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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2003

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Medicine Committee on Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation holds a meeting.

AGENDA: Highlights:

8 a.m. - Registration and Coffee

8:30 a.m. - Welcome and Opening Statement

Brian Strom, MD, MPH

Committee Chair

8:45 a.m. - Overview of CDC Activities to Date

Speaker(s) to be determined

9:30 a.m. - The ACIP Smallpox Vaccine Safety Working Group and

the Vaccine Safety System

John Neff, MD

Director, Center for Children with Special Needs,

Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center

(Seattle, WA)

Vice Chair, CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization

Practices (ACIP)Smallpox Vaccine Safety Working Group

10:30 a.m.- The State Perspective

Mary C. Selecky

Secretary of Health, Washington State Department of

Health and President, Association of State and

Territorial Health Officials

Gianfranco Pezzino, MD, MPH

State Epidemiologist, Kansas Department of Health and

Environment and President, Council of State and

Territorial Epidemiologists

1 p.m. - The Local Perspective

Yvonne Madlock, MAT

Director, Memphis & Shelby County Health Department,

Shelby County Government, Division of Health Services

(Tennessee)

Karen Nikolai, MPH, MCP

Program Supervisor,

Immunization Services, Hennepin County Community

Health Department (Minnesota)

2 p.m. - The Hospital/Health System Perspective

Ron J. Anderson, MD

President & CEO, Parkland Health & Hospital

System (Texas)

Franklyn Judson, MD, Director of Public Health, Denver Health (Colorado)

3:30 p.m. - Perspective of a Hospital/Health System NOT

Participating in the Smallpox Vaccination Program

Michael Edmond, MD, MPA

Hospital Epidemiologist, Virginia Commonwealth

University Health System Authority

4 p.m. - The Health Plan Perspective

David J. Witt, MD

Chair of Infectious Diseases, Northern California

Kaiser Permanente

Skip Skivington, MBA

National Director, Healthcare Continuity, Kaiser Permanente

DATE: May 1, 2003

LOCATION: AED Conference Center, 1825 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-334-2138

WEB ADDRESS: nas.edu

TIME: All Day

EVENT: FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION holds its Spam forum entitled Costs of Spam: Costs to Marketers, Consumers, and New Technology.

AGENDA: Highlight:

8:15 a.m. - Remarks: Costs of Spam, Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson, FTC

8:30 a.m. - Economics of Spam

Moderator: Renard C. François, Staff Attorney, Division of Marketing Practices, FTC

Panelists:

Laura Atkins, President, SpamCon Foundation

Laura Betterly, President, Data Resource Consulting, Inc.

Al DiGuido, CEO, Bigfoot Interactive

Chris Lewis, Security Architect, NortelNetworks

Dale W. Malik, Director, BellSouth Internet Group

Lisa Pollock Mann, Senior Director of Messaging, Yahoo! Inc.

Carl Shivers, Systems Administrator, Aristotle, Inc.

Steve Smith, CEO, MindShare Design, Inc.10:45 a.m. - Blacklists

Moderator: Brian Huseman, Staff Attorney, Division of Marketing Practices, FTC

Panelists:

Margie Arbon, Director of Operations, Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS)

Cindy Cohn, Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Michael A. Grow, Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn

Julian Haight, SpamCop

J. Trevor Hughes, Executive Director, Network Advertising Initiative Email Service Provider Coalition

Stuart P. Ingis, Piper Rudnick, LLP

Alan Murphy, Spamhaus

Scott Richter, President, Optinrealbig.com LLC

1:45 p.m. Best Practices

Moderator: Dan Salsburg, Staff Attorney, Division of Marketing Practices, FTC

Panelists:

Jason Catlett, President and Founder, Junkbusters

Ben Isaacson, The Isaacson Group

Ted Gavin, SpamCon Foundation

Rebecca Lieb, Executive Editor, internet.com's Interactive Marketing Channel

Tim Lordan, Staff Director, Internet Education Foundation

Michael Mayor, President, NetCreations, Inc.

Anna Zornosa, CEO, Topica, Inc.

3:30 p.m. - Wireless Spam

Moderator: Lisa Hone, Staff Attorney, Division of Marketing Practices, FTC

Panelists:

Michael Altschul, Senior Vice President for Policy & Administration and General Counsel, Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association

Albert Gidari, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP

Carl Gunell, President, Telemedia Development

J. Walter Hyer III, Deputy General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, AT&T Wireless Services, Inc.

Rodney Joffe, CenterGate Research Group, LLC

Jim Manis, Chair, Mobile Marketing Association

Jiro Murayama, Manager, NTT DoCoMo

Marc Theermann, CEO, YellowPepper, Inc.

DATE: May 1, 2003

LOCATION: 601 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: Claudia Farrell, 202-326-2181;

WEB ADDRESS: ftc.gov

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING holds a conference on "Bridging the Workforce Gap for our Aging Society: How to Increase and Improve Knowledge and Training."

DATE: May 1, 2003

LOCATION: Charles Sumner Museum and Archives, 1201 17th Street NW, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: Michelle Hurst, 202-842-0525

WEB ADDRESS: nih.gov/nia

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN presents Space Day 2003, the annual tribute to aerospace

exploration, invites young people of all ages to honor the previous 100 years of aviation accomplishments while celebrating "The Future of Flight."

AGENDA: Highlights:

8:30 a.m. - Opening Ceremony featuring Senator John Glenn, General Jack Dailey, Sean O'Keefe, Robert Stevens, Anna-Maria McGowan, Anne Breaks, Bianca Baker, and Dr. Joyce Winterton.

9:30 a.m. - Student Teams and Teachers from around the country selected for their "stellar" designs for a spacecraft of the future will be recognized at the Opening Ceremony by Senator Glenn and featured on the Cyber Space Day Webcast. All 17 "stellar" Design Challenge teams will attend; they are from schools in Maryland, Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Rhode Island and Texas.

1 p.m. - Apollo Medallions - Each Design Challenge "stellar" team will be presented with a historic medallion made with metal from the Apollo 11 spacecraft. Senator John Glenn, the Challenger Center and the donor, Turner N. Wiley, will present the medallions. NASA Headquarters auditorium, 300 E St. SW, Washington, DC

DATE: May 1, 2003

LOCATION: Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, 6th and Independence Ave., SW, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-357-3030

WEB ADDRESS: si.edu

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: EDUCATION DEPARTMENT holds White House Forum On History, Civics And Service.

AGENDA: More than 1,250 high school students, the state winners from 50 states and the District of Columbia, will compete in the national finals by testifying on constitutional issues in a simulated congressional hearing. The top ten classes will advance to a final round where a new national champion will be announced.

WHO: The speakers are:

9:15 a.m. – First Lady Laura Bush

12:40 p.m. – Second Lady Lynne Cheney

DATE: May 1, 2003

LOCATION: Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Carmichael Auditorium

14th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-667-0901

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a briefing by Marshall Goldman Kathryn W. Davis Professor of Soviet Economics, Wellesley College Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University discussing Putin and the Oligarchs: What are the Implications for Russia.

DATE: May 1, 2003

LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-457-6949

WEB ADDRESS: rferl.gov

TIME: 4:45 p.m.

EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Law Library of Congress and the American Bar Association Division for Public Education will commemorate Law Day with a panel discussion on "Representing the American Lawyer as Rhetor."

WHO: The speakers are:

Jeffrey Toobin, CNN analyst and staff writer for The New Yorker

Danielle Allen, associate professor, Department of Classical Languages and Literature

Steven Lubet, professor of both law and comparative literary studies at Northwestern University School of Law; Kenneth Starr, partner at Kirkland & Ellis and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, George Mason University

Seth Waxman, partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and Distinguished Visitor from Practice at Georgetown University Law Center

Richard E. Wiley, ABA's National Law Day chair

ABA President, Alfred P. Carlton and Law Librarian of Congress Rubens Medina are also scheduled to participate in the event.

DATE: May 1, 2003

LOCATION: Montpelier Room, sixth floor, Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C

CONTACT: 202-707-7544

WEB ADDRESS: loc.gov

TIME: 7:30 p.m.

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES presents Stephanie Flack describing the cooperation between her organization and the National Park Service to conserve and restore this natural habitat and local treasure.

DATE: May 1, 2003

LOCATION: 3000 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-357-3030

WEB ADDRESS: si.edu