Diehards prove that the ridiculous isnât always impossibleStefan de Villiers
The race served as a qualifier for the Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc scheduled to take place in Chamonix, France, in August this year.
One hundred miles, or 160 kilometres, is a long drive, an even longer bike ride, and for many, an unthinkable distance to run.
It is said to undoubtedly be one of the most ridiculous things you can put your body through. It takes patience, grit and experience to conquer the countless scenarios that might cross your path.
A total of 37 runners, however, still lined up at the quaint old gold-mining town of Pilgrimâs Rest, to undertake this mammoth journey before the cut-off time of 44 hours. Ultimately, due to the nature of the run, only 26 diehards made the cut.
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Women make up just 27% of the visual effects workforce. Photograph: Alamy
When Nell Lloyd-Malcolm worked on set of dystopian science fiction film Ready Player One, she was in charge of monitoring facial capture data – the result of tracking devices placed on actors’ faces to help create expression in the animated characters. “After one scene, Steven Spielberg said: ‘Yep, that’s the one,’ and I had to tell him the camera had slipped during filming and was staring up the actor’s nose. We couldn’t use the data. Terrifying.”
Happily it hasn’t held her back and her credits include Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Bohemian Rhapsody, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and more. But although Lloyd-Malcolm’s work might be par for the course in visual effects – an intriguing sector that mixes logistics and technical wizardry with painstaking detail – she herself is unusual.
Canvas feature allows individuals to select preferred names, personal pronouns
Names and pronouns matter they say a lot about who we are and how we want others to treat us.
Through a new feature in Canvas, UW–Madison students, faculty, and instructional staff can now choose the pronouns they want associated with their online profiles. (Preferred name use is already available in Canvas.)
Gabe Javier
“It’s important that we are able to realize university-wide inclusive projects like this that help make the campus climate more welcoming for our students, ” says Gabe Javier, associate vice chancellor for student affairs in the areas of identity and inclusion, noting that the effort was made possible thanks to collaboration among Student Affairs, the Office of the Provost, and the Office of the Registrar.