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#19453010 at 2023-08-29 11:33:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23891: E bake
>>19452947
>>19452976
>Great Bay Kids Co. names new board members
https://web.archive.org/web/20161112042613/http://www.greatbaykids.org/about-us/board-members/
Board Members
Rob Harbeson, Chair
Rob Harbeson is the founder and owner of Market Square Architects PLLC in Portsmouth, NH. He lives in Stratham with his wife and their two sons, who attends the Pease Center. Rob worked on the design and construction of the Pease Center. Rob holds a Master of Architecture Degree from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering with a Minor in Art History from the University of Delaware. He is accredited through NCARB and IDP, and is a Registered Architect in the State of New Hampshire. Rob is a member of the AIA, and sits on the Board of Directors for Area HomeCare in Portsmouth.
Marc Fournier, Vice Chair
Marc joined the Board in 2013. He is the Assoc. Director of Benefits & Compensation for the University System of New Hampshire. Marc's role at USNH is to ensure high quality benefits and competitive salaries to the 10,000+ employees of the State's college system (UNH, Keene, Plymouth and Granite State colleges.) Marc has been a human resources professional for more than 18 years and is also a Certified Medical Practice Executive. Marc lives in Exeter with his wife and two daughters, one of whom is a graduate of Great Bay Kids' Company and the other a current attendee.
Laura Leber, Treasurer
Laura joined the Board in 2010. She is a self-employed CPA with 30 years of tax and accounting experience. Laura resides in South Berwick and is married with two adult children. She is very supportive of GBKC and the quality early childhood education and care provided.
James Grant, Secretary
James is a Construction Project Manager at Adrenaline, LLC in Portsmouth, NH. James holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida and is a licensed structural engineer in the state of New Hampshire. James and his wife Stephanie currently reside in Portsmouth, NH with their son, Tripp. In his free Time James enjoys fishing, sailing, surfing and snowboarding.
Jessica Lyons, Board Member
Jessica is a self-employed psychotherapist and business consultant. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School at UNH in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and a current GBKC parent.
Alex Talcott, Board Member
Alex is a family financial advisor with Ameriprise, based in the Portsmouth Office. A financial services attorney by trade, he continues to teach business law at Southern New Hampshire University. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Notre Dame Law School. Alex lives in Durham with his wife, toddler twins, dog and cat.
Tim Reed, Board Member
Tim is a product development manager for Teaching Strategies, an early childhood education firm that publishes the Creative Curriculum and GOLD by Teaching Strategies. Tim has been with Teaching Strategies since 2010, and currently oversees the product side of technology development after holding various positions with the firm, including implementation support and content development. Tim is also working towards a master's degree in Educational Technology Leadership from George Washington University, expecting to graduate in Spring 2017. Tim and his wife moved to Exeter, NH, in May of this year with their 14 month old daughter, Maddie, who attends the Exeter GBKC center, and their dog, Duffy.
Thomas Cronin, Board Member
Tom is the Public Affairs Manager for the University of New Hampshire where he focuses on the University's government relations, advocacy and engagement efforts at the local, state and national level. He joined UNH in July of 2014 after nearly ten years as a legislative and campaign staffer.
Most recently, Tom served as the Communications Director and before that the Majority Caucus Director for the New Hampshire State Senate. In those roles he was a senior advisor to the Senate President and Senate leadership on matters of communications and legislative strategy. As Communications Director, Tom was responsible for regularly interactive with the press, public and interested organizations on a nonpartisan basis concerning the Senate's business, agenda and accomplishments.
Prior to the State Senate, Tom was alegislative aide in the Washington, DC office of U.S. Senator John E. Sununu.He is a veteran of multiple New Hampshire political campaigns.
Tom is a graduate of Saint Anselm College and earned his Master's in Public Administration from the University of New Hampshire. He lives in Exeter with his wife ?ine and their daughter Clementine.
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (2)
#20108469 at 2023-12-21 09:51:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
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Zero or nominal damages
During his closing address, Collins argued Lehrmann should receive only low or no damages even if he won his defamation case against Ten and Wilkinson.
Collins said the vast majority of viewers of Wilkinson's interview with Higgins would have had "no idea" that Lehrmann was the unnamed man accused of raping Higgins in Reynolds' office.
Lehrmann's legal team argue that he was identified by the descriptions given in the interview of Higgins' alleged assailant, but Collins argued that "overall we say the identification case is weak".
While a small pool of people, including some political staffers, would have identified Lehrmann from the broadcast, Collins said the damages would be "correspondingly limited" if he won the case.
Collins added that the damages payout would be "completely out of proportion to the costs and energy that has gone into the running of this case", and it might be a case where the judge ought not to award damages at all.
Ten's defences
If the court finds Lehrmann was identified in the interview, which is a threshold issue in the case, Ten and Wilkinson are seeking to rely on defences of truth and qualified privilege.
Under the truth defence, Ten must prove on the balance of probabilities that Lehrmann raped Higgins.
While this is less onerous than the criminal standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt, the so-called Briginshaw principle applies in civil cases involving serious allegations and requires courts to proceed cautiously in making grave findings.
Qualified privilege relates to publications of public interest and requires a media outlet to show it acted reasonably. Wilkinson's evidence was directly relevant to that defence.
'Utterly irreconcilable' accounts
Collins said Lehrmann and Higgins had provided "utterly irreconcilable" evidence about the events leading up to and including March 23, 2019. Higgins had given a vivid description of sexual assault by Lehrmann and Lehrmann had told the court there was no sexual activity whatsoever.
Collins argued the evidence established that "Mr Lehrmann was physically attracted to Ms Higgins", and pointed to the evidence of former Liberal staffer Nicole Hamer, who said Lehrmann told her on March 2, 2019, that he found Higgins "good-looking" and urged her to invite Higgins to drinks that night. Lehrmann told the court he did not say that, before adding, "I just don't recall this conversation occurring."
He also pointed to the evidence of an expert lip-reader, Tim Reedy - "What an impressive witness, in our respectful submission," Collins said - who gave evidence that Lehrmann urged Higgins to skol a drink ("drink it all") in the hours before the alleged rape and said three drinks on a table were "all hers". Lehrmann denied saying those words.
Views peaked during Higgins' evidence
The trial has been livestreamed on the Federal Court's YouTube channel and attracted its highest number of views on November 30, during Higgins' evidence (124,445 views). Higgins was called as a witness by Ten as part of its truth defence.
The second-highest number of views was recorded on December 14 during Wilkinson's evidence (119,502), according to figures supplied by the Federal Court.
The views were lower during Lehrmann's evidence at the start of the trial, including on November 24 (46,161).
It is the first Time in Australian legal history that a de facto sexual assault trial - involving Ten seeking to prove on the balance of probabilities that Lehrmann raped Higgins in 2019 - has been streamed live to the public.
The court did not sit on Wednesday but released via YouTube the recorded evidence of Brown, Reynolds' former chief of staff, who appeared in the witness box on Monday and Tuesday. Brown's evidence was not streamed live on those days owing to mental health considerations.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/online-views-of-lehrmann-case-peaked-during-higgins-wilkinson-evidence-20231221-p5eswl.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJtlQXmEK3o
#20098432 at 2023-12-19 09:42:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
>>20092945
Lip-reader spent three days analysing CCTV footage of Lehrmann and Higgins, court told
Michaela Whitbourn, Perry Duffin and Clare Sibthorpe - December 19, 2023
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A UK-based lip-reader flown to Sydney by Network Ten to give evidence as part of its defence to Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case says he spent three days analysing CCTV footage of the former Liberal staffer and Brittany Higgins in a Canberra bar in the hours before she alleges she was raped.
Tim Reedy, who became profoundly deaf at the age of four, told the Federal Court in Sydney on Tuesday that the CCTV footage of the pair drinking with colleagues at The Dock hotel in Canberra on March 22, 2019, was "one of the better CCTV cameras" he had seen.
He told the court he was able to use Apple technology to "fine-tune the pixelation until the image was very sharp" and place a magnifier "over the person who is speaking in the bar".
Reedy said he had "spent a good three days" looking at the footage and had the luxury of playing it repeatedly.
He told the court he had been engaged as a lip-reader for a range of media outlets and had analysed the coronation of King Charles for The Sunday Times, as well as assisting police investigations.
Justice Michael Lee asked if lip-reading the coronation involved trying to discern "what one minor royal said to another ... or something like that", and Reedy agReed, saying the newspaper liked "a bit of gossip".
Australian accents
At one stage on Tuesday, Lee and three senior barristers gathered around Reedy to observe excerpts of the CCTV footage on a laptop.
Under cross-examination by Lehrmann's barrister, Steven Whybrow, SC, Reedy said there was a "big difference" between analysing CCTV and lip-reading in daily life. He was able to watch a video at different speeds and play it repeatedly, he said.
Whybrow asked Reedy whether a note he wrote saying "man is lining up drinks; plying the woman with alcohol" was something he had been instructed had happened or had assessed himself.
Reedy told the court he observed drinks being "pushed" in Higgins' direction, which suggested she was being plied with alcohol.
Whybrow asked Reedy if Higgins' evidence during the trial that if someone had given her a drink "there was never a way I wasn't going to finish it" would affect his opinion that Higgins had said at one point "I don't want to" in response to Lehrmann allegedly encouraging her to skol a drink.
Reedy said: "That's what I believe she said."
"You have not had any experience with Australian accents?" Whybrow asked.
"Yes I have. I've met Australian people throughout my life," he said.
"Would you accept that in the circumstances where you have never been assessed as to the accuracy of your lip-reading some of your opinions might not be correct?" Whybrow said.
"I would say they're more correct than not," Reedy said.
Lehrmann disagReed during his evidence that he gestured towards a drink at The Dock at about 11.50pm and told Higgins: "Drink that all now."
The court has previously been shown CCTV footage in which Lehrmann placed three drinks in front of Higgins at The Dock and gestured towards them. Lehrmann denied during his evidence that he had said the words "all hers, all hers", and denied he encouraged Higgins to get drunk.
The expert report
Lee ruled this month that Ten could tender a report in which Reedy expresses an opinion on words spoken by Lehrmann and Higgins at The Dock, based on an analysis of the CCTV footage, and confirmed that ruling on Tuesday.
The judge made clear that his ruling allowing the report to be admitted in evidence was not an indication of the weight he would ulTimately place on the opinions expressed in it.
The lawsuit
Lehrmann is suing Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson over an interview with Higgins, broadcast on The Project on February 15, 2021, that he alleges defames him by suggesting he is guilty of raping Higgins in then defence industry minister Linda Reynolds' Parliament House office in the early hours of March 23, 2019.
Both Higgins and Lehrmann worked as advisers to Reynolds. Lehrmann has denied raping Higgins and has told the Federal Court there was no sexual contact between the pair at all.
The court will not sit on Wednesday, but the trial will resume on Thursday and Friday for closing submissions. Lee said he was prepared to sit extended hours on those days.
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