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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - To raise funds and embrace the beauty of the Grand Valley by bike, Community Hospital Foundation will host its 24th annual Tour of the Valley cycling event this Sunday, Aug. 26. "Local cyclists have long known the vast diversity of cycling our beautiful valley has to offer - from the rolling orchards of East Orchard Mesa to the challenging climbing and stunning red-rock canyons of the Colorado National Monument - The Tour of the Valley is a showcase of some of the best cycling in Colorado," Community Hospital's marketing director Becky Jessen said.For the second year, the Tour of the Valley will also run in conjunction with the USA Pro Cycling Challenge - a new road race which runs for seven consecutive days and 683 miles - from Aug. 20-26 - with its competitors moving through the Colorado Rockies in stages. It's one of the largest cycling events held in the U.S., with more than 1 million spectators expected throughout Colorado.According to Jessen, since its inception 24 years ago the Tour has been planned for the last Sunday in August, to coincide with school starting. However, Community Hospital event organizers are now concerned with the Pro Challenge affecting Tour of Valley participation."With the Pro Cycling Challenge only two years old, we're looking at the potential impact to our (event) ridership," Jessen added. "Our hope was Grand Junction would get a stage in the 2012 Pro Challenge, and we could have the Tour as part of the week's associated cycling activities."Organizers will continue to evaluate the timing of the Tour as more information on next year's Pro Cycling Challenge race stages become available.
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The Tour of the Valley is not a race, and everyone is encouraged to set their own pace, event organizers said. Multiple routes are planned for Sunday, featuring a variety of distances - 30-, 50-, 75- and 100-mile route options - to accommodate different skill levels and scenery. And this year's 100-mile route will continue to include a ride across the Colorado National Monument's Rim Rock Drive."It's exciting that the Colorado National Monument still allows us to use Rim Rock Drive," Jessen said. "A portion of this year's proceeds will go to the CMU cycling team, and also the diabetes support group for youth - Diabetes Counts."Diabetes Counts Network Group, comprising local kids from kindergarten to 12th grade with Type 1 Diabetes, has about 30 regular members, said Terri Thompson, a nurse with Community Hospital's Diabetes Education Center. Fifteen of those kids will be cycling in the Tour's 30-mile route. Otherwise known as the "family fitness route," the 30-mile trek will travel west toward Fruita and back.As part of Sunday's event, Kerry White - a female professional long-distance cyclist on Team Type 1 - will also be speaking with Diabetes Counts kids on the importance of exercise when managing their disease. "It's really good role-modeling for kids on how important physical activity is," Thompson said. "An active lifestyle is more healthy."For more information or an event schedule, call Community Hospital at 970-242-0920 or visit www.yourcommunityhospital.com/Tour_Schedule.cfm.


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I just surprise to learn that Ajhan Sumedho has used tinnitus (ringing noise in the year) as a meditation object.
I had tinnitus for many years. I never took that as a nuisance. I used it as my meditation object for many years.
This could be a good news for any tinnitus sufferers!
The first of these, "the sound of silence," is described
in the opening Dhamma talk of the same name in quite
some detail. However, as it is not a meditation method
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"Mitzvah gedola le'heyos be'simcha..." many of us have heard this. I am wondering if there is an actual mitzvah to be be'simcha? (I am looking for sourced comments and not just idea's). I know that simcha is not counted as a mitzvah by the Rishonim, but I think the question still stands. I have heard that the Chasam Sofer (in parshas VaYechi) says that it is a mitzvah deoraysah and explains why the Rishonim don't count it, but I couldn't find it.
The teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the topic of Simcha are collected in a sefer called "Simcha Ubitachon B'Hashem" published by Heichel Menachem. The entire first chapter (some 60 pages) deals with the obligation of being happy.
One source that the Rebbe often mentioned: The Rambam writes (Hilchos Lulav Perek Ches, Halocha Tes Vov, English translation from chabad.org):
The Rambam also rules (Hilchos Deos Perek Gimmel Halocha Beis, English translation from chabad.org):
The Rebbe comments that in order to act in accordance to both rulings one is obligated to be happy constantly.
Commentaries on Likutey Moharan (I think it's Parparos Lechochma but I'm not sure, as I'm looking in the English edition - b'n I'll try and look it up) bring the following sources for an actual mitzva of simcha:
Moshe Rabbenu chastised the Jewish people for not serving G-d with simcha.
David Hamelech says "serve G-d with simcha", which Rabbenu Bachya connects to the previous verse in Dvarim.
Apart from this, Rebbe Nachman cites Yad Ramah on Sanhedrin 17b that there is an obligation to be happy in "Guard your self and guard your soul diligently...", as depression leads to poor health and sin, chas veshalom.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Greg Trainor remembers his first river trip during the mid-1960s, on the Arkansas River. He and a buddy didn't know what they were getting into.
"We did everything wrong," Trainor said.
They tied themselves to the boat because they didn't want to lose it, and 100 yards out they flipped the inflatable raft. Luckily, the teenagers were able to avert disaster by untangling themselves from the rope. They hung onto their raft, but lost all their gear.
That first experience on the river didn't deter Trainor's interest in water, however, and fortunately his job as Grand Junction's public works director and utilities manager has allowed him other opportunities on the water as he watches over the community's precious resource.
"I've always had a fascination and affinity for water," Trainor said. "My work with the city allows me to feed that.
"The city has water rights on both the Colorado and Gunnison rivers. It's critical habitat for endangered species. Everything (the city does) relative to the river is tied to the vision of the Clean Water Act adopted in 1972, to ensure the rivers are fishable and swimmable."
Trainor was awarded "River Manager of the Year" by the River Management Society at a workshop held at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction March 12.
The national nonprofit organization's mission is to support professionals who study, protect and manage North America's rivers. Its membership includes federal, state and local employees, educators, researchers, consultants, organizations and citizens.
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"The award is very special, as it is truly peer recognition," from throughout the nation, said River Management Society president Dennis Willis of Price, Utah.
Trainor, 64, has been a member of the River Management Society for the past 15 years, and currently serves as its secretary. He was editor this past winter of the RMS Journal, for which he has written articles as well as poetry relating to water and the natural world.
River Management Society Southwest chapter vice-president Jason Carey, who owns River Restoration in Glenwood Springs, nominated Trainor for the River Manager of the Year award.
"Greg's love for the outdoors, and his interest in boating, has led him to having a broader vision of the river and being an effective leader in balancing natural and recreation values with the need for the city to develop around a river," Carey said.
In an email to the Free Press, Carey added: "Greg's 35 years of observing western Colorado water has given him an informed perspective on drought, water storage, conservation, climate change, energy development, and protecting watersheds for drinking water supply. As an avid riverman, Greg spends much of his free time boating the rivers of the West. Greg has combined his informed perspective with his love for rivers to show great leadership in promoting and protecting natural and recreational water resources."
His five children and 15 grandchildren (except the infants) have become boaters, Trainor said.
Trainor is a general member of Grand Canyon River Guides, so he can keep up with what's going on environmentally and politically in the canyons of the Colorado River.
He plans to float the San Juan River with River Management Society members in May. And in September, he will volunteer for the Bureau of Land Management running river patrols on the Green River in Desolation Canyon.
A part of Trainor's job with the city is ensuring that the Persigo Wastewater Treatment Plant discharges meet stringent standards. Trainor is also in charge of catching stormwater and removing trash and other debris from flowing back into the river.
Additionally, Trainor works with the U.S. Forest Service, establishing water protection standards as it relates to oil and gas development in the city's watershed.
His office lends its support to the city's parks department as well, working to move forward development of Las Colonias along the Colorado River, east of the Western Colorado Botanical Gardens.
Trainor serves on the Colorado River Basin Roundtable, representing municipalities where he helped produce a water and energy report that looked at projected water use of potential oil and gas, uranium, coal and oil shale development through 2050.
"As a community we're connected to the Gunnison and Colorado rivers not only from a utility/public works standpoint, but also more and more from a recreation-related standpoint," Trainor said. "Those uses are as valid as traditional uses."
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Meanwhile, FIDE announces new Grand Prix series, contracts to be signed before June 1st
While the current World Championship cycle is about to reach its climax, the next cycles are well under way. The player who will challenge the winner of the Anand-Gelfand match in a new title match, will be coming from the 8-player Candidates tournament, to be held March 2013 in London. The cycle after that has already started as well, and includes a brand new Grand Prix series, which was announced last week on the FIDE website.
Exactly one week ago FIDE published an announcement concerning the new Grand Prix series.
FIDE and AGON are pleased to announce the full details of the new Grand Prix cycle 2012/2013. Regulations for the Series as well as Players contracts can be found below.
Each player will be assigned to play in four of the six cities and his best three results will be accumulated for his / her overall ranking at the end of the series. The top two overall placed in the Grand Prix will qualify for the Candidates event in 2014.
This system is the same as the first GP series which was held in 2008-2010 and won by Levon Aronian (second came Teimour Radjabov).
Source: Wikipedia
Who is entitled to play in the second Grand Prix series? A total of 18 players will be selected, and at the moment FIDE gives the following names, who qualify on different criteria.
- Viswanathan Anand (IND) and Boris Gelfand (ISR), as the current World Champion and Challenger.
- Peter Svidler (RUS), Alexander Grischuk (RUS), Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR) and Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR), as the top 4 from the last World Cup.
- One player, rated at least 2700 in the January 2012 FIDE rating list, will be nominated by the FIDE President.
- Six players may be nominated by AGON and must be rated at least 2700 in the January 2012 rating list or have been a World Chess Champion.
- Five players (plus reserves) will qualify by rating. For this the average of the July 2011 and January 2012 rating lists will be used.
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The six cities and dates for this second Grand Prix series are:
Chelyabinsk (September 19 – October 3)
Tashkent (November 21 – December 4)
Lisbon (April 10 – April 24)
Madrid (May 22 – June 4)
Berlin (July 3 – July 17)
Paris (September 18 – October 2)
Especially these last four European cities have raised eyebrows. Not that anyone is against having the tournaments there, but one cannot deny that in recent years it has been impossible for FIDE to find sponsors and hold their main events in big, Western cities. (During the previous Grand Prix series, three of the six host cities withdrew, and were replaced by cities in the Caucasus. The six tournaments took place in Baku, Sochi, Elista, Nalchik, Jermuk and Astrakhan.) There is reason to remain skeptical "until the first move has been played".
As it turns out, the players have to sign the contract before June 1st, which is in one week from today. They must also submit the six cities ranked in order or preference of participation, and FIDE and AGON will consider the players' requests.
Below the announcement article on the FIDE website you can actually download the players' contract (alongside the GP regulations). However, the current version is not the same as last week's, and a new version will actually be put online on Monday, as we were told by Andrew Paulson. The reason is that FIDE and Agon are still in touch with players, managers and even the Association of Chess Professionals, who have expressed certain concerns.
For instance, in the draft that was posted one week ago, there was the following sentence:
If the Series is cancelled by the Organiser, or does not take place due to Force Majeure, and notice in writing of such cancellation or of the Series' not taking place is given by the Organiser to FIDE and the Players, the parties agree that they shall each be relieved of their respective obligations under this Agreement in relation to the Series without any party having any further liability to the other parties.
From the players' perspective, this meant that they would be running some serious risks. They had to basically agree to four tournaments in a twelve month time span, but there would be no compensation if one or more tournaments would be cancelled. At the same time, their signing of contracts would deprive them of the opportunity to play in other big tournaments, which are often scheduled coinciding with or very close to a GP.
In the meantime, this sentence was changed to:
If the Series does not take place due to Force Majeure, and notice in writing of such cancellation or of the Series' not taking place is given by the Organiser to FIDE and the Players, the parties agree that they shall all be relieved of their respective obligations under this Agreement in relation to the Series without any party having any further liability to the other parties.
Another concern about the current version was that FIDE/Agon could change the dates with no consequences. This will also be changed for the final version that will be sent to the players and published online on Monday.
Andrew Paulson:
In the past this was not a negotiation; it was an ukase. Now, we are happy to adapt to the concerns of the players. Note, also, that I unilaterally doubled the prize fund for the Grand Prix and that the total now is € 1,440,000*.
In a week from now we'll know which players will have committed themselves and play in the new Grand Prix Series. Let's hope that we'll see a good start in Chelyabinsk and Tashkent and that in a year from now, Lisbon, Madrid, Berlin and Paris will be hosting four fantastic events.
*This amount is a correction of a previous incorrect amount given here.
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...and people grumble. As usual...
Looking forward to 6 great events!
What kind of format will the "8-player Candidates tournament" have?
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1,3 million dollar prize fund..not bad at all these days.
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Topalov and Kramnik refused to sign up last time and I wonder if they will be more interested now. The four western capitals were probably placed last in the series since they are as certain as the last events in the previous Grand Prix, i.e. they look nice on paper but aren't anywhere near certain to ever take place.
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Funny that players must be rated at least 2700 in the _January 2012_ rating list rather than the most recent one. This means that local players Vallejo (2705 at the time), Bacrot (2704) and Naiditsch (2702) are eligible for a wildcard - all fell just below 2700 in the meantime, the only local player could be Fressinet. It could also good news for Giri, and the exception for former world champions probably means that a player from Uzbekistan will participate.
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Also a bit funny that Radjabov (#4 at the moment) isn't one of the 18 players included unless at least three decline to participate.
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FIDE could pick players based on the avg. rating of past couple of years to make it simple. But knowing fide, something as simple as this is never going to happen as it leaves them with not much room for manipulations.
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This would be rather unfair to players who improved only recently: the main victim of the system may be Caruana rather than Radjabov, and the most privileged player is probably Topalov. Any system can also benefit or hurt players with wild form swings: currently Morozevich and Ivanchuk (qualified via the World Cup) are up while Shirov is down but, like the others, might come back.
The fairest solution might be a qualifying event, e.g. a Swiss event open to players rated 2650 or higher. The World Cup may be considered as such a qualifier.
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i am proposing to take *avg* of ratings of past cople of years. you could make avg of last 2 or 3 years. lets say, pick a player and get his past 12 ratings in the list and divide it by 12. it averages the wild swing or fluctuations. if somebody is not on form for last couple of years ought not to participate in the cycle. this system would produce much better result than lets say kamsky participating in the 2011 cycle because he won something 5 years back and *lost* to topalov a year back. overall this system will be much clearer so it would rid of all the bias and fide nonsense.
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Since the events will take place so far into the future I think it would have been a good idea to reserve two-three spots for current top players like Nakamura, Radjabov and Caruana, now that as many as 18 will participate in the cycle. They are still improving and could be ranked even higher when the series starts (not particularly soon, and then it will go on for quite some time). With all respect for Kasimdzhanov, Naiditsch, Bacrot and Vallejo a cycle with them but without Nakamura, Radjabov and Caruana would feel less exciting than it could be.
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Three wildcards remain and could go to the players you mention, then maybe the only one who is really missing is Morozevich - but somehow I don't consider him WCh material: he could do extremely well in one GP event but not in several ones?
I might be wrong about the "significance" of choosing the January 2012 list, it could also be inertia as the GP Series was originally supposed to start already this spring. But the exception for Kasimdzhanov (probably not Khalifman) is pretty obvious and a sign of gratitude for Tashkent.
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Finding sponsors at so many venues will be hard.
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It seems that the money comes from AGON rather than from the organizing countries. Else Lisbon would be really surprising: Portugal has other worries and has never organized a major chess event before - to my knowledge, neither has France.
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"Local" wildcards would go to Kazim, Bacrot, Vallejo, Bacrot. That leaves 3 wildcards.
Hopefully with some withdrawals, Radjabov, Naka, Caruana, Moro, Nepomniatchi can all make it. Hopefully Judith gets invited too.
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Why must the deadline be June 1st of all dates? If the current WC match goes to tiebreaks, that means Anand and Gelfand have all of May 31th to decide whether they want in or not...
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Why must the deadline be June 1st of all dates? If the current WC match goes to tiebreaks, that means Anand and Gelfand have all of May 31th to decide whether they want in or not...
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I believe the loser of the World Championship gets some kind of seeding into the next cycle.
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Keeping the track record of FIDE in mind, there will be many changes in the cycle later on.
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Indeed, and I wonder how Lisbon came up as a host city. Their highest rated player is in the 2400s while for example an Italian city could mean Caruana as local nominee (instead of being 12th reserve that would also mean that the 2770+ rated Caruana could play the cycle).
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It could be personal reasons, for example Andrew Paulson's Portuguese girl-friend (just speculating or kidding). Anyway, there's nothing per se wrong with having one event in a country that doesn't have much of a chess tradition, and/or doesn't have a current top100 player. Nor is it unprecedented: Argentina and Mexico had WCh tournaments, Mexico and Brazil co-organised supertournaments.
The wildcard doesn't have to be a local player. And it seems that the events are organized by Agon at locations they chose, rather than by the countries or cities themselves.
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So its well past June 1st. Do we know which players did and did not sign up for the grand prix?
And still, the grand prix series picks two players for the 2014 candidates. Do we know what rules constitute the other players?
Probably 3 from world cup as before
Loser of 2013 wch match
Still leaves 2 places of which one might be a nominee.
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- Desk
- Climate control
- Premium bedding
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Free Wi-Fi
Where to Eat
Q&C Hotel does not have its own restaurant, but there are several dining options within the surrounding area.
Nearby restaurants:
Acme Oyster House
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Skydiving nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- Braille or raised signage
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Valet parking fee: USD 32 per night (in/out privileges)


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