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If you buy a list from outside and blast email out to those email addresses you are SPAMMING. There i something you should know about SPAM.

United States

In the United States, most states enacted anti-spam laws during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Many of these have since been pre-empted by the less restrictive CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 ("CAN-SPAM").

Spam is legally permissible according to CAN-SPAM, provided it meets certain criteria: a "truthful" subject line, no forged information in the technical headers or sender address, and other minor requirements. If the spam fails to comply with any of these requirements it is illegal. Aggravated or accelerated penalties apply if the spammer harvested the email addresses using methods described earlier.

A review of the effectiveness of CAN-SPAM in 2005 by the Federal Trade Commission (the agency charged with CAN-SPAM enforcement) stated that the amount of sexually explicit spam had significantly decreased since 2003 and the total volume had begun to level off.[27] Senator Conrad Burns, a principal sponsor, noted that "Enforcement is key regarding the CAN-SPAM legislation." In 2004, less than one percent of spam complied with CAN-SPAM.[28] In contrast to the FTC evaluation, many observers view CAN-SPAM as having failed in its purpose of reducing spam.[

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam

This just makes me sad that we designed 2018 to 2019 mouse pad with wrong phone number printed.

I took this video driving on 520 Bridge from Seattle to Bellevue ... Usually you can see Mt. Rainier in the distance.

I learned from my swimming coach that the way to swim faster is not anything to do with stroke faster or kick more ... It is to reduce drag. It used to take me 13 strokes to go 25 yards ... by just concentrating reducing drag, I was able to reduce that to 10 strokes. That is 25% improvement. I swam faster and smoother by stroking slower.

Do you think there is a lesson to be learned here that can be applied to your business?

If you rely on government to take good care of you, you want warm, kind, well-mannered leader at the top. But if you want government to stay away from your wallet and welfare, you want somebody like Trump to do ... what he does.

Look what a warm, kind, well-mannered leader got us. No where. Look what ill mannered, cold, bad behaving leader got us ... Nothing ... but the private sectors are doing well.

Let's enjoy what we got while it lasts. Next 2 or 6 years ... No matter what there will be nobody like Trump after him.

Thank you for supporting this year's charity golf tournament.

What a golf tournament ... Thanks to Coach Lenny Wilkens, I was able to participate in this year's tournament. It was such a fun event.

Every year, Ezell's Famous Chicken takes care of 130+ hungry people after the Lenny Wilkens' Golf Tournament. Only here, we get to eat shrimp and catfish in addition to fried chickens.

August 12, 1985 ... JAL 123 (Boeing 747) from Tokyo to Osaka with full of people lost vertical wing and crushed into Mt. Otsutaka ... That is 33 years ago. 520 people lost their lives. It is the largest single plane fatality in the aviation history.

What was I doing?

I remember working as a sales person coming back to the office and watched TV showing the list of people's names. I asked what happened and learned the plane has crushed.

I fly a lot and every time I fly, I think about that day.

Side Note

Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer was on the JAL 123. You know the SUKIYAKI song.

This is one pf the newest drawing of Pompom.