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Recorded in the fall of 1964, the selections that make up the album Monk (Columbia/Legacy 86564) are somewhat unusual in that they come primarily from the canon of modern standards; only "Teo" and "Pannonica" are Monk originalsand lesser-known ones at that. That doesn't in any way take away from the quality of the album as a whole. In fact, Rouse and Monk, now in the company of bassist Larry Gales and drummer Ben Riley, sound freer then ever as they explore these established items with abandon. "Children's Song (That Old Man)" should sound familiar to just about everyone, but its singsong nature seems perfectly attuned to Monk's progressive style. Three unissued alternate takes add considerably to what might be the sleeper of Monk's Columbia oeuvre.
Finally, we come to the two-disc set At Newport 1963 & 1965 (Columbia 63905) wherein we get the complete 1963 Newport performance that found iconoclast clarinetist Pee Wee Russell sitting in with the Monk quartet on two numbers. Even more cause for celebration has to be the unearthing of a totally unheard four-song set from Newport in July of 1965. Rouse, Gales, and Riley support Monk on the numbers "Off Minor," "Ruby, My Dear," "Hackensack," and "Epistrophy," and the results are uniformly excellentas is the live sound recording. Not even listed previously in discographies, these unissued discoveries are worth the price of admission by themselves.
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Monk's Dream: 1 . Monk's Dream (Take 8), 2 . Body And Soul (Re-take 2), 3 . Bright Mississippi (Take 1), 4 . Blues Five Spot, 5 . Blue Bolivar Blues (Take 2), 6 . Just A Gigolo, 7 . Bye-Ya, 8 . Sweet And Lovely, 9 . Monk's Dream (Take 3), 10 . Body And Soul (Take 1), 11. Bright Mississippi (Take 3), 12 . Blue Bolivar Blues (Take 1)
Monk: 1 . Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away), 2 . April In Paris (Take 6), 3 . Children's Song (That Old Man), 4 . I Love You (Sweetheart Of All My Dreams), 5 . Just You, Just Me, 6 . Pannonica (Re-take 2), 7 . Teo, 8 . April In Paris (Take 1), 9 . Pannonica (Take 2), 10 . Medley: Just You, Just Me/Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away)
At Newport 1963 & 1965: Disc 1- 1 . Criss-Cross, 2 . Light Blue, 3 . Nutty, 4 . Blue Monk, 5 . Epistrophy
Disc 2- 1 . Off Minor, 2 . Ruby, My Dear, 3 . Hackensack, 4 . Epistrophy
Personnel: Thelonius Monk (piano) with Charlie Rouse, Pee Wee Russell, Larry Gales, Butch Warren, John Ore, Frankie Dunlop, and Ben Riley
Title: Monk's Dream/Monk/At Newport 1963 & 1965 | Year Released: 2003 | Record Label: Columbia Records
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HUNTSVILLE (AP) - Death row inmate Troy Farris was executed Wednesday night for fatally shooting a Tarrant County sheriff's deputy more than 15 years ago.
Farris, 36, was pronounced dead at 7:16 p.m., six minutes after the lethal drugs were released into his arms.
In a brief final statement, he turned to an adjacent witness room and expressed love to four family members of murder victim Clark Rosenbalm Jr.
"I can only tell you Clark did not die in vain," Farris said. "I don't mean to offend you, but through his death, it led this man to God."
He also expressed love to his family members, several of whom were execution witnesses, and thanked them for their support.
"Like they say in the song, I guess, I just want to go out like Elijah, on fire with the spirit of God," Farris said. "I'm done. Take me, Jesus. Take me, Jesus. I love you."
As the drugs took effect, Farris gasped a couple times and stopped moving.
Outside the prison unit, about a dozen Tarrant County deputies waited in uniform, their badges shining in the darkness.
The execution was delayed by more than 30 minutes while Farris' attorneys sought a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court. The application was denied at 6:20 p.m.
Farris was the second condemned inmate executed this year in Texas, where 20 convicted murderers - the most in the nation - were executed in 1998.
Farris had insisted he was innocent of the murder of Rosenbalm, who was gunned down after interrupting a drug deal involving Farris. But the former electrician and truck driver said he was ready to die and viewed his execution with relief.
"I don't have any fear," he said in an interview last week. "I'm just happy.
"I think you have to understand this has been a very, very long journey," he continued. "Fourteen years is a long time, especially when you live under these conditions. I'm tired, I really am. It's not that I'm giving up. That's not it at all. It's just that I'm tired. Anything is better than this."
Testimony showed while he had no previous criminal record, Farris had a reputation as a violent person.
He also acknowledged being a heavy methamphetamine user who made money dealing the illegal drug.
"He was an incredibly violent individual who had told a friend he had been waiting for a chance to kill a cop and did so," David Montague, who prosecuted Farris, said. "He also was a freeway shooter. If you didn't use your signal when you moved in front of him he was likely to pull out a gun and start firing at you."
Montague said in one incident, Farris tried out a new gun by shooting a buffalo at a nature preserve, then drove away.
"He wanted to see what the gun would do," the district attorney said.
Rosenbalm, 27, who had been on the Tarrant County force for about two years, was shot the night of Dec. 4, 1983 when he apparently stumbled on Farris and two men from Wichita Falls conducting an illegal amphetamine buy on a road near Saginaw, northwest of Fort Worth.
Authorities said he was shot when he left his patrol car and approached Farris, who was in a pickup truck. One bullet from a .357-caliber Magnum was stopped by Rosenbalm's protective vest but a second bullet entered under his arm and tore through his lungs and heart.
Passersby found the deputy sprawled on the road near his car. It was the first time in 25 years a Tarrant County deputy was killed in the line of duty.
"I was at the scene," Farris said. "I wasn't there when the crime was committed."
He said he didn't know about the officer's death until he heard about later on the radio.
About a year later, an informant told police a man at a party told him about the slaying. That led to the arrest of Farris and the two Wichita Falls men, Vance Nation and Charles Lowder.
Lowder was given immunity. Nation, who identified Farris as the gunman, wound up with a marijuana possession conviction and a seven-year probated sentence. Farris' former brother-in-law, Jimmy Daniels, also testified that Farris told of killing the officer.
"I feel sorry for the boy who is receiving the punishment," Rosenbalm's father, Clark, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "But he killed my boy and he deserves it."
Unlike Monday's scheduled execution of Gary Graham, another convicted murderer who insisted he is innocent, Farris' execution attracted little attention. Farris disagreed with the combative stance of Graham, whose won a court reprieve earlier this week but not before promising to forcefully resist officers leading him to the death chamber and asking supporters to come armed to Huntsville to protest what he said would be a lynching.
"I hate to hear it, not only for repercussions it might have for the rest of the people here, but I hate it for him as an individual," Farris said. "I'd like to think he could find some peace and go in peace. I think it's very important for everybody."
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Martin Tretola and his wife Cena Tretola at T & T Gunnery, their store in Seaford. (Newsday)
A gun dealer who successfully sued Nassau County for false arrest and malicious prosecution may have deserved significant damages, but not to the tune of $5 million, said a judge who shaved the jury award to about 20 percent of its original amount.
Viewing the payment of $3 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages to Martin Tretola and Marbles Enterprises as excessive, given the case's circumstances and case law on acceptable damage amounts, Eastern District Judge Denis Hurley (See Profile) slashed the total determination to $935,605—$760,605 for compensatory damages and $175,000 for punitive damages.
The judge said that if Tretola didn't accept that amount he would order a new trial on both liability and damages. Tretola, the owner and operator of Marbles Enterprises which does business at T&T Gunnery, has said in court papers that he will accept the remittur.
Though reducing the award in Tretola v. County of Nassau, 08-cv-3225, on Feb. 19, Hurley acknowledged a police officer's "planned transgressions geared to essentially destroy" the dealer and rebuffed the county's bid to vacate the verdict or at least hold a new trial.
The underlying suit arises from a May 2007 inspection of T&T Gunnery's Seaford store by Nassau County Police Officer Eric Faltings, a member of the force's pistol licensing bureau, along with the fire marshal's office and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.
Tretola would later argue that the "massive raid" was rooted in Faltings' attempt to punish Tretola after a heated verbal exchange between the pair in 2006 over what paperwork was necessary for a firearm's release.
The county pointed to evidence suggesting the inspection was spurred by another officer's discovery of bookkeeping errors in Tretola's records.
After the inspection, the business received a number of summonses, including one from the fire marshal faulting the maintenance of fire extinguishers.
More than a month later, the business pleaded guilty to a lesser included offense in county district court on the fire marshal's summons. The outcome of the other summonses is unclear.
During the inspection, Faltings questioned the proximity of a gas line to where guns were fired.
Faltings arrested Tretola three weeks later, on June 1, for felony-level reckless endangerment.
The gas line had long been inactive and Tretola told Faltings it was not working prior to his arrest.
In February 2008, Tretola's criminal case was dismissed on speedy trial grounds.
In August 2008, he and his business sued Faltings, Nassau County and other officers, seeking $12 million in damages.
A jury found for Tretola after a six-day trial in August 2012.
Prior to the civil trial, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice in May 2012 announced the arrests of Tretola and others for allegedly showing undercover officers how to modify legal semi-automatic rifles into illegal assault weapons.
A grand jury dismissed the complaint against Tretola and the others, and he filed a separate civil rights action in October 2013, seeking $8 million. That case is pending.
In the current case, the county argued the false arrest verdict was defective because there was probable cause for the arrest. Moreover, it called the damages award "grossly excessive."
Challenge to Damages
In a 68-page decision, Hurley refused to disturb the jury's findings on liability but said the county's challenge to the damages had merit.
At trial, Tretola testified about the pain and suffering he experienced from his arrest and lost business, which caused sleep problems and weight gain.
Tretola also said he was subjected to negative media coverage and was shunned by law enforcement friends. Others described a change in his demeanor with one witness saying Tretola went from "happy-go-lucky" to "more guarded."
"Given the totality of the evidence presented, the jury was justified in returning a significant non-economic compensatory award. But 'significant' means far less than" the jury's determination, Hurley said.
The injuries covered "a relatively short span of time" and were offered "without any evidence of medical or counseling services being provided," the judge said, adding that Tretola was not physically harmed.
Hurley looked to other cases to calculate proper non-economic damages, such as Zeno v. Pine Plains Central School District, 702 F.3d 655, where a half-white, half-Latino teenager endured three and a half years of harassment from classmates before dropping out of school without a diploma.
A jury awarded the student $1.25 million in compensatory damages but the award was pared down to $1 million and affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Hurley said Zeno was distinguishable by recovering under different laws and implicating the boy's long-term educational and employment opportunities.
But like the current case, there was no medical testimony, no physical injuries and proof of the plaintiffs' emotional state was buttressed by non-professional testimony from others.
Hurley concluded $175,000 was the top award for Tretola's non-economic injuries that did not "shock the judicial conscience." He also set Tretola's economic losses at $585,605.
As for punitive damages, Hurley said they were "clearly" justified, but the question was the amount.
The county suggested $10,000, if anything.
Tretola argued punitive damages should remain undisturbed, or not reduced to extent sought by the county, in order to "send a message."
Hurley said Tretola's argument could "not be squared with established" Second Circuit law and also noted that Tretola's own attorney acknowledged during closings that punitive damages were not in the range of millions.
The county pointed to the circuit reduction in punitive damages to $100,000 from $300,000 for an excessive force and battery suit.
In Payne v. Jones, 711 F.3d 85, a Vietnam veteran was combative and disoriented after being brought to the hospital when he cut his thumb. He was arrested by a police officer who then punched and kneed the handcuffed veteran.
The circuit observed it had sustained punitive awards in police misconduct cases of around $150,000.
Hurley said it was "obvious" that a "drastic reduction" was in line, but Faltings' acts "were at least as sanctionable via a substantial punitive damage award as the dreadful, but unpremeditated misconduct by the defendant officer in Payne, and probably, more so."
Steven Harfenist of Friedman, Harfenist, Kraut & Perlstein in Lake Success represented Tretola in the civil and underlying criminal case.
In an interview, he said Hurley made it "clear that he was outraged by the conduct."
Harfenist said he "always understood the punitive damages award was not sustainable" in light of the circuit's current case law. Still, he was "a little disappointed" in the compensatory damages award, saying the smaller sum "minimized" what Tretola endured.
"In the end, Marty was sufficiently satisfied with the end result and he wanted to move on with his life," said Harfenist, adding there is still a pending application for an award of legal fees and prejudgment interest on the economic loss.
Speaking of the separate lawsuit, Tretola v. D'Amico, 13-cv-5705, Harfenist said, "They just don't want to leave him alone and let him run his business."
In a statement, Nassau County Attorney Carnell Foskey said "We are pleased that the court recognized that the jury verdict was excessive, and that the court properly reduced the amount that the jury awarded. Presently, the county is examining all of its options with respect to an appeal."
The county declined to comment on Falting's employment status.
Assistant County Attorneys Joseph Nocella and Ralph Reissman appeared for Nassau County.
Tretola was also represented by Charles Horn of Friedman Harfenist.
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The mineralogical characteristics of some Turkish opal-CTs collected from West and Middle Anatolia were studied. They are originated from Eocene to Upper Miocene aged volcanic-sedimentary formations. Of the sixteen samples studied, all except one, were found to be optically isotropic. 101-spacings (4 Å band) of opal-CTs show differences within the range of 4.086-4.144 Å. There are proportional relationships between 4 Å band, 2.5 Å line, density and total weight loss values of opal-CTs. As their structural disorder which is observed in 4 Å band values increases, the water content and the density of opal-CTs increase. The structural ordering increases depending on the geological ageing. Opal-CTs of the samples which consist of opal-CT and quartz associations have more ordered structure than those of opal-CTs which are the only component of the samples.
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Very very easy! We offer a web-based dashboard where you are able to control messaging and view our analytics features. Once you purchase and deploy our beacons and integrate our SDK, you'll be able to launch campaigns in minutes, update them in real time and view analytics in real time too!
Can I configure more than one message per beacon and how complex can I make the messaging rules?
Absolutely! You can setup multiple messaging triggers for a single beacon; for example, a beacon can deliver a message to a user when they enter the widest range of the beacon and again when the user is in an "immediate" range.
Can the beacons be used for location based traffic analytics?
Absolutely! Marketing is one component of the power of beacons, but we believe that bringing online analytics to the physical world is just as important. Through strategic placement of beacons you can analyze people's traffic pattern, dwell time, path(s) to register, # of visits to conversion, identify location/merchandise dead spots, etc…
Does ROXIMITY have a reseller program?
Yes! We're always looking for qualified resellers. Please reach out to firstname.lastname@example.com to learn more.
Does ROXIMITY offer developer support?
We do! All inquiries for developer help can be made to: firstname.lastname@example.com
I need a formal invoice for my order, who do I contact?
Yes! Please email email@example.com and we would be happy to create an invoice for your order.
I would like to order a lot of beacons, any chance I can get a discount?
Happy to support your needs, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will get back to you within one business day.
What type of weather can ROXIMITY beacons withstand?
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How long do the beacons last?
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Authorities are searching for a suspect in connection to a double homicide in Greenwood County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a shooting happened near the town of Eureka.
Crews are searching for 35 year old Kevin Welsh.
He's 6 feet tall and weighting 175 pounds.
Welsh is considered armed and dangerous.
The Lyon County Sheriff's Department says they are helping with the search.
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EUREKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities in southeastern Kansas are searching for a 35-year-old suspect in connection with a shooting that left two people dead and another critically injured.
The Greenwood County Sheriff's Department says the suspect, Kevin R. Welsh, is considered armed and dangerous.
The Wichita Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/1c8BvZo ) that when deputies were headed to the Eureka home Wednesday evening on a burglary report, someone called 911 and said shots had been fired. When deputies arrived they found two people dead from gunshot wounds. A third person was taken to a Wichita hospital in critical condition with gunshot wounds.
The sheriff's office says the suspect is driving a late-model gold Explorer with a license plate of 20AXY.
Eureka has about 2,600 residents and is located about 60 miles east of Wichita.
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Building control law reform and building regulatory developments post-1993 – what worked, what failed, what was learnt and what wasn't learnt.
The National Model Building Act was drafted by of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel of NSW at the behest of the AUBRCC, the predecessor of the Australian Building Codes Board.
The NMBA became the law reform blue print or template for much of modern day building control in Australia in that it introduced:
- Proportionate liability
- 10-year liability capping
- Compulsory insurance
- Private certification
At the same time, NZ had introduced a performance based building code and had amended its own Building Act absent the above NMBA reform innovations. Australia used the NZ performance based code as a template for the generation of the performance based building code - the Building Code of Australia that came into being in the mid-1990s.
The conclusions that I proffered with regards to the NMBA legacies were as follows:
Both countries in the early-1990s embarked upon a deregulation drive. Australia focused more on the concept of deregulation with safeguards and had greater regard for utilitarian holistics. NZ, meanwhile, experienced a massive system failure - the leaky building syndrome (LBS), the impact of which still reverberates today.
NZ has paid a terrible price measured in terms of billions of dollars and sadly some lives lost due to leaky building suicide for failing to have sufficient regard to regulatory safeguards and holistics. The LBS has cost the country billions of dollars and culminated in the proclamation of legislation to establish a Weather Tight Homes Tribunal that is still is in existence and was purpose-crafted to adjudicate over leaky building homes disputes.
Both countries witnessed the demise of certain bureaucracies - both the Building Commission of Victoria and the NZBIA fell. Both bodies were born of early-1990s law reform initiatives, good intention and optimism (as is so often the case with reforming civil servants), both were charged with regulatory oversight, but they both in inglorious circumstances were disbanded and their jurisdiction wrenched back into mainstream governmental and overarching departmental control.
In NZ, private certification came and went very quickly, whereas in Australia (albeit in a variety of guises depending upon the jurisdiction) it has survived to date.
A number of stakeholders in both countries came to recognise that the reforms went too far and in some instances not far enough and these are some of the lessons that should be learnt are as follows:
Classic free market principles should not apply to building surveyors in terms of that which they charge as they are performing a critical statuary function. Experience has shown that the free market often ensures that he who charges the least gets the gig, hence the term fee cannibalisation. This "professional" predilection that is characteristic of some members of the certifying profession has culminated, according to the sceptics, in an economic approach being deployed to the time devoted to tasks such as building inspections.
The use of performance based building codes married with the building surveyor's power to issue building permits that are assessed with reference to performance or objective based criteria rather than prescriptive criteria was an ill-conceived cocktail, fraught with downsides and could create an environment where cutting cost "incentivisation" ran the risk of anaesthetising the public safety imperative.
When one introduces a privatised option for building control, then one must have very robust safeguards in place to ensure that the certifier cannot compromise his primary fiduciary obligation - the protection of the public. One of the ways to do this is to ensure that certifiers are audited annually, on at least one occasion each year. This is precisely what occurs in the legal fraternity where lawyers hold client monies in trust.
When one deregulates one must ensure that the utilitarian dividend to the public is not compromised which requires one to embrace the law reform mantra of "deregulation with safeguards." Yes, deregulate - and yes this will improve efficiencies and yes it will reduce the cost of construction. But only deregulate if the regime introduces robust probity mechanisms such as:
- Mandatory annual auditing of key building regulatory service providers. In this regard, look to Japan for the best practice. Note that the Japanese in their Building Act have criminal sanctions for the most heinous of building related regulatory misdemeanours. Some would say that this is a bridge too far, over the top as it were, but not the Japanese who canonise the virtue of public protection.
- Ensure that the insurance and liability apportionment "holistics" are on song. For best practice, look to the proportionate liability and compulsory insurance regime in Victoria. This coupling has endured and unlike private certification has generated no controversy. Do not score highly the residential warranty regime for builders in Australia, however, as this regime has attracted a great deal of ire on the part of consumer advocates.
- For best practice in long tail liability, look to Victoria with its 10-year liability regime, but recognise that that concept is French in derivation.
In terms of law reform philosophy or "scientific method" as it were, I was at pains to make the point that a responsibly strategic and forward-thinking approach needed to be applied to law reform and I opined that when fashioning new building controls one needs to bring to bear a mindset to bear that is akin to that of the master chess player. One looks to the future, one thinks through the consequences of each proposed change/move as the legacy of same will be reminiscent of a game of chess where the wrong move will generate unintended consequences.
And for policy makers one asks this question: Am I the policy maker effecting a change that will one day "check mate" my constituents or am I effecting a change that will culminate in success?
Success in this case can be defined as utilitarian regulations that improve construction efficiencies with the attendant benefits of lower cost outcomes along with the paramount complements of an as built product that is kind to the consumer and the general public. The later objective after all is the raison d'être of enlightened and responsible building control.
When the World Bank invests in law reform or microeconomic reform initiatives in developing countries, it needs to be convinced that the reform manifesto, as it were, is very well thought through. For there to be confidence in this aspiration, due diligence will establish that the reforms once enacted, will more or less guarantee the desired outcome so that there will be no unintended consequences as ill-conceived reform can actually be a regressive step both economically and socially and at worst can compromise the public interest.
This synopsis of recommendations came from a paper that I presented at a World Bank event organised in collaboration with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery and the Doing Business Teams of the World Bank a fortnight ago in Washington DC. The World Bank does a phenomenal amount of humanitarian work in this paradigm.
Good article Kim. Your "game of chess" analogy is appropriate to the forward thinking approach that should be applied to building control policy for micro-economic reform proposals in not only developing countries but also countries that purport to embrace best practice. There can often be a chasm between best practice rhetoric or best practice evangelism and the "road tested" as built reality the New Zealand Leaky Building Syndrome maelstrom that has cost the country billions of dollars is very, very sobering. If reformers are considering a privatisation of building control they must consider the strengths and weaknesses of what other nations have implemented before any deregulation is undertaken. Deregulation should not come at a risk to its ultimate purpose, namely its fiduciary obligation to the protection of the public. It's encouraging to hear that the World Bank is very proactive in the disaster recovery and the disaster resilience coverage in third world countries.
Hindsight is wonderful. Perhaps Kim, when you wrote the Building Act in 1993(?) you should have included a requirement for the building commission (as it was then) to carry out yearly audits. In 20 years of private practice I was not audited once.
Great breakdown of why gung ho deregulation is a menace to consumers.
If you want to think strategically you need first ask the question are the people who are being given a licence to construct our various types of built environment assets adequately educated, trained and uniformly tested before the regulatory authority grants them an occupational licence to do so?
The focus on 'checking' which is fundamentally what the so called certification or in old style parlance – building surveyor – role involves is really a QA conformance process. It is meant to find mistakes. If the 'builder' was as stringently regulated in terms of having to qualify themselves to be given a licence to practice as say a doctor or legal practitioner, there would likely be little need for someone else to check their work standard on every project they construct. In other words let's plan to eliminate mistakes being made in the first instance. At the moment, we are going backwards by trying to put the cart before the horse.
Hi Kim,
Great article, you have hit the nail on the head. 'Deregulation' of technical requirements (i.e the performance-based BCA) was a significant national reform by the ABCB, which has achieved much success including reduced construction costs and innovative (and often safer) buildings. Unfortunately a reform of this magnitude also required tighter 're-regulation' of practitioners (a State/Territory issue), including guidelines, ethical standards, audits and substantial enforcement. That this did not happen says a lot about the federalised (and fractured) nature of building control across Australia and the lack of nationally consistent administrative provisions to support the BCA. hopefully we can rein this back in before its too late.
I am a New Zealander and love my country. I do not love the maelstrom that is the Leaky Building Syndrome. Billions of dollars have been spent on this debacle that was inspired by building regulations that provided the fertilizer for a major system failure. If there is one way to turn lemon into lemonade it is to learn from the past and to ensure that the mistakes of the past are not visited upon those who occupy the future. So yes policy makers and law reformers must be very careful about importing that which is heralded as being best practice from far away lands without having a very high level of confidence in the fact that the public and the industry being better off. The "leaky" tarpaulin covered buildings that punctuate the Auckland city sky line are a constant reminder of the sadness that has been visited upon a great many of my fellow Kiwis.


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