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ROSWELL, NM - Felix Baumgart-ner stepped out of the Red Bull Stratos pod Sunday afternoon and into the history books by breaking the sound barrier and reach-ing a speed of 833.9 mph (that’s Mach 1.24!) with nothing but a flight suit, a hel-met and a parachute. Breaking re-cords for highest manned balloon flight, highest skydiving at-tempt and fastest free fall, Baumgartner suc-cessfully completed a mission that began in 2005 when he and Red Bull began planning for a stratospheric free fall.Despite two previous aborted attempts earlier in the week, the Stratos pod successfully took flight at 9:30 am lo-cal time. Rising at an average rate of 1000 feet per minute the pod and balloon rose past the planned jump alti-tude of 120,000 feet.After a two hour bal-

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loon ride into the strato-sphere and complet-ing a long list of flight checks, Baumgartner stepped out of his pod at 128,100 ft (24.4 miles) and onto the skateboard sized ledge. After flash-ing a peace sign with his right hand, he gin-gerly stepped off the edge of the platform and into the edge of space.Baumgartner, a 43-year-old native of Salzburg, Austria, has been sky-diving since he was 16 and is the holder of several world-records for BASE jumping. BASE stands for build-ings, antennas, spans (bridges) and earth (cliffs). His parents were present in Roswell for their sons historic

jump, marking the first time either had trav-elled outside of Austria.During a late afternoon press conference after the jump, Baumgart-ner described falling at great speed in his pres-sure suit as, “Swim-ming without touching the water.” He sighted none of the usual tac-tile cues skydivers use, such as wind on his skin and the flapping of his suit, were present, mak-ing corrections difficult. The Red Bull Stratos team consisted of many talented and experienced profession-als. Perhaps no one was more suited to help in Baumgartner’s endeav-our as Colonel Joe Kit-tinger, USAF (Retired).

Kittinger acted as mis-sion control’s “Capcom I” (capsule communi-cations) for the mission and at Baumgartner’s request was the only one in radio contact with him throughout the ascent and jump.Kittinger held the re-cord, (until yesterday that is) for highest free fall attempt after his re-cord jump in 1960 at an altitude of 102,800 feet. Kittinger’s jump helped NASA develop systems used in the space pro-gram during the great space race of the 1960s. At the press confer-ence, when asked what his feelings were about losing the world re-cord, Kittinger said, “Records were meant

to be broken,” and that he, “would like to give a special one finger sa-lute to all the folks who said he [Baumgartner] would come apart when he went supersonic.”Telemetry and data gleaned from Baumgart-ner’s jump will be used to develop life saving systems to prevent lose of life in accident’s like the one that killed all seven crew mem-bers aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.When asked what his next step is Baumgart-ner said, “I want to inspire the next gen-eration.” He says he wants to be sitting next to a young guy in forty years giving him

In our series on immigration worldwide we’ve looked at human trafficking lines for Northern Africans into Europe, the economic promised land of Nor-way for Polish workers and discussed the simi-larities of the two to our own immigrant work-

force here in America. In this article we look at a region of the world that has so much money due to the bene-fits of their oil-rich gov-ernments that they have no real need to work. The GCC or the Gulf Cooperation Coun-cil is a political and eco-nomic union similar to the EU or the EC ref-erenced in the previous article. The GCC con-sist of namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE). The coun-tries that make up the GCC are extremely

wealthy due to their abundance of crude oil and natural gas, these countries main export. Due to the abun-dance of wealth and very strong ties to the Western World, this re-gion is experiencing a boom of economic pros-perity. Dubai is home to the Burj Khalifa, now the tallest man-made structure on Earth, and as we’ve seen before when there is a job to be done and money to pay for it, it will get done. In 2009 there was an overall un-employment rate of about 0.8 percent in

Dubai. That leaves only 11,152 people 15 years old and over who were unemployed at the time of the survey. There are 15 million immigrants living and working in these countries. Where are they coming from? The majority of the immigrant workforce comes from India and Southeast Asia, and also includes workers from Pakistan and Kenya. What draws many to these GCC countries is that they share the same religion of Islam and it is more accessible for them cul-

turally. Many of them are young and or have little education, so they are less qualified for acceptance as workers in Western countries. Once again the main jobs for these im-migrants include service and manual labor work. Wealthy Arab women consider staying home to tend to the house and take care of their chil-dren beneath their dig-nity, thus they require maids for such tasks. For the men, the city of Dubai is flourishing into a ma-jor tourist destination, someone is going to

have to build all the luxuries and amenities. This all seems like any other system, especially ones we’ve talked about before with Hispanic or Polish work-ers coming to a country to work to support their families back home. The problem is that these GCC coun-tries and the people that live in them have more than enough money to pay these migrant work-ers an average wage, but they choose not to, reports Jay John-son of http://www.gcchumanrights.org/.

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A Riot Waiting to Happen

Big Brother Reads Mail Determines we are all Terrorists

Monday, October 15th, 2012

As some of you may be aware the gov-ernment has seen fit to put together a watch list of words commonly used by terrorist groups, militias, organized crime, gangs and other would be evildoers. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), along with several other alphabet agencies, is keeping tabs on phone conver-sations, text messages and internet traffic, es-pecially social media, for uses of words such as nuclear and dirty bomb as well as seem-ingly innocent words like aid, pork and cloud. The list contains over 600 words that may land you in the hot seat with suited men asking you tough questions. Keep this in mind the next time you tweet, “I’m going to Target to buy enriched flour and Crest toothpaste.” That tweet had three suspect words alone.The goal of this “word hunt” is to identify, and hopefully prevent, po-tential terrorist threats and attacks by known terrorist groups like Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Taliban and even homegrown radicals à la Timothy McVeigh on Ameri-can interests here at home and abroad.

Trying to cover all of their bases, the gov-ernment has included watchwords that might suggest connections to any sort of nefari-ous group from pirates, kidnappers and drug cartels to North Korea, human trafficking and even illegal immigrants. Two southwest high school cheerleaders in an email about an upcoming cheerlead-ing practice might use words like drill, exercise and response. However, organizations like the Secret Service (USSS; notice how they put the US on the front so they don’t sound like the old Nazi SS shock troops) check on potentially threatening language like this to insure these young ladies don’t in-tend on carrying out an assassination attempt on a border agent or smug-gling marijuana and co-caine in from Columbia.Even a Facebook or Twitter threads be-tween a group of doc-tors discussing a resis-tant strain of swine or avian flu they encoun-tered will be looked into to determine the nature of the conversation. But correspondence be-tween doctors, and espe-cially between doctors and the Center for Dis-ease Control (CDC), is going to be loaded with hazardous language about sick patients, re-sistant bacteria strains, influenza figures, in-fectious bacteria and overall public health. When you get groups like the CDC commu-nicating with peers like the World Health Or-

ganization (WHO), the Food and Drug Admin-istration (FDA) and the much reviled Transpor-tation Security Admin-istration (TSA) about measures to prevent exposure to an outbreak of small pox before it turns into an epidemic, the hard part isn’t going to be controlling quar-antine or dispensing antiviral medication.The hard part is when they have to explain to the task force assigned to read their mail that they were trying to help and not part of a jihadist cell plotting to release a biological weapon.One would hope the good people working in the agencies tasked to watch for suspicious language are capable of knowing the difference between a real threat and say an email between colleagues studying the correlation between typhoons and erosion. Either way, watch what you say on the Internet, in text messages, and over the phone. We all want people to traffic our social media pages, but now you must also be aware that big brother is watching. Big broth-er is always watching.To find out which words you should avoid to keep the feds at bay or overuse to annoy them, we are not advocating the latter option; you can go here (http://www.geekosystem.com/dhs-list-of-buzzwords/) to see the complete list.*this article con-tained eighty words from the watchlist, can you find them all?

The recent, tragic death of Gil Collar age 18 and freshmen at the Univer-sity of South Alabama has created a heated de-bate on the use of lethal force. Collar, acting on the effects of the drug LSD, stripped nude and then banged on the windows outside the campus police station. Officer Travis Austin went to investigate the noise where he found an erratic Collar in the nude. Collar report-edly approached the officer, unarmed, in a threatening manner. In the course of the con-

frontation Austin shot Collar in the chest. Austin was equipped with both mace and a baton dur-ing the confrontation, but had his gun at the ready when leaving the station. The question-able use of lethal force is being investigated by authorities in Mobile. Collar’s family has hired an attorney, seeking charges against Austin. It is currently unknown if charges will be filed against Austin. Jere Beasley, former Alabama Lt.Gov and an attorney for the family, does not believe lethal force is justifiable in this case. He commented that he does not see any-thing on the video that would warrant such ac-tion. This position was taken after viewing the surveillance footage. Beasley stated

"without reservation, there is nothing on the surveillance tape that justifies the use of dead-ly force”. His reason-ing is that Collar was not in the position to cause harm to Austin. Before he was shot Collar’s arms were outstretched and palms open. The incident has also thrusted South Alabama Students into the debate of when le-thal force should be used. A protest was held by students last Wednesday calling for campus police to be is-sued stun guns as an-other non-lethal option. Along with stun guns students want campus police to go through additional training in what is being called “mental emergencies”. Mental emergencies would include people on drugs such as LSD.

A group of around twelve out-spo-ken, politically minded women joined together last year to spread mes-sages of protest against a government they deem discriminatory toward women through-out Russia. The collec-tive, dubbed Pussy Riot,

by Rosemary MaguireStaff Writer

has been nothing if not outspoken since their formation in August 2011, but the events of February 21, 2012 shot three members to inter-national recognition. That Tuesday morning, five women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, re-moved their outerwear to reveal brightly col-ored outfits complete with the band’s signa-ture balaclavas—also known as ski masks—and began a perfor-mance they called “Punk Prayer,” a protest of the imminent re election of Russian President Vlad-

imir Putin. The group’s demonstration resulted in the arrest of three of the members: Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekat-erina Samutsevich. Earlier this month, Sa-mutsevich successfully negotiated her release from custody on the grounds that, though she was a member of the group and had helped plan the cathedral pro-test, she had not made it into the building due to an altercation with a security guard and therefore could not be charged in the partici-pation of the act itself.

Alyokhina and Tolokon-nikova, however, still face two-year sentences in Russian labor camps, a sentence that has out-raged Pussy Riot sup-porters across the world.According to freepussyriot.org, the three women held in custody for over six months have been de-nied numerable judicial rights and have received inhumane treatment from the state, includ-ing “being denied food and adequate sleep.” In an August 3rd article for The Guardian, Mir-iam Elder reported that Judge Marina Syrova would not allow ten of the defense’s thirteen witnesses, including Vladmir Putin himself, as well as Russian Or-thodox Church offi-cials. The women were charged with “hooli-

ganism” with accusa-tions of protesting the Church itself and par-ticipating in blasphemy. "We sang part of the refrain 'Holy s***'," Tolokonnikova stated in court, according to Roll-ing Stone,"I am sorry if I offended anyone with this. It is an idiomatic expression, related to the previous verse — about the fusion of Mos-cow patriarchy and the government. 'Holy shit' is our evaluation of the situation in the country. This opinion is not blas-phemy." The women, as well as many of their supporters, suspect the trial has received pres-sure from Putin’s ad-ministration and the Orthodox Church.Even with the sentenc-ing of Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova looming in the distance, Russia

has not heard the last of Pussy Riot. Freed member, Samutsevich, has vowed to contin-ue her protest efforts, though stating that she will be more careful of legal reactions in the future. Meanwhile, the fate of the two wom-en still in custody still has supporters around the world on edge. Both women have young children from whom they have been separated from for over six months already. The possible locations the women will serve their sentences is also a matter of controversy. The Moscow area has only one women’s pe-nal colony, and there is a possibility that the band members will be sent to a labor camp

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The Vice Presidential Debate 2012

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Election 2012Monday, October 15th, 2012

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The Vice Presi-dential debate between current Democrat Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Vice Presi-dential nominee Con-gressman Paul Ryan for the 2012 Presi-dential Election took place at Centre Col-lege in Danville, Ken-tucky. ABC news re-porter Martha Raddatz moderated the debate. Raddatz opened the debates ex-plaining that she would ask the candidates nine questions about foreign and domestic policy. The candidates would have two min-utes to answer, with Raddatz encouraging further discussion with follow up questions. Raddatz began by asking if the mur-der of Chris Stevens and three other Ameri-cans on the anniversary of 9/11 during a “pre-planned assault” was a foreign intelligence fail-ure. Biden won the pre-debate coin toss, and was the first to answer. B i d e n commented that Ste-vens was a brave man, and then promised two commitments: The administration would bring the assaulters to justice and to get to the bottom of just what happened. Biden then pointed out that a presi-dent’s most important responsibility was car-ing for the national se-curity of the country. Ryan responded by criticizing Obama’s administration for tak-ing two weeks to cite the incident as a terror-ist attack and touched on the embassy’s “low” security. The congress-man then stated that the Romney-Ryan ticket held the same position on Iraq as the Obama administration, chiding Biden for not getting a status of forces agree-ment (SOFA) to secure their gains, and point-ing to the lack of that agreement as their main difference on the issue. Raddatz pointed out that in the middle of the crises, Romney talked about the “weak-ness” of Obama’s re-sponse, and asked Ryan if these remarks were appropriate. Ryan re-

plied that “It’s nev-er too early to speak out for our values”. Biden stated that Congressman Ryan’s criticism on the Ameri-can embassy’s security was self-inflicted, as Ryan had cut the se-curity by 300 million dollars below what the administration asked for. Biden attempted to protect Obama’s deci-sions, saying the Presi-dent “Set out to say everything he said to do”, and that Romney and Ryan “Bet against America all the time”. Raddatz next asked Biden what he was first told about the attack, and why there were talks of protests, despite a lack of evi-dence that protests at the compound. Biden pointed out that the in-formation they’d been given was from the intelligence commu-nity as they “learned more facts”, and when asked if the embassy wanted more secu-rity, said they were not aware of a request. Ryan was asked if the U.S. should apol-ogize for the burning of Qur’ans and the urinat-ing of Taliban corpses by U.S. Marines. “Oh god yes”, said Ryan, “What we should not apologize for is stand-ing up for our values”. The congressman stated that there had been re-quests for more secu-rity, and that extra se-curity should have been present since it was the anniversary of 9/11. The topic moved

to Iran, with Raddatz asking the candidates how effective a military strike to prevent the Ira-nian accumulation of nuclear weapons would be. “We cannot allow Iran to gain a nuclear weapon”, Ryan first stated. He then stated that sanctions to fur-ther prevent accumula-tion of nuclear mate-rial in Iran would’ve been placed earlier, if not prevented by the Obama administration.Biden shot back saying Republican adminis-tered sanctions would have had no support from the rest of the world. He then prom-ised that the administra-tion felt confident they “could deal a serious blow to the Iranians” and that Iran is “a good way away” from be-coming nuclear armed. Raddatz asked both candidates if they could solve the case two months before spring. Ryan said they would probably need a longer time. Biden in-sisted that the adminis-tration would now al-low Iran to acquire the nuclear weapons, and that if they did decide to strike, “We will have the world behind us”. Raddatz then questioned whether another conflict in the Middle East would be worse than a nuclear ar-mament. Ryan warned it could start an arms race. Biden stated that war should be the last resort, and that “This President doesn’t bluff”. Raddatz’s next

questioned the candi-dates on whether or not they could get unem-ployment to 6%, and how long it would take. Biden said he wasn’t sure how long it would take, but that they would get it under 6%. Biden then reminded people of the steps the Obama ad-ministration has taken to save the middle class.Congressman Ryan cit-ed Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsyl-vania’s unemployment rate as an example of the rising unemployment across America. “This is not what a real recovery looks like”, pointed out Ryan, and proceeded to tell a story about Rom-ney reaching out to help a middle class family that was struggling. Op-portunity and upward mobility were prom-ised with a Romney-Ryan administration.Biden commented that he doesn’t doubt Rom-ney’s personal generos-ity, but seriously doubt-ed his commitment to the auto-industry. Biden said he “Never met two guys more down on America,” and that the Republican party won’t allow the middle class tax cuts and jobs bills the Obama administra-tion have to offer. Ryan stated that the entire premise of their pro-growth plan was to grow the economy by 4%, and create 12 million jobs in the next four years.Medicare and entitle-ments was the subject of Raddatz’s next ques-tion. She asked the candidates if benefits

for Americans under the programs have to change for the programs to survive. “Absolute-ly,” Ryan said. He dis-cussed his family his-tory with the programs, and concluded that the programs would not change for those near retirement, but would be adjusted to fit Ry-an’s younger genera-tion, those aged 54 and below. Ryan also cited Obamacare’s expense on Medicare as an issue.Biden said the Obama administration saved $716 billion dollars, and cut insurance fees with “Obamacare”. He ac-cused the Romney ad-ministration’s proposed Medicare reform of add-ing an additional $6,400 a year to Medicare. Rad-datz asked Ryan what the specific plan was for seniors who couldn’t make up the cost dif-ference in a “premium support plan”. Ryan quickly promised 100% coverage by income ad-justing to the payments by taking down the sub-sidies for the wealthy.Ryan attempted to ex-plain that the plan was bipartisan, despite Biden’s insistence that “Not one democrat en-dorses it.” Raddatz asked Biden why slow-ly raising the Medicare eligibility age by two years to solve the prob-lem would be an issue. Biden cited his experi-ence in raising the age with social security in 1983, adding that the system was set un-til 2033, and that they would take no part in

a “voucher” program.Romney’s proposal, ac-cording to Ryan, has no changes for anybody fifty-five and above, to slow the benefits of the wealthy, and to raise the retirement age over time. Biden said that Americans in their forties would get $2,600 less, and Ameri-cans in their twenties would get $4,700 less through Romney’s So-cial Security proposal.Ryan said that Biden didn’t have “a record to run on” and that he was trying to cast the Rom-ney campaign in an un-fair light to scare people from voting for them. Moving on to taxes, Raddatz asked the can-didates, if their ticket was elected who would pay more and less on taxes. “The middle class will play less, and peo-ple making a million dollars or more will be-gin to contribute slight-ly more,” stated Biden. Ryan explained the premise for Romney’s tax reform plan was es-timated to create 7 mil-lion jobs. He pointed out that their administration only wanted to take 28% of American fam-ily and business income in taxes, while Obama insisted on taking 44.8% of a small busi-nesses’ income. Accord-ing to the congressman, the proposed Obama tax reform would cost 710,000 jobs, add-ing that “It doesn’t even pay for 10% of the proposed deficit

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Heidi Chronicles A Roaring Success

8 Essential Falcon Albums for Fallby Matt SanderlinArts & Culture Editor

Monday, October 15th, 2012

The University of Montevallo Theatre Department will astound audiences with their production of “The Hei-di Chronicles,” direct-ed by Tammy Killian. The show premiered October 10th and ran until October 14th to enthusiastic audiences in Reynold’s Theatre. The play is about the life chronicles of Heidi and how she lives her life for the good of all women. She has a dream to be a successful art historian and to teach women it is okay to be successful and they do not have to strive to be-come good housewives. Walking into the theatre, the audi-ence is greeted by a simple set with an ab-stract background. The back of the stage con-sists of many different screens and abstract

by Mandy SteadmanStaff Writer

Fall is officially here, so here are some classic au-tumn albums to help ring in the season of orange leaves and cool breezes.

M. Ward: The Transfiguration of Vincent — She & Him's less-famous half knows how to pen a solid tune. Just try some "Outta My Head" on for size; and when that fits, tackle a little bit of "Undertaker" and his stunning cover of David Bowie's "Let's Dance." Transfiguration's woody guitar tones and earthy production recalls October and November in a soothing and inviting manner, making it essential for a fall album collection.

Copeland: You Are My Sunshine — The late, great, alternative band Copeland's final release is easily one of its strongest. The gorgeous amalga-mation of angelic vocal strands and fiery instru-mental helpings forge an unprecedentedly aching sonic atmosphere and an autumnal vibe that will Snuggie you right into a comfortable October breeze. "Should You Return" is an instant mas-terpiece, and the solemn strings of "On the Safest Ledge" make it a contender for the album's best as well. Indeed, it will be your autumnal sunshine.

Arcade Fire: Funeral — We all know who these guys are, right? If you're new to the Grammy award-winning band, or keen on revisiting their timeless older material, debut studio release Funeral is the way to go. Every little string move-ment, from "Crown of Love" to "In the Backseat," emits autumn's bittersweet sentiment in a conta-

giously emotional manner. The topics of death and darkness are unabashedly explored, hinting at a solitary winter to come.

Big Star: Third/Sister Lovers — Big Star's last official studio album is easily their most difficult. Certainly, there are some instantaneous tracks that transport you from a swooning "Blue Moon" to Alex Chilton's "Big Black Car" on an inviting first listen. But the best tracks are the ones that take a few listens to fully unlock. The aggressive "Kizza Me" will immediately send you reeling, and the dizzying "Kangaroo" will promptly tug you back in. All the while, the warm strings and gloomy bass groans will properly introduce you to the weather of the late months of the year.

Matt Pond PA: Several Arrows Later — No fall record collection is complete without Matt Pond PA's autumnal masterpiece, Several Arrows Later. The album begins with a track called "Hallow-een," and naturally only furthers the fall connec-tions from there. If "Is It Safe" doesn't strike you as the musical painting of the yellowing trees that it is, then the mid-tempo melancholia of following track "Emblems" should address November quite directly. Several Arrows Later, you'll be fine.

Rufus Wainwright: Want One — Baroque-pop's fearless leader has a few late-year tunes on file. 2003's Want One (musically) speaks of blue and cooling nights ("Pretty Things") and tranquil Sunday afternoons in late September ("Vicious

placings of metal rods. The music of art-ists like Aretha Frank-lin and ABBA perme-ates the room, aiding to put the audience into the right mindset for the mood of this show.The first act consists of Heidi, played by Tavi Juarez, taking her first steps towards becom-ing a women’s activ-ist and art historian. Along the way the audience is intro-duced to her lively and funny best friend Susan, played by Jade Rice. The audience is also in-troduced to Heidi’s best guy friend, Peter, played by Matt Smith. Peter is an intelligent and sarcas-tic pediatrician who has an interest in waiters. Then the fast and witty journalist, Scoop, played by Chance Ca-ruthers, joins the cast and becomes Heidi’s first love interest. Scoop also has a thing for grading everything he sees, tastes, and knows. The cast was abso-lutely phenomenal in this performance. They all worked really hard, did their research on their char-acters and the time

frame of the sho; 1970s through the late 1980s. Juarez, a BFA senior, was the jewel of the show. The audience watched her every move and was in awe of her charisma and realistic performance. On stage, Juarez portrayed so many dif-ferent sides of Heidi and really portrayed the character truthfully. Every move-ment, every choice she made had a reason be-hind it and even helped bring out true emotion to the young actress.Caruthers was a joy to watch onstage. He created a unique character who captivated audiences with his charm. Scoop starts off as an im-mature man trying to make his mark in life and soon grows up into a successful journalist who starts a paper and then goes into politics. Rice was a treat to watch as Heidi’s best girl friend, Susan. Susan was a very funny and loving character who got Heidi started in her women’s activist role. She also helped Heidi break from her shell

every once in awhile. The charm-ing and adorable best friend, Peter, was a treat to watch as Smith car-ried out his personifi-cation onstage. He was sarcastic, loving, and entertaining to watch. Smith created

the gay best friend that every girl dreams about having in their lives. He had the audi-ence rolling with laugh-ter and charmed his way into their hearts. “The Heidi Chronicles” was a treat to watch and an-

other fabulous suc-cess for Killian. She always brings a unique per-spective to the stage that amazes audiences and has them leaving the theater in wonderment. Great job to this amazing cast and crew of talent-ed students and faculty.

World"). Wainwright's versatility is key to the album's overall success, and is consequently an intricate characteristic of what encourages repeat listenings as the season progresses. Not to mention how opener "Oh What a World" feels like a year coming to a close as a hopeful, reflective musical summary. You'll like One so much, you'll Want Two.

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Original Soundtrack) — This is the king of autumnal music releases. Wes Anderson's endearing stop-motion movie (starring the always-charming George Clooney and the ever-graceful Meryl Streep) has a soundtrack that was crafted for such a time of the year. "Mr. Fox in the Fields" will cheer you into bright orange fields with its tickling banjo and its breathtaking strings melody, and "Jimmy Squirrel and Co." will coax you into an October romance that you simply can't resist. The film is a must own as well, exactly like its soundtrack.

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals: Jacksonville City Nights — The alternative/country super-star and his faithful Cardinals know how to die a soundscape rouge. More natural, earth-tinted acoustic guitar tones here (especially in tragic tale "Dear John" and locomotive confessional "The Hardest Part"), and lots and lots of sorrowful strings ("The End," "Peaceful Valley," and "Sep-tember"). An underrated album to be sure, but one that should hold its place in your fall music collec-tion for many years to come.

Photo:Tammy KillianTavi Juarez and Matt Smith

Photo: Matt Sanderlin

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‘ALLELUJAH! LIFT YOUR SKINNY FISTS AGAIN!

Monday, October 15th, 2012

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the sem-inal 90’s post rock band, has announced a new album via their label Constellation slated for release on October 16 in the US. Titled “‘AL-LELUJAH! DON’T BEND! ASCEND!” the album is the first from the band since the release of “Yanqui UXO” a decade ago. At an ap-pearance in Boston on October 1, the album was put up for sale dur-ing the show. The new album had no pre-press release, and according to the release page via Constellation’s website, the group wanted “peo-ple to care about this new album, without tell-ing people they should or talking about them-selves. They want to hold on to some part of that energy that comes with the thrill of anony-mous discovery and un-mediated transmission”. The de-scription of the album via Constellation’s site reads: “We are proud to announce the first new recordings by Godspeed

by Reed StrengthStaff Writer

You! Black Emperor in a decade. Featuring two twenty-minute slabs of epic instrumental rock music and two six-and-a-half minute drones, 'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND! pro-vides soaring, shining proof of the band's pow-erful return to form.” The LP version of the album has the twenty minute tracks on a 12’ and the six and a half minute pieces on a separate 7’. Those attending any of the band’s shows before October 15 (which in-cluded the sold out per-formance at the Bottle Tree in Birmingham) have the opportunity to buy an early copy of “ALLELUJAH…” at the concert. The band’s cur-rent tour ends with their performance at Austra-lia’s ATP I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival. Stream the new album here. http://www.guard-i a n . c o . u k / m u s i c /m u s i c b l o g / 2 0 1 2 /o c t / 0 8 / g o d s p e e d -you-black-emperor-stream?CMP=twt_gu

On Friday eve-ning, Oct. 12, I spent a night of cinema with my dad. We talked for a bit and decided to see the new movie, Argo, because it took place during a time of history that Dad re-membered very well. We sat in the back of the theater at the Rave Motion Pictures in Pat-ton Creek and awaited the opening credits. From the beginning

The Best Worst Idea in History

by Mandy SteadmanStaff Writer

scene to the end of the credits I sat in astound-ment and pure awe. What is so amazing about this film is the historically accuracy in telling the story of a classified CIA mis-sion that became de-classified 17 years after the events unfolded. On Nov. 4, 1979 in Teh-ran, Iran a huge num-ber of Iranian Muslim student followers of Imam’s Line protested

and stormed the U.S. Embassy. They were outraged because the U.S. government pro-tected the Shah, an Iranian prime minis-ter who brought pov-erty and sadness to Iran.These Iranian student radicals supported the new revolutionary leader of Iran, Ayatol-lah Ruhollah Khomeini. The students demanded that the U.S. send the Shah back to Iran to be tried and executed for his cruelty. The U.S. became hated among the Iranian community. During the seizure of the embassy, Iranian students took 66 U.S. citizens hostage. What they did not know is that six of the Ameri-can diplomats snuck out during the seizure and escaped to the Canadian Ambassador's house un-detected. The CIA was contacted and started to try to come up with ideas on how to rescue these six “houseguests.” Antonio Mendez, the chief of technical ser-vices and a profession-al at forging IDs and disguises, set to work on creating the best, worst rescue mission in American history. They were going to create a

fake film and have it filmed in Iran. The six “houseguests” were to be part of the crew of the setup of this film.At first this idea was questioned and the members of the CIA were astounded by how outrageous the idea was. They soon real-ized, though, that the idea was so outrageous it just might work. Mendez met with his friend John Cham-bers, a famous Holly-wood make-up designer whose credits include the creation of Spock’s ears in Star Trek and the gorilla prosthet-ics in the Planet of the Apes movies. Cham-bers helped Mendez create cover stories, job statuses, and resumes for the “houseguests.”With the help of produc-er Lester Siegel, they created storyboards and found a script. They named the production company Studio Six and the movie was set to be a sci-fi space op-era about colonizing planets. In the book that Mendez later writes with Matt Baglio, Argo: How the CIA and Hol-lywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History, Mendez said

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that they chose the title Argo after Jason and the Argonauts sailed to liberate the Golden Fleece, who also fought against impossible odds. Everything was set up and the six were soon briefed by Mendez, himself, and his partner, Julio. They were given their bios and fake Ca-nadian passports. Men-dez instructed them to memorize them back-wards and forwards and they would be quizzed later that night. On January 28, 1980, the six plus Mendez and Julio departed Iran without suspicion of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. This rescue mis-sion was credited to the Canadian government and Ambassador, Ken Taylor. The world did not know the CIA was involved for 17 years. The remaining hostages in the U.S. Embassy were detained for 444 days. They were re-leased in January 1981. The movie that Affleck directed is so empower-ing and so moving. I was so nervous and anxious I was literally shred-ding napkins in my lap because I felt like I had to do something. Watch-ing the terrifying story

of these brave souls re-ally affected me deeply. The movie is so real; the acting is extremely intense and it reached to every person in the audience. My heart broke for these hos-tages, both the six and the 66 in the Embassy. When the movie con-cluded the most magi-cal thing happened. As the credits rolled and showed the true pic-tures of what happened next to the events of the movie, everyone in the theater stood up in respect. As the pic-tures of the six “house-guests” came into view, the whole room seemed to bow their heads in respect and let their en-ergy flow towards them. My father said because America gave the Ca-nadians all of the credit, he barely remembers the newscast that an-nounced the release of the six “houseguests.” This movie is one of the most beautiful and mov-ing pieces of art I have ever witnessed in my entire life. I am honored to have been witness to this art and to learn the truth of the six “house-guests” and the CIA agent that rescued them.

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Is It Basketball Season Yet?

To even utter the word “basketball” in the midst of college foot-ball season in the state of Alabama is nothing short of blasphemy. This holds true as everyone closely follows either Alabama and their unde-feated, number one rank-ing or by shaking their heads dismally in wake of Auburn’s 1-5 start. The last thing on everyone’s mind would certainly seem to be basketball season. Maybe this is the reason the sport seems to creep up on so many of us, because we give it no mind till it is here in full throttle force, de-

manding our attention. But this year, there should be a bit more of an early sea-son spirit than usual, because the Montevallo men’s basketball team is a preseason top 20. That’s right, you read that cor-rectly, top 20 favorite. The men re-ceived their first pre-season honor of the 2012-13 season by being selected as the number 16 team in the NCAA Divi-sion II preseason poll. This ranking seems to be a well de-served one as the Fal-cons finished last sea-son with a disappointing loss in the NCAA Division II national championship game. Their opponent in the championship game, Western Wash-ington University, is ranked eighth in the same poll. You also

have to consider that after coming so far last season and so close to a championship, that there would be some itch left to be scratched. The Falcons are also the only Peach Belt Conference team to be ranked in the top 25. As an added bonus, Montevallo re-turns three of its five starters from that cham-pionship game last season. These starters helped Montevallo to a Peach Belt Conference West Division title, the Peach Belt Conference Tournament Champi-onship and Southeast Region Championship. All of this was done while finish-ing with an impres-sive and record tying 29-8 record. The only other team in Falcon’s Men’s Basketball his-tory to duplicate such a feat was the 2005-06 squad. Kind of makes

it easier to see why the bar is set so high this season, doesn’t it? So don’t post-pone day- dreaming of a championship season this year if your heart desires, because it is certainly not an unat-tainable feat. Plenty of last season’s magic has been retained for the coming year and there should be some pleasant

surprises along the way. However, this will not make the task any less daunting, as there is a full sea-son and a long road ahead to get back to the Promised Land. The first official prac-tice for the Falcons will begin Oct. 15 in prepa-ration for their sea-son opener on Oct. 30, which is an exhibition

match against Division I and Big Ten Confer-ence opponent Purdue University in Indiana. The match should prove to be an early and tough test for the Falcons, before they begin conference play against Stillman at home on Nov. 13th.

Team Name W-L-T F/D SR PTS-AVGBlackout 2-0-0 0/0 0 1Highland 1-0-0 0/0 0 1LCA 2-0-0 0/0 0 1Flint Tropics 1-0-0 0/0 0 1AKL 1-1-0 0/0 0 0.5ATO 1-1-0 0/0 0 0.5Bad Company 0-1-0 0/0 0 0SWAGG 0-1-0 0/0 0 0M 0-2-0 1/0 0 0Swag 0-2-0 0/0 0 0

Men’s Standings Women’s Standings

Team Name W-L-T F/D SR PTS-AVGTieDye 2-0-0 0/0 0 1TNN 1-0-0 0/0 0 1Delta Gamma 3-0-0 0/0 0 1TBA 2-0-0 0/0 0 1Femme Fatale 0-1-1 0/0 0 0.3Chi Omega 1-3-0 0/0 0 0.25Phi Mu 0-1-0 0/0 0 0Alpha Delta Pi 0-1-0 0/0 0 0AGD 0-2-0 0/0 0 0

Upcoming GamesMen’s Schedule

Tue. 10/16/2012TBA(3) V Delta Gamma(2)Phi Mu(8) V Chi Omega(5)Wed. 10/17/2012Phi Mu(8) V TieDye(4)TNN(1) V Chi Omega(5)Femme Fatale(7) V Alpha Delta..(9)Alpha Gamma..(11) V Delta Gamma(2)Thu. 10/18/2012Femme Fatale(7) V Alpha Gamma..(11)Phi Mu(8) V TNN(1)Delta Gamma(2) V Chi Omega(5)TBA(3) V Alpha Delta..(9)Mon. 10/22/2012Phi Mu(8) V Femme Fatale(7)Delta Gamma(2) V TNN(1)TieDye(4) V TBA(3)Alpha Gamma..(11) V Alpha Delta..(9)Tue. 10/23/2012Phi Mu(8) V Delta Gamma(2)Chi Omega(5) V Alpha Delta..(9)TBA(3) V Alpha Gamma..(11)TNN(1) V Femme Fatale(7)Wed. 10/24/2012TieDye(4) V Chi Omega(5)TNN(1) V Alpha Gamma..(11)Alpha Delta..(9) V Delta Gamma(2)Thu. 10/25/2012Phi Mu(8) V Delta Gamma(2)TBA(3) V Femme Fatale(7)

Tue. 10/16/2012Lambda Chi ..(4) V SWAGG(9)Flint Tropics(1) V M(7)Blackout(2) V Highland Ho..(3)Wed. 10/17/2012Bad Company(10) V Alpha Kappa..(6)Lambda Chi ..(4) V Alpha Tau O..(5)Flint Tropics(1) V Highland Ho..(3)Thu. 10/18/2012M(7) V Swag(8)Lambda Chi ..(4) V Bad Company(10)Flint Tropics(1) V SWAGG(9)Mon. 10/22/2012Alpha Tau O..(5) V Bad Company(10)Blackout(2) V SWAGG(9)Lambda Chi ..(4) V Flint Tropics(1)Swag(8) V Highland Ho..(3)Tue. 10/23/2012M(7) V Alpha Kappa..(6)Swag(8) V SWAGG(9)Blackout(2) V Flint Tropics(1)Highland Ho..(3) V Alpha Tau O..(5)Wed. 10/24/2012Lambda Chi ..(4) V Blackout(2)Alpha Tau O..(5) V Alpha Kappa..(6)Swag(8) V Flint Tropics(1)Thu. 10/25/2012M(7) V Alpha Tau O..(5)Alpha Kappa..(6) V SWAGG(9)Highland Ho..(3) V Bad Company(10)

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spending increases.” Ryan’s three “bottom lines” were “don’t raise the deficit, don’t raise taxes on the middle class, and don’t lower the share of in-come that is born by the high income earners”. Raddatz asked Ryan if he had the specifics or if they were still working on how the administra-tion would pay on their proposed “20% across the board tax cut”. According to Ryan, the administration would lower tax rates by 20%, raise around 1.2 trillion dollars through income taxes, forgo 1.1 trillion in loopholes and deductions; this would allow for more taxation from higher tax payers, and lower tax rates across the board. Ryan contested that six studies have confirmed the math for the proposed plan. Biden said the loophole closings that Ryan pro-posed were not enough, and they’d resort to cutting deductions for the middle class. Ryan said that this was wrong, and that the plan was indeed math-ematically possible. “Let taxes expire like they’re supposed to!” retorted Biden. Raddatz asked how cutting the de-fense could help, au-tomatic defense cuts aside. Ryan warned that if the defense cuts the Obama adminis-tration proposed were passed, that the Ameri-can Navy would be the smallest it’s been since before World War I,

which invites weakness. Biden said the solution was to not cut the defense budget, and that the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the military asked for a smaller army with more special forces. Raddatz asked about Afghanistan next, calling it “One of the biggest expenditures this country has made,” in money and soldiers’ lives. Since the re-cruitment limit for Af-ghan forces had been reached and Al Qaeda was crippled, Raddatz asked the candidates if it was worth more American lives to stay. Ryan explained that while they agree with the Obama Ad-ministration’s 2014 pullout date, theRomney/Ryan admin-istration was worried about losing the gains they’d achieved by al-lowing the Taliban to know there was a set date of departure. Biden replied that the administration had accomplished its goals, and that the Af-ghan military needed to protect its own se-curity. Biden made it clear that the US was leaving by 2014 with their administration.Raddatz turned to Ryan, and asked what conditions could justify staying. Ryan explained that he did not want the country’s enemies to have a date on their calendar. Raddatz asked Vice President Biden if the timeline was hurting the country, as soldiers were being “murdered” by Afghan forces. Ac-cording to Biden, the timeline was essen-tial for Kabul to step

up, paralleling Bagh-dad’s lack of a time-line as part of the ex-tension of the Iraq war. Raddatz’s next question to Biden was if the removal of surge troops was a military move, and not a politi-cal one. The Vice Presi-dent pointed out that the decision to move the surge out by the end of the summer had been announced before-hand, and that it was a Joint Chiefs’ decision. Raddatz moved to the civil war in Syria, asking the candidates why the military inter-vention that occurred in Libya did not hap-pen in Syria. Biden list-ed Syria’s larger size, smaller population, and geographic location as prime components of a regional war. Biden explained that once the government can iden-tify which group in the country needs help, it can establish a le-gitimate government once Al-Assad falls. Ryan took the opposite side, criti-cizing the Obama ad-ministration for not recognizing the con-flict until the pressure was high. According to the congressman, the Free Syrian Army could’ve been identi-fied sooner by the coun-try’s allies had quicker action taken place. Raddatz asked Ryan about the conse-quences if Al-Assad does not fall. Ryan ad-mitted that Al-Assad would “Continue to slaughter his own peo-ple.” She then asked what he and Romney planned to do about it. Ryan accused Obama of calling Al-

Assad “a reformer”, and waiting to give Rus-sia “the green light” to supply weapons to him. Raddatz further pressed Ryan about his “criteria for intervention” in both Syria and worldwide.Ryan stated that it was the national se-curity interests of the American people. When Raddatz asked if these inter-ests were humanitar-ian, Ryan said that each situation will require unique circumstances, but bottom lined that putting soldiers on the ground was a na-tional security interest.Raddatz moved on, pointing out that the de-bate was historic in that it was the first to feature two Catholic candidates. She asked what role the candidates’ reli-gion played in their own personal views on abor-tion, citing “personal ex-periences” as important. Ryan admitted that his views inform him on “How to take care of the vulnerable.” After telling a story about how his first daughter’s nick-name was Bean, based on her appearance in her mother’s womb, Ryan stated that he be-lieved life begins at conception, and that he is “pro-life”. Biden stated that his Catholic faith informs his social doctrine. Despite ac-cepting the Church’s view that life begins at conception in his per-sonal life, Biden refused to impose it on others of different religions. Raddatz asked Ryan if they were vot-ed in, should those that wish for abortion to be legal be worried. Ryan

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in Mordovia instead. Pussy Riot sup-porters also fear the reactions of the other inmates at such facili-ties who may have been exposed to negative portrayals of Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova in Russian media or may be encouraged or even bribed by prison ad-ministration to act out against the women. Throughout the trial and now in the face of sentencing, the two women promise not to allow the government to silence them, and sup-porters across the world have echoed this resolve. Fundraisers, pe-titions, and websites dedicated to translat-ing articles about the band into some twenty different languages have emerged in every corner of the Internet. In an official press release, Amnesty International described the women as “pris-oners of conscience

Jay Johnson re-ports that these migrant workers work in harsh, violent and unsafe working conditions and has started a campaign to fight against this.What we’ve seen was obvious to us before, some places in the world are better off than others, and this draws people trying to survive or take care of their own to them and will no doubt continue for a very long time. If continued in a nega-tive way like in this example what we face is the disappearance of unique culture and the exploitation of people and or racism and xe-nophobic. The positive side of immigration is the cultivation of new ideas and perspectives. Where do you stand on immigration in our country and elsewhere? Let us know at thefal-coneditor@gmail.com.

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said that a democratic process would make that determination, repeat-ing that abortions used in instances of rape, incest and insuring the wellbeing of the mother would not be hindered. The closing question was a com-ment on the campaign. Raddatz explained that a decorated soldier told her that the negative, at-tacking ads of the cam-paign left him dismayed. The candidates were asked what they would tell the soldier about the campaign, and if they were ever embarrassed by the tone of the election.Biden commented that he would tell the soldier that the government’s true obligation was to properly equip and take care of US soldiers. He also ex-plained that the sol-dier’s time served was an honor, and that there are times when both candidates prob-ably regret things said. His final comment to the soldier would be to determine whether Obama or Romney was better for the job. Ryan said he would thank the sol-dier, and would tell him that the defense cuts would not happen. He would then point out Obama’s shift from a campaign of change to a campaign of attack. The congress-man then listed several of Obama’s “broken promises”, and would tell the soldier that “he deserves better”.Before the closing state-ments, Raddatz asked the candidates if elected, what they could unique-ly give to the country as

men and human beings. Ryan said honesty, that several “fine people” could lead the country. When it was Biden’s turn, he stated that his record stood for itself, and that his life was devoted to “level-ing the playing field for the middle class”.Biden was the first with a closing statement. Biden thanked Martha Raddatz and Center College, and began by remind-ing the audience that the administration in-herited a “god-aw-ful” circumstance. Biden says he was most frustrated with his opponent’s view on the American people, saying Romney called them “takers”. He reiterated that he was devoted to leveling the playing field for the middle class. Ryan thanked Raddatz, Center Col-lege, and the Vice Presi-dent for debating with him. Ryan turned to the camera, and stated that the American people face “a big choice”. Ryan stated that Obama had his chance, and that his choices weren’t work-ing. The congressman promised that he and Mitt Romney wanted to earn voter support, and would offer “real reforms for a real re-covery for every Ameri-can”. He reiterated that the choice rests with the American people. The next presi-dential debate airs on Tuesday October 16 at 8pm local time. Stay with The Falcon for a full analysis of the com-ing debates as we get closer to November and America’s big choice.

wrongfully persecuted and convicted solely for the peaceful expres-sion of their beliefs.” The Russian Courts are expected to decide today whether the women will remain in Moscow or be trans-ferred to a penal colony in another province.

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