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"Morin Heights Library Morin-Heights is a town in the Laurentian Mountains region of Quebec, Canada. It is west of Saint-Sauveur and north of Lachute; municipally, it is within the Regional County Municipality of Les Pays-d'en- Haut. It is primarily a tourist town, having a large ski hill (Ski Morin Heights) that is popular during the winter months and being on a recreational trailway (the Aerobic Corridor), which is used year-round. A dense network of hiking, cross country skiing, snowshoeing and mountain biking trails surround Morin Heights, making it the closest multi-recreational outdoor hub to Montreal (45-minute drive in moderate traffic). The old train station, on Lac Écho road, is the starting point for most recreational activities, year-round. The Rivière à Simon offers enjoyable canoeing and kayaking all the way down to Christieville and beyond. Formerly located just south of the town was a recording studio, called Le Studio, built in 1975, which is now closed. The facility was used by numerous Canadian and international artists, including The Tragically Hip, Rush, Nazareth, Pilot, April Wine, Rainbow, Barenaked Ladies, Sting, The Police, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, The Bee Gees, Cat Stevens, and Lawrence Gowan, as well as by Quebec artists Jean-Pierre Ferland, Richard Séguin, Lucien Francœur and Garolou. In 1994, another important music recording facility was built in Morin Heights, on the northern edge of town. Conceived and built by Swedish-born artist Lars Westvind, Studio Nomade exclusively hosted Sarah McLachlan's recording projects up to 2000. It then was open to other artists, and is still a frequently used production facility. The town hosts a theatre company featuring mostly English-language plays, as well as a choir. History The first European settlers (the Seale brothers) arrived from Ireland around 1850, followed by French Canadians from Lachute, Saint-Jérôme and Saint-Eustache. In 1852, the Morin Township was formed and in 1855, the Township Municipality of Morin-Partie-Sud was established in a part of the township (the remaining part became Sainte-Adèle). The township was named after its founder and 19th-century politician Augustin-Norbert Morin (1803–1865) who had at that point a huge farm of more than on the banks of the Rivière du Nord, built around 1850-1860 and included a home, saw mill, and flour mill. An alternate, less accepted origin for the name Morin concerns an engineer named Morin who was dispatched by the provincial government to survey the region and had hired a Native American named Simon as guide, whose name was used to identify the river flowing through the township. Until 1911, the territory had just the names of Bas-Morin or Morin Flats, name of the post office between 1875 and 1911, while the railway station was known as Morin Heights Station. In 1950, Morin-Partie-Sud changed its statutes and name to become the Municipality of Morin-Heights. The town gained notoriety in 1994 when members of the Order of the Solar Temple took part in a mass suicide, after setting fire to the ski chalet they occupied in the community. On March 12, 2008, a tragic roof collapse in the Gourmet du Village bakery warehouse killed three women. An excessive accumulation of snow was suspected to be the cause of the accident. A total of 40 people were in the building at the time of the collapse. Demographics Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1841 (total dwellings: 2395) Home language: * English: 48% * French: 51% * other language only: 1% Education Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates Anglophone public schools: * Morin Heights Elementary School"MORIN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY ZONE." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Retrieved on September 16, 2017. * Laurentian Regional High School in Lachute"LAURENTIAN REGIONAL HS ZONE." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Retrieved on September 4, 2017. Morin Heights Library serves the community. See also *List of municipalities in Quebec References External links *Morin Heights municipal/community Web Site *Morin Heights Historical Association Morin Heights Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Laurentides "
"Document depicted is a page from the Section 5 "Progress Windows" of the text the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines, published under GFDL 1.1 or later with no Front-Cover Texts, no Back-Cover Texts, and no Invariant Sections. Human interface guidelines (HIG) are software development documents which offer application developers a set of recommendations. Their aim is to improve the experience for the users by making application interfaces more intuitive, learnable, and consistent. Most guides limit themselves to defining a common look and feel for applications in a particular desktop environment. The guides enumerate specific policies. Policies are sometimes based on studies of human–computer interaction (so called usability studies), but most are based on conventions chosen by the platform developers preferences. The central aim of a HIG is to create a consistent experience across the environment (generally an operating system or desktop environment), including the applications and other tools being used. This means both applying the same visual design and creating consistent access to and behaviour of common elements of the interface – from simple ones such as buttons and icons up to more complex constructions, such as dialog boxes. HIGs are recommendations and advice meant to help developers create better applications. Developers sometimes intentionally choose to break them if they think that the guidelines do not fit their application, or usability testing reveals an advantage in doing so. But in turn, the organization publishing the HIG might withhold endorsement of the application. Mozilla Firefox's user interface, for example, goes against the GNOME project's HIG, which is one of the main arguments for including Epiphany instead of Firefox in the GNOME distribution.Epiphany Project FAQ: Mozilla and Firefox - GNOME Wiki Scope Human interface guidelines often describe the visual design rules, including icon and window design and style. Much less frequently, they specify how user input and interaction mechanisms work. Aside from the detailed rules, guidelines sometimes also make broader suggestions about how to organize and design the application and write user-interface text. HIGs are also done for applications. In this case the HIG will build on a platform HIG by adding the common semantics for a range of application functions. Cross-platform guidelines In contrast to platform-specific guidelines, cross-platform guidelines aren't tied to a distinct platform. These guidelines make recommendations which should be true on any platform. Since this isn't always possible, cross-platform guidelines may weigh the compliance against the imposed work load. Examples =Linux, macOS, Unix-like= *Elementary OS Human Interface Guidelines *GNOME Human Interface Guidelines *KDE Human Interface Guidelines *macOS Human Interface Guidelines *OLPC Human Interface Guidelines *Ubuntu App Design Guides *Xfce UI Guidelines =Programming languages= *Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines, and Advanced Topics (2001) =Portable devices= *Android Design *Apple Watch Human Interface Guidelines *iOS Human Interface Guidelines =Microsoft Windows= *Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines (for Windows 7 and Windows Vista) *Microsoft Fluent Design System (for Windows 10-based devices) *Design library for Windows Phone =Miscellaneous= *Eclipse User Interface Guidelines (2007) *wyoGuide, a cross-platform HIG (wxWidgets) *ELMER (guidelines for public forms on the internet) *Haiku Human Interface Guidelines See also * User interface * Human interface device * Usability * Common User Access * Graphical user interface builder * Linux on the desktop * Principle of least astonishment References Human–computer interaction Graphical user interfaces de:Human Interface Guideline "
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