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La Grange Park residents seek lower speed limit on La Grange Road; officials to lobby in Springfield
2025-05-08 04:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
About 75 La Grange Park residents turned out Wednesday to give their input on the villages Traffic Safety Improvement Project, and lobby for safety improvements on La Grange Road.The village held an open house specifically targeting the stretch of La Grange Road from Brewster Avenue north to 31st Street. The Illinois Department of Transportation owns the road and any changes would require its approval.The village partnered with Kimley-Horne and Associates for preliminary engineering plans.They come up with this plan and the main focus is safety on La Grange Road from Homestead to Woodlawn. Safety is number one, Village President James Discipio said.Discipio said the village would like to see the speed limit reduced by 5 mph to be consistent with La Grange and Countryside, and also wants better access for emergency vehicles off of Woodlawn onto La Grange Road.Kimley-Horne produced several viewing stations focusing on preliminary design concepts under consideration:Replacing the exist...
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2025-05-08 02:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
A financially secure retirement starts with making a plan now. You may not want to work forever or be able to rely fully on Social Security, so thinking ahead has its benefits. There are a few steps to making a financial plan for retirement, starting with how much money you'll need and your own priorities, then moving on to what kind of account you want, where to open it, and which investments to choose.When can you retire?When you can retire comes down to when you want to retire and when you'll have enough money saved to replace the income you receive from working.The earliest you can start claiming Social Security benefits is age 62. However, by filing early, you'll sacrifice a portion of your benefits. If you were born in 1960 or later, the full retirement age (which is also the full Social Security benefits age) is 67. And your benefit will actually increase if you can delay it further, up until age 70.Some people retire early (because they want or have to), and many retire later (...
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Therabot Humanizes AI Help, Recasts Tech Strategy
2025-05-08 02:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Groundbreaking Dartmouth research could reshape mental health care with an AI-powered therapy chatbot that wins patient trust and delivers measurable clinical gains. The implications reach far beyond the clinical couch and deep into corporate c-suites.Therabots trial treated over 100 participants diagnosed with depression, anxiety or eating disorders. After eight weeks, the symptom reduction results published in the New England Journal of Medicine were striking. "Our results are comparable to what we would see for people with access to gold-standard cognitive therapy with outpatient providers," Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine professor Nick Jacobson highlighted.For businesses struggling with employee mental health concerns and skyrocketing healthcare costs, AI solutions like Therabot could represent a scalable intervention that meets high standards. It also recasts workplace debates about how widely AI can help.AI World NowWhat makes Therabot particularly notable is its success in...
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