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Join us for the 2007 TAA Conference at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo
in downtown Buffalo, NY, June 22-23
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Book Raffle
IIL Publishing, New York will raffle four books at the 2007 TAA Conference
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Coming to Buffalo?
Put these two books on your reading list
City of Light by Lauren Belfer
Trip to Niagara Falls by Geronimo Stilton (Scholastic)
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Mentoring Sessions
Several veteran authors have agreed to serve as mentors at the conference.
Attendees will be able to sign up at the conference registration desk
for 15-minute sessions with a mentor. A list of mentors will be available
soon.
Roundtable Discussions
Luncheon
Saturday, June 23
12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Choose from 10 different moderated roundtable discussions related to
textbook and academic authoring.
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Dinner at The
Anchor Bar
Thursday, June 21, 6 p.m.
The restaurant where Buffalo-style wings were invented
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Buffalo, NY Waterfront
Tour
Friday, June 22, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Take a guided tour of the Buffalo waterfront
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Karpeles Manuscript
Musuem and Library Tour
Friday, June 22, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
View Walt Disney illustrations and documents, among others
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Social Networking
Event: A Chartered 3-hour Dinner Cruise Aboard the Grand Lady
Friday, June 22, 6:45 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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Four-hour Guided
Tour to Niagara Falls (American side)
Saturday, June 23, 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Tour full.
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Free
one-on-one sessions with an authoring attorney or literary agent
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Sessions
Robert W. Christopherson
is Professor Emeritus of Geography at American River College in
Sacramento, and author of three best-selling physical geography
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Geo-primer for
Buffalo/Niagara Falls Region
presented by Robert Christopherson
Friday, June 22
8:15 - 8:45 a.m.
Preliminary
conference schedule
Robert W. Christopherson,
Professor Emeritus of Geography at American River College in Sacramento,
and author of three best-selling physical geography texts, including
Geosystems, will kick off the 2007 TAA Conference with his traditional
overview of our host city and region, Buffalo, New York. Learn about
Lake-effect snowfall. See a time in 1969 when engineers turned off the
flow over the American Falls at Niagara to inspect the cliff face. "Remember,
these popular falls retreat about 1.3 m (4.3 ft) per year upstream from
the Niagara Escarpment—a formation that snakes through Ontario,
Upper Michigan, curving south through Wisconsin some 700 km (435 mi),"
said Christopherson.
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Photo provided
by New York Power Authority
Above is a
photo from 1969, when engineers set up a way to turn off the flow
of the Niagara River over the American Falls portion of the Niagara
Falls complex on the Ontario—New York border. The Canadian
Falls are in the background flowing at full discharge. Such falls
along a river represent a "nickpoint" that is in constant adjustment
as the river attempts to remove it and smooth its gradient. Niagara
Falls is retreating at about 1.3 m (4.3 ft) per year, nearly 11
km (6.8 mi) in the last 12,000 years. The engineers did this to
inspect the cliff to see if they could slow or repair the river's
handiwork.
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