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Checking the link (which isn't phished by the looks of it) says they want a scan of two forms of ID. One of:
Identification cannot be expired.
Driver's license
Passport information page
National identification card
State-issued identification
Permanent residence card
A different form of government-issued identification
and one of:
Bank statement
Credit/debit card statement with the first 12 digits blacked out (Do not send an image of your credit card).
Utility bill
There is NO WAY I'm going to upload scans of my ID to any company unless its required for things such as security clearance or country visas, or required for work-related purposes.
Does anyone here play PKR? I’m trying to learn the game and I’m mediocre at best, so would like to get a few additional contacts to add to my list, and maybe get some tips….
So, it would appear that unlike storyline missions, Race Missions are NOT considered storyline missions, even though they have information that connects the two seasons. As such, no materials are given during the missions. That’s a real bummer :(
Today’s run was meant to be a long run but with the weather being really hot, I decided against doing a long run today and went for the 30 minute run I missed from yesterday instead.
I tried the race mode on the ZR2 app today, and it clocked it relatively accurately at the 5K mark. But strangely, even though I finished the mission, I got no additional material to put on my base. Surely that’s wrong, since the missions are story-related?
We’re celebrating the sunny British weather (as short-lived as it no doubt will be) with a Zombies, Run! Season Pass Summer Sale! All three Season Passes are available for half-price until Monday, July 15. Yes, even if the weather takes another turn for the rainy.
If you’re new to the game, this is the perfect opportunity to gain access to 30 already-released missions, plus another 30+ which we’ll be releasing on a weekly basis starting from Wednesday, July 30.
Season Pass: Now $1.99 (usually $3.99): Includes 40+ Season 2 Story Missions
Season Pass Plus: Now $3.99 (usually $7.99): Includes 60+ S2 Story Missions and Sidequests
Sidequest Pass: Now $2.99 (usually $5.99): Includes 20+ S2 Sidequests
So far, Season 2 has been packed full of great missions. From the profoundly epic, to the intimately daft. We’ve even had Margaret Atwood make a special guest appearance. As you need more incentive, completing certain missions will unlock new buildings and amenities for your Township. This will continue as we enter the second half of Season 2 in late July.
I’ve just been contacted by Jim Cowan, Event Director of the Poppy Run. I was originally hoping to run the Poppy Run through Trent Park, now it looks like it’s not going to happen.
Further to your recent enquiry, unfortunately, despite our best efforts, the London Barnet Poppy Run at Trent Park will not be taking place this year. We are looking for alternative venues nearby but it is unlikely we will do this for this year's event.
Depending on where you live, other options are at the Isle of Dogs (London) or Welwyn Garden City. We are also awaiting confirmation on new Poppy Runs in Rickmansworth and SW London but won’t open them for entry until they are confirmed.
An interesting article. Might become heated, but well worth a read, here’s some excerpts:
Women, it now seems, might have been better equipped all along than men! At least that may be true as far as fuel is concerned when female endurance reserves are compared to those of the stronger men who were protecting the “weaker sex” as too delicate for such a grueling distance.
Whatever advantage women may possess probably doesn’t kick in until a running event gets at least as long as the marathon—anything 26.2 miles or over, or its equivalent in another sport. And if our theories are correct, the longer the event is, the greater the possible advantage is.
It may be a simple matter of fat stores—the increased body fat so many women athletes resent in themselves as some kind of deadweight, wishing it were muscle instead. We know that after about 18 miles of steady running, the body begins to get low on glycogen— hitting the famous “wall”—and turns increasingly to other energy stores to keep going. But only recently, thanks in part to increasing numbers of women ultra-athletes and the times they’re turning in, have we begun to suspect women may be more efficient at using that body fat early in a race and saving the glycogen for the long haul. A bigger tank and a more efficient fuel injection system? That could be.
Until now we’ve had only two major studies on the subject, and they conflict. But a recent one suggested that women may in fact have some way, not yet understood, of preferentially burning fatty acids better than men do. If that’s the case, and we factor in that ability with women’s greater body fat reserves, the implications are obvious. Assuming there is some glycogen sparing going on along the way, women might be able to get more out of that premium fuel than men do.
Even bottomless energy reserves wouldn’t do much good for the athlete who is too pooped to access them, however. Muscles get tired as they run out of fuel, but the brain also has a mechanism by which it tells our body that we are weary. And if some recent studies are correct, estrogen attaches to a neurotransmitter in the brain, and the combination may delay the fatigue message. The result: The body doesn’t feel as tired, so it doesn’t race as tired.
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So, a word of warning to marathoning men: Even postmenopausal women have more estrogen than you do! Remember that the next time you’re planning a really long workout and wonder whom to ask along to make you look good. Your female running friend may be slower, but she’s probably a bundle of potential energy. When it’s all over, you might be surprised to find that the “weaker sex” is you.
Zombies, Run! now allows you to put add-ons onto your buildings to further increase your stats (although I’ve yet to see my stats increase from said add-ons). If your app crashes and locks you out of your base screen, there’s an update just released to the Android app – update it and try again.
Here’s a few details about the race missions part of the latest ZR2 update if you haven’t read the blog entry references in this post.
The race missions as the name suggests are different to the normal Season 1 and Season 2 missions in that they are not time-based. They are distance based so you must travel a certain distance to trigger the next audio clip.
Race missions are in an entire section of their own, and fill in gaps between Season 1 and Season 2.
There are different race lengths - 5K, 10K, 20K (near half marathon distance)
There are two main types of tracking in this mode -- GPS and Accelerometer. Gyro will also be an option if your device supports (newer devices). Accelerometer is for people running on treadmills.
If you have GPS enabled, then the app will use that to track your distance. If you don't (e.g. you're on a treadmill), then you will have to tell the app how to guesstimate the distance you have travelled, and it uses pace time for that. For example, for me, a walk is 10 min/km, a light jog is 7 min/km, moderate jog is 6 min/km a light run is 5 min/km and fast run 4:30-5:00 min/km.
I haven't tried the race missions yet, but I'll be giving them a go when I've finished all Season 2 missions. I've caught up on the main story missions, and have just started on the side missions.
It was quite amusing to see the reaction on my colleagues' faces at work when I told them I’d done 17.22 km over the weekend. It’s so satisfying to be able to say “I did something you haven’t done yet”
Next step is to take it up a notch to a full HM distance.
A small script to help speed up regular updates for P2P block lists that you might be using for filtering for apps like routers, mail servers, or BitTorrent.
I’ve taken my block lists from iblocklist.com, but you can add your URLs to the list and have it download and concatenate as well. Some apps will need to be restarted to use the new filter list. Others might not.
TMPFILE=iblock.tmp
FINALFILE=iblock.p2p
if [ -f $TMPFILE ]; then
echo Removing temp file $TMPFILE
rm $TMPFILE
fi
Ever get a file off the internet with a .tar.bz2 extension? Well, you can extract it in one step like this:
curl [cf1.vuze.com/files/Vuz...](http://cf1.vuze.com/files/VuzeInstaller.tar.bz2) | tar xjv
Rather than extracting the tar first, then extracting the tar, then removing the archives. Running curl and piping it to tar in this way means you don’t need to write anything to the disk other than the extracted files, and it extracts as it goes.
