June 6, 2024 • 29 mins
Striking the right work/life balance. Also, your summer oral health and why this time of the year is the best to catch up with your dentist.
In sports, with Kentucky just two wins from a College World Series, we take a look at the history of college baseball in Kentucky. That and much more in with Scott Fitzgerald in this week's Kentucky Focus!
In sports, with Kentucky just two wins from a College World Series, we take a look at the history of college baseball in Kentucky. That and much more in with Scott Fitzgerald in this week's Kentucky Focus!
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Coming up this week on Kentucky Focusis keeping the balance between our work life
and homelife. Plus in summertime,well a lot of us are thinking about
hitting the beach of that vacation home. Most aren't thinking about things, say
like our dental health right Also thisweek, Kentucky is well known for horses
in basketball, but in the summerof twenty twenty four, it's baseball that
has everyone talking. Will take alook at the Commonwealth's love of the game.
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I'm scuff It's jump, We've gotthat and much more coming up on
this edition of Kentucky Focus. Welcometo Kentucky Focus on the Kentucky News Network,
the show that looks at issues affectingthe Commonwealth and its citizens. We
cover state politics, in history,human interest stories, sports, and even
entertainment. It's Kentucky Focus on kNN. This is the story of a very
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life balance is something we all strivefor in today's fast paced, I Want
it now world, and its prevalencein the media can't be overlooked. A
recent Ranstead study discovered that fifty sevenpercent of workers surveyed would not accept the
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job that would negatively impact their worklife balance, including working from home.
Over half indicated they would decline thejob if they weren't offered significantly higher pay.
The study also found that ninety threepercent of those surveyed indicated work life
balance ranks as high as pay whenit comes to priorities. So what is
the right work life balance? Weturn now to licensed professional clinical counselor doctor
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Churnles Pemberton, who says this mayinclude talking about your job at home,
even if you don't really want to. Oh, I think sometimes you have
to talk about your job and becauseyou have to kind of put it in
in perspective as well. And you'reright, we've got this a lot of
media coverage on this work life balancewith different generations and how you know,
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some of our younger generations are wethink, maybe over focusing on this work
life balance to the point of notworking. But I think we have to
take a step back and go,well, do we sometimes do Other generations
some times focus a little bit toomuch on work and we don't take that
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time out for those other things.And so work life balance isn't meant to
be a situation where it's I givethings to my boss or my employer,
or I'm selfish and I do thingsfor myself. Work life balance is much
bigger than that, and it's amatter of when, when at the end
of the week, what are somethings that I want to have done,
And that's all those things from well, I need to make money because I
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need to pay the bills. Imight need to get some things done around
the house, you know, generalhouse chores. But then it's the other
things like you know, what doI do to meet those needs of those
other unspoken values like family? DidI spend time with my family, not
just my significant other but extended family. Did I make those phone calls?
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Did I reach out to my children? Did I play with my children?
Did I make the phone calls?Also? Did I give by to society?
If that's a value that I have, is is giving to other people
important? Making time for church andreligion and spiritual issues, just taking time
to sit and be quiet. Allof those things are work life balance,
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and so narrowing it down or focusingin on well I'm working or I'm being
selfish is way too limited of ascope. We've got to look at all
of those values that are important tous. Did I make time for those
along the week? Maybe not theday, but along the week. We're
talking with doctor Charles Palmer didn't licenseprofessional clinical counselor on the importance of work
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life balance. Part of our worklife balance centers on relationships with people in
the workplace. How important is this, doc? Yeah, I had an
interesting couple of conversations with people onthe same fact, and they made the
comment to me that, well,that's how they want to put those boundaries
in place, and that one oftheir friends outside of work and work is
for work and se it's a matterof people trying to figure out how to
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put those boundaries. And hear peoplehear me talk about that all the time,
but those boundaries into my different areasof my life where you can't have
friends at work. You don't wantall of your friends to be at work
because we never know what's going tohappen tomorrow. But we don't want all
of our friends to be at work. But I also think it's important to
have some people at work that weconsider friends, might not be our best
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friends, but have those people thatwe can talk about our lives outside of
that nine to five, what we'redoing in the office, on the job,
but we can share a little bitmore. We are very much social
beings, because I mean, everybodyis an extrovert, but we are very
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much social beings, and we needto have that those people that we can
lean on, that we can talkto in counseling. We call those natural
supports. We have to have those, and I believe we have to have
some of those in our workplace.Now. If we're working from home,
that might mean picking up the phoneand having a phone call with those people.
But we need to have those peoplethat we can share a little bit
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more than just what the next meetingis going to be about, or the
next project or building the next whateverit is we do. Part of work
life balance isn't just about us,however, it's also important to include members
of your household when formulating a strategy. And that comes back to what is
a value? Is it a valuefor you to sit down at the dinner
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table and have those conversations. Andwhen you're working in a system, whether
we're talking about work or whether we'retalking about home, we talk about a
system, we have to include allof those people that are in the system.
So while you need to figure outwhat your values are, you need
to be able to sit down andtalk to your significant other about theirs and
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what yours are and how you cansupport each other. And then I think
it's important to do the same thingwith your children, whether they're young or
whether they're older, to sit downand go, hey, this is important
to me. I'd like to dothis, but at the same time,
say what is important to you?How can we find a balance in this.
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I don't think we as adults,as parents do a good job of
being able to teach and mentor children. Our children into a work life balance
and ask the questions what's important toyou? Well, I want to play
my video games. Okay, that'simportant. What else is important? What
else do you need to do?How can we get those done? As
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well as showing them that there mightbe some things bigger than themselves, bigger
than the immediate moment, like helpingpeople getting involved with family and friends.
Showing that and I'm being able tomentor them to get there now. There
are some things you can do andlooking to set the right work life balance.
For example, at work, youcan set manageable goals each day.
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The more control you have over yourwork, the less stressed you are.
You can be efficient with your timeat work, divide the big projects into
smaller tasks and give yourself small rewardsafter you wrap them up. You can
take a short break. Small breakshave been known to help really clear your
mind. More importantly, you cancommunicate effectively. Be honest with your boss
and co workers. Chances are ifyou're in a bind, so are they
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Offer alternatives instead of complaints, andbe open to discussing solutions. So when
it comes to being at home andstriking that right balance well unplucked. Yes,
technology has made our lives easier onseveral fronts in twenty twenty four,
but sometimes you have to simply disconnectand rest your mind. Put the phoner
computer down, put your feet up, sit back and enjoy maybe a good
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show. You can also divide andconquer. Don't feel like you have to
do everything at home. Maybe nightsomeone else can unload the dishwasher, well,
another takes out the trash, Butbe sure to let others know you
could use a hand, and alongthose lines, learn to say no.
There's no shame in telling others yousimply can't right now. Setting boundaries can
sometimes take time to get used to, but eventually others will respect them.
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You're not helping anyone by over committing, and finally, stay active and eat
right. When you feel better,your stress level decreases tenfold and you're better
able to navigate that work life balancecoming up. With so many of us
looking forward to that summer break,one thing we don't pay a lot of
attention to is our oral help.After the break, we'll find out why
this is the best time for youto make that call to the dentist.
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I'm Scott Fitzgerald. You're listening toKentucky Focus Man. I love my kids
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us wait until the new year beforewe decide it's time to get our dental
health in order, or we waituntil April or May to get what we
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put off fixed before we head outon summer break. That's why these summer
months are a great time to seea dentist. Doctor Pat Carroll is with
exceptional dentistry here in Kentucky and says, yes, now is the time to
get to the dentist. Summertime getsto be a little busy for folks,
and nothing earth shattering here, butyou know a lot of times during the
school year and stuff, we're talkingto parents and this kind of particularly to
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like high school seniors and juniors andstuff. We're seeing them and you know,
they're having wisdom teeth issues and they'relike, you know, we're just
going to wait till summertimes, orlike, yeah, you need to get
all this stuff done before you letyour young preeople go off to college.
So then they say, okay,we're going to do that, and then
they kind of forget. Well,summertime gets really busy for like oral surgeons
taking out wisdom tee. So myfirst bit of advice is, you know,
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if we've talked to you about that, you need to make that phone
call now because the summer is shortand if you don't get those kids into
the earth surgeon, they get thosewisdom teeth out early. Don't make that
phone call early, like I meantoday, it's going to be hard to
get them in the same thing kindof goes for the like kids. We've
been talking about younger children, like, hey, you know we need to
get this child of the organ hous. We got the missies like, hey,
you know real busy in school.Doc can wait till the summer and
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say, yes, it can.But guess what, Guess who else gets
really busy in the summertime, orthodontist, So you've got to really make that
phone call early. Believe it ornot, it kind of applies to us.
You know, we have lots ofteachers as patients and lesson. Say
well, Doc, I'm going toget all that work done in the summertime.
You know, we're as humans,we're always trying to postpone stuff,
and you know, even we getbusy in the summer and it's like,
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you know, make those phone callsnow, because believe it or not,
we have people that work for usand have kids and take vacations and stuff,
so we're not quite as fully staffedin the summer. So summertime you
get technic for everybody. Again,we're talking with doctor Pat Carroll with exceptional
dentistry here in Kentucky about getting youroral health up to speed in the summertime
months. I said, doc,is there ever a lull in your business?
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It's about between the second week ofAugust and the first week of September,
when everybody goes back to school.You know, when people get back,
that's that's when they have that trouble. So that's when we may have
a little bit of a law onour practices and kind of looking around and
go that we do something wrong.We took off. But it's that that
pretty much every year in that timeof year. You know, summertime too,
it gets hot, so what arewe doing. We're drinking cold drinks
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and then you know what's in thosecold drinks? That's the ice. Okay,
please don't chew ice. It doesbreak teeth, it does break an
ammel. And as my wife andmy children talk, say this, and
if you're going to chew the ice, go to the places where they have
what they call rabbit heart ice.Man, you know, that's the softer
ice. You know. Also we'redrinking energy drinks. Those are full of
sugar. Be careful. Be sureyou know you're brushing your teeth. Be
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sure you're doing all those things.We all get relactive in summer. We're
all doing things. Guess what something, something's happened teeth and younger people get
knocked out, you know, they'reout on skateboards or out on you know,
all kinds of stuff, climbing,jumping. If that tooth comes knocked
out, big thing. First off, find the tooth, grab it by
the crown of the tooth. Ifthere's a bunch of dirt on the root
or something rints it off, don'tscrub it. And then if you can,
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if you're there and child's will wantto put it back in child's mouth
and call your dentists and get there, you know, put it in back
in the socket, push it upthere, hold it in there and telling
the hold so you get there andif that's not available, put it in
some milk and baggy and get tothe dentists because we can re implant those
things if we get them in withinan hour or so. Also, when
it comes to summer ooral health,doc, can you debunk or maybe validate
rumors when it comes to what theycall swimmers mouth, I've heard of it,
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and I really haven't seen a lotof it because we have been the
dentists for a lot of competitive swimmersU of L and places like that.
You I have seen a little bitwhere you can kind of get erosion that
the pH of the pool water islow, so it's kind of if you're
if you're swallowing a lot of water, if you're breathing a lot of water
in and spinning it out. Ifyou get enough in there, it can
start to cause the erosion of theenamel where you'll start seeing the enamel getting
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both in. So I haven't seenit a lot, but I have read
about it. So you say yourbest bet this year is summer time,
man, use the best thing isstill water. You know, water stay
hidred. You can stay hid therewith the water you don't have to hit
the gatorade and you know all theother energy drinks and stuff like that.
He is doctor Pat Carroll with exceptionaldentistry here in Kentucky. If you have
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any questions for doc, simply logonto Kentucky and a dental dot com Coming
up. Horses and basketball have along standing connection to Kentucky, but so
has this sport. I'll take alook at that and more coming up next.
I'm Scott Fitzgerald and you're listening toKentucky Focus. The impact of a
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he comes to sport, Kentucky isbest known for basketball and horses, but
this year is the University of Kentuckybaseball team, coming off just their second
ever SEC regular season championship. Wellhas baseball on everyone's mind. Banding with
the bases loaded, two out inthe seven and the one two pitch Godamn
swinging at Kentucky's to the top ofthe Southeastern Conference. The Kentucky Wildcats,
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for the second time, are championsof the Southeastern Conference for the regular season.
They've been playing baseball at the Universityof Kentucky since eighteen ninety six,
and for just the second time inthe SEC, the Kentucky Wildcats have won
the regular season titles, sharing itwith their rivals Tennessee. The other time
came in two thousand and six,when the team went from worse to first
before falling in the SEC tournament andthen in the regionals at home. In
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college baseball, it's no stranger tothe Commonwealth is Louisville Cardinals has been playing
baseball since nineteen oh nine, whetherit be at local landmarks like Eclipse Park,
home to Louisville's first team, theEclipse later known as the Colonels Parkway
Field, Shawnee Park, Manual Stadium, Senex Field, and of course,
most recently, Jim Patterson Stadium.The Cardinals are no stranger to success,
having been to the College World Seriesfive times but yet have to win a
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national championship. Both Kentucky and Louisvillehave sent twenty seven players to the big
leagues, with seven former Cardinals makingan appearance in twenty nineteen alone. But
Kentucky and Louisville aren't the only schoolsin the Commonwealth to have baseball success.
The more Head State Eagles have threeNCAA Tournament appearances to their credit dating back
to nineteen eighty three, and haveseen twenty six players drafted into the majors.
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Perhaps the most recognizable was Walt Tarrell, who played for the Detroit Tigers
and put up a career best seventeenwins in Detroit's Ali's dependant season in nineteen
eighty seven. He was also thepitcher who gave up the first home run
to Mark McGuire, the first ofwhat would be five hundred and eighty three.
Murray State enjoyed college baseball success inthe seventies under Johnny Reagan, the
current field's name say, winning orsharing eleven conference titles while boasting twenty seven
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straight winning seasons. In nineteen seventynine, his squad came to within one
win from advancing to the College WorldSeries after boasting a twenty seven, ten
and two record. Now, whenyou talk Murray State baseball, you of
course have to talk Pat Jarvis.He was signed by the Cubs and then
traded to the Braves and later tothe Montreal Exposed back in the sixties.
Most notable for Jarvis was a Mayafternoon in nineteen seventy at legendary Wrigley Field
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where he gave up a home runthat would be number five hundred to someone
you may have heard of, legendarymister Cub himself, Ernie Banks Braves eleven
inning, four to three loss tothe Cubs. There are, of course,
do any baseball stories college are professionalto fit into our limited time together
this week As we wish the KentuckyWildcats good luck in their quest for a
College World Series bid this weekend,we pause and page rebut to the college
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baseball legacy of the past. Basketball, bourbon and horses will forever be our
calling cart in a commonwealth, Butas we've seen, there's always room for
baseball in these Kentucky summers. I'mScott Fitzgerald. You're listening to Kentucky Focus,
So we're back to wrap things upafter this. Hi, I'm Ryan
Blaney, a third generational race cardriver, and we dedicate a lot of
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our time to going as fast aspossible. My Grandpa Loo is the reason
why my dad and I started racing, and I'm really proud to follow on
his tracks. But when my grandpawas diagnosed with Alzheimer's, it was a
very unexpected bump in the road forus. I've learned a lot on this
journey with my Grandpa Lou, andthe memories of my grandpa will always be
with me. It's important to noticeif older family members are acting differently,
experiencing problems with their memory, orhaving trouble with routine tasks. Talking about
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Alzheimer's can be really tough, butif you notice something, have a conversation
with your loved one, encourage themto see a doctor or offer to go
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situation with your family and manage thedisease together. If you or your family
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are noticing changes it could be Alzheimer's. Talk about seeing a doctor together.
Visit alz dot org slash time totalk. A message from the Alzheimer's Association
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may be able to give your healtha boost by cutting your calories. ABC
News Chief medical Correspondent, doctor JenniferAshton. We've known for a long time
that calorie restriction is associated with longevity. Well, our new study has taken
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a look at middle aged people whoreduce their calories by just twelve percent.
Couple of key findings one, theydidn't lose much muscle, and there were
some gene changes that are associated withaging in terms of reducing inflammation and reducing
some of the processes that occur withaging. And when it comes to reduce
seeing your calories, doctor Ashton says, it doesn't necessarily mean huge changes in
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your life. Cutting your portion sizejust in half will absolutely get you there.
Don't drink your calories. When you'retalking about a two thousand calorie a
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Read those labels for added sugar,and then journaling keeping track of actually what
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Cherry preston ABC News and here's Heatherwith the weather. Well, it's beautiful
out there, sunny and seventy five, almost a little chilly in the shade.
Now, let's get a read onthe inside of your car. It
is hot, You've only been parkeda short time and it's already ninety nine
degrees in there. Let's not leavechildren in the back seat while running errands.
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that's a right for this week onKentucky Focus. A special thank you to
doctor Charles Pemberton, licensed professional clinicalcounselor here in Kentucky. It reminds us
to always try to find that rightwork life balance. Also a special thank
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you to doctor Pat Carroll with exceptionaldentistry here in the Commonwealth, who says
again, now is the time toget that dental work done. May pay
for it later this year. Whereall of us that Kentucky Focus and the
Kentucky News Network. I'm Scott Fitzgerald, thanking you for joining us and saying,
make it a safe and happy week. We'll talk to you next time.
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Coming up this week on Kentucky Focusis keeping the balance between our work life
and homelife. Plus in summertime,well a lot of us are thinking about
hitting the beach of that vacation home. Most aren't thinking about things, say
like our dental health right Also thisweek, Kentucky is well known for horses
in basketball, but in the summerof twenty twenty four, it's baseball that
has everyone talking. Will take alook at the Commonwealth's love of the game.
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I'm scuff It's jump, We've gotthat and much more coming up on
this edition of Kentucky Focus. Welcometo Kentucky Focus on the Kentucky News Network,
the show that looks at issues affectingthe Commonwealth and its citizens. We
cover state politics, in history,human interest stories, sports, and even
entertainment. It's Kentucky Focus on kNN. This is the story of a very
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Once this woman put back together ateenage girl's broken heart, which had
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been shattered in a thousand pieces justby giving her a bear hug. She
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A public service announcement brought to youby AARP and the AD Council. Work
life balance is something we all strivefor in today's fast paced, I Want
it now world, and its prevalencein the media can't be overlooked. A
recent Ranstead study discovered that fifty sevenpercent of workers surveyed would not accept the
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job that would negatively impact their worklife balance, including working from home.
Over half indicated they would decline thejob if they weren't offered significantly higher pay.
The study also found that ninety threepercent of those surveyed indicated work life
balance ranks as high as pay whenit comes to priorities. So what is
the right work life balance? Weturn now to licensed professional clinical counselor doctor
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Churnles Pemberton, who says this mayinclude talking about your job at home,
even if you don't really want to. Oh, I think sometimes you have
to talk about your job and becauseyou have to kind of put it in
in perspective as well. And you'reright, we've got this a lot of
media coverage on this work life balancewith different generations and how you know,
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some of our younger generations are wethink, maybe over focusing on this work
life balance to the point of notworking. But I think we have to
take a step back and go,well, do we sometimes do Other generations
some times focus a little bit toomuch on work and we don't take that
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time out for those other things.And so work life balance isn't meant to
be a situation where it's I givethings to my boss or my employer,
or I'm selfish and I do thingsfor myself. Work life balance is much
bigger than that, and it's amatter of when, when at the end
of the week, what are somethings that I want to have done,
And that's all those things from well, I need to make money because I
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need to pay the bills. Imight need to get some things done around
the house, you know, generalhouse chores. But then it's the other
things like you know, what doI do to meet those needs of those
other unspoken values like family? DidI spend time with my family, not
just my significant other but extended family. Did I make those phone calls?
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Did I reach out to my children? Did I play with my children?
Did I make the phone calls?Also? Did I give by to society?
If that's a value that I have, is is giving to other people
important? Making time for church andreligion and spiritual issues, just taking time
to sit and be quiet. Allof those things are work life balance,
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and so narrowing it down or focusingin on well I'm working or I'm being
selfish is way too limited of ascope. We've got to look at all
of those values that are important tous. Did I make time for those
along the week? Maybe not theday, but along the week. We're
talking with doctor Charles Palmer didn't licenseprofessional clinical counselor on the importance of work
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life balance. Part of our worklife balance centers on relationships with people in
the workplace. How important is this, doc? Yeah, I had an
interesting couple of conversations with people onthe same fact, and they made the
comment to me that, well,that's how they want to put those boundaries
in place, and that one oftheir friends outside of work and work is
for work and se it's a matterof people trying to figure out how to
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put those boundaries. And hear peoplehear me talk about that all the time,
but those boundaries into my different areasof my life where you can't have
friends at work. You don't wantall of your friends to be at work
because we never know what's going tohappen tomorrow. But we don't want all
of our friends to be at work. But I also think it's important to
have some people at work that weconsider friends, might not be our best
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friends, but have those people thatwe can talk about our lives outside of
that nine to five, what we'redoing in the office, on the job,
but we can share a little bitmore. We are very much social
beings, because I mean, everybodyis an extrovert, but we are very
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much social beings, and we needto have that those people that we can
lean on, that we can talkto in counseling. We call those natural
supports. We have to have those, and I believe we have to have
some of those in our workplace.Now. If we're working from home,
that might mean picking up the phoneand having a phone call with those people.
But we need to have those peoplethat we can share a little bit
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more than just what the next meetingis going to be about, or the
next project or building the next whateverit is we do. Part of work
life balance isn't just about us,however, it's also important to include members
of your household when formulating a strategy. And that comes back to what is
a value? Is it a valuefor you to sit down at the dinner
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table and have those conversations. Andwhen you're working in a system, whether
we're talking about work or whether we'retalking about home, we talk about a
system, we have to include allof those people that are in the system.
So while you need to figure outwhat your values are, you need
to be able to sit down andtalk to your significant other about theirs and
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what yours are and how you cansupport each other. And then I think
it's important to do the same thingwith your children, whether they're young or
whether they're older, to sit downand go, hey, this is important
to me. I'd like to dothis, but at the same time,
say what is important to you?How can we find a balance in this.
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I don't think we as adults,as parents do a good job of
being able to teach and mentor children. Our children into a work life balance
and ask the questions what's important toyou? Well, I want to play
my video games. Okay, that'simportant. What else is important? What
else do you need to do?How can we get those done? As
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well as showing them that there mightbe some things bigger than themselves, bigger
than the immediate moment, like helpingpeople getting involved with family and friends.
Showing that and I'm being able tomentor them to get there now. There
are some things you can do andlooking to set the right work life balance.
For example, at work, youcan set manageable goals each day.
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The more control you have over yourwork, the less stressed you are.
You can be efficient with your timeat work, divide the big projects into
smaller tasks and give yourself small rewardsafter you wrap them up. You can
take a short break. Small breakshave been known to help really clear your
mind. More importantly, you cancommunicate effectively. Be honest with your boss
and co workers. Chances are ifyou're in a bind, so are they
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Offer alternatives instead of complaints, andbe open to discussing solutions. So when
it comes to being at home andstriking that right balance well unplucked. Yes,
technology has made our lives easier onseveral fronts in twenty twenty four,
but sometimes you have to simply disconnectand rest your mind. Put the phoner
computer down, put your feet up, sit back and enjoy maybe a good
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show. You can also divide andconquer. Don't feel like you have to
do everything at home. Maybe nightsomeone else can unload the dishwasher, well,
another takes out the trash, Butbe sure to let others know you
could use a hand, and alongthose lines, learn to say no.
There's no shame in telling others yousimply can't right now. Setting boundaries can
sometimes take time to get used to, but eventually others will respect them.
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You're not helping anyone by over committing, and finally, stay active and eat
right. When you feel better,your stress level decreases tenfold and you're better
able to navigate that work life balancecoming up. With so many of us
looking forward to that summer break,one thing we don't pay a lot of
attention to is our oral help.After the break, we'll find out why
this is the best time for youto make that call to the dentist.
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I'm Scott Fitzgerald. You're listening toKentucky Focus Man. I love my kids
so much. I want to havefor three hours in the cold rain to
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mother was always very active and independent, and she was familiar with her neighborhood.
But one day, out of theblue, she stopped at the stop
sign for much longer than usual,and she didn't know whether she should go
forward or turn just stay at thestop sign. She wasn't even really sure
where she was at. She wasvery concerned. It was very unsettling for
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her. It's real important for youto talk to someone about it, to
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Did you see there is also alittle snack drawer? And she says,
we do think of space sometimes asthis austere, clinical, sterile environment,
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so to see that through the mindof a child who's applying a very human
lens and a warmth to space exploration, I think is the best bridge of
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us wait until the new year beforewe decide it's time to get our dental
health in order, or we waituntil April or May to get what we
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put off fixed before we head outon summer break. That's why these summer
months are a great time to seea dentist. Doctor Pat Carroll is with
exceptional dentistry here in Kentucky and says, yes, now is the time to
get to the dentist. Summertime getsto be a little busy for folks,
and nothing earth shattering here, butyou know a lot of times during the
school year and stuff, we're talkingto parents and this kind of particularly to
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like high school seniors and juniors andstuff. We're seeing them and you know,
they're having wisdom teeth issues and they'relike, you know, we're just
going to wait till summertimes, orlike, yeah, you need to get
all this stuff done before you letyour young preeople go off to college.
So then they say, okay,we're going to do that, and then
they kind of forget. Well,summertime gets really busy for like oral surgeons
taking out wisdom tee. So myfirst bit of advice is, you know,
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if we've talked to you about that, you need to make that phone
call now because the summer is shortand if you don't get those kids into
the earth surgeon, they get thosewisdom teeth out early. Don't make that
phone call early, like I meantoday, it's going to be hard to
get them in the same thing kindof goes for the like kids. We've
been talking about younger children, like, hey, you know we need to
get this child of the organ hous. We got the missies like, hey,
you know real busy in school.Doc can wait till the summer and
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say, yes, it can.But guess what, Guess who else gets
really busy in the summertime, orthodontist, So you've got to really make that
phone call early. Believe it ornot, it kind of applies to us.
You know, we have lots ofteachers as patients and lesson. Say
well, Doc, I'm going toget all that work done in the summertime.
You know, we're as humans,we're always trying to postpone stuff,
and you know, even we getbusy in the summer and it's like,
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you know, make those phone callsnow, because believe it or not,
we have people that work for usand have kids and take vacations and stuff,
so we're not quite as fully staffedin the summer. So summertime you
get technic for everybody. Again,we're talking with doctor Pat Carroll with exceptional
dentistry here in Kentucky about getting youroral health up to speed in the summertime
months. I said, doc,is there ever a lull in your business?
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It's about between the second week ofAugust and the first week of September,
when everybody goes back to school.You know, when people get back,
that's that's when they have that trouble. So that's when we may have
a little bit of a law onour practices and kind of looking around and
go that we do something wrong.We took off. But it's that that
pretty much every year in that timeof year. You know, summertime too,
it gets hot, so what arewe doing. We're drinking cold drinks
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and then you know what's in thosecold drinks? That's the ice. Okay,
please don't chew ice. It doesbreak teeth, it does break an
ammel. And as my wife andmy children talk, say this, and
if you're going to chew the ice, go to the places where they have
what they call rabbit heart ice.Man, you know, that's the softer
ice. You know. Also we'redrinking energy drinks. Those are full of
sugar. Be careful. Be sureyou know you're brushing your teeth. Be
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sure you're doing all those things.We all get relactive in summer. We're
all doing things. Guess what something, something's happened teeth and younger people get
knocked out, you know, they'reout on skateboards or out on you know,
all kinds of stuff, climbing,jumping. If that tooth comes knocked
out, big thing. First off, find the tooth, grab it by
the crown of the tooth. Ifthere's a bunch of dirt on the root
or something rints it off, don'tscrub it. And then if you can,
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if you're there and child's will wantto put it back in child's mouth
and call your dentists and get there, you know, put it in back
in the socket, push it upthere, hold it in there and telling
the hold so you get there andif that's not available, put it in
some milk and baggy and get tothe dentists because we can re implant those
things if we get them in withinan hour or so. Also, when
it comes to summer ooral health,doc, can you debunk or maybe validate
rumors when it comes to what theycall swimmers mouth, I've heard of it,
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and I really haven't seen a lotof it because we have been the
dentists for a lot of competitive swimmersU of L and places like that.
You I have seen a little bitwhere you can kind of get erosion that
the pH of the pool water islow, so it's kind of if you're
if you're swallowing a lot of water, if you're breathing a lot of water
in and spinning it out. Ifyou get enough in there, it can
start to cause the erosion of theenamel where you'll start seeing the enamel getting
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both in. So I haven't seenit a lot, but I have read
about it. So you say yourbest bet this year is summer time,
man, use the best thing isstill water. You know, water stay
hidred. You can stay hid therewith the water you don't have to hit
the gatorade and you know all theother energy drinks and stuff like that.
He is doctor Pat Carroll with exceptionaldentistry here in Kentucky. If you have
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any questions for doc, simply logonto Kentucky and a dental dot com Coming
up. Horses and basketball have along standing connection to Kentucky, but so
has this sport. I'll take alook at that and more coming up next.
I'm Scott Fitzgerald and you're listening toKentucky Focus. The impact of a
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here. I can only hope thatwe'll be able to leave this house to
you one day. Baby, you'reour legacy. Planning for these disasters will
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make sure we're safe, and itis the best way to protect that legacy.
You know what, we should makean emergency communication plan. That way
we're ready. This year at mydorm, we have emergency kiss for earthquakes
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a link. Okay, protect yourlegacy. Visit ready dot gov forwards last
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he comes to sport, Kentucky isbest known for basketball and horses, but
this year is the University of Kentuckybaseball team, coming off just their second
ever SEC regular season championship. Wellhas baseball on everyone's mind. Banding with
the bases loaded, two out inthe seven and the one two pitch Godamn
swinging at Kentucky's to the top ofthe Southeastern Conference. The Kentucky Wildcats,
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for the second time, are championsof the Southeastern Conference for the regular season.
They've been playing baseball at the Universityof Kentucky since eighteen ninety six,
and for just the second time inthe SEC, the Kentucky Wildcats have won
the regular season titles, sharing itwith their rivals Tennessee. The other time
came in two thousand and six,when the team went from worse to first
before falling in the SEC tournament andthen in the regionals at home. In
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college baseball, it's no stranger tothe Commonwealth is Louisville Cardinals has been playing
baseball since nineteen oh nine, whetherit be at local landmarks like Eclipse Park,
home to Louisville's first team, theEclipse later known as the Colonels Parkway
Field, Shawnee Park, Manual Stadium, Senex Field, and of course,
most recently, Jim Patterson Stadium.The Cardinals are no stranger to success,
having been to the College World Seriesfive times but yet have to win a
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national championship. Both Kentucky and Louisvillehave sent twenty seven players to the big
leagues, with seven former Cardinals makingan appearance in twenty nineteen alone. But
Kentucky and Louisville aren't the only schoolsin the Commonwealth to have baseball success.
The more Head State Eagles have threeNCAA Tournament appearances to their credit dating back
to nineteen eighty three, and haveseen twenty six players drafted into the majors.
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Perhaps the most recognizable was Walt Tarrell, who played for the Detroit Tigers
and put up a career best seventeenwins in Detroit's Ali's dependant season in nineteen
eighty seven. He was also thepitcher who gave up the first home run
to Mark McGuire, the first ofwhat would be five hundred and eighty three.
Murray State enjoyed college baseball success inthe seventies under Johnny Reagan, the
current field's name say, winning orsharing eleven conference titles while boasting twenty seven
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straight winning seasons. In nineteen seventynine, his squad came to within one
win from advancing to the College WorldSeries after boasting a twenty seven, ten
and two record. Now, whenyou talk Murray State baseball, you of
course have to talk Pat Jarvis.He was signed by the Cubs and then
traded to the Braves and later tothe Montreal Exposed back in the sixties.
Most notable for Jarvis was a Mayafternoon in nineteen seventy at legendary Wrigley Field
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where he gave up a home runthat would be number five hundred to someone
you may have heard of, legendarymister Cub himself, Ernie Banks Braves eleven
inning, four to three loss tothe Cubs. There are, of course,
do any baseball stories college are professionalto fit into our limited time together
this week As we wish the KentuckyWildcats good luck in their quest for a
College World Series bid this weekend,we pause and page rebut to the college
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baseball legacy of the past. Basketball, bourbon and horses will forever be our
calling cart in a commonwealth, Butas we've seen, there's always room for
baseball in these Kentucky summers. I'mScott Fitzgerald. You're listening to Kentucky Focus,
So we're back to wrap things upafter this. Hi, I'm Ryan
Blaney, a third generational race cardriver, and we dedicate a lot of
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our time to going as fast aspossible. My Grandpa Loo is the reason
why my dad and I started racing, and I'm really proud to follow on
his tracks. But when my grandpawas diagnosed with Alzheimer's, it was a
very unexpected bump in the road forus. I've learned a lot on this
journey with my Grandpa Lou, andthe memories of my grandpa will always be
with me. It's important to noticeif older family members are acting differently,
experiencing problems with their memory, orhaving trouble with routine tasks. Talking about
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Alzheimer's can be really tough, butif you notice something, have a conversation
with your loved one, encourage themto see a doctor or offer to go
with them. Early detection of Alzheimer'scan give your family time to explore support
services, make a plan for thefuture, and access available treatments. The
Alzheimer's Association provides care, support andresearch to help you take control of the
situation with your family and manage thedisease together. If you or your family
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are noticing changes it could be Alzheimer's. Talk about seeing a doctor together.
Visit alz dot org slash time totalk. A message from the Alzheimer's Association
and the ad Council. For whatIt's Worth, I'm Sheery Preston. You
may be able to give your healtha boost by cutting your calories. ABC
News Chief medical Correspondent, doctor JenniferAshton. We've known for a long time
that calorie restriction is associated with longevity. Well, our new study has taken
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a look at middle aged people whoreduce their calories by just twelve percent.
Couple of key findings one, theydidn't lose much muscle, and there were
some gene changes that are associated withaging in terms of reducing inflammation and reducing
some of the processes that occur withaging. And when it comes to reduce
seeing your calories, doctor Ashton says, it doesn't necessarily mean huge changes in
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your life. Cutting your portion sizejust in half will absolutely get you there.
Don't drink your calories. When you'retalking about a two thousand calorie a
day diet, just cutting two hundredand forty calories could be a beverage.
Read those labels for added sugar,and then journaling keeping track of actually what
you're eating and drinking just helps youstay accountable. For what it's worth.
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Cherry preston ABC News and here's Heatherwith the weather. Well, it's beautiful
out there, sunny and seventy five, almost a little chilly in the shade.
Now, let's get a read onthe inside of your car. It
is hot, You've only been parkeda short time and it's already ninety nine
degrees in there. Let's not leavechildren in the back seat while running errands.
It only takes a few minutes fortheir body temperatures to rise and that
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could be fatal. Cars get hotfast and can be deadly. Never leave
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that's a right for this week onKentucky Focus. A special thank you to
doctor Charles Pemberton, licensed professional clinicalcounselor here in Kentucky. It reminds us
to always try to find that rightwork life balance. Also a special thank
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you to doctor Pat Carroll with exceptionaldentistry here in the Commonwealth, who says
again, now is the time toget that dental work done. May pay
for it later this year. Whereall of us that Kentucky Focus and the
Kentucky News Network. I'm Scott Fitzgerald, thanking you for joining us and saying,
make it a safe and happy week. We'll talk to you next time.
Kentucky Focus Kentucky Focus on the KentuckyNews Network, the show that looks
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history, human interest stories, sports, and even entertainment. It's Kentucky Focus
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