Free freedom is a myth (Opinion)

Freedom is the dearest concept to human being but there is not free freedom. If you think that freedom is natural rights of human then you are utterly wrong. Just try it to get free. Go to deseart, Jungle, remote moutains etc where nobody out there to give you instruction or you have to obey man-made laws and obligations. Yes you can do it but with a cost. You are denied of the knowledge, services and technologies that you get living in a city. If you live in city you get these resources but you have to abide laws, follow social norms and take instructions. Eeverything you want to do, you have to pay for it. What you can do is depend how much you can afford. Hence your freedom is limited by the price you can afford and willing to pay.

What should be excluded from free market economy? (Opinion)

A few years before we were reading about financial crises in the papers but now we read them in the faces and behaviores of people. People have different opinions about financial crises but one thing all agree on that financial crises occur from time to time. If it happens from time to time so it is the responsibility of the governments to know which of the society is most vulnerable to these crises and what kind of the prevention benefit them most?
As it is concerned to me, my analysis is, the basic social services like, health, education and community housing should be excluded from free market economy. I accept that free market economy is necessary for harnessing the creativity, leadesrship and education of a nation. However health, education and community housing for those who can't afford private housing or renting is the most basic human needs that has no harm to creative competativeness.
A hundred percent private health services mean denying life to a lot of people who cannot afford it. A hundred percent private higher education means denying high education to a lot of talented poor students who deserve but can't afford it.

CONTRASTISM

While listening to the North Carolina Symphony, I was unable to define my feelings. I was amazing about the abstractness of my feelings. Then I started to concentrate on the music to find my answer. Yes the answer was in the music. The music had a contrasting composition. Contrast has a unique ability to excite the human mind. It is a wonderful technique to liberate and free the mind. Here I thought that if the men of literature and artists also apply this technique in their discipline a whole new genera of art and literature will be produced that could make the base of a new culture in the history of future.

Definition:-

Contrastism is an aesthetically or romantic expression of feelings in literature and arts using contrasting feelings, symbols, colors, sounds, objects, etc.

Short explanation:-

Two opposite feelings make a very unique composition to awake up the feelings motivated by intuition, a feeling that rarely happens. When music or an expression make the feelings run between defined or commonly known but contrasting feelings, it makes the emotions abstract. Here in the abstraction of feelings one's emotions and sensations wander and struggle for point to rest. Wandering of this kind are neither joys nor sadness but an abstract feeling. One in this status awakes the intuition and reveals the points that very rarely available to normal thinking process. In normal state of mind both logic and emotions have clocks. Emotional clocks determine the status of one's routine emotions and also clock of logic determine one's normal judgment. Contrastism makes disturb these clocks and make one liberated of his routine for some special set of feelings and judgments. This is a strong tool in the hand of the creative men wherever they apply

It Is Not Raining To Wash My Tears

The eyes can’t cover the heights of towers
Mind slept when failed measuring powers
Stomachs are filled but bodies are exhausted
As roses replaced by plastic flowers

It is not raining to wash my tears
There is no cry to awake my ears
Cessations are ruling over passions
As greediness leads the careers

O! My dear heart, don’t wish those wings
That devoured the crowns of Kings
Hew in a way your rocked fortune
That led those who were off the hinges
3/7/2002

Equality....????
It is the end of end
Beginning of a new trend
For proud of beauty and glory of mind
I told my heart to be kind
I washed my blood to whiteness of peace
That could bond with every possible bind

But I was wrong of thinking equality
Lord have decided the rule of superiority
Lord may help me of avoiding sympathy
Keeping thicker the blood remain my priority

It is the end of end
And beginning of a new trend
We have to pay for every move of history
Until evils of hearts have to surrender
9/6/2003

But Nearer Is My Skin
It was the place where I was born
How strange! All images of childhood torn
A pleasure more than pleasure of childhood
No glimpse of old evening, morning and noon

It was a total change but everything was splendid
A change in manners was a progress indeed
Everyone was busy but silence was by its pleasant softness
Cleanliness was as evident as heart of a candid

My pleasures changed to proud when I met my kith and kin
Near is my shirt but nearer is my skin
Awareness has washed the last dots of sin
It proved that from determination, God’s will could be win

Days later, my hearts filled with din
I threw my all impression into bin
Things that I searched were out of scene
Fish’s tail is not much different from fish’s fin
Never seen a wrestler that by himself wrestled
The attractive but empty shell whistled

When there is no direction then greed rule
That between a castle, many have castled
I pray to Allah that wisdom may kiss them
And ostentations may not tease them
That their beliefs do not bow to doubts
Time may not see their children’s eyes out
6/9/2004

Pomegranate (Punica Granatum)

Background Information:

Punica granatum belongs to Lythraceae family of plants. It is a shrub to tree size plants that grow in Mediterranean climate. It is grown both as a fruit tree and as ornamental trees. Despite of its great adaptability, it is limited to warm areas as it can’t endure cold. It is thought that it is originated in ancient Persia and spread to rest of warm climate region from semi-arid to subtropical regions. This assumption is supported by the genetic diversity of Punica from Iran. More than 760 genotypes of Punica are reported from Iran. Beside Iran, Southeast Turkey and Mediterranean Basin are the areas that are well known for diversity of Punica from ancient times. Iran and Turkey is still famous for their production of Punica. In 2003, Iran produced 665,000 tons of Punica and Turkey is producing approximately 100,000 metric tons each year (Ercisli et al., 2007). Beside Iran and Turkey it is extensively produced in India, China, Russia, Japan and California of USA. Beside California, it is cultivated in Arizona, Georgia, Alabama, Nevada and Utah (Hodgson et al., 1917). The, Mediterranean countries ancient home of Punica are still producing Punica and include Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and neighboring Spain. Punica has symbolic importance in cultures and religions originated in Middle East and Mediterranean region, like ancient Greece, ancient Persian cultures and Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Areas of the world where the pomegranate is cultivated, shown by red dots
Its Persian name is “ انار” which is pronounced as “Annar” and it is known with its Persian name in South Asia and Central Asia specially in Urdu and Persian speaking areas. It is called “رمان “Arabic which is pronounced as “Romman”. Its scientific name, Punica granatum is derived from two Latin words, “pomum” meaning apple and “granatus” meaning “seeded”.
General Description:

Punica is shrub in colder regions but in tropical regions, it reaches to tree size of 10 to 15 feet in height. Trees are usually deciduous though some varieties are evergreen. It's flowering time ranges from spring to late summer which increases the success of pollination. Starting from visible part, leaves are usually opposite and sometimes alternate. The leaves are approximately half inch wide and 3 inches long and their shape is oblong and lanceolate. They are relatively thick, without glands, and cutin coating is visible by bright surfaces of leaves. Its leaves have entire margins.

The flowers are dominantly red however some varieties with red and white colors are reported from Java area of Indonesia ( John Uri Lloyd, 1897). The flowers are zygomorphic with five to seven thick and leathery adnate sepals and with same number of petals. Flowers are axillary, solitary or in small clusters, borne mainly at the tip of branches. On average flower size is half inch in size. Calyx are peculiarly orange or red in color, showy, tubular with five to seven sepals. Petals are crumpled and are white to scarlet red in color. Some flowers are steril and fall off early. The imperfect flowers have small pistils. Almost all flowers in ornamental types are steril (Hodgson et al., 1917). The fruit size varies greatly. Fruit weight ranged from 103.38 to 505.00 g and fruit volume from 99.41 to 547.88 cm3 (Vahid et al, 2009). The fruit is composed a thick leathery envelope, covering red juicy seeds that are separated in different chambers by white skinny layers.

General Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae, Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Myrtales Family: Lythraceae
Genus: Punica Species: Punica granatum
Formerly Pomegranate was classified in a separate family Punicaceae that had a single Genus Punica. Genus Punica is now included in family Lythraceae. The closest to Punica granata is Crape myrtle trees in Lythraceae family which have identical leaves and sepals to P. granata. Order Myrtle contains 14 families of flowering plants.
Important Chemicals:
The bark of its roots tastes sour and turns water blue that precipitate in ferric salts. This is due of presence of 20 to 22% of tannic acid which is also called punicotannic acid referring to Punica. Beside fruits the rinds of fruits are also rich in punictannic acid containing almost 19%. Wild types have higher concentration of punicotannic acid than cultivars ones. Some flowers have tannic acid that taste bitter and turn saliva red. The root bark also contains several alkaloids. The most important one which posses anthelmintic properties are known as pelletierine. Pomegranate fruit is rich in vitamin-C and ellagic acid and it is famous for its rich anti-oxidant.
B-Sitosterol, Friedelin, D-Mannitol, Ursolic and Betulic acids were detected in the different parts of Punica granatum L (Ashraf et al. 1962?)

Following is the a table of nutrients content of Pomegranate taken from USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 23 (2010),

Refuse: 44% (Skin and membrane)
Scientific Name: Punica granatum

Uses:
Cuisine and Fruit:
Aash (Persian soup) is one of the favorite dishes in Persian cuisine. Pomegranate Aash is one of many varieties of Aash series dishes. It is one of favorite fruit in Middle East, Mediterranean region, Central Asia and South Asia.
Tanning:
Moors is famous in tanning morocco by rind of Punica and it were Moors that introduced morocco to Spain. Beside Moors, Chinese and Japanese also use rind of Punica for tanning.
Dyeing:
Rind of Punica is used to dye fabrics and cloths in ancient India (and it is used but limited) and in Balkh area present day Afghanistan.
Medicinal Properties:
The anthelmintic properties of rind of pomegranate are found from ancient papyrus and it is used in this way in ancient Roman Empire (Hohn Uri, 1897). The combination of powdered rind of pomegranate and opium is used to control diarrhea in home remedies.
Other Medicinal Properties:
Asharf (Ashraf et al, 1962?) tested on the effect of D-Mannitol extracted from different parts of pomegranate (bark of root, leaves and flower) and seed oils and on mice rabbits to see their effect. Following is the summary of their experiments,
“Biological testing of the various extracts of the leaves, seeds, root and stem bark revealed their hypotensive, antispasmodic and anthelmintic effects. D-Mannitol was found to possess some anthelmintie properties and possible constipating value. Hormonal experiments on the oil showed that it has an oestrogenic activity but is devoid of any androgenic effect.”

Sensitivity:

As Punica granatum is native in semi-arid tropical region so it is really sensitive to frost, especially early frost in winter and spring. So, it is needed to save the plant from frost and too much humidity. Another aspect that should be cared is winter pruning. As plant grow vigorously when climate is suitable so pruning in winter is necessary to keep plant in shape and also having more fruit bearing branches.

Several pests have reported from California State of US includes, flat mite (Brevipalpus lewisi), Omnivorous leafroller (Platynola stultana), western leaf-footed plant bug, Comstock mealybug and Root-knot nematode. Besides, its fruits are damaged by heart rot as a result of Alternaria fungus infection.

References:

Anonymous, 2003. Area under cultivation and production of selected perennial crops. Iran Statistical Year Book 2003. Statistical Center of Iran.

A. SHARAF, M. ]3. E. FAYEZ & S. A. R. NEGI, PHARMACOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF PUNICA GRANATUM L. Research Units of Pharmacology and Natural Products, National Research Centre, Cairo, U.A.R., 1962?

Ercisli S, Agar G, Orhan E, Yildirim N, Hizarci Y (2007). Interspecific variability of RAPD and fatty acid composition of some pomegranate cultivars (Punica granatum L) growing in Southern Anatolia Region in Turkey. Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 35: 764-769.

Graham, S. A., Thorne & Reveal (May 1998). "Validation of subfamily names in Lythraceae". Taxon 47 (2): 435–436.

Robert W. Hodgson, "The pomegranate", University of California Press, Berkeley, Bulletin No. 276, January 1917. P, 163, 169,

Vahid Akbarpour, Khodayar Hemmati and Mehdi Sharifani, Physical and Chemical Properties of Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) Fruit in Maturation Stage, American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 6 (4): 411-416, 2009