Did You Know?
by Beth Lind, R.D., L.D.

• The average human has about 10,000 taste buds
• On average, men spend 60 hours a year shaving
• It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown
• Every person has a unique tongue print
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue
• The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting
• Our eyes never grow but our nose and ears never stop growing
• Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do
• A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph
• 55% of people yawn within five minutes of seeing someone else yawn.  Reading about yawning makes most people yawn as well.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie
• Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body.  If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
• Water makes up 60 percent of our body weight
• Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people
• Between 10-15 % of the population is left-handed
• The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year
• Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
• The longest bout of hiccups lasted 69 years!
• The average American over 50 will have spent five years waiting in lines
• Up to the age of six or seven months, a child can breathe and swallow at the same time.  An adult cannot do this.

How to remove the "Help and Support" link from the Start Menu

Right-click the Taskbar, and then click Properties
In the Start Menu tab, click the Customize tab
click the Advanced tab
Uncheck the option for Help and Support.
Click OK, OK and close the program.

How do I show the date on the taskbar along with the time?

The only way to do this is to double the size of the taskbar. To
do that, right-click the taskbar, and uncheck the Lock the Taskbar option.  Then resize (by dragging the top edge of the taskbar) it to be twice the size as before.  The date will automatically display with the time.

A Gentle Touch
by Debbie Berling

Over the years we have added pets to our family at Carespring.  Some may wonder why.   

One day recently, I was going about my business and suddenly saw something I see everyday, but in a different way.
I now have a renewed outlook for the pets we have in our buildings.   Years ago, when the CEO told me were going to add a dog to the facility, all I could think about as a DON was what citation was I going to get.  Was the dog going to make the residents fall or will the dog do his dirty work on the floor and who will monitor the dog?  So many negative thoughts went through my head.
 
The dog was soon added to our facility and now there is one in every building.   Some facility team members and residents take better to them than others.   I understood the need but did not think about it much until about 2 weeks ago.   Yes, after about 8 years now of having the dogs, I experienced the most touching scene.

I walked up to the nurse’s station and saw the small dog, lying on the lap of a female resident in a Geri chair.  The little lady could not move much but she was slowly petting the dog.  The calmness on her face and the gentleness within both touched my heart.  

The dog had brought her a kind of comfort that we can not.   Encourage your peers and all your staff to work with your pets to give the kind of comfort to your residents that I saw.   It will make their day more special than you can imagine.

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