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"Jonathan Bourdon (born 3 September 1981 in Biercee) is a Belgian professional footballer. He currently plays for R.O.C. de Charleroi-Marchienne.Footgoal profile References Category:Belgian footballers Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:Association football goalkeepers Category:K.S.V. Roeselare players Category:K.V.C. Westerlo players "
"Mount Pleasant is a farm complex located in the Town of Pembroke, New York, United States, east of the hamlet of Indian Falls. It was established in the mid-19th century. The main dwelling is a sophisticated Italianate style wood frame house. It and the other buildings have remained mostly intact since their construction. The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Buildings and grounds The farm is located on the south side of Indian Falls Road (Genesee County Route 4), a half-mile (1 km) west of where the road bends to the south and crosses the New York State Thruway and east of New York State Route 77 just south of Tonawanda Creek and the hamlet of Indian Falls. The terrain is generally level and the area rural, with most land used for fields and houses clustered along the road. The Mt. Pleasant property is a parcel bordered by the Thruway on the south. A southern portion on the opposite side of the Thruway is no longer visually and physically connected with the farm and is not included with the listing. An original circular driveway leads into a triangular, uncleared northern portion of the property where the buildings are located. Hedgerows of mature trees separate this grassy area from the farmland. A three-foot (1 m) retaining wall of Medina sandstone sets off the main house from the road. The farm has a total of eight contributing resources, five buildings and three structures. Main house The house itself is a clapboard-sided stricture with five sections. Its main block is a two-story rectangular structure with a gently pitched hipped roof pierced by a square central cupola. Both it and the house itself have wide overhanging eaves supported by paired brackets. The four-over-four double-hung sash windows are flanked by louvered wooden shutters and topped by wooden lintels with miniature brackets. Its main entrance is on the west elevation, sheltered by a porch with clustered columns supporting a roof with decorative scrollwork balustrade. From this side projects a one-and-a-half- story wing with a shallow hip roof. It has a porch on its north facade with a similar treatment to the one on the main block. A brick flue pierces its roof at the west. Three segmental gable-roofed additions project to the south of the west wing. The westernmost is one and a half stories, with wide projecting eaves supported by paired brackets with pendants. A brick chimney pierces the roof at the center. The wing's west side has a small porch similar to the other two, and a shed-roofed projection on its east. On its rear is the carriage house, with a belfry on top, and on its south the privy, with its original planked door. The main house's floor plan has remained relatively unchanged, save for some changes to the bedrooms on the first floor. Many of its finishes are original as well, such as the door and window surrounds, moldings, wainscoting, high ceilings and pine flooring. The front hall and parlor (now a bedroom) have their original plaster ceiling medallions. The cold pantry has slate walls and the kitchen pantry its original marble shelves. The stairway to the cupola has been enclosed, the only change on the second floor. Outbuildings Due south of the main house is a garage, believed to be the original house on the property. It is a one-story gabled wood frame structure with its original vertical board siding, paneled door and shed-roofed addition on the west. To its east is the original smokehouse, a one-story brick building on a stone foundation with a shallow hip roof. The barn is to the west. It is a two-and-a-half-story structure with vertical siding, gambrel roof and assorted window configurations, with large sliding doors on the east elevation. On the east side of the barnyard formed between it and a second barn formerly to its east is one of the original wells, the three contributing structures. The other two wells are to the east and west of the main house. History The farm was established around 1847 by Abram Mook, a German American from Pennsylvania who bought several tracts in the area from the Holland Land Company. In addition to clearing and farming them, he built what is now Indian Falls Road from North Pembroke Road to the old Indian trail that is now NY 77. The 1850 census lists his net worth at $3,500 ($ in contemporary dollars). In 1854 he bought the two parcels that make up the current farm and moved onto it. Records from that year show that the current garage was in existence at the time; it may have been the family residence. Mook and his brothers built a suspension bridge across the Tonawanda to connect their farms; the 1860 census shows that his family had grown by two and his wealth considerably increased. The following year he hired seven carpenters to build the current house, replacing one on another nearby piece of land he owned that had burned down. The yellow pine and decorative features were shipped to Lockport on the Erie Canal and then delivered to the construction site. The building contrasts the ornamentation of a sophisticated Italianate villa of the time with the form of a more vernacular farmhouse of the time, particularly the projecting wings. Mook died in 1908. His son lost the house to foreclosure the next year, and it and the farm became the property of the Stang brothers for $5,210 ($ in contemporary dollars). In 1945 they sold it to LaVerne Lamkin, who owned it until the early 21st century. See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in Genesee County, New York References Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Category:Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Category:Italianate architecture in New York (state) Category:Houses completed in 1861 Category:Houses in Genesee County, New York Category:1861 establishments in New York (state) Category:Farms in New York (state) Category:National Register of Historic Places in Genesee County, New York "
"Barbara Demick is an American journalist. She was the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (Andrews & McMeel, 1996).Danner, Mark. Bosnia: The Great Betrayal. New York Review of Books. March 26, 1998. Her second book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, was published by Spiegel & Grau/Random House in December 2009 and Granta Books in 2010. An animated feature film based on the book and sharing the same title was planned to be directed by Andy Glynne. The project launched in 2012 and a pilot was released in 2015. Its status is not clear. Biography Demick grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She attended Yale University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economic history.Staff. "Barbara Demick Named Seoul Bureau Chief", Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2001. Accessed September 21, 2015. "A native of Ridgewood, N.J., Demick earned a bachelor's degree in economic history from Yale University and completed the Bagehot Fellowship in economic and business journalism at Columbia University."About Barbara Demick , Nothing to Envy. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Demick grew up in Ridgewood, N.J. She is currently the Los Angeles Times’ bureau chief in Beijing." Derrick was a correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer in Eastern Europe from 1993 to 1997. Along with photographer John Costello, she produced a series of articles that ran 1994-1996 following life on one Sarajevo street over the course of the war in Bosnia. The series won the George Polk Award for international reporting, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for international reporting and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in the features category. She was stationed in the Middle East for the newspaper between 1997 and 2001.Matloff, Judith. "Mothers at War. Columbia Journalism Review. Aug 19, 2004. In 2001, Demick moved to the Los Angeles Times and became the newspaper's first bureau chief in Korea.``Los Angeles Times Names Barbara Demick Seoul Bureau Chief, Business Wire, Dec 10, 2001. Demick reported extensively on human rights in North Korea, interviewing large numbers of refugees in China and South Korea. She focused on economic and social changes inside North Korea and on the situation of North Korean women sold into marriages in China. She wrote an extensive series of articles about life inside the North Korean city of Chongjin.Reporter Gets Rare Glimpse at North Korea, National Public Radio, July 3, 2005. In 2005, Demick was a co-winner of the American Academy of Diplomacy's Arthur Ross Award for Distinguished Reporting & Analysis on Foreign Affairs. In 2006, her reports about North Korea won the Overseas Press Club's Joe and Laurie Dine Award for Human Rights Reporting and the Asia Society's Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Asian Journalism. That same year, Demick was also named print journalist of the year by the Los Angeles Press Club. In 2010, she won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for her work, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. The book was also a finalist for the U.S.'s most prestigious literary prize, the National Book Award. and for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first book, Logavina Street, is being republished in an updated edition in April 2012 by Spiegel & Grau, a division of Random House. Granta is publishing in the U.K. under the title, Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street. In July 2020, her book Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town, was published by Random House, focusing on the life of Tibetan people in Ngaba, Sichuan, China. Demick was a visiting professor at Princeton University in 2006-2007 teaching Coverage of Repressive Regimes through the Ferris Fellowship at the Council of the Humanities.Princeton, Council of the Humanities, fellows She moved to Beijing for the Los Angeles Times in 2007. She is also an occasional contributor to The New Yorker. Awards and nominations * 2012 Shorenstein Award for Asia coverage Stanford University * 2012 International Human Rights Book Award for German-edition of Nothing to Envy. * 2011 Finalist, National Book Critics Circle award for non-fiction. * 2011 Finalist, National Book Award for non-fiction * 2010: Awarded, BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non- Fiction, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea * 2006: Awarded, Overseas Press Club's Joe and Laurie Dine Award for Human Rights Reporting * 2006: Awarded, Asia Society's Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Asian Journalism * 2006: Awarded, Los Angeles Press Club Print Journalist of the Year * 2005: Awarded, American Academy of Diplomacy's Arthur Ross Award for Distinguished Reporting & Analysis on Foreign Affairs * 1994: Awarded, George Polk Awards, The Philadelphia Inquirer * 1994: Awarded, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, The Philadelphia Inquirer * 1994: Nominated, Pulitzer Prize, The Philadelphia Inquirer References External links * Spiegel & Grau * Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary lives in North Korea, on Amazon.com * Website for Nothing to Envy * Excerpt of Nothing to Envy in The Paris Review. Fall 2009 * Excerpt of Nothing to Envy in The New Yorker. Nov. 2, 2009 * Video: Barbara Demick discusses Nothing to Envy at the Asia Society, New York, Jan. 7, 2010 Category:American women journalists Category:Living people Category:Experts on North Korea Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:People from Ridgewood, New Jersey Category:Yale University alumni "