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Beyonce Walks Around Barefoot After Dinner in Italy with Jay Z

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Beyonce Walks Around Barefoot After Dinner in Italy with Jay Z Beyonce walks around barefoot after getting dinner at Aurora on Tuesday (August 9) in Capri, Italy. The 34-year-old superstar was joined for dinner by her husband Jay Z for dinner. Bey is on a break from her Formation World Tour at the moment. Her last show was on August 3 and she won’t be performing [...] Reported by Just Jared 10 hours ago.

Nanoleaf’s triangular panels offer a new, modular take on lighting (Update)

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Nanoleaf’s triangular panels offer a new, modular take on lighting (Update) Nanoleaf introduced the Aurora at CES 2016. The triangular shaped panel has color-changing LED lights that are compatible with HomeKit. That means you can hang them on your wall and control them through Siri. Reported by Digital Trends 10 hours ago.

Young professionals gather for Fusion networking event: Slideshow

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Several hundred young professionals gathered at SURG on the Water recently for a new networking event, aimed at bringing together business executives with diverse backgrounds and organizations. See the attached slideshow to view photos from the event. The networking event, which was called Fusion, was led by Aurora Health Care and also was a fundraiser for United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County. The event was planned by Aurora and seven millennial-minded organizations: FUEL Milwaukee,… Reported by bizjournals 8 hours ago.

Beyoncé Goes Barefoot After A Night Out In Italy With Jay Z & We Totally Get It

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Who's letting the Queen walk around Italy barefoot??? LOLz! Beyoncé is enjoying some R&R in Italy with Jay Z and Blue Ivy Carter as she takes a little breather before her next show on the Formation World Tour on September 7. Good for her! This week the 34-year-old beaut was photographed leaving dinner at Aurora with her [...] Reported by Perez Hilton 6 hours ago.

Opus building industrial project in Aurora

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The Opus Group, a development company headquartered in Minneapolis, broke ground Thursday on a 122,500-square-foot speculative industrial building in the Majestic Commercenter industrial park in Aurora. The Majestic Commercenter industrial park is a large industrial park located near the East 32nd Parkway and Himalaya Road intersection. The project, called Rangeview Industrial Center, can accommodate one large user or can be broken down into 40,000- to 80,000-square-foot floor plates. Construction… Reported by bizjournals 7 hours ago.

Aurora Cannabis reaches 6,500 patients in record time

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Aurora Cannabis Inc. (CNSX:ACB) now has more than 6,500 active registered patients, just seven months after the company sold its first product. That’s believed to be the fastest rate of patient registration after commencement of commercial operations achieved by any Licensed Producer in Canada, the company explained. The company also hit $1mln in gross revenue in July, with 24% sales growth month-over-month. "The Aurora Standard continues to deliver," said Aurora CEO Terry Booth. "To grow to over 6,500 registered patients in seven months is unheard of, and has only been possible due to consistent execution on our production, commercial and customer experience strategies." Aurora’s sales of dried cannabis showed strong growth, the company explained. The total weight of product sold in July reached 124,000 grams, versus 100,000 grams in the previous month. Aurora provides same-day delivery of medical cannabis to clients in Calgary and the surrounding area. They operate a 55,200 square foot production facility in Mountain View County, Alberta. The company is also bottling cannabis oil and storing cannabis concentrate, getting ready to son roll out a line of ingestible cannabis oils. Aurora shares were flat at C$0.67 after mid-session on Thursday. Reported by Proactive Investors 6 hours ago.

Aurora nursing supervisor convicted of sexually assaulting employee

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An Arapahoe County jury this week convicted a 38-year-old Aurora man of sexually assaulting one of his employees while on the job, prosecutors say. Reported by Denver Post 7 hours ago.

"It's a big subject, darling" Trump's Condescending Child Care Plan

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"It's a big subject, darling." Those are the condescending words Donald Trump used at a campaign event several months ago as he dismissed a child care policy question. This week, Trump came out with a "child care plan" that gives breaks to the wealthy (surprise, surprise!) while leaving out the rest of our nation.

The plan is an even more condescending dismissal than his first "darling" rebuff -- and it's a dismissal of a true crisis in our nation, where child care now costs more than college.

Families across the country are struggling to find accessible, affordable, high-quality child care. It's a national emergency. Parents need safe, enriching places for their children to be so they can work; children need safe, enriching early education so they can thrive; and child care workers need fair wages and professional development opportunities so the child care system works for everyone.

But Donald Trump's child care proposal doesn't improve access, doesn't improve quality of early education, doesn't support child care workers, and mainly improves affordability for the wealthy who need that lift the least.

Perhaps Trump doesn't realize that the modern labor force has changed: For the first time in history, women make up 50% of the labor force, and nearly three-quarters of moms are in the labor force, 40% of whom are the primary breadwinners in their families.

The fact that our child care policy lags behind our modern labor force is hurting children, families, businesses, and our economy alike.

To be clear: America is in crisis. Right now, millions of families don't have any viable child care solutions at all--and this has rippling negative impacts in our families and businesses. According to a new report by Care.com, 74% of parents believe their "jobs have been impacted because their child care plans have fallen through." The current system is failing on many levels.

Lack of affordability is the most frequent failure that's discussed. At first glance it can look like solutions to the child care affordability crisis are at hand, however while families earning below the poverty level can qualify for government-funded subsidies for child care, only 17 percent of eligible children actually receive these subsidies. And, oftentimes, when families do get child care subsidies, they just aren't enough to make ends meet for families or child care providers. According to that same Child Care Aware of America study, the average annual subsidy payment covers $6,120 per year for an infant in center-based care. But the average annual cost is much higher--about $9,520 per year--according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

It's not just low-income families that are struggling with the high cost of child care : Middle income families, who don't qualify for child care subsidies but still make too little to make ends meet between household bills and the soaring cost of child care, are often pushed into poverty or have to make sacrifices between work and caring for their children. This too often ends up putting families in a downward economic spiral from which it's very hard to recover. It should be noted that a quarter of young families are living in poverty.

But the child care system is broken in more ways than just the high costs. While cost remains a barrier for families across the U.S., a lack of access to high-quality early learning programs like child care and preschool also remains a persistent problem for families. Many families get on waiting lists for high-quality preschool and child care before a child is even born.

Fewer than 3 in 10 working families have access to high-quality preschool opportunities. For African American and Latino families, lack of access to high-quality early childhood care and education is another example of the pernicious barriers that structural racism forces into our community. Research has shown that African American children have made substantial and continuing academic gains with access to high-quality early childhood care and education, yet according to a 2013 study, there are still alarming disparities between the quality of care for African American children and other children.

Yusdivia, a mother from Aurora, Illinois explained:

"I am the mother of two girls ages four and one, and I am one of many mothers who were denied child care assistance by several agencies. My first little girl was looked after by my family and friends for a year, until they said they could no longer care for her. I went to seek child care assistance at centers and places like Head Start, and their response was always that my "income was very high to receive help." I also had to choose a day care center that had flexible hours for me, my work hours were from 6am to 3pm and all centers or most opened at 6am so we struggled a lot to find a childcare agency but above all we struggled with the cost! My work income went completely and directly to the child care center with nothing to spare, so my husband had to look for two full-time jobs, to buy food and other things for the house. He only slept 4hrs per night to get by with our expenses. When the second baby was on the way we decided it was more economical for me to stay at home to take care of the two and my husband would continue with the two full-time jobs. It's been a year since I've been at home with the girls but the thought that I need return to work to pay for my daughter's' child care again only to have nothing left over for expenses saddens me very much, it saddens me to not be able to better myself and provide for my family."

Yusdivia isn't alone. Families across the country are facing similar crisis. Suffice to say that we have a serious problem in America that impacts our workforce, our economy, and our families.

And that brings us back to this week: Instead of addressing the child care crisis with meaningful policy solutions that would lift our nation's families, businesses, and our economy, Donald Trump proposed a regressive plan of tax deductions that would mainly benefit wealthy families while leaving working families in the dust.

Trump's proposal would not only force families to pay-out up front child care costs beyond their budgets, it also appears that the type of tax deduction Trump proposed wouldn't even be available for most low- and moderate income families--either because they are part of the majority of people who don't itemize their taxes when they file them (which is a necessity for this type of tax deduction), or because they don't meet the overall tax threshold.

This means that tens of millions of working families--the families for whom investments in child care bring the most critical returns to our economy-- would be left out. However, expert analysis has found that Trump's plan would save a family of millionaires, those in the top tax bracket, 33% of their child care costs.

By way of comparison, Hillary Clinton's plan, released several months ago, has a specific focus on opening doors for middle- and low-income children to thrive by capping child care expenses for families by a percentage of their income through tax credits and subsidized child care; as well as boosting pay for child care workers and other improvements in quality of care.

Solutions are possible, but it isn't what Trump proposed. The child care crisis needs comprehensive national policy advancements on multiple fronts including around increased access, affordability, and quality that includes fair treatment, pay, and professional development opportunities for child care workers.

It's worth our time, attention, and investment to get to these solutions. One thing is clear: The return on investment is sky high for early learning opportunities like child care and preschool. Studies show that excellent child care policy--which involves improving the quality of early education and care, affordability, and access--brings an 8:1 return on investment because of fewer later grade repetitions, less future involvement in the criminal justices system, and lower later need for government support. Trump's regressive child care proposal doesn't meet the standard to bring the return on investment we all need for our children, families, businesses, and economy to thrive.

With most families struggling to make ends meet, we need solutions that makes high-quality child care affordable and accessible for all American families, not misguided and regressive plans that are great for the wealthy, but leave the majority of parents in America behind.

Donald Trump's regressive new proposed child care plan falls far short of a solution. In fact, it falls so short that it's a condescending dismissal of a real economic crisis in our nation.

-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. Reported by Huffington Post 5 hours ago.

Aurora Paramedics Help Deliver Baby Boy in Ambulance

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Aurora Paramedics Help Deliver Baby Boy in Ambulance Patch Montgomery, IL -- The Aurora Fire Department was called for a woman in labor. While bringing her to the hospital, they realized the baby wasn't waiting. Reported by Patch 2 hours ago.

Ride the Ducks crash victim’s parents allege discrimination in 1909 law

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The Korean parents of a student who died in the Aurora Bridge crash in Seattle on Sept. 24, 2015, are challenging in federal court the constitutionality of sections of the state law, calling the language discriminatory. Reported by Seattle Times 2 hours ago.

Woman Seriously Injured in Car vs. Semi Crash on Route 30

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Woman Seriously Injured in Car vs. Semi Crash on Route 30 Patch Montgomery, IL -- The 33-year-old Joliet woman was taken to an Aurora hospital where she is expected to survive. Reported by Patch 13 hours ago.

Joliet Woman Seriously Injured in Car vs. Semi Crash

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Joliet Woman Seriously Injured in Car vs. Semi Crash Patch Joliet, IL -- The 33-year-old woman was taken to an Aurora hospital where she is expected to survive. Reported by Patch 14 hours ago.

Man gets 20 years for fatal drive-by shooting in Aurora

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A man who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a drive-by shooting in Aurora has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Reported by Denver Post 13 hours ago.

Metro Storage LLC to Develop New Self Storage Facility in Naperville, IL

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Metro Storage LLC to develop its 24th Chicagoland self storage facility in Naperville, Illinois.

Lake Forest, Illinois (PRWEB) August 12, 2016

Metro Storage LLC recently announced the purchase of a parcel of land in Naperville, Illinois to build a new self storage facility, the company’s 24th in the Chicago area. Located at 1752 N. Aurora Road in the Chicago suburb of Naperville, the new state of the art facility will be a two-story, 92,000 GSF state-of-the-art, self-storage facility offering approximately 75,000 RSF of storage.

“We’re excited to develop another new store with our partners at Fremont Realty Capital,” said Matthew Nagel, Chairman of Metro Storage LLC. “This is another great addition to our Chicago area portfolio.”

“Our Acquisitions and Development teams once again did great job of selecting an outstanding site and designing a state-of-the-art facility,” said Blair Nagel, CEO of Metro Storage LLC. “We look forward to breaking ground and getting construction underway.”

The new store will be located on a major thoroughfare, in a strong demographic market close to residential areas and major retailers. Features of the store include a mix of climate (59%) and non-climate (41%) controlled storage, drive up access, a primary covered and enclosed loading/unloading bay with additional access points around the building, state of the art security, and a large, modern retail office area.

“Fremont is very pleased with this latest addition to the Fremont-Metro partnership,” said Matthew Reidy, Partner of Fremont Realty Capital in San Francisco. “The success of our venture is built on the great management team at Metro; a best-in-class developer, operator and leader in self storage.”

The 597-unit facility is scheduled to open in the summer of 2017.

About Metro Storage LLC

Metro Storage LLC is a privately owned, fully integrated, international self-storage operating company specializing in the development, construction, acquisition, and management of self-storage facilities in the USA and Brazil. Metro operates under the trademark Metro Self Storage in the US, being one of the top 10 largest owner/operators of self-storage facilities in the United States with over 100 stores covering 12 states. Metro operates in Brazil under the trade name MetroFit which is one of the fastest growing self-storage companies in Brazil. More information about the firm is available at http://www.metrostoragecorporate.com.

About Fremont Realty Capital

Fremont Realty Capital (“FRC”) is the real estate private equity business unit of the Fremont Group, the investment office of the Bechtel family of San Francisco. Since formation in 1997, FRC has provided its investors with superior risk-adjusted returns and value-creation through investments in non-traditional and traditional real estate sectors, both domestically and abroad. FRC has been has been investing in U.S. and European self-storage businesses since 1998. Its success is based on a disciplined investment strategy, enduring long term relationships with best-in-class operating partners, and the collective experience of the firm’s principals. FRC has made investments in 365 properties in 11 countries, totaling over $5 billion. Reported by PRWeb 9 hours ago.

Goodbye Ruby Tuesday: Chain to close 95 restaurants

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Restaurant company Ruby Tuesday Inc. will say goodbye to 95 underperforming locations nationwide next month. The Maryville, Tennessee-based chain (NYSE: RT) said the closing of 13 percent of its 724 total restaurants follows a review of its corporate-owned portfolio. It did not specify which locations will close in its announcement. Ruby Tuesday has four metro Denver restaurants: In Arvada, Aurora, Westminster and near Denver International Airport. It also has locations in Fort Collins, Colorado… Reported by bizjournals 7 hours ago.

Booker Graves, retired businessman and Republican delegate, dies at 78

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Booker Talifero Graves, Jr., a retired business executive and former chairman of the Denver County Republicans, died Friday August 5 in Aurora. He was 78. Reported by Denver Post 5 hours ago.

Ruby Tuesday to shut 95 restaurants as sales slide

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Ruby Tuesday, which didn't name the specific locations it plans to close, operates four metro area restaurants in Arvada, Westminster, Aurora and near Denver International Airport. Reported by Denver Post 5 hours ago.

Holly Madison Reveals Her Baby Boy's Name!

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Rainbow Aurora is officially a big sister. Reported by Entertainment Tonight 5 hours ago.

$15K Eye Glasses / Aurora Home to Top School / Kendall County Complaints Tossed / Geneva Singer Wins Talent Competition

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$15K Eye Glasses / Aurora Home to Top School / Kendall County Complaints Tossed / Geneva Singer Wins Talent Competition Patch St. Charles, IL -- Catch up on Fox Valley headlines: Health inspection report / Police blotters / District 308 to redraw boundaries / Important school dates. Reported by Patch 11 hours ago.

96 Felony Charges Lodged Against 16 Aurora Gang Members

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96 Felony Charges Lodged Against 16 Aurora Gang Members Patch Montgomery, IL -- Police are still looking for two of the gang members. Reported by Patch 9 hours ago.
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