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  INSTAAR: Gifford Miller
Miller, G.H., Magee, J.W. and Jull, A.J.T., 1997: Low-latitude glacial cooling in the Southern Hemisphere from amino acid racemization in emu eggshells.
Miller, G.H., Mangan, J., Pollard, D., Thompson, S.L., Felzer, B.S., and Magee, J.W., 2005: Sensitivity of the Australian Monsoon to insolation and vegetation: Implications for human impact on continental moisture balance.
Geirsdottir, A., Miller, G.H., and Andrews, J.T. Glaciation, erosion, and landscape evolution of Iceland.
instaar.colorado.edu /people/bios/miller.html   (459 words)

  
 The Progress & Freedom Foundation - About PFF - Board of Directors
Gifford earned his law degree from the University of Chicago, where he absorbed the "law and economics" jurisprudence for which the school is (in)famous.
Gifford teaches a seminar on the Law and Economics of the Information Age at the University of Colorado School of Law.
From 1985 to 1988, Miller was director of the Office of Management and Budget, a member of President Reagan's Cabinet; and a member of the National Security Council.
www.pff.org /about/board.html   (1715 words)

  
 MILLER Aims high
Gifford Miller has been the second most powerful public official, next to the mayor, since ascending to the position of Speaker of the City Council almost four years ago.
Miller declared that in bringing together one of the most diverse legislative bodies in the nation, he had led the city lawmakers through their most successful period, passing more laws and overriding more mayoral vetoes than ever before.
Miller, besides his improved showing in the polls, also showed another indication of a healthy campaign when nominating petitions to get on the ballot were handed in at the Board of Elections last week.
www.qgazette.com /news/2005/0727/Front_page   (886 words)

  
 IPA NY Voices That Must Be Heard
Miller is using an initiative that will award grants ranging from $100,000 to $700,000 to non-profit groups, to create innovative ways to help the chronically unemployed obtain and retain jobs, as the basis of his unemployment strategy.
Miller, on the other hand, wants to cancel the upcoming tax cut for those who make more than $500,000, in order to use the $400 million in revenue to lower class sizes.
Of all of the candidates running for mayor, Gifford Miller does have the most experience in the legislative arena, serving on the City Council for the last nine years and overseeing some of the body’s most progressive initiatives.
www.indypressny.org /article.php3?ArticleID=2244   (1867 words)

  
 Greenwich Village Gazette: Columns: Guests: Donna Lamb
Alan Gifford Miller — or "Giff" as his friends call him – is a lifelong New Yorker who was born and raised in the neighborhood he now represents, the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Miller started in her office as the receptionist and worked his way up to become her New York City Chief of Staff.
And, very importantly, Miller was true to his word and backed the Fresh Democracy Council’s proposed rule changes to democratize the City Council and make its legislative processes more transparent and easier for voters to access and understand.
www.gvny.com /columns/lamb/lamb01-16-04c.html   (941 words)

  
 Empire State Pride Agenda 2005 Primary Voter Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Gifford Miller is a longtime supporter of the LGBT community, from his first run for public office in 1995 though his current position as Speaker of the NYC Council.
Miller has pro-actively taken a series of steps that are supportive of domestic partners and has been a vocal supporter of marriage equality.
The key difference between Miller and the other candidates was Miller's position as Council Speaker and his willingness to use the power of his office in an unprecedented manner to work for LGBT New Yorkers.
www.prideagenda.org /pride/05primary/ny.html   (1338 words)

  
 The New York Observer Politicker: Gifford's Fan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Gifford Miller greeted bleary-eyed commuters at 96th street and Broadway with a chorus of volunteers behind him.
After pledging his support for Miller in a rant that ended in a hug from the candidate, Steed demanded a campaign sign and started his own cheer.
As Miller's aides debated whether Steed was deranged, a drunk or on crack, the campaign's best cheerleader screamed out an inspired "You can think about it, or you can be about it.
thepoliticker.observer.com /2005/09/giffords-fan.html   (177 words)

  
 Empire State Pride Agenda Press Releases and News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The key difference between Miller and the other candidates, according to Van Capelle, was Miller's position as Speaker and his willingness to use of the power of his office in an unprecedented manner to work for LGBT New Yorkers.
Miller is opposed to a Constitutional Amendment banning marriage for same-sex couples and has been active and adamant in expressing his position.
Miller's continual and high-profile support for marriage equality for same-sex couples since first running for public office in 1995 through his tenure as Speaker make him one of the LGBT community's most reliable friends on this issue.
prideagenda.org /pressreleases/pr-06-26-05.html   (867 words)

  
 'Regular-Guyness' Is a Hidden Trait of Gifford Miller - June 9, 2005 - The New York Sun
Miller likes to say his youth is an asset, stressing that his energy and idealism have not been quashed by decades of disappointing reality, but - unlike Mr.
Miller travels around with two bodyguards, one of whom is never at a loss for words, while the other is virtually silent.
Miller was driven to seven events in three boroughs, a baseball game played at low volume on the radio.
www.nysun.com /article/15129   (857 words)

  
 Gifford Miller - Wired New York Forum
Miller agrees with the mayor, his rationale for mounting a challenge weakens, and his status as the Democratic front-runner dims.
Miller abandoned his proposal for a 2% across-the-board property tax reduction in favor of Mr.
Miller's many supporters argue that he is demonstrating his ability to govern by passing three tough budgets in one of the worst financial downturns in city history.
www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=5082   (662 words)

  
 village voice > news > Gifford Has A Plan by Jarrett Murphy
That Miller is a youthful-looking 35 is something he has no control over—unless he goes in for gray highlights—but it allows his rivals to try to not treat him seriously.
Miller has been accused of such calculation before: For the 2001 campaign, he set up a PAC to help elect candidates to the council who would then be in a position to vote for him as speaker.
Miller won a narrow vote to block elements of the mayor's plan, but the speaker was unable to override Bloomberg's veto.
www.villagevoice.com /news/0526,murphy,65363,5.html   (1450 words)

  
 Gifford H. Miller
Miller, G.H., Mode, W.N., Sauer, P.E., Wolfe, A.P., Bennike, O., Forman, S.L., Short, S.K., Stafford, T.W., Jr., and Williams, K.M., 1999: Stratified interglacial lacustrine sediment from Baffin Island, Arctic Canada: Chronology and paleoenvironmental implications.
Magee, J.W. and Miller, G.H., 1998: Lake Eyre palaeohydrology from 60 ka to the present: beach ridges and glacial maximum aridity.
Johnson, B.J., Fogel, M.L. and Miller, G.H., 1998: Stable isotopes in modern ostrich eggshell: a calibration for paleoenvironmental applications in semi-arid regions of southern Africa.
www.colorado.edu /GeolSci/faculty/miller.html   (456 words)

  
 [NYtenants-online] Brooklyn residents/tenants to picket Gifford Miller
And while he is now claiming leadership in the fight against lead paint poisoning, advocates had to picket Gifford Miller's office a few years ago in order to get the lead paint bill to move out of committee.
City Council Speaker Miller was a no-show at the April 4th public hearing where hundreds of community members testified against the Bloomberg rezoning scheme.
Miller later removed the chair of the zoning committee, Tony Avella -- the only community representative who listened to community concerns at the hearing -- from closed-door negotiations over the Williamsburg/Greenpoint rezoning.
www.tenant.net /pipermail/nytenants-online/2005-April/000274.html   (1100 words)

  
 Gifford Pinchot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905-1910) and the Republican Governor of Pennsylvania (1923-1927, 1931-1935).
He made conservation a family affair and decided that Gifford would become a forester, he endowed the Yale School of Forestry, and he turned Grey Towers, the family estate at Milford, Pennsylvania, into a nursery for the American forestry movement.
Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington, and Gifford Pinchot State Park in Lewisberry, Pennsylvania are named in his honor, as is Pinchot Hall at Penn State University.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gifford_Pinchot   (1377 words)

  
 BrooklynPapers.com
Miller, meanwhile, who is trailing, according to recent polls, in a primary race with former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer and Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields to challenge Republican mayor Michael Bloomberg this November, has come out in favor of the $3.5 billion Atlantic Yards project.
The Miller mailings, with wording that often pits the mayor against the bulleted initiatives, has led to concern that the 100,000 fliers, which were sent citywide throughout the first two weeks of June, were little more than an 11th-hour attempt by the speaker to reach voters for his own campaign using council funds.
James complained that Miller had overstepped his bounds in doing the district-wide mailing and it was unlike any prior mailings that she had experienced.
www.brooklynpapers.com /html/issues/_vol28/28_26/28_26nets2.html   (899 words)

  
 Gifford Miller
Alan Gifford Miller (born November 19, 1970) is the current Speaker of the New York City Council, where he represents Council District 5.
Miller won his first term as a City Councilmember in January 1996, after running unopposed in a special election to fill the then-vacant seat.
Miller has all but confirmed that he will seek the Democratic mayoral nomination in 2005.
en.mcfly.org /Gifford_Miller   (284 words)

  
 Inside the Big Apple
It is somewhat unfair to compare the legacies as Speaker of Gifford Miller and Peter Vallone.
Gifford Miller owed his speakership to the political bosses, none of whom fell.
Gifford Miller had a new Council with over 80% being new members.
www.empirepage.com /weblog/archives/00000020.htm   (988 words)

  
 Gifford - Consulting Engineers - News - 9th April 2003 - Gifford goes around the world   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Miller, 42, brings over 22 years experience of the industry to his new directorship.
Miller has been an Associate at Gifford's London office for two years.
Mid career Miller took a three year break to refurbish a 16th Century moated French Chateau into a base and training centre for Horizons, a charitable organisation.
www.gifford.uk.com /news/2003_04_09/index.html   (215 words)

  
 The Journey to Gifford From Alan Miller - August 25, 2005 - The New York Sun
An examination of the five times that the speaker of the City Council, Gifford Miller, has registered to vote in Manhattan shows an evolution from his given name, Alan Miller, to the moniker associated with his political persona and Democratic mayoral candidacy, Gifford Miller.
Miller first registered to vote in New York City, he proclaimed himself "Alan G. Miller," and listed his residence as the Fifth Avenue building where his parents live.
Miller spent an apparently mobile year in 1995 "running Maloney's NYC office," according to a spokesman for Mr.
www.nysun.com /article/19147   (335 words)

  
 Curriculum Vitae
Gifford, G.W. and Cohen, Y.E. (2005) Spatial and non-spatial auditory processing in the lateral intraparietal area.
Gifford G.W. and Cohen, Y.E. (2004) Effect of a central fixation light on auditory spatial responses in area LIP.
Miller, S., Mueller, E., Gifford, Kinsley, C. Prenatal stress-induced modification of neuronal nitric oxide synthase in amygdala and mPOA are associated with reductions in sexual and aggressive behavior in rat.
www.wam.umd.edu /~ggifford/CurriculumVitae.htm   (1022 words)

  
 Char Miller | Gallery: Char Miller on Gifford Pinchot, Photographer | Environmental History, 8.2 | The History ...
That's why he lugged one with him on an arduous western journey he undertook as confidential forest agent for the Department of Interior during the summer and fall of 1897.
That Gifford Pinchot, consciously or otherwise, set up his shot of Monte Cristo in the aesthetic tradition of his godfather (and namesake), reminds us that for him the ax was double-edged, "a symbol of economic progress and cultural poverty, of conquest and death."
Char Miller is chair of the history department and interim director of the urban studies program at Trinity University.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/eh/8.2/miller.html   (1171 words)

  
 wnbc.com - News - Interview: Gifford Miller, New York City Council Speaker, Discusses Education And Politics In New ...
Miller, a potential candidate against Bloomberg in next year's mayoral election, is more optimistic about the revenue picture than the mayor.
MILLER: I think it's great that he's finally come out and said what--what we should be demanding from the state.
MILLER: At the last filing I'd raised $2.6 million, which, of course, is very hard to compete with the kind of money that the mayor's planning to spend in his re-election campaign.
www.wnbc.com /news/2973327/detail.html   (4266 words)

  
 Slant Point: Living NYC Primary History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
She would have the unenviable task of facing Council Speaker Gifford Miller in the general election.
City Council speaker Gifford Miller came up the biggest winner in yesterday's city primary election - all the council candidates he fought for came up victorious.
Miller spent the entire day crisscrossing the city campaigning for the incumbents who had tight races.
www.slantpoint.com /mt-arx/2003/09/living_nyc_primary_history.php   (703 words)

  
 S.V.A. Non-Supporter - NYC Council Speaker Alan Gifford "Giffy" Miller
Miller has repeatedly abused his council speaker position to discriminate against and insult the the Stonewall veterans.
Miller has exhibited such undemocratic and hideous judgment -- a dangerous attribute for a person in power -- with the really bad advisors he savors.
Miller to believe that he didn't even read it -- which is worse than the insulting misspellings of our renowned organization name.
www.stonewallvets.org /GiffordMiller.htm   (1321 words)

  
 New York Daily News - City News - Giff stand on stadium was fence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
For most of last year, as fellow Council members and community activists vociferously fought the proposed stadium, Miller repeatedly said he was undecided on the issue.
In recent months, as the mayor's race began to heat up, Miller has evolved into one of the stadium's fiercest opponents, saying recently he is "implacably" opposed to the project.
Miller called for moving the stadium to Queens after Weiner, and he called for a public referendum on the project after another Democratic rival, Fernando Ferrer, did.
www.nydailynews.com /news/local/story/305272p-261250c.html   (388 words)

  
 Gawker, Manhattan Media News and Gossip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
There's a lot to love about mayoral candidate Gifford Miller's latest television commercial for his education plan: the beat-heavy soundtrack, the great graphics, the precious kids, the quick-cut photography befitting of a TRL champ.
Hammond, an occasional dotcommer and artist, is co-founder of Friends of the High Line, a group lobbying for the elevated railway on the west side to be turned into an urban park.
Gifford Miller, the City Council speaker, is a major supporter.
www.gawker.com /news/gifford-miller   (343 words)

  
 Miller, Quinn team up on 23rd to oppose a West Side stadium
Gifford Miller and Christine Quinn protested plans for a West Side stadium at a subway stop in Chelsea last Thursday morning.
Miller and Quinn came to the neighborhood that will undergo the most change if a stadium is eventually built alongside the Hudson River.
Miller added, “I think the mayor has grossly undermined our Olympic application by tying the entire thing to a West Side stadium with so many holes in the plan.
www.thevillager.com /villager_102/millerquinnteamupon23.html   (666 words)

  
 Baillie Gifford Investment Management - UK Personal Investors - Directors - EWIT
Robert Douglas Miller was appointed a Director on 1 May 1998.
He is a partner at Booz Allen Hamilton and currently leads all of their European energy and utilities activity.
Baillie Gifford and Co, Calton Square, 1 Greenside Row, Edinburgh, EH1 3AN, Scotland
www.bailliegifford.com /pages/UKPersonalInvestors/InvestmentTrusts/EWIT/Directors.aspx   (366 words)

  
 New York Blade Online
In 2004, for example, Miller cosponsored the Equal Benefits Bill, which would require city contractors to provide similar benefits to employees in domestic-partner relationships that they do for employees’ spouses.
The ESPA endorsement was welcome news to Miller, who in a recent Quinnipiac University poll lags behind front runners Ferrer and Fields.
Miller repeated what he has often said in the past — that gay rights are part of the larger civil rights struggle in the city and country.
nyblade.com /2005/7-1/news/localnews/mayor.cfm   (871 words)

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