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Rumbling Bald Mountain overlooks Lake
Lure near the town of Chimney
Rock, NC. Its about 1 hour east of Brevard, NC (Looking Glass).
Drive time from Columbia, SC is 2.5 hours; from Greenville, SC:
1 hour
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Bald offers excellent but difficult one and two pitch climbs in
beautiful (though touristy) Hickory
Nut Gorge (map) filled by Lake Lure. The lake, created in the
1920's by the damming of the Rocky Broad River, is one of the most
picturesque in North Carolina. Flanked by Rumbling Bald Mountain
to the north and Chimney Rock to the south, it has something for
everyone, including climbers. Certain climbs offer views of Lake
Lure and all are very warm in the summer. Large caves and crevices
at ground level offer excellent natural air conditioning. Look for
climbs nearby. Rumbling Bald is said to have the best winter climbing
in North Carolina due to its perfect southern exposure. Chimney
Rock Park is a popular destination (think Rock City or Ruby
Falls, Chattanooga) that has lots of hiking and natural views, but
no climbing. Several scenes from The Last of the Mohicans were shot
in the Park. While on the topic of movies, Dirty Dancing and Firestarter
were both filmed at Lake Lure.
Enlarge view of Rumbling Bald
Brevard, take US Highway 64 east through Hendersonville. Keep going
as you cross I-26 and continue until you reach the town of Bat Cave.
Here, US 64 joins US 74 as you turn to the right. Proceed to the
towns of Chimney Rock and Lake Lure. This is a popular tourist route
in the summer, so be prepared for slow going. As you pass through
Chimney Rock and into Lake Lure, look for Boys Camp Road on your
left. If you go across a bridge and see a bathing beach on your
left, you've gone too far. Take Boys Camp road about 1.5 miles to
the top of a ridge. On your left, look for a newly graveled road
(thank you Access Fund). Follow this road a short distance to the
first parking area. You can continue farther, but the parking gets
more difficult.
From Columbia, SC (I-26 via I-95 for Floridians): Continue on I-26
toward Greenville / Spartanburg. Just after reaching the NC border,
look for exit 36, SR 108 to Columbus/Chimney Rock/Lake Lure. Turn
right on SR 108 and continue for about 4 miles. When you reach an
intersection with SR 9, follow the signs to Lake Lure (left). Continue
for another 10 miles until you come down a hill and see Lake Lure.
Go left on Highway 64/74/9 for 4 miles, passing a bathing beach
and marina on your right. Take Boys Camp Road on your right and
follow the directions above.
map (TopoZone.com link)
Nut Gorge (map)
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Cliff Access
the parking lot, continue along the road directly toward the cliff
face. There are two access trails. The first begins at the end of
the road, roughly following a straight line from the parking lot.
This trail leads to the west end of the Cereal Buttress area and
to the Hanging Chains area. To reach the second trail, follow the
road as it turns right and down to cross a creek. At some point,
the trail departs the road to the left and heads straight to the
cliff at the Cereal Buttress. You may have to bushwhack a little,
but you can't miss it.
Enlarge view of cliffs
The Climbers Guide to
North Carolina by Thomas Kelley, First or Second
Edition ONLY, by Thomas Kelley. Access to Rumbling Bald was questionable
for some time, resulting in its exclusion from the 3rd edition.
Selected Climbs in North
Carolina - Yon Lambert and Harrison Shull.
Loops 5.7, Lakeview Slab 5.8, Comatose 5.8, Chickenhead City 5.9,
Breakfast of Champions 5.10+, Shredded Wheat 5.11a, Wild Hickory
Nuts 5.11b, Bee Tree 5.5, Pull the Plug 5.11 a/b
Land Manager:
Land is privately owned.
Call 911. You are in Rutherford County.
The rock here is a blend of that found at Table Rock and Looking
Glass. There are large, slabby sections of smooth granite, but also
plenty of vertical cracks that take gear nicely. Its not quite as
featured as Table Rock, but not nearly as runout as Looking Glass.
There has been some bolting on the more difficult routes, but the
area is typical NC trad. Bring a full rack.
is no camping at Rumbling Bald, but several pay campgrounds are
in the area. Reservations are a necessity during summer weekends.
The Hickory Nut Falls Campground in Chimney Rock is about 4 miles
away (704-625-4014). There is also an RV park on the right as you
turn onto Boys Camp Road from Lake Lure.
The best bet for some privacy is the Creekside Campground about
15 miles west on Highway 64/74. Go back through Chimney Rock and
Bat Cave and about 5 miles up on the left. The tenting areas are
secluded and nicely wooded, but with the usual bathroom/shower facilities
and a camp store.
For a more comfortable stay, there are several B&B's in the area.
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The cliffs face south making for a warm location in winter. Summer
can be hot, though much of the area is shaded by trees. Best seasons
- fall / winter.
3/3/04 - The access and parking areas are involved in an interfamily
land dispute which may end up in a sale of the land thereby threatening
access to the cliffs. Sizable portions of the cliff are currently
for sale. One has recently been sold to a land developer. The Carolina
Climbers Coalition is making efforts to address this recent
ACCESS FUND ALERT - Paraphrased from an article published in Vertical
Times January 2000, Monthly newsletter of the Access Fund;
Access to the climbing area at Rumbling Bald has been jeopardized
by climbers themselves. The private landowner allows climbing, but
NOT CAMPING. Remember, this is PRIVATE LAND. Please use an official
campground. Additionally, local thieves have noted the crowds, and
the problem of car break-ins is now a concern. Don't keep valuables
in your car.
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The reappearance of Rumbling Bald and improvements to the entrance
are due largely to the efforts of the Access Fund. Please support
this organization that is so critical to the climbing community.
If you pass through Asheville, a stop at Black
Dome Outfitters might allow you to snag a copy of a fairly detailed
map of ton's (71) new boulder problems in the area.
Rumbling Bald Trip Reports
7/03/01 3 NC Spots
Wayne Busch & Chris Braund Photos - Chris Braund and Wayne Busch
hit three North Carolina Climbing spots - Shortoff Mountain, Crowders
Mountain, and Rumbling Bald.
9/25/98 - Whiteside
Mountain and Rumbling Bald Trip Report - Submitted by the Buttinskis,
a.k.a. Jeff and Chris Braund. The Brothers climb Whiteside with
Matt Floyd, then spend a day at Rumbling Bald.
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Chicken vs. Veggie Chicken
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Greater DNA repair capacity may explain why those eating plant-based diets appear to have fewer breaks in their chromosomes as they age.
Concord grapes, we just found out, may block breast cell DNA damage by blocking the binding of carcinogens to our DNA in the first place. Almonds and brussel sprouts, likewise may protect against DNA damage by boosting our own DNA repair mechanisms. There's actually this enzyme that just spends its life just traveling up and down our DNA patching up holes.
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K. W. Singletary, K. J. Jung, and M. Giusti. Anthocyanin-rich grape extract blocks breast cell dna damage. J Med Food, 10(2):244-251, 2007.
J Nutr. 2007 Dec;137(12):2717-22. Almond consumption reduces oxidative DNA damage and lipid peroxidation in male smokers. Li N, Jia X, Chen CY, Blumberg JB, Song Y, Zhang W, Zhang X, Ma G, Chen J.
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I searched nutrituion facts. org …. no reference to this condition is listed
What if I just started going vegan this year, at age 67? No hope for previous DNA breaks then? too late? Thanks!
It's never too late to start eating healthier!
Also be sure to check out my associated blog post Breast Cancer and Diet!
I just love hearing good things about my diet! I have been vegetarian (mostly vegan) for 33 years now. Thank you, Dr. Greger.
Dr Greger, anyway you can record your videos a little bit louder? Thanks for the great work you do!
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Are these ingredients safe: Other ingredients: Microcrystalline cellulose (plant fiber), hypromellose (vegetable capsule, gellan gum), alfalfa, may contain one or both of the following: magnesium stearate, silica.
Working with a friend to overcome a huge diabetes condition. Is doing well but he is constantly challenged by family……"you can't get enough protein on plant based diet." He is 80 yrs. old……how much protein does he need daily and what would be great sources for him?
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Piedmont BloggersPaul, · Categories: Virtual Communities
The reports are in from the Piedmont Bloggers Conference in G'boro this
- Announcement etc
- Alleged live blog
- Organizer's blog on reflection
- Extensive write-up by participant
- As covered by the local G'boro paper
- A music video? of the conference
weekend. Three of our upcoming class visitors took part. Naturally it was
fully blogged.
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Hi Paul, Did we have a chance to meet @ Piedmont Blogger Con? I met so many people! If so it was great to meet you! If not Im sure I'll catch you at the next one.
Ive been in a running conversation over on Ed Cone's Blog about the video from the conference. The link to the story with the convo thread is here
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I would like to thank all those that contributed to the Turing Centennial series: all those who wrote posts, for sure; but also all those who spread the word about this, on blogs, twitter, facebook, and in real life; those who came to read them; and those who wrote lots of thoughtful comments. In a community where discussions over conference organizational issues or over the importance of matrix multiplication algorithms can become very acrimonious, I am impressed that we could have such a pleasant and troll-free conversation. This goes to show that in theory has not only the smartest and most handsome readers of the whole internet, as was well known, but also the nicest ones!
We will definitely do this again in 2054, to mark the centennial of Turing's death.
A few days ago, I was very saddened to hear of the death of Sally Ride. A Stanford Alumna, Sally Ride became to first American woman to travel in space, she served on both the investigative committees after the two Shuttle disasters, and dedicated the past decade to the goal of getting young kids, and girls in particular, interested in science and technology. She cofounded, and directed, a non-profit foundation to further these goals, and wrote several books. After her death, it was revealed that she had been in a 25-year relationship with another woman, who was also the coauthor of her books and a partner in her foundation.
I think it is significant that a person that certainly had a lot of courage, determination, willingness to defy stereotypes, and to be an inspiration for people like her, felt that she could not be publicly out during her life. (In interviews about their books, Ride and her partner Tam O'Shaughnessy referred to each other as "friends".)
Let's hope that in 2054 it's not just computer science professors in the West that are confortable being out, but also astronauts, movie stars, professional athletes, and so on.
[Leaving the best for last, here is Ashwin Nayak's post. Unlike the other posts in this series, Ashwin does not just talk about events, but he also gives us a view of his inner life at several critical times. What can I say to introduce such a beautiful essay? I got this: congratulations Ashwin! — L.T.]
(Some names have been changed to protect privacy. Some events have been presented out of chronological order, to maintain continuity in the narrative. The unnamed friends in Waterloo are Kimia, Andrew, Anna-Marie, and Carl. I would like to thank them, Joe, Luca, and especially Harry for their feedback on a draft of this blog post. Harry offered meticulous comments, setting aside a myriad commitments. Most of all, I would like to thank my sisters and my parents for graciously agreeing to being included in this story.
For those not in theoretical computer science, FOCS is one of the flagship conferences on this subject. Luca is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, and Irit at Weizmann Institute of Science.
A prelude: I was born into a middle-class family from the South-West coast of India. I am the youngest of three siblings, and grew up in cities all over the country. My father served as an officer in the Indian army, and my mother taught in middle school until she switched to maintaining the household full-time. I went to IIT Kanpur for my undergraduate studies when I was 17. At 21, I moved half-way across the world to Berkeley, CA, for graduate studies. In 2002, after a few years of post-doctoral work in the US, I moved to Waterloo, ON, to take up a university faculty position.)
We were walking through art galleries in San Francisco when Luca brought up the Turing centenary events that were taking place around the world. None of the events celebrating his work referred to Turing's homosexuality. Luca wondered whether the celebrations would be complete without revisiting this aspect of his life. As a response, he was thinking of having a series of guest blog posts by contemporary gay and lesbian computer scientists about their experiences as gay professionals. How would they compare with those in Turing's times?
I wonder how much of my attention was on the art in the next few galleries. Would I write a post? What would I write? For me, sexuality is so deeply personal a matter that I've talked about it only with a handful of people. Why would I write about it publicly? Something Luca had said stuck in my mind: "The post could even be anonymous. That would be a statement in itself." It took me back to my first relationship: I dated Mark for over three years and no one other than his friends knew. Times when I was on the verge of telling a friend about my relationships flashed by. I remembered the time I discussed with my immediate family why I would not get married (at least not the way they imagined). Times when students recognized me at events for gays and lesbians resurfaced, as did conversations with friends and colleagues grappling with openness. I would write a post, I told Luca.
That night, I got little sleep. Memories that I thought had slipped into oblivion loomed large. Read the rest of this entry »
[Rosario Gennaro is a cryptographer, and he has been at IBM for more than 15 years. (He must have started as a teen-ager.) On Monday, he will start his new job as a professor at the City College of New York and the Director of the Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software. In the middle of his move and of an internet-free vacation, Rosario found the time to write a guest post that goes in a quite different direction from the others. — L.T.]
"David Hilbert … I suppose his name doesn't mean much, if anything, to you? No, no? Well, there you are, you see? It's the way of the world! People, never seem to hear about the really great mathematicians!"
The recent celebrations for Alan Turing's centenary made me revisit the BBC movie of "Breaking the Code" that amazing Broadway play, with a wonderful Derek Jacobi playing Alan Turing. You can see the most astonishing bit of this play here:
a 6-minute tour de force monologue explaining in lay terms Godel's Theorem and Turing's discovery of undecidable problems.
The quote above is from the beginning of this monologue, and it made me reconsider the goal of this guest post that I had promised Luca for his blog. Yes, I could talk about my coming out and about how supportive the Theory community has been. Or I could support, by personal experience, Luca's comments on how graduate students who are gay and not out, have an additional burden to carry. Imagine your doubts on being good enough to do research, as you embark in a Ph.D. program (well, I don't know if *you* had those doubts, but I surely had them!) and add to them the sense on not being "good enough" in general because you are gay.
But that's not what I decided to talk about. There is no question that Alan Turing's sexual orientation has played a huge role in the popularization of his figure and his work. "Breaking the Code" would not have been written if not for the unique personal story that accompanied Turing's exceptional contribution to Mathematics and Computer Science. Nor would NPR have run a story last month on the centenary. Neither Godel nor Hilbert (both mentioned in the above monologue) got such treatment.
While I wish that being gay were a sufficient condition for being a celebrated mathematician in the news (reserve space for my profile in the next issue of the New Yorker please), I wonder if being queer in some form is necessary. What can we do, as a community to make sure people know, not only Turing, but also Hilbert, and Godel, and Gauss. How can we make the Mathematics relevant, rather than the person. Can we get liberal arts majors, for example, to have a deep appreciations of the *ideas* and the *concepts* of Mathematics and Computer Science, even if they will never understand the proofs and the techniques? As I embark on an academic career after 16 years of research in a corporate lab, these questions have been occupying my mind. Others are wondering too …
Theoretical Computer Science, in my opinion, presents many opportunities on this front. Decidability, computational hardness, (pseudo)randomness … those are all concepts around which a philosophy class could be built. After all, as the fictional Turing says in the play, it's about telling right from wrong. I would love to develop such a class for liberal arts majors, and maybe the readers of "in theory" can help me by pointing me to similar classes that are already being taught somewhere. Yes, I am that lazy.
To finish off, being an opera queen (as any self-respecting homosexual should be) I have a not-so-secret wish to see "Breaking the Code" adapted into an opera. I think John Adams, whose work on physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb was mesmerizing, would be my top choice for a composer:
[Martin Farach-Colton is a professor at Rutgers, in the gayest computer science department in the country. He is well known for his work on algorithms and data structures. In the Fall of 1998, I was a post-doc at DIMACS and I lived in New York; since we had the same commute, I would sometimes get a ride from Martin. I was still quite new to the US, and I remember thinking it strange that Martin was the only person driving normally, while everybody else was going so slowly. Martin is the dean of out theoreticians, and he has written a very interesting post. I wish he hadn't given up so easily on the theme of sexism vs. homophobia. — L.T.]
When Luca asked me to write a guest blog post on "Putting the Gay Back in the Turing Centennial", I was happy to say yes. But I had a problem. If I were to write about being gay in the theory community, what could I write about? I've always been quite comfortable being openly gay in the theory community, and that doesn't make for a very interesting story, does it?
But first, some context: I grew up in South Carolina, in an Argentine family. Both my family and my surroundings were deeply homophobic. When I moved away from home to go to medical school, I found myself in yet another very homophobic environment. Nonetheless, in 1986, I decided it was time to meet Mr. Right, and the first step was to come out to all my friends and family. Within 6 months I was living with Andrew. We'll be celebrating 26 years together in a few months, as well as 9 years of marriage. Our twins are 12.
I wasn't fully out at medical school, but when I started my PhD in Computer Science, I threw open the closet doors and was totally out from Day One. It would be years before I met another openly gay or lesbian computer scientist, and even more years before I knew of another LGBT theoretician. Yet I have found that being gay was no big deal within the theory community. Practically no one seems to care, and that's the best kind of acceptance there is.
Remarkably, I felt this kind of open atmosphere at the very first FOCS I attended back in 1989. The world has changed a lot for gay people in the last 23 years, but the theory community changed earlier. Sure, people have said some homophobic things to me, but these were almost all minor incidents, and I'm also sure that those people would now be mortified by what they said 20 years ago. More often than not, when gay issues come up with my theory colleagues, they are mostly interested in topics like a technical analysis of how the fight for marriage equality is going. (I've been involved in this fight both here in the US — where there's still plenty of work to be done — and in Argentina, which now has the most progressive LGBT laws in the world.)
What can explain the culture of the theory community? I turned to some of the women of my academic generation to see what it's been like for them. After all, it seems that homophobia and sexism go hand in hand. Right off the bat, one of them torpedoed my premise. She pointed out that there have been plenty of gay men who are acknowledged as great geniuses. There is no stereotype to overcome with respect to being gay and being good at math. Indeed, in addition to Turing, Hardy was famously gay, as were Komogorov and his partner, the topologist Pavel Alexandrov. I'm not placing myself in such exalted company but merely pointing out that perhaps I had it easier than women in the field because I had fewer stereotypes to overcome.
I found general consensus that, although the theory community is not free of prejudice and stereotype, it's a comfortable place for a lot of people. Perhaps it's not just theory. My own department had, at its high-water mark, four openly gay faculty, two of whom were recruited as a couple. I also found Google very gay-friendly when I worked there in the early '00s.
So, really, I feel like I have nothing substantive to say on the subject. And maybe the best news. To paraphrase Tolstoy, happiness is dull.
Two more posts are coming soon. Meanwhile, here is a wonderful interview with Robert MacPherson, which is part of an interview series by the Simons Foundation. Although the interview does not mention Turing, it does mention Kolmogorov.
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It is late Spring in 2000, and I am to have lunch in New York with Ran Canetti and Ronitt Rubinfeld. Ronitt is already there, and Ran arrives a bit late and asks what we are talking about. "I told Ronitt that I am gay" I say. "Oh…" says Ran "Congratulations!"
[Sampath Kannan is best known for his work on program checking (which was introduced in a joint paper of Sampath and Manuel Blum), computational biology and streaming algorithms, and also for his outstanding service to the computer science theory community, first at NSF and now at the Simons Foundation. He has contributed a personal and deeply felt post to this series.]
I discovered Turing the mathematician long before Turing the gay man. Growing up in India in the pre-internet era, Turing's story, had I known it, would have probably sparked an earlier awakening. It didn't help that neither our field, nor the philosophical milieu of my upbringing encouraged me to pay attention to sensory perceptions and emotional reactions to them – I couldn't, imagine being a physicist, although others who grew up in the same circumstances have gone on to do exactly that. However, I have had a growing realization that acknowledging one's own perceptions and reactions is important for one's happiness and well-being. Given all the obstacles that people face to discovering who they truly are, it is important that there are more positive role models for them to look to.
Of course things have changed a lot over the last three decades. Our field, most universities in the west, and IT workplaces are friendly places for LGBT people. The way we view Turing's personal life is evidence of this change. My own university was one of the earliest to set up an LGBT center, way back in 1982. It was also one of the first to offer domestic partner benefits and most recently, in a symbolically important gesture, it decided to "gross up", i.e., to pay LGBT people more to offset the tax disadvantages they suffer on benefits to their partners. While Penn is on the leading edge of some of these changes, it seems clear that this is a trend that will sweep universities and research labs. Thus fear of the reaction at the workplace need no longer be a reason for people coming out of the closet.
There still remain the other obstacles – personal and social – and these are not so easy to overcome, especially for the many non-westerners in our field. How much of an embrace does one need from one's friends and family? Or is acceptance in some form good enough? How does one withstand the pressure to marry? The homophobia of peers in school and college? In my time the elite technology institutes in India were male-dominated and unthinkingly homophobic. But here too things may be improving – a gay and lesbian group is thriving at IIT Bombay and it is celebrating its first birthday with more than 100 members, a majority of them on campus! Perhaps concomitantly, the number of female students on these campuses is increasing as well.
If only Turing were alive today …
Tonight thousands of San Franciscans and visitors took to the streets to celebrate (and many more will tomorrow) and today was Alan Turing's hundredth birthday. Now, correlation does not imply causation, but at least some of the people on the streets dedicate the night to Turing, may he forever prove theorems and hook up with nineteen year olds in heaven.
[Günter M. Ziegler is a Geometer and Discrete Mathematician with interests in Topology, and a professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. Readers of in theory might know him as one of the authors of Proofs from THE BOOK. Tomorrow, Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin's leading newspaper, will publish a piece by Günter on Alan Turing. Since readers of in theory are awesome, they get to see it a day before, and in English. Please join me in thanking Günter for his lovely and personal contribution. — L.T.]
Dear Alan,
calling you "Alan" is OK and appropriate, I hope? Mathematicians of your time used to be much more formal among each other, I know, but that has changed with time. And gays tend to be still less formal, so of course we'd be on first names basis nowadays. A kiss is a common form of greeting. Still, you are 6 years younger than both my grandfathers, 16 years older than my father. And you killed yourself before I had a chance to meet you, 11 years before I was born. You are so close, so far!
I know you (at least it feels like it!) from the biography "Alan Turing. The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges – I happened to come across it in the summer of 1987, right after finishing both my PhD and starting my coming-out at MIT. The cover of my paperback copy has an attention-grabbing blurb
The extraordinary story of the brilliant scientist who broke "Enigma," Germany's most secret World War II code, who pioneered the modern computer age, and who finally fell victim to the cold-war world of military secrets and sexual scandal.
My copy shows all signs of having been read intensively, its cover is worn, its binding starts to come apart, and some passages are underlined or marked. Thus, for example, I marked
"He had wanted the commenest in nature; he liked ordinary things. But he found himself to be an ordinary English homosexual atheist mathematician. It would not be easy"
on page 115.
"It would not be easy"? For me – an ordinary German homosexual atheist mathematician – it seemed easy: I was ambitious, a bit over-motivated, I got a lot of support, and I got a lot of freedom for my development. Yes, I had to work hard, but that was since Mathematics is a difficult subject, and also since of course I did not have your talent, but the difficulty of my subject was what had attracted me in the first place. But I never ran into any real problems because I was gay. I am grateful for the freedom and the support I got – and today, out of gratitude, I try to pass some of that on, to my students, to the greater University community, and to our graduate program, the "Berlin Mathematical School", where I am the chair of the committee for "Mentoring, Gender and Diversity".
You, in contrast, in 1952, became a victim of British laws and courts, as an openly gay man. They confronted you with the inhumane alternative "prison or chemical castration". You chose the latter, an estrogen hormone therapy. You, the runner, who competed in qualification races for the marathon at the 1948 Olympic Games in London – now you were growing breasts. Depression. Suicide in 1954, a few days before your 42nd birthday.
This is how England treats her geniuses, her heroes? Only in 2009 Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared, under pressure from thousands of signatories of an internet petition, the apologies of the British government. A slightly pathetic "I am sorry, we are sorry":
Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time and we can't put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him.
So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to Alan's work I am very proud to say: we're sorry, you deserved so much better.
Is this enough? Would you think that this is enough? Would you accept the apologies? Initiatives that ask for an official posthumous pardon, for the acknowledgment that the conviction as such was unjust, have not been successful up to now. A new internet petition to the British Government is on its way, up to now it drew nearly 35.000 signatures. A pardon? The verdict has to be: Not guilty! There was no crime!
Tomorrow, on Saturday, we celebrate your hundredth birthday. It is marked by activities around the globe. In Cambridge, England, where as an undergraduate student you wrote "On computable numbers", they are having a "Turing Centenary Conference" this week. But this is a greeting and an invitation from Berlin, where we organized a huge party for you: The Berlin 2012 Gay Pride Parade, which we call "Christopher Street Day", got a science motto "Wissen schafft Akzeptanz" in your honor. It's your party, Alan! And indeed, also taking part in the parade, on float number 11, is the British Embassy!
Not only as an individual, and as a gay man, but also as a Professor of Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin, the Berlin "Free University", whose academic and personal liberties you never had the opportunity to enjoy, I take special pleasure in announcing the party, and to be part of it.
The 2012 Berlin Gay Pride Parade may be the largest birthday party for a Mathematician ever: we expect half a million participants. Alan, you deserve it.
Happy Birthday, Alan!
2012 The Alan Turing Year: www.turingcentenary.eu
Alan Turing Petition: submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/23526
Turing Centenary Conference, Cambridge, 18.-23. Juni 2012: www.cie2012.eu
Gay Pride Berlin: www.csd-berlin.de
Günter Ziegler
[Irit Dinur is one of the leading complexity theorists of my (or any) generation, and she is best known for her work on probabilistically checkable proofs, including her combinatorial proof of the PCP theorem. I am very thankful for her post below. — L.T.]
Turing's tragic story — quite a disturbing trigger for talking about being gay in the TCS community. On one hand his story seems so distant and different from how things are for me today, but on the other hand, it is scary to think how recently it all took place; how closely related today's culture is to that of Turing's time, both scientifically and socially.
The fact is, that being gay in the TCS community is so easy and natural that I usually just don't think about it. Sure, it would have been nice if there were a few more lesbians around; it would have been nice to not be the only one (that I know) in any workshop/conference/TCS event I'd ever been to. Even among the "gay colleagues" that Luca mentioned, being a woman makes me a minority within a minority. But I can't really pin that on the TCS community. Our community has always felt like a very liberal and accepting place. Perhaps because many of us grew up as geeks, there's a strong sense of resisting the exclusion of minorities in general.
In fact, my biggest sense of "coming-home" was not when I first started to go to gay parties or events, but when I first started undergrad as a math and CS major. That's when I felt this amazing sense of being in the right place, and having lots of "my type" of friends. In that sense I align first with the TCS community and only then am I gay.
Writing this blog post made me want to talk to some gay and lesbian colleagues to hear their perspective and experiences. Can you guess how many of those there are? In all of Weizmann (not only CS) the number of gay colleagues that I am aware of is — zero. Perhaps it's just me being clueless, but somehow I would have expected an institution with 250 faculty members to have more out gay people than that. Is it the age distribution? Among academic faculty the older generation is more dominant (percentage wise) than in other workplaces, and gay people in Israel were much more "closeted" 10-15 years ago. If so, then hopefully this will naturally change within the next few years. I also hope that if more of us are more visibly out, this will help too.
The one area of life where my career and my being gay have been incompatible is when it comes to relocation. It is an integral and required part of our career path to spend some years abroad, often in the US, for postdoc, and later again for sabbaticals (although not mandatory at that stage). Many people don't realize that being gay means that my partner and not-yet-legally-adopted children cannot get a J2 visa into the US on my behalf, which is how most non-gay scientists travel abroad with their families. This makes postdocs and later sabbaticals in the US much more difficult to arrange. I have been very fortunate to have gotten a lot of help from my TCS friends/colleagues, making my current sabbatical possible. I'm hoping that by the time for my next sabbatical this won't even be necessary.


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He'd been living with the old lady for nearly a week now. She'd done nothing in that time to suggest she was mad, or likely to make up wild stories.
But she can't really mean it. She can't really be offering to bring Dad back to life.
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Cameron took a biscuit, put it in his mouth, and crunched it.
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This can't be happening...
"You do miss him, I suppose?" Grandma Ives spoke the word as if a hair had got stuck on her tongue. "Not that I know why I should bring him back; he was trouble enough the first time. Never listened to a word of my good advice—"
"Of course I miss him!" Cameron shouted, unable to help himself. "Can't you tell? Isn't it obvious?" The thing was, deep down, he worried all the time that he should've begun to miss his dad a little bit sooner...
It was now just over two weeks ago, that first night Dad hadn't come home. Cameron had come in from school, and slung his bag in the corner. He'd booted up his dad's PC and logged on. The computer was nearly as old as he was, and it'd crash if you put a game anywhere near it, but it did alright for checking message boards and downloading music. When it got to 7.30, and he'd still not heard the rumble of his dad's van in the driveway, Cameron went to the kitchen and got on with making his dinner. There was a stack of ready meals in the fridge.
"When I win the lottery I'll cook," his dad would say. "I'll be like Number One Super Chef! Even Jamie Oliver won't touch me."
Cameron chose tuna and tomato bake. The label promised it was "delicious" and made to the "best ever recipe", but somehow he doubted it. As he ate the stringy pasta he watched The Simpsons and then a bit of a talent show. Some of the contestants could sing, but they couldn't dance or didn't have the right look. Others had great hair or clothes, but screeched and wailed like angry cats.
He picked up his bowl, pausing on his way to the kitchen as he caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror over the fire. His best friend Amy said he wasn't bad looking, if he'd only have a bit of confidence. Cameron didn't see it. He was tall for his age, sure, but he was thin too, and not exactly broad about the shoulders. He ran his hand through his hair, which fell down in a dark thatch over his eyes. Maybe he should get it cut to look like one of the guys off the telly? Amy would love that. She'd go on about it for a week. Then again, interesting hair got you noticed, and he didn't want to do anything to make himself stand out more at school...
He channel hopped for a while, then reluctantly went up to his bedroom to get on with his homework. He put his stereo on loud; perhaps the noise would help drive some particularly dull maths problems into his skull. The driveway was still empty when he went to bed at 11.30, falling asleep to the sound of his headphones whispering in his ears.
The truth was, his dad was so often home late, Cameron had stopped finding it unusual. He ran Duffy's Quick Clearances, and spent his days emptying houses after their owners died, or moved away, or went bankrupt. He would sort out the things worth selling, and take the lumpy old furniture nobody wanted to the dump. When Cameron was small, his dad sometimes took him along. He would run wild round strange, slowly-emptying spaces. Sad-eyed relatives of the departed would look at him fondly, and slip him fifty pence. Other times he'd get shouted at for being a nuisance and making too much noise.
Now his dad hardly ever wanted to take him, even if the jobs were at a weekend.
"You've got to study. Find out what you want and how to get there," he'd say. "Don't just fall into something like I did."
Cameron would ask what he meant, but his dad would always push the question away.
Sometimes emptying a house meant working late into the night. People would leave it to the last minute to call the clearers. Malcolm Duffy and his lads would have to put in long hours to get the job done. If a client's house was far away, Cameron's dad would sometimes even bunk down in his van. When he came home the next day, he'd shake his head sadly and say, "You wouldn't believe how much stuff people collect."
Cameron would nod, thinking how his dad kept loads of odds and ends, all packed into the spare room; stuff he hadn't been able to shift but insisted might be useful. The garage was crammed too, and the van usually had to sit outside. On cold mornings, the engine would cough over and over before it shuddered back to life...
On the second day his dad did not come home, Cameron had gone round to Amy's. Annoyingly, all Amy wanted to do was talk about some boy in the sixth year she'd got a crush on. Cameron hadn't been sure what to say. He concentrated on checking out which new tunes Amy had added to her laptop, and waited for her to change the subject.
"Stay for dinner, Cam," said Amy when her mum got in from her shift at the hospital. Her mum's eyes were red around the corners, and Cameron didn't think he should push his luck. He caught the bus home instead.
Fireworks popped and crackled above his head as he walked along Scott Street. People were getting ready for bonfire night early this year. As he turned the corner, he saw that the van was still not back in the drive. In the kitchen, his dirty plates lay untouched in the sink. If Dad had been in during the day, he'd have expected to find a clutter of mugs there too.
Cameron wasn't sure what to do. The odd evening on his own was kind of fun; after a day in school, with its overheated cabbagey corridors, he enjoyed the space.
If Dad wasn't going to make it home tonight either, Cameron told himself he wasn't bothered. He would make the most of it. He'd raid the fridge, have a fry-up, and pig out in front of the telly. He'd put on that music channel that played nothing but rock and indie, the one that always made his dad glare and plug his ears...
He grinned. It was an excellent plan! But when he sat down on the sofa, with his skilfully cooked plate of food – bacon brown and crispy, eggs running into the beans – it didn't seem to taste right.
He tried his dad's mobile. He hadn't bothered before, when it had just been another late night. Two days without a message or text was definitely odd, though. When an answering Brrrupp! came from the old donkey jacket hanging up on a peg by the door, Cameron thumped his hand off his head in frustration. His dad was always leaving his phone in the wrong coat.
He looked up the tatty address book by the hall phone. There was no one permanently on the payroll of Duffy's Quick Clearances, but there were a couple of guys his dad used regularly. Big Joe had the biggest beer belly you've ever seen. Scribbled in the phone book was "Try Black Bull" next to Joe's name, so Cameron called the pub.
Big Joe hadn't heard a thing. "Dinna concern yersel', lad. It'll all come oot fine in the wash." He was keen to get back to his drinking.
Cameron called Eric next. Eric was trying to make it as a singer, when he wasn't shifting furniture. Dad said Eric was sensitive, which Cameron took to mean his songs tended to go on a bit.
Eric was on the way home from band practice. "I haven't been out on a job in weeks, Cam, and I'm noticing it. Listen, are you alright there, mate? Do you want me to head over?"
"Nah. It's cool. I'm ok."
Cameron went back to the living room to worry. Not long later, the doorbell rang.
"I'm fine, Eric, really—"
It wasn't Eric on the doorstep. The two policemen invited themselves in, asked a load of questions, and made several cups of tea Cameron didn't want. They spoke on their radios, looked at each other gravely, and offered to make more tea.
About an hour later, another police officer arrived. She was young and pretty, with dark hair pulled back into a ponytail. When she opened her mouth to speak, Cameron noticed an odd little gap between her bottom teeth. As she told him about the way they'd found the van by the caves on the beach at Weymss, the body on the sand, he found himself focussing on that gap, as if concentrating hard enough could keep him from crying.
The next week and a half passed in a painful sort of blur. Amy's mum put him up at first. Amy hadn't known what to say. She kept apologising, saying she was there for him, and asking if he wanted to talk. Cameron just wished she'd shut up and leave him alone.
Moving in with Grandma Ives hadn't been Cameron's idea. He barely knew the old lady. He had only vague memories of a woman with steel-grey hair, who'd turned up once on his seventh birthday. She'd given him a wooden music box, then sat in the corner, watching him intently. Cameron's dad had been angry for some reason, and had taken the box away.
"He's not going to be like you. You and your daft old ways! You keep your hands off!" he'd said, before showing her the door.
Cameron's dad never made any secret of the fact he didn't get on with his mother. There were cards that came through the post at Christmas, but no more visits. So Cameron had been amazed when his dad's will said Mrs Isobel Euphemia Ives-Duffy of 24 Observatory Road, Edinburgh was to be his guardian.
Cameron had tried to explain to Carole the social worker that he didn't know the old woman at all. She hadn't listened.
"Crises like these, they have a wonderful way of bringing family together. You're only thirteen. There's no way you can live on your own."
Cameron's house turned out to be owned by his mum and dad together, but no one knew where Elaine Duffy was these days, Cameron included. There were only a few precious things he remembered about her, she left so long ago.
"There are all sorts of complicated legal things to be sorted before the will can be settled," Carole said. "You're best off with your gran. And your school has agreed to send work home for now."
She helped the boy pack some of his possessions, and drove him in her battered Volvo to Grandma Ives' house in the south of Edinburgh. Even though it was only fifty minutes away from his home in Cauldlockheart, Cameron had never been to her house before. As they sat in Grandma Ives' living room, Carole promised she'd drop in soon. Grandma Ives insisted that would not be necessary. Her tone suggested she was used to getting what she wanted.
"I can see you'll both get on famously!" Carole said, as she packed up her notes in her leatherette briefcase.
Cameron had exchanged a wary glance with his newly acquired Gran. "Grandma Ives" – that's what he was supposed to call her. She looked smart in an old-fashioned sort of way, and thin, and more than a bit stern.
Not like a proper granny at all...
A proper granny would never offer to bring her only son – his dad – back from the dead.
"I can tell by your face you don't care for the biscotti. That's alright. You don't have to eat them."
He looked down at the plate she'd pushed towards him. Dad wouldn't have put out biscuits like that, with their posh paper wrappers and icky-acid almond taste. You'd get a torn-open packet of Hobnobs, or maybe some Jaffa Cakes. The coffee wouldn't come in a glass pot with a plunger either...
Cameron's hands went to his stomach. Everything normal, everything he had grown up with, had been taken away. The pain of losing Dad felt like someone had cut a vital muscle from his guts, and it wasn't getting any better. He still went about, day by day, walking and talking and eating as if he were normal and healthy, but all the time he was trying to hold himself together, to stop the gap from spreading. He blamed himself for all sorts of things: for not noticing something was up with his dad; for not calling the police sooner; for not starting to worry when something still could've been done. And now the old woman was offering to put that missing part back, to give him the chance to find out what really happened, to magically make it all better...
"Did you mean what you said, about bringing him back?" Cameron hardly dared to believe it.
"I always mean what I say." Behind Grandma Ives' wire-framed glasses, her eyes were calm and steady, without a hint of doubt or playfulness.
"Yes," he said quietly. "Please. Bring him back."
"What was that?" The old lady leaned closer.
"Bring him back. Just tell me what I have to do."
Grandma Ives smiled. "Good boy," she said.
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Olga Neuwirth's viola concerto receives its UK premiere at the BBC Proms on 13 August and her music is subject of an extensive feature at the Wien Modern festival in October and November.
Olga Neuwirth travels to the BBC Proms on 13 August for the UK premiere of her viola concerto Remnants of songs... an Amphigory plus a preceding Portrait event introducing her music. Her concerto has been hailed as a major contribution to the limited repertoire for the instrument and is performed at the Royal Albert Hall by Lawrence Power with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Susanna Mälkki. The work was premiered in Graz in 2009 by violist Antoine Tamestit, and has since travelled to Berlin, Tokyo, Melbourne and Paris, with performances in the coming season in Vienna and Frankfurt with Mälkki.
The concerto's title, Remnants of Songs … an Amphigory, juxtaposes serious and light sides, pitting a book by Ulrich Baer investigating how historic traumas affect creativity against a descriptive term for nonsense poetry. Musical America wrote of the 20-minute score's "fiendishly difficult solo part, breathtaking in its virtuosic range… The work is entirely original, astoundingly complex and, ultimately, gloriously rewarding and uplifting." The concerto is vintage Neuwirth in the way it pits the individual against the collective, forging connections with musical memories and diverse genres.
The Proms Plus Portrait concert at the Royal College of Music at 5.45 pm includes Olga Neuwirth in discussion with Andrew McGregor and performances of a selection of chamber works including Marsyas II for flute, viola, cello and piano. The players are drawn from students at the Royal College of Music and an edited version of the concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 following the main evening Prom.
Neuwirth's native country of Austria pays homage to the composer with a major feature at the Wien Modern festival between 22 October and 9 November. The festival is launched with a Neuwirth evening at the Theater an der Wien including her Hommage a Klaus Nomi. The American ensemble ICE with conductor Joyce Ogren travel to Vienna for a concert combining locus...doublure...solus for piano and ensemble with the multi-media work ...ce qui arrive... (8 November), a programme that ICE will also present at the Miller Theatre in New York on 6 December. torsion: transparent variation is presented by the Talea Ensemble conducted by James Baker (4 November) and there is a further performance of the viola concerto conducted by Susanna Mälkki, here with Antoine Tamestit as soloist and the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna (5 November).
Neuwirth's trumpet concerto, …miramondo multiplo…, forms part of a free afternoon programme of her music set to film at the Vienna Konzerthaus (4 November). The concerto was written for Håkan Hardenberger and has been travelling widely this year in the recent version with ensemble, including its UK premiere with the London Sinfonietta and performances in Hamburg and Madrid by Klangforum Wien.
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