on my life long dream of rebuilding an e30 (I am 25 and married without kids, so I decided that now it was now or never.) I got extremely lucky and just picked up a 1990 bmw 325ic 5speed still running with no rust for 600! ( although it does come with all of the quarks of a $600 dollar 22 year old car) I will be using it as a DD for the rest of winter months, at the end of which it will be going in the garage for a complete teardown.
As I said it does run, however I never said it ran WELL, lol. There a couple things that I need to fix now so I dont crash or ruin the car before the real fun can start. The biggest issue right now is the door locks, the passenger lock went down but now I have no idea how to get it back up, and drivers side will not lock with key, have to leave window cracked and push down lock. It sounds like when I push down there is a motor in the lock, do there cars have electric locks, and if so where the heck is the button? Another question is with first gea, it feels really long and sljggish, but the subsequent gears feel fine, is that normal with these older bimmers? Finally, the light on my center console are not working, when I turn the lights on in the car only part of the console comes on, but the rest of the buttons stay dark, is there a light that can be changed so that it lights up again? ( its the lights behind hvac controls)
Thats it for now, I will posting some pics as soon as it gets warm enough to go outside, it is currently a balmy -6f here where I am at, so for the moment I will not be doing much work lest I freeze to death. If anyone has any advice on a good engine cleaner for these cars I would appreciate it, as it is running a little rough as is. Thanks for any help that you guys can give and I am excited to join this community!
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There is no beginning and no end. This is a cycle of pain from which there is no escape. This is Valentine's Day, a movie which I have seen and which I can now quite confidently state is, in fact, the worst movie ever made.
To be more precise, Valentine's Day is 56 of the worst movies ever made. There are about a thousand characters in this movie, nearly all of whom are played by very recognisable celebrities, except for the one who is played by Topher Grace; their arcs are played in two-minute bursts, which are meant to be "connected" – characters meet each other, or are revealed to have known each other, or break up with each other, or start dating each other – but this is undermined by the fact that the scenes seem to have trouble connecting to each other even when they feature the same characters.
Valentine's Day - Worst. Movie. Ever.
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Title: Relationship between sulfate air quality and visibility at Los Angeles
Principal Investigator / Author(s): Cass, Glen R
Contractor: Environmental Quality Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Contract Number: A5-061-87
Research Program Area: Atmospheric Processes
Routine air monitoring data taken by the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District are related to visibility at downtown Los Angeles over the decade 1965 through 1974. The relationship between light extinction and total suspended particulate mass implied by the historical data base is shown to be consistent with the findings of previous short-term special studies.
A non-linear regression model for light extinction at Los Angeles is constructed which combines available information on aerosol chemical composition with relative humidity and NO2 data. It is shown that there is a pronounced increase in light scattering per unit sulfate solute mass on days of high relative humidity, as would be expected for a hygroscopic or deliquescent substance.
Using the chemically resolved regression model, estimates are made of the long-run visibility impact of reducing sulfates to one half and to one quarter of their measured historic values on each past day of record. It is found that the effect of such a sulfate concentration reduction would have been manifested most clearly in a decline in the number of days per year with average visibility less than three miles. The number of days per year with average visibility less than ten miles would be little affected. One reason for the disproportionate impact of sulfates on the days of the worst visibility is found in the high positive correlation between sulfate mass concentration and relative humidity. High values of light scattering per unit sulfate mass thus occur on days of high sulfate mass concentration.
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Director of the Cicero Foundation
Is a window of opportunity opening itself for Britain that will enable it to
play a more important role in the EU? This seems, indeed, to be the case and
it is surprising if we look at what Brzezinski wrote in his book The Grand Chessboard.
Brzezinski's judgment is very critical. In comparison with the geostrategic
players France and Germany: "
Great Britain is not a geostrategic player. It
has fewer major options, it entertains no ambitious vision of Europe's future,
and its relative decline has also reduced its capacity to play the traditional
role of the European balancer. Its ambivalence regarding European unification
and its attachment to a waning special relationship with America have made Great
Britain increasingly irrelevant insofar as the major choices confronting Europe's
future are concerned. London has largely dealt itself out of the European game."
If these words, written in 1997, were true then, are they still true today? The ambitious diplomatic activity, in which Tony Blair and his government have engaged, seems to contradict every word written by Brzezinski in regard to London's irrelevancy in dealing with the major choices that confront Europe's future. London has certainly not dealt itself out of the European game. On the contrary: a unique window of opportunity is now opening itself for Britain that will enable it to play an active and creative role in Europe. Why is this so? What has changed between 1997 and 2002?
In my view there are three reasons for this new situation:
1. At a conference of the Cicero Foundation in Paris in March 2001 the British ambassador to France, Sir Michael Jay, stressed the importance of the Anglo-French St. Malo initiative.* Rightly so. The 1990s were the decade of Europe's monetary integration, a process in which Britain was sidelined. Since St. Malo(1998) and the Helsinki summit(1999) defence and foreign policy integration have been put on the agenda as the logical next steps. And it is in these two fields in particular that Britain has many trump cards. It is not only - with France - the most important military power of the EU (including its nuclear arsenal), but it has also an important worldwide diplomatic network and a permanent seat in the Security Council.
2. At the same time the traditional French-German 'motor' of the EU seems to be in disarray. This is not only due to the poor personal chemistry between Chirac and Schröder and the coming elections in both countries, but has also deeper, structural reasons: the growing divergence of the economic and foreign policy interests of France and the new, united Germany (especially concerning the enlargement).
3. A third factor is the foreign policy activism of the British PM in the aftermath of September 11. Not Mr. Pesc - the EU High Representative for the CFSP, Javier Solana - but Tony Blair seems for third countries and EU citizens alike to represent Europe's foreign policy.
This situation creates new chances for an enhanced role of Britain in Europe. At the same time, these chances can only be taken if Britain can avoid making too many mistakes. And mistakes have been made. One was the mini summit in London, in which only France and Germany were originally invited. (This action created an immediate uproar from the smaller countries, forcing Blair to extend the list of invitees). An other mistake was the recent British suggestion to create a European Security Council with three permanent seats for the Big Three (a suggestion that immediately was renounced by the British government). These British initiatives suggest that Britain wants to join the French-German motor, changing it into a Trilateral Body. This would mean an important change in the British EU strategy. Since it became an EC member, this strategy was based on coalition building in all directions and on bilateral initiatives, as well with countries outside the Franco-German axis (for instance with Italy and Spain) as inside this axis (Schröder-Blair initiative with Germany, St. Malo with France). Trying to reshape the Franco-German axis into a Trilateral Body would be a dangerous step. Why?
First, because it does not take into account why the French-German motor was so widely accepted since the start of European integration: it was not felt as a directoire because other big countries (first Italy, later Britain) were not part of it. Because of this cohabitation of the Franco-German axis with a majority of EU members, including Britain and Italy, this axis was not experienced as something threatening, but as a genuine laboratory for new ideas and initiatives. A British place at the table would change this fundamentally. It would tear the EU apart into a bloc of the big and mighty and a bloc of the small(er) and weak, thereby jeopardizing the basis of the EU: the equality of its members.
Second, it would quickly create problems inside this Trilateral Body. The French-German
tandem can only operate on the basis of a consensus. A third participant would
make coalitions of two against one possible and render consensus more difficult.
Instead of creating a European Security Council or a Trilateral Motor Britain
should do better to continue its strategy of coalitions tous azimuts: with Spain
and the Benelux to deepen the internal market, with the Scandinavian countries
to enhance transparency, with new - pro Atlantic - member states as Poland,
Hungary, and the Czech Republic to maintain the transatlantic link. These bilateral
relations should also be developed with France (defence) and Germany (internal
market), without crystallizing into a Trilateral Body. This would be disrupting.
It would be against Europe's interests and - in the end - also against the interests
of Britain.
(1 March 2002)
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OX-TALES edited by Mark Ellingham, Peter Florence
Book Quote:
"This was just one of the many thousands of little ways in which the length of time he and Joanna had been together had made it harder for them to communicate." (from "Sandcastles: A Negotiation" by William Sutcliffe)
Book Review:
Review by Guy Savage (APR 28, 2010)
If you find short story collections a great way to discover new authors, then you might want to take a look at Ox-Tales. These are 4 pint-sized volumes featuring stories loosely based on the elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. As these volumes are designed to raise money for Oxfam International (hence the title of the series), they are the publishing world's version of Live Aid, but unfortunately even though these slight volumes are good, I doubt that they will raise the $280 million netted by the now-famous 1985 rock concert (RIP Freddie Mercury). All of the stories in the volumes were donated by 38 authors, and each book contains at least 9 original stories or extracts of new, unpublished work.
I read quite a bit of British fiction, so some of the names in the Ox-Tales volumes are not new to me–in fact there are many old favorites here: Zoe Heller, Marina Lewycka, Hanif Kureishi, Giles Foden, and Beryl Bainbridge. Along with these names are names of authors I'd noticed but hadn't got around to reading yet, and then, finally there were some brand new names. So for this reader, the four Ox-Tales represented a marvellous opportunity to take a sneak peek at these authors.
With no less than 37 short stories in the series, I can't possibly write about them all, and so I narrowed it down (painfully) to just a few.
In Air, my favourite is Beryl Bainbridge's "Goodnight Children, Everywhere." Fans of Bainbridge know that she often blends childhood and adolescence with dark, off-kilter elements, and this is what happens in this marvelous short story which should delight this author's readers. This is eleven-year-old Thomas:
"Thomas's mother had a full-time job as a typist in the estate agent's; recently she had become very anxious because there was a slump in house buying and she feared being made redundant, whatever that was. She'd started smoking again. Mostly Thomas was in the care of Mildred, his grandmother. She was pretty old, bad at climbing stairs and always mislaying her teeth. She also talked a lot about god who had mostly let her down. When he was seven and had asked his mother what this meant, he was ordered to mind his own business. Aged ten and putting forward the same question, he was told she'd been handed a cruel slice of life, that hers had not been a happy journey."
One day Thomas is snooping around Mildred's home when he finds an ancient wireless….This is vintage Bainbridge, and what a delight to read her again.
Special mention for Louise Welsh's story, The Night Highway (Air). This is a tantalizing glimpse at a work-in-progress from her next novel. This is a tale of a professor and his all-too brief affair with the departmental head's libidinous wife, Rachel. I'll be watching for this novel.
In Water, my favourite is "Rice Cakes and Starbucks" by Esther Freud (a new author to me). This is the tale of Dan Linden, a British actor who's persuaded by his unhappy wife to transport his entire family to California. The idea is that once he's transplanted closer to Hollywood, his career will take off….This story is an excerpt from Freud's novel Lucky Break, and for its piercing observations of family dynamics, this is a novel I'll be watching for in 2010. Special mention here for Zoe Heller's story: "What She Did on Her Summer Vacation" and William Boyd's entry: "Bethany-Next-the-Sea"
In Earth, one of my favorite stories is "The Nettle Pit" by Jonathan Coe. This is the tale of two families who merge together for a holiday, and as it turns out, this may not be the best idea. Max, Caroline and their daughter, Lucy join Chris, Miranda, and their two children Joe and Sara. While Max, a man who's "perpetually nervous and uncertain" claims that Chris is his "oldest and closest friend," Max's wife Carolina wonders why these two men claim to be close when they are such opposites. Close confinement with Chris and Miranda causes Caroline to experience envy as she compares the two men and their vastly different approaches to marriage and fatherhood.
In Fire, my favorites stories are: "A Family Evening" from Sebastian Faulks and "Sandcastles: A Negotiation" by William Sutcliffe. I'd read neither of these authors before and found their different representations of family life vastly diverting. Faulks's story is an excerpt from his upcoming book A Week in December , and it presents a bored, wealthy woman whose husband lives, eats and breathes for the financial markets:
"What Vanessa hadn't foreseen was either the narrowness of her husband's life or the peripheral sliver of it that would be set aside for her."
Finally, in complete contrast to Faulks, Sutcliffe's story "Sandcastles: A Negotiation" (from a work-in-progress) presents a rather chaotic scene of family life with a harried father, resentful mother and two small children on holiday. Sutcliffe's version of family life includes the father, Phil resenting the childless couple next door and all the "screwing" they can enjoy while he is stuck changing nappies and entertaining his children.
There are a lot of names here, some great short stories, and some intriguing future novels to investigate….
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|AIR features stories by Alexander McCall Smith, Helen Simpson, DBC Pierre, AL Kennedy, Kamila Shamsie, Beryl Bainbridge, Louise Welsh, Diran Adebayo and Helen Fielding.WATER features stories by Esther Freud, David Park, Hari Kunzru, Zoe Heller, Michel Faber, William Boyd, Joanna Trollope, Giles Foden and Michael Morpurgo.
FIRE features stories by Mark Haddon, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Hislop, Sebastian Faulks, John le Carre, Xiaoulu Guo, William Sutcliffe, Ali Smith, Lionel Shriver and Jeanette Winterson.
EARTH features stories by Kate Atkinson, Jonathan Buckley, Jonathan Coe, Hanif Kureishi, Marti Leimbach, Marina Lewycka, Ian Rankin, Nicholas Shakespeare, Rose Tremain.
- Air (2009; April 2010 in US)
- Water (2009; April 2010 in US)
- Fire (2009; April 2010 in US)
- Earth (2009; April 2010 in US)
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text: Home > How To > Roofing > Low-Slope Reroof with EPDM Roofing Low-Slope Reroof with EPDM This self-adhesive rubber membrane goes down easily, and provides long-term protection for low slope roofs By Rick Stacy Login or Register to download the PDF version of this article. (325.54 kB) A little research turned up WeatherBond 110 (WeatherBond Pro, P.O. Box 2022, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055; 800/575-4406), a 45-mil, black EPDM rubber roofing membrane backed with 20-mil butyl adhesive. Designed for smaller roofing jobs, it comes in 4x25-foot rolls that cover one square each. It has a peel-and-stick release liner, slit lengthwise at 4 and 24 inches from one edge to facilitate installation. Single-ply EPDM rubber roofing has many advantages over other roofing options. It remains flexible at extreme temperatures, can be installed quickly, and resists deterioration from exposure to ultraviolet radiation -- a protective coating, like natural stone, is not required as with some torch-down products. Expensive option. The rubber membrane is expensive. The cost, including the EPDM roll, cover strip, primer glue, and sealant is about $160 per square. And you need to figure in some extra for corner covers and pipe boots. But the installation cost fares pretty well compared to a torch-down product, considering the labor and expense of installing a UV coating over the torch-down. The WeatherBond 110 membrane is also available in solid white rubber, but it costs about 16 percent more than the black rubber. White reflects most of the sun's infrared rays, which helps to keep the roof and the space below cool in warmer climates. Currently, the same black cover strips must be used with the white rubber membrane. It's possible to paint the black cover strips, using acrylic latex or oil-based paint but successive coats of paint may be necessary to prevent bleed-through. However, the company plans to have a white cover strip available this fall. Warranty. The 12-year WeatherBond warranty is, to date, the best I've found in the category of residential low-slope roofing products. And, if the performance of single-ply EPDM roofing on commercial installations is any measure, WeatherBond 110 can certainly last much longer than 12 years, if it's properly installed. Granted, the product was a little hard to find for this job. It was available at only one roofing supplier in my area. WeatherBond's area rep assured me that the company is encouraging lumber retailers to stock their product, so its availability may improve. Temperature range. WeatherBond 110 is best installed at temperatures ranging between 40F and 80F. However, there is some latitude. If it's 35F, but it's sunny on the deck, the material may be workable enough. The same holds true if it's 85F but cloudy. The glue on the product gets very aggressive in high temperatures, and special techniques must be used to install it (see "Helpful Hints," below). The manufacturer provides an installation video and instruction booklet, on request, that clearly illustrate these and other procedures.Hot-Weather Considerations Login or Register to continue reading