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  DICK HIGGINS 1938-1998
Higgins coined the term "intermedia" in the mid-sixties to describe the tendency of the most interesting and best in the new art to cross the boundaries of recognized media or even to fuse the boundaries of art with media that had not previously been considered art forms.
Higgins said on more than one occasion that he may have read the Coleridge essay at some point in his years as a student at Yale or Columbia, and thus subconsciously taken it in.
Higgins read widely, aided by a near-photographic memory, and he could have said, as Erasmus did, "My home is where I have my library." Even more significant, principles held prime place in Higgins's life, and principles informed his art, his intellectual activities, and the way he conducted his life.
colophon.com /umbrella/higgins_21.3_4.html   (5618 words)

  
  Higgins FDO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Higgins was responsible for caring for her on January 1, 4, 11, and 18, 2002.  The audit further revealed that the blood sugar entries Ms.
Higgins further argues that the machines were often in disrepair and that she sometimes had to resort to using other glucometers that were “hidden” on the unit.  Her arguments are not convincing.
Higgins was faced with the prospect of not only losing her job, but also her nursing license.  She could provide no reasonable explanation as to why these blood sugar discrepancies existed, nor could she plausibly refute the manner in which the audit was conducted.  Consequently, her denials are not believable.
drl.wi.gov /dept/decisions/docs/0304044.htm   (1515 words)

  
 Marguerite Higgins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Higgins wanted to report the war in Europe but it was not until 1944 that her editor agreed to send her to London.
Higgins was furious but was eventually able to persuade General Douglas MacArthur to allow her to resume her front-line reporting.
Higgins was sent to Vietnam in 1953 where she reported the defeat of the French Army at Dien Bein Phu.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhigginsM.htm   (1733 words)

  
 Mr. Higgins Goes to Washington
Higgins has proposed that the governor turn over state control of Buffalo’s inner and outer harbor to a local corporation, and he is more than a little annoyed that the governor has not responded.
Higgins is committed to revitalizing Buffalo’s waterfront, a project that has been stalled for decades, but that would bring sorely needed economic prosperity to the region.
Higgins remains loyal to his large family, which includes four siblings and many cousins, grateful he is in a position to help out when he can.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /ksgpress/bulletin/autumn2005/features/higgins.htm   (1759 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Pattillo Higgins, called by some the "prophet of Spindletop," was born on December 5, 1863, in Sabine Pass, Texas, the son of Robert James and Sarah (Raye) Higgins.
Higgins sued Lucas and Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufacturing Company for royalties after the gusher, arguing that Lucas's second lease was invalid since it was executed before the expiration of the first lease.
Higgins initially adopted Johns in 1905, when she was fifteen; he made her his sole heir.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/HH/fhi7.html   (1475 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Other Sport | Snooker | Higgins beaten by 16-year-old
Alex Higgins endured a disappointing return to competitive snooker on Thursday when he was hammered 5-1 by a 16-year-old in the first round of the Irish Open in Londonderry.
Higgins' highest break was a paltry 23 which he managed in the third frame which he won.
Higgins, who has successfully battled against cancer in recent years, said that he was unable to play because he required dental treatment.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/2783049.stm   (308 words)

  
 State v. Franklin Higgins II
On March 2, Higgins contradicted his March 1 statement by telling the State Police detectives that the last time he had seen and spoken with Poor was when he stopped by her apartment on the Thursday before her death.
Higgins and the two detectives ascended a flight of stairs to a large, wide-open room where there was a table and some metal chairs.
The form of the interrogation was one of trying to bond with Higgins; the detectives asked questions in a calm, conversational, friendly, and non-confrontational manner; they never raised their voices; they never informed Higgins that he was a suspect; and they offered Higgins something to drink and permitted him to smoke.
www.courts.state.me.us /opinions/documents/02me77hi.htm   (2381 words)

  
 Higgins
The history and descendants of Linville Higgins and his brothers are well documented and largely agreed upon, which is one of the reasons I discount the theory that William and Polly are their parents.
From the census record all that we know abouth the wife of John Higgins is that she was between 26 and 45 years of age.
The John Higgins famil of Wilkes County that apppears in the 1810 census is not found in the 1820 census records.
home.att.net /~amickey/higgins.htm   (1598 words)

  
 George Higgins materials
Higgins pursued nine careers, all of which are preserved in his archive.
Higgins' mastery of character dialogue is often compared to that of John O'Hara, a writer whose fiction he admired.
While Higgins' archive is an obvious fit for USC's collections, which also include the archives of James Ellroy and John Jakes, it came to USC in part because of a mutual interest that existed between writer and university.
www.sc.edu /usctimes/articles/2004-02/higgins_collection.html   (836 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Higgins, on U.S. Highway 60 two miles from the Oklahoma border in southeastern Lipscomb County, is in the heart of the North Texas grasslands of the early cattle ranges.
Higgins was incorporated in 1908 and won a considerable reputation as a progressive-minded community.
Higgins has weathered depressions, dust storms, and cyclones, its worst disaster occurring on April 9, 1947, when a tornado claimed forty-five lives and devastated several residences and the business district.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/HH/hlh42.html   (447 words)

  
 DDG 76 Higgins
Higgins is a Flight II Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer, the fifteenth built by bath iron works in bath, Maine.
USS HIGGINS is named in honor of Colonel William R. (Rich) Higgins, USMC, who disappeared on Feb. 17, 1988, while serving as the Chief, Observer Group Lebanon and Senior Military Observer, United States Military Observer Group, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (Palestine).
Captain Higgins returned to Vietnam in 1972 as an infantry battalion advisor to the Vietnamese Marine Corps, then served as a rifle company commander with C Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/ddg-76.htm   (805 words)

  
 Gray v. Higgins (Memorandum Opinion)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Higgins appeared, denied liability, and argued that the Oral Contract neither existed nor was an enforceable agreement.
Higgins filed his Motion for Reconsideration or New Trial ("Original Reconsideration Motion") because of impact of the automatic stay in the Bankruptcy Action on the present lawsuit.
Higgins filed his Renewed Motion for Reconsideration ("Renewed Reconsideration Motion") based on uncertainty over whether the Original Reconsideration Motion was filed in violation of the automatic stay in the Bankruptcy Action and was thus invalid.
www.hawaii.gov /jud/ica23610mop.htm   (1707 words)

  
 spwiki - Introduction to Higgins
Higgins is a framework that will enable users and enterprises to integrate identity, profile, and relationship information across multiple systems.
Our intent is to define the Higgins framework in terms of service descriptions, messages and port types consistent with an SOA model and to develop a Java binding and implementation as an initial reference.
Higgins provides virtual integration, user-centric federation, management, trust brokering, linking, and search capabilities that are applied to identity, profile and relationship information across multiple contexts and across disparate systems and implementations.
spwiki.editme.com /HigginsIntroduction   (1226 words)

  
 George Higgins Collection - Thomas Cooper Library - University Libraries - USC
While Higgins’ archive is an obvious fit for USC’s collections, which also include the archives of James Ellroy and John Jakes, it found its new home at USC because of a mutual interest that existed between writer and university and because of the decision of Higgins's widow, Loretta Cubberley Higgins.
Higgins spoke at the first meeting of USC’s Thomas Cooper Society, a literary and advocacy group of USC libraries, in 1993.
Following Higgins's sudden death at age 59, Loretta Cubberley Higgins decided to make sure that the various elements of the archive were brought together for preservation in one place, at the University of South Carolina, donating a substantial proportion of the collection.
www.sc.edu /library/spcoll/amlit/higgins/intro.htm   (749 words)

  
 Marguerite Higgins
Higgins was born in Hong Kong in 1920 to Larry Daniel Higgins, a steamship company manager, and Marguerite Goddard, whom he met while on assignment in the Marine Corps.
Marguerite Higgins became convinced that the USA was locked in a life and death struggle with Communism and frequently criticized the government for not taking a more firm stand.
Upon her return, the strong willed Higgins met with General Douglas MacArthur in person, arguing her case that she was working, not as a woman, but as a correspondent.
home.nycap.rr.com /bound/mediawomen/higgins.html   (879 words)

  
 George V. Higgins
Higgins' novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972) was selected in 1985 as one of the twenty best American novels since World War II by the British Booksellers Association.
Higgins did not like to be regarded as a crime writer, maintaining that he wrote "novels".
Higgins was a consultant at National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Law, Washington, D.C. (1970-71), instructor in trial practice at Boston College Law School in 1973-74 and 1978-79.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /higg.htm   (1290 words)

  
 Higgins Boats - USS War Hawk - AP-168   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It was originally published by Higgins Company in their "The Eureka News Bulletin" in the spring of 1944.
Higgins Industries produced the majority of the LCVPs used during WWII but the design was licensed to 21 other manufacturers who produced a total of 23,398 of these remarkable boats during the course of the war.
The Higgins design was also used to build a large boat designated as a Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM).
home.pacbell.net /lesds/WarHawk/Higgins.html   (607 words)

  
 Multimedia – From Wagner to Virtual Reality
Fluxus artist Dick Higgins describes a branch of American post-modernism from the 1960s that reflects the tumultuous social atmosphere of the era and its impact on the arts.
Higgins attention is focused on Intermedia, a myriad of emerging genres that spilled across the boundaries of traditional media.
Following the example of Marcel Duchamp, Higgins suggests that artists explore the territory that lies between "the general area of art media and those of life media." He calls for unusual combinations of art, including, for instance, the mixing of painting and shoes (as in the art of Claes Oldenburg).
www.artmuseum.net /w2vr/timeline/Higgins.html   (187 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/higgins
The band's debut, Dear Higgins, is full of the kind of lush, Beatlesesque, pop that almost everyone likes.
"Higgins is Brian and Kevin, two boys who use the influence of their “classic rock Dads” to wail on your ass up and down their new CD, Dear Higgins.
I am now a higgins fan, and i will place a red "x" on the maps that pass through my hands in the future.
www.myspace.com /higgins   (1097 words)

  
 Canadiens' Higgins back on skates
Higgins skated on his own Thursday and Friday and joined his teammates on the ice for a pre-game skate Saturday morning ahead of Montreal's home game against the Buffalo Sabres in the evening.
Higgins is anxious to return for the Habs.
Higgins, a native of Smithtown, N.Y., has 31 goals and 51 points in 95 NHL games since being drafted 14th overall by the Canadiens in 2002.
www.cbc.ca /sports/hockey/story/2006/12/09/chris-higgins.html   (1334 words)

  
 Asheville.com news: Author George V. Higgins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Higgins was famous for creating memorable characters in hard-boiled fiction and telling his stories through dialogue.
According to The New Yorker, "Higgins is almost uniquely blessed with a gift of voices, each of them...as distinctive as the fingerprint." Higgins said his purpose was to replace the omniscient author with the omniscient reader.
Higgins is a great ‘political' novelist who anatomized one ‘polis,' Boston, over the last 30 years of the 20th century.
www.asheville.com /news/uschiggins.html   (2277 words)

  
 IBM Press room - 2006-02-27 Open Source Initiative to Give People More Control Over Their Personal Online Information - ...
Higgins will make it simple and secure for someone to change an address across all their online accounts with a single keystroke; delegate who can see what elements of their medical records; or change a password across online banking and brokerage accounts.
To spur swift adoption of Higgins by the broadest community of software developers, IBM, Novell and Parity Communications are contributing software code to Higgins, and will be joined by other technology companies who are expected to participate in the project.
Higgins breaks up a person's identity into pieces -- or "services" -- and lets computer users dictate who can access what parts of their identity information, within applicable privacy guidelines and laws.
www-03.ibm.com /press/us/en/pressrelease/19280.wss   (1100 words)

  
 Higgins - Reardon Funeral Homes: Offering Cremation and Traditional Burial Services in Ohio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Higgins established a tradition of compassionate, caring, personalized service - and the business grew.
In 1958 under the management of John J. Higgins, son of Frank and Marie, the facility was moved to 4303 Mahoning Avenue, in the Austintown area, and has been expanded considerably since then.
John J. and Barbara's daughter, Judy, who is a licensed funeral director, grew up in the funeral business – working at the funeral homes over the years to help her parents.
www.higgins-reardon.com /html/home.htm   (373 words)

  
 Higgins Agencies : Customer Jobs
As of December 1, 2004 Higgins Agencies is no longer the distributor of the MEA product in Western Australia.
MEA is proud to announce the appointment of Higgins Agencies as their distributor in Western Australia.
Higgins Agencies is no longer the distributor of the Aquatherm product in Western Australia.
www.higgins-agencies.com.au /swp/news.php   (155 words)

  
 Petticoat Junction Dog - Higgins
Although his name was Higgins, on the show he was called simply, "Dog." Curiously, one episode in the fifth season is called Higgins Come Home, but that name is never uttered by the characters in any of the episodes; at least, not intentionally.
Higgins' fellow performers recall him with great fondness and admiration.
Though he was retired shortly after the end of Petticoat Junction, Higgins later came out of retirement to launch a career in movies as Benji, starring in the first two films of the series (his offspring have carried on the legacy in subsequent films).
petticoat.topcities.com /higgins.htm   (1077 words)

  
 Higgins Family of Glenravel, Co. Antrim
One of the Meath O Higgins was an 18th-century Viceroy of Peru and his son, Bernardo O Higgins was the liberator of Chile and its first President.
James Higgins' unidentified body was found 9 May 1891 on a salt marsh to the West of Cochrane's chemical works in Somerville.
John Higgins had a berth in the deck house, a long cabin on the main deck where men traveling singly were segregated from the family accommodations in steerage.
world.std.com /~ahern/higgins.htm   (1353 words)

  
 Higgins Armory Museum - Worcester, MA - A Museum of Arms and Armor
he Higgins Armory Museum, with 5,000 objects on 4 floors, is the only institution in the Northeast dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition, and interpretation of arms and armor.
Higgins Armory Museum is the only museum in the Western Hemisphere solely dedicated to arms and armor.
The Higgins Armory Museum is proud to be accredidited by the American Association of Museums, and is a member of the New England Museum Association
www.higgins.org   (126 words)

  
 Higgins' Tavern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Higgins' Tavern is described by the owner Jim Higgins, as "a cozy neighborhood bar with a sports motif and great bar food." There are no pretensions or attitudes here - just a friendly crowd, enjoying some cold beer, bantering about sports, and tasting some of the best bar food in Chicago.
The bar area is spacious and populated with friendly people, and you won't believe the terrific old beer cooler until you see it in person.
So come join us, and be prepared to enter a throwback to a time when the neighborhood tavern was truly a local gathering place.
www.higginstavern.com   (110 words)

  
 Higgins Trust Framework Project Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
September 10, 2006 - Higgins birds-of-a-feather session scheduled for Tuesday, September 12, at 4:30 in the Sierra Boardroom at DIDW.
August 1, 2006 - Panel on Higgins scheduled for DIDW, September 13, in Santa Clara.
Higgins in the News - a fuller list of online and print mentions than is in "What's New".
www.eclipse.org /higgins   (277 words)

  
 Higgins Genealogy: Copyright 2001 - 2007 Michael J Higgins
Higgins Genealogy: Copyright 2001 - 2007 Michael J Higgins
You are welcome to submit your family line, Obituary, Biography, Photo or any other information pertaining to anyone with the Higgins surname (in all its various spellings) or their immediate family.
A listing of Higgins Civil War soldiers, both Union and Confederate, including obvious spelling variations has been posted- (The Menu), many with some or all of the following information, Service record, place of burial, or biography and Census, Regimental Reports or histories
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~mjhiggins   (238 words)

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