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Associated Press Pennsylvania Daybook for Thursday, Jun. 09. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Philadelphia bureau is reachable at 215-561-1133. -------------------- Thursday, Jun. 09 8:30 AM Annual Analyst Conference / Webcast Location: New York City, NY http://www.lfg.com/LincolnPageServer?LFGPage=/lfg/lfgclient/abt/ivrel/index.html https://twitter.com/lincolnfingroup Contacts: Daniela Palmieri Lincoln National Corp media relations MediaRelations@LFG.com 1 484 583 2986 -------------------- Thursday, Jun. 09 8:30 AM Pennsylvania Gov. Wolf interviews - Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf interviewed on KQV with PJ Maloney (8:30 AM EDT, live via phone); and interviewed on WHYY's Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane (11:00 AM EDT, live in-studio) Location: TBD www.pa.gov Contacts: Jeff Sheridan Governor’s Press Office ra-gvgovpress@pa.gov 1 717 783 1116 -------------------- Thursday, Jun. 09 10:00 AM Pennsylvania State Sen. Rafferty - Pennsylvania State Sen. John Rafferty outlines implementation of 'Act 33 of 2016', Pennsylvania's new DUI Ignition Interlock Law, via press conference Location: MADD PA Headquarters, 408 East 4th Street, Bridgeport, PA http://www.pasen.gov/index.cfm https://twitter.com/PaLegis Contacts: Carol Milligan Pennsylvania Senate Republican Communications cmilligan@pasen.gov 1 717 787 6725 -------------------- Thursday, Jun. 09 11:30 AM Philadelphia Mayor Kenney's public schedule - Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney attends groundbreaking for the Kensington & Tacony Trail, a 1.5-mile trail occupying the former right of way for the Kensington & Tacony Railroad, with Councilman Bobby Henon and Parks and Recreation Commissioner Kathryn Ott Lovell, Lardner's Point Park, 19135 Levick Street, Philadelphia (11:30 AM EDT); and attends grand opening of the renovated Park Town Place Apartments, 2200 S. Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia (1:30 PM EDT) Location: Philadelphia http://www.phila.gov/ Contacts: Lauren Hitt Philadelphia Mayor's Office Communications Press@phila.gov 1 443 370 3205 -------------------- Thursday, Jun. 09 11:30 AM Bicameral Dems introduce legislation protecting children from tipping furniture - Democrats Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Bob Casey and Rep. Jan Schakowsky introduce the Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth (STURDY) Act, directing the Consumer Product Safety Commission to adopt a stronger, mandatory stability standard for clothing storage units, including chests, bureaus, and dressers, via hold media conference call Location: TBD http://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/ https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal Contacts: Maria McElwain Office of Sen. Richard Blumenthal maria_mcelwain@blumenthal.senate.gov 1 202 224 6452 For conference call details and call-in information, please RSVP with your contact information by emailing jacklin_rhoads@casey.senate.gov or emma_crisci@casey.senate.gov, or by calling 1 202 228 6367 -------------------- Thursday, Jun. 09 12:30 PM Congressional Robotics Caucus expo - Congressional Robotics Caucus Co-Chairs bipartisan Reps. Rob Woodall and Mike Doyle host expo to promote the progress and promise of collaborative robotics research and to mark the five-year anniversary of the National Robotics Initiative - a multi-agency effort among the National Science Foundation, NASA, National Institutes for Health, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy to accelerate the development and use of robots that work beside or cooperatively with people and solve problems in areas of national priority. Agenda includes panel discussion about the Initiative, featuring Lynne Parker (NITRD) Robert Atkinson (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation), and Henrik Christensen Georgia Tech University), plus exhibition featuring researchers from organizations including Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Tech, Johns Hopkins University, MIT, Rice University, Ekso Bionics, Cornell University, DOE, and National Institute of Standards and Technology Location: Rm B339, Rayburn House Office Bldg, Washington, DC http://www.roboticscaucus.org/ Contacts: Erica Wissolik IEEE-USA e.wissolik@ieee.org 1 202 530 8437 -------------------- Thursday, Jun. 09 2:00 PM Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge final pitches - Mayors of the seven finalist cities in the Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge - Steve Adler (Austin, TX), Andrew Ginther (Columbus, OH), Michael Hancock (Denver), Sly James (Kansas City, MO), William Peduto (Pittsburgh), Charlie Hales (Portland, OR), and Ed Lee (San Francisco) - join Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx in Washington, DC, to make their final pitches. Challenge seeks to create 'an innovative, fully-integrated model city that uses data, technology, and creativity to shape how people and goods move in the future'. Each finalist has already received $100,000 to hone their proposals and develop applications for the final process, and the winning city will be awarded up to $40 million * 77 medium-sized cities from 34 states (plus Washington, DC) applied. Seven finalists were selected, instead of the originally-planned five, 'because of their outstanding potential to transform the future of urban transportation' * Winner expected to be announced later this month Location: Long View Gallery, 1234 9th St NW, Washington, DC http://www.dot.gov/index.cfm https://twitter.com/usdot #SmartCityPitch Contacts: Office of the Secretary of Transportation press 1 202 366 4570 Media wishing to cover the event in person at the Long View Gallery should arrive by 1:45 PM and are requested to RSVP to PressOffice@dot.gov by 5:00 PM on Wednesday, June 8 -------------------- Thursday, Jun. 09 5:00 PM Emerge Pennsylvania holds graduation ceremony for its inaugural political training program class Location: Appalachian Brewing Co, 50 N. Cameron Street, Harrisburg, PA Harrisburg http://www.emergepa.org/ https://twitter.com/Emerge_PA Contacts: Anne Wakabayashi Emerge Pennsylvania anne@emergepa.org 1 717 480 0149 -------------------- Thursday, Jun. 09 6:00 PM Jefferson hosts patient reunion to celebrate its 1,000th liver transplant Location: College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 19 S. 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia http://www.jefferson.edu/index.html Contacts: Gail Benner Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Gail.Benner@Jefferson.edu 1 215 955 2240 -------------------- Thursday, Jun. 09 8:00 PM Stanley Cup Finals continue with Pittsburgh one win from the championship - NHL Stanley Cup Final Game 5: San Jose Sharks @ Pittsburgh Penguins * Pens lead series 3-1, and need just one more win to take the Cup, following a 3-1 win in Game 4 * 97% of teams with a 3-1 series lead in a seven-game Stanley Cup Final have gone on to win the championship Location: Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh http://www.nhl.com https://twitter.com/NHL Contacts: Schuyler Baehman NHL sbaehman@nhl.com 1 212 789 2097 -------------------- Thursday, Jun. 09 - Friday, Jun. 10 Big Data & Analytics for Pharma Summit Location: The Rittenhouse Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia http://theinnovationenterprise.com/ https://twitter.com/IEGroup #DataPharma Contacts: Afolabi Opedare Innovation Enterprise Global Events Marketing Executive aopedare@theiegroup.com 1 415 655 1673 -------------------- Thursday, Jun. 09 Allegheny Technologies Inc: Q2 2016 Dividend payment date Location: TBD http://www.alleghenytechnologies.com/pages/Investors/Default.htm Contacts: Dan Greenfield Allegheny Technologies investor relations 1 412 394 3004 -------------------- Thursday, Jun. 09 EY Greater Philadelphia Entrepreneur Of The Year awards dinner Location: TBD http://www.ey.com https://twitter.com/EYnews Contacts: Wendy Fox EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Program Manager wendy.fox@ey.com 1 800 755 2927 -------------------- UPDATED EVENT: Friday, Jun. 10 6:00 PM Artist responds to gun violence with performance at SPACE - 'Gun Show', a five-hour performance responding to gun violence. During the performance, artist John Maletress falls 462 times, for each of the 462 victims of mass shootings in 2015 Location: SPACE, 812 Liberty Ave. Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh www.spacepittsburgh.org Contacts: Kelli Smith force/collision press@force-collision.org 1 401 369 5080 -------------------- Friday, Jun. 10 10:00 AM PennDOT and safety partners honor law enforcement officers - Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Pennsylvania Aggressive Driving Enforcement and Education Project (PAADEEP), and local Community Traffic Safety Project honor area law enforcement officers for their participation in the program. The event features presentation of awards by Lehigh County District Attorney James Martin Location: Allentown Police Academy, 2110 Park Drive, Allentown, PA Allentown http://www.dot.state.pa.us/ Contacts: Sean Brown Dept. of Transportation sebrown@pa.gov 1 610 871 4556 -------------------- Friday, Jun. 10 10:00 AM / Webcast Location: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street, New York, NY http://ir.armstrong.com/events.cfm Contacts: Thomas Waters Armstrong World Industries Inc Investor Relations tjwaters@armstrong.com 1 717 396 6354 -------------------- Friday, Jun. 10 1:30 PM / Webcast Location: Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh International Airport, 1111 Airport Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=132215&p=irol-irhome https://twitter.com/DICKS Contacts: Anne-Marie Megela Dick's Sporting Goods Investor Relations investors@dcsg.com 1 724 273 3400 -------------------- Friday, Jun. 10 PPG Industries: Q2 2016 Dividend payment date Location: TBD http://corporateportal.ppg.com/na/corp/InvestorCenter https://twitter.com/PPGIndustries Contacts: Jeremy Neuhart PPG press 1 412 434 3046 Scott Minder PPG Industries Investor Relations sminder@ppg.com 1 412 434 3466 -------------------- Friday, Jun. 10 SEI Investments Company: Interim 2016 Ex-dividend date Location: TBD http://www.seic.com/enUS/about/98.htm Contacts: Nicole Vattimo SEI Investments Company Investor Relations nvattimo@seic.com 1 610 676 4385 -------------------- UPDATED EVENT: Saturday, Jun. 11 Kesha performs at Pittsburgh Pride March - Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh Pride Week concludes with Pride in the Street March on Liberty Avenue, headlined by singer Kesha with a performance from rapper Angel Haze. The March begins at the corner of Grant St & the Blvd of the Allies, proceeds down Grant St, turns left onto 5th Ave, and finally a right onto Liberty Ave Location: Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh www.pittsburghpride.org https://twitter.com/deltafoundation #allyouneedislove Contacts: Christine Bryan Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh cbryan@pittsburghpride.org 1 412 378 3622 -------------------- Saturday, Jun. 11 11:00 AM Donald Trump campaigns in Florida and Pennsylvania - Presumptive 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds campaign rallies in the general election battleground state of Florida, Tampa Convention Center, 333 South Franklin Street, Tampa, FL (11:00 AM EDT), and in Pennsylvania at Atlantic Aviation, 300 Horizon Drive, Moon Township, PA (3:00 PM EDT) * Both states were won by Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 * Trump has secured the required number of delegates for the Republican nomination, and is set to face Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 8 Nov election Location: Tampa www.donaldjtrump.com https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump Contacts: Hope Hicks Make America Great Again hhicks@donaldtrump.com 1 212 715 6785 1 203 273 0226 _____ Keywords: Daybook, Pennsylvania