A Free Monthly Newsletter From Your Friends At Fifth Avenue Auto 2447 Apollo Rd Westbank BC V4T 1P7 250-768-4485 What’s Inside? - Resolve To Do Something Different - - A World Wide Look At Wealth - - Mouth-Watering History Of The Lobster - - Three Doctor Jokes - - Win A FREE Lube, Oil & Filter Change - - January Events - - Money Saving Offers - & Much More!

What’s The Answer? When Did Amazon Go Online? What Will Be Your New Years’ Resolution? What’s The Name Of The Chilean Billionaire Worth A Reported $19.2 Billion? What The Heck Is Acetylsalicylic Acid? Where Was The Largest Lobster Ever Found? The Answers To These And Many More Questions Are Inside January 2012 A Free Monthly Newsletter From Your Friends At Fifth Avenue Auto Resolve To Do Something Different A Web Of Numbers: It’s January again. Have you made your New Year’s Stats On The Biggest Website resolutions yet? Maybe this is the year to forget the boring, The information superhighway (as the Internet was routine promises you won’t keep, like going to the gym dubbed in the 1990s) is packed, and most of us are headed every day and calling your parents once a week. Try for the same few off-ramps. Here are some numbers resolving to be more creative in 2012 with these associated with biggest, busiest destinations on the World resolutions: Wide Web, from the Web data firm Alexa: • Keep a journal. Spend a few ★ Wikipedia. The online encyclopedia ranks sixth in minutes every day or so writing U.S. traffic, and seventh globally. The average visitor down your thoughts, feelings, spends about five minutes on the site, and about 52 dreams, and ambitions not your percent of those visits are “bounces” (users view just daily schedule or your upcoming one page before leaving). appointments. Let your mind wander; ★ Amazon. Online since 1992, Amazon’s users are more free-associate a little. You may be surprised at often female than male (55 percent versus 45 percent); the ideas you generate. about 19 percent of its visitors are referred to it by • Read more. Vary your reading habits and explore search engines. The average load time for an Amazon different topics. If you usually read novels, try a page is 1.783 seconds. biography. If you read only history, try a book on ★ YouTube. Only 22 percent of YouTube visitors come modern-day science. You’ll exercise your mind, and from the U.S., and about 27 percent of video visits are maybe find new connections between ideas. bounces. More than 755,000 websites link to it. • Learn something new. Take a class in ★ . Visitors to the 140-character posting site view something unrelated to your job or your an average of 3.5 unique pages per day. They spend usual hobbies, art, auto mechanics, about seven minutes on the site, and 51 seconds per philosophy, etc. Mastering new skills can page view, and 62 percent are women. refresh your outlook on life. ★ Facebook. With over 500 million users, the social • Meet new people. Make a positive effort network is ranked second in U.S. traffic. to make new friends this year (or professional The highest percentage of users contacts). Look for gatherings of people whose (30 percent) are in the 45–54 age interests match yours, and network. The more people range, and 57 percent of them are you know, the better equipped you are to learn and female. grow. • Create something for the heck of it. Paint a picture, write a poem, or start a garden, not because you’ll get Do You Have A Question About Car paid for it, but because you want to. You’ll find Maintenance That You Want Answered? satisfaction in achieving personal goals and motivation We love to hear from all of our good friends and clients to keep trying new things. who enjoy reading our monthly newsletter. If you have a • Volunteer. Find a cause question about anything related to your vehicle, feel free to you support, and offer your time and service. You’ll give us a call at 250-768-4485 or email us at meet new people and [email protected] or visit our enjoy the feeling of helping out with an important cause. website www.fifthaveauto.com Does your car have air conditioning? If it does then it has something inside the car called an evaporator. This is where the cold comes from and during this process the evaporator removes moisture from the air. Since it’s always wet, mold and bacteria build up on it. Then when you turn your heater on for the winter you breathe this. You may believe you picked a cold or flu up from a friend or co-worker when it could be your car making you ill. We can fix this with a mist service which is $20.00 off this month. Regular $79.97 now only $59.97+ss, rc, hst for a total of $71.86. Call today for an appointment! Want more info? www.misthealthyair.org Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Where Does Aspirin Come From? Special thanks go out to all of our clients and friends who “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning” is a graciously referred our shop to their friends and neighbors medical cliché, but that doesn’t mean that aspirin is last month! Our business is built based on the positive something to ignore. Even Hippocrates, the father of comments and referrals from people just like you. We just medicine, prescribed an early form of aspirin for patients couldn’t do it without you. suffering from minor pains. Bud Shirley, Shelley Myatovic, Al Turner, Aspirin, known by its technical name of acetylsalicylic John from D.J. Silviculture, Jim Johnson, acid, belongs to a group of drugs called salicylates. It’s Ed McNaught, Kit Porter commonly used for minor aches and pains, to reduce fever, and to relieve inflammation. Aspirin also inhibits the production of platelets in the blood, making it useful in Quote preventing clots that may cause heart attacks and strokes. In addition, low doses of aspirin administered immediately “I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for after a heart attack can reduce the risk of a second attack or evening wear. Blue suede shoes.” damage to cardiac tissue. - Elvis Presley Hippocrates and other early physicians used extracts of willow bark or the plant spiraea (found in Europe and Asia) to treat headaches, pain, and fevers. Mouth-Watering History In 1853, a French chemist named Charles Frederic Of The Lobster Gerhardt was the first scientist to create acetylsalicylic acid, but it wasn’t until 1897 that chemists at Bayer AG Does the thought of lobster make you salivate? first produced a version of salicin that was gentler on the Lobsters have been an important menu item in fine stomach than pure salicylic acid. The new drug’s name, restaurants for years. But the pricey crustacean wasn’t “aspirin,” was based on the word “spiraea.” By 1899 it was always so upper-crust. being sold by Bayer throughout the world. Up until the 1800s, lobster was chiefly consumed by Following World War I, “aspirin” became a generic the lower classes—the poor, indentured servants, and term, although Aspirin with a capital A remains a registered people in prisons and mental institutions. In colonial trademark of Bayer in Germany, Canada, Mexico, and America, there were even laws against feeding lobster to more than 80 other countries. inmates more than once a week, and employment agreements often specified that servants would not have to eat lobster more than twice a week. A Worldwide Look At Wealth One reason was probably because lobsters were so abundant on the East Coast. The Plymouth pilgrims, The richest Canadian citizen is David Thompson according to some stories, could wade into the water and (media) who, according to Forbes magazine, is worth $23 capture more than they wanted by hand. After great storms, billion. But he’s far from the only billionaire so much lobster washed ashore that it was ground up and in the world. used as fertilizer. Here’s a look at some of the wealthiest It wasn’t until the mid-19th century that New Yorkers people around the Western Hemisphere: and Bostonians developed a taste for lobsters, and ✴ Mexico. Helu commercial lobster fisheries flourished only after the (telecommunications), $74 billion development of the lobster smack, a boat ✴ United States. Bill Gates (computers), with a large open holding well on deck that $56 billion allowed live lobsters to be shipped. ✴ Brazil. Eike Batista (mining), $30 billion The largest lobster ever ✴ Chile. Iris Fontbona (mining), $19.2 billion caught, by the way, was found ✴ Colombia. Luis Carlos Sarmiento (construction, off Nova Scotia. It was 3.5 feet financial services), $10.5 billion long from the tip of its tail to the end of its crusher claw, ✴ Argentina. Carlos and Alejandro Bulgheroni and weighed 44 pounds, 6 ounces. (energy), $5.1 billion

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