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A shingled roof includes a waterproof roofing membrane bonded to the roof deck adjacent an eave of the roof for preventing water damage to the roof deck and an interior of a building from wind-blown rain or water buildup on the roof. The waterproof membrane underlies at least a lowermost course of s

A shingled roof includes a waterproof roofing membrane bonded to the roof deck adjacent an eave of the roof for preventing water damage to the roof deck and an interior of a building from wind-blown rain or water buildup on the roof. The waterproof membrane underlies at least a lowermost course of shingles adjacent the roof eave; has a first major surface bonded to the roof deck; and has a second major surface with an adhesive strip extending the length of the waterproof roofing membrane that bonds the lowermost course of shingles adjacent the roof eave to the second surface of the waterproof roofing membrane. The waterproof roofing membrane has a release strip overlaying the adhesive strip which is removed immediately prior to applying and bonding the lowermost course of shingles to the waterproof roofing membrane.

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A shingled roof includes a waterproof roofing membrane bonded to the roof deck adjacent an eave of the roof for preventing water damage to the roof deck and an interior of a building from wind-blown rain or water buildup on the roof. The waterproof membrane underlies at least a lowermost course of s

A shingled roof includes a waterproof roofing membrane bonded to the roof deck adjacent an eave of the roof for preventing water damage to the roof deck and an interior of a building from wind-blown rain or water buildup on the roof. The waterproof membrane underlies at least a lowermost course of shingles adjacent the roof eave; has a first major surface bonded to the roof deck; and has a second major surface with an adhesive strip extending the length of the waterproof roofing membrane that bonds the lowermost course of shingles adjacent the roof eave to the second surface of the waterproof roofing membrane. The waterproof roofing membrane has a release strip overlaying the adhesive strip which is removed immediately prior to applying and bonding the lowermost course of shingles to the waterproof roofing membrane. the quality metric falls below the selected threshold. 11. The method of claim 9 comprising: disabling the function when the quality metric exceeds a first threshold; and resuming the function when the quality metric falls below a second threshold, the second threshold being lower than the first threshold. 12. The method of claim 9 wherein the step of disabling a function of the communication unit comprises conditionally disabling a portion of a trellis decoding function performed by the communication unit. 13. The method of claim 12 wherein the portion of the trellis decoding function performed by the communication unit includes a computation of signal strength of recovered signals by the communication unit. 14. A method comprising the steps of: receiving a block of data defining a number of symbols; constructing a trellis array associated with the block of data, wherein the trellis array has a number of columns corresponding to the number of symbols in the block of data; and determining a quality metric for the message based on state information in the trellis array, the quality metric being derived from state information obtained from selected ones of the columns of the trellis array. 15. The method of claim 14 wherein the state information includes at least one most likely transition state in each respective one of the selected columns of the trellis array, the quality metric comprising a cumulative number of states matching the most likely transition states in the respective selected columns of the trellis array.