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Serendipity Deals Joins the “Race” to End Malaria

The weather is getting warmer here in the United States. You know what that brings in most locations? Mosquitoes.

However in the United States the most you have to worry about is being itchy and having a few bumps. Consider yourself lucky. 40% of the world suffers from malaria caused by mosquito bites. Worldwide, malaria causes around 350 to 500 million illnesses and more than one million deaths annually. Malaria is particularly devastating in Africa, where it kills an African child every 30 seconds. Many children who survive an episode of severe malaria may suffer from learning impairments or brain damage. Pregnant women and their unborn children are also particularly vulnerable to malaria, which, during pregnancy, is a major cause of mortality, low birth weight and maternal anemia.

However there is hope.

Long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets (LLINs) work by creating a protective barrier against mosquitoes at night, when the vast majority of transmissions occur. The African malaria mosquitoes generally bite late at night or early morning, between 10pm and 4am. Most mosquito nets can accommodate more than one person – a mother and an infant or a few siblings – for up to three to five years. A net treated with special insecticides offers about twice the protection of an untreated net, and through its repellency, can even protect other people in the room outside the net. When enough people (about 70 percent) sleep under LLINs, entire communities, even houses without an LLIN, can be made safer.

We at Serendipity Deals have decided to step in as a small company and try and help fight this disease and stop it from killing innocent children and families. We’ve decided to join the “race” with one of our best selling product lines. With each purchase of an “Ultra Series” RC Car from today April 22nd 2009 until August 31st 2009 we will donate a mosquito net to help with this cause. We’ve spent the last few days adding in all the highest end remote control cars that are available to us from the manufacturer, and then giving them a $70.00 discount as a special way of saying “Thank You” to our customers. Now with each purchase you can know that not only are you getting a great car, but you’re helping to save a life.

For more info or to make a donation yourself please visit http://www.malarianomore.org

Every donation helps

Help me out here.

I know this will more than likely be one of my shorter posts but…for the life of me I can’t figure this out.  I’ve even tried to do it myself and it didn’t work.

As a business owner I need to know how people are finding my sites.  Of course out of those I pay the closest attention to Serendipity Deals.  So….imagine my surprise when I look and see that in the passed 30 days a total of 124 people have found the store by searching Google for the word “cookie”.

What?

We don’t sell cookies, and right now I don’t have any cooking supplies that have to do with cookies.

The only remote way I was able to get the store up in the first page was to type in cookie + Serendipity Deals.  By doing that it brought up a link to the Privacy Policy for Serendipity Deals which mentions that we use cookies to save your shopping cart so that you don’t have to re-add your products every time you go back to the store if you don’t purchase them the first time you add them.

So…color me at a loss for words here….but apparently there are a lot of hungry people out there.  That…or Cookie Monster will be my next customer….

~NFM

You know, I can appreciate a good “cover” song.  I also admit that sometimes I like the cover song more than the original.  For instance my wedding song is “Your Song” which was originally done by Elton John, however our actual wedding song is “Your Song” as sung by Ewan McGregor in the movie Moulin Rouge.  That’s a good cover in my opinion.

Other “covers” that I like?  “Land of Confusion” as covered by Disturbed, “Careless Whispers” as covered by Seether, “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2″ as covered by Korn.

A “cover” is just that….it’s a cover.  The band is playing the song in their style and usually in honor of the original song…and typically it has the same name as the original so it doesn’t try and “fool” you into thinking it’s their song.

What bothers me though….are these “so called” artists that “sample” parts of other songs and call them their own.  As if we didn’t know that there was an original song not long ago.

Take for instance Flo-Rida’s latest “hit”….”Right Round”.  He’s all excited since he’ s no longer a “1 hit wonder” and now has a second song that gained popularity.  He’s proud of himself for this accomplishment….

Yea….great song…I liked it over 20 years ago when Dead or Alive did it originally.

See, Flo-Rida’s “Right Round” isn’t a cover.  All he did was take the beat and the catchy part of Dead or Alive’s “Right Round” and add it to his “song”.  He did it again with his next song too…song called “Sugar”.  I heard a clip of this song….it’s funny….but last time I heard most of that it was called “Blue” by Eiffel 65.

Is that what we are breaking down to?  Giving these hacks millions of dollars to just take a formerly popular song and chop out the “catchy” parts to add to the crap that they make?  It’s sickening and sad that they are called “artists”.

They act like they struggle to make a number one hit song, all they are really doing is sampling a number one hit song from the past and adding it to their words and calling it their own.  Since the song was popular back then of course it will be popular now….they’ve got all these teenagers brain washed into thinking that it’s all theirs, they did it….give them the money.

Now…I need to state something to make it clear….I’m NOT saying that these songs are all bad (some of them are though)….what I’m annoyed with is how they act like they are theirs.  I’ll listen to the song, hell…I play them on Fired Up Radio but don’t think for one second that I appreciate their talent.  Until they actually get an instrument and play THEIR OWN music….don’t refer to them as artists to me.  Is it a song?  Sure in most cases it is.  Is it a good song?  Sometimes sure…. But is it their “art”?  Hell no…it’s someone elses…that’s it period.

Also, I’ve singled out Flo-Rida only because I recently listened to him on Howard Stern (btw…he sucks “singing” live)….but there are SEVERAL others out there that are guilty too….the difference is that they’ve had other number one hits that were actually THEIRS.

I’d go on but this is spinning my head right round right round….

~NFM