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otw_news_feed) wrote2025-06-23 12:33 am2025 OTW Elections Candidates Announcement
Candidates Announcement
The Organization for Transformative Works is pleased to announce the following candidates for the 2025 Election (in alphabetical order by given name):
- C. Ryan S.
- Elizabeth W.
- Harlan L.B.
Because we have 2 seats to be filled and 3 candidates, the 2025 election will be contested – that is, the members of the OTW will vote on which candidates fill the seats.
The Elections Committee is excited to introduce the candidates to all of the members of the OTW! Included in this post are links to short Bios and Platforms written by the candidates. This post also marks the beginning of our Q&A period, during which we invite the public to submit questions for the candidates. Additionally, we will be holding a series of live chats – dates and times for those are to be announced based on candidate availability. Information on the voting period and how to vote will also be posted shortly.
In the meantime, there is a timeline of Elections events available here for your reference. Read on to learn more about our candidates and how you can submit questions for them!
Platforms and Bios
We asked each candidate to provide us with a Bio that sums up their professional and fannish experience, as well as to write a Platform about their goals for their term on the Board by answering the following questions:
- Why did you decide to run for election to the Board?
- What skills and/or experience would you bring to the Board?
- Choose one or two goals for the OTW that are important to you and that you would be interested in working on during your term. Why do you value these goals? How would you work with others to achieve them?
- What is your experience with the OTW’s projects and how would you collaborate with the relevant committees to support and strengthen them? Try to include a range of projects, though feel free to emphasize particular ones you have experience with.
- How would you balance your Board work with other roles in the OTW, or how do you plan to hand over your current roles to focus on Board work?
You can read both the candidates’ answers to these questions and their bios by following the links below.
Question & Answer (Q&A)
To better accommodate the time constraints of the election and the workload for candidates, we are asking voters to limit to one question per message. Additional questions in the same message will be discarded. Limit of three questions per person.
Anyone may submit questions via the Elections form. Please submit all questions by 11:59pm UTC on June 29 (what time is that where I live?). All candidates will answer each question submitted, subject to the following restrictions:
- Questions must be a maximum of 50 words long.
- Any submitted questions repeating what is already addressed on Platforms will be ignored. This is to allow candidates to dedicate more time to answering new questions.
- Similar questions will be grouped together to avoid candidates giving repetitive answers. Elections volunteers will decide which questions are similar enough to group.
- If you have a follow-up to a Platform question, please specifically mention it is a follow-up so Elections volunteers know not to treat it as a repeat.
- One question per message. Additional questions in the same message will be discarded.
- Maximum of three questions per person.
The posting date for answers will be chosen depending on the number of questions received. Posts will be spread out, arranged by topic, to make it easier for voters to read all the answers.
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musesfool) wrote2025-06-22 08:50 pm
i kicked and screamed, said, "please, don't go"
I did nope out of the extra steps of making chicken parm, though. No need to put the oven on again - I did enough of that yesterday when I baked chocolate banana bread and then made bacon for lunch for several days during the week. I just need to get through Tuesday - our only in-person board meeting this year and gosh, I wish we had talked the CEO out of it since it's supposed to be 97°F on Tuesday, but we did not. Hopefully people show up! (if they don't, that can be the argument against doing it again, at least until we get a new CEO. Their poor showing last September let us convince everyone that we only needed to do it once this year.) And I am meeting Friend L for dinner afterwards, so that should be fun! Next week I have a 3-day work week and then 2 weeks after that, I'm off for a whole week for my birthday week, so really, it's just getting through Tuesday. *deep breaths*
I did not watch the Mets last night and they mashed, so I decided not to watch them again tonight (also ESPN is the worst), which seems like the right decision, since they are being soundly beaten, at least so far. Sigh. I know it's a long season, but couldn't they have saved some of those runs for tonight?
Sigh.
*
genarti) wrote2025-06-22 07:55 pmThat art show thing I mentioned last post
Back in late February, I spotted a flyer that someone had hung up on the studio bulletin board. It was a call for Boston-area artists to submit art inspired by Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, as part of an art show and book circle event co-organized by two local stores, The Local Hand and JustBook-ish.
I'd been meaning to read Parable of the Sower for ages, and the idea of doing a pottery piece inspired by a book seemed really fun -- like a Yuletide prompt, but for physical objects. Also, if your piece was accepted, you got a $500 stipend and 75% of the sale price if your piece sold, and let's be real, that was also extremely motivating.
And motivation was useful! Because the deadline was just over a month away. Pottery has a lot of built-in wait time while things dry, get fired, etc, so on a once-a-week schedule that was going to be pretty tight.
So I read the book, and loved it -- I'd been told that it was brilliant, which it is, and that it's brutal, which it is, but all of the (accurate!) discussions of its brutality hadn't conveyed the fierce pragmatism and focus of how Butler writes hope and community, and that's what I loved most -- and by the next week, I had a plan.
( About my piece, and the process, and also noodling about pottery and art -- this got very long )
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guardian_learning2025-06-22 07:47 pm第四年第一百六十四天
刀 parts 5-9
刚, just now; 创, to create; 利, favorable; 刮, to shave/to blow; 到, until/to arrive; 制, to make/to control; 刷, to paint/to brush; 券, ticket; 刹, to brake; 刺, thorn/to prick; 刻, moment/to engrave; 前, front/forward; 剧, play/opera/drama; 剪, to cut/prune/edit; 剩, to be left over
( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=18
力 part 1
力, power/force; 劝, to encourage; 办, to deal with
( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=19
语法
Chapter 28 quiz: Time expressions
Chapter 29 quiz: Sentence-ending particles
Chapter 30 quiz: Conjunctions
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php
词汇
跳, jump; 跳高, high jump; 跳舞, dance; 跳远, broad jump
铁, iron; 铁路, railroad
听力, listening comprehension; 听众, audience/listeners; 打听, inquire; 收听, listen in
停止, stop
通常, usually; 通信, to communicate/correspond
同意, agree; 共同, common
( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/
玩玩
Two sad, or at least wistful, ones, 独处 (Li Hao) and 轻轻 (Jiang Dunhao), and one to cheer up a little, Joysaaa’s 明明 (h/t reshiel).
太热了吧，我最讨厌夏天啊。大家怎么样？好好凉快（南半球朋友们，好好温暖）!
mrkinch) wrote2025-06-21 03:45 pm6/21/2025 Loop Road and Laurel Canyon
On the way back I walked down to the bench at the top of the Little Farm hoping to see swallows. No swallows, just Wild Turkeys. Couldn't even find a Black Phoebe, which was a disappointment.
redbird) wrote2025-06-22 06:28 pm(no subject)
That was fun, and now they have left and I have taken my mask and clothes off, and am drinking tea. I ended the visit when I started getting uncomfortably warm despite the AC, as well as it being time for me to have tea.
mrissa) wrote2025-06-22 04:36 pmSFWA Poetry Open Mic
I've been reading my own prose in public for audiences for more than 25 years now, and I've even thrown in a poem or two as spice. But this Saturday is the first time I will be doing a dedicated poetry reading! If you're a Nebula attendee or a SFWA member, please join us on Saturday, June 28th, at 11 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Central).
rmc28) wrote2025-06-22 10:33 pmEvents of note this week (mostly hockey)
You may have noticed it's been hot in England. So a lot of this week has just been the extra routines to cope with that (airing out the house at night / early morning, extra hydration, more naps).
It was a three-day week at work for me, with Monday my travel day back from Prague, and Wednesday a multi-errand day. Tuesday was a hectic day at work, but a rare evening with very few plans, so I actually rested. Wednesday had EHCP review for one child; a lunchtime skating lesson for me; a school bowling trip, hospital appointment and shopping all with the other child; and then Kodiaks practice in the evening.
This week and next are 4-day weeks at work for me; I am having a long weekend away in Portsmouth with one of my oldest friends from university. Probably my only trip away this year that isn't directly about ice hockey. (But there is a rink in Gosport and both of us skate.) We plan to visit the Mary Rose, and I at least want to visit both the Submarine Museum and the Explosion Museum. I have been intrigued by the latter since I saw a road sign for it on the way to Gosport rink last month, but haven't yet found anything else about it apart from name and location. No spoilers!
sage) wrote2025-06-22 03:46 pmDammit
( astrology geekery )
...
I hate being right about bad things. :(
cosmolinguist) wrote2025-06-22 09:40 pmMatchy-matchy
D and I both are encouraged by the healthcare system to take our blood pressure more regularly and/or without the white-coat syndrome (that one's me, though it's not "I'm stressed to be at the doctor's office" so much as "I'm stressed about the anti-fatness I must tolerate imminently in order to sometimes get the healthcare I need).
We had to measure our upper arms today in order to make sure the machine we're ordering has a cuff big enough.
And it turns out they are the same circumference! To the centimeter. How romantic!
lovelyangel) wrote2025-06-22 01:37 pmAnother Hiatus
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I need a loaf for a gathering on Wednesday, but I’ve scrapped my plan to use the remaining dough for another bake test and then prepare another two pounds of dough. I got lazy, and I’ll just use the remaining pound of dough for the loaf for Wednesday (which I’ll need to bake on Tuesday). I’ll try to stretch the loaf correctly and bake a little longer on Tuesday.
psocoptera) wrote2025-06-22 03:40 pmThe Tomb of Dragons
One spoiler: ( Read more... )
shewhomust) wrote2025-06-22 06:17 pmSkirting the Castle
Yesterday,
durham_rambler visited the Castle: we walked out together, towards the blurred shape gradually emerging from the mist. When he took the right-hand path up to the entrance, I continued along the foot of the crag, out to the sea, to the stretch where I might have stood and watched for the sunrise, if I had been willing to get up at four o'clock. The mist thinned enough for me to pick out Bamburgh Castle to my right, and maybe - just maybe - the Farne Islands swimming ahead of me. Off to the left, the daymark on Emmanuel Head was bright (has it been repainted lately?). I thought I would walk along as far as the path down to the Castle garden, and was surprised to find that I was there already.
The garden was a riot of clashing colours, poppies everywhere and sweet peas climbing over everything: it was quite glorious, but far from the cool white, blue and silver I thought I remembered. I can't find any reference (here, for instance) to recent changes; they talk about reinstating Gertrude Jekyll's design, but that seems to refer to the layout of the paths and the shape of the planting, rather than the colours... Anyway, I'm not complaining, and I spent a happy half hour admiring it from every angle.
The promised rain arrived yesterday evening, and we had thunder and lightning overnight. And that's yesterday.
oursin) wrote2025-06-22 06:46 pmCulinary
This week's bread: a rather basic wheatgerm loaf, something like 70/30 wholemeal/strong white flour + wheatgerm, splosh of oil, turned out quite well considering it was the last scrapings of the recent batch of yeast.
Friday night supper: sorta-nasi-goreng with chorizo.
Saturday breakfast rolls: adaptable soft rolls, approx 4:1 strong brown/Marriage's Golden Wholegrain Bread Flour (end of bag), maple syrup, dried cherries. Tasty but a bit stodgy.
Today's lunch: bozbash, with red bell pepper, baby orange and yellow peppers, aubergine, okra, and baby courgettes, dried cherries, 5-pepper blend, dried basil, fresh green coriander (cilantro), and to finish, raspberry vinegar, served with couscous with toasted (slightly burnt) pinenuts.