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  Jean-Luc Brassard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean-Luc Brassard (born August 24, 1972 in Valleyfield, Quebec) is a French-Canadian freestyle skier, winning the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in the sport's debut as a medal event.
Brassard has been credited as popularizing the wearing of bright knee pads to show off absorption and leg position for mogul skiers to best show judges how smoothly the athlete is taking the turns.
In his other Olympic appearances, Brassard placed 7th when the event was a demonstration sport in 1992, 4th in 1998 and 21st in 2002.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean-Luc_Brassard   (121 words)

  
 Sophie's choice - Salon
Brassard, who found out she was HIV positive in 1989, says that she was both healthy and well-informed when she became pregnant in 1992.
Brassard was in the middle of labor when five men -- a social worker, a Youth Protective Services administrator, a doctor and two police -- entered her apartment and forced her to go to the hospital.
Brassard and her supporters point to the results of a recent South African study, published in the Lancet in August, which concluded that HIV was not necessarily passed through breast milk.
dir.salon.com /story/mwt/feature/1999/12/08/brassard/index.html?pn=2   (1057 words)

  
 Brassard, Jean-Luc
Brassard developed rapidly, joining the national team at 17 and winning his first World Cup race at 18.
Brassard suffered through a poor season in 1993-94 but rebounded at the 1994 Olympic Games with a spectacular performance, defeating the defending champion and winning the gold medal.
Brassard is also known for extensive charity work, including his annual tour with "Enfants du Soleil," the French division of the Children's Miracle Network.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0010011   (275 words)

  
 HIV & AIDS - Flight from the AIDS Police
Brassard's parents to administer anti-viral AIDS "cocktails" to their grandchildren, Xavier, 3, and Ismael, 8, or he'd place them in foster care.
Brassard's decision to refuse AIDS cocktails for her children did not make her an unfit mother, and that dissenting medical opinions concerning HIV treatments were appropriate to consider.
Brassard says social workers indicated to her their intent to continue drug therapy and maintain control over the boys regardless.
www.virusmyth.net /aids/news/mkbrassard.htm   (810 words)

  
 CANOE 2002 Games - Team Canada - Jean-Luc Brassard
Jean-Luc Brassard silenced his critics this past March at the national championships when he won the gold medal in dual moguls, his first victory in two years.
Brassard is a three-time overall World Cup champion with an astounding 20 career victories.
Brassard's most effective trick is the Kosack jump which he executes with a personal touch to provide a higher degree of difficulty.
slam.canoe.ca /2002GamesTeamCanadaBiosA2M/brassard.html   (309 words)

  
 Brassard, Henri
In 1967 Brassard appeared as a soloist with the MSO, the TS, and the Erie Philharmonic.
On his graduation from the École Vincent-d'Indy, Brassard studied for some time in New York with Nadia Reisenberg, but it was in Vienna, 1972-5 with Dieter Weber, that he completed his education.
In the 1980s Brassard especially devoted himself to chamber music, associating himself with such groups as the Prague Quartet, the Orford String Quartet and I Musici de Montréal, as well as with soloists of international renown, notably at the Ladies' Morning Musical Club with Paul Tortelier (1986) and Augustin Dumay (1988).
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000419   (387 words)

  
 This judge's instruction to jurors: Dress up - The Boston Globe
Brassard, who first practiced law as a defense lawyer and prosecutor in the Judge Advocate General's Corps in the Navy in the early 1970s, makes no specific recommendation for female jurors, saying he is ill-equipped to do so.
Brassard, who graduated from Boston College and its law school, said that since he began recommending ties for men and appropriate clothes for women, most jurors have complied, at least until they begin deliberating.
Brassard -- a trim, formal man who runs three miles every day -- said he recognizes that some male jurors may not own ties.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/12/15/this_judges_instruction_to_jurors_dress_up   (877 words)

  
 wcr:03/20/2006 — Trustee's religion threatens his job
Brassard has been chair of the Chinook's Edge School Division for the past eight years, but under the Alberta School Act, a Catholic living in an area where a Catholic school division has been established cannot serve as a trustee on a public school board.
Brassard, a former three-term MLA for Olds-Didsbury and an area resident for 30 years, feels the legislation marginalizes him because of his religion.
Brassard said he can't even give his situation a sober second thought because there is no Catholic school in Didsbury and none is planned.
www.wcr.ab.ca /news/2006/0320/chinook032006.shtml   (826 words)

  
 Derick Brassard Player Profile Prospect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Brassard was originally selected by the Drummondville Voltiguers in the second round of the 2003 QMJHL Midget Draft, 18th overall.
Brassard is a dynamite playmaker, well aware of his surroundings, and able to dispense lightning-quick, accurate passes at will.
Brassard is not a very physical fore-checker but is more than willing to pay the price in order to complete a pass.
hockeysfuture.com /prospect.php?pid=4627   (540 words)

  
 Profile for Gilles Brassard
Brassard is interested in all aspects of quantum information processing, which lies at the intersection of computer science and quantum mechanics.
Brassard's first major invention (joint with Dr. Charles Bennett from IBM Research), exploits the fact that quantum information cannot be measured reliably to allow two people to communicate with unconditional confidentiality under the nose of an eavesdropper equipped with unlimited computing power and technology.
Brassard was first to establish upper and lower bounds on the worst-case amount of required classical communication to faithfully simulate the effect of quantum entanglement.
www.ciar.ca /web/home.nsf/pages/home.0666!opendocument   (813 words)

  
 Salon.com Mothers Who Think | Sophie's choice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Brassard and her children took mandatory blood tests and her doctor again urged her to put the children on the antiretroviral drugs.
Brassard refused to give her children the drugs and took them back to Italy, hoping to resurrect the relationship with her second child's father.
Brassard’s parents raised their concern that the drugs would be too strong for a young child.
archive.salon.com /mwt/feature/1999/12/08/brassard/index2.html   (868 words)

  
 KAROL BRASSARD - DTM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GROUP INC (DTM.TO): 2000-06-12
Brassard has built high technology companies from scratch, gone public and, through a skilful business development strategy and acquisitions, built DTM into one of the key network e-infrastructure integrators and e-business solutions players in Canada.
Brassard: It's a fundamental shift, and that's why we're saying that it's going to be a big new trend because the value for the customer is very high.
Brassard: Our feeling and the feedback that we receive from the industry is that we are the first Canadian company to launch this kind of service on a wide scale.
www.twst.com /ceos/dtmto.html   (2598 words)

  
 Guy R. Brassard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Brassard, G.R. A contribution to the bryology of Melville Island, N.W.T. Bryologist 70: 347-351.
Brassard, G.R. A contribution to the bryology of Southampton Island, Northwest Territories.
Brassard, G.R., and Hancock, J.A. Mosses of Fraser Canyon, northern Labrador.
www.eman-rese.ca /eman/ecotools/botanists/BrassardGR.html   (1040 words)

  
 Hockey's Future: The #1 Online Prospects Magazine - Covering the WHL, QMJHL, AHL, OHL, College, The NHL Entry Draft, ...
Brassard suffered a broken wrist in the course of the season but it didn’t prevent him from having an exceptional year.
According to a senior QMJHL scout, some of Brassard’s moves on the ice are already at the level of the NHL.
Brassard’s role model is Simon Gagne, who has about the same stature and is also a late born player.
hockeysfuture.com /article.php?sid=8831&mode=threaded&order=0   (1432 words)

  
 Salon.com Mothers Who Think | Sophie's choice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sophie Brassard, a 37-year-old single mother in Canada, is scheduled to fight in a Montreal court today for the custody of her two children, 4 and 8.
Though the Canadian government has not formally charged Brassard with any crime, it removed the children from her care in July, when she was detained at the Montreal airport while trying to leave the country with her kids.
Meanwhile, in a case last year that is likely to be cited in Brassard's hearing, Valerie Emerson, a mother in Bangor, Maine, won the right to withhold AZT from her second child after her firstborn, who had been on the drug, died just before her 4th birthday.
archive.salon.com /mwt/feature/1999/12/08/brassard/print.html   (2423 words)

  
 KODAK: Eastman Images Spring 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Deal, an independent feature that Denise Brassard shot for director Paul Levine, is a dark comedy about an agent for the devil who tries to convince people to sell their souls.
Most of the light is white with occasional beams of a yellowish hell color produced with Gam gels, and she let the edges of the frame fall off into flness.
Brassard, a native of Rhode Island, studied cultural anthropology at Vassar College.
www.kodak.com /US/en/motion/newsletters/images/spring99/brassard.shtml   (315 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Brassard, F. Bussières, N. Godbout and S. Lacroix, « Multi–user quantum key distribution using wavelength division multiplexing », Proceedings of SPIE 5260: Applications of Photonic Technology 6 (Photonics North), Montréal, mai 2003, pp.
Brassard, C. Crépeau, R. Jozsa et D. Langlois, « A quantum bit commitment scheme provably unbreakable by both parties », Proceedings of 34th Annual IEEE Symposium on the Foundations of Computer Science, novembre 1993, pp.
Brassard et I.B. Damgård, « Practical IP is included in MA », Advances in Cryptology – Proceedings of Crypto'88, août 1988, Springer–Verlag, pp.
www.iro.umontreal.ca /~brassard/conff.htm   (1721 words)

  
 Montreal Mirror : Theatre : Michel Tremblay and André Brassard
Brassard told La Presse that he wasn't allowed to talk about the situation, having signed some sort of agreement.
In 1998, Brassard directed and appeared as the "Tremblay" character in Encore une fois, si vous permettez, with Lafontaine as the mother.
Brassard confirmed to Dumas that the Centaur cancellation was indeed due to his health problems.
www.montrealmirror.com /2005/081805/theatre.html   (578 words)

  
 Monarchy Canada
A Queen Canada Should be Proud Of The Brassard Hoax On The Queen drew wide criticism for its irresponsible attempt to intrude into the charged situation a bogus "Prime Minister's" Quebec referendum-eve telephone conversation with Her Majesty.
What resulted was a fourteen minute rambling conversation with Her Majesty which Brassard later played on his radio show and released to the news media.
Thanks to Brassard's exposé, the Monarchy was revealed to be working not only as people say it does but also as they say it should.
www.monarchist.ca /mc/queenpr.htm   (1148 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Brassard, A. Broadbent et A. Tapp, « Multi–party pseudo–telepathy », Proceedings of 8th Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, 2003, pp.
Brassard, T. Mor et B.C. Sanders, « Quantum cryptography via parametric downconversion », Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 2: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing, Evanston, août 1998, P. Kumar, G. Mauro D'Ariano and O. Hirota (éditeurs), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2000, pp.
Brassard et P. Høyer, « An exact quantum polynomial–time algorithm for Simon's problem », Proceedings of Fifth Israeli Symposium on Theory of Computing and Systems (ISTCS '97), juin 1997, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp.
inexistant.net /Gilles/conff.htm   (1845 words)

  
 About pacePILOT - Brassard and Ritter
Brassard and Ritter, LLC has redesigned its website to focus on its new online "The PILOT™ Knowledge Base" (The PILOT).
Brassard and Ritter, LLC has entered into an agreement with The Quality Group (TQG) of Atlanta.
The Brassard and Ritter content is being integrated now, and should make it's way to select TQG end-users during Q3.
www.pacepilot.com /news.shtml   (445 words)

  
 Bibliography of Quantum Cryptography
In the mean time, Charles H. Bennett (who knew of Wiesner's idea) and Gilles Brassard picked up the subject and brought it to fruition in a series of papers that culminated with the demonstration of an experimental prototype that established the technological feasibility of the concept [2].
Brassard, G., Crépeau, C., Jozsa, R. and Langlois, D., "A quantum bit commitment scheme provably unbreakable by both parties", [ D / P / G ] Proceedings of the 34th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, November 1993, pp.
Brassard, G., "A bibliography of quantum cryptography", [ D / P / G ] this manuscript.
www.cs.mcgill.ca /~crepeau/CRYPTO/Biblio-QC.html   (3183 words)

  
 KODAK: Rising Stars
Brassard says it was an interesting, collaborative experience working with Levine, a talented stage director who directed one film for HBO before Deal.
Most of the light is white with occasional beams of the yellowish hell color, and she let the edges of the frame fall off into flness.
Brassard shot interior and night scenes with Eastman EXR 500T film 5298, and day exteriors on Eastman EXR 200T film 5293.
www.kodak.com /US/en/motion/stars/brassard.shtml   (630 words)

  
 Silicone Adhesives | Gels | Coatings - David M. Brassard - Consulting Silicone Chemist
Brassard is a recognized expert by the Teltech Consulting Network in general silicones, high performance silicone adhesives, sealants, polymers, RTV’s, tubing and heat cured rubber.
Brassard has recently hosted a roundtable discussion at the International Silicone Conference in May, 2003 and presented a paper at the conference in 2002, as well as the Adhesives and Sealants Council in New Orleans and the American Chemical Society, Rubber Division meeting in Cleveland, both in October, 2001.
Brassard was published in Rubber and Plastics News in May, 2002 and Adhesives Age in July, 2001.
www.siliconesolutions.com /dmb.php   (531 words)

  
 The Geneva Convention Brassard
As usual, the M-24 brassard was to be worn on the left sleeve, above the elbow.
Every official brassard had a fl ink stamped text on the inside stating "issued by Medical Department, U.S. Army, in conformity with Article 21, International Red Cross Convention, Geneva, 1929" – furthermore there was another stamped text showing the Identity Card number (of the holder, the medic) i.e.
A similar brassard (item #99137) was introduced for the Veterinary Corps December 13, 1939, it carried a green cross on a white rectangular field, however its members were NOT protected by the Geneva Convention).
home.att.net /~steinert/geneva_convention_brassard.htm   (326 words)

  
 Saving Private Ryan: gas detection brassard
Coated with a chemical, the paper brassard was designed to change color when exposed to certain gasses, thus warning a soldier that he was in potential danger.
The brassard, which was fragile and easily torn in combat, was intended to be worn on the left shoulder so as not to interfere with the firing of a weapon.
One brassard was meant to be worn into combat, with the other safely stored along with the soldier's gas mask in a waterproof bag worn on the chest.
www.sproe.com /g/gas-brassard.html   (227 words)

  
 Other Military Police Brassards
The first brassard is similar in size and colour to the British RMP brasssard, and is fastened by velcro.
The British brassard for the Corps of Royal Military Police is relatively unchanged from that used in World War I when red letters on a dark blue background was used by the Corps of Military Police.
This same type of brassard is worn by military police from various Central and South American countries, but generally with white letters on a blue-fl brassard, similar to the US brassard.
home.mweb.co.za /re/redcap/brassard.htm   (1742 words)

  
 DBLP: Gilles Brassard
Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Seth Breidbard, Stephen Wiesner: Quantum Cryptography, or Unforgeable Subway Tokens.
Gilles Brassard: A Time-Luck Tradeoff in Relativized Cryptography.
Gilles Brassard: A Time-Luck Tradeoff in Cryptography FOCS 1980: 380-386
informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Brassard:Gilles.html   (807 words)

  
 Brassard family reunion rocks Moriah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
His son, Emiliean Alex Brassard, went to Mooers Forks, married Mary Gadway and had three sons, of which Frederick was Moriah resident Gilbert Brassard’s grandfather.
The Monette branch of the family is double-related — Frederick married Marcelene Monette, and Marcelene Monette’s brother married Flora Brassard.
Brassards converged on Moriah this weekend from California, Massachusetts, Utah, Texas, Maine, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, Vermont, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Ohio, Maryland, Arizona and Canada.
www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2002/08_2002/080420023.htm   (720 words)

  
 Brassard back on top
It was so quiet at the top of the mountain, and then when it was Brassard's time to ski, he had to wait.
 Brassard was standing at the top of the mountain, thinking about his run, thinking about the 10th-place finish he had in his last World Cup event, thinking abut his parents, thinking far too much.
Critical for Brassard, but critical also for a Canadian freestyle team which came home to much accolades and until yesterday was struggling badly here.
www.canoe.ca /SlamNaganoFreestyleSkiingArchive/jan12_simmons.html   (683 words)

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