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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: US CUSTOMS SERVICE is sponsoring a symposium on International Trade

AGENDA: Highlights:

8:45 a.m. - Opening Address by US Customs Service Commissioner Robert C.

Bonner

9:30 a.m. - Panel I: Roundtable with Customs Assistant Commissioners

Moderator, Douglas Browning, Deputy Commissioner

Don Shruhan, Assistant Commissioner, Office of International Affairs

Jayson Ahern, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations

Michael Schmitz, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Regulations and Rulings

Deborah J. Spero, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Strategic Trade

10:45 a.m. - Panel II: Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism

(C-TPAT) - Supply Chain Security Best Practices

This panel will explore ways in which Customs and private industry have been

working together to implement C-TPAT and develop, enhance, and disseminate

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relevant security practices and information.

Moderator, Andrew B. Maner, Chief of Staff, Office of the Commissioner

Robert Perez, Director, C-TPAT, Office of Field Operations

John J. Hyde, Director, Security and Compliance, Maersk Sealand

Leslie K. B. Cazas, Senior Manager, Customs & Trade Administration, Nissan

of North America

Peter H. Powell, Sr., CEO, C. H. Powell Company

2 p.m. - Panel III: Office of Information and Technology:

Strengthening Our Borders Through Science and Technology

This session will focus on the use of technology in support of the

Commissioner's programs and provide an update on the Automated Commercial

Environment.

Presenter, S. W. Hall, Jr., Assistant Commissioner and Chief Information

Officer, Office of Information and Technology

Charles Armstrong, Executive Director, Customs Modernization Office

John Pennella, Executive Director, Applied Technology Division

Ira Reese, Executive Director, Laboratories and Scientific Services

3:45 p.m. - Panel IV: Importer Self-Assessment - Taking Charge of Your

Own Compliance

This discussion will address a new self-governing program for trade

compliance, Importer Self-Assessment (ISA), which offers interested and

eligible importers the opportunity to take ownership of their trade

compliance process in exchange for meaningful benefits.

Moderator, Deborah J. Spero, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Strategic

Trade

Russ Ugone, Acting Director, Strategic Trade Operations

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Richard A. Fuller, Field Director, Regulatory Audit Division, Houston

Timothy W. Van Oost, Director of Customs, BP Group

Barry O'Brien, Hasbro, Inc.

DATE: November 21, 2002

LOCATION: 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-927-1000

WEB ADDRESS: customs.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES The National Research Council holds a workshop to discuss and releases a report, The Internet Under Crisis: Learning From September 11, which offers lessons that might reduce the impact of future crises, and suggestions for how the Internet could play a greater role in crisis response.

AGENDA: The report is embargoed and not for public release before 4 p.m. EST on Nov. 20.

LOCATION 2100 C St., N.W., Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-334-2138

WEB ADDRESS: nas.edu

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM holds a conference entitled Genetics of Ethanol Effects in Animal Models.

AGENDA: Highlights:

1:30 p.m. - Welcome

Ting-Kai Li, M.D., Director, NIAAA

1:40 p.m. - Presentation of Award

Ting-Kai Li, M.D.

1:45 p.m. - Lecture: "Genetics of Ethanol Effects in Animal Models"

Richard Deitrich, Ph.D.

DATE: November 21, 2002

LOCATION: Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland

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CONTACT: 301- 496-2563

WEB ADDRESS: nih.gov

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION ORTHOPAEDIC AND REHABILITATION DEVICES PANEL OF THE MEDICAL DEVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE holds a meeting to discuss a PMA for growth factors soaked in a collagen sponge used to treat tibial fractures.

DATE: November 21, 2002

LOCATION: Holiday Inn, Walker/Whetstone Rooms, Two Montgomery Village Ave., Gaithersburg, MD

CONTACT: Hany W. Demian, 301-594-2036

WEB ADDRESS: fda.gov

TIME: 11:30 a.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH SECOND ANNUAL AMERICAN INDIAN/ALASKA NATIVE HERITAGE MONTH OBSERVANCE.

AGENDA: Highlights:

Opening remarks by Dr. Ruth Kirschstein, NIH Deputy Director,

Paul Ortega, Traditional Healer and keynote speaker

Allegheny River Dancers, Salamanca, NY.

DATE: November 21, 2002

LOCATION: Main Auditorium, Building 45, Bethesda, MD

CONTACT: 301- 496-4236

WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov

TIME: 1 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Medicine: Use of Dietary Reference Intakes in Nutrition Labeling holds a meeting.

AGENDA: Highlights:

1 p.m. - Welcome and Introduction

Romy Gunter-Nathan/Linda Meyers, Co-Study Directors

Irwin Rosenberg, Committee Chair

1:05 p.m. - Overview of Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (ULs)

Ian Munro, CanTox

1:30 p.m. - How about: Regulatory Perspectives on DRIs and Discretionary Fortification (Addition of Nutrients to Foods?)

Robert Post, USDA

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Margaret Cheney, Health Canada

Virginia Wilkening, FDA

2:30 p.m. - Trends in Nutrient Intake and Status

Alanna Moshfegh, USDA

NHANES Program Staff, NCHS

3:15 p.m. - Application of DRIs in Discretionary Fortification

Kathy Wiemer, General Mills Bell Institute of Health

and Nutrition

Nancy Green, Tropicana

Additional Speakers invited

4:30 p.m. - Open Forum

LOCATION: 2100 C St., N.W, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-334-2138

WEB ADDRESS: nas.edu

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Resident Associate Program presents Mack Teasley discussing Kay Summersby who was General Dwight D. Eisenhower's wartime chauffeur and personal secretary between 1942 and 1945, while he served in England as Supreme Allied Commander. Eisenhower Library assistant director

DATE: November 21, 2002

LOCATION: USDA Jefferson Aud., 14th & Independence Ave., SW, Wing 5, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-357-3164 ext.142

WEB ADDRESS: si.edu

TIME: 7 p.m.

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Resident Associate Program presents an evening of tastings with Wall Street Journal wine columnists Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher, learn how wines can (and should) be understandable, accessible, and most of all, fun to drink. Moderated by Robert D. Richards, member of the Society of Wine Educators.

DATE: November 21, 2002

LOCATION: Women's Nat'l Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC

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CONTACT: 202-232-7363

WEB ADDRESS: si.edu

TIME: 7:30 p.m.

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Resident Associate Program presents Stage and screen actress Liv Ullmann and Norwegian violinist Arve Tellefsen for a special performance celebrating the life of Ole Bull (1810-1880), virtuoso violinist, composer, and founder of New Norway in southern Potter County, Pennsylvania.

DATE: November 21, 2002

LOCATION: Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, 14th & Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-232-7363

WEB ADDRESS: si.edu

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