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If you want to use your own email address to receive support requests, and you've added your email address as a support address in Zendesk, then you can set up your custom email domain to verify that Zendesk can send email on behalf of your email server.
For example, if you receive email from your customers at firstname.lastname@example.com, and you've set up an automatic redirect to forward all email received there to Support, you can authorize Zendesk to send out notifications as if it originated from your own email address (for example: email@example.com). That way you can preserve your branding throughout the entire process.
You don't have to configure your email domain this way, but it's recommended if you use your own custom email domain and have set up forwarding to an external email address. If you use a non-custom domain, such as addresses ending in @gmail.com or @yahoo.com, you can't use this feature, as you won't have access to the account DNS settings.
The advantages of this configuration
So, do you have to allow Zendesk to send email on behalf of your email domain? The short answer is: No. The slightly longer answer is: Only if you really don't want your customers to see the Zendesk name on their messages.
When Zendesk sends an email message using your email address (which is what happens if you've set up a support address with forwarding) the message identifies the sender as zendesk.com to avoid getting rejected. However, if you allow Zendesk to send email on behalf of your email domain, Zendesk stops sending messages from zendesk.com, and sends them from your domain, completely preserving your branding.
If you don't complete the tasks described in this article, your customers might see something like this:
The following warning will also appear in the agent interface next to your external support addresses:
However, if you complete the tasks described in this article, the via statement and warning don't appear.
Setting up records for your domain
Ideally, the tasks in this section are things that you'd get help with, if you can, or that you'd ask your system administrator to do for you.
You will need to set up an SPF record and several CNAME records. Make sure you do both.
Setting up an SPF record
If this is the first time doing this task, keep in mind that you should also set up your CNAME records when you're done.
The process of setting up an SPF record is different for different domain registrars. For example, here are the instructions for GoDaddy, Namecheap, 1&1, Network Solutions, and Google Domains.
Don't forget to set up your CNAME records when you're done.
To create or edit an SPF record to reference Zendesk
- Edit your domain's DNS settings to add a TXT record. The steps vary depending on your domain registrar. A TXT record is required for your SPF record to be validated.
Zendesk recommends using the following SPF record:
v=spf1 include:mail.zendesk.com ?all
?all because it's the least intrusive qualifier, you can use whichever qualifier you are comfortable with.
If you've already set up an SPF record for another purpose, you can simply add a reference to Zendesk to it. The SPF specification requires that you only have one SPF record on your domain, if you have multiple records, it may cause issues, and cause rejections of your email.
For example, instead of having two separate records, such as
v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all and
v=spf1 include:mail.zendesk.com ~all, you can combine them into one, like this:
v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com ~all
include:smtp.zendesk.com and
include:support.zendesk.com. These are both outdated SPF records. While they might still work, they're not the best option. If you're still using them, you'll see a warning flag indicating you've set up an outdated record.
Setting up CNAME records
In order for Zendesk to send email on your behalf, you must add four CNAME (Canonical Name) records to your DNS server that give Zendesk domain-level email authorization.
The CNAME records redirect SPF checks to mail*.zendesk.com, which is a Zendesk server that includes an SPF record that is maintained by Zendesk. This SPF record is used for mail sent from zendesk*.customer.com. This means that Zendesk maintains SPF records for a subset of mail delivered from your domain, and ensures they are always up-to-date.
To authorize Zendesk to deliver your email using CNAME records
- Edit your domain's DNS settings and add each of these CNAME records:
|Name / Host / Domain
|Value / Target / Destination
|3600 or use default
|3600 or use default
|3600 or use default
|3600 or use default
Please check with your DNS provider for details on how to format the DNS records for their system.
Verifying your domain
In order for Zendesk Support to send emails on your behalf, you must verify that you own the domain that you want Support to use. This is done by adding a TXT record (a domain verification record) to your DNS server that Support will check. The domain verification record is unique for each Support account and domain combination.
If you don't add the domain verification record, Support sends emails from a Zendesk-provided email address. If you want to give your customers a white label experience, hiding all Zendesk branding, you must add this record.
To verify that a domain belongs to you
- After you have finished setting up your CNAME records, go to Support and click the Admin icon () in the sidebar, and then navigate to Channels > Email.
- Locate the DNS records (located outside of Zendesk) for your Support address, then click See details to see the domain verification value. See the illustration below for an example.
Note: If you are an agent with permissions to manage support addresses, you can use the Support Addresses API endpoint to find the domain verification code for your support address instead, if you prefer. Look for the domain_verification_code value. For more information, see the developer documentation about Support Addresses.
- Edit your domain's DNS settings and add this TXT record:
Type Name Value TTL TXT zendeskverification <your unique value found in Support> 3600 or use default
You can find the value next to the Domain verification TXT record check. In this example, the value is abcdef123456:
- After you add the TXT record, click the Verify DNS records button to confirm that all of your records are now valid.
If they are, the red error messages will be gone. If you're having trouble setting up your DNS record correctly, see Why do I receive the error "DNS records are not set up correctly" when verifying my DNS records.
After your domain is verified, leave the domain verification record in-place.
If you decide to change your Support subdomain or host mapping later, you don't need to update your domain verification records.
Understanding SPF checks
Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a domain level email authorization protocol that allows you to declare which IP addresses are allowed to send email as if it originated from your domain.
This is accomplished by adding Domain Name System (DNS), TXT, or CNAME records. Think of DNS as a publicly accessible record for the internet. These records enable you to state publicly that Zendesk is an authorized sender for your domain.
When an email client receives a message, it performs an SPF check on the sending domain to verify that the email came from who it says it did. If this check fails, or there isn't a DNS record that says that Zendesk is a permitted sender, some receivers might consider that email spam or a phishing attempt, and flag it as untrustworthy or not display it to your customers at all.
Zendesk avoids this by sending email using our own domain when we're not authorized to use your domain, and by using your domain only when you authorize Zendesk with a proper SPF record. Either way, email sent from Zendesk should never be marked as spam.
If you're curious, you can read more about SPF at www.openspf.org. If you're having trouble verifying your SPF record, see Why is my SPF record not validating?


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NWA Jr. League seeks new members
The Junior League of Northwest Arkansas (an educational and charitable organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers) is hosting their annual Prospective Member meeting on Tuesday, April 9, at 6:30 p.m. at EOA Children's House in Springdale, located at 2577 N. Lowell Rd., Springdale, AR 72764.
The purpose of the meeting is to share information about the Junior League's charitable activities, the League's mission and purpose, and opportunities for membership with women who are interested in joining the organization. The League will begin taking applications for membership via the League website (www.JuniorLeagueNWA.org) starting May 1, 2013.
The Junior League of Northwest Arkansas emphasizes the training of women in volunteer service and developing their potential to act as community leaders. This commitment to training not only serves the needs of the League, but it also provides a service to other local organizations, both non-profit and for profit.
"We are not only here to help our community, but also to help cultivate the potential of women as community leaders, giving our members opportunities to learn, to grow, and at the same time, make a real difference, " says Junior League President, Vanessa Miller.
Currently the League has over 250 active members and 150 sustaining members, with an average of 50 new members each year. Members are residents of Washington, Benton and Madison counties, who provide more than 35,000 volunteer hours every year, and raise over $50,000 annually in support of community causes.
"Each year, as our League grows, our ability to reach out to the community is enriched by the new members who join us," says Beth Farmer, VP of Membership. "The League's goal is to ignite a spirit of voluntarism and help build an army of women who are ready and able to positively impact the Northwest Arkansas community by serving on boards, fundraising, and further developing community organizations."
The Junior League measures success not only by the partnerships we make to impact the community, but also by the members developed to move into service with other organizations and boards. Junior League members serve on the board of directors for Walton Arts Center, NWA American Heart Association, NWA Human Resources Association, Project for Victims of Family Violence, NWA Crisis Center, Jones Center for Families, Washington Regional Medical Foundation, Washington County EOA, Ozark Komen Race for the Cure, Mercy Health System Foundation, New School, Community Clinic at St. Francis House and NWA Children's Shelter Family Network and hundreds of area nonprofits benefit from Junior League members serving as regular volunteers.

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Words of Wisdom About the Battling Wolves Within Us
An old Cherokee told his grandson, "My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies & ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, & truth."
The boy thought about it, and asked, "Grandfather, which wolf wins?"
The old man quietly replied, "The one you feed."
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Survey ranks KC among nation's 'snobbiest' cities
City gets top marks for affordability, barbecue
A new survey names Kansas City as one of the nation's snobbiest cities, but it's not exactly an insult.
Travel and Leisure ranked cities to determine which has "the biggest nose in the air," using such criteria as museums, classical music, cuisine, high-end shopping and being tech savvy.
San Francisco, New York and Boston finished atop the list. Kansas City ranked in a 14th-place tie with Philadelphia, trailing Nashville and ahead of Los Angeles.
The report praised Kansas City for its museums, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, antique shopping, sports bars, hamburgers and microbrew beers.
Kansas City finished ahead of everyone else for affordability and, of course, barbecue.
The city ranked near the bottom of the list for public transportation, diversity, food trucks and people-watching.
According to the survey, the best time of year to visit Kansas City is right now: The Fourth of July holiday.


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Make That Big Car Hook With A GM A-Body Suspension.
Before this tune-up, when the green light lit this '71 Buick Skylark would smoke the Mickey Thompson stickies down the first 100 feet or so of the track before hooking up and running. The starting-line tirespin was maddening. Part of the solution we'll show here applies to production cars with coil-sprung, nonparallel four-link rear suspensions such as '64-'72 GM A-bodies (Chevelles, Skylarks, Cutlasses, and Tempests) and Fox-and-newer Mustangs. Next month, we'll dial it in.
We sought guidance from world-reknowned street-racer-turned-Pro-Street-guru Mike Moran, who has raced every kind of vehicle you can imagine and coaches a lot of Fastest Street Car racers through his business, Moran Motorsports. Surprisingly, he started his quarter-mile passion behind the wheel of an A-body Buick, so he knows these vehicles. Moran's initial suggestion was simply to change the shock absorbers to help speed up and control the transfer of weight from the front end for added bite, but after discovering the car's poor 60 percent front-end weight bias, Moran and his business partner Bart Lemeux decided that some more serious suspension parts might be needed.
The plan involved installing a Dick Miller Racing (DMR) rear-suspension kit to improve the launch grip of the vehicle. The kit repositions the upper-link mounting points on the rearend housing to alter the four-link geometry, moving the theoretical intersection point of the upper and lower control arms lower and rearward. This changes the leverage point of the suspension, leading to more body rise during launch, and therefore more pressure on the tires for improved traction. The DMR kit is also adjustable to preload the suspension for drag tuning, and it stiffens the factory mounting points. Similar kits are available for coil-spring Mustangs.
The suspension overhaul also included a DMR adjustable, preloadble rear sway bar and Strange adjustable shocks. We had to modify some of the DMR components to fit, because a Moser 9-inch rearend was installed a few years ago in place of the stock GM 10- bolt , and this kit is built for a factory rearend.
Consulting For SpeedIn the process of doing the upgrade in this story, we reached out to the owner of one of the quickest streetable Buick Skylarks in the country. Steve Cagle has gone 9.49 seconds at 146 mph with a 1.36 60-foot time in a 3,500-pound '71 Buick.
When asked about getting the car to launch, Cagle said, "We spent a lot of time with the stock rear suspension and eventually installed a fully fabricated racing suspension. The Dick Miller pieces and Strange shocks are great with the stock suspension and can be installed by someone in his driveway. We ran the rebound in the rears set at seven clicks toward stiff and the fronts at halfway to stiff. I'd set the pinion angle at 3 degrees down with the Dick Miller suspension. We put a lot of pressure in the slicks compared to a lighter car, like 1111/42 to 13 psi, and with the vehicle weight, I think that would help you-we also ran tubes in our slicks. My car worked well with Moroso big-block drag springs up front, but with the front-end weight of your vehicle, I don't think they'll work."
We did try the Moroso front drag springs, which were very difficult to install as they're very long. Unfortunately, the nose weight was too much-the springs were in full coil-bind with the car at rest, so the stock front springs were reinstalled for all the runs.
Cagle went on to add, "Any weight you can get out of the front of the vehicle will help a bunch at the launch." We looked at removing weight, but decided to just focus on the suspension for this story.
Cagle's advice helped a lot. One example was his recommended optimal front-suspension alignment-which saved time for us. We suggest finding someone who has gone fast with the same type or a similar-type vehicle to give you speed tips. Don't be a pest: You'll need to make it a win-win somehow-and we're sure they are as busy as everyone else. Basic recommendations for alignment are to set the alignment with the car raised 1 inch from ride hieght. Shoot for 3-4 degrees of positive caster and 0 camber, and a total of 11/416-inch toe-in. The positive caster helps with high-speed stability.
One important caution: You will need to make sure the vehicle is similar enough to yours to translate. If the package is dramatically different from what you have, there is little to learn-but what do you have to lose in asking?
Scaling The CarTo start the improvement process, Moran asked the vehicle's owner, Mike Kunkle, to have the car weighed. Kunkle took his Buick to Wheel to Wheel Powertrain to have it put up on the electronic scales. Here are the results: As Moran suspected, the front-end percentage was brutal. This makes hooking up the rear tires at launch a real challenge. In a perfect world, he says, you'd want almost a 50/50 percent split front/rear with a suspension designed to take advantage of it.
Some of the additions to the vehicle after this weighing included the DMR suspension (10 pounds), seatbelts (10 pounds), and rollcage (80 pounds). While the car wasn't reweighed after these parts were added, we're confident the total weight was more than 3,700 pounds.
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Project Prom winner Danielle Trotta celebrates with family, friends and the winning dress
When 3,000 people choose your prom dress, you gotta listen.
Project Prom winner Danielle Trotta did, and even though the floral Alex + Eve gown from Alight in Plainview that Newsday readers picked wasn't the one that initially caught her eye, she exuded confidence as she posed for pictures on the sun-soaked patio of The Carltun in Eisenhower Park Thursday night.
"I love the way it fits," she said of the flowing number, a palette of blues and greens complimented by her golden eye shadow and fiery tresses done expertly by Maximus Salon and Spa in Westbury. "I can't wait to dance in it."
It's been a tough few years for the Seaford High School junior, who lost her beloved dad in 2008 and had her home destroyed by superstorm Sandy.
"I've never seen her happier," her mom, Kathy, said on the big night. "My husband would be beaming. I know he's here with us tonight."
Both male and female friends gathered around the belle of the ball to gush over how she looked, but most of all they spoke of her vibrant personality.
"She always knows how to have a good time and put a smile on your face," said longtime pal Jess Rini, 17.
Neighbor Desire Fowlkes, 17, spoke of her contagious smile and loud laugh.
Danielle's date, Tom Simonetti, 18, was suited up in turquoise accents from Gino's Fashion Tuxes in Farmingdale — which matched both Danielle and the cast on his right arm. ("It's a long story," he says.)
By the time the group photo shoot was over, the friends were ready to hit the dance floor. But how will she top this for her senior prom next June?
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Here you'll find reviews of my novels, a list of upcoming appearances, interviews such as this one at The Next Chapter, discussion starters for book clubs, and much more!
What a wonderful surprise to find that CBC has named me one of 10 Canadian Women writers you need to read! I was also thrilled to see Matadora long-listed for CBC's Canada Reads and named as one of the Top 10 Books for 2013 by NOW Magazine.
This year you can find me teaching creative writing at the University of Toronto SCS, mentoring within the Humber School for Writers and with Diaspora Dialogues.
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Liberals and Washington Post, meet regulatory capture. Regulatory capture, liberals and Washington Post. The fight in major metropolitan areas over Uber has instructed a new generation of liberals on this concept, even if they call it Stockholm Syndrome:
What started out as a fight over price and quality has turned into a fight to win the hearts and minds of regulators.
That fight took an ugly turn this month when Seattle's Committee on Taxi, For-Hire and Limousine Regulations voted to limit the number of vehicles UberX and two similar services could operate to 150 each, down from an estimated 2,000 that had been in service.
Explaining her rationale for the vote, city council member Sally Clark, who chairs the Taxi Committee, explained, "No, I don't want to 'temporarily' kill innovation, but I do want to buy a year for the taxi world to adapt."
Clark's rambling blog post and a subsequent one written after the vote give all sorts of explanations as to why it is in consumers' best interests for governments to protect taxi and limo services from market competition even when every other business large and small must compete on its own merits. These include concerns over the training of drivers, adequate insurance, and protecting consumers from unfair pricing.
She also notes that most of Seattle's drivers are immigrants. And those immigrants may have had to pay as much as $150,000 on the "gray market" for the right to operate for-hire vehicles, because, Clark notes without irony, Seattle hasn't issued new medallions for over twenty years. (The City Council issued a moratorium in 1990). And anyway, she concludes, companies such as Uber have raised millions in "massively successful" venture financing rounds, suggesting, I guess, that they are all run by fabulously rich people.
The incoherence of regulators such as Clark isn't much of a surprise. Like the taxi and limo drivers they oversee, the regulators haven't had to deal with disruptive technological change for decades. The committee was created to protect consumers, of course, but after all this time working exclusively with the industries they regulate, it's not surprising to find something at work akin to what psychologists call Stockholm Syndrome.
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And it may well be that the same technology that makes UberX possible has also become a far more effective regulator than out-of-touch regulators. Consumers, not bureaucrats, rate the quality of the vehicles and the rides, and do so at the time of service, not at random checkpoints. The smartphone calculates the cost of the ride and takes payment, reducing the opportunity for drivers to cheat the rules. Constantly-updated data lets everyone know where traffic is worse, and when there are more drivers than passengers, or visa-versa, optimizing the number of vehicles on the road not once every twenty-four years but in real time.
Welcome, literal limousine liberals, to the downside of regulation. This is why Sen. Marco Rubio is making waves on this issue. "Technological disruption" is the gateway small-government drug of my generation. Com on in. The water's fine! Rubio wants to thwart the powers that be in Miami and get Uber operating there. Smart. This ride home from the club brought to you by…your Republican senator?
Sen. Marco Rubio was looking to score a quick ride in Miami, but when he tapped his white Uber button on his smartphone, the Florida Republican came up empty.
"I was bragging to someone about this service in Washington and I clicked onto my app … and up comes a message saying, 'Sorry we can't pick you up in Miami because the county commission won't allow it,'" he recalled.
That incident was the impetus for Rubio's Monday visit to Uber's Washington headquarters, where he used the struggle of a growing and fashionable tech company to underscore his case concerning overburdensome regulations.
"We should never allow government power and government regulations to be used to protect an establishment incumbent industry at the expense of an innovative competitor," he said.


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Who gives a crap that there's already a movie called "Dark Skies", lets make a different one and let's make it about sharks. F the system! Let's also get Tara Reid, because she is surprisingly available, and let's toss in Cassie Scerbo and Ian Ziering, two people I don't know but look like they're pretty close to doing soft core porn. Let's make it about LA being flooded and people fighting sharks. Let's just say F you logic and reasoning.
I have always been baffled by the music in the original "The Last House on the Left" but I'm guessing some people love it so the folks at One Way Static Records are releasing the soundtrack on vinyl for the very first time. For those of you not in the know, the soundtrack was composed by David Hess, who played "Krug" in the film. He's also the same guy who had an hour long conversation with Jon from the podcast about baseball at Horror Hound Weekend a few years back and then shot him down for a photo. He's also dead.
Sony has bumped up the release of the upcoming "Evil Dead" remake to April 5th. The move is mostly due to some other film's release date shifting but still, let's call this a good thing. Let's also agree to ever talk about the one night we both went to Hooters and ended up going to the bathroom at the same time and may or may not have compared sizes. No one should ever know about that.
So "Wolf Creek 2" is happening and it looks like John Jarratt, who played the creepy killer in the first flick, will be returning. Some other Australian folks who no one knows (sorry Australian readers) will also be in the flick which will follow a group of backpackers who encounter a strange local, so pretty much the same plot as the first film.


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Genuine W0133-1599301
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Part Number: W0133-1599301
Detailed Notes: As per Mercedes service information, the holes in this cover are NOT threaded. The bolts that attach the cover are self tapping and should be replaced at the time of cover replacement. Requires (2) 910143-008013 8x30,(7) 910143-008009 8x70, (1) 910143-008011 8x90,(1) 910143-008012 8x100mm and (1) 910143-008010 8x80 mm bolt.
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May 18th Mystery Trip
Mystery Trip LA
Saturday, May 18, 2013 from 5:00 PM to 11:30 PM (PDT)
Event Details
Come find out why we were in LA Weekly's "Best of" issue for being "The Best Bizarro Tour Bus Event Thingie." Others have said Mystery Trip is "the most fun event in LA!" and "seriously ridiculous fun!"
This will be a Mystery Trip for the ages: an 7-hour extravaganza that will make 3-4 stops that will test the limits of your mysteriousness. We will be going to some of the best parts of LA and along the way, you'll meet some cool people, eat some good food and experiencing some serious fun.
Ticket pays for everything (transportation, food, admission to anything we do) except alcohol. Mystery Trip is a BYO event.
Check us out on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for clues as to what we'll be doing.
Right about now you might be thinking, "what's exactly is a Mystery Trip and why would I spend my hard-earned money on I-don't-know-what?" Read on, but remember: once you know, you'll never want to forget it. You've been warned.
(Frequently Asked Mysterious Questions)
Q: What exactly is a "Mystery Trip"?
A: A Mystery Trip is a 6-8 hour party that makes 3-4 stops throughout the event. The mystery is you won't know where we're going until we get there. Hundreds of people have done it before you and have survived. Even when they saw a guy's pants fall down while he was hula-hooping. True story.
Q: Hmm. I'm not sure yet. What types of things might we be doing?
A: While we won't tell you what we'll be doing, past trips have included visits to weird/interesting museums, socially conscious restaurants, people's homes with interesting (read: odd) collections, a demolition derby, sumo wrestling, roller derby, had a dance contest and more. If there's something we do that you don't feel comfortable participating in, you don't have to.
Q: I'll admit it: I'm a bit of a control freak and while I really want to go, this is kind of totally weirding me out. Know what I mean?
A: Yes, we get it, and it's totally cool. If you need a little more information about the trip (how long until the next bathroom, when/what we're eating, what shoes to wear, etc.) in order to ensure that you are comfortable, relaxed and having a good time with your friends, feel free to email us directly or pull Mysterious Dave aside at the event. And don't worry: you're a Mysterion now which means we have a bond of trust and confidentiality.
A: Mysterious Dave started Mystery Trip about 10 years ago. He's really quite a guy, and has done dozens of Mystery Trips with people from all over the world, won awards, and has very important celebrity friends, so you're definitely in good hands.
You are a Mysterion. When you go on a Mystery Trip, you join the worldwide army of people who have experienced the fun, outrageousness and mysteriousness that can only be described with words that haven't been invented yet. But remember, with great mysteriousness comes great responsibility.
Q: Okay, I'm starting to get it and I'm ready to commit. What now?
A: Awesome! You've made a life-altering decision that will positively affect your family for generations to come. In the short term, buy your tickets, and we'll see you soon!
More info available at mysterytripla.com!
When & Where
Los Angeles,
Saturday, May 18, 2013 from 5:00 PM to 11:30 PM (PDT)
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Mystery Trip LA
Mystery Trip LA is the award winning event-planning coming that is taking over Los Angeles. Each trip is a one-of-a-kind adventure that shows you some of the most fun, crazy and outrageous places throughout this great city of ours. Mystery Trip: the best night you don't know about.


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MONTREAL — Is Lance Armstrong a liar?
All the evidence seems to point in that direction.
Did Armstrong use performance-enhancing drugs?
He basically pleaded no contest to allegations by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, although Armstrong and his supporters continue to point out that he never failed a drug test.
Did Armstrong win the Tour de France seven times?
The only correct answer to that question is yes. There will be attempts to strip Armstrong of those titles, but race director Christian Prudhomme got it right when he said that if Armstrong is stripped of the titles, there should be no winner listed for those seven years.
Armstrong won those titles fair and square. That might seem like an absurd statement, but consider that all the evidence used to condemn Armstrong paints a picture of a sport immersed in a drug culture. While there is an element of concern for an athlete's health, the main reason sports governing bodies insist on drug testing is to ensure a level playing field. As perverted as it may seem, there is a level playing field when everyone is cheating.
Canadian Michael Barry, who was Armstrong's teammate with the United States Postal Service team, was one of the cyclists whose testimony is part of the 200-page USADA report that details what is described as a sophisticated doping operation. Barry falls back on the Ben Johnson defence for his decision to engage in doping, saying everyone else was doing it and he had to get on board to reach the next level. The reality is that Barry was a "domestique" — one of the supporting riders on the team — before he started doping and was still a domestique after he started doping.
What is interesting about the Armstrong case is the vigour in which the USADA pursued this case, even after Armstrong had effectively retired from the sport. And the animosity toward Armstrong is reflected in the lifetime ban imposed on him.
The U.S. riders who agreed to testify against Armstrong received six-month suspensions that were timed so they won't miss any of the 2013 Grand Tours.
Drug offences usually result in two-year suspensions. Alberto Contador, who was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France and 2011 Giro d'Italia wins, won the Spanish Vuelta in 2012 after his penalty was imposed retroactively. Alexander Vinokourov sat out only one year after a positive blood-doping test at the 2007 Tour de France. He won the road race at this year's world championships.
One other off-note coming out of the USADA report is the suggestion cycling has left the drug era behind. Contador's recent problems would suggest that's not the case and, in fact, dozens of athletes have been suspended over the past three years, including three Canadians. As Barry noted in a CBC interview Thursday, the doctors associated with the U.S. Postal Service team proved smarter than the testers, which is one reason why Armstrong never tested positive. It's sad that time, money and effort must be directed toward catching the cheats, but there will always be athletes and coaches looking to break the rules.
Armstrong will continue to be a lightning rod for controversy. He may be the world's best-known cancer survivor and has used his notoriety to be a formidable advocate for cancer research. His Livestrong Foundation has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the cause, but that shouldn't earn him a pass for any misdeeds.
Nor should it subject him to harsher treatment than other athletes who have used drugs. And it should not detract from the fact he was the fastest cheater on two wheels.
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This image, captured by WRCB-TV, is our first look at Volkswagen's new mid-size sedan, which is set to go into production in 2011.
This vehicle, set to be produced at the Chattanooga VW plant, will be one of the main vehicles built in America for the American market. Cleverly, Volkswagen is calling the new vehicle the New Mid-Size Sedan (NMS). This could be the vehicle to move the brand firmly into the mid-size, near-premium segment. Already, the 2009 Volkswagen CC is preparing buyers for the idea of an expensive and more luxurious VW.
As for the name, we imagine NMS will get dropped in favor of some obscure wind. What about the VW Chinook? The strong lines and greenhouse suggest more Audi than VW and the kink in the C-pillar makes us wonder if they're not trying to hint at RWD or, instead, just carrying over a common VW design element. We'll certainly be following this car closely over the coming two years.


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London might get all the press as the world floods in for the Olympics, but elsewhere in Europe plenty of intriguing destinations are on the rise, either due to special events planned for this year or new attractions that are just beginning to draw visitors. So what are Europe's best holiday ideas in 2012? We've picked our top five. Read on...
Albanian Riviera
Savvy beach bums have begun to chart a course for a still-wild stretch of the Mediterranean: Albania's shores, between the cities of Vlorë and Sarande. You may have to ride a rattle-trap bus to get there, but you won't regret that when you settle in to a dinner of fresh calamari in front of the electric blue sea.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Many of Amsterdam's best museums have been under renovation for years, but now finally the scaffolding is coming down. The Maritime Museum has recently reopened, with engaging new exhibits charting the Dutch history of seafaring, and the contemporary Stedelijk art museum will soon unveil its odd new wing, which locals have dubbed "The Bathtub". A long-needed hotel boom should also make it easier and cheaper to get a room - which has never been an easy task in the Dutch capital.
Wroclaw, Poland
The Euro 2012 football tournament, to be held here in June (and elsewhere in Poland and Ukraine), is catapulting this small Polish city into the international limelight - and perhaps even teaching the world how to pronounce its name (try "Vrots-waf"). Best known for its meticulously preserved medieval market square, the Rynek, Wroclaw is a university town with plenty of watering holes and charm in abundance. Time your visit after the footie fans disperse if you want an easier time of gnome-spotting: more than a hundred odd gnome statues are hidden around town, inspired by a symbol associated with anti-communist activists in the 1980s.
Guimarães, Portugal
Designated a European Capital of Culture in 2012, Portugal's so-called "cradle city" (since it's considered the birthplace of national culture) is more than a millennium old - its medieval core is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But its population is very young, more than half under the age of 30, which has created a particularly vibrant arts scene. This year, the cultural calendar will be packed with avant-garde orchestras, new theatre and plenty of arts installations in repurposed industrial spaces.
Girona, Spain
For years, travellers knew this small city in Catalonia only as the place where cheap flights to Barcelona landed. But recently it has become a destination in its own right, especially for foodies. According to the judges at Restaurant magazine, El Celler de Can Roca is the second-best restaurant in the world (after Copenhagen's Noma). Even if you can't get a table at this innovative spot, there are scores of other places to sample this region's complex, seafood-rich cuisine.


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