Former Professor of English and Director of Composition at Univ. of HI.
In 1989, she became director of composition, a job she loved, she says, because the required first-year writing course gave her a chance to shape a curriculum that would teach critical thinking and "empower" the many "provincial, religious, concrete thinkers," who, as she had been, were the first generation in their families to attend college.
As director of freshman composition, she became aware of this almost 10 years ago.
Douglas Vakoch, the editor of "Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication," is the director of interstellar message composition at the SETI Institute, in Mountain View, California.
Given that one pound of muscle burns between 7 to 13 calories a day (as determined by studies that measured oxygen and blood flow to tissues), that means the average boost in metabolism is only 14 to 52 calories a day, said Dympna Gallagher, the director of the body composition unit at the New York Obesity Research Center in Manhattan.
"Instead of listing our achievements and goals, or attempting to sensibly encode our biological structure, or providing instructions on navigating our solar system," said Douglas A. Vakoch, director of interstellar message composition for the SETI Institute, "the loudest message is people asking for help".
Douglas Vakoch, the director of interstellar message composition at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, doesn't dismiss the need to consider ethical or political issues, but says that it will be tough to achieve a consensus.
But for starters, being honest about who we are is important if we want to have an extra-terrestrial dialogue lasting centuries, says Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar message composition at Seti. (Otherwise, intelligent civilisations who've decoded our radio and TV signals might smell a rat).
To get as wide a range of viewpoints as possible, the conference organizer, the Institute's Director of Interstellar Message Composition Doug Vakoch, brought together an international crowd of anthropologists, philosophers, linguists, astronomers, archaeologists, social psychologists, journalists and designers.
Sharing Zhang Ziyi and a composer with Crouching Tiger and two stars - Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung - and cinematographer Christopher Doyle with In the Mood for Love, it displays such loving care for colour (always a speciality of director Zhang Yimou), composition and nature as to make the average feature film look like a holiday camcorder job.
Already aboard the train, Ottinger proves herself to be a director with an enchanted sense of composition.
