#lectern

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Lectern

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Anti-LGBTQ+ Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) acknowledged that she spent $19,000 in state taxpayer funds on a lectern that she’s not even publicly using. She paid for it using a state credit card, and the Republican Party of Arkansas eventually reimbursed the state for the lectern, but only after a local blogger revealed the uncommonly expensive purchase.

While speaking to the press on Tuesday, Sanders explained that she would not be using the lectern, even though it was purchased specifically for her public statements as Governor, because the media would “talk about nothing else” if she used it for its intended purpose.

“I figure if you do [use the lectern], you [the media] would talk about nothing else than the important actions that we’re actually taking … which, unfortunately, is not surprising, that while we are focused on things that actually impact our state and impact Arkansans, the media wants to spend all of their time on things that frankly don’t,” she chastised reporters on Tuesday.

Sanders’ office purchased the custom blue and wood-paneled lectern from Beckett Events LLC in June for $19,029.25, “significantly higher than prices listed online for other lecterns,” KTHV reported. On Tuesday, she explained several features that may have added to its cost.

“In terms of specific features, the height of the podium is specific,” she said. “I don’t know if you noticed but women are traditionally shorter than our male counterparts. And so that makes a little bit of a difference…. It also incorporates sound components that make it easier to plug in for multiple media outlets at one time to get the best sound quality, I guess, possible, to relay back to TV and the purposes of that nature.”

In September, local blogger Matt Campbell revealed that Sanders’ office had made the expensive purchase. Sanders’ executive assistant and office manager Laura Hamilton has since been accused of altering an invoice for its purchase, writing an undated note that the item was “to be reimbursed.” Hamilton hasn’t revealed who allegedly told her to add the note.

Sanders’ office has also been accused of illegally withholding and redacting documents associated with its purchase. She has claimed that she purchased it using taxpayer funds as an “accounting error” and said that questions around its purchase are “nothing more than a manufactured controversy.” However, state Sen. Jimmy Hickey (R) has ordered a legislative audit to “get all the facts.”

Although the Republican Party of Arkansas reimbursed the state for the purchase, “A check from the party was not written until September, three months after it was purchased,” the aforementioned news outlet reported.

In March, Sanders signed a law prohibiting trans students from using bathrooms that match their gender identity.

In February, she signed a bill reclassifying drag performances as adult-oriented entertainment. In March, she signed a “Don’t Say Gay” law, banning classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation before fifth grade, as well as another bill allowing anyone who received gender-affirming care as a minor to sue their doctor up to 15 years after they turn 18.

In June, a federal judge struck down the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, which the legislature passed before Sanders became Governor.

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Standi

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Reading lesson at our local at Christmas

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Haiku L

Tell a stranger friend

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20231115_F0001: Shadowed chairs pattern by Wei-Feng Xue Via Flickr: - The abstract pattern of chairs. These are identical chairs and the repeating shadows cast by the pillars in the cathedral rendered this stripy pattern.

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#Friday Funnies 😆 A perennial debate that only a Toastmaster can appreciate

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Idiot : Idiolect :: Arctic Tern : Arctic Lectern

[andrewpcannon]

New Charitable Project: The No Limits Pulpit Stand

There are many churches that give of themselves and have very little. Such is the case with one of the churches near me. I was asked if I would be interested in building a nice pulpit stand to donate (not by this church but by a friend), and I agreed. Let me share the design with you. Contribute to This Project Now This pulpit stand will stand approximately 48″ off the ground and features a…

[jonnyhathima]

https://www.ergoflex.in/lectern-podium-furniture

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"dear diary, i died once again. Otherwise that run was pretty epic :)"

i got possessed by the visions.

[hoarder-of-dragons]

The only reason Aziraphale didn't mention the Eagle Lectern in Crowley's flat (and question it) is because he doesn't remember anything from the bombing at 1941 other than just Crowley saving him and seeing Crowley for the first time and Crowley saving him from the Nazis by entering the holy ground, Crowley ,Crowley ,Crowley.......

[spockandawe]

Two! The Disabled Tyrant's Pet Palm Fish, again. Guys, I truly forgot how much I adore this INCREDIBLY silly book. It was tied for svsss and 'with absolute splendor' for my first attempt at bookbinding. I still have my original wiggly-ass coptic of the first half of this novel. And I did it again in those early months too! And then I somehow forgot it for like two years?? Anyways, I had to go all out. Lectern book time.

But backtrack a little. I'm usually not a super involved typesetter. I'd like to be better about it, but if something is super abstract or doesn't have clear visual thematic elements for me to riff on, I get frustrated and move on. Fortunately, this is the fish book, about fishfucking, where a man has a passionate romance with his pet fish. With easy mode activated, I went for it.

Fish interior? Fish endpapers? Fish exterior? We've got it all, baby! Secretly, Jing-wang personally designed this book.

This was SO fun. I love this book to pieces. Everyone should absolutely support the coming official translation, I'll be doing so, and I'm VERY excited to throw my money at it. But in the meantime, I'll probably bind at least one more personal fancy copy! I was too fried to give this the lavish edge art treatment, but... there's always next time! Can i find a fish charm for a bookmark? I bet I can! Tooling the leather in a decorative fish design? Baby, I'm considering trying to tool this spine, next time is a given. Genuinely, my goal is to bind this book in a way so overwhelmingly thematic that Jing-wang would nod in approval. I'm a very serious artist.

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Lectern Book Case!

After this tiktok video with a suprise find of a lectern bookcase made it's round and @spockandawe made two very cool and helpful posts about their process, I wanted to try my hand at it:

This is Dishonor On Your Cow by mandarou for which I did two versions. One is sewn and one is assembled with the Lumbecker glue technique. I used that one for my experiment, which I regret in hindsight, but alas.

About my process:

I tried following the measurements spock did, but to be honest my brain didn't want to do the math so I found a slightly rougher solution.

First I did a mockup to see how the single parts should be assembled and what would be possible obstacles. (I recommend doing that! It was very helpful)

on the right is the mock-up on the left is part of the real one. You can see that the edges of the three pieces don't line up very well.

To get the pieces for the case:

this was my sketch:

Pieces A and B I got by cutting the piece I would for a normal case:

Side a is the length of your book block plus 2x3mm and side b is the width of your book block minus 2mm (because of the hinges).

(I guess whatever measurements you're normally working with will work here as well.)

Then I measured 2,5cm from side b and drew the diagonal, as you can see in the picture. Piece A is already oriented right. Piece B has to be flipped (marked with the arrow).

And piece C you get by making one side as long as the corresponding side from piece B and decide on your angle gamma. (That's the only real math I used here). I took 113° but it doesn't have to be precise. It just influences how steep the book will stand, later on. (I would use one above 90° though).

Then I arranged them and cut the two spine pieces:

You can see that one spine piece needs to be as long as piece B and one as long as piece C. The width depends on how thick your book block is. I also wrote on the pieces which side is for the front and which for the back. This also helped with putting it together with the right side up, because I confused this one time and it's really easy to assemble it wrong. Then I marked down, which sides would touch later on (one side for piece A and C respectively, piece B gets cut on two sides. Don't worry it will look, like it's too short) and cut away 1mm to allow space for the hinges.

Then I glued everything except for spine C on package paper. You can see that I left space for the hinges. Normally I do 7mm. I did this for the spacing between Pieces B and Spine B . Pieces A and C I aligned so that the meeting point between them would be a straight line, as to avoiding the problem that arose in the mock-up. See here:

I also made sure that the pieces would align on the left side as well. The spacing was a little secondary. It's not that important.

Then I trimmed the packagin paper, glued the bookcloth on and added spine C:

I made sure to use the bone folder to really impress the hinges from both sides.

(Additional tip. Before you do that, test if you assembled it right)

I added a piece of cloth in the middle (you will be able to see parts of the inside of the case when you open the book), I cut away the excess fabric to the sides of spine C and folded them outwards and glued them down. I left them up along spine C.

Then I brought the case in position and used those fabric flaps to glue it into this position. Afterwards it won't lay down anymore, so do your decorating and everything else beforehand.

Lastly, I cut a piece of cloth for the bottom because you will be able to see it as well, when you open the book:

(Just do an approximation and then cut it down piece by piece. Unless you're really good with measuring and angles. :D)

Then I assembled the book. I put the book block inside and marked where side A would be on the endpapers. I only glued that part because the rest will have to disengage from the case (That's also the only part that doesn't need an inner lining):

And this is the finished book

You can see part of the spine. Next time I would conceal that as well.

I also highly advise against using a Lumbecker binding. This kind of case puts a lot of stress on the book. Mine is falling apart already. I think a sewn book block would hold up better.

Anyway, it is very late and I tried my best describing the process. If anyone wants more details or a better version of the sketch, hit me up :)