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I've been dying to post this in the 'Road to Makkah' ever since I read it in last month's ARAMCO. Soo interesting...
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Mayfair to Makkah
Lady Evelyn Cobbold achieved celebrity at age 65, in 1933, when she became the first British-born Muslim woman to perform the pilgrimage to Makkah. She was a Scottish aristocrat, a grandmother and a Mayfair socialite, and an accomplished deerstalker, angler and gardener, and, uniquely, she was both a Muslim and an Arabic-speaker. Yet the story of her colorful career has been overlooked, as has her contribution to the literature of the Hajj. Nor has she been studied for what her life has to say about being a Muslim in a western society.
On her 1933 pilgrimage, she became the first international traveler to record the buses that had recently begun service in Makkah.
She was not born into a Muslim family, yet Lady Evelyn claimed to have been a Muslim from as early as she could remember. She disclaimed any moment of conversion, and there is no record of her having formally converted before an imam. She wrote:
"As a child, I spent the winter months in a Moorish villa on a hill outside Algiers…. There I learned to speak Arabic and my delight was to escape my governess and visit the Mosques with my Algerian friends, and unconsciously I was a little Moslem at heart…. Some years went by and I happened to be in Rome staying with some Italian friends when my host asked if I would like to visit the Pope. Of course I was thrilled…. When His Holiness suddenly addressed me, asking if I was a Catholic, I was taken aback for a moment and then replied that I was a Moslem. What possessed me I don't pretend to know, as I had not given a thought to Islam for many years. A match was lit and I then and there determined to read up and study the Faith."
Evelyn was born in Edinburgh in 1867, the eldest child of Charles Adolphus Murray, Seventh Earl of Dunmore, and Lady Gertrude Coke, daughter of the Second Earl of Leicester. Permanently short of money, and with an incurable wanderlust, Lord Dunmore found it both cheap and congenial to take his family to North Africa every winter. Evelyn and her siblings, as they arrived, thus grew up in the company of Algerian and Egyptian nurses and household staff. The impact on young Evelyn was profound. Steeped in the culture and language of everyday life in the Arab Muslim world, she came to feel completely at ease and at home there.
For a relatively poor aristocrat, Evelyn married rather late, at age 24, to John Dupuis Cobbold, scion of a wealthy brewing family in eastern England. They met in Cairo and were married there in April 1891. At her new home in East Anglia, she faced a future of domesticity, relieved by the frequent travels at home and abroad typical of her wealthy contemporaries. Three children arrived between 1893 and 1900, but it is fairly clear that Lady Evelyn found it hard to settle. And the clues to her restlessness have to do with Islam and the Arab world.
Lady Evelyn's permission to make her pilgrimage was arranged by Saudi Arabia's ambassador in London, Shaykh Hafiz Wahba, shown here during one of the visits to England (probably 1935) by HRH Prince Sa'ud ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz. Wahba stands on the left and slightly behind the prince; Wahba wrote the original introduction to Lady Evelyn's
Pilgrimage to Mecca.
Lady Evelyn's permission to make her pilgrimage was arranged by Saudi Arabia's ambassador in London, Shaykh Hafiz Wahba, shown here during one of the visits to England (probably 1935) by HRH Prince Sa'ud ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz. Wahba stands on the left and slightly behind the prince; Wahba wrote the original introduction to Lady Evelyn's Pilgrimage to Mecca.
An untitled poem she wrote in Cairo in 1889 already evinces a spiritual longing for meaning in life and an affinity with Islam. In it, she wrote:
… The vague longings that filled my soul, Took the form of a prayer I upward sped, To Him, the One, The Essence of All….
And the weird cadence of the Mueddin's cry Bid the faithful prepare for the day that was nigh….
By 1900, Lady Evelyn was journeying without her husband. She was back in North Africa in 1911, at the age of 43, traveling in Egypt with a female companion. Her book about the trip—Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert, published in 1912 —is a revealing diary, forthright in its admiration for Islam.
From this point on, it becomes increasingly plain that she regarded herself as a Muslim. She was making regular winter visits to Egypt, and a series of letters in Arabic survives from 1914 and 1915, from Arab friends there and in Syria. Some address her as "Our sister in Islam, Lady Zainab," using her adopted Muslim name. Her friendship from 1915 with the British Muslim Marmaduke Pickthall, who produced one of the most respected renderings of the Qur'an into English, provides further testimony.
By the 1920's, anecdotal information suggests that Lady Evelyn's attachment to Islam had become a cause of estrangement from the Cobbold family, and in 1922, she and her husband formally separated. She received a generous financial settlement, including the deer forest of Glencarron in the Highlands, making her a very wealthy woman in her own right. For much of the 1920's, she was occupied by a cavalcade of grandchildren and by the field sports at which she excelled. But in 1929 her husband died, and it seems that she now began seriously to contemplate performing the pilgrimage to Makkah.
Lady Evelyn announced her intention to perform the Hajj to Saudi Arabia's minister in London, Hafiz Wahba, who wrote to King 'Abd al-'Aziz in Riyadh requesting formal permission. But, typically for her, she did not wait for a reply, relying instead on a social contact in London to send a letter of introduction to Harry St. John ('Abd Allah) Philby in Jiddah. Philby had became a Muslim in 1930, and he and his wife, Dora, duly received their unsolicited guest. They introduced her to Jiddah's small expatriate social circle and even invited the prince (and future king) Faisal to tea to meet the prospective pilgrim. While awaiting permission from the king for Lady Evelyn to go Makkah, Philby arranged for her to travel by car to Madinah, organizing accommodation with a family there.
February 28, 1933 The King is away at Riyad, his capital in Nejd, sixteen days' camel ride from here, so I fear he will not get the letter his Minister in London wrote him for some time…. Till that letter reaches the King, I must possess my soul in patience, and my time is pleasantly spent bathing in the warm sea within the coral reefs, for fear of sharks, or in motor drives in the desert….
March 2 How I envy the pilgrims we meet on their way to Mecca, while we return to the social life of Jeddah, which would be very pleasant if one were not aware of the mysterious City of Islam hidden in the hills only a few miles from us. Why do we always long for the unattainable, for the Blue Bird which hovers just beyond our reach?
March 9 The Emir Faisal arrived punctually at five o'clock…. It was impressive to see his tall figure enter the doorway clad in a brown and gold Abba over a flowing white robe and the picturesque headdress of Nejd, the Koffeya of diaphanous white bound round his head by black and gold chords—called the Aghal…. The Emir is slender and exceedingly graceful in his movements and, like most Nejd Arabs, has an air of distinction and good breeding….
At her Glencarron estate in northwest Scotland, Lady Evelyn was known as a superior deerstalker and hunter.
March 15 Two hundred and fifty miles [400 km] from Jeddah to Medina took us fifteen hours to accomplish and I take off my hat to the little Ford that gallantly carried us through those sandy wastes…. Besides the pilgrims on camels, we met many on foot, toiling slowly through the scorching desert with water jugs in their hands clad in their Ihram (or two towels), and, as they were bare headed, many carried umbrellas. Ten days is the usual time it takes a camel to accomplish the journey between Medina and Jeddah and three weeks for the pilgrim on foot….
As a visiting notable, Lady Evelyn found conditions were not nearly as hard as they were for ordinary pilgrims. The Saudis treated her with extreme courtesy, as befitted her status. And once permission arrived, she would be allowed to go to Makkah—some 70 kilometers (45 mi) away—by car, Philby once again providing her with a vehicle, guide and driver.
March 12 Today the news has come through that I am permitted to do the pilgrimage to Mecca and visit Medina. I had for so long lived in alternate fits of hope and despair, that I can scarcely credit that my great wish is at last to be fulfilled. Preparations for my journey are in the hands of my host…; while I prepare…my pilgrim dress which consists of a black crepe skirt, very full, and a cape and hood in one, to be worn over ordinary dress when I visit Medina, also a black crepe veil entirely obscuring my features; but for Mecca I shall be entirely in white, no colour is allowed in any garment….
Lady Evelyn arrived in the Hijaz at a historic juncture in Saudi Arabian history. Only just before her arrival, in September 1932, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had been proclaimed. Oil had not yet been discovered, and the world economy was mired in the Great Depression. The country had no source of income apart from pilgrimage receipts, and in 1933 pilgrims from abroad would slump to an all-time low of just 20,000—down from around 100,000 in the late 1920's. But economic salvation was in the offing. Lady Evelyn's visit to Jiddah coincided with the presence of American and British oil company negotiators, and in May 1933 King 'Abd al-'Aziz would sign the key concession agreement with the Americans that heralded the end of hard times for the Saudi economy.
This photo of the corner of the Great Mosque in Makkah was first published in 1925 in Cairo by Ibrahim Rif'at, and Lady Evelyn reprinted it in Pilgrimage to Mecca.
March 2 We return to Jeddah and dine at the New Hotel, which was where the American engineers, who have come to try to obtain the oil concessions from the King, are now staying. Their wives, Mrs. [Lloyd] Hamilton and Mrs. [Karl] Twitchell, welcome us and give us an excellent dinner, and the party includes Mr. [Stephen] Longrigg, the English representative of the Iraq Oil Company, who is also here trying to get the concession. Rivalry does not appear to spoil the friendly relations existing between all parties….
The fact that her son-in-law was a director of the Bank of England may also have played a role in winning permission for Lady Evelyn to make her pioneering Hajj, according to Sir Andrew Ryan, then Britain's minister to Saudi Arabia, who cast a somewhat jaundiced eye on her visit. "Lady Evelyn Cobbold…has been even more successful than anticipated," he reported. "…If [King] Ibn Saud receives her, her cup of blessing will be overflowing." In the event, Lady Evelyn did not meet the king, although she saw him when he arrived by car on the day of the Standing at 'Arafat, a key ritual of the Hajj.
March 26 I am in the Mosque of Mecca, and for a few seconds I am lost to my surroundings because of the wonder of it. We are walking on white marble through a great vault whose ceiling is a full fifty feet above us, and enter pillared cloisters holding the arched roof and surrounding an immense quadrangle…. I had never imagined anything so stupendous…. We walk on to the Holy of Holies, the house of Allah [the Ka'bah] rising in simple majesty. It would require a master pen to describe the scene, poignant in its intensity of the great concourse of humanity of which I was one small unit, completely lost to their surroundings in a fervour of religious enthusiasm…. I felt caught up in a strong wave of spiritual exaltation….
Pilgrimage to Mecca, published in 1934, is Lady Evelyn's fascinating account of her journey to the holy cities. As much a record of an interior experience of faith as a conventional travelogue, the book is remarkable for its sympathy and vividness. It takes the form of a diary, punctuated with lengthy digressions intended to help her readers understand Islam. They address topics such as the Qur'an, the life of the Prophet, Islamic history and science, the position of women, King 'Abd al-'Aziz's achievements and Islamic principles relating to warfare and tolerance.
March 21 Having discoursed on the subject of tolerance, we pass on to discuss the crisis the world is now facing, and the emancipation of women. The sheikhs show some amusement, tempered with admiration at the methods adopted by the Western woman to win herself a place in the sun; their sympathy is all on the side of the ladies. Though I occasionally caught a twinkle in the eye of Sid Ahmed, and both the sheikhs often smiled, I never heard them give way to loud laughter….
Most remarkable about her book, however, is that as a lone female Muslim, she was able to witness something veiled from every western traveler before her: the female side of domestic life in the two holy cities. This, and her religious commitment, set the account apart from all other English-language descriptions of the Hijaz that had gone before.
March 27 My hostess had already initiated me into the secrets of the harem or women's quarters; the bakehouse where the bread is baked to supply the needs of the large company at present inhabiting the house; the great kitchen where she, the ladies and slaves all help in cooking and preparing the food; the laundry where more slaves are busy washing; while the three pretty nieces are ironing and folding away the household linen; the work-room where they sit sewing and gossiping….
April 1 As I have been granted the great privilege of being received as a guest in this Mecca household I feel it is up to me to refute the false impressions that still exist in the West about the harem. Not only in this house, but in every harem I have visited in Arabia I have found my host with only one wife. Far from being a sensuous life of ease these ladies are busy with their household duties; at the same time living a happy, even a gay life, entertaining their friends and having their own amusements and festive occasions.
Uplifted but thoroughly exhausted by the rituals of the Hajj, Lady Evelyn received special dispensation from the king to end her pilgrimage before the usual culmination at the three-day Feast of Sacrifice, 'Id al-Adha. Though she extols the egalitarianism of Islam and the way in which the Hajj symbolically makes all people equals before God, she was not averse to taking advantage of her social status. Her host at Makkah generously made available to her the entire roof of his rented house at Mina, where otherwise all his womenfolk would have slept for the sake of the cool night air. At the Standing at 'Arafat, the same host invited her to share his tent, with its view of Jabal al-Rahmah, with his male guests. She readily accepted, not least because it was cooler, the women being consigned to a hot bell-shaped tent behind, where they could neither see nor be seen. When challenged by a pious passerby suspicious of her reading matter in the car on the way to 'Arafat (it was Charles Doughty's Arabia Deserta), her response was to declare robustly: "This is an English book, and I am an English Moslem and I am here on pilgrimage by permission of the King!" A lesser mortal might not have got away with it so easily. During her return voyage by sea, officials spared her the rigors of the full quarantine, giving her special quarters at Port Sudan and allowing her to leave after three days instead of the regulation five.
However, she revealed her fundamental sincerity while waiting to depart from Makkah on April 7 when, on her final return through the city, she found that she could not after all stomach Doughty because of his inability to fathom Islam. Instead, she took up the only other book she had brought with her, an Arabic Qur'an, and was "soon immersed in the beautiful sura 'Light,'" she noted. She had found that, after all, the suspicious passerby might have had a point.
Even before she returned to London, the newspapers made her an instant celebrity. The popular press viewed her pilgrimage as something out of the Arabian Nights while, in 1934, the more serious papers gave Pilgrimage to Mecca a favorable reception.
But what sort of Muslim was Lady Evelyn, and how should we regard her today? Though clearly firm in her faith, there is no record, during her life at home, of strict performance of the five daily prayers, or of charity to the poor and needy. No doubt she had uttered the shahadah, or declaration of faith, on various occasions, and there is some anecdotal evidence of fasting during Ramadan. But, of the Five Pillars of Islam, going on the Hajj seems to have been the one to which that she paid the most attention.
There is a long history of British converts to Islam before her time, going back at least to the Crusades. But Lady Evelyn belongs in a later category: that of educated converts in Britain itself in the late 19th century. She was contemporary with various other eminent Muslims of this type—Abdullah Quilliam, Lord Headley, Lord Hothfield and Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, to name but a few.
Although Lady Evelyn lectured extensively in Britain about her book, there is no sign that she saw her faith as having special public and social implications. She apparently regarded Islam as a matter of private conviction and subscribed to it on her own terms. But there is no doubting that her faith was deeply held during her very long life. She lived for 30 years after her pilgrimage, dying in January 1963, one of the coldest months of the century in Britain. She was buried in arctic conditions but according to the precepts of Islam and, as she had stipulated, on a remote hillside on her Glencarron estate.
Her interment symbolized her two worlds: A piper, so frozen that he was hardly able to walk, let alone perform, played "MacCrimmon's Lament," and the equally refrigerated imam of the Woking Mosque in London declaimed in Arabic the surah "Light," which she had found so moving in Makkah. A verse from the same surah adorns the flat slab on her grave, over which the deer undoubtedly wander, just as she had wished.
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Asalaamu Alaikum
What an amazing story. It really does show that Allah guides whom He wills.
Say: "O ye my servants who believe! Fear your Lord, good is (the reward) for those who do good in this world. Spacious is God's earth! those who patiently persevere will truly receive a reward without measure!" [39:10]
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Indeed a very uplifting story. After reading the depressing stories of Noor Inayat Khan and Yasmeen Ghauri, it was very refreshing. Thanks.
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NO SECURITY!!! – Just returned from a 4 day stay at the Sheraton in Downtown SLC. What a Joke. This is supposed to be one of the best hotels in the city. This hotel was the "Host" hotel for the exhibitors for the National Mule Deer Convention. We were told that the hotel provided armed security in the parking lot where we were instructed to park our vehicles and trailers full of expensive mechandise. What a crock!!! Not only was there not a security guard watching the parking lot, we were told AFTER our brand new truck had been vandalized, that the "Security Cameras" were not operational due to the recent 14 million dollar remodel! The desk clerk "Aaron" couldn't have been more rude or unsympathethic to the situation. Simply stating..."we have a sign posted, that says we are not responsible"! Then proceeded to tell us that this same thing has happened at least 3 other times in the past. Blaming it on the nearby nightclubs and bars. Hmmmm......everyone elses fault that they are not providing an obviously necessary camera since the mystery "armed gaurd" is unable to find the parking lot? Not only will our truck need a new paint job, the vandals apparently spent enough time frolicking in the "Secure" parking lot to remove a box of 30 or more frozen oranges from the bed of the truck and throw them at the other vehicles and trailers in the lot. Do not stay at this hotel if you are looking for a worry free nights stay! Or, expect the SHeraton Hotel to accept any sort of liability for the negligence!
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Monday, July 15, 2013
The Dirty Picture....
16 comments:
- Abhirami Muthu said...
Hear hear...
- July 16, 2013 at 11:03 AM
- Pooja Rathore said...
Brutally honest post!
- July 16, 2013 at 7:03 PM
- Abhirami Muthu said...
I must say there is a startling difference between the innocent soft faced lady standing timidly next to Husain and the bold, brazen woman in pink blazer
- July 17, 2013 at 5:02 AM
- jaya said...
Wow Eyeopener
- July 17, 2013 at 8:15 AM
- Muhammad Mukhtar said...
What is this
- July 17, 2013 at 8:42 AM
- Ravi Patel said...
A more apt title would have been, Dirty Men! Amongst others, the one in the picture himself, Husain! He dared had not done a blasphemous obscenity on any of the great and good or the only one of his so so tolerant and secular faith. Life and limb were obviously much more precious to the wimp. Such an outrage would have invited an obvious halal chop from the neck or the sainted chap would at best have ended up with a limb or two short! The more communal and violent Hindus were so obviously a better bet.
All said, however, i was disgusted at the way the man was hounded out of his country. He was an Indian and whatever his offence, no body had the right to scare him out of his own country. This is exactly what your majesty finds so disagreeable about many of such Sangh Parivar loonies. They are trying to Islamise my great religion and for me nothing can be more blasphemous. We have every right to criticise and express our disgust at something we do not agree with, but the Islamic way is not what this otherwise Nobel land of ours deserves.
In parting, Shobha Didi, just a question for you and the rest to ponder over. Is it not a bit odd and a whole lot more insulting that in the Indian narrative, Muslims, certainly the most communal of all the faiths and belief systems in the entire solar system and beyond, are being wooed in the name of secularism? So so sick! And God, you too are so so wickedly mischievous!
Have an insightful ponder over?
- July 18, 2013 at 1:12 PM
- Unknown said...
He resemblances Javed akhtar.
You look better and more beautiful in black and white.
- July 18, 2013 at 2:40 PM
- Jogeshwar said...
On looking closely at the picture you both seem to be standing in front of a painting.
p.s. Still waiting for the promised scan of the robb report. Thank you.
- July 19, 2013 at 3:26 AM
- TSV Hari said...
Good post, Shobhaa!
- July 19, 2013 at 10:42 AM
- TSV Hari said...
By the way, I keep sending you links of what I write. Do you find time to read them at all? And here is something you must go through! http://certifiablyunbankable.blogspot.in/
- July 19, 2013 at 10:43 AM
- Rathore said...
I didnt know abt these Good Post Shobhaa
- July 19, 2013 at 11:43 PM
- Kush said...
For a moment I thought its one of those Tagore's pictures with one of his women...
- July 21, 2013 at 2:20 PM
- raghav uchil said...
No one hounded out MFH out of the country but he chose to stay out. As pointed out by mr.patel, he stayed out of any mischief while painting anything to do with his own religion but wanted his pound of freedom of expression or artists right while depicting Hindu God and Goddesses and got punished for it. Had he been a man enough, he shud have stayed in the country to face the consequences as he had the money and support of like minded people byt he rather ran away to die in a distant land longing for his mother land which is the misfortune he brought upon himself.
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United Way of Danville-Pittsylvania County launched the 2011-12 campaign Friday, September 2, 2011 at the Community Market in conjunction with the Danville-Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours and Harvest Jubilee final First Friday concert of the season.
Local United Ways around the state are
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region of southwest Virginia around Abingdon. United Way President Patrick
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$30,000 in prescription drug aid to those in our community that need it most.


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Premier League
April 30, 2012
- FTFT1Man City
Man Utd1
Oasis is playing out over the speakers at the Etihad. The blue half of Manchester is in full-on party-mode.
That first-half goal from Vincent Kompany wins it then. The fans are loving this.
FULL TIME Manchester City 1-0 Manchester United
Joe Hart is down. The five minutes are up, but there have been several stoppages.
Poor. Cleared for a throw-in.
Corner to Man Utd. Won off Zabaleta.
Very, very scrappy now. What is going to happen?
Milner replaces Samir Nasri
City keeping possession and taking their time about restarts. The clock is ticking.
Five minutes to be added...
Chance for Nasri in front of the United goal. He beats one and tries another, but should just shoot
Chance for Valencia to cross, but its overhit. City counter.
Great save from David De Gea denies Clichy from the edge of the area. How can United respond?
United sloppy when given the opportunity to counter. Time is running out and they know it.
City taking their time about everything now and they have a free-kick in the corner.
Nasri looks to run down the clock in the corner. He wins a throw-in from Ferdinand in the end.
Swung in too high for Danny Welbeck and Gareth Barry clears
Free-kick to Man Utd on the left-flank. Ashley Young to take.
Young replaces Nani for United
Richards replaces David Silva
Yaya Toure runs at Ferdinand and the England man is backing-off. Toure takes it on his left-foot, but wide.
Attack comes to an end as Rooney concedes a free-kick for a high-boot.
United attack down the left with Nani. Zabaleta stands strong this time.
Valencia on for Scholes
Carrick now catches Gareth Barry late
Aguero adventures forward by himself and shoots into the side-netting. Ambitious.
Ferguson and Mancini square-up on the touchline. Words exchanged.
De Jong booked for a tackle from behind on Welbeck.
Aguero looks to roll Smalling and get away a shot, defended well by the United man.
Bit of niggle between Scholes and Yaya Toure. Toure appealing for the United man to be booked.
Man City really attempting to take the sting out of proceedings now. United eager to keep up the intensity.
Clever play from Man Utd in attack, but once more Kompany is in the right place. Toure leads the counter forward and shoots powerfully, low and wide of the near post.
Play back underway and Barry is ok. Twenty minutes remaining
Phil Jones booked for a tackle on Gareth Barry.
Extraordinary calmness from Clichy. Giggs whips in a cross and Clichy calmly chests back to Joe Hart.
De Jong replaces Tevez
All United since the introduction of Welbeck. The Red Devils have upped their game.
Almighty battle in midfield with Rooney and Tevez involved. High-intensity stuff now.
Concerted spell of possession for United. Jones crosses from the right again, overhit this time.
Corner cleared to back-post. Rooney clips it back in and Kompany clears once more.
Corner to Man Utd. Jones cross from the right and Lescott beats Welbeck to the ball at the front-post.
United calming the play down again. Scholes central to the game now.
The attack continues and Yaya Toure gets the ball on the left, firing a cross low into the area. Scrambled clear.
Free-kick headed clear by Smalling at the near post.
Free-kick given to Man City on the right flank. Evra catching Zabaleta in the air.
Welbeck has added a bit of impetus to the attack. Winning a couple of balls in the air ahead of his markers.
Welbeck for Park
Evra rises to clear. Nasri looks to get in a shot from the edge of the box. Poor.
City counter as United lose the ball. Corner won as Zabaleta plays the ball off Smalling.
Tevez finds space and looks to play in Aguero. Smalling is quick to get across and clear.
City in possession and playing the ball back to Joe Hart. United still pressuring well.
Danny Welbeck warming-up on the sidelines.
United look to get forward now and Kompany gets in to rob Park and clear.
Yaya Toure booked for dissent.
Nice play from City in midfield. No way through though.
The ball flies across the face of goal and Lescott looks to have lost Ferdinand, but the ball is too high.
Corner to Man City. They attack with their Argentine trio and Zabaleta wins a corner off Evra.
Ambitious left-footed effort from Nani. Hart catches, but fumbles behind for a corner. United take it short, but poorly.
Hart comes flapping at it with Rooney free behind him. The smallest of touches puts the ball out for a second corner, which is cleared.
Lescott out quickly to block Nani's cross. Corner to Man Utd.
Long period of United possession as they look to get a foot-hold in the game.
Man Utd were sent out very early for the second-half. They no doubt got a rocket from the boss at half-time.
SECOND HALF underway
Will Ferguson turn to his subs bench? Valencia would be an obvious choice.
Vincent Kompany heads City into the lead
Manchester United's tactics undone by some horrific marking from a corner. We will now see what they are made of.
Will that goal be decisive or are there more twists to come in this game?
HALF TIME Manchester City 1-0 Manchester United
GOAL Manchester City 1-0 Manchester United Kompany with the head!!! Corner crossed in by David Silva, but Kompany rises high above Smalling and heads home.
Two minutes added time... Second corner to City
Corner to Man City. Patient attacking move comes to Zabaleta and Evra blocks the cross behind
City looking to find a ball through the defence. Nine United players forming a red wall around the box though.
Nasri crosses from the right, but easily cleared by Phil Jones once more.
Clever corner. Short to Park who fires high over the bar. Opportunity there for the untracked Korean. Wake up call for City.
Nani crosses from the right finding Rooney at the back-post. The England man pulls it back to Giggs who wins a corner.
City counter and briefly have a 3-on-3, but the ball comes to Aguero who attempts too much. Goal-kick.
United need to steady themselves. City getting into a rhythm.
Long-spell of City possession around the area. Jones eventually cuts out a cross looking for Tevez.
City pushing men forward now and Zabaleta gets a shot away. Poor effort straight to De Gea though.
Half-chance for Aguero in the area as Nasri finds the Argentine. Ferdinand is in attendance and the Argentine shoots wide.
Tevez now flies in for a tackle with Phil Jones. Rooney now unimpressed with the refereeing.
Tevez annoyed as a free-kick is given for a push on Carrick. He had a little kick at the United man also. Tempers rising.
Park and Jones combine on the United right-flank. Clichy though wins a goal-kick for his side.
Break in play as a free-kick is given for a foul on Rooney. Here we go again. The game continues at break-neck speed.
Good spell for City. Couple of chances to cross in the ball, but dealt with by the United defence. Just!
Nasri gets past Evra down the United left. Crossed low, but Ferdinand clears.
United winning the loose balls in midfield again now. Doing well in the centre.
Clichy is hassled in the corner by Park Ji Sung. The Korean does well and looks to win a corner, but the ball runs for a goal-kick.
The sun is setting quickly now and there is a little break in play. Goal-kick to United.
Rooney clears the corner, but the wind catches the ball and blows it back into danger. Lescott heads down to Aguero, but his attempted volley is high and wide.
Another corner to City. Clichy bursts past Nani on the left and finds Aguero. The Argentine is surrounded but wins a corner.
Evra half clears the corner. Kompany is underneath it, but under-pressure. Headed for a goal-kick.
City cross from the left, cleared by Patrice Evra. Zabaleta crosses from the right, headed out for a corner.
City fans at Eastlands hold up a sign highlighting the significance of the match
Kompany for a late tackle on Rooney in that last attack. Pressure for the captain now.
Quick counter from Man Utd. Nani on the right finds Giggs on the opposite flank, but his low cross is intercepted by Yaya Toure
Nasri looks to feed a ball in to his strikers again, but Scholes slots-in well to intercept and relieve the pressure.
Good period now for the team in light blue. They are coming back into it after United's bright start.
Tevez gets behind the defence on the right after good play by Nasri. Phil Jones does well to clear as the ball is drilled across.
City have their first longer spell of possession. United are packing the midfield and hassling well though.
Neither team creating much in the way of opportunities. Intriguing so far.
Free-kick to United now in midfield. Zabaleta slides in on Rooney. Taken short.
United are pressuring Man City high up the pitch and forcing mistakes out of the hosts. Nerves adding to the errors, no doubt.
Free-kick near the centre-circle to Man City. Handball by Paul Scholes. Chance to put the ball into the box. Turned down though.
Nani gets a bit ahead of himself, targetting a goal from 30 yards. Well over the bar though.
Nani takes. Cleared by Kompany at the front-post. Ball back in from Rooney towards Smalling, header blocked once more.
Another corner to Man Utd. Decent attack fizzles out and Evra wins a corner off Pablo Zabaleta.
Couple of sloppy passes in midfield disrupts the flow of the game a little.
Corner is cleared well by Rio Ferdinand at the front-post. Did brilliantly to get in first.
Corner to Man City. Shot deflected behind.
Nani looks to counter for United, but Lescott sweeps up. Had looked dangerous for a few moments.
Now Clichy overlaps down the City left, but his ball is too high for Tevez in the area.
Phil Jones overlaps from right-back and hangs a cross into the area. Wayne Rooney looks to get on the end of it, but Hart rises high to claim.
A few nerves from Man City. Giving the ball away too easily. They need to settle down here.
Corner isn't dealt with by Joe Hart and the ball falls to Michael Carrick who fires a shot at goal. Appeals for hand-ball, rightfully not given.
Straight away Paul Scholes is busy in midfield. Corner to Man Utd as Patrice Evra gets down the left and his cross is blocked.
KICK OFF We are under-way!
Who is going to claim the three points? Lets find out over the next ninety minutes.
The hype is coming to an end and the action will start. This is the big one!
Both sides are in the tunnel. Patrice Evra looks focused, Kompany is calmly sipping water. This is it!
Under ten minutes now... The excitement is building and inside the dressing-rooms, no doubt, the nerves will be rising too.
It seems El Diego is at the Etihad tonight. Maradona, Balotelli and Tevez under one roof - anything could happen!
Sir Alex Ferguson pre-match: "We're going out to win tonight, I've never gone for a draw in my life.
Is this the biggest match in the history of the Premier League? A derby fixture that could decide the outcome of the title with just two games remaining. Hard to argue against that
Some fans aren't happy with 'negative' tactics from Alex Ferguson and the absence of Antonio Valencia. He is not often wrong though
Anything other than a defeat will see Manchester United remain in pole position for the title. Can Man City grab all three points?
If that's not your thing, then continue your build-up with Robin Hackett's First XI of title clashes - Read
Read Jonathan Carter's Rewind to 1937 when the two club's enjoyed contrasting fortunes in the football league - Read
Man City Subs: Pantilimon, Richards, Milner, Dzeko, Kolarov, De Jong, Balotelli.
Man Utd Subs: Amos, Berbatov, Hernandez, Young, Welbeck, Rafael Da Silva, Valencia.
Forty minutes until kick-off. Big news for Manchester City is that Mario Balotelli misses out on the derby despite returning from his latest suspension.
Manchester City: Hart; Zabaleta, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy; Yaya Toure, Barry; Silva, Nasri; Tevez, Aguero.
No Rafael, Jonny Evans, Danny Welbeck or Antonio Valencia for Alex Ferguson's side. Ryan Giggs, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling and Park Ji-Sung come into the side.
Manchester United: De Gea; Jones, Smalling, Ferdinand, Evra; Nani, Carrick, Scholes, Giggs, Park; Rooney
Ahead of kick-off, why not read Dale Johnson's preview of the big match here
Park set to start for Man Utd
Early talk is that Wayne Rooney will feature in a lone striking-role, with Park Ji-Sung coming into a five-man midfield.
Follow the Manchester derby live on ESPNsoccernet Gamecast from 20.00BST, as City host United in a potential title decider.


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It was a typical Monday morning at Omaha's International Nutrition plant, with workers sluggishly rolling in after the weekend and punching in for their predawn, 7 a.m. shift.
Coffee was huge on mornings like this. Keith Everett, the plant janitor known for his hearty laugh, could usually be counted on to make sure java was available in the second-floor break room.
As the main-floor production lines started up, Erik Ocampo, operator of the No. 1 line, had to wait. The co-worker who was supposed to stack the finished bags of Pro-Pep, a hog feed supplement produced by Ocampo's line, was running late.
About 10 minutes later, Leonardo came in, complaining of heavy traffic.
"Typical excuse, huh,'' Ocam�po said with an incredulous grin. They shared a laugh.
Like most of the workers at the livestock feed plant near 76th and I Streets in south-central Omaha, Ocampo liked his job.
The work could be monotonous and strenuous. And that Pro-Pep smelled horrible.
Still, it was good blue-�collar work that paid pretty well. And he liked the family-style environment in the small, 75-worker company. He had fun talking and joking around each day with his bosses and co-workers.
As the No. 1 line roared into action that morning, neither Ocampo nor any of his co-workers could have known that Jan. 20 would turn out to be anything but a typical day at International Nutrition.
Less than three hours later, the reinforced-concrete industrial plant would suddenly collapse around them into rubble. Ocampo would be knocked to the floor, praying to God as flames washed over his face and body.
On the mixing floor above, plant veterans John Broderick, Walter Alecio and Tomas Balderas would narrowly miss being crushed by a collapsing grain bin tower, becoming trapped in a tangle of shattered concrete and steel.
Friends Dustin Sheldon and Garrick Williamson would soon find themselves perched on a third-floor ledge, with loose slabs of concrete hanging perilously above them and fire raging nearby. Looking down to the ground 70 feet below, they would debate whether they should jump.
Everett and David Ball would perish amid the devastation of what had been the plant's second floor.
By the end, the tragedy would send 10 other co-workers to the hospital, including four seriously hurt.
But these weren't the only victims. The pain of the International Nutrition disaster won't soon be forgotten — by anyone at the plant that fateful morning, by their families or by the community surrounding the plant.
"The day I thought was going to be a good day,'' Ocampo recalled last week, still recovering from severe burns to his face and hands. "Just thinking about it still upsets me. No one deserved what happened.''
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Three hours into the workday, the 38 employees toiling in International Nutrition's production plant had it humming, churning out tons of nutritional and medicated livestock feed, one 50-pound bag at a time.
The production process started on the ground level, where two "pickers'' gathered various kinds of raw product and sent them up the elevator to the third floor. There, other workers poured the ingredients into four massive mixers, which churned them into finished products.
Then the bulk animal feed dropped down to hoppers on the main production floor. On four main production lines, the feed was bagged, weighed and prepared for shipping.
The process was highly automated. As operator of the No. 1 line, Ocampo, a 20-year-old North High graduate who had been working at the plant for nearly a year, just needed to turn on the machine and make sure the bags were feeding in properly.
After bags were filled, weighed and dropped to a conveyor belt, Ocam�po made sure each was positioned correctly as it went through the sewing machine.
The sealed bags continued down the belt to the stacker, who lifted the heavy bags and piled them neatly on pallets. Forklift operators finished the process, grabbing each one-ton pallet and hauling it to an adjoining warehouse.
Given the late start, Ocampo kept his line running right through the regular 9:30 a.m. break. Finally, just before 10, he shut it down to clean away the dust that inevitably accumulated. His bosses always stressed keeping work areas clean, he said.
On the second floor, Sheldon and Williamson were carrying equipment into another production room to do some maintenance on a piece of machinery. On the mixing floor above, control room operator Alecio stepped away from his post to talk with co-workers Balderas and Broderick, a shift supervisor.
That's when workers throughout the plant heard an ominous rumble, the floor suddenly shuddering beneath their feet. Within moments, a massive concrete-and-steel tower holding bins containing tons of feed additives crashed through the roof.
The tower just missed Alecio, Broderick and Balderas, but suddenly the ceiling, walls and floor were giving way around them. All three became pinned in the wreckage.
On the production floor, Ocampo heard the strange roar and looked Leonardo in the eyes.
"Run!'' someone shouted.
Ocampo made it only two or three steps when the production floor plunged into darkness. Then something heavy thudded into his back, knocked him to the floor and pinned him down.
In an instant, fire flared in his face and ran down his body. He'd later speculate that airborne dust being kicked up in the collapse might have somehow ignited. There was nothing flammable in his work area.
Ocampo screamed and began flailing away at the flames, knocking off his Creighton Bluejays baseball cap, protective goggles and dust mask.
Then the son of a South Omaha pastor began to pray, silently pleading to God for his life.
"If it is Your will, take my life as it is,'' he thought. "If it is not Your will, get me out of this place.''
That's when, he would later recall, "the most beautiful thing happened.''
He suddenly felt no weight on his back, and the flames fell away.
He grabbed a metal railing and pulled himself up. In the darkness, dust and smoke, he could see nothing, but he heard the voices of co-workers shouting across the floor.
He followed the voices. And soon, through the smoke and din, he saw daylight coming in through an open garage door.
He was free. And he was alive.
In the building's center, Sheldon and Williamson found themselves trapped in a room amid pitch darkness.
Sheldon began calling out for his friend. Feeling around, Williamson got hold of Sheldon's shirt, and together the two felt their way toward the door. It wouldn't budge, completely blocked by debris.
In fact, they were lucky to be alive. The break room down the hall, which just a half-hour earlier had been filled with workers on their morning break, had been completely destroyed.
The two found a safety ladder and, one at a time, climbed up to the third floor. There they found more devastation, but also a window that opened to the outside.
They stood on an I-beam. Loose concrete hung above them. Not far away, a fire raged, sending off billows of black smoke.
Believing that the concrete over their heads couldn't hold, Sheldon wanted to jump. His friend talked him out of it.
But they agreed: If things did get worse, they were both jumping.
Elsewhere on the third floor, Broderick pulled his cellphone from his belt and sent a text to his girlfriend.
"Major accident. I'm hurt and trapped. Love you.''
Indeed, he, Alecio and Balderas were all trapped on the building's top floor. But at some point Alecio — he can't recall how — was able to work himself free. He attempted to free Balderas, too, pulling on his arm, but Balderas couldn't budge.
Alecio could see that both of his co-workers were in pain. He decided he needed to find a way out.
Holding his breath to keep the dust out of his lungs and feeling as if he were moving in and out of consciousness, he tripped his way through the debris and loose electrical wiring and went off in search of help.
He found a window about the size of a car tire and squeezed through. That led to a staircase that had a river of water flowing down.
Alecio followed the current, on the way encountering a pair of co-workers going up. Don't go any farther, he told them. It's not safe.
Reaching the first floor, Alecio hit an exit and gasped, filling his lungs with glorious, fresh, frigid air.
He found dozens of co-workers gathered outside.
One was Ocampo. His hands and face were blackened by fire, his skin peeling and blistered. His latex gloves were melted to his hands.
The pain was unbearable. As soon as Ocampo had hit the cold outside air, it felt as if someone had doused him with hot cooking oil.
A co-worker grabbed his arm, telling him to sit down. But Ocampo couldn't. The pain was so excruciating, he could barely breathe.
Another co-worker, a woman who worked in the quality assurance department, offered him a different kind of assurance. "You're going to be OK,'' she said calmly.
From that point, perhaps as shock set in, Ocampo's memories became only flashes.
A firefighter. Being loaded onto a gurney. Seeing the bright lights of an ambulance.
Indeed, Omaha firefighters at that moment were pouring all over International Nutrition.
Engine 30, responding from another call at 72nd and Mercy, was the first on the chaotic scene, minutes after the initial call to 911.
Acting Capt. Chris Hopkins quickly surveyed the scene. It was clear to him there had been a major structural collapse. Smoke rose from the back of the building.
A second alarm was called, with firefighters responding from four other stations.
Firefighters tended to the wounded, including burn victims Ocampo and Manuel Orellana, who had been operating the No. 2 line right next to Ocampo.
Making a 360 around the building, fire captains also spotted Sheldon and Williamson up on their third-floor perch. Though the two were at times shrouded in smoke, firefighters could see the fear on their faces.
Alecio and others told the rescuers there were others trapped inside.
Hopkins assembled a team. Armed with axes and pry bars, they strode into the devastated plant in search of the missing.
Climbing a flight of waterlogged stairs, they soon in the darkness came across a man trapped in the wreckage, facedown and pinned behind the legs by debris.
It's unclear whether the man was Broderick, Balderas or another worker who ended up pinned. Firefighters have not detailed how Broderick or Balderas ultimately escaped the rubble.
Firefighter Josh Jensen got down to talk to the man. Where are you hurt?
He complained of pain in his legs. Jensen checked to make sure he didn't have spinal injuries. Overall, he seemed stable.
As ice-cold water poured down on the firefighters and the victim from a broken water line, and with shattered reinforced concrete hanging dangerously overhead, Hopkins, Capt. Steve Crnkovich and Capt. Mike Giandinoto pulled away concrete, sheet metal and other rubble.
But the man remained pinned by heavy-duty steel shelving that the firefighters couldn't budge. They called for a saw.
Meanwhile, other firefighters brought a truck around and began extending a ladder to Sheldon and Williamson.
As the ladder neared them, Capt. Dustin Guzman called out: Don't climb on until the ladder is stable.
It didn't matter. The two relieved men lurched for the ladder as soon as it was within reach and scrambled down. For them, the ordeal was over.
Inside the plant, sparks flew as firefighters used a rotary saw to cut away the shelving. After slicing through, they pulled the remaining bars off the victim's legs and slid him out and onto a gurney. After 25 minutes of work, he was finally free.
That man would be the last taken out alive from International Nutrition.
Firefighters by then knew they were leaving two others behind. They had already found Everett and Ball within the second-floor rubble. Both were clearly dead.
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Nearly two weeks after the International Nutrition collapse, federal and local investigators have yet to determine what happened.
The assumption of many outside experts is that a grain-dust explosion brought down the plant. But workers to a man say they heard no explosion before their workplace began crumbling around them.
Regardless of what caused the collapse, the fallout has continued.
Not only did the workers lose their plant, they lost their livelihood. On Friday, company owner Steven Silver announced that with the plant destroyed, he had to outsource the work to other facilities. That left him with no choice but to lay off his 25 production workers, he said.
Production workers were told in a meeting that all would receive severance packages, as well as help finding other work. When the plant is ultimately rebuilt, Silver hopes to rehire any available workers.
Broderick, Balderas, Orellana and Ocampo continue to recover from their injuries.
Even before being released from the hospital last week, Balderas filed suit against his former employer. His attorneys contend that unspecified company negligence caused the disaster that left Balderas with a collapsed lung and injuries to his spine, chest and head.
It appears not all International Nutrition workers bear hard feelings toward their employer.
John Broderick last week still suffered from a collapsed lung, broken ribs all along his left side and other internal injuries. But Carisa Broderick, his ex-wife, said Silver and the company had been there throughout the family's ordeal.
"They are wonderful,'' she said. "If they rebuild, I guarantee you, John will be the first one back through that door.''
Ocampo isn't sure what he will ultimately do. He bears no grudges, he said. But right now, he's focused on his recovery.
After he was rushed to the hospital that day, both he and Orellana were transferred to a Lincoln burn unit.
Given that Ocampo was working on a production line making swine feed, he sees the irony in the primary dressing his doctors laid over his raw, burned flesh to promote healing: pigskin.
He was released from the hospital after five days, just in time for his daughter Ruby's first birthday. As he recovered with his wife, Alison, and daughter in his northwest Omaha home last week, the pigskin still covered his hands, arms, chin, cheeks and ears.
Above all, he said, he and his co-workers feel for the loss of Everett and Ball. Ocampo's family waited four days to tell him what had happened to his co-workers, men he remembers as "cool guys.''
But he also feels lucky that he got out of the plant alive. Looking back, he's amazed the disaster didn't claim more lives.
"I easily could have been the third victim,'' he said. "There could have been a lot more deaths.''
World-Herald staff writers Maggie O'Brien and Alissa Skelton contributed to this report.
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Because of its amazing natural resources, Portland, Oregon, USA, has worked for several generations to bring together what in many other places are often seen as competing goals – an economically prosperous community and a healthy environment.. The progress in the last 20 years proves that this can be done.
Portlandhas been a national leader in the USA on urban policies and investments that have resulted in a prosperous, healthy and more resilient city. Often called the most sustainable city in America, Portland's brand is both emulated by other cities and parodied on television in 'Portlandia'. New urbanism, transit oriented development, green building and sustainability practices were common tools in the city long before they had garnered much attention elsewhere.
Much of the work began in the 1970s and 80s. As many American cities pursued an approach of expanding freeway networks and creating sprawl, Portland took a different path and focused inward. An Urban Growth Boundary was established for the metropolitan area to protect surrounding agricultural land and forests. Federal funding for a new freeway was redirected to one of the first modern light rail lines. This was built out over the years into a 52-mile light rail system connecting through downtown and the metro area, and a 15-mile streetcar (tram) system.
Much of the early focus was on building the community. The interstate highway was moved from along the Willamette River and replaced with Waterfront Park, bringing the community together instead of bisecting it with an impassable freeway. A downtown parking structure was torn down and replaced with a more European public plaza, Pioneer Square, often called Portland's living room.
"Federal funding for a new freeway was redirected to one of the first modern light rail lines"
At the same time, a comprehensive plan was completed to balance and integrate goals such as economic development, housing, water and air quality, transport, parks and urban forests, and resource efficiency. The oil crisis of the mid and late 1970s spurred the development of the first local energy plan in the USA, which included specific actions to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy resources such as solar and wind power.
In the 1990s and 2000s, many new efforts were begun that focused on sustainable building, energy and water efficiency, recycling and waste reduction, bicycle infrastructure, solar and wind power, storm water management, and creating walkable 20-minute neighbourhoods.
A successful Climate Action Plan
In 1993, Portland became the first US city to adopt a Climate Action Plan for its entire community. At that time, few Americans cared much about what was then called 'global warming'. The focus of the plan was to reduce carbon emissions, but to do it in a way that would help families save money, reduce local air pollution, cut operating costs for businesses, and build more liveable, walkable neighborhoods.
The City took action on climate change for two reasons: first, 20 years ago the Federal government was moving very slowly and it seemed unlikely that much change would happen at the national level. And second, Portland felt it could do its part because cities can have a major impact. They often have responsibilities for:
- Creating and implementing zoning and building energy codes
- Constructing streets, sidewalks and bicycle lanes
- Developing transit systems or working closely with transit authorities
- Collecting solid waste, recycling and composting, and
- Owning public electric utilities or having partnerships with utilities and NGOs to help businesses and residents reduce energy use.
The 1993 plan has been updated regularly and has been a success. Since 1990, per capita carbon emissions are down by more than 25 per cent, with total emissions down 6 per cent. At the same time, carbon emissions in the US have increased by about 10 per cent. So it is clear that Portland is moving in the right direction, and the gap between the two diverging numbers leads to a compelling story – that American cities can be both prosperous and reduce carbon emissions.
Raising the bar
Unfortunately, even with the success of the original plan, Portland residents and leaders have taken note that while the city is heading in the right direction, a 6 per cent reduction is only a small step towards the 50-85 per cent reduction needed according to climate scientists.
In response to the growing urgency of the need to shift to a low-carbon economy and community, in 2009 Portland adopted a new Climate Action Plan with a goal of reducing 1990 level emissions by 80 per cent. To reach that goal, the City has focused on both innovative and practical solutions in such areas as transport and land use, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and solid waste reduction. The following examples illustrate a few approaches and results.
The transport 'green dividend'
Over the past 20 years, gasoline sales per person have dropped nearly 25 per cent, and vehicle miles travelled have dropped 8 per cent. At the same time, bicycle riding has steadily risen from less than 1 per cent to more than 6 per cent of people commuting to work. With more than 300 miles of bikeways, Portland is consistently ranked one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the USA.
More and more people want to live in neighbourhoods where they can bike or walk to parks, school, shops, restaurants, grocery stores, libraries and other amenities. Portland calls this 'living in a 20-minute neighbourhood', and has a goal for 80 per cent of residents to live in such a neighbourhood by 2035. While this may just seem normal in most of Europe, it definitely is not the norm in America, where so much of urban design and planning has been focused on the private car.
"With more than 300 miles of bikeways, Portland is consistently ranked one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the USA"
In many communities in the US, people agree that sustainable development and protecting the environment are important, but conclude that taking action is too expensive. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. In comparison with other US cities of a similar size, Portland residents drive 20 per cent fewer miles each day. That's just four miles per day per person, but it does add up, and it equals more than US$1 billion annually in reduced transport costs. This money is then available to purchase other goods and services. And, since Portland has no oil drilling or refineries, a dollar spent on just about anything besides oil recirculates in the economy many more times than buying another gallon of gasoline, and it provides for economic growth.
The City Government Energy Challenge
In the early 1990s, Portland began a systematic and aggressive review of all of its buildings and facilities to improve energy efficiency. The result is a saving of more then US$5.5 million annually.
Projects range from lighting, heating and cooling improvements to solar panels on City buildings, to LED street lights; and generating nearly US$1 million worth of electricity each year from sewer gas at the waste water treatment plant.
Green building and LEED
In 2001, Portland took a first step and adopted a green, high-performance building ordinance that required new City-owned buildings and any project that received any City tax
credit or financial incentive (such as for low-income housing projects) to meet the LEED building standard. The City also established a technical team to provide green building training to architects, designers, engineers, homebuilders and commercial developers through workshops and hands-on review of building plans.
Several developers saw an opportunity to establish Portland as a national centre of on-the-ground, practical green building expertise. The results were phenomenal considering that Portland did not change the actual building energy code, but instead provided training and marketed successful buildings. The State of Oregon assisted with this transition by providing a tax credit to developers who exceeded the LEED standards for energy performance.
"In Portland, 168 commercial projects are now LEED certified"
In Portland, 168 commercial projects are now LEED certified. LEED Gold and Platinum have become the norm for quality building in the city. In fact, Portland has 31 LEED Platinum projects, three more than New York City – a successful result for a community with only 7 per cent of New York's population.
The green building story in Portland goes beyond reductions in carbon emissions. An entire industry has evolved with hundreds of architects, engineers and developers providing sustainable building expertise to cities throughout the USA and the world. In addition, Portland's new economic development strategy focuses on clean technologies and services, with one of the most significant concentrations of firms in the USA involved with renewable energy, energy efficiency, environmental services and green building. A recent employment report showed about 60,000 employees have clean-tech jobs throughout Oregon.
Clean Energy Works
In 2009, Portland began a pilot project to provide an easier, more efficient way to enable homeowners to make energy efficiency upgrades to their homes. The pilot provided a comprehensive package including low-cost, long-term loans, assistance from an independent energy adviser, and the convenience of repaying monthly loan obligations on their electric or natural gas utility bill. Not only did pilot project participants undertake deeper upgrades than their counterparts in other local energy efficiency programmes, but they also made the decision to take action more quickly.
The pilot project attracted national attention and was the recipient of a US$20 million federal grant. The programme now is well under way and thousands of homes have been 'weatherised'. The City started the programme, but quickly realised it would be more successful as a non-profit organisation, so Clean Energy Works Oregon was born. The organisation now offers services statewide.
Clean Energy Works Oregon goes beyond traditional energy saving programmes by focusing on the social side of sustainability via a Community Workforce Agreement. This agreement was the first of its kind in the USA. It set specific high standards for hiring local workers, especially women, veterans and minority contractors. It established a higher minimum wage, and required that workers receive health insurance or additional wages in lieu of coverage.
Solarize Portland!
In 2010, the first 'Solarize' campaign started as a grassroots effort to help residents overcome the financial and logistical barriers to installing solar energy systems on their homes. What began in one neighbourhood quickly caught on with residents across the city. With technical assistance from the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability and the Energy Trust of Oregon, neighbours organised a bulk purchase of solar electric systems and negotiated a volume discount.
About 1,500 solar systems have been installed as a result of this project, and more than a dozen other American cities have started their own Solarize programmes.
Recycling and composting: beating the plateau
In 2011, Portland took the bold step of shifting to a household garbage collection every other week, continuing the weekly recycling collection, and adding weekly food compost to the garden debris regularly picked up. This change resulted in a dramatic 38 per cent reduction in residential garbage.
Portland began weekly household recycling collection more than 20 years ago. Participation has always been strong, yet in recent years household recycling had hit a plateau of about 60 per cent. While this is more than double what most cities recycle, Portland wanted to take it to the next level. The City Council established a goal to recycle 75 per cent of all commercial and residential waste by 2015. Commercial waste recycling is currently at about 70 per cent.
"The City Council established a goal to recycle 75 per cent of all commercial and residential waste by 2015"
To make sure the programme ran smoothly, advertising and direct communication with households took place for several months before the change began. Each household received a free countertop food waste bucket. In addition, each household already had three kerbside containers – one for garbage, one for recycling, and one for garden debris. With the new programme, all food (meat, dairy, vegetables, fruit, etc.) and food-soiled paper can now be placed in with the garden debris. T
he debris and food waste is taken to a few large sites, composted and then sold to farmers, landscapers and residents as quality compost, a valuable product from what would have been waste just a few years ago. Waste reduction, recycling and composting are powerful tools for reducing carbon and methane emissions.
What's next for Portland?
Achieving an 80 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 remains a very ambitious goal. Proposed new efforts on the horizon include:
- More bikeways and an additional seven miles of light rail
- Enhanced energy efficiency programmes
- New rules for energy performance disclosure for commercial buildings
- More solar and wind power generation
- Investments in district-scale energy systems and community-owned solar energy installations
- Improved zoning and a new comprehensive plan that focuses on creating more connected, 20-minute neighbourhoods
- More technical assistance for companies pursuing sustainable operations
- The City's first climate preparedness plan.
Portland's success relies on its strong partnerships among residents, businesses, charitable and academic institutions, and other governments. Together these individuals and organisations work as a catalyst for action, as they continue to seek new partnerships with cities throughout the world.
Susan Anderson
Susan Anderson, Director of Portland's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, leads urban design, planning and code development for Portland, and builds partnerships to advance energy efficiency, solar, green building, clean energy technologies, waste reduction, composting and recycling, toxics reduction, sustainable food, and historic preservation citywide. In the early 90s, she led the development of the first local government Climate Action Plan in the United States. Susan has presented at over 100 venues nationally and internationally on sustainable urban development. She has held director-level positions in the public and private sector, and has a B.A. in Economics, B.A. in Environmental Science and Masters of Urban and Regional Planning.
Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, through partnerships and collaboration, provides: Citywide strategic and comprehensive land use planning; neighborhood, district, economic, historic and environmental research, planning and urban design; policy and services to advance energy efficiency, green building, waste reduction, composting and recycling, solar and renewable energy use, and local sustainable food production; as well as actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change.


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Athletic Training
Visit the Athletic Training Web site for more information. Download a fact sheet about SLU's Athletic Training degree.
Overview: The Athletic Training program is one of the newest health care professions programs in the Doisy College of Health Sciences. In accordance with the Jesuit mission, which recognizes the dignity of all persons, the Athletic Training program seeks to develop competent practitioners who act for the good of the public, recognize the value of interprofessional practice and seek opportunities to serve the disadvantaged.
Curriculum: The Athletic Training education program is designed as a five-year program. Students who begin the program as freshmen spend their first three years completing required liberal arts and science prerequisite courses. Students who meet academic and professional behavior requirements continue into the professional phase of the program after their junior year. The two-year professional phase of the program includes coursework in human anatomy and kinesiology, clinical sciences, research and administration. Students participate in clinical experiences each semester. Following graduation, the student must pass the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification examination to practice as a Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC).
About the Faculty: Three certified athletic trainers are full-time faculty within the Doisy College of Health Sciences. Four clinical instructors are within the Department of Athletics. Highly regarded certified athletic trainers from the St. Louis area will also serve as adjunct faculty and clinical instructors. Courses in gross anatomy, kinesiology, nutrition, medical imaging, sports psychology and exercise physiology will be taught by other highly respected faculty members at Saint Louis University.
Clinical Sites: The primary clinical site for the program will be at Chaifetz Arena, SLU's new $80 million athletic complex. The 2500-square-foot sports medicine facility at Chaifetz will give students exposure to cutting-edge athletic training equipment. Clinical sites will include other colleges, high schools, professional sports organizations and private sports medicine clinics. The classroom, lab and research spaces in the Doisy College of Health Sciences are also top-notch.


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