Kennedy, K2 & Riley2 At Symphony Isles Beach IMRAN™

Kennedy, K2 & Riley2 At Symphony Isles Beach - IMRAN™

My German Shepherd Kennedy and the brand new puppy had gotten to spend 2-3 days with my neighbors when I had to go away unexpectedly for a few days right after I had gotten the puppy home back in April. After my return, I walked the dogs at the community beach in Symphony Isles, Apollo Beach, Florida. My neighbors and their sweet kids who took care of my dogs also joined us with their very friendly dog, Riley. I call him Riley 2 because Kennedy has a very sweet female pure white English Lab Riley in the neighborhood that he has loved from before meeting Riley2. This was a fun minute or two of clips you will enjoy.

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2 Days Away & Amazing Double Dog Welcome Home, Priceless! IMRAN™

2 Days Away & Amazing Double Dog Welcome Home, Priceless! - IMRAN™
I am sure you will love this story and the video. In earlier episodes of K2's new life story with Kennedy and me in Florida, I had mentioned how literally 2 days after we got home, I had to leave unexpectedly to deal with an emergency. My lovely neighbors and their sweet kids had taken care of both German Shepherds during that time.
When I got back home I had gone inside not knowing that the dogs were apparently downstairs at the garage level. They had apparently felt more at home at, well..., home. After a short while, I had seen the kids across the street and asked them from the front door where my dogs were. They said they were downstairs. We decided to do a little surprise for the dogs as they had not realized I was home upstairs.
I stood to the side of the house while one of the sweet young girls opened the door, while her older sister made the video. Just check out the reactions of Kennedy.
I have had him 14 months. He is used to my being away when I drop him at his favorite dog-host Emily's and her family's home. Last year I had even gone away for nearly 3 weeks during my trip to Pakistan and Kennedy had been happy but completely calm when I picked him up. He NEVER jumps on anyone.
But this time he had sensed that I had gone away somehow differently. This was his reaction after my being away just 2 days even though he had been super-chill every time I came back after even 3 weeks. You can literally see and hear him reprimand me for my absence. What is fun to also watch is how even K2 gets into the mood.
The video would have been longer but my next-door neighbor saw this taking place. Instead of quietly watching the video being made, she walked over talking about the dogs, which made them turn their attention to the disturbance, and the recording was stopped.
I wish this video had been 2-3 minutes longer, but the sheer love and intelligence of these incredible creatures is nothing short of... Priceless!

© 2020 IMRAN™

Storm Before The Storm - IMRAN™

Storm Before The Storm - IMRAN™

It is ironic, and purely coincidental, that I am posting this video of a storm passing through Tampa Bay on April 20, 2020, today on August 23, 2020, when not one but two hurricanes are going to hit the Gulf of Mexico. It is just the timing of my catching up to pending posts and stories of K2's new life with me.

It is actually the saved video of a FaceBook livestream I had done from the dock. There was a storm raging and I had gone for a walk with Kennedy and the puppy K2. On returning home, I took them both to the dock. I captured this video of the rolling waves, and of Kennedy barking at the waves thinking there were dolphins inside them.

This was definitely not a jet-skiing day with 2 dogs on the vessel with me. :-) I had kept K2 to the side to avoid him accidentally getting stepped on or falling in the water. Soon after this video, I had to leave for 2 days due to an emergency. Hence, this was the storm before the storm. More on that story later.

© 2020 IMRAN™

K2 GSD German Shepherd "David" Taking On GSD "Goliath" Sweet Dog Kennedy...

K2 GSD German Shepherd "David" Taking On GSD "Goliath" Sweet Dog Kennedy Just 12 Hours After Being Brought Home - IMRAN™

There can be no better example of the playful, bold, and fun nature of puppy K2 vs the sweet, loving, and intelligent nature of Kennedy. K2 was literally 8 weeks old in this clip but completely fearless. This was also literally within 12 hours of us getting to Apollo Beach, Florida - his new home. Notice how Kennedy is both amused and playful, but also careful to not hurt the puppy.

© 2020 IMRAN™

Powerful Men Acting With The Wrong Head With Not-Worth-It Women Acting The Part For The Part - IMRAN™

Powerful Men Acting With The Wrong Head With Not-Worth-It Women Acting The Part For The Part - IMRAN™

Powerful and smart men lose their heads and their positions as heads of orgs when they act with their other heads even with "Are you kidding me, he was screwing Her?!" type women. From Bill Clinton with Monica Lewinsky, to people like the ones mentioned here, men keep doing the part by doing the women who are doing them to get the part(s). 

Here is another of those stories, reported by Variety magazine. In this case, forgive my saying so, this barely tolerable, almost masculine-looking, and clearly "sleeping her way everywhere" woman was definitely not worth any of the idiots losing what they had built over their lifetimes. Plus the hurt they probably caused their families. That is just more men being more stupid than is necessary, IMHO. 

© 2020 IMRAN™

#scandal #whores #sex #Hollywood #news #IMHO 

Social Climber K2 Using Kennedy Family Name - IMRAN™

Social Climber K2 Using Kennedy Family Name To Move Up - IMRAN™
A puppy is so cute when climbing stairs as "social climber" K2 seems to be doing riding the (coat)tail(s) of the Kennedy (family) name. LOL. I do not want to flood my page and your newsfeed with too many photos and videos of my dogs, but I am only now starting to get to post the pending clips.
Are you enjoying them?

© 2020 IMRAN™

1 Minute Atlantic Ocean Addiction Fix At Fort Lauderdale Florida - IMRAN™

1 Minute Atlantic Ocean Addiction Fix At Fort Lauderdale Florida - IMRAN™
In less than a minute, you can enjoy the beautiful colors that make any ocean, particularly the Atlantic Ocean, especially in Florida, such a powerful and emotive experience. Handheld Nikon D850 DSLR video shot from my 10th-floor hotel room across a wide expanse of sand, roads, and hotel front space, but you can see the footprints in the sand!

© 2020 IMRAN™ 

#AtlanticOcean, #Boating, #D850, #Florida, #FortLauderdale, #IMRAN, #ImranAnwar, #Lifestyle, #Nature, #Nikon, #seaside, #beach, #blueocean, #bluewater

Bring On The End Of (Dark) Days, Let's Reach For These (Bright) Stars - IMRAN™

Bring On The End Of (Dark) Days, Let's Reach For These (Bright) Stars - IMRAN™
What an amazing time to be alive... despite CoronaVirus, and Dark Days Of Drumpf Nazism, and fascism-inspired religious-bigotry-coated hate-mongering. Check out this amazing discovery, predicted by a scientist 40 years ago, made now by two private citizen stargazers.
Two stars that rotate around each other every 36 hours or so... Talk about zipping through space... But what is more incredible is how one of the stars, not a small rock, or comet, but an actual star, is a shape-shifter, likely responding to the attraction (gravity, in this case, nothing romantic or sexual, at least that I know of!) of the other.
What more will we be blessed to see discovered in our lifetimes? Assuming ignorant fools blowing off the threat of pandemics, or even bigger morons trying to hasten an "end of days", don't get us all killed. Vile power-grabbers or merely under-educated intellectually-challenged ones, spreading ignorance ad spewing hatred, instead of working together to solve world problems. But news like this shows us that we shall endure.
Fortunately, there are many more people from all nations and all races, all creeds and all religions, working hard to ensure that we, as a race, the human race, not black, brown, white, yellow, purple, or any other color races, but as the single united human race, not only make this the greatest planet ever created by the Big Bang (and by the even bigger creator of bangs somewhere even further out there!) but even reach beyond the stars... to boldly go where no (hu)man has gone before.
Now that is something all human hearts should pulse for, just like this newly discovered star. What do you think?

© 2020 IMRAN™

First of its kind ‘teardrop’ star pulses with its own rhythm. What other kinds of wild star shapes are out there? - Popular Science

https://www.popsci.com/story/space/teardrop-star/

Sailboat At Beer Can Island On Stunning Tampa Bay Florida Boating Sailin...

Sailiboat At Beer Can Island On Stunning Tampa Bay Florida Boating Sailing Day - IMRAN™ (3D SBS)
Enjoy a 3D view of a sailboat passing between my jetski and Beer Can Island on a stunning Tampa Bay, Florida, day for boating, sailing, and beach life.

© 2019 IMRAN™

Don't Think (And) You'll Live Forever! - IMRAN™

I will be honest. I have never dreamed of living forever. Life would be so boring. It would take away the drive to achieve what I can, to change the world (for the better) any way I can, to savor every moment of magic in nature, and every trembling moment of ecstacy with a beloved, if our lives on earth were not time-limited.

At the same time, it had always seemed ironic and tragic to me that some of the worst people on the planet lived the longest lives, especially horrendous politicians. Think Ghaffar Khan and Wali Khan in Pakistan, Dick Cheney in the USA, and many others around the planet.

In parallel, it seemed like the very country that the rest of the world's people spend their life savings to come for higher education, the United States, has become a place where people embrace ignorance and parents seem to prefer their kids to be future burger-flippers and sewer-cleaners rather than doctors, engineers, and more. People in the land that sent man to the moon now have to be convinced the earth is NOT flat, and that dinosaurs were not around at the time of Jesus, on a planet that is definitely older than 5000 years!

Meanwhile, in countries like Pakistan too, on the opposite end of the economic and religious spectrum, it is the illiterate, poverty stricken who also tend to have the most children. And the vile fundamentalists and terrorists, often funded by the Saudi-friends of Donald Trump and George W. Bush (not to mention Obama and all US presidents), are the ones who blow up children in schools, in the name of Islam. How doubly and horribly ironic and tragic that the VERY first word revealed to Prophet Muhammad was not Jihad, or prayers, or Mecca, or preach, but Iqra, ...READ!

NOW comes scientific research that... excuse my saying this... I F(*&ING hope AND pray is proven wrong.

"Excessive brain activity linked to a shorter life!" yells the Washington Post story about it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/10/16/excessive-brain-activity-linked-shorter-life/

Not only shall the evil type leaders continue to live longer lives, the stupid and brain-dead shall live longer and together the vile leading the morons shall inherit the earth. God help us all!

© 2019 IMRAN™

1 Minute Tampa Bay Florida Stunning Red Sunset Boating Livestream - IMRAN™

1 Minute Tampa Bay Florida Stunning Red Sunset Boating Livestream - IMRAN™
I just wanted to do a quick, barely one minute, livestream to play for you tonight's sunset. It was SO red against a pink sky that even the Nikon D850, which I did not get a chance to change the settings of from a photoshoot last night, was showing the red sun as golden yellow. But the much greater detail is obvious when you see the small bird sitting atop the channel marker. © 2019 IMRAN™

See 7 (Seas) Dolphins & A Stingray Together In Drone Flying Livestream With Kennedy At Tampa Bay Florida Sunset - IMRAN™

You will LOVE this music video created out of a longer livestream but sped up, but giving you perfect views of magical creatures. The music is my original composition, Rendezvous Plan, which is for my second music album. Here is the background of the video. It was still an hour before sunset when I saw some dolphins pass by my dock. By the time I got my drone from inside, got it going, and airborne, the dolphins had split into two groups. One went west in the shallow area and a group of seven went north, which is what I tracked in the drone flight livestream. On the iPhone X screen it was difficult to see if there were five or six dolphins. My friend Ronah, watching the livestream, posted a comment that she saw six. Later, I watched the recorded video on a larger monitor and in this one moment I saw seven dolphins, as a couple became more visible a couple were going deeper into the water made brackish by a month of torrential rains. But the bonus was a stingray that also came into the frame. See that at https://www.facebook.com/IMRAN.TV .


© 2019 IMRAN™

Man & Dog At Home Outside The Home - IMRAN™

What a joy to be able to see this photo and bow my head in gratitude at what I am blessed to call home on Tampa Bay, in Apollo Beach, Florida. Kennedy and I went into the water as I flew the DJI Phantom 4 overhead for a moody dusk sunset livestream. I captured a few photos of us from different angles. This was stitched from 3 separate photos. Can you see Kennedy and me?

© 2019 IMRAN™

Osprey Soars Over Stunning Sunset Tampa Bay Florida - IMRAN™

A gorgeous moment in time as an osprey, ready to dive in, hovers over its prey in Tampa Bay waters just as the bay gets ready to devour the sun ready to dive into the oceans of time.

© 2019 IMRAN™

Living Las Vegas: Sliver Of Creativity & Color At Bellagio - IMRAN™ (1)

 

 

 

 

 

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Living Las Vegas: Sliver Of Creativity & Color At Bellagio - IMRAN™ (1) A screenshot of a part of the stunning panorama made from 9 un-retouched, unedited and unprocessed in ANY way, iPhone X photos. The photos were SOOC (straight out of camera), and were simply auto-stitched in PhotoShop to make a magnificent panorama. This is just a sliver of the stunning scene inside the Bellagio, Las Vegas. That is one of my favorite hotels to stay at there. The dazzling display of explosive colors shower tranquility of a natural garden with the typical brash bold styles of Las Vegas.. . © 2018 IMRAN™ . #travel #lifestyle #adventure #blessings #LasVegas #nightlife #Nevada #SinCity #architecture #landmark #interiordesign #gambling #casino #events #lights #vegas #lasvegasstrip #perspective #iphoneX #IMRAN #bellagio #history #hotels

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A screenshot of a part of the stunning panorama made from 9 un-retouched, unedited and unprocessed in ANY way, iPhone X photos. The photos were SOOC (straight out of camera), and were simply auto-stitched in PhotoShop to make a magnificent panorama. Thus is just a sliver of the stunning scene inside the Bellagio, Las Vegas. That is one of my favorite hotels to stay at there. The dazzling display of explosive colors shower tranquility of a natural garden with the typical brash bold styles of Las Vegas.. 

© 2018 IMRAN™

#travel #lifestyle #adventure #blessings #LasVegas #nightlife #Nevada #SinCity #architecture #landmark #interiordesign #gambling #casino #events #lights #vegas #lasvegas #lasvegasstrip #perspective #iphoneX #IMRAN #bellagio #history #hotels (at Las Vegas, Nevada)

Throwing The Book (Of Opinions) On "Will Print Media Survive?" - IMRAN™

Throwing The Book (Of Opinions) On "Will Print Media Survive?" - IMRAN™
This is one of the questions I have seen asked for my literally 3 decades spent living in America (this coming week!) The irony of this question is that the words print and media have some overlap. Media, as in the industry encompassing information, news, knowledge, views, commentary, and print, a medium of distributing that content.
So, if the question is, will the “media” (industry) survive…… indeed, the answer is Yes, the real problem of fascism style labeling of real news as fake news and real(ly) fake news as (alternative?) facts notwithstanding, Will PRINT as a medium used by the media (industry) survive, is a more complex one. In the long run (when we are all dead anyway, as John Maynard Keynes said and wrote, ironically, in print, a long time ago), the pace of innovation, the sheer volume of information and knowledge, the staggering number of content types, content creators, and content creators, will make it practically impossible to rely on printed paper as the mainstream mass-use medium.
There are not enough trees, one could say, to sustain that volume of paper production, without destroying the remaining forests of the planet, regardless of how much reforestation gets done. Also, if we look at the real long run, when increasing numbers of us will be able to explore space travel, there is just no practical sense in bringing printing equipment on space rockets and even spaceships, much less trees and other plant forms to produce traditional paper. Plus, the amount of information we are already used to having at our fingertips just would not translate into printed paper as a practical means to carry it around.
Having said that, however, I will also say this, or as another great mind said last century or even earlier, predictions of the death of paper/print are exaggerated. When computers came on the scene, with dot matrix, inkjet, laser and color laser printers soon following, the actual production and consumption of paper grew massively.
That rate of growth, especially in a planet starved of space to store the paper, or grow the raw materials for paper, plus a species (not)hell-bound on finding new places to live on in space, will not be sustainable. So, I see traditional, especially high quality paper based printing becoming a growth industry, where the vanity of having a hardbound book rather than just being the author of an eBook, will ensure its survival for a while, much like vinyl albums are still around despite higher resolution audio sampling of today’s digital music libraries fitting in our back pockets.
Another interesting twist may be the very notion of paper to be printed on. If the current pace of innovation continues, what is to keep us from not having literally infinite printed books, where the actual electronic screens become so thin and so embedded into plant and forest based paper pages, that we could still be holding a paper book or two in hand, where flipping pages gives the tactile experience we are used to for millennia, but with all the words of the universe surrounding us in an invisible omnipresent network.
What do you think?

Imran Anwar
Tampa Bay, Florida
12/31/2018

© 2018 IMRAN™

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Lovers Cry Out In Unison At Dusk, As Pelican At Singing Sunset Hovers Like Humming Birds - IMRAN™

Lovers Cry Out In Unison At Dusk, As Pelican At Singing Sunset Hovers Like Humming Birds - IMRAN™

Sunsets sometimes sing silently, as flapping pelicans in a chorus hover across the crescendos of red and gold clouds,. The dusk settles into its gentle chorus, singing a sweet lullaby of love and passion, odes to dreams and desires, unloading beams of lights and hard shafts of shadows, as the sultry night serenades the hot sun, and the wetness of Tampa Bay is coated in the hues of solitude, soaking in the whiteness of life into the blend of ecstasy, Come, my loves, be mine, at sunset, where fantasy becomes reality, and reality becomes you, and you become mine.

© 2018 IMRAN™

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#IMRAN; #ImranAnwar; #Florida; #sunset; #TampaBay; #ApolloBeach; #boating; #boat; #silhouette; #dusk; #clouds; #water; #seaside; #ocean; #waterfront; #lifestyle; #luxury; #adventure; #Christmas; #holidays; #winter; @nikonusa #D850; #HDR

Ocean Of Tears, Memories Of Beloved Parents - Miami, Florida Sunset - IMRAN™

10 Years Tribute Post: "Nearly 30 days after the loss of my father, and a few days shy of the anniversary of my mother's untimely death at age 51, the waters of Biscayne Bay and Atlantic Ocean, with a blood red sunset, cried an ocean of hot tears in my soul."

© 2009-2018 IMRAN™

Terrific Thanksgiving Tampa Bay Beautiful Boating Wonderful Weekend Weather - IMRAN™

I hope you all had an absolutely wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and loved ones. I was blessed enough to spend it at my blessed home in Apollo Beach, Florida. After nearly 6 or more weeks I was able to make time to get out on the water and enjoy the absolutely perfect boating weather that Tampa Bay offers almost year-round. This is just a quick spin on the jet ski as I was coming back home from a great time and ride out to beer can Island.

© 2018 IMRAN™

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#Florida #TampaBay #ApolloBeach #boating #JetSki #homes #realestate #luxury #blessings #luxurylife #Thanksgiving #weekend #holiday #Beach #beachlife #bluesky #bluewater #seaside #adventure #gratitude #IMRAN #architecture #lifestyle

Spectacular Sweet Sunset Terrific Tampa Tuesday Lovely Landscape LivesStream - IMRAN™

Enjoy this view of the stunning Tampa Bay Florida sunset tonight at Apollo Beach.

I used the Nikon D850 video mode. Because I had to twist the zoom lens by hand in a few places you will see the video wiggle. But what gorgeous colors at this place I am blessed to live in.

Come, experience the magic with me.

© 2018 IMRAN™

Tampa Bay Flats Spin Apollo Beach Florida.- IMRAN™

Many of us became aware of the term flat spin from the deadly scene in Top Gun, when Tom Cruise's F14 TomCat loses airflow over the wings and spins flat down to the sea.

Thankfully there was no flat spin, nor any crash in water, in the filming of this aerial spin drone flying quick view of the flats on Tampa Bay at Apollo Beach, across from my blessed home.

It was a 45 seconds clip but I sped it up to save you time. :-) It was part of my livestream today which got disconnected a minute into the video.

I will share one by one the main clips I happened to have hit record on during flight. I hope you enjoy this virtual visit in visual reality.

© 2018 IMRAN™

International / Man (Of) / Mystery / Journey Part 2 - IMRAN™

Every journey continues with....

Step 2.... Spot 2...

Departing Tampa International Airport Florida.

All wordplay combinations intended.

Guess where I’m going & post in comments.

Who wants to come with me? 😄

Previous step of the story: https://www.facebook.com/IMRAN.TV/posts/10156497000566155

Next step: https://www.facebook.com/IMRAN.TV/posts/10156499087786155

© 2018 IMRAN™

International / Man (Of) / Mystery / Journey - IMRAN™

Every journey begins with....

Step 1.... Spot 1...

Leaving home, Apollo Beach Florida.

All wordplay combinations intended.

Guess where I’m going & post in comments.

Who wants to come with me? 😄

 

© 2018IMRAN™

Tampa Bay Sunset At Blessed Home Apollo Beach Florida - IMRAN™

Spectacular sunset at blessed home in Apollo Beach before my departure on a trip to....

(See https://www.facebook.com/IMRAN.TV/posts/10156497000566155 ) 😊

© 2018 IMRAN™

Tiniest Technical Trouble Can Spell Random Catastrophe For A Person & Their Loved Ones - IMRAN™

I was saddened to read this breaking #news from NBC News. "One killed as Southwest Airlines' Boeing jet makes emergency landing in Philadelphia".
The cause is not yet unknown and I am no aviation accident expert, but the photos show some sort of apparent catastrophic engine failure shredding the engine and pieces of it ripping into the cabin.
I regularly fly #Southwest in and out of LaGuardia Airport so I can imagine how random this was and how it could happen to anybody.
RIP lost fellow flier that lost their life today.
I wonder if #Trump will take responsibility for this considering he claimed credit for there being no airline fatalities last year.

©2018 IMRAN™

https://www.facebook.com/MyIMRAN/posts/2153082331375413

#aviation #tragedy #accident #flying #airlines #Boeing #opinion

New Year's Day First Sunset & Full Moonrise At Dusk Over Frozen Seaside Long Island NY - IMRAN™

I cannot describe how frigid and frostbite inducing cold the weather was on this New Year's Day as I drove from my East Patchogue home to Bellport dock on Long Island in New York. 
The Great South Bay had been frozen solid for a few days. There were some parts of water visible here but at my home beach sheets of ice several feed high were piled on where the sandy beach was supposed to be. Even in the few minutes I stood there to record some videos and take some photos, I was feeling my hands losing all feelings. 
You can see how the first sunset of the new year also coincided with the blood red full super blue moon which was rising on the other side. Other brave souls, more bundled up than me, had even come with tripods to capture the moment to remember forever. 
I am so blessed to have seen such magical creations of God.

© 2018 IMRAN™

Truth Is Black And White, Justice And (Statute Of) Liberty For All - IMRAN™

This is a screen capture of a very low resolution video I shot with a 10 years old camera while flying over Manhattan very recently. It was cloudy, it was dusk, and it was a gloomy day overall. The plane window was not that clear either and this was just a video clip I accidentally recorded for 1 second while trying to take a still photo. But, this shot was worth extracting and sharing. The simple truth is clear as Black and White, even at the gloomiest of times. Justice and (Statute Of) Liberty are for all humankind.
© 2018 IMRAN

Blessed Castle By The Sea Of Love Under The Sky Of Bright Passions & Dark Desires - IMRAN™

The magic of dusk, when moist pink passions lusciously innocently but tremblingly knowingly embrace the deep dark blue depths of desires and surrender with bold blind total submission to their chosen master, lover, and more.... gasping, “Take us, in every sense, in every way, and bend us as you will, to your every will, every wish, every command, every moment of night and day, and fill us, with every thrust, with every push, with every pull, with waves of love from your sea of love, that quench our thirsts in shared moments of ecstasy, to be replaced by our hungers for more, and more, and more. Let us come, to, with, and for you, our master, lover, ....and more!” ❤️❤️💙❤️❤️

© 2018 IMRAN™

Symphony Isles Christmas Lights Drive Home - IMRAN™

I am blessed to have a second home in this wonderful community called Symphony Isles, in a little piece of heaven called Apollo Beach, in a magical land known as Florida, in a great nation called the United States of America.
As a Muslim obviously Christmas is not a religious holiday to me (nor does it have anything to do with the birth date of Jesus Christ) but I celebrate it as a national holiday in the USA as I did in Pakistan where it was the birthday of the founder of the nation, as well as my late mother's birthday.
I just wanted to share this quiet drive home through the neighborhood with its lovely holiday lights. I sped up the playback to save time, I was not speeding. LOL.
Enjoy a drive-by viewing, and the music video, which is a track from my CD: nTrance, available on iTunes, Spotify, etc.

© 2017 IMRAN™

Apple's Lame Apology After Getting Caught In BatteryGate - IMRAN™

Nope Apple, this "Apology After Getting Caught" is NOT going to make Consumer Protection & deliberate Customer Experience degradation lawsuits go away.

"A Message to Our Customers about #iPhone Batteries and Performance"
https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/

Lame. Time for Tim Cook to go.

© 2017 IMRAN™

Spring Colors On Florida Christmas Day - IMRAN™

I just love Florida weather. To be able to walk on the beach in shorts & a T-Shirt during Christmas holidays weekend, when the Northeast is under attack by a blizzard, is such a joy.

And to see my flowers and bushes blooming in spring colors in the middle of winter is a delight.

This is a Samsung Note8 photo, shared from my iPhone. 

© 2017 IMRAN™

Word To The Wise! A Picture IS Worth A Thousand Words! - IMRAN™

I was delighted to see this cool & powerful Microsoft feature in Office 365. Now you can search for words in your images in #Microsoft #Office365!

With such algorithms and more & more Artificial Intelligence in use in all types of software, I predict the end of differentiating between text and image files, with it all being seamless information available to us and our tools.

What do you think?

 

© 2017 IMRAN™

Branding, Marketing And User Experiences - IMRAN™

Here’s an interesting post from McKinsey & Company at http://gtnr.it/2yKRmyg . 

Great brands are built by frequent customer delight at consistently great customer experiences. 

Most brands today offer average or even sometimes lousy user experiences, but try to make up for it with greater marketing spend. 

There’s only so far even great marketing can take a brand, IMHO. 

What do you think ?

© 2017 IMRAN™ 

Crazy Is The New Normal - Global Uncertainty & (Seemingly) Unstoppable Economies & Stock Markets - IMRAN™

We live in surreal times. I read this business news item on LinkedIn, "BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: Global Economy Strong Despite Political Dysfunction."

In a normal world political uncertainty always threatens the global economy, consumer confidence, and stock markets.

Now it seems either some invisible hand is at work in keeping markets rising or people have assumed that Crazy is the new Normal in politics, at least for the foreseeable future.

Are we all being set up for a new shock crash, which will again make the rich richer and the middle class poorer?

What do you think?

 

© 2017 IMRAN™

Need Talented Hardware & Software Electronics Engineers For Different Types Of Projects - IMRAN™

As a Pakistani-American and UET Lahore Electrical Engineer, I know how many brilliant minds, even technical geniuses, were just in my own class of 80-Electrical. So, I always think of Pakistanis as well as UET students or recent grads first when I have ideas where I may need to hire someone for side projects or new ideas I want to develop into something more. 

Sometimes I need to hire someone for a short project, sometimes longer. But I would also love to find one or more very capable electrical/electronics engineers I can use regularly, not fulltime, but part-time on different projects and ideas. Could that be You?

Ideally you would be great at designing and prototyping innovative new things in side projects for me. That takes more than just having a degree. (After all, even I have that. 😊). Here are some of the skills I would require.

You have great command of English, total ability to hear an idea and technical requirements, and design the hardware / prototype and / or write the middleware / software or web apps. By that I mean more than "Oh I can do responsive website and SEO for you!"

A full understanding of intellectual property concepts and areas (including patent, trademark, copyright, and licensing) is essential. I repeat: Knowing about what patents are, and what is needed to get one issued by USPTO or Pakistan PTO, is absolutely essential.

The following are skills specific to various projects that I do NOT expect any one person to have. So I may need different people for different projects related to:

Electrical/Electronics Engineering

- Wireless / Home Automation and integration to other IoT systems, including interface and middleware. Nothing massively complex, but being able to make seemingly unrelated things interface and communicate. (e.g. …this is just an EXAMPLE... if I wanted to have a doorbell ringing outside the house to trigger a dot matrix printer to print Hello World, then he or she would be able to make that happen. Again, this is an EXAMPLE, not an actual idea!)

- Mobile Phone (iOS and Android) expertise to design accessories for Apple/Samsung etc. devices with apps to use that accessory. (e.g. design an extra external camera accessory for smartphones and software to capture data from the external and built-in device together). Only for EXAMPLE check out the FLIR InfraRed external camera for iPhones. (www.flir.com/flirone/ios-android/ )

- Android open source operating system customization (e.g. and this is only an EXAMPLE.... to customize Android for an IMRAN-Phone that just changes the screen display based on location and temperature). 

- Web Apps. not websites, development expertise. For EXAMPLE, think more about building FaceBook the SYSTEM not just offering to do FaceBook’s index.php page design.

- BlockChain, with knowledge of micropayments and BitCoin, smart contracts, digital currency.

Patent Drawing With Mechanical Engineering A Plus

- Patent Drawing EXPERIENCE of actually FILED patent(s), not just wasting my time by saying “I can draw plan, elevation, side view!” or that “I can do anything in SketchUp or other 3D or illustration program.” You need to ACTUALLY KNOW and have experience of having MADE the very SPECIFIC types of PATENT DRAWINGS required by the USPTO. Please do NOT waste my time if you do not know what I am talking about specifically here. This person can be a NON-ENGINEER or non-Electrical engineer, or even a talented teenager.

If you already do this type of work through sites like Fiverr, etc. that would make life simpler. I will need you to sign NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) and agreements to ensure that the intellectual property is protected and that you will neither re-use it nor use it yourself nor let anyone else have or use or copy from it. If interested, write in detail on what your areas of expertise are, what kind of time you are available, and rates. You may contact me via: http://imran.com/contactus.php but make sure to use an accurate and valid email address. To make sure your message is found and not lost in spam blockers, leave a comment below also to let me know. Let's see what great projects we can do together!

IMRAN

Apollo Beach Tampa Bay Florida Jet Ski Racing Sailing Boating Cruising HyperLapse - IMRAN™

I love Florida and I love boating. Combining those two is easy when I am blessed to live in Apollo Beach, on Tampa Bay.
This is a low-resolution (merely 640x480) video saved from a Twitter Livestream, using their Periscope platform. The quality of Periscope videos is much lower than FaceBook's livestreaming quality these days.
But, you can see why this area is a boating paradise for every kind of mariner, See cruise ships, tankers, cargo ships, yachts, sailboats, cruisers, boats, pontoons, jet skis and almost every form of watercraft in this one video.
It is sped up to nearly 500% so a half hour stream can be enjoyed in under 4.5 minutes.
The music track is my nTrance To The Tunnel Of Love, the title album of my music CD that you can listen to on Spotify, Google Play, Microsoft, iTunes, CDbaby, and all major music platforms.
Enjoy. Like, love, comment, share!

© 2017 IMRAN™

Farewell Jerry Lewis - IMRAN™

Jerry Lewis, 91, passes away. RIP.

His movies were mostly slapstick and almost always had the same formula, but as kids we loved watching his goofball comedy movies on TV in Pakistan.

What movies of his do you remember and enjoyed the most?

His best role came later in life with charity work.

© 2017 IMRAN™

My Boat Slip, A Sailboat & Stunning Sunset Skies At Long Island Home Marina - IMRAN™

Walking back home from the beach, after yesterday's gorgeous sunset livestream, I took the longer part of the boardwalk back home.

This way I could catch the stunning shades of dusk and magical clouds against the beautiful boating scene at my boat slip.

My neighbor's sailboat enhanced the view.

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Sunset Boardwalk Beach Walk. Deer. ParaGliders. Long Island. LiveStream - IMRAN™

Sunset Boardwalk Beach Walk. Deer. ParaGliders. Long Island. LiveStream - IMRAN™

Come along for a walk on my boardwalk in New York as a beautiful Long Island sunset acts as a backdrop for exciting views of a powered parachute flying by while I get up close and personal with a mama deer and her baby.

Then watch birds and boats pass by me at the beach while the colors of dusk fill the sky.

© 2017 IMRAN™

Real Red/Blue Map Of Votes By County Shows Reality - IMRAN™

I do not belong to any political party and was not a fan of Hillary Clinton. But I knew, and publicly stated, why Donald Trump would be the worst thing to happen to the USA.

The non-stop crisis, chaos, collusion and scandals are bearing it out. Every day he says something that makes things worse.

Almost every day something new and more shocking is revealed. His actions literally are the opposite of everything he claimed in his election campaign.

By now even people on Mars (the red planet) and endangered penguins in Antarctica have seen Trump's Red/Blue map which he whips out all the time -- even when he is asked about something else!

Yes, this Russia-funded Putin puppet won Electoral College with his message (of hate & lies plus Russia's help).

But for the sake of understanding the real state of the union, take a look at this real counties' voting map (from the Washington Post) shows voters' choices by county. America is not as crazy as Trump's Red/Blue map would make the world think!

The intense red spots are the areas where the fringe/lunatic/rabid people who love the man who lied to them are based in highest concentrations. I wish someone would overlay this map on a map of percentage of people with a college degree. Or a map of people and iQ scores, or SAT scores for that matter!

Not all of the people in these red spots are terrible. Many are simple minded, mostly undereducated folks, who are gullible to any snake oil seller's claims.

Thankfully,, these people are not the sharpest tools in the shed. They are by no means the majority of the country. They, and their limited ability to admit to their mistake.

Their delusional, often moronic, statements that Trump is right next to Jesus in being a gift of God, show that Trump can fool some of the people all of the time. Don't believe me? See this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC6wc03OjhY . Also, https://goo.gl/images/LFvsCN shows how correct the late George Carlin was!

And that's how Trump, and his supporters, like it. They embrace living in a world of delusion, hatred, bigotry, illiteracy and falsehoods that sound good. Some openly admit to not wanting to know real facts!

They are the ones demanding and expecting great things in life, like well paying jobs, without even being able to speak, read or write proper English. Many of these areas are the biggest users of ObamaCare, but yelled asking for the failed Repeal & Replace effort.

God save their children from growing up with such ignorance and stupidity. God save our country, and our planet, from the damage Trump and his cronies are doing to it.

 

© 2017 IMRAN™

Terrific Tuesday Boardwalk Sunset Walk Marina To Beach At Long Island Home New York - IMRAN™

 

Come along for a walk enjoying the beautiful landscape and nature's tranquility at my blessed home. Even better for you, you won't be bitten by gnats as I was being eaten alive by them during this livestream. LOL.

You'll also love this highlights music video. https://www.facebook.com/IMRAN.TV/posts/10155754333871155 also!

© 2017 IMRAN™

When Being Boiled Alive Is Not Punishment Enough - IMRAN™

I am sickened reading about this triple-murderer. Even a simple death penalty would not have been enough for his first murder!

Why was this man not fried for the first murder? Then he was let out and allowed to kill again...! Why was he not BOILED alive for that? But he was then let out AGAIN to murder AGAIN?

I generally do not support violence. But in this case I would not shed a single tear if the victims' loved ones seek vengeance on the parole boards and judges who let this son of Satan continue living and being set free so he could continue taking lives. 

What do you think?

© 2017 IMRAN™

Using CVS App A Prescription For Invasion Of Privacy - IMRAN™

Why is CVS Pharmacy trying to track #consumers' #location even when we are not actually using their App? Sleazy invasion of #privacy and a #security risk! Shameful #UX design decision. Maybe the Federal Trade Commission can find out.

© 2017 IMRAN™

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Euro Stairway To Heaven - IMRAN™

Thanks to my beautiful beloved companion Shasha for the many awesome photos she took of me during our amazing time together in Berlin, Germany, five years ago.

She took this candid photo by calling out to me as I was going up a staircase to see if this place was worth exploring. I had made this trip to Germany EXACTLY 25 Years after my first visit there.

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#ThrowbackThursday, #IMRAN, #Berlin, #Germany, #travel, #portrait, #graffiti

Spectrum's DialUp Age Service & Stone Age CRM - IMRAN™

Spectrum's DialUp Age Service & Stone Age CRM - IMRAN™

I had to tweet about the "Moronic #UXdesign POS #UserExperience Spectrum. Dead service.Stupid phone menu identifies my account from callerID but doesn't know what service I have!"

Even a caveman era CRM system would know I do not get any shitty service from Spectrum other than Internet, which is that lame asymmetrical 200/20.

Yet, their retarded CustomerService number (20 minutes to get a rep) lists through their various services I do NOT have to ask if I am calling about those. Retards.

Spectrum is shitty enough to make me give sleazy Frontier another chance for the symmetric speeds.

© 2017 IMRAN™

Delightful Dramatic Dusk Spectacular Sunset Scene Beautiful Blessed Beach Long Island New York Home - IMRAN™

Delightful Dramatic Dusk Spectacular Sunset Scene Beautiful Blessed Beach Long Island New York Home - IMRAN™

Cloud covered skies made sunset short duration but made dramatic colors all around at the Great South Bay, at my blessed home in East Patchogue, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.

See the livestream at http://facebook.com/MyIMRAN

© 2017 IMRAN™

Delightful Dramatic Dusk Spectacular Sunset Scene Beautiful Blessed Beach Long Island New York Home - IMRAN™

Cloud covered skies made sunset short duration but made dramatic colors all around at the Great South Bay, at my blessed home in East Patchogue, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.

See the livestream at http://facebook.com/MyIMRAN

© 2017 IMRAN™

Smooth Power Of TakeOff Doha To New York - IMRAN™

 My most recent trip to visit my siblings was on our beloved late mother's 25 death anniversary. I got a great round trip airfare flying on Qatar Airways, JFK New York to Lahore with stops in Doha, Qatar each way. Great new planes and fares but I can honestly say Etihad Airways and Emirates service is far better. The airport itself was boring and the staff was unpleasant and least bothered about service with a smile overall. I managed to capture this video taking off from Doha taking off for NY. Check out the incredible water colors of the Khaleej, the Gulf, there. And enjoy the airflow becoming visible over the wings as moisture left a visible trail. Some idiots would insist that was "chemtrails" if they saw it from the ground. 😄😄

© 2017 IMRAN™

#flying #travel #aviation #Qatar #Khaleej

Growing A 'Small' Business By Getting Down To Hard Work & Pleasing Customers With More Than Lip Service! - IMRAN™

Growing A 'Small' Business By Getting Down To Hard Work & Pleasing Customers With More Than Lip Service! - IMRAN™ 😂

I do not know if this is a hoax but it sure sounds more funny than sexy.

First they will ask, "My pad or your iPad?". Then they will, ahem, get down to business which requires hard work.

Pleasing the customer would be more than lip service. LOL.

Q. Will the BJ providers wear protection on their head? No, no, the real head! In case of hot spilled coffee, you know. LOL

Not to be outdone. perhaps the US coffee chain can rebrand itself as Starƒucks. 😀

 

© 2017 IMRAN™

DO's, DOESN'Ts And DON'Ts, If You Love Grammar - IMRAN™

What a great photo this is that I just had to Share and comment on. I LOVE the photo for its tongue in cheek humor, implied sexuality, obvious voyeurism & exhibitionism and innuendo. Plus, I love the grammar lesson too that so many need. See the bottoms of the shoes.

Now we need a photo that explains the difference between DON'T and DOESN'T which so many people are too oblivious or don't seem to know. 

Even worse, some blame 'auto-correct' when, in fact, if they even type DOESNT without the apostrophe, auto-correct would fix that to DOESN'T.

As I always say, "Artificial Intelligence cannot fix Natural Stupidity!"  Siri can't fix Lazy, Stupid or UnderEducated. :-)

The funny thing is how native English speakers would make fun of foreigners or foreign-born people, especially low-income immigrants, for their accents or supposed poor English.

These days it is foreign-born people who still speak proper English compared to the bast majority of my fellow Americans. On top of that, almost every year it is always immigrant minority kids that win major spelling competitions.

I do not see things getting any better for the standards of education, including English, what to say of Maths and Science, with Donald Trump in the White House and his ignorance-embracing mindset and policies that make George W. Bush seem like a genius.

What do you think?

Imran Anwar
© 2017 IMRAN™

Florida Boating Jet Skiing Tubing Fun & Wipeout Music Video 4K - IMRAN™

Florida Boating Jet Skiing Tubing Fun & Wipeout Music Video 4K - IMRAN™
I was relaxing on Memorial Day Weekend, when I saw a group of friends on a boat and jet ski with a tube in tow appear from the left. I clicked to record what I figured would be a fun thing to watch happening. And it sure was. Enjoy this music video I made using my "Start At 'The End'" music track first released with a 360° Montauk New York driving video. Watch for the tubing fun and the wipeout! Enjoy the boats going by showing why Apollo Beach is such a great place to enjoy life on the water.

© 2017 IMRAN™