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Soho Square Overview
Soho Square in Saadiyat's University neighborhood is a medium rise, mixed-use urban development that encompasses commercial, retail and residential elements.
Soho Square is a uniquely crafted development and its residential complex will feature 302 high-end residences upon completion, ranging from studios to three-bedroom apartments, townhouses and penthouse.Experience modern and vibrant living experience in Soho Square.
Inspired by the Soho district in New York, this project aims to redefine the definition of urban. With its focus on creating a space filled with tasteful art, choice gourmet brands, and trendy cafes and spaces that encourage conversations and new perspectives on the living experience.
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Soho Square Neighbourhood
Soho square in Saadiyat's University Neighborhood is a medium rise, mixed – use urban development that encompasses commercial, retail and residential elements.
Soho Square embraces the focus of the surrounding landscape by attracting its sense of openness and transparency into its core design.
The central courtyard, as a platform elevates the vital sense of local community and public connectivity to interlink the two 10-storey residential blocks.
Soho Square is built on the notions of sustainable and vibrant living environments that merge harmoniously to the surrounding urban fabric.
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A world class marina - Waterfront restaurants and hotels - Leisure and entertainment facilities - Commercial and retail facilities
Soho Square is a uniquely crafted development and its residential complex will feature 304 high-end residences upon completion, ranging from studios to three bedroom apartments, townhouses and penthouse.
Intelligent design brings you a roomy studio to call home. With apartments ranging from 460 to 479 square feet, you can find your ideal modern abode.
All our one bedroom properties are spacious and comfortable. The layouts range from 864 to 1,004 square feet, offering a diverse choice for beautiful contemporary living.
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American Golden-Plover
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Charadriidae (plovers, dotterels, lapwings) in the order Charadriiformes
American golden-plover upperparts are speckled with black, gold, and white; the underparts are entirely black. A white stripe extends from the forehead and eyebrows along the edge of the black throat and breast. The bill is much smaller than that of the black-bellied plover. Viewed in flight, the nonbreeding plumage is mostly brownish, the wings lack a prominent white stripe, and the underwing linings are pale with no black near the body at the base of the wings. The voice is a sharp, quick, 2- or 3-syllable whistle.
Length: 10 inches (tip of bill to tip of tail).
Statewide.
Habitat and Conservation
Plovers usually forage on drier parts of mudflats, plowed fields, shallow-flooded fields, or grassy areas. From a distance, the foraging behavior — running, stopping abruptly, then picking up food — is very different from that of the sandpipers and other shorebirds. In the 1800s, this species was overhunted, and the populations have never completely recovered.
Forages on plowed fields, flooded row-crop stubble, grazed pastures, and muddy shorelines for worms and other invertebrates.
Common early migrant. Flies through Missouri only in spring.
This bird is an early migrant, initially arriving here in March as it flies through Missouri on its way north for breeding. It appears in our state just after killdeer and American woodcocks.
A ground-nester, it breeds in the Arctic tundra in northern Canada and Alaska.
In fall, it migrates thousands of miles south to overwinter in South America (where it's summer). The adults depart southward a few weeks before the young. Amazingly, the young find their own way south.
Although golden-plovers pass through Missouri as they travel north in spring, they take a more easterly route, over the west Atlantic and Caribbean Sea, on their way south in the fall. This inspiring, robin-sized shorebird's annual odyssey from Argentina to the Arctic tundra is truly spectacular — a distance of over 20,000 miles, with about 3,000 miles of it over open water.
Human Connections
Any bird that annually flies over 20,000 miles is worthy of human admiration. There is a possibility that this might have been the species that Christopher Columbus saw as he approached the New World, alerting him he was nearing land.
Ecosystem Connections
Though it only passes through our state in spring, this bird plays an important role as an invertebrate-eating shorebird — and as a prey species — in the Arctic tundra, in its wintering grounds in the pampas of Argentina, and everyplace in between.
American golden-plovers migrate through Missouri in spring, on their way from South America to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.
American golden-plovers usually forage on drier parts of mudflats, plowed fields, shallow-flooded fields, or grassy areas.
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The American golden-plover is an early migrant, initially arriving here in March as it flies through Missouri on its way north for breeding. It appears in our state just after killdeer and American woodcocks.
MDC Staff photo
Spotted Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Wilson's Snipe
About Birds in Missouri
About 350 species of birds are likely to be seen in Missouri, though nearly 400 have been recorded within our borders. Most people know a bird when they see one — it has feathers, wings, and a bill. Birds are warm-blooded, and most species can fly. Many migrate hundreds or thousands of miles. Birds lay hard-shelled eggs (often in a nest), and the parents care for the young. Many communicate with songs and calls.
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IH is an invisible illness where the person looks "fine" when they are not!
My husband was diagnosed with IIH in 2003, and the Caitlin's Wish story is based on our lives as we came to terms with all the changes. That is why I am taking this opportunity to help raise awareness for IH and the Intracranial Hypertension Research Foundation (IHRF), which is working hard to improve the lives of people affected by IH.
"Intracranial hypertension"(IH) literally means that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure within the skull is too high.
Chronic Intracranial Hypertension (IH) is a serious neurological disorder that can cause severe headaches, vision loss, blindness and life-altering disability.
Anyone can develop chronic IH at anytime in life.
Currently there is no cure.
Old names for IH include pseudotumour cerebri and benign intracranial hypertension.
Most people have never heard of it, including many in the medical profession.
If more people knew about IH, then patients might get treated with the compassion they deserve!
IH is sometimes caused by an existing medical condition, but it often occurs without a known cause. Idiopathic IH (IH that occurs without a cause) is considered a rare illness affecting 1 in 100,000, though the rate of incidence is as high as 1 in 5000 for some people.
Millions of other people have a condition or disease such as traumatic brain injury, stroke or kidney failure, in which IH can play a role.
There has never been a drug specifically developed to treat IH.
Treatment options are limited. For some people, medication can help control intracranial pressure. But for others, the only choice is painful surgery to insert a shunt to drain the excess fluid from the brain. Since shunt surgery only has a 50% success rate, this frequently means many surgeries, with the accompanying risks. If sight is at risk, a person with IH often has to undergo optic nerve surgery to save their vision.
IH symptoms include:
Severe headaches (as if your head is in a vice) ,
Vision loss and/or blindness,
optic nerve swelling,
Pulse – synchronous tinnitus,
Sore/ stiff neck,
Back pain,
Memory/ cognitive problems,
Fatigue,
Malaise,
Dizziness,
Light headedness,
Photophobia,
Noise sensitivity.
Chronic IH is life-altering and robs people of their once happy and healthy existence. No two cases are the same, making it a difficult condition to manage.
For more information on IH, please go to the IH Research foundation. http://www.ihrfoundation.org
I have spent the last decade devoted to raising awareness of IH and trying to help the IH community as much as possible. When I published my first book 'Caitlin's Wish' in 2010, it was with the intention of helping children (young carers) affected by IH, just as my own children had been affected all those years earlier. I just wanted to help…as simple as that!
Nowadays my own health limitations mean that I'm unable to raise awareness like I used to, so from now on it'll be through my writing whenever the opportunity arises. Here's an example; a poem I wrote for rare disease day to show how IIH affects my husband every day.
I.H.
Excruciating headaches torture every second, as their vice like grip tightens evermore.
The IH spear pierces your eyes which are ever so swollen and sore.
Vision eludes you, seeing double or blurred,
Until it affects you, IH sounds absurd.
Sunlight, whose arrival was once adored,
Now meets dread, and is thoroughly abhorred.
Its bright glare leaves you running for cover,
Searching for a shady place unlike any other.
Whooshing drums thud in your ears,
Drowning out the sound for years,
Driving you crazy every day,
With its refusal to go away.
Swirling rooms sway from side to side,
Rocking amidst vast oceans on a stormy tide.
Bilious tummies contend with endless malaise,
On this IH voyage where no-one had a say.
Aching bones and searing pain, perpetually tired with relentless fatigue,
Which hovers around you in its own league.
But although IH has stolen so many parts of my jig-saw,
I won't let it beat me, not anymore!
IH and young carers awareness video from Victoria Lewin on Vimeo.


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Demand for pedestrian bridge on Grand Hamad Street grows
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Doha Pedestrian bridge Grand Hamad Street
A person 'squeezing' through a gap along the median fence on Grand Hamad Street
There is a growing demand for a pedestrian bridge on Grand Hamad Street, which is known as one of the busiest roads in Doha.
The road is used by not only a large number of commuters and office-goers on working days, but also by huge groups of people - particularly workers - on weekends.
Popularly known as 'Bank Street', the stretch extending from the Sword signal to the Doha Corniche - and its adjacent areas - are home to a number of banks, other offices, eateries, several exchange houses, the Doha Bus Station, a major tourist destination such as Souq Waqif and jewellery stores. Also, due to its central location and proximity to the Corniche, it serves as a major artery to reach a number of key destinations in the city.
Besides cars, public transport buses, taxis and other vehicles, the road is also used by a large number of pedestrians every day. In particular, it is seen that the number of walkers increases on weekend evenings as blue-collar expatriates gather in the area to visit the Corniche or other neighbouring localities.
The distance people have to walk between signals on Grand Hamad Street to find a safe, designated crossing point is less compared to many other roads, but it is still quite a bit, say regular users of the road. "Though aware of the dangers of crossing a busy road through an undesignated area, many people still choose to do so - by 'squeezing' through gaps that have appeared on median fence - because it saves them both time and efforts," said a resident who uses the road every day.
While acknowledging that pedestrians must heed traffic rules as much as motorists, another commuter said they should also be given viable options - such as a bridge or an underpass - to cross the road safely. "The need for such a facility is especially high during this time of the year as walking even short distances could be really tough due to the high temperature and humidity," he added.
Besides pedestrians, many motorists also need to cross the road on a daily basis, it is found. These motorists - including people working in offices along Grand Hamad Street as well as visitors - park their vehicles in the open spaces on one side of the road (near the bus station) and have to cross the road in order to reach their offices.
Many visitors, shop operators and motorists also point out that having a pedestrian bridge on the road will help facilitate the smooth flow of traffic in the area. "People crossing the road randomly not only slows down traffic but also poses a major safety risk. This is dangerous for motorists and pedestrians alike. Something like a bridge would really help address this issue," said a resident who passes through the area every day to reach office.
Sources said the authorities, on their part, had announced sometime ago that work on a pedestrian bridge would be taken up in the area. "This should happen fast as the need is urgent," said another commuter.
New pedestrian bridges have been built along a number of key roads and more are in the pipeline, according to officials. Among the recent ones are pedestrian bridges on E-Ring Road and Airport Road.
It is expected that some 14 new pedestrian bridges will be opened in different locations across Doha and its immediate neighbourhood over the next two years, according to an official.