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Dear Readers, We, at Ideas Evolved, like millions of others, are rendered speechless by the things that are going on around us– massacre of Muslims in Burma without the media making any attempt to influ-ence it to stop, 300+ people being burned to death and the fire brigade failing to save the day, de-struction of public property as Muslims around the world protest a video blaspheming the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and much more– stories that we hear so many times that we have become apathet-ic to them. We have stopped trying to understand what is going on and why is it happening. Our country is turning to ashes right before our eyes. Alas, human nature is impossible to encapsulate. We more traits than we have words, and thus hu-man nature is far too complicated and diverse to completely understand. Comprehension eludes all of us. Conflicts arise for many reasons, but at the root of every struggle is the desire to understand, wheth-er it be ourselves or others. Conflict erupts be-cause one side’s definitions of ‘just’ and ‘good’ do not intertwine with another’s ideals, and hence the lack of understanding leads to struggle. But what of this realization? When do people, if ever, realize that only through vigilance and taking the time to understand can we solve an issue? My guess is; never, and this is because a lot of people do not know what it means to think with one’s

heart. I believe that by being morally self-sacrificing, and through patience, we as human beings can break down the walls that fortify our hearts from each other, isolating our ideals and as-pirations. It should not be about differentiating about ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ It should be about promoting what is mutually beneficial and making due with sacrific-es necessary to maximize stability in the long run. We all wonder “what can I do?” A good starting point will be to start being more tolerant, learning to forgive and forget, hold on to principles and have faith in fate. We cannot change the world, but if each one of us starts being more tolerant and patient, we might change the future of Pakistan. This editorial is not written to celebrate or mourn anything, but only to reiterate: “What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and er-ror; let us pardon reciprocally each other's fol-ly - that is the first law of nature.” ~ Voltaire So yes, try that. Pardon reciprocally the folly of those around you and see if that makes the world even remotely better. Best Regards, Syed Sameer Rahman A concerned Pakistani

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Dear Readers, We, at Ideas Evolved, like millions of others, are rendered speechless by the things that are going on around us– massacre of Muslims in Burma without the media making any attempt to influ-ence it to stop, 300+ people being burned to death and the fire brigade failing to save the day, de-struction of public property as Muslims around the world protest a video blaspheming the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and much more– stories that we hear so many times that we have become apathet-ic to them. We have stopped trying to understand what is going on and why is it happening. Our country is turning to ashes right before our eyes. Alas, human nature is impossible to encapsulate. We more traits than we have words, and thus hu-man nature is far too complicated and diverse to completely understand. Comprehension eludes all of us. Conflicts arise for many reasons, but at the root of every struggle is the desire to understand, wheth-er it be ourselves or others. Conflict erupts be-cause one side’s definitions of ‘just’ and ‘good’ do not intertwine with another’s ideals, and hence the lack of understanding leads to struggle. But what of this realization? When do people, if ever, realize that only through vigilance and taking the time to understand can we solve an issue? My guess is; never, and this is because a lot of people do not know what it means to think with one’s

heart. I believe that by being morally self-sacrificing, and through patience, we as human beings can break down the walls that fortify our hearts from each other, isolating our ideals and as-pirations. It should not be about differentiating about ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ It should be about promoting what is mutually beneficial and making due with sacrific-es necessary to maximize stability in the long run. We all wonder “what can I do?” A good starting point will be to start being more tolerant, learning to forgive and forget, hold on to principles and have faith in fate. We cannot change the world, but if each one of us starts being more tolerant and patient, we might change the future of Pakistan. This editorial is not written to celebrate or mourn anything, but only to reiterate: “What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and er-ror; let us pardon reciprocally each other's fol-ly - that is the first law of nature.” ~ Voltaire So yes, try that. Pardon reciprocally the folly of those around you and see if that makes the world even remotely better. Best Regards, Syed Sameer Rahman A concerned Pakistani

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1. Aitchison College – Ahmad Tabassum

2. APCOMS - Ayesha Siddique

3. Bahauddin Zakaria University - Iram Shah

4. Bahauddin Zakariya University - Ahmad Riaz

5. Beaconhouse ALGC – Usman Mahmood

6. Beaconhouse Defence – Fatima Aslam

7. Beaconhouse Defence—Muntaha Aslam

8. Dawood Public School - Anamta Rafiq

9. Fast University - NUCES - Naveed Khalid

10. FC College – Muhammad Omer Imran

11. FC College - Soha Naveed

12. Hamdard University Islamabad - Sohail khan

13. International Islamic University - Asma Iftekhar

14. Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar - Salman

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15. International Islamic University - Rabeea Amjad

16. Karachi Generation's School - Kashaf Asim

17. Karachi Grammar School - Hammad Mansoor Pai

18. Kinnaird College For Women - Maheer Anum

19. Kinnaird College For Women - Noor Rehman

20. Kinnaird College for Women - Hina Khurshid

21. Lahore College for Women - Rabia Waqar

22. LGS 55 Main - Natasha Sohail Chaudhary

23. LGS Paragon - Zaiem Uddin

24. LGS Paragon – Ayesha Raees

25. LGS JT - Tayyab Shafiq

26. LSE (4th Year) – Meesaq Qayyum

27. LUMS (3rd Year) - Yasar Qamar

28. NUST Islambad - Usama farooq

29. NUST Islambad - Muhammad Ahmed Khan

30. NUST Karachi - Mohammad Sufyan Janjua

31. NUST Business School - Eilaf Zehra

32. Nishtar Medical College - Usman Ali Akbar

33. Nixor College - Tooba Sardar

34. Punjab College of Information Technology - Shaf Younas

35. PU, College of Environmental Sciences - Saman Sana

36. PU, Institute of Business Administration - Rumaan Naeem

37. Rawalpindi Medical College - Hussain Sarwar

38. St. Patrick's High School - Muhammad Ghufran Rafique

39. University Of Lahore - Aqib Javed

40. University of Punjab. Gjw—Zohaib Akhlaq

INTERNATIONAL AMBASSADORS

1. BPP Business School, London - Raja Jamal

2. Petroleum Institute - Omeir Riaz

3. University of Toronto - Momin Ahmed

4. University of Toronto - Komal Hussain

5. University of Waterloo - Ali Hassan

6. York University - Musa Ahmed Bajwa

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Roger Federer and Serena Wil-liams Reclaim Wimbledon Title

Serena Williams beat first time final-

ist, Poland's Agnieszka Radwan-ska 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 to win her fifth Wimbledon women's singles title. Later in the same day, Serena and her sister Venus Williams win the women's doubles championship for the fifth time. Roger Federer breaks the heart of all Brits, in-cluding Scotland's Andy Murray when he defeats Murray 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 in the men's singles championship. With the win, Federer claims his seventh Wim-bledon singles title, tying the rec-ord shared by Pete Sampras and William Renshaw. The win also means Federer will once again be the #1 ranked player in the world. Great Britain hasn't had a men's singles champion since Fred Perry in 1936.

Libya Holds First National Elec-tion Since Qaddafi

For the first time since Col. Muam-

mar Qaddafi was ousted, Libyans vote in a national election. At least two people are killed due to armed assaults on voting centers. In the city of Kufur, some voting centers close due to an ongoing battle between tribes. Despite the-se obstacles, turnout is over 60 percent. (July 8): Early election re-sults show a coalition led by Mahmoud Jibril is ahead of Islam-ist parties in votes. Jibril is a West-ern-educated political scientist. His coalition's lead is a sign that Libya, unlike Egypt and Tunisia, is not trending toward Islamist rule.

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2012 Summer Games Open with an

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Some 80,000 people in Olympic Stadi-

um and billions worldwide watch as

Britain celebrates its milestones and

points of pride, from the Industrial

Revolution to its National Health Sys-

tem to Harry Potter in a high-tech cere-

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Boyle. One of the most talked about

events featured stunt doubles for James

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Elizabeth jumping from an airplane

and parachuting into the stadium.

Tension is rising on the island dis-pute between Japan and China The island which Japanese call Senkaku and Chinese call Diaoyu are located east of Mainland China in the East China Sea. The isle is just over 4km in square kilometre but has been the centre of discussion since Japanese government tried to buy it from a private owner. This has sparked a controversy reigniting an old war between these two countries which traces back centuries regard-ing the sovereignty of the islets. The islets importance is mainly due to a large possibility of oil/gas reserves along with advantages provided in the form of shipping lanes and terri-torial fishing waters. Tension is high between these two countries espe-cially since China could damage Ja-pan economically to a large extent. Trade between these two countries crosses $352 billion last year.

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By Hamza Qureshi, a.k.a. Apollo, a

genius studying in the School of Sci-

ence and Engineering at LUMS

My friend had an odd dream some months ago. He recalls that it was his only dream in which he knew he was dream-ing! There, he asked himself whether he was dreaming or not but could not get a satisfactory answer. He also says that it was too real to be a dream. As bizarre as it may sound, it ac-tually is not so remote an experience. Take this version of the story, season it with a lot of inaccu-rate science and you have Hollywood’s production, Inception. In this blockbuster movie, Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his compatriots use drugs and psychological profiles to trigger specific dreams in people. Although the heavy seda-tion and level of detail incited are far-fetched, dream control isn't entirely a Hollywood fantasy. The reason why most of us could not relate to it is that it was an unnecessarily compli-cated side of an otherwise simple idea that scientists call lu-cid dreaming. A lucid dream is a dream in which you are aware that you are dreaming. It may seem a contradictory thing to say because if you are aware of your state you cannot be in a dream, rather you are awake. Don’t throw in the towel yet as this idea that dates back to Aristotle, was shown to be correct in experi-ments at Stanford University in 1970s. It was also shown that activities such as counting numbers or having sex evoke sim-ilar neural and physiological responses in both the dreaming and waking states—and if your dream self holds its breath, your real self does, too! This proves that a dream-like state is as good as awakeness, and eliminates the above mentioned contradiction regarding lucid dreaming. Moreover, events take about the same time to unfold in dreams, including lucid ones, as they would in real life. Inception, however, incorrect-ly posits that dream time is often compressed so that a dream that seems subjectively to take an hour only takes a few seconds.

Lucid dreaming opens up a whole new dimension to life. Experts tout lucid dreams as an all-purpose self-improvement tool that can help us overcome fears, tap into our creative powers, prac-tice a sales pitch or achieve spir-itual enlightenment. It helps us build mental skills that foster lu-cidity in real life, guiding you to-wards fulfillment of personal goals. In fact, it can be lots of fun; you can do and be anything—anything!—in your dreams and is limited only by your imagination. People who have big traumas and those who have their sleep dis-rupted can increase their chances of having a lucid dream, the sort of "dream within a dream" that Inception's characters regu-larly slip into. Nevertheless, for this to happen, you need to ‘awake’ in your dream. Such awak-enings are not a fantasy and have been reported throughout history. They are called false awakenings since you do not wake up for real. The brain is buzzing with activity during dreaming. On average, there are several areas that are more active than they would be during the waking state. Those are parts that process visual infor-mation and certain motion-sensing areas deeper in the brain. That's probably related to why dreams are so very visual and also why they have a lot of motion and action in them. Even then, the heightened detail in dreams in In-ception is out of question. There

are other areas that are less active on average during sleep. Those are the ones which have to do with the fine points of logical reasoning and also where you might say cen-sorship resides. That's not only for censorship of things that are so-cially inappropriate, what Freud would have meant by censorship of sexual and aggressive impulses, but also the impulses that say, "that's not the logical way to do things." That seems to be why even though we continue to think about all kinds of problems and issues in our sleep, and sometimes come up with really creative, interesting so-lutions often with counter intui-tive logic or none at all. Although any kind of problem can make a breakthrough in a dream, the two categories that really crop up a lot are things where the solu-tion benefits from being repre-sented visually, because the dreams are so vivid in their visual-spatial imagery, and when you're stuck because the conventional wisdom is just plain wrong. If you want to problem-solve in a dream, you should first of all think of the problem before bed, and if it lends itself to an image, hold it in your mind and let it be the last thing in your mind before falling asleep. For extra credit assemble some-thing on your bedside table that makes an image of the problem. If it's a personal problem, it might be the person you have the conflict with. If you're an artist, it might be a blank canvas. If you're a scien-

tist, the device you're working on that's half assembled or a mathe-matical proof you've been writing through versions of. Equally im-portant, don't jump out of bed when you wake up—almost half of dream content is lost if you get distracted. Lie there, don't do any-thing else. If you don't recall a dream immediately, see if you feel a particular emotion—the whole dream would come flooding back. There are certain ways of testing whether you are in a lucid dream or not. Ask yourself, “Am I dream-ing?” and try to find the answer. Lots of people find they can't read text in a dream, that if they see text it's almost always garbled or hieroglyphics or doesn't make sense or it's fuzzy. People who can read in a dream still report that the text is not stable; if they look away and then back, it says some-thing different or there's no longer any writing there. So trying to read something in a dream is a good test for lots of people. Others find that things like light switches and other knobs that are supposed to turn things on and off work nor-mally in their real world and don't do what they expect them to in a dream. Despite all the failings, Inception may prove to be right when it sug-gests that we’re never really awake; we just shuttle from one dream to another. If life is but a dream, imagine what it would be like waking up!





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SONGS oF

It's September and for all intents and pur-

poses, summer is over. You're already mak-

ing December plans and there's a slim chance that

any songs will come out in the next few weeks that

trump the significance of the pack we've selected as

this summer's greatest.

The days are about to get shorter, and yes,

it's depressing, but there isn't a better way to

remember the past three months than with

music. These are my Songs of Summer 2012.

SUMmeR

2012

By Momin Ahmed, The innocuous pop culture critic

“Call me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen

This was the song that you could not escape this summer and the fanfare is more than justified. Jepsen's cute storytelling and innocent vocals are difficult to dislike (even after the 1678th listen), and that chorus is absolutely infectious. Thanks to both, 20 years from now, when we think of summer 2012, "Call Me May-

be" will still come to mind.

“Mercy” by Kanye West This song feels like a legitimate hip-hop event. In an era where big name collab-orations are impossibly hyped on social media and unfairly criticized for not living up to unrealistic standards, "Mercy" suffers none of that disappointment. Big Sean leads off with arguably the wittiest, most entertaining verse of the summer while Pusha T fills his role as the team's most consistent scorer with a verse that stands out.

Kanye West shows up for what feels like a cameo, and it couldn't have been executed better. The beat switches to Scarface-esque synths, and with it, so does the record's gen-eral pace. Kanye and his team set themselves apart from the pack with "Mercy." They succeeded in proving to often-skeptical music consumers that sometimes hype is a good thing.

This is one of Maroon 5’s most overtly pop songs ever and that is not a bad thing. Perhaps Adam Levine should take a seat next to Katy Perry. In the wake of her divorce and bracing breakup hit ‘Part Of Me’, Maroon 5 have returned just after Adam Levine's public split, with some model, with a breakup song that is not as flashy, but it is just as emotional.

The song kicks off with Levine per-forming an upper register read through of the chorus backed by a simple keyboard. Following the verse, the full band kicks in on the chorus and the song's sadness seeps through. A rap from Wiz Khalifa is added in that might result in Maroon 5 gaining a few new listeners among Wiz Khalifa fans and the vice versa, but this rap is unnecessary for the success of the song.

“Little Talks” Of Monsters and Men One could probably count the number of successful Icelandic musical imports on one hand, and based on the influence of forward-thinking acts like Bjo rk and Sigur Ro s, Iceland is now stereotyped as a glacial nation of insular, twin-kling art-rock experimenters. But with its boisterously catchy single "Little Talks," indie-pop sextet Of

Monsters and Men aims to set the record straight, clearing off decades of cul-tural cobwebs with a blast of radiant sonic sunshine. "I don't like walking around this old and empty house," Nanna Bryndí s Hilmarsdo ttir sings in a soul-ful, ecstatic croon. "So hold my hand/I'll walk with you, my dear." It's a simple lyrical message, but the group's innocent, hook-filled ruckus speaks volumes.

Lights By Ellie Goulding This song has been in my Ipod since early last year so I’ve been over for forever. How-ever it has apparently JUST caught on it the rest of the world and has become a breakout summer hit. And rightly so, ‘Lights’ is a wel-come return to Gouldings’ patented folky-pop-with-some-tasteful-drum-and-bass-wobble sound and it will briefly make your life more pleasant. Her voice in the song has an edge of sadness and vulnerability, which really sets it apart from the pack. The song has an excellent remix by Bassnector, which has been a club favorite of mine for a while, be sure to YouTube it. Also she wrote the song about her fear of the dark. How awesome is that?

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Not so Aligned NAM

By Farhan Saad Ahmed They call it the Non-Aligned Movement or NAM, and it convened in Tehran this year. Doesn’t sound very Non-aligned now does it? For all the differences that exist on the matter of Syria, and Iran’s nuclear program itself is a matter of contention on the international stage. This coupled with the fact that in attend-ance were countries like India, which though at one point in time took non-alignment pretty seriously, are now hand-in-glove with the Unit-ed States on major issues and see non-alignment as little more than rhetoric. Though it wasn’t very different even in its heyday; even then you had a Soviet-leaning camp and a West-leaning camp within the NAM itself. So what’s the story of NAM?

NAM was the brainchild of five world leaders who held great stature as spokespersons of the developing world. The list included Yogoslavia’s Josep Tito, Indonesia’s Sukarno, the Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasir, Ghana’s Nkrumah and India’s Jawaharlal Nehru. Their actions were to become known as the ‘initiative of five’. The organization was based on Nehru’s ‘panchsheel’ or five principles he first proposed as the basis of Sino-Indian relations. These were mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty, mutual non-aggression, mutual non-interference in domes-tic affairs, equality and mutual benefit and peaceful co-existence. The 1955 Bandung con-ference hosted by Sukarno, a summit of Asian and African leaders, proved to be the stepping stone for the formation of the platform that was to become known as the Non-Aligned Move-ment.

Background

However most people see NAM as nothing more than a talking shop; symbolism at best and hypocrisy at worst. The organization has rarely been able to speak with a single voice on any major global issue. The or-ganization even found itself divided in 1979 when the Soviet Union in-vaded Afghanistan. Those sympathizing with the Soviets were support-ing the invasion while many Muslim and West-sympathetic countries condemned it. Even today, the NAM could barely muster any consensus on such major political issues as the one in Syria right now. The con-demnation of Syrian excesses against the rebels by the newly elected Egyptian President led to the Syrian delegation walking out in protest. And there wasn’t any consensus to be had even with the Syrian delega-tion absent. It is true, without a doubt that NAM as a political voice has historically been more about posturing and failed to achieve anything substantial. While it has been effective as a forum and platform for the expression of ideas and world views on global politics which might not be consistent with that of the major players in global politics, its lack of cohesion and inability to build consensus on major political issues has meant it never achieved what it was meant to, a third political pole in a bi-polar world.

Talking Shop?

You know how there are moments in your life when you are just struck by how SIMPLE happi-ness can be, how easily ANY moment can turn into a blessing. The joy lies not in what’s around you, but how you choose to see it. Cli-chéd, yes, but true nevertheless. Look around yourself and count a few things that you have which many others might not. “I” can see, I am not devoid of emotion so I can love, I have a mother who is hard on me in front of me but she’d caress my cheek when I’d be sleeping . I have a little sister I can hug every time I come home. I get to pick what food I’m going to eat. I have a few friends that I love to pieces. I get to hear the sound of rain when it falls on my skylight. I am blessed, and so are you. Please remember that every moment of your life. Learn some-thing from these children on the right. Set an example. And don’t take anything for granted. Life is beautiful. Crazy, hard, confusing but beautiful. ~ Amna Aslam, Chief Editor

Elation Photographer Marcus Bleasdale: “In 2007, Human Rights Watch asked me to photograph the street children in Kinshasa, a war-ravaged city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I took this photo inside a local resource center that provides the children a few meals and running water. The boy in front is one of the thousands of kids who sleep on the streets and scavenge at a local market for food and charcoal to sell. Despite his desperate situation, he still relishes taking a shower, a luxury that most of us take for granted” Photo taken from Reader’s Digest. See original post HERE

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