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Morin Da Porta
Morin is a surname of diffent Romance origins. In northern Italy it derives from the Ladin term for «mill» (''molina'' in Latin). In French it derives from the ancient Celtic tribe of Morini who once inhabited the coast of modern day Belgium. The Gaulish ethnonym ''Morini'' (sing. ''Morinos'') literally means 'those of the sea', that is to say the 'sea people' or the 'sailors'. It stems from Proto-Celtic ''*mori'' 'sea'. It may also refer to: * Morin, flavonol and yellow chemical compound. People Canada * Albertine Morin-Labrecque (1886–1957) Canadian pianist * Augustin-Norbert Morin (1803–1865), lawyer, judge and politician, joint Premier of the Province of Canada * Blain Morin, Canadian politician and labour union organizer * Claude Morin (ADQ politician) (born 1953), Canadian politician * Claude Morin (PQ politician) (born 1929), Canadian politician * Gilles Morin (born 1931), Canadian politician in Ontario * Guy Paul Morin, Canadian wrongfully convicted of a 1984 murder * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Paul Morin
Guy Paul Morin is a Canadian who was wrongly convicted of the October 1984 rape and murder of his nine-year-old next-door neighbour, Christine Jessop of Queensville, north of Toronto, Ontario. DNA testing led to a subsequent overturning of this verdict. On October 15, 2020, the Toronto Police Service announced a DNA match identifying Calvin Hoover as the one whose semen was recovered from Jessop’s underwear. Hoover killed himself in 2015. Murder of Christine Jessop On October 3, 1984, Jessop was dropped off at her home from her school bus. She was supposed to meet a friend from school at a nearby park, but failed to show up. When her mother arrived home she found Christine’s school bag on the counter. In early evening after her mother had telephoned Christine’s friends and searched for the little girl herself, police were called. Her body was discovered on December 31, nearly three months later. She had been sexually assaulted and murdered. Trials Morin was arrested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Morin
Arthur Jules Morin (19 October 1795 – 7 February 1880) was a French physicist. He conducted experiments in mechanics and invented the Morin dynamometer. He introduced the term coefficient of friction and demonstrated its utility. In 1850, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. He was conferred with Honorary Membership of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland in 185He was named as one of the 23 "Men of Tribology" by Duncan Dowson Duncan Dowson (31 August 1928 – 6 January 2020) was a British engineer and Professor of Engineering Fluid Mechanics and Tribology at the University of Leeds. Biography Dowson's father, Wilfrid Dowson, was an ornamental blacksmith, and as .... References External links Morin biography at St Andrews University French physicists 1795 births 1880 deaths Members of the French Academy of Sciences Members of the Royal Swed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morin Code
The Code Morin is a phrase used to refer to the text ''Procédures des assemblées délibérantes'', first published in 1938 by Victor Morin. The Code details procedures for organizational meetings, and was inspired by ''Robert's Rules of Order''. It is the principal procedural code used in Quebec and in the francophone regions of New Brunswick New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both English and .... Many different aspects of the structure of meetings are discussed in the Code, including how topics are presented, how meetings are started, and how to calculate a quorum. It also details who can force a vote to be made, and who can present objections to the process of the meeting. External links * Parliamentary authority Parliamentary procedure in Canada {{Canada-poli-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Morin
Samuel Morin (born July 12, 1995) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Flyers in the first round, 11th overall, of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. Early life Morin was born on July 12, 1995, in Lac-Beauport, Quebec. His parents, Pascal and Sylvie, were farmers from the Francophone area of Saint-Isidore. Morin began playing minor ice hockey at the age of five, and his parents started a catering business while their son began playing in tournaments. In 2007 and 2008, Morin played in the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Rive-Sud Est minor hockey team. In the 2010–11 season, Morin played for the Lévis Commandeurs of the Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League. In 36 midget "AAA" hockey games there, he recorded 12 assists and 40 penalty minutes. Playing career Junior In 2011, the Rimouski Océanic of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) selecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Morin
Robert Morin (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 2009, he received Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Biography Robert Morin is known for his very personal, dark, and pessimistic "interior views" of family, crime, law enforcement, and human suffering. He studied Literature and Communications and in 1971 began to work as a cameraman, joining ORTQ in Rimouski, where he directed films and videos. In 1977, with a group of friends and colleagues, Morin founded La Coopérative de Production Vidéo de Montréal, where he continues to produce his own work. After creating close to 30 short films with his colleagues over 10 years, he directed his first feature-length film ''Tristesse modèle réduit'' in 1987. His film ''Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur'' was nominated for the Genie Awards for Best Motion Picture and Best Director. Filmography Feature films *''Scale-Model Sadness (Tristesse modèle réduit)'' - 1987 *'' (L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Morin
Louis-Simon-René Morin (July 27, 1883 – July 16, 1955) was head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during World War II from 1940 to 1944, and was the first francophone and native-born Canadian to head the CBC. Born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Morin studied at McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous .... He subsequently worked as a notary, and was mayor of Saint-Hyacinthe from 1915 to 1917. He was elected as MP for St. Hyacinthe—Rouville in 1921, and served till 1930. He later became head of the General Trust of Canada in 1927 and head of the Chambre des notaires du Québec from 1921 to 1924. He joined Radio-Canada as vice-president from 1936 to 1940 and remained a member of the CBC board until 1955. References René Morin External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Charles Morin
Randy Charles Morin is a Canadian web publisher and the former chairman of the RSS Advisory Board, a group that publishes the RSS 2.0 specification. Randy authored thRSS autodiscovery specificationand contributed to thRSS profile He also runs the TalkSports website. In 2005, Morin began Rmail, a startup that enabled RSS feeds to be read over email. The site grew to more than 50,000 subscribers, and in April 2007 was sold to the broadcast network NBC. NBC digital media executive George Kliavkoff said the acquisition would enable the company to "make predictive understandings of what they might be interested in and start learning about RSS." NBC rebranded the service as SendMeRSS. Morin began TalkSports after a 2005 blog post he wrote about hockey player Sidney Crosby received a comment from a female inquiring whether Crosby had a girlfriend. He explained to Drama Scene Live Radio in an interview, "Google immediately picked up that new comment and within a few days that page was g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Morin
Joseph Pierre Marius "Pete, Pit" Morin (December 8, 1915 – January 5, 2000) was a professional ice hockey forward who played a single season for the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL. Playing career Morin was born and raised in the Montreal suburb of Lachine and began playing for the Montreal Royals of the QSHL in 1936. There, he skated alongside Buddy O'Connor and Gerry Heffernan and the trio became known as the "Razzle Dazzle" line. In 1941–42 the three played together for the Canadiens. In 31 games he recorded 10 goals and 12 assists for 22 points and appeared as a promising forward. Yet an injury cut his NHL career short and he returned to the less competitive QSHL where he continued to put up productive numbers. He was also a member of the Montreal Royal Canadian Air Force team for two years during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Morin
Patrick Ryan Morin is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in computational geometry and data structures. He is a professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University. Education and career Morin was educated at Carleton University, earning a bachelor's degree with highest honours in 1996, a master's degree in 1998, and a Ph.D. in 2001. His dissertation, ''Online Routing in Geometric Graphs'', was jointly supervised by Jit Bose and Jörg-Rüdiger Sack. After postdoctoral research at McGill University, he returned to Carleton University as a faculty member in 2002. Contributions Morin has published highly-cited work on geographic routing in geometric graphs, including unit disk graphs and triangulations, with coauthors including Jit Bose, Erik Demaine, Stefan Langerman, and Jorge Urrutia. With Joachim Gudmundsson, he co-founded the ''Journal of Computational Geometry'', and continues as its managing editor. He is the author of an open textbook on data structu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Lucie Morin
Marie-Lucie Morin is a Canadian public official, lawyer, and former diplomat and a former Committee member of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency of Canada, and was also the same for its predecessor the Security Intelligence Review Committee from 2015, till the latter was superseded by the former in 2019. As such, she is also a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and entitled to be styled as The Honourable. She is on the board of directors of AGT Food and Ingredients and Stantec since 2016. Morin was the executive director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean at the World Bank from 2010 to 2013. Previously, from 2008 until 2010, she was National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada and associate secretary to the Cabinet. She served as deputy minister of international trade from 2006 to 2008 and as associate deputy minister of foreign affairs from 2003 to 2006. She served as Canadian ambassador to Norway from 1997 to 2001. In 2016, Morin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Eve Morin
Marie-Eve Morin is a Canadian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. From 2012 to 2018 she was the editor-in-chief of '' Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy''. Morin is known for her work on post-structuralism Post-structuralism is a term for philosophical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas established by structuralism, the intellectual project that preceded it. Though post-structuralists all present different critique ... and post-phenomenology. Books * ''Continental Realism and Its Discontents'' (ed.), Edinburgh University Press, 2017 * ''The Nancy Dictionary'' (ed.), Edinburgh University Press, 2015 * ''Jean-Luc Nancy'' (Key Contemporary Thinker Series). Polity Press, 2012 * ''Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Politics, Art, and Sense'' (ed.), SUNY Press, 2012 * ''Jenseits der brüderlichen Gemeinschaft. Das Gespräch zwischen Jacques Derrida und Jean-Luc Nancy'', Erg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
